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The Goulburn Lilac City Festival. Lilac Time - Australia's oldest continuous volunteer run festival.

Goulburn’s Lilac City Festival, established in 1951, occurs every October long weekend. The festival, one of Australia’s longest running, welcomes a myriad of food, flowers, festival markets, music, and heritage celebrations to Goulburn. A traditional shop-front competition will have the City’s Auburn Street dotted with lilac windows while the central Belmore Park will be green, blossoming and air abuzz. Joyland carnival takes care of kids (and the young-at-heart) looking for their sugar, adrenaline and Dagwood-dog fix, while local musical acts fill the spring air with their serenades from the heritage rotunda.

28/10/2026

Lilac Early Learning Business Display
Well done

23/10/2026

Here was just a little reminder at a Lilac Time Parade in the 1950s that Christmas was just around the corner. Not to scare anyone, but it is now only 9 weeks away! Do you prepare early for Christmas or are you more of a last-minute person?

22/10/2026

🎃 HALLOWEEN IS NEARLY HERE! 👻

Get ready for some spooktacular Halloween fun! Come along and join us at the Hume Conservatorium for a hauntingly good time!

🦇 Bring your family and friends, get into the Halloween spirit and join in the fun!

21/10/2026

Can’t stop this Lilac Queen

21/10/2026

20/10/2026

Here’s a chance to see another one of our beautiful garden entries in the Goulburn Lilac City Festival Garden competition

From the archives: Tynam family in the garden, c1910, Riversdale, Goulburn.

Join us for a special Spring Garden History Open Day exploring Riversdale's rich past, its people and its important place in nineteenth-century Goulburn.

Stroll among spring blooms, winding paths, heritage outbuildings and historic trees, including a remarkable 200-year-old Gleditsia, an 1870s plum tree and a unique five-crown apple tree planted in 1918 to commemorate the safe return of two Riversdale children from the First World War.

Enjoy the rare opportunity to see Riversdale Homestead mid-conservation and gain insight into the work preserving this treasured property for future generations.

Tickets include light refreshments in the garden, where you can relax among the birdlife and browse plants propagated onsite by Riversdale's dedicated volunteers.

Riversdale Spring Garden History Tours & Open Day
Sunday 1 November, 10am - 2pm
Tickets > https://ow.ly/SC9R50ZVIkz

Riversdale Homestead - National Trust of Australia NSW
Goulburn NSW
Goulburn Post

19/10/2026

Did you see the great Lilac display in the foyer of the Goulburn Soldiers Club over the October long weekend, proudly done by the Goulburn Garden Club.

Address

Goulburn, NSW
2580

Telephone

+61448211839

Website

https://goulburnlilaccityfestival.org.au/

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