Welcome to the 2020 Bayside Seniors Festival

We proudly present the 17th year of the Bayside Seniors Festival. Due to COVID-19 restrictions this year’s festival will be coming live to your living room with a program full of especially curated content.

We encourage you to take part in many of the online performances, guest speakers, health and wellbeing sessions, storytelling and much more that are on offer during the month of October. Most events require advanced bookings.

Please read carefully the method of booking as they vary from sending an email to registering via TRY Booking.

View the wide range of 2020 Seniors Festival website events on our website here

The majority of events will be presented over the Zoom Platform. To access Zoom you will need a device and internet connection.  

To join a Zoom event, click on the link in the email provided to you by the event organiser. Each event will have its own unique zoom link.  It is good practice to join the webinar 5–10 minutes prior to the event starting to allow time should you have difficulties connecting.  

If you need help to get online and familialise yourself with Zoom and other digital technologies.

Get yourself festival ready with free Zoom training.

Thank you to the wonderful community groups who have opened their ‘online’ doors to welcome seniors to join in their activities.

The festival aims to acknowledge and celebrate older residents and the valuable contribution they make to Bayside. We want people to have fun whilst connecting to their community.

We hope you enjoy the 2020 Bayside Seniors Festival

Hear from award-winning Australian actor and scriptwriter John Wood; Professor Jane Fisher AO, Finkel Professor of Global and Women’s Health at Monash University; Gerard Mansour, Commissioner for Senior Victorians and comedian Rod Quantock.

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