Mary Poppins Festival

The Mary Poppins Festival is back from July 1-4, 2021, in Maryborough, the town where the author of Mary Poppins, Pamela Lyndon Travers, was born in 1899. 

The author of some of the most famous and best-loved books of all time, P.L. Travers, was born Helen Lyndon Goff, in an upstairs bedroom of the former Australian Joint Stock Bank building in Maryborough, which is now an interactive musem.

The festival, now in its 13th year, features a fabulous four-day program of storytelling for all ages through all art forms, from music concerts backstage and onstage at the Brolga Theatre, to pop-up performances in the Bond Store Basement.

The not-to-be-missed highlight of the festival is the Mary Poppins Festival Day in the Park, with Maryborough's splendid heritage streetscapes transformed into scenes from the Poppins novels.

Events include the great Nanny Challenge, where nannies compete in a pram race down the street, and the Chimney Sweep Dash with chimney sweeps racing each other, while Mary Poppins characters come to life from the pages of books and mingle with the crowd.

Images: Courtesy of the Mary Poppins Festival