Snakebusters - Upcoming/or past show dates and similar
(Scroll up or down for appropriate dates in order).
Most of our shows and lectures are for Schools and similar "private" groups, but Snakebusters are also the reptile show of choice for agricultural shows, street festivals and similar, which enables individuals to come and see (some of) our reptiles and information for free!
Anyone else's shows are simply "second best".
That's why Snakebusters are the most frequently booked people for major events, malls and the like.
If you compare our list of public events to those published by rivals, you'll see that we have the cream of the business in markets we compete in. You'll also see the far greater number of major events we do than anyone else in Australia, as confirmed by several independent industry audits.
Our live (free to the public) shows are usually on weekends and we squeeze these in between our other consultancy work, field surveys, writing books, scientific papers and articles, spending time with the wife and kids and occasionally, sleeping.
As a rule, annual festivals and shows that have had us in once, make us a permanent fixture for future years, so if you have missed us this year, we will probably be back next year.
We sometimes double book and run at two venues at once. In the period October to March, we generally have show/festival bookings every weekend. Shopping malls line up for Snakebusters due to the fact that no other mall entertainment pulls crowds like us and we are also the only people legally allowed to demonstrate venomous species of snakes at malls and other venues as we are alone with vet certified surgically devenomized snakes. Without venomous snakes at a mall, travelling reptile shows just can't attract a crowd.
As holidays are well-spaced, it's easy to plan a trip to a mall where we are in the next School holidays. In our home market of Victoria, we have an effective monopoly on reptiles in shopping malls due to the fact that they only deal with the best and we tend to be booked solid about a year ahead. Parties, and other functions are booked between shows or on odd days, weekdays and so on. Due to the fact that snakebusters is the snake show of choice and always in demand we take bookings up to a year in advance. Most of our bookings are "word of mouth" and we are usually "head-hunted" by organisers of shows and festivals due to our superior reptile shows, including better handling skills, expertise, presentation, more "hands on", being the only ones with the "top five deadliest" and so on. (This also explains why we spend far less on advertising than our rivals ... in short we don't have to!).
You'll see from the published list below, no one else in the reptile game comes close to us in terms of number of public shows and events in our home state of Victoria.
This website is not necessarily up to date and the list below is far from complete, but upcoming (or recently past) show/festival dates include the following:
(Scroll down to appropriate/current dates).
2008-2010 DATES ARE SIMILAR AS FOR PREVIOUS YEARS, ALTHOUGH IN NUMBER OF BOOKED EVENTS THEY GROW EACH YEAR - (SEE BELOW FOR LISTS OF THOSE PREVIOUS VENUES)
2007 DATES ONLY (INCOMPLETE LIST OF VENUES)
3-11 January 2007 - Australian Scout Jamboree - Elmore, Victoria
13 January 2007 - Wonthaggi Show
15-19 January 2007 - Keilor Centro
17 January 2007 - Butcher’s Picnic, Footscray
20 January 2007 - Apollo Bay show
22-27 January 2007 - Centro Cranbourne
27 January 2007 - CFA Celebration, Launching Place
24-25 February 2007 - Berwick Show
25 February 2007 - Ashburton Festival
3-4 March 2007 - Small Farming Expo - Lang Lang
3 March 2007 - Surrey Hills Festival
11 March 2007 - Healesville Timber Festival
17 March 2007 - Pakenham Show
17 March 2007 - Stonnington Pets in the park
18 March 2007 - Pines Pride Day (Frankston North)
24 March 2007 - Celebrating Morroolbark Festival
25 March 2007 - Warrandyte Festival
25 March 2007 - Rotary Pets on Parade, Richmond
25 March 2007 - King David School Fete
25 March 2007 - Warrandyte Festival
1 April 2007 - Lions Club Festival, Melton
2-7 April 2007 - Centro Mall Mornington
2-7 April 2007 - Parkmore Shopping Mall, Keysborough (GPT)
9-14 April 2007 - Centro Mall Frankston North (Karringal)
10-14 April 2007 - Centro Mall Heidelberg (Warringal)
18 April 2007 - Viper Launch - Beaumaris Hotel
20 April 2007 - Viper Launch - Har Penny Hotel (Frankston)
5 May 2007 - Ivanhoe Festival
26 May 2007 - Bendigo Bank Celebration - Mooroolbark
Malls booked for later in 2007, include: Box Hill (week 1, July Holidays), Greensborough Plaza (week 2, July holidays), and other malls booked solid right through into mid 2008, including, Centro The Glen, Endeavour Hills, Brandon Park and Werribee Plaza.
LATE 2007 BOOKINGS ARE SIMILAR AS FOR PREVIOUS YEARS - MOST ARE CONFIRMED - THIS LIST NOT UPDATED FOR MOST OF 2007-9 YET
2006 DATES ONLY (INCOMPLETE LIST OF VENUES)
7 January 2006 - Victoria gardens, Richmond (at IKEA)
14 January 2006 - Wonthaggi Show
16-21 January 2006 - Werribee Plaza
26 January 2006 - Arther Wren Hall, Hampton Park
18 February 2006 - North Essendon Public School (Fete)
20-23 February 2006 - Monash University (O-week)
25-26 February 2006 - Berwick Show
26 February 2006 - Ashburton Festival
4 March - Corryong Show
4 March - Pets in the Park, Central Park, East Malvern
14-17 March - Centro mall - Wodonga
18 March - Pakenham Show
19 March - Oakleigh Festival
20-26 March - Centro The Glen - Glen Waverley
1 April - St Raphael's, Preston (School fete)
2 April - King David School, Armadale (School fete)
8 April - Trinity Grammar, Kew (Open Day)
9 April - Warrandyte Festival
22 April - Plenty Valley Montessori School (School fete)
29-30 April - Tallarook 4X4 Expo and Rodeo
30 April - Melbourne Girls College, Richmond, (Open day)
6 May - Small Farming Victoria Expo, Lang Lang
7 May - Glenferrie Festival, Hawthorn
13 May - Ivanhoe Festival Fiesta
1 June - Frankston council offices, Gateway Mall, Langwarrin
4 June - Willows Cottage - Melton
19-24 June - Karringal Hub (Centro) mall, Frankston East
26-30 June - Greensborough Plaza (Lend Lease)
9 July - Children's day - Preston Town Hall
23 August - Doveton Youth day
3 September - Hurstbridge Wattle festival
9 September - Diamond Creek festival
18-22 September - Waverley Gardens (Mirvac)
25-29 September - Chirnside Park (GPT / Lend Lease)
6-7 October - Swan Hill Show
8 October - Frankston's Pets Day Out
8 October - Whitehorse Festival
14 October - Sunbury Show
21 Octobeer - Charlton Show
29 October - Kidfest (Upwey)
5 November - Koonwarra Native Plant Expo
7 November - Cup day in the Park, Bacchus Marsh
11 November - Djerriwarrah Festival (Melton)
11 November - St Peters School Fete (Bentleigh)
11 November - Alexandra Show
18-19 November - Lilydale Show
18 November - St. Andrews Parish Fair (Werribee)
18-19 November - Lilydale Show
1-2 December - Traralgon Show
9 December - Montmorency Festival
17 December - Melton Christmas festival
2005 DATES ONLY (INCOMPLETE LIST OF VENUES)
8 January 2005 - Wonthaggi Show
20-22 and 24-25 January 2005 - Centro Box Hill
26 Jan 2005 - Australia day celebrations - Mornington Peninsula
Feb 20 - Maroondah Festival
Feb 25 - Field Naturalist's Club of Victoria at Blackburn
Feb 26-27 - Berwick Show
5 March 2005 - Kew Festival
13 March 2005 - Healesville Timber Festival
14 March 2005 - Orbost Show
19 March 2005 - Pakenham Show
20 March 2005 Glen Katherine Primary School (Eltham) Open day
26 March 2005 (Easter) Red Hill Show
2 April 2005 - Trinity Grammar (Kew) Open Day
3 April 2005 - King David School (Armadale) School Fete
6-9 April 2005 - Centro (shopping mall) Ringwood
14-16 April 2005 - Centro (Gateway Shopping Village) Langwarrin
1 May 2005 - Glenferrie Road (Hawthorn) Festival
14 May 2005 - Ivanhoe Fiesta
24-28 May - Pacprint Expo (Go to PHE stand)(Melbourne Exhibition Centre)
30 June-2 July 2005 - Centro (Warringal Mall) Heidelberg
4 July - 9 July 2005 - Centro (Brandon Park) Glen Waverley
19-24 September - Stockland The Pines Shopping Mall (East Doncaster)
26 September - 1 October - Endeavour Hills Shopping Mall
9 October - Pet's Day Out (Ballam Park) - Frankston
9 October - Whitehorse Festival - Nunawading
15-16 October - Bendigo Pet Expo - Bendigo
16 October - Sherbourne Primary School (Eltham North) - Fete
28-30 October - Warrnambool show
1 November - Bacchus Marsh Cup day in the park
4 November - Mahogany Rise Primary School Fete - Frankston North
5-6 November - Djerriwarrah Festival (Melton and Caroline Springs)
11-13 Nov - Ballarat Show
19 November - Ivanhoe East Primary School Fete
19-20 November - Lilydale Show
25-26 November - Traralgon Show
26 November - Yea Show
Late in 2005 - Most venues as visited at end 2004
(2004 only - Incomplete list).
28 February - Foster Show
20 March - Pakenham Show
27 March - Red Hill Show (Arthur's Seat)
28 March - Melton Festival
28 March - Sandringham (Bayside)
30 March - Field Naturalists Club of Victoria (Blackburn)
3 April - Bunyip Show (at 2005 Trinity Open day on same day 2005)
4 April - Ikea Carpark (Moorabbin)
5 April - Altona Library
24 April - Surrey Hills Festival
28 May - Victorian Association of Amateur Herpetologists (Geelong)
26 June - Chesterfield Farm - Scoresby
28 June - Caulfield Library
1 July - Hampton Park Library
6 July - Box Hill Library
9 July - Polyester Bookshop - Brunswick Street, Fitzroy
29 July - Field Naturalists Club of Victoria
12 September - Mulgrave Festival
19 September - Chesterfield Farm (Scoresby)
22 September - Pakenham Library
29 September - Horsham Show
30 September - Dandenong Library
2 October - St Arnaud Show
10 October - Frankston's Pets day out
17 October - Whitehorse Festival (Nunawading)
22-24 October - Cobram Show
29-31 October - Warrnambool Show
2 November - Cup Day Party - Diggers Rest
6 November - Djerriwarrh festival - Melton
7 November - Djerriwarrh festival - Caroline Springs
12-14 November - Ballarat Show
20-21 November - Lilydale Show
28 November - Mornington Pet and Pony Expo
Non-urgent email inquiries
via our bookings page at:
http://www.snakebusters.com.au/sbsboo1.htm
For urgent inquiries please phone: (Melbourne, Victoria, Australia):
(03) 9812 3322 or 0412 777 211