NSW Seniors Festival, formerly NSW Seniors Week, will take place over 10 days from Friday, March 3, to Sunday, March 12.

This year the theme for the festival is “Let’s do more together”.

This will be the 59th time the week has been set aside to acknowledge and highlight our senior citizens. The NSW Seniors Festival is the largest festival for seniors in the southern hemisphere, reaching more than 500,000 seniors each year.

If you are over 60, NSW Seniors Festival gives you the chance to make new friends or get together with old ones at an array of local community events, many which are free or heavily discounted.

Presented by the Department of Family and Community Services (FACS), NSW Seniors Festival is designed to celebrate the role seniors play and the contributions they make to the NSW community, aligning to the policy objective of inclusive communities.

Every year during NSW Seniors Festival, government, community and commercial organisations hold hundreds of events across the state, encompassing art, sport, music, entertainment, technology, recreation, health, good nutrition and much more.

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The festival encourages everyone over 60 years of age, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders over the age of 50 and people over 50 that have a lifelong disability, to take part in the festival, or stage an event.

Each year, FACS directly supports around 800,000 people, reaches a further one million people through local community-based programs, and provides over a million Seniors Cards.

Their work is broad and challenging. Every day their mission is to improve lives by supporting people with disability, so they can realise their potential.

They look after children and young people, so they have the best possible start to life and are protected from abuse and neglect and people in vulnerable circumstances, so they have suitable, stable and sustainable accommodation and services that support them to overcome disadvantages.

NSW Seniors Festival is your time to shine. With hundreds of events and special offers, there's something new for everyone to try.

From art, music, entertainment and technology, to sport, recreation, health and good nutrition, there's a wealth of experiences to help stimulate your mind, reinvigorate your body and enrich your life.

If you are interested in staging your own event, there are templates on the website. www.nswseniorsweek.com.au for details of all the festival’s events.

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