EXHIBITING AT THE SHOW
ENTER THE CANNING SHOW EXHIBITION
Providing a creative wonderland with community heart, the Canning Show is excited to launch one of WA’s biggest, longest-running community-showcasing exhibitions. With online entries open now for the Canning Show Exhibition, anyone can have a go at igniting their creativity, practising new skills, or showcasing their talents, whilst potentially being rewarded in $14,000+ in cash prizes on offer, as well as awards, sashes, exclusive free invites to the Exhibition Awards gala dinner, and more.
Whilst you can still enter with printed forms and a full-colour schedule available from our office soon, we encourage both regular and brand-new Exhibition entrants to use the fully automated ShowDay platform that makes it easy to enter, pay, receive reminders, and track your Show entries and results online. Plus, you can add other people’s entries at the same time you do yours – the perfect enticer for some healthy family fun or friends-ly competition. Whether you’re 2 years old or 100, experienced or trying something for the first time, it’s time to get creative, get growing, get making, and have a go!
KEY INFO
Key features of the Exhibition include:
- ANYONE can enter, no matter where you are from, your age or level of experience. However, most classes are for amateurs only, the competition focusing on celebrating, promoting, rewarding and encouraging diverse interests, passions, talents and efforts, plus inspiring others in diverse communities. There are a couple of professional sections as well, awarding talented artisans.
- Around $14,000 in cash prizes rewarded to the best exhibits, plus trophies, sashes, award certificates, special prizes and more.
- Plus, an extra $1,000 of NEW prizes will be awarded, thanks to key sponsor Westfield Carousel. Look for quirky chances to win money by baking scones, making a recycling artwork piece or one of the other special ‘Bonus Prizes’ on offer.
- Share in a prize pool now totalling around $20,000 in value!
- Exhibition Champions receive a complimentary free invite to an exclusive, gala dinner Exhibition Awards event on Saturday 16 November.
- Entries still only $1 (Youth) / $2 (Adults).
- 650+ Classes to enter, covering Youth; Fruit & Vegetables; Flowers; Home & Dairy Produce; Honey; Home Cooking; Sewing, Knitting, Crochet, Toys & Dolls; Handicrafts; Hobby Ceramics; Painting & Drawing; Photography; and Industrial Arts.
- 2024 key changes in classes include:
- Addition of David Austin Roses classes to the Flowers section.
- Overhaul of Painting & Drawing section, including 5 new classes including water colour and acrylic.
- Photography exhibits move to the new Canning Agricultural Pavilion, providing more space for more entries.
- Expanded number of People’s Choice Awards (voted by the public), offering $100 bonus rewards in seven special classes celebrating a Camelids theme (camels, alpacas, llamas etc).
- Unless breaking any By-Laws, ALL entries are exhibited as part of the Canning Show Exhibition; it’s by and for the community.
- Independently judged by experts in their field.
- Your entries are anonymous, unless you win a prize where your name will be revealed so you can revel in the admiration.
- You can enter new or old creations/produce, as long as it hasn’t won a prize before.
SCHEDULE OF ENTRIES
HOW TO ENTER?
- We encourage people to enter online this year! Find out how to enter online here. Or jump right into it here.
- Read the deadlines and info in the Schedule Of Entries Info (linked above) or grab a printed one from our office!
- For most classes (except for cooking, fruit and veg, plants etc), first deadline is for entry forms to be submitted by Friday 25 October
- Can email completed entry forms to admin@cahrs.com.au or drop off in person at Cannington Exhibition Centre during Mon-Fri 9.30am-4.30pm
- Drop-off of exhibits closer to the Show (refer to Schedule Of Entries soon)