HIGHLAND GAMES
2022 Programme
Please note the programme is subject to change.
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Feature Events
Vintage Car Parade
Race Track
10.30 am
Cerberus Strength Sand Bag Challenge
Have A Go Arena
11.00 am
Massed Bands March Past
Heavy Arena
11.45 am
Chieftain’s Welcoming Ceremony
Main Stage
12.00 pm
Best Dressed Lad & Lassie
Duncan Cotterill Stage
12.30 pm
Hororata Pie Eating Competition
Register by 12.30 pm @ Pie Cart
Duncan Cotterill Stage
1.30 pm
FMG Kilted Mile
Race Track
2.30 pm
Fern Tug O' War Trophy Pull Final
Tug O’ War Arena
3.30 pm
Hororata Stones
Heavy Arena
4.00 pm
Competition Programme
All competitions break for lunch 11.40 am – 12.30 pm
Solo Piping & Drumming Competition
8.45 am – 11.00 am
Highland Dancing Competition
Main Stage
9.00 am – 3.30 pm
Harraways Junior Warriors Inter-Schools Competition
Junior Warriors Arena
9.00 am – 11.30 am
Prizegiving 12.30 pm
Heavy Championships
9.30 am – 4.00 pm
Fern Tug O’ War Heats
10.00 am – 3.00 pm
Pipe Band Competition
Band Arena
12.30 pm – 3.00 pm
Have a Go Programme
All Have A Go activities will break for lunch 11.40 am – 12.30 pm
FREE for 15 years and over – Caber Toss, Sandbag challenge and Farmers Walk.
Have a Go Arena
9.00 am – 3.30 pm
Junior Warriors Arena
12.30 pm– 3.30 pm
A Highland Challenge
Open to teams of five to enter by 12pm on the day, FREE
Race Track
12.30pm – 2.30pm
Small Bore Rifle Club Have A Go
Try small bore file shooting in the Hororata Rifle Club target range.
Rifle Club Stall 30
9.30 am – 4.00 pm
Newzengland Archery
Open to all ages to have a go at archery. $5 for 5 arrows.
Fairground area
9.30 am – 3.30 pm
Tugging Rig
The Breeze Stall 63
9.30 am – 3.30 pm
Have A Go at playing the at the Pipes
Free thanks to the Ellesmere Pipe Band
Band Arena
11.00 am– 3.00 pm
Spinning & Wool Craft Demonstrations/Have A Go
Watch as the master spinners race to spin wool and knit a jersey in 6 hours.
Scottish Farmyard
9.30 am – 3.00 pm
Mike Pero Real Estate Scavenger Hunt
Mike Pero Stall 62
2.00 pm
Entertainment Programme
Clans represented & Genealogy
Not just for the Scots!
St Andrews Square
9.00 am – 4 pm
Scottish Farmyard
Scottish Farmyard
9.30 am – 4.00 pm
City of Christchurch Pipe Band
Various Locations
9.30 am – 3.30 pm
Medieval combat demonstrations
SCA Arena
9.30 am – 4.00 pm
Sheep Shearing Demonstrations
Scottish Farmyard
9.30 am – 3.30 pm
Scottish Country Dancing Demonstrations
11.00 am & 1.00 pm
Duncan Cotterill Stage Programme
Irish Dancing Demonstrations
10.15 am – 10.45 am
Southern Celtic Fiddle Orchestra performance
Duncan Cotterill Stage
11.00 am – 11.45 am
Best Dressed Lad and Lassie
12.30pm – 1.15pm
Hororata Pie Eating Competition
1.30 pm – 2.00 pm
Southern Celtic Fiddle Orchestra performance
Duncan Cotterill Stage
2.15 pm – 3.00 pm
