Thank You! 

If you made your way to Daylesford for ChillOut over the Labour Day long weekend - whether you stayed for the weekend or just for one of our weekend events - we want to say 'thank you.'  Having you here to enjoy some of our country hospitality celebrating everything that is queer as country folk and seeing every little bit of our corner of the world is what ChillOut is all about.  We hope you enjoyed your weekend as much as we did.

Under the scorching summer sun, more than 25,000 people joined us for what is clearly the biggest ChillOut ever.  Bigger not only in terms of visitors, but more events, over more days with more entertainment and simply more fun.  Whether you travelled from across the Pacific or across town, and whatever you enjoyed most from bocce to bushwalking, dosey dohing to Dolly Diamond, and a whole lot more, you helped make this ChillOut a festival to remember.


We have so many people who helped make this year's ChillOut the success that it was.  ChillOut is simply impossible without the generous and heart warming support of our volunteers who do everything from set up to take down, serving a drink and selling a ticket.  To each and every one of you we say 'thank you.'  The more than 75 businesses who stepped up as sponsors and event partners and particularly our Major Partners - Mercedes-Benz Melbourne, The ALSO Foundation and 2xist - again, we say 'thank you.'  ChillOut just wouldn't be ChillOut without your help.  We hope that every one of you will join us again in 2009.


Our ChillOut Special Guest, Adam Sutton, tickled our hearts and inspired us throughout the weekend with his heartfelt words and genuine country charm.  With Adam's support in this year's ChillOut and your donations we successfully raised the $22,000 that's needed to introduce Better Buddies into every primary school in Hepburn Shire.  These important contributions to our community will be felt for many years to come.  We learned an awful lot from Adam including how to make a wonderful dessert crepe!  Again, what can we say but 'thank you.'

There is much more to say but too little space to do it.  But we will be back with more about this year's ChillOut.  And we'll soon be loading images into our Gallery.  If you have a picture that you'd like to share with us please send it to This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Keep in touch with us as we bring you stories of our Queer as Country Folk weekend. Bookmark this site and come back often.  And be sure to sign up for our email newsletter so you don’t miss a single announcement about what's in store for 2009.  Don't forget to mark 6 - 9 March 2009 in your diary.

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'A Decade of Fairy Tales' Episode 3

Sit back and enjoy Episode 3 from Spunkrat Productions.  Remember you can pick up a personal copy of the complete ChillOut 2006 DVD by going directly to the OUTvideo website.