The art and sill of knitting and crocheting is celebrated by the festival's annual Yarns and Yarning circle - a group of keen yarners! Expect the unexpected in this years knitted artworks.

The site of the Old Mandurah Traffic Bridge, on the mouth of the Peel Inlet, has been an important crossing point in use way before European settlement. On their walks along the coast, people used to block the mouth of the estuary to cross the waterway. Sadly it is coming to the end of its working life and will soon be unable to convey vehicles. The Mandurah Camera Club celebrates the role the bridge had played in Mandurah more recent history with an exhibition of words and images at the Mandurah Community Museum

The enthusiastic and creative clients from Disability in the Arts, Disadvantage in the Arts, Australia have been working with local artist talent, Wendy Sherlock to create a wonderful artwork titled the "Big Hairy Catepillar"

The Challenger Tafe Aboriginal Cultural Tourism students and staff based at the Winjan Community Centre will be installing sand art on the Eastern Foreshore to accompany the "Yellow" project

Home grown Aussie country music comes to Mandurah during the Stretch Festival. With headline features such as James Blundell, Anne Kirkpatrick and Felicty Urquhart, this concert is a must for Tamworth lovers.

Over the Stretch Festival weekend students from Mandurah Senior College and clients from Community First will workshop a performance piece featuring puppets made at Community First.

The foreshore will come alive during Sunday with sound and colour thanks to the efforts of Diana Oliver, Michaela Prince and members of Fair Camp, Peel Community Living and Life Club. Colourful costumes have been created and will combine with the high energy and frenzied percussion rhythms of the Sambanistas.

Arrivals is an exciting collaborative performance work featuring contemporary dance, circus skills, music and puppetry presented by young people of Mandurah. The performance work tells the story of a brother and sister when they traverse the landscape of emotion and experience encountered leaving a situation to ariive in a new destination. Along the journey they are separated and the search to reunite them unfolds a story of the past, present and future.

The workshop, presented by well known creative writing tutor Alan Hancock, is for anyone who wants to get a flow of ideas onto the page and into the form of a story, poem, script or memoir. During the workshop you will learn an approach to writing that will help you go deeper with your work and create stories that hold a reader.

A short but densely layered and extremely high speed work, in which movement phrases are broken down into smaller and smaller units, then reassembled in a variety of ways.

Luke brings his creativity and humour again to the Stretch Festival. Look out for this talented cartoonist as he captures he faces of locals and visitors with on the spot caricatures.

Flea Circus Productions "Creature Feature" is a unique performance ensemble of creature characterisations designed to intrigue and tantalise. Swathed in elaborate costume, the performers weave a beautiful story through movement, mime and humour to a backdrop of an elaborate digital soundscape by Jason Johnstone.

Watch as the Boardwalk is transformed by young locals and circus company Fliptease into a grand theatre featuring newly developed performances and innovative rigging.

The Challenger TAFE indigenous cultural tourism students and staff at Winjan Community Centre are recreating a traditional message stick that will travel along a certain path from Winjan along Pinjarra Road to the foreshore and be presented to the Mayor of the City of Mandurah at the opening of the Stretch Festival.

The Bo-nu Wongie, message stick, is engraved, by carving, to communicate to who it is meant for. This message stick speaks for the future. The marks on this stick symbolize the intent of Winjan Aboriginal Community on behalf of the Noongar people to invite the City of Mandurah to work with the Aboriginal Community now and into the future.