All weekend

• 'Paint, Cloth and Clay' art exhibition, until March 24 at the Gloucester Art Gallery, Denison Street, Gloucester. Featuring the work of painter Yvette Hugill, ceramicist Peter Hugill and printmaker Ali Haigh. Gallery hours are Thursday to Saturday 10am to 4pm and Sunday 10am to 1pm. Monday to Wednesday, call ahead: 0425 203 877.

• New exhibitions at Manning Regional Art Gallery. Internationally renowned local artist Peter Schouten AM will launch Into the Wild - Exploring the Past, which explores his specialisation in rebuilding images of fossil species. Also, two artists, Angela Tay and Jennifer Catt, have combined forces for Paradise of Waters, producing complementary bodies of work which explore saltwater and freshwater spaces in the landscape and the intriguing relationship humans have with these environments. Gallery hours are Wednesday to Saturday 10am to 4pm and Sunday 1pm to 4pm. The official opening is at 2pm this Saturday.
  

• Central Districts Rowing Association Championship, all day both Saturday and Sunday, at Endeavour Place, Taree. Hosted by the Manning River Rowing Club.
  

Friday

• Rudi’s Market, 8am to 2pm, corner of Bushland and Kanangra Drives, Taree.

• International Women's Day luncheon, 10.30am to 2.30pm at Club Taree. Guest speakers are writer, author and screenwriter Kaneana May, innovation facilitator at RAW Innovation Anna Godfrey and student and performer Luca Saunders. Bookings essential.
  

• Understanding our Shorebirds, 10am to 4pm at Manning Regional Art Gallery. Join artist Bridget Nicholson in making thousands of clay eggs as part of an Orana Arts and the Office of Environment and Heritage’s Art of Threatened Species program to produce art about three threatened shorebird species: the little tern, pied oystercatcher and beach stone-curlew. Free.
  

• Preschool Storytime, 10.30am to 11.30am at both the Hallidays Point Library in the Village Shopping Centre, Hallidays Point, and at Stroud Library in Church Lane, Stroud.

• Book talk: How to solve our human problems presented by Mick Marcon from 2.30pm to 3.30pm at Tea Gardens Library in Marine Drive.
  

Saturday

• Johns River Community Markets, 8am to 12.30pm at Johns River Community Hall.
  

• Three Brothers Produce Markets, 8am to noon at Johns River Community Hall.
  

• Gloucester Farmer Markets, 8am to noon, at Billabong Park, Gloucester.
  

• Wingham Community Markets, 8am and noon, at Wingham Skate Park.
  

• Hawks Nest Motorfest, 10am to 4pm, at Myall Sports Oval.
  

• Fundraiser for Manning Valley Push 4 Palliative, High Tea on High Street, 11.30am to 3pm at the Cottage Cafe and Craft Centre, on the corner of High and Pulteney streets, Taree. Tickets $20, call Shirley on 0434 341 491.

• Men of League Charity Race Day at Tuncurry Racecourse. Gates open at noon (subject to change). Entry is $5 members and pensioners, $10 non-members, kids under 16 free.
  

• Bush Poetry at the Saleyards, 6.15pm to 9.30pm at the Gloucester Cattle Saleyards. Poets this year are Carol Heuchan, Bob Bush and Claire Reynolds. Tickets $25pp.

Sunday

• Cundletown Market, 8.30am to noon at the Cundletown Community Garden, Main Street.
  

• Life drawing studio, 1.30pm to 3.30pm at the Manning Regional Art Gallery, Taree. Cost $15, bring your own materials and easel.
  

• Forster Town Markets, 8am to 2pm, Town Park in Forster.
  

• All About Women festival satellite stream, 12.45pm to 5.30pm at the Taree Library. Part of International Women's Day.

• Burrell Creek Hall Markets, 9am to 12.30pm, at Burrell Creek Hall.