More than 50 people crammed the Centennial Ave community hall for an evening of Highland music, singing, poetry and refreshments.
The Queenstown and Southern Lakes Highland Pipe Band began the evening and played throughout.
Society secretary Joan Cooke read a tribute and history of Scotland's favourite son, whose poems, written in his brief life of 37 years, still echo around the world.
Burns spoke beautifully of liberty and equality in an era of international independence and revolution, she said.
Libby Drummond (4) performed a Highland fling, dressed in full regalia. The youngster from Heriot has been dancing since August.
Arrowtown artist Jessica Law (15) sang and played her own compositions.
Society co-organiser Shona Blair read Burns' Winter and A Rose Bud By My Early Walk and led the audience in a sing-a-long of old favourites accompanied by accordionists Ray McGregor, Liz Anderson, Colin MacNicol and fiddler Noeline Tait.
Society chieftain Hector Boyd gave the Address to a Haggis, flanked by the pipers, and drams of whisky were raised in a toast to the bard before Scotland's national dish and supper were enjoyed.
