Since its inception in 2005, travelling community arts festival The Village Festival has delighted 55 communities across Australia, programming over 5000 artists and acts, and involving over 150 community groups.
More than 450,000 people across Australia have experienced the unique, welcoming, community space that The Village Festival provides, where creativity rules and vibrant colour, wonder and up-close-and-personal encounters flourish.
With a diverse music line up featuring everything from stomping world music to rock, soaring jazz and surreal electronica, queer delights, the ever popular World Kitchen, theatre and installation art, explorations in alternate reality, a dedicated children's program, Circus Oz Fanatics, and a new Sunset Ritual featuring Melbourne's best acrobats and flow artists, this year's festival is not to be missed. Tickets are available via thevillagefestival.com.au/tickets/ The festival is inviting Melburnians to dive into their own creativity as they experience The Village in all its glory for one last time in Edinburgh Gardens. "This year is bittersweet. It's cause for great celebration as we commemorate our 15th year Australia wide, while it's also the last year The Village Festival will be held at Edinburgh Gardens - where we have made so many treasured memories! This last weekend in October has become a calendar favourite for Northsiders and Melburnians alike. We can't wait to gather everyone for one last hurrah at Edinburgh Gardens, and you can bet we are pulling out all the stops for a truly spectacular line up of inclusive, awe-inspiring acts!" says Suzanne Kalk, Village Founder and Artistic Director.Videos