Welcome to Sweet Streets 2010, proudly presented by Melbourne Stencil Festival in conjunction with the City of Yarra & 3RRR.  Our festival celebrates & embraces the diversity of street art. Discover why Melbourne has a global reputation for these art forms through our extensive list of events, and happenings which will take you on an unforgettable journey that you will want to share with all of your friends. Our sponsor partners & wonderful team of dedicated volunteers, artists &  supporters are proud to present a dynamic and diverse 16 day festival (8 – 24 October 2010) which showcases the very best of contemporary urban and street art culture.

EXPLORE WHAT’S ON THROUGH OUR WEB SITE – this section of the web site is for latest news, use the menu down the right hand side of this page to locate specific info including our calender of events that you will find on the 2101 events/program page.

Enjoy! Phil Hall (MSF President, Sweet Streets Festival Director).

DOWNLOAD A FESTIVAL PROGRAM HERE!

DOWNLOAD THE AWARD SHOW CATALOGUE HERE WITH IMAGES AND ARTISTS STATEMENTS

Key Sponsor Partners

Melbourne Stencil Festival, City of Yarra, 3RRR, Giant Paints, Molotow,

White Rabbit Beer, Collingwood Housing Estate Arts Committee,

Melbourne Street Art Tours, Signal Youth Art Space, Inpress, Panic

T-Shirts, Collingwood Neighbourhood House, TroubleMagazine, Avant Card

Plakkit, We Make Stuff Good, Yarra Men’s Shed, Oubliette Revelations Productions

Come along to 1000 pound bend this Saturday to meet artists Kirsty Furniss (from KA'a), Tom Civil, Junky Projects, Haha, and Boo, as they discuss their work with Mickie Skelton. Audiences are encouraged to get involved and ask questions as they hear about the artists' involvement in Street art culture and in particular, some of the challenges and politics surrounding being →

Come along to one of the most anticipated events of Sweet Streets, as we close the festival with our Fundraising Auction. Help raise money for the future of Sweet Streets as well as the Collingwood Housing Estate Arts Community, and Anglicare Victoria - our chosen charities. Featuring signed prints donated by Obey, Acorn and Josh Cleary, the Award Show murals by well-known →

Come join Sweet Streets to celebrate the opening of the Collingwood Underground Wednesday 20th October 6 – 10pm. This is an exhibition of co-creativity between artists, and all involved with the festival, workshop participants, staff and audience. Free flow is the name of the game. We all need to play with this underground thing coz it’s real and does not →

This exhibition encompasses numerous modes of street art sculpture and urban intervention including site specific installation, culture jamming, yarn bombing, guerrilla knitting and other public art forms that relate to an engagement, subversion, dialogue or interjection with the urban topography. Art Trail: A Google mapping system will be provided to help you locate existing works by the artists in Melbourne’s laneways. Moving from the concrete →

Come along for an exciting walking tour of some of the best (and often quite hidden) street art in Melbourne. As you are led by some of the most informed and involved local Street artists, you'll gain an real insight into this unique culture presented on our city's streets and laneways. Run by Melbourne Street Art Tours, the Sweet Streets →

What an awesome opening we had at 1000 £ Bend, with over 1,000 people attending. A huge thanks to all who gave up their time to make the festival opening a happening thing; our volunteer management & operations team, the NZ crew (Cinzah, Cracked Ink, Liam Moore) who created a collaborative masterpiece along with some other spontaneous contributors. Great Earthquake & →

This year our workshops embrace and celebrate the many different forms of street art catering for different skill levels and areas of interest. Join some of our leading street artists for workshops on stencils, character development, street sculpture, illustration, yarn wrapping. Places in each workshop are limited, so bookings are essential. Go to http://www.sweetstreets.net/workshops-book-here/ to find out more details and →

A screenprinter by trade Joe Vegas is a supremely talented yet rarely organised art-making machine. He is known to often dwell in the streets of Melbourne Town. 10 years ago whilst living in a caravan on the NSW coast he would scribble away furiously by himself during the gaps left by skateboarding, acting more out of compulsion than any grand →

Boo is a stencil artist and facilitator from Melbourne city. In spite of her honours degree in fine art she has been making street art for many years. The reclamation of public space being central to her work, she prefers the street to the gallery but exists wholly between the two. Boo is obsessed with the point at which the →

Melbourne street artist Phoenix has created a work ‘EPHEMERAL’ to coincide with Sweet Streets 2010. This work – which he has installed on the wall of the carpark opposite Thousand Pound Bend – is an exploration of the way street art evolves with the passage of time. The top letters are sturdily built – made of plywood coated with PVA and →

This weekend (16 & 17 Oct) there will be live painting in Richmond on post office lane just past Lennox on Victoria street. Come after lunch... yo see the Napier crew shred there stuff.  Ha ha Broddock and Civil will be getting down...at the same time in the same place. On Monday (18 Oct) the Amnesty International wall will →

Once again the Collingwood Underground Arts Park will be an integral venue for the Sweet Streets 2010 Festival. This unique space, which was once an underground car park and is still adorned with street art on the walls from last year’s festival, will host an artist run street art exhibition. Come to the opening party on Wednesday 20th October 6pm →

Join Daniel Lynch, renowned street artist from Junkyprojects, to learn how to make quirky stencils. This workshop starts at the very beginning, so if you’ve never picked up an art knife before, never fear. From cutting to spraying all the secrets of this DIY process will be revealed and you too can make your own two-toned stencil masterpiece. Bring along →