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Welcome to Sweet Streets 2010

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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

Fundraising Auction – Close of the Festival

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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 local artists including Deb and Drewfunk, and a range of unique works created especially for the Charity Auction, by local and visiting artists, through the facilitation of the Collingwood Underground Artists hub – active throughout the three weeks of the festival.

We are also extremely lucky to present for auction, one half of a diptych by Mat Benote, US conceptual graffiti artist, and famous advocate of the ‘gifted’ art movement. The other half of this piece has been ‘gifted’ to famous New York museum, PS1- essentially making this unique diptych, a live conceptual art piece for one lucky bidder.

This is your chance to get a unique piece of art at a bargain price – as well as your last chance to view the Award exhibition at 1000 £ Bend.

Register your interest!

To pre-register to bid, please send our auction coordinator, Eleanor Brooker, your full name, email and mobile phone number and we’ll get back to you with your bidding number, where you can preview what’s on sale and where to collect your Sweet Streets bidding beacon. Email Eleanor rubyque@warpmail.net or give her a call 0404 847 643.

Fundraising Auction
1000 £ Bend, 361 Ltl Lonsdale St, Melbourne.
24 October: Preview from 3pm, Auction starts 4pm

Some pieces to be auctioned…

Mat Benote Diptych

Award Show Mural by Deb

Award show mural by Drewfunk

Award show mural by Beastman

Live Walls – Presented by Napier Studios Productions

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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 begin. Come and see many of the Melbourne art stars bang this wall out.. Corner of Johnson and Napier Streets. Tuesday (19 Oct) should see Ever Fresh begin there wall on the corner of Gertrude and Young streets. Melbourne magic..

Artist Run Street Art Exhibition

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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 – 10pm. The exhibition will continue Thurs 21 – Sat 23, 2pm – 8pm.

Stencils for Beginners

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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 a photo or drawing of your choice; remember the more simple and contrasted it is the better; a selection of images will be provided on the day for those of you who can’t choose!

Date & time: Saturday 23rd October 10am – 12.30pm

Venue: Collingwood Underground Arts Park, 44 Harmsworth Street, Collingwood VIC

Cost: $25

Enquiries: contact Debbie Hall: debbie_hall@bigpond.com or call 0431363097

Opening of the Collingwood Underground

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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 belong to any individual, the opening will blow you away – you gotta help this be a real festival with the diversity we can all bring in our own unique ways. The exhibition continues Thursday 21st – Saturday 23rd October, 2 – 8pm. Click here to find out more about the underground space. Download an e-invitation here.

See magnificent walls painted during the festival by some of Australasia’s leading artists, images and footage of sweet streets happenings, participate in live painting, and generally immerse yourselves in this unique creative space.

Remember that Collaboration is at the heart of the “magic” we create!!!!!! People are the transformers – we are just the catalyst ————-Enjoy – there is more to come!!!!

Underground Artists Hub Opening times

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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 provide a studio base for our artists, a venue for workshops, and an exhibition space for our artist run show during the last week of the festival. To find out more, go to the Artists Hub – Underground page. The hub will be open to artists supporting the festival: Tues 12 Oct (1-8pm), Thurs 14 Oct (1-8pm), Sat 16 Oct (4-8pm), Mon 18 Oct (2-10pm), Tues 19 Oct (2-10pm). Exhibition opening party Wed 20 October (6-10pm). Artists can continue to work on pieces for the auction on 21 & 22 October. Artists can contact Phil for more info phil.hall9@bigpond.com 0438661413.

Our workshops are sweet!

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Haha's advanced stencil workshop

Since the festival opening on Friday 8th October we have run 7 brilliant workshops over 4 days, facilitated by our amazing street artists at Signal and the Underground Arts Park. There are even more workshops to come, to find out more go to the ‘workshops – book here’ page.

Mother & son doing JunkyProjects workshop

Josh Cleary's advanced stencil workshop

Stencils for Beginners

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Our stencils for beginners workshops are filling up fast, so we have scheduled another session on Sunday 10th October 10am – 1pm @ Signal Youth Art Space, Flinders Walk, Northbank, Melbourne VIC. Go to the ‘Workshops – book here’ page to find out more and make bookings.

Workshops & Master Classes

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Work by Simon Ormerod

Work by Simon Ormerod

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 to book online.