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

Underground Artists Hub Opening times

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.

Welcome to Sweet Streets, presented by the Melbourne Stencil Festival

Welcome! Welcome! street art fans, enthusiasts, professional and amateur rapscallions, to our new bright and shiney Sweet Streets website!

Watch this space. While still in utero, this website will blossom into a fully fledged cyber hub… shortly.

Sweet Streets, a program of events with fun for the whole family is coming soon: October 8th – 24th 2010.