Workshops & Master Classes
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 →
Street Art workshop using Recycled and Upcycled Materials
Join renowned Australian street sculptor Daniel Lynch of the 'JUNKYPROJECTS' in a street art workshop with a difference. Make your own creatures, critters and cretins using nothing more than garbage and a few nails. Learn innovative techniques to turn an endless resource of everyday waste into amazing art pieces for all to enjoy. Participants are encouraged to bring along any found →
Stencil for Beginners
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 →
Street Art workshop using Recycled and Upcycled Materials
Join renowned Australian street sculptor Daniel Lynch of the 'JUNKYPROJECTS' in a street art workshop with a difference. Make your own creatures, critters and cretins using nothing more than garbage and a few nails. Learn innovative techniques to turn an endless resource of everyday waste into amazing art pieces for all to enjoy. Participants are encouraged to bring along any found →
Yarn Wrapping & Bombing – getting the knitting done
Join Jude Yarn Wrap to learn about and experience the joys of yarn wrapping & bombing. This session focuses on preparing your yarn wrapping materials, knitted pieces. This workshop will suit anyone who has never knitted before or if you have picked up needles but cannot really remember what you do next. We cover all the basics you will need →
Youth Workshops @ Signal
Sweet Streets has partnered with Signal, City of Melbourne’s creative arts studio in the heart of the city dedicated to people aged 13 to 20. Over the first weekend of the festival, 9th & 10th October, Sweet Streets will be hosting a series of 3 hour street art workshops focusing on advanced stencilling techniques and creating street sculpture from found objects →
Urban Intervention: Street Sculpture Exhibition and Art Trail.
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 →