Thursday, 20 October 2011

Marrickville Festival 2011


The 2011 Marrickville Festival will be a feast for the senses, with live music, cultural performances, arts, comedy, kids activities and a bustling international food market. Come along and join the party on Sunday 23 October 2011 from 11am to 5pm. Marrickville is a suburb of Sydney, NSW Australia.

One of the largest annual festivals in the Marrickville area, the festival draws crowds of up to 50,000 people each year to celebrate Marrickville's cultural diversity. 

This year's festival will be a feast for the senses. The bustling festival marketplace will be filled with foods from around the globe and local tidbits that encapsulate the vibrant, multicultural community we live in. If fashion and trinkets is your thing, then the festival features many market stalls full of delights for young and old.

Live music, cultural performances, arts, theatre, comedy and dance will feature across the entire festival site. Whether it’s on the main stage or in the bustling markets, there will be plenty of talented performers and exiting acts to keep you laughing, dancing and clapping well into the afternoon. The Kids' Play Park in Illawarra Rd with free workshops and rides will keep children entertained throughout the day.

Each year, the festival grows and develops, highlighting the best our creative community has to offer. Come along and be a part of the vibrant street party! 


Entertainment



Main Stage
11.00am - Studio H Dance Academy
11.20am - Lion Mountain Studio, Sierra Leone hip hop performance
11.45am - Electric Lunchbox, music for ultra urban kids
Official welcome at 12:10pm
12.30pm - West African Festival Showcase
1.10pm - Mariam Sawires, Egyptian soul songstress
1.50pm - Ungus Ungus Ungus, progressive funk pop rock, winners of The Break 2011
2.30pm - Stiff Gins, indigenous duo
3.20pm - Doc Jones and the Lechery Orchestra, gypsy infused cabaret music
4.10pm - Richard in Your Mind, psychedelic indie pop

International Dance Floor
11.00am - Ferncourt Band & Choir
11.25am - Marrickville Public School Senior & Junior Choir
11.45am - Australian Martial Arts Academy
12.05pm - Dare to Shine Dance Studio
12.25pm - Sydney Self Defence Demonstration
12.45pm - Dong Tam Lion Dance
1.05pm - Creative Dance Academy
1.25pm - Marrickville Karate Club Demonstration
1.45pm - Majestic Performing Arts Academy
2.20pm - Freeman Dancers Indigenous performance
2.40pm - Vietnamese Hip Hop Crew
3.00pm - Assim e Portugal dance performance
3.20pm - Zumba Demonstration
3.40pm - Cyprus Club of NSW dance performance
4.00pm - Amera's Dance Palace Egyptian Bellydance
4.20pm - Sydney Hellenic Dance Company
4.40pm - Latin Motion

Planet Text: Fear of a Bland Planet
Presented by Urchin Books & Workers Radio (Radio Skid Row)
Celebrate text in its many weird and wonderful forms. Comedians, spoken word performers, text-based artists, contestants in the National Poetry Slam Heat and the current UK Slam Poetry Champ will all play with text in bewitching ways. Excite your imagination during our panel on UFOs and extra terrestrials! Discover a feast of textual delights.
11:00-11:30am - Jah Bya: Sound of Revolution (Radio Skid Row 88.9FM)
11:30am-12pm - Lawless Entertainment Comedy: Pretty Plain, Sally Klimpton, Steve Philp
12:00-12:30pm - UFO/ET Panel featuring UFO Research NSW Inc, UFO Investigation Centre (UFOIC) and Skeptics Australia
12:30-12:45pm - Diolita (spoken word)
12:45-1:00pm - Magenta Smallfield (spoken word)
Australian Poetry Slam 2011 registration at 1pm
1:00-1:15pm - Lawless Entertainment Comedy: Dave Eastgate
1:15-1:30pm - Pterodactyl Man (spoken word)
1:30-1:45pm - International hip hop impresario Inja
1:45-2:00pm - UK poetry slam champion Holly McNish
2:00-3:00pm - Australian Poetry Slam 2011, hosted by Miles Merrill
3:00-3:15pm - Intermission (music)
3:15-3:45pm - Australian Poetry Slam 2011 continued
3:45-4:10pm - Frisky Farnell and Bassie (music)
4:10-4:30pm - Farid Farid (spoken word)
4:30-5:00pm - L-Fresh (hip-hop)

Also featuring:
Street art with Chris Tamm
MCs Chard Core and Angeline Neville

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