Big West Festival is the leading community-based, contemporary arts festival in Melbourne's West. A biennial festival, this year's fabulous, nine-day extravaganza runs from 20-28 November, 2015.
In 2015 we are celebrating the tenth Big West Festival by bringing you 70 multicultural, multi-artform events, most of which are free and all of which celebrate the West and the meanings this place holds for its residents, through our theme, the inner and outer world of the HOUSE.
Artists have made their own mobile art galleries and performances spaces. They have turned theatres into houses and houses into theatres. Come and play with angels and man-rabbits, be immersed in industrial soundscapes of sirens and massed choirs; see a show in a wardrobe, a woman hanging from a window, a whole house seemingly fallen from the sky... In 2015, we sent the art outdoors into Nicholson Street Footscray, to make quite possibly the richest performance-based street party that Melbourne has ever seen!
Our HOUSE is now your HOUSE. The welcome mat is out - we hope you'll drop in!
FULL information on the website www.bigwest.com.au
Highlight’s include:
HOUSE
Made with love and built on dreams, HOUSE is Big West Festival’s 2015 Festival Hub, situated in Big West’s mini Village in Paisley Street, Footscray – details of what’s on at the Hub here http://www.bigwest.com.au/festival-2015/house
STREET PARTY
Footscray's most amazing street party with quality art and design, brilliant food and interactive craft and performances that will keep the whole family happy! You'll want to stay the whole day! Join us on Saturday 21 November, 10am-4pm.
MUSIC EVENTS
BOOMbox with DJ Nifty NO EXCUSES! a song suite created by composers Christina Green and Kathleen McGuire to be performed by women singers and instrumentalists THE SIREN event presented by Madeleine Flynn and Tim Humphrey and Big West Festival - a major new work featuring ten leading contemporary Australian composers, and the massed male voices of the School of Hard Knocks.
Then the finale event of the festival FULL HOUSE, a raw, noisy, electric and soulful celebratory night of performances by some of Melbourne's most extraordinary bands. Curators by Parvyn Singh (Bombay Royale) and Robert Bundle (elder, songwriter and musician) with act Emma Donovan and The Putbacks, Kutcha Edwards, San Lazaro and DJ Manchild (PBS)
Proudly Presented by PBS 106.7 FM
