Beams Arts Festival 2015

Overview

Chippendale’s mysterious, once-seedy alleyways will be getting the BEAMS treatment again on Saturday, September 19. Now in its fourth year, BEAMS Arts Festival delivers a feast of light, video, animation, sculpture, music, dance, theatre and food for five action-packed hours between 5pm and 10pm. And every minute of it is gloriously free.

Festival director Nicky Ginsberg says we can expect “live music featuring Australia’s best and brightest talent co-curated by King Sound Studios and including the elite of Triple J Unearthed and the Australian Institute of Music in this year’s stellar line-up".

Meanwhile, local eateries will be “showcasing their finest wares”. And the festival’s creative participants will be responding to the theme 'phenomena'. They’ve been asked to reflect on Chippendale’s evolution from its industrial origins to its contemporary manifestation, while exploring what Sydney’s future might hold through imaginative collaboration.

BEAMS will take place along on Balfour, Little Queen and Kensington Streets, as well as in nearby laneways and on Chippendale Green (within One Central Park).