Five Eliza

Overview

Hubs are in. The Festival of Sydney moved its hubs asynchronously around the fringes of Hyde Park this year and the Festivalists (Jurassic Lounge) premiered the Festival Hub undercity at the 2012 Sydney Film Festival’s Town Hall digs. Back again to anchor the energies of this year’s 2012 Sydney Fringe Festival, festival hub Five Eliza will open its dancehall ambience to any number of new and return Fringe favourites, not least of which is the brief resurrection of Newtown pop-up bar, Freaky Tiki.

Aesthetic aficionados can let their appreciation loose on Sundays with one of two art markets, 2SER's afternoon of smart arts and lightning art classes. While those with more cacophanous tastes can indulge in its videogame, absinthe or musical sidelines. Sundays in September Eliza is also reviving the late, lamented Freaky Tiki bar for afternoons of art, quasi-Hawaiian aesthetic and art markets, holding you in place with the amiable threat of free coffee and wifi.