Micro Parks

Overview

If you've walked the back streets of Newtown and Erskineville, you've probably stumbled upon one of several random little parks that are in blocks between houses and sweet but decidedly empty. Performance Space and Sydney Festival have a solution to that: put An Art in it. With Micro Parks, they've commissioned four new installations and performances to fill the scattered spaces, which you can seek out by aid of a map, which you can download or pick up from the Carriageworks base. Leslie Knope would surely approve.

In 2012 Performance Space brought us some of the best site-specific works (that's the quirky stuff that makes its stage outside of a theatre) in Sydney, and we're thrilled they'll be continuing with that mission in 2013. January's Micro Parks will feature dance by Martin del Amo and Julie-Anne Long, tea ceremonies by Sarah Goffman, social sculpture by Kate Mitchell, and performance by Jess Olivieri and the Parachutes for Ladies before returning with new works in new 'hoods later in the year.

Read our list of the 12 best things to see at the Sydney Festival in 2013.