Overview
We all know Hyde Park is much better when conceived as a kind of Midsummer Night's Dream: a magical, atmospheric hub bounded by strings of lights. For another year, Sydney Festival is setting up the beloved Festival Village in Hyde Park, stretching along College Street past the Archibald Fountain and housing the Spiegeltent, Magic Mirror Spiegeltent and all your festival food and drink needs. The Village's free activities, music and nommy nomz will take you from day to night with the laidback, buzzy vibe that's unique to Sydney in January.
Food vendors have your voracious stomach's needs completely covered from 12pm (check out these ridiculous Messina creations). But this is not just about slobbering gluttony, you barbarian. It's also about playtime. City of Sydney's Lawn Library offers books and workshops by day, and you can enjoy the creative surrounds of SydFest's 2016 artists-in-residence Province (aka Laura Pike and Anne-Louise Dadak).
Festival Village is open January 7-26 (closed Mondays). Food from 12pm, licensed bars open from 4pm. Visit the Sydney Festival website for more info.
Image by Prudence Upton.
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