Overview
A huge celebration of food, music and culture is coming to Liverpool in the form of Eat Your Heart Out — a collaboration between local creatives and Liverpool City Council. The one-day festival, on Saturday, October 28, will feature a stellar lineup of musicians, artists, artisans and chefs to open the newly revamped Macquarie Mall.
The team at FBi Radio has curated a music program of local artists who'll showcase their talent on Macquarie Mall's stage. Some of the emerging artists on the lineup are hip-hop crew Soul Benefits, indie-electronic trio Okenyo and Triple J's 2017 Unearthed winner Rebecca Hatch. To complement the energy on stage there'll be a sensory light installation presented by Soft Centre.
Along with the festivities at Macquarie Mall just over the way in Bigge Park, there'll be a host of family-friendly activities: jumping castles, circus skills and a touch-to-play water park to occupy the oldies — um, we mean littlies.
The event is free, but dancing your heart out to some of Sydney's best musicians and bouncing in jumping castles is thirsty (and hungry) work. So, we're giving away $50 food vouchers to be used at one of many food stalls and trucks. Some of the standouts include Miss Mabel's, serving up seasonal, organic and free-range produce, Sakura on Wheelz's traditional Japanese menu and fried chicken specialists Dirty Bird Foodtruck. The Donut Dealer will also stay true to its name and offer an array of extravagant, rotund doughy treats.
The giveaway also includes a double pass to a Liverpool Taste Tour. The cultural (and edible) tour will run from 11am - 1pm on the day of Eat Your Heart Out. You'll be guided around Liverpool's best international restaurants, eating Balkan, Middle Eastern and Fijian delights — just to name a few.
Activities at Bigge Park will kick off at noon and run until 6pm, and the live acts at Macquarie Mall will start at 3pm and go till late.