One Night in Footscray

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Friday 23 November 2018

This November you can spend ‘One Night in Footscray’. Discover the galleries, venues and hidden in-between spaces of Footscray's cultural hub.

Following on from a blockbuster debut in 2017, this year’s One Night in Footscray will raise the bar with a free and accessible program of vivid installations, musical performance, enlightening exhibitions and a walking food degustation.

Designed as a self-guided twilight journey through central Footscray, you will be able to view and engage in a wide variety of high-quality art experiences across different mediums and unexpected locations – all on one night.

2018 program highlights

Negai (A wish for Footscray) – an interactive installation featuring thousands of folded paper cranes.
Snuff Skool – the team behind west-side icons Snuff Puppets have trained a new squad of rookie roamers who will perform for the public for the very first time.
Pump up the Jam – Alejandra Diaz Garcia’s pop-up dancefloor makes a welcome return to Nicholson Street Bridge.
Footscray Family Portrait – bring the family, your best mate, your fur child or come on your own and have your portrait taken by photographer Jody Haines in a makeshift pop-up photo studio.
Poetry of Pointlessness – artist/techno-mancer Matto Lucas wanders the streets of Footscray, conjuring pointless poems based solely on your name.
Four, That Player – Trugo is back, and the Footscray Trugo Club will be at Footscray Station to teach new players the ropes of this unique western suburbs game.
Taste your way through Footscray with a walking degustation, featuring 8 local restaurants.