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Sweet Streets: Underground Artists’ Hub

Artists and onlookers alike are encouraged to mingle, collaborate and enjoy a drink or two from the beer stocked fridges as Sweet Streets gives you a firsthand look at how true street art is inspired and created.

Sweet Streets: Urban Intervention Art Trail

A self-guided walk that starts at the Street Sculpture exhibition at Abbotsford’s Yarra Sculpture Gallery, before winding through the back streets of Collingwood and Fitzroy.

Sweet Streets: Stencils for beginners

For three hours we drew, cut and sprayed our own stencils. The class was super-productive, heaps of fun and a pretty cool learning experience in a very ‘Melbourne’ venue - an abandoned underground car park in Collingwood.

Sweet Streets@BSG

High above busy Brunswick Street is the gorgeous BSG gallery space, which currently hosts some of Australia and NZ’s coolest urban artists the exhibition is a collection of murals, stencils, skate decks and mixed media collages.

Sweet Streets: Award Exhibition

Melburnians love a big party and the revelers at this year’s Sweet Streets launch and awards night were not disappointed. Over 40 artists submitted works in a wide range of media including stencil, graffiti, sculpture, yarn wrapping, collage and illustration.

MICF: Circus Trick Tease

This talented trio of acrobats musters the energy of five toddlers, the strength of a superhero and the flexibility of Gumby as they sing, balance and bend their way through the tale of an inner-circus love triangle.