Foxtel
Festival HUB
Pop-up bar, performance space, art
experience, carnival throwdown
– a spectacular new festival hub,
built on an extravagant scale.
This year Melbourne Festival is proud to
collaborate with internationally renowned festival
producers Strut & Fret to create the dazzling
new Foxtel Festival Hub: a custom-designed bar,
club and hub – a performance space and festive
destination in the heart of the Festival precinct.
As each day unfurls, the Foxtel Festival Hub
transforms from relaxed daytime cafe to chic preshow meeting place to night-time entertainment
spectacular, with special guest DJs keeping the
dancefloor moving from 9pm until the early morn.
Featuring a roster of cabaret, music, theatre,
comedy and burlesque exclusively curated
by Strut & Fret, as well as hosting the highly
anticipated Ringside: Artists in Conversations series
(see page 51 for details), the Foxtel Festival Hub
will, for 17 delirious days, become the beating
heart of Melbourne’s festival life: an extravaganza
of performance, art, dining, drinking and dancing,
where you never know quite what – or who – you’ll
encounter.
This year’s full Foxtel Festival Hub program will
be unfurled in September, in all its sublime glory.
Until then, you can get a tantalising taste of
what’s to come at melbournefestival.com.au/hub.
Open morning till late.
melbournefestival.com.au/hub
Photos Sean Fennessy, Andrew Hobbs, Jim Lee, Leah Robertson
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