WHAT IS THE VILLAGE?

The Village is a beautiful, beguiling festival that exists to provide an intimate environment in which professional and non professional artists and audiences can meet each other in bliss. The programming esthetic is populist, accessible, quirky, and littered with the familiar and the exotic. Folks you know personally and things you never knew existed.

Fanning out from the centre of your favourite park are a bunch of lovely hand-made portable theaters - tents, inflatables, caravans, buses, puppet booths plus a selection of pieces of art, brick-a-brack, food stalls, games and items to delight the senses.

In the middle is a café and a bar, and you sit with your friends and take in the view. A large blackboard tells you that each of the surrounding venues are full of great stuff for you to see. Each show is between five and thirty minutes long. And they are dirt cheap. Many things are free.

Having seen a show you go back to the bar and meet up with your friends, have a coffee and then see something else. In the course of the night you may see lots. The food is good, the coffee is too, the place is interesting on every level – there is art in the loo.

 

The Village is an act of optimism in a cynical world. Our intention is to have artists and community members leave The Village with a strong sense of the essential goodness of people. We also strongly believe in the community building power of people seeing their own stories reflected back to them in the art that they see.