KINGS CROSS FESTIVAL
Kings Cross is not just a place fuelled by drugs, booze and strippers. It’s an area rich in culture, art, fashion and fine dining. And with over $300,000 of both government and council funding, this year’s inaugural Kings Cross Festival will be treating Sydneysiders to five nights of pop-up galleries, knitting lessons, a board game bonanza and more.
Live music at the Festival will include a performance by local banjo-loving band The Pigs, as well as Miriam Lieberman, Cumbiamuffin, Emma Pask, Renee Geyer and more.
Author and folk musician Warren Fahey is one of the curators at the Writers & Whisky program, a series of four talks. “The Neverending Kings Cross Story will have five writers battle it out to thread the world’s biggest yarn,” Fahey explains. “I am going to start them off with a setting in Kings Cross, probably in the 1950s, and each [writer] has to weave a tale that runs wild and then pass it on to the next person.”
The festival hopes to change the conversation about Kings Cross and celebrate its creativity. “We like a little bit of sleaze, but we want to add to that mixture and celebrate the bohemian nature of the area.”
“This place is different. It’s not suburbia. It’s a really vibrant area and Australia’s most densely populated suburb. I’ve lived here for 12 years and I wouldn’t want to be anywhere else,” he continues. “As a writer it’s the most stimulating place in Australia.”
Nov 21-25, various locations in the Kings Cross area, kingscrossonline.com.au
