Creative Streets Festival

18 October – Phoenix a Sogetsu Ikebana Exhibition; Hatch for Creative Industries; Ikebana Mini Master Class; Guyra Farmers and Craft Markets; Adult Music Matters
19 October – Lactic Magic Fermentation; Workshop, Gals Kitchen Culture; Bare waving; Ikebana Mini Master Class; Basket Weaving
21 October – Lean In by Andrea Gledhill
22 October – Wednesday Words Poetry & Open Mic
23 October – Mindful Doodling; ABC Friends Annual Speaker Professor Jackie Huggins

Week 2 – 24-31 October
24 October – Creative Streets Friday Nights; Boobooks Live Music Nights; Fovndlings; 40th Pack Saddle Exhibition
25 October – Thunderbolt Festival, Uralla; Guyra Farmers and Craft Markets; Noughty Nineties Party
26 October – Sunday Markets in the Mall; Spring Workshop
29 October – Wednesday Words Poetry & Open Mic
31 October – Creative Streets Friday Night; Aussie Bush Dance & Line Dance Night with Swamp Dawkins; • Bookstore Karaoke; Book launch Jypsi Bennett; I Imagine; Dion Bayman

Week 3 – 1-9 November
1 November – New England Garden Festival; Elias Bartholomeo Community Art Exhibition
2 November – Uralla High Country Markets; Choral Society Concert
5 November – Culture Club Open Studio; A Prelude to Remembrance Day; Central West Comedy
7 November – NEGS Twilight Market
8 November – Black Gully Festival; Oktoberfest
9 November – Armidale Farmers’ Market; ASO Concert

Friday, 24 October – 7.00–9.30pm
After Dinner Delight – A walk-through experience after dinner (East End Mall and Beardy Street Mall)
• Community and school art installations; • Roving shop-front art gallery; • Live music on the Mall Stage; • Art and dessert trail; • And more!
FRIDAY 31 OCTOBER – 4.00–6.00pm (recommended 2-10 years old)
Halloween Arts and Craft Workshop (East End Mall)
• Lighting projections and artwork; • Craft activities with Kiah; • Face painter; • Competition: Bring your carved pumpkin (winners receive a season pass to Monckton Aquatic Centre); • Fairy Simone

Street Murals
As part of the Creative Streets Festival, a vibrant series of murals will be brought to life across the Armidale CBD, adding lasting colour and character to the city’s streetscape. Acclaimed muralists
will be painting before, during (live painting), and after the festival, transforming blank walls into bold expressions of creativity and community.
16-19 October – Krimsone and Kitsune Jolene Mural (Marsh Street – Burger Bulls Wall)

24 October-3 November – Sophi Odling Mural (Rusden Street at the multi-tier car park)