Chalk Urban Art Festival 2009
Chalk Urban Art Festival is the largest Urban Art Festival in the Southern Hemisphere. Art is moving away from being showcased on the walls of the average white-cubed gallery, and is being reclaimed by the streets. In particular, by the footpaths.
Urban Art has been slowly separating itself from the street graffiti we find spray-painted or scribbled on public transport or empty alleyway walls. Instead, nowadays, it’s becoming accepted as a form of communication and even high art.
This colourful event has drawn crowds of more than 120,000 people in the past three years and is expected to draw a lot more this year. The individual artworks will become a part of a search for the Champion Pavement Artist for 2008, who will be awarded $5000 in prize money.
Passers by will also be given the opportunity to vote for the People’s Choice Award, so get down there and browse through some of the creative artwork that some of the artists have spent hours producing. For more information and to meet the artists click here.
When: 29th October to 1st November 2009
Where: Church Street, Parramatta
Theme: Climate Change
Cost: Free
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