2011 Festival Wrap-up
Well, Street Dreams 2011 is over for another year. What a weekend!
Massive thanks to those who gave us their support this year, especially Format, Clinic 116, Magazine Gallery and our new buddies Burger Theory for letting us paint their truck! Thanks also to Kate Gagliardi for her amazing mural, as well as Store, Sam Evans and Joshua Smith for taking the workshops and all the great artists who took part in the exhibition. But most of all, thanks to all the masses of people who showed up to the events and made it all worthwhile.
For those who couldn’t make it, or those who just want to re-live the fun times, here’s a brief overview of what went down.
2011 Street Dreams / Format Mural
Like Marilyn, Jimi, Kurt, Biggie and Tupac, we thought that it would be best if last year’s mural was killed in its prime. With the blessing of the original artists, we put on the buffing overalls and did the grizzly deed.
Kate Gagliardi was chosen to carry the flame, and with the help of a couple of her mates, she managed to complete the wall in just a few days. If you haven’t seen it yet, you can check out the finished product outside Format (Peel Street, Adelaide).
Don’t leave it too long though… in the true nature of street art, this too won’t be around for ever…
Walking Tour
If you thought that last year’s walking tour was big, you should have seen this one! This year tour guide Chris Tamm’s well worn shoes were filled by Street Dreams 2011 director Peter Drew. It was encouraging to see the amount of new work in the city this year – if you missed out, you could always take yourself on a self guided tour by using our map. Special thanks to Jake One for bringing his stereo for that bit of ghetto flavour.
Dumpster Biennale
With 30 odd model dumpsters, a pile of 2D peices and a handful of custom decks, the Dumpster Biennale was a massive success. And who else to officialy open the exhibition but our city’s mayor, Stephen Yarwood, who said the following:
“This is the start. I don’t want to see grey walls in our city that basically tell our artists we don’t care about them and they should just piss off to Melbourne. What I want to do is find these opportunities. We’re doing council walls; I bet you have friends in the city who have got blank walls. You need to talk to them, you need to pressure them, you need to get them onside because it is those types of opportninities that will bring this city to life.”
Highlights included Mr Tomek’s ‘Beatster’ dumpster (complete with amp and speakers), Gary Seaman’s beautiful diaroma, Overunder’s Ashes to Oilbars and Timothy Tuppance’s see-through goldfish dumpster. If you missed it, STAY TUNED for photos of the work and a chance to buy unsold peices online.
Pimp Yo T-Shirt Party
White T-Shirts, cheap Asahi, markers and more stencils than you can poke a can at. Oh, and did we mention there was a big arse truck being painted out the front? Fun times.
Workshops
As always, the workshops were fun for all involved. Adelaide stencil artist extraordinaire Joshua Smith took the stencil workshop, followed by Ankles and Peter Drew’s paste-up workshop. Lastly, aerosol artists Store and Sam Evans imparted some of their finely honed skills and knowledge.
Open Air Cinema
What better way to relax at the end of a busy weekend than to sit back and watch Banksy’s Exit Through The Gift Shop. In somebody’s driveway. Our open air cinema was a lot of fun, and we hope to bring you another guerilla screening sometime soon.
So that’s it – if anyone has any photos of the events they’d like to share with us, you can post them on our facebook page, our flickr group or email them to us at info@streetdreams.com.au – we’d love to see them!
