Saturday night, before my big run, I was excited to be able to visit the local arts festival ‘Beams Festival’. Seriously, across the nearest main road from my house, my suburb was hosting this cool one night only art show, complete with food trucks and music! It was great. My brother came over to stay before he did the half marathon (who start a fair bit earlier than 9am like me!) and we headed out to the festival.
We grabbed some food, and were dismayed at the quantity for the price (not enough), although it was tasty! We headed home afterwards and made pasta to carb load for our runs! There were also great activities, like decorating paper lanterns, painting portraits, creating ‘reflections’ by cutting out things from magazine images, and transposing them. I didn’t get in on any of the crafting, cause I wasn’t sure if they were for adults or kids, but I was very tempted by the lanterns!
Gratitude (for Monday)
- A work car for my sole use, which got me from home to Chatswood, to Freshwater, to Manly to Lindfield to Chatswood to Cherrybrook to Chatswood and home!
- A delicious dinner of beef bourginon, cooked by me (a rarity these days)
- Minimal washing up!
- Getting 1 hour of chores in before dinner prep, best idea ever! Cleared some of the ignored weekend’s backlog, but still had dinner sorted ‘in time’
- Finally getting sticky pads to stop one of the sofas moving (and potentially scratching our lovely floors)
- A row of chocolate, mmmmm Cabury’s! for dessert
Does your city do many festivals? Does it have a light festival – they seem to be popping up everywhere lately! I really wonder how they coordinate it all, with only a 24hr window of road closures, and so much cabling!
That looks really cool – I like the shot glass light 🙂 Maybe that's the way to reduce your waste even more – make cool art and hang it around the house.
I'll need me some more shot glasses then – but I loved the shape of it too!
I love the glasses lantern! There do seem to be lots of light-and-sound type performance art things happening around Melbourne, too. I like that as an engineer, you notice the tech side of things like the cabling!
I can't help but think logistics it would seem! It is fun to see all these things happening
We have a night art festival but it's mostly the street-level art galleries staying open late at night and being free…not so much light sculpture. Too bad! Yours looks really fun.
Our did also include galleries being open, but I didn't really get involved with that part of it. Outside was way too much fun!
Very interesting. Isn't it amazing the endless originality of creative people?
Totally! I wonder what they could do with my weekly meat trays :p
Hi Sarah! I was very dissapointed to have missed this festival but am so glad you took photos – I can 'be there' through your blog. Thank you for the wonderful write up too 🙂
Why hello real life friend (and now commentor!). IT was hard to take photos, but I'm glad I could capture some of it, as it went back to normal pretty swiftly.