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HOT: Glow Winter Arts Festival, Central Park, Malvern East

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The Glow Winter Arts Festival by the City of Stonnington is back for its sixth year with a four-day event featuring a free program of art-after-dark near the playground side of Central Park in Malvern East.

Glow Winter Arts Festival

Renowned Melbourne neon light artist Carla O’Brien opens the festival site with oversized GLOW letters.

Then explore the six new works of stunning immersive outdoor installations.

The Electric Canvas has custom mapped a projection to one of the park’s landmark trees for ‘Secrets of the Golden Elm‘.

Stonnington Glow Festival The Electric Canvas Secrets Of The Golden Elm

Stonnington Glow Festival The Electric Canvas Secrets Of The Golden Elm

Footscray-based experimental arts group The Indirect Object is bringing Minor Disturbance, an interactive installation handmade from recycled plastics which is inspired by the Great Barrier Reef and the waste that threatens it.

Stonnington Glow Festival The Indirect Object Minor Disturbance

Intricate inlays of recycled plastic bottles, bags, jars, or wire combine to suggest organic shapes, textures and patterns found in our reefs.

Stonnington Glow Festival The Indirect Object Minor Disturbance

You’ll find old toilet paper wrappings, Kmart shopping bags, polar fleece jumpers and manmade waste all embedded in the sculptures.

Stonnington Glow Festival The Indirect Object Minor Disturbance

The centrepiece is a massive sculpture nicknamed ‘Andre’ after the friendly giant in The Princess Bride!

Stonnington Glow Festival The Indirect Object Minor Disturbance

The colourful designs are inspired by the natural fluorescence of coral and blend with the interactive UV lights.

Stonnington Glow Festival String Symphony Photo By Danica Zuks
String Symphony Photo By Danica Zuks

String Symphony by Leon Hendroff and Spare Parts Puppet Theatre is a hands-on interactive installation for kids. It features a giant marionette that comes to life as spectators grab on to one of the twelve pieces of string and work together to make it move.

The striking structure took four years to complete and uses 600 LED lights and more than 1km of hand-woven rope.

Stonnington Glow Festival Mandylights Wonderdome Render

Wonderdome by Mandylights is premiering at Glow Festival. Step inside a dome of pixellated light glow and watch the lights swirl and illuminate with colour.

Stonnington Glow Festival Pixall Seasons

Stonnington Glow Festival Pixall Seasons

Experience four seasons in a day with Seasons by PixALL. The theatrical light production of Seasons changes from a sunny beach on a summer’s day to the freezing winter in a never-ending cycle.

Red Air Glow Winter Arts Festival

Red Air is an art collaboration between Goldberg Aberline Studio (GAS) and First Nations Chedeetha artists Sharon and Kaye Warrie from the Pilbara Desert. The inflatables are very tempting to jump on (don’t!) but you are allowed to gently touch them. The designs are just beautiful!

A final tip – eat before you come and rug up as it’s cold! If you do miss dinner you can grab a sweet or savoury crepe, a cheese toastie from Cheese and Break or hot drink from Miss Molly’s cakes, but otherwise, food options on site are limited. However, there are plenty of dine-in and takeaway eateries bordering Central Park on both Burke Rd and Wattletree Road.

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  • free program;
  • pram accessible;
  • free on-street parking after 6pm though note there is a clearway in some areas ending at 6:30pm;
  • toilets; and
  • playground.
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About Joyce Watts

Joyce Watts is a former intellectual property, IT and media lawyer turned serial entrepreneur.

As well as being the founder of TOT: HOT OR NOT she helps businesses with their SEO, email marketing & social media as BrightSmart.com.au; she owns an online bike store CycleStyle.com.au and develops and produces creative experiences for families via WheelieGoodFun.com. She used to publish another popular lifestyle and food blog called MEL: HOT OR NOT The decisive guide to Melbourne.

She lives in inner-city Melbourne with her husband, two children and seven bikes.

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