Bunjil Place Opening Festival

We’re handing the place over to you guys for the entire weekend so you can come and explore your new home of all things fun, creative and excellent.

Featuring music, theatre, art, workshops and all-of-the food, no matter what your flavour our Opening Festival will give you taste of what’s to come.

All the action starts at 10am each day - pick a thing or two or make a whole weekend of it.

We can’t wait to welcome you!

START YOUR ADVENTURE HERE

SATURDAY 28 OCTOBER

BATS Theatre Company Performance

Bunjil Place Plaza

10.40 am

Indigenous Welcome to Country

Bunjil Place Plaza

10.50 am

Opening Ceremony with City of Casey Mayor Cr Sam Aziz and Jason Wood MP

Bunjil Place Plaza

11.00 am

Windmill Theatre Company Performance

Bunjil Place Plaza

11.20 am

Designing Bunjil Place (Exhibition)

Bunjil Place Gallery

10.00 am – 7.00 pm

Dreamworks Trolls (Performance)*

Bunjil Place Theatre

10.30 am, 12.00 pm, 2.00 pm (30 minute duration)

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Children are Stinky (Performance)*

Bunjil Place Studio

11.30 am, 1.30 pm, 3.30 pm (50 minute duration)

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Hip Hop (Workshop)

Bunjil Place Studio

5.30 pm (60 minute duration)

Saturday Night Laughs (Comedy)*

Bunjil Place Theatre

7.00 pm (120 minute duration)

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SUNDAY 29 OCTOBER

Designing Bunjil Place (Exhibition)

Bunjil Place Gallery

10.00 am – 7.00 pm

Nick Jr.’s PAW Patrol (Performance)*

Bunjil Place Theatre

10.30 am, 12.00 pm (30 minute duration)

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Snap! Crackle! Pop! (Workshop)

Bunjil Place Studio

11.30 am (180 minute duration)

Duo101 (Music)

Bunjil Place Plaza

12.00 pm – 3.00 pm

Drop-by Drawing (Workshop)

Bunjil Place Plaza

2.00 pm – 4.00 pm

Hip Hop (Workshop)

Bunjil Place Studio

4.30 pm (60 minute duration)

You and I - Rachael Beck and Michael Cormick (Performance)*

Bunjil Place Theatre

2.30 pm, 4.30 pm (45 minute duration)

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*These Bunjil Place Feature Shows are ticketed events. Access to the FREE e-tickets has been provided via our e-news mailing list. Conditions Apply.

FOOD TRUCK ALLEY

Get in my belly! Enter street food heaven. Bringing together some of the best tasty treats in town, grab a bite and find a prime spot on the lawn to take in the view.

Saturday 10.00 am – 7.00 pm

Two Fat Indians, Beatbox Kitchen, Copa Food Truck and Grill, Oscar’s Vintage, Dolly’s Sister Café, La Revolucion, Mr Burger and Bianco Latte.

Sunday 10.00 am – 5.00 pm

Two Fat Indians, Beatbox Kitchen, Copa Food Truck and Grill, Oscar’s Vintage, Dolly’s Sister Café, La Revolucion, Nem N Nem and Bianco Latte.

BUNJIL PLACE LIBRARY

Put everything you thought you knew aside, welcome to the library of the future! Yes, there’s all the usual suspects like books (we still love them) but our library is entering a new age. From the digital to workshops, events and just chilllaxin’ in the reading garden, there’s a lot to discover.

Bunjil Place Library

Saturday 10.00 am – 7.00 pm

Sunday 10.00 am – 5.00 pm

DESIGNING BUNJIL PLACE

Want to know what it took to bring this breathtaking piece of architecture to life?

Designing Bunjil Place is an exhibition that celebrates and reflects upon the making of Bunjil Place whilst showcasing the multi-award winning architectural practice of Francis-Jones Morehen Thorp (fjmt).

Through a variety of two and three-dimensional materials including architectural and construction drawings, models, building fragments, photography and video you can get a behind the scenes look at fjmt studio’s working methods and creative processes. We reveal how ideas are transformed into reality through a process of research, collaboration and hands-on investigation.

HIP HOP WORKSHOP

Kick it with the raddest b-boys in town with all the tricks and flips. Drop in to give our new black-box studio a test run with a follow-the-leader style class that would make Kanye quiver.

SNAP! CRACKLE! POP!

For the pop-addicted, the pleasure popper, the pop-as-you-wrap popper, this workshop (using A LOT of biodegrable bubble wrap), is about creating and playing with a bubble wrap puppet. Brought to you by the good-timers at Barking Spider Visual Theatre, this fun workshop is full of play, invention, collaboration and POPPING!

DUO101

Here’s our hot tip, hit Food Truck Alley for a burger then kick back outside to Duo 101. Hailing from here in the south east, Sacha Pollard and Chris Annable will bring all the good vibes to our Plaza with this chilled-out acoustic guitar and vocal pairing.

DROP BY DRAWING

Swing on down to our Plaza and join local artist Gino Ciancio for informal sketching of Bunjil Place. Spend as much or as little time as you like sketching the architecture of the building and its surrounds. Whether you’re a pro or giving something new a whirl, everyone is welcome. Stick figures are okay too!

For general ticketing enquiries or to discuss accessibility requirements, please email [email protected] or phone 03 9709 9700.

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