Vibrance 2017
Vibrance Festival is a street art festival and was held over the weekend of the 25th and 26th of March, 2017.
Vibrance commissioned 8 Tasmanian street artists to paint over 300m2 of wall in the heart of Hobart. The site of the largest wall was transformed into a buzzing festival complete with music high quality Tasmanian food and beverages, street skating demonstrations from Jimmy’s Skate and Street, and a public wall for people of all ages to have a go working with spray paint in a safe and controlled environment.
Vibrance Festival was run as part of the HCC’s Creative Hobart and Urban Art Walls Project.
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Family watches Jake and Trent hard at work on the main Vibrance wall.
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Luffy Rae working hard on her mural in an alleyway on Collins Street
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As Aedan Howlett worked on some details for his section of the wall, the public took direction from Martin Nester on how to use spray paint.
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Sarah Etheridge worked with The Country Womens Association to bring their wall to life as part of Vibrance Festival
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As the painters painted the skaters from Jimmys Skate and Street put on a show using a combination of found objects and custom made obstacles.
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Sundowners and music as the sunset threw beautiful light across the event
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Our amazing team of dedicated volunteers made sure the festival ran smoothly - we could not have done it without them!
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And soon, under the watchful eye of the mask created by Roger Scholes, the Saturday night party was in full swing
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Hugs finished us off late on Saturday night... just in time for us to get the site ready for day 2
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One of the finished walls <3