This week's offering comes courtesy of the Sydney Winter Festival, a strange affair involving the installation of an ice rink, and the attempt to create a faux European ambience by the use of a snow machine, a large screen showing Andre Rieux and stalls selling gluwine, German sausages and sweets, interspersed by the ubiquitous Thai food and cup cake stands. All this in a city where the daytime winter temperature rarely falls below 10 degrees celcius. Very strange but the punters seemed to be enjoying themselves.
Monday 22 June 2009
Winter Festival
This week's offering comes courtesy of the Sydney Winter Festival, a strange affair involving the installation of an ice rink, and the attempt to create a faux European ambience by the use of a snow machine, a large screen showing Andre Rieux and stalls selling gluwine, German sausages and sweets, interspersed by the ubiquitous Thai food and cup cake stands. All this in a city where the daytime winter temperature rarely falls below 10 degrees celcius. Very strange but the punters seemed to be enjoying themselves.
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4 comments:
Yes, I worry about this sort of manufactured festival, too. And it concerns me that it comes one week after the Vivid Festival. What is "Brand Sydney" thinking???
This is a stupid festival - I see the City of Sydney Council has distanced themselves from it.
Particularly mad considering the temp today was a spring-like 21-22! (which is more like winter in Sydney really)
I almost went there on Saturday, out of curioisty, but was deterred by the weather.... A bizarre idea indeed.
Did Cardinal George step out to join the fun? ;)
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