The 5th annual HONK! Oz Street Music Festival, 10th-12th January, 2019 
​Wollongong, NSW Australia

HONK! Oz Street Music Festival is a three-day outdoor spectacle featuring alternative community bands and related arts.  Completely free, and volunteer run, Honk Oz is a Parade! a Party! A Raucous celebration! Lots of Fun! Energetic, Irreverent, revelrous and with a somewhat DIY approach to instrumentation and attire.  Honk bands perform to celebrate; to protest; to proclaim; some play for peace, some for activist causes; for community spirit and all of them play to have fun!!!!

Pre-HONK! activities begin WEDNESDAY with workshops, pickup bands, rehearsals, lantern making and instrument building at the Wollongong Conservatorium of Music; followed Wollongong City Council's Creative Dialogues lecture in the evening at Wollongong Art Gallery.  THURSDAY HONK! Oz officially bursts into life at Foragers Eat Street Markets from 4.30-9.00pm as two hundred musicians perform around the Wollongong mall and Globe Lane - Street Music and Street Food!!! FRIDAY, join the 'HONK! Universe Grand Street Parade for a Better World' followed by evening band performances around the Town Hall and Arts Precinct. Friday night is HONK! After Dark at CENTRO CBD. Return to The Arts Precinct SATURDAY for the All Band Slam.

WEDNESDAY Jan 8th: Pre-HONK! 
  • ​Free Workshops at Wollongong Conservatorium of Music in the morning.
  • Wollongong City Council Creative Dialogues lecture at The Wollongong Art Gallery in the evening

THURSDAY Jan 10th: HONK! Wollongong Mall Eat Street Markets 
  • Pre-Honk events at Wollongong Conservatorium of Music in the morning
  • ​Official Kick Off 4.30pm at Wollongong City Mall Stage
  • Bands perform 5-9pm in three locations around the Mall and Globe Lane, Eat Street Markets
  • HONK! After Dark

FRIDAY Jan 11th: HONK! Town Hall & Arts Precinct
  • Workshop activities in the morning Arts Precinct and Music Lounge, Town Hall
  • Bands perform 5-9pm around the Town Hall and Arts Precinct
  • HONK! After Dark at CENTRO CBD

SATURDAY Jan 12th: HONK! Arts Precinct 
  • Local and Visiting HONK! Bands and related street arts converge on the Wollongong Arts Precinct from 10am-3pm
​HONK! Oz is a fringe event of The Illawarra Folk Festival and supported in kind by the following arts organisations:
  • Wollongong Conservatorium of Music
  • Wollongong City Council
  • Illawarra Folk Club
  • Merrigong Theatre Company