Schedule - in brief

Below is a brief outline of activities for HONK! Oz 2017. A more detailed program is being put together and will be posted here in Early January.
Wednesday January 18th 
  • Pre HONK! Oz Festival Public Lecture : 6pm Wollongong Art Gallery

Thursday January 19th
  • Pre-HONK! Street Band Workshops with Ken Field, Linsey Pollak, Tunji Beier and Wollongong Conservatorium of Music
  • 5pm Official Festival Opening Wollongong City Mall
  • HONK! at The Eat Street Markets. Twenty visiting and local bands perform in and around Wollongong City Mall & Globe Lane from 5 until 9pm
  • Lantern Parade

Friday January 20th
  • 11.00am Grand Street Parade through the City, followed by performances and workshops throughout the day in and around the Wollongong City Mall, Arts Precinct and Harbour
  • Street Band Workshops with Ken Field, Linsey Pollak, Tunji Beier and Wollongong Conservatorium of Music
  • HONK! After Dark with DVA and London Klezmer Quartet at ‘The Music Lounge’
  • HONK! After Dark party at Centro CBD

Saturday January 21st
  • 11.30am Arts Precint: MAKE MUSIC Wollongong - The culmination of the HONK! Oz Street Music Festival will be a world premiere performance of HONKSKI ORO - a large scale street music composition, funded by Wollongong City Council large Cultural Grant
  •  Saturday afternoon recovery at The Illawarra Jazz Club Corrimal Hotel : The Prophets / HOOT! / Junkadelic Brass

HONK! Oz Festival Workshops and Tunes Sessions:
  • DVA (Linsey Pollak and Tunji Beier)
  • 100drums Samba Project
  • London Klezmer Quartet
  • Ken Field’s HOOT! Band for unattached Musicians
  • Kids HONK! Band (Wollongong Conservatorium of Music)
  • Lantern Making with Mr. Cuttlefish.