Newtown Festival 2012

The Newtown Festival is organized by Newtown Neighbourhood Centre, and for more than 30 years the centre has given the festival to its community as a free event. The festival is a showcase of all things Newtown with huge crowds gathering each year for a day of community celebration.

Festival has an awesome programme which includes:

• 3 music stages
• Huge kids and family zone
• Vocal Local Village
• Writers Stage
• Eco area
• Cycle Games Arena
• Interactive workshops
• Street Theatre and Art Spaces
• Newtown Festival Dog Show
• 280 market stalls
• Food stalls with an international flavour
• Licensed bars

The Festival is an important event in the Newtown Neighbourhood Centre’s calendar with ALL monies raised by the Festival returned to the Centre to provide community support services to the local community. Newtown Neighbourhood Centre supports people through community action and provision of services to address their need, focusing on the disadvantaged and vulnerable members in the community. The centre provides services to the aged, people with disabilities, people with mental illness, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds and people on low incomes.

These services include providing information and advice on community and public services, emergency accommodation, aged services, council services, children's services, and a variety of other support services. Newtown Neighbourhood Centre also provides a community space supporting different social and political groups and activities.

Newtown Festival 2012 will be held on Sunday 11 November 2012 from 9:30 am til 5:30 pm.