101 Things I Love About Sydney

Okay, so I'm biased. I've done some volunteer video editing on the Underbely festival the past two years and i'm a huge fan. Melbourne has long been considered Australia's home to the arts and creative expression, but the Underbelly Festival (held annually at Carriageworks) certainly gives Melbourne a run for its money in terms of creativity on offer and coldness of temperature inside the venue.

It works like this: 40+ collectives comprising of 250+ artists work for 2 weeks on various new collaboations that premier during the 2 day festival. The festival is a visual and aural orgy, and in typical Sydney fashion - there's way too much to do, too many places to be and not enough time. For those cash-obsessed Sydneysiders who devalue both art and artists, i dare you to come down and not be blown away and/or inspired by the sheer amount of hard work, unique collaborative process and sheer creative thinking that goes into the dozens of various, indescribable art projects crammed into two weeks work. Oh and there's beer and most of Newtown there too.

Underbelly is on this weekend, July 12-13 at Carriageworks. Tickets thru ticketbastard or on the door.
for more info: underbelly.com.au.