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Digital love letters to Bondi Beach To celebrate/commiserate what was an empty 2020 Festival calendar, we asked some of our favourite Festival artists to share a video tribute to our beloved Bondi. Warm your cockles with these uniquely-Bondi love-letters, featuring…

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Bondi Festival 2020 Postponement

Bondi Festival will no longer be happening in 2020. In the interest of safeguarding our audiences, artists and everyone we work with, Waverley Council and the Bondi & Districts Chamber of Commerce have made the necessary decision not to deliver…

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Sometimes You Gotta be Responsible

August 2020 E-News To our amazing Festival punters, Up until a few days ago, we were planning a Festival that would fill your spring calendar with the best entertainment Sydney has on offer. In fact, today was the day when we were slated…

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Let The Good Times Roll

June 2020 E-News Since we last spoke, we have been gorging on homemade sourdough and working on a blueprint for what an arts festival can and should be in 2020. We’ve been crossing our fingers and toes, hoping that we could find…

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Bondi Festival 2020 & Covid-19

The Show Will Go On… Just Not Right Now As some of you may know, artist submissions for our 2020 Bondi Festival closed the day before the Australian Government brought in restrictions on gatherings of over 500 – bizarre to…

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Introducing Bondi Festival!

Feb 2020 E-News New Year, New Us! After years of being mistaken for a night noodle market, Bondi Feast has finally taken the plunge and combined forces with Bondi Winter Magic to become Bondi Festival. We have rebooted, rebranded and reimagined what a winter arts…

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Bondi Feast-ed!

August 2019 E-News A Ceiling Smashing Feast! A Festival in Figures 614 performances over 10 nights 219 artists across 11 stages in 48 different shows Shows came from 4 different states and 2 different countries 15 excellent volunteers 1,200 minutes of confessions in a shipping container 1 steampunk wine machine 2 very happy (tired) festival directors…

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The Final Weekend of Feasting

July 2019 E-News Three More Nights of Mayhem The final weekend is upon us here at Bondi Feast and we are cramming as many live shows as we can into three nights of wintery wonder. Don’t miss out! Download the festival…

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Your Bondi Feast Weekend Planner

July 2019 E-News Winter Nights, Sizzling Shows The Festival Garden is splendid, the fire pits are smoking and the venues are pumping – this year’s Bondi Feast has been well worth the wait! We cannot wait to see you this weekend for…

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2019 PROGRAM ANNOUNCED!

Here is it folks! It is with great excitement that we can finally announce the 2019 Bondi Feast Program! This year’s festival sees an exciting fortnight of contemporary circus, dazzling burlesque, side-splitting comedy and genre-bending theatre launch itself upon the…

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Submissions Opening Soon

Submissions open 4 Feb 2019 Bondi Feast is back in 2019 and will soon be taking submissions! Following six years of hot winters in Bondi, from 9-20 July 2019 our fringe-style winter festival will celebrate all the best in home-grown…

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Done like a Dinner

You Came, You Saw, You Feasted! After a stellar winter of shows, the curtain has fallen on the biggest Bondi Feast to date. This year’s festival saw: 216 performers under the spotlights in 42 shows 388 performances over 10 brisk…

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