St Kilda Festival is known as Australia’s largest free community festival – a celebration of community spirit, Australian talent, and the beautiful St Kilda foreshore.
Since the first St Kilda Festival in 1980, this well-loved annual summer celebration has established itself as an iconic event that brings the community together.
The two-day format held annually in February, attracts more than 300,000 live music lovers over the fun-filled weekend. The weekend starts with First Peoples First festival on the Saturday, and the traditional Big Festival Sunday the following day.
The festival features 8 live music stages stacked with incredible Australian artists, workshops, kids entertainment, sports demonstrations, roving performers, dance groups, market stalls, carnival rides, food trucks and traders and much more.
The Festival Team
The St Kilda Festival is a community festival at heart, and we strive to present a program that reflects our municipality and has something for everyone, while showcasing community involvement and actively engaging local community groups to participate in festival activities.
Your community group
The community group engagement process operates as an open call for expressions of interest, with groups submitting their ideas and details of how they wish to be included in the festival. The festival team then assess the applications and select groups to participate in the event. City of Port Phillip seek to provide production support to some groups as a contribution to the activity, within budgetary capacity. Financial contribution will be assessed on a case-by-case basis with preference given to groups whose activity:
- Has a positive impact on community
- Have minimal production infrastructure requirements
- Are local and active within the City of Port Phillip municipality
Groups should clearly outline what their own contribution to the proposed event/activation, as well as what they are seeking from Council, in their application.
What we are looking for
St Kilda Festival is looking to support community groups from the local area that contribute to the energy and feel of the festival. We are on the hunt for a range of groups that showcase the breadth of diversity across the City of Port Phillip municipality.
This includes but is not limited to:
- Dance Groups
- Choirs
- Sporting and recreational groups
- Theatre Groups
- Not for profits
- Community Development groups
- School Groups
For more information visit: Community Group Applications