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Welcome to The Rocks Village Bizarre, proudly presented by Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority.

Last year The Rocks Village Bizarre proved that Sydney is eager to embrace all things weird and wonderful. This year, the Foreshore

Authority will pull back the velvet curtain on an even more adventurous program of unexpected delights.

Each evening will encompass new performances so you never know what you’ll discover once you step inside this curious world.

The Rocks Village Bizarre is only one of the many fantastic events the Foreshore Authority produces in The Rocks every year.

Our outstanding events attract millions of visitors and provide an important contribution to the NSW economy.

So wherever the Village Bizarre takes you, it is an event so fascinating, in a place so intriguing; you’re bound to find yourself

here many times before the final curtain.

Catherine Gallagher

Chief Executive Officer Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority

Welcome to The Rocks

Village Bizarre

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Journey to the edge of your imagination for a curious night out in the village where almost anything is possible.

CABINET OF CURIOSITIES

Not human, but as near as possible, the small but perfectly formed Cabinet of Curiosities potters around in life’s nooks and crannies. What you’ll see in here is a mystery but you can be sure it’s peculiar, it’s ticklish, it’s grotesque and it’s always glorious. Join the queue and be transformed.

Foundation Park, enter through Cleland Bond

Cabinet of Curiosities The Gin Mill Social

The Argyle Oracle Loonatic Spectacular

A PLAYGROUND OF MARKETS & MYSTERY

THE PARLOUR

It’s all fun and games in The Parlour. Step into an instant romantic rendezvous or get a fast fortune on a speed date with The Argyle Oracle. Perhaps partake in a little grooming with the Barber Supreme, be coiffured by MOHS Hair and Beauty or be counselled like a Hollywood star at the Kino Klinik.

Cleland Bond Building

THE SCENE

The social centre of the bizarre or the bizarre social centre? Dive into the village square’s roaring 1920s speakeasy bar The Gin Mill Social, moonlit cabaret lounge Club Bizarre, make-believe cardboard city and Aunties Blackfella Bingo hall and decide for yourself.

The Rocks Square

REVOLUTIONARY ROAD

It may be a little lane to nowhere but with cyclists powering Magnificent Revolution’s outdoor cinema, and part-existential, part-farcical projections from Loonatic Spectacular’s kooky man in the moon; here you can’t help but go places.

Atherden Street

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LOST LANEWAYS

Around these parts it’s all about the Irascible Dr Mackellar’s orders. He’ll write you a script for rousing oddments of vaudeville, magic, theatre, comedic convict showmanship and a playful one-on-one party. And with laneway characters like these, who are you to argue?

Greenway Lane, Kendall Lane and Unwins Courtyard

YOURS TRULY

Without you there is no story to tell. With you there are beauty-inspired phone calls from faceless strangers in Make the Call, a hunt for the haunted in Paranormal Fright Nights, a penchant for shady shenanigans in The Rocks Push Game and ocular inconspicuousness in You’re Invisible. Sign up and sail away.

Various locations, see info booth for details.

THE MARKETS BIZARRE

Under the cover of darkness traders from The Rocks Markets ply all manner of enviable and edible treasures. Amid the stalls the curious can slip into the tiny burlesque Umbrella Theatre, the perplexed can seek help from the Gift Guru and the flamboyant can capture their moment at In An Instant Photography.

George Street, Playfair Street, Jack Mundey Place

CATCH AND KEEP

The chase is on. With roaming rarities like these you never know who or what might entice you next. Step out into the streets and catch Croon-a-Cart’s karaoke party-in-a-trolley or be swept away as flag-waving collective 110% inspires endurance and optimism.

Roving performers

The Irascible Dr Mackellar

The Rocks Night Markets

Paranormal Fright Nights

110%

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THE SOCIAL LIFE AND SOUL

If there’s something you need to be part of, you’ll find it in the village square.

The start, middle and end of everything, The Rocks Square’s The Scene effortlessly spans space and time with a glorious program of possibility.

It’s prohibition time. Creak open the rusty corrugated iron gate and step from The Rocks of today to roaring 1920s speakeasy bar, The Gin Mill Social, quicker than you can say ‘why dahlin’, won’t you get me a gin’.

It’s the future, or some curious type of future. You’re invited to zin’s Party Mode—a massive one night party where the line between reality and utopia is hazy. It’s epic, exciting, shocking, provocative and mind-blowing.

It’s whatever time you desire. With headphones to guide you through a make-believe cardboard city, I met you in a city that isn’t on the map beckons you to construct, demolish or contemplate and reflect.

HOLE IN THE SKY BAR

Slip behind a bird mask and step from pavement to strange skylike other-world in the deliciously dark and captivating Hole in the Sky.

Inside the air is fuelled by DJ beats and the intoxicating freedom of anonymity as everyday faces transform into exotic birds.

Unfurl your wings in a nest with a Rocks Brewery beer or cider in hand, chill out in a cocoon under a twinkling indoor sky, discover a room in the clouds and be drawn into celluloid snapshots and whimsically strange projections.

Where last year white rabbits hopped into urban bar legend, this year a bird-inspired mask is your permit to this allusive roost that’s sure to be impossible to leave.

Birds-only venue—grab a mask at the info booth and follow the feathers to the Hole in the Sky.

6.30pm – 10pm

Every Friday during the Village Bizarre

Free entry (with bird mask)

Follow the feathers

6.30pm – 10pm, see pages 12–15 for details

Free entry

The Rocks Square

It’s all so intriguing in the village, you could fear missing out. But panic not laneway lingerers, if you experience nothing but what follows here; you’ll go home curiously satisfied.

A BRILLIANT BIT OF BIZARRE

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BIKE SHORTS

Pour yourself into some lycra and pedal into Revolutionary Road as the finalists in the Village Bizarre Bike Shorts film comp are screened at Magnificent Revolution’s bicycle-powered cinema on Friday 6 December.

Want to do more than just watch? Entries of fun and quirky 5-minute shorts or 15-second Instagram clips can be submitted up until 5pm, Monday 25 November.

Prizes up for grabs

• $1,000 cash

• a mentorship with Emmy and AACTA award-winning Firelight Productions

• GoPro camera

• overnight accommodation at Old Sydney Holiday Inn, The Rocks

• overnight accommodation at Harbour Rocks Hotel, The Rocks

Shortlisted films will be judged on the night by a panel of film and sustainability experts.

Visit therocks.com for all competition details.

8.30pm – 10pm

Friday 6 December

Free entry

Revolutionary Road (Atherden Street)

THE ROCKS PUSH GAME

It’s game on so frock up, gang up and dance in the mean streets of The Rocks.

Blur the line between the present and the past as you walk a night in the shoes of the notorious Push Gangs active in The Rocks during the late 1880s and 90s. Relive their shady business dealings via some deadly dance moves and other devious activities in a real-time role-play game for up to 20 people.

Rekindle The Rocks Push’s insatiable penchant for big trouble in this interpretive, participatory experience where anything is possible.

For more information and to register visit therocks.com. Participants must register in advance to play.

THE CHECKOUT

Ahh lovely Village Bizarre, could you be any more tantalising? With more than 30 stores in The Rocks trading late into the evening, plenty of good looking special offers and heaps of ogle-worthy bars and restaurants, the answer is most definitely yes.

Various locations around The Rocks, for details see therocks.com

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7pm – 9pm

Friday 15, 22 and 29 November and 6 and 13 December

Registration is free

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WHERE WHAT KEY TIME NOVEMBER DAYS1-NOV 8-NOV 15-NOV 22-NOV 29-NOV

CABINeT OF CURIOSITIeSFoundation Park, enter through Cleland Bond

Various acts 6.30pm – 10pm

THe PARLOURCleland Bond Building

MOHS Hair and Beauty 6.30pm – 9.30pm

Barber Supreme 6.30pm – 9.30pm

The Argyle Oracle 6.30pm – 9.30pm

Kino Klinik 6.30pm – 9.30pm

THe SCeNeThe Rocks Square

The Gin Mill Social 6.30pm – 10pm

I met you in a city that isn’t on the map 6.30pm – 10pm

RevOLUTIONARY ROADAtherden Street

Magnificent Revolution YouTube Battle 8.30pm – 10pm

Loonatic Spectacular 6.30pm – 10pm

LOST LANewAYSGreenway Lane, Kendall Lane and Unwins Courtyard

Various acts (Greenway Lane) 6.30pm – 9.30pm

The Irascible Dr Mackellar (Kendall Lane) 6.45pm – 7pm, 7.45pm – 8pm

Gumtree Garden (Kendall Lane) 5pm – 11pm

Confetti (Unwins Courtyard) 6.45pm – 9.30pm

YOURS TRULYVarious locations, register at the info booth

Paranormal Fright Nights 6.30pm – 10pm

The Rocks Push Game (register online) 7pm – 9pm

zin – Make the Call 6.30pm – 10pm

You’re Invisible 6.30pm – 10pm

CATCH AND KeePRoving

The Croon-a-Cart 7pm – 10pm

110% 6.30pm – 9.30pm

HOLe IN THe SKYFollow the feathers

Village Bizarre pop-up bar 6.30pm – 10pm

THe MARKeTS BIzARReGeorge Street, Playfair Street and Jack Mundey Place

Night markets 6.30pm – 10pm

Umbrella Theatre 6.45pm – 9.45pm

In An Instant Photography 6.30pm – 10pm

Silent Disco 6.30pm – 10pm

OPeN HOUSe 2013Playfair Street and Kendall Lane

UTS Design Lab installations 6.30pm – 10pm

See next page for keys

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BarStart/register at the info booth on Jack Mundey Place

Birds-only venue – grab a mask at one of the info booths and follow the feathers

Performance times and dates are subject to change without notice

WHERE WHAT KEY TIME DEcEMBER DAYS6-DEc 13-DEc 20-DEc

CABINeT OF CURIOSITIeSFoundation Park, enter through Cleland Bond

Various acts 6.30pm – 10pm

THe PARLOURCleland Bond Building

MOHS Hair and Beauty 6.30pm – 9.30pm

Barber Supreme 6.30pm – 9.30pm

The Argyle Oracle 6.30pm – 9.30pm

Romance Revisited – Friends with Deficits 6.30pm – 9.30pm

THe SCeNeThe Rocks Square

Aunties Blackfella Bingo 6.30pm – 8pm

Club Bizarre 8pm – 10pm

zin’s Party Mode 6.30pm – 10pm

RevOLUTIONARY ROADAtherden Street

Bike Shorts 8.30pm – 10pm

Loonatic Spectacular 6.30pm – 10pm

LOST LANewAYSGreenway Lane, Kendall Lane and Unwins Courtyard

Various acts (Greenway Lane) 6.30pm – 9.30pm

The Irascible Dr Mackellar (Kendall Lane) 6.45pm – 7pm, 7.45pm – 8pm

Confetti (Unwins Courtyard) 6.45pm – 9.30pm

YOURS TRULYVarious locations, register at the info booth

Paranormal Fright Nights 6.30pm – 10pm

The Rocks Push Game (register online) 7pm – 9pm

You’re Invisible 6.30pm – 10pm

CATCH AND KeePRoving

The Croon-a-Cart 7pm – 10pm

HOLe IN THe SKYFollow the feathers

Village Bizarre pop-up bar 6.30pm – 10pm

THe MARKeTS BIzARReGeorge Street, Playfair Street and Jack Mundey Place

Night markets 6.30pm – 10pm

Umbrella Theatre 6.45pm – 9.45pm

Gift Guru 6.30pm – 10pm

In An Instant Photography 6.30pm – 10pm

Silent Disco 6.30pm – 10pm

Cabinet of Curiosities

The Parlour

Info Booth

Revolutionary Road

The Scene

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