South Sydney’s biggest outdoor art festival is back on Friday 27 June with a bang!
Georges River Council held the first successful Uncontained Arts Festival in June 2021 which attracted over 26,000 people and was nominated for Best Arts Festival in the Australian Street Art Awards. In June 2023, Georges River Council held the third successful, Uncontained Arts Festival which attracted over 40,000 people.
Returning for its fifth year in 2025, the Uncontained Arts Festival has become one of the main features of Georges River Council's events program.
The Festival delivers three days of excitement that surprises and delights our community along Belgrave Street, Kogarah. It features an array of immersive art installations, dynamic live performances, and mouth-watering food trucks.
Join us at the Uncontained Arts Festival 2025!
Date: Friday 27 June, Saturday 28 June and Sunday 29 June 2025.
Time: 5.00pm - 10.00pm (on Friday night), 4.30pm - 10.00pm (on Saturday night), 4.30pm - 9.30pm (on Sunday night).
Where: Kogarah Town Square, Belgrave Street, Kogarah.
Embodied Art Tours with Betty Grumble
As a part of the 2025 Uncontained Arts Festival, Embodied Art Tours with Betty Grumble invites you to come into relationship with your body and the world. This tour uses playful strategies to sense into responding and expressing what moves us in artworks at Uncontained. Breathe into some space in between thoughts, the gifts of curiosity and the beauty inherent in shared experience. Thank you Body.
Dates: Friday 27 June, Saturday 28 June (Sold out) and Sunday 29 June 2025.
Times: 5.15pm (Auslan interpreted) and 7.00pm.
Venue: Meet outside Clive James Library & Service Centre.
Duration: 45 min duration.
Bookings are essential. Book Embodied Art Tours with Betty Grumble
Preview the Magic: Light, Art & Wonder Await
We have prepared exciting art, entertainment, and food stalls for 2025. Here is a sneak peak of what you'll see this year.
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An installation is inspired by the Eastern philosophical principles of Bardo, a Tibetan Buddhist concept referring to the ethereal intermediate state between death and reincarnation. For Uncontained 2025, the animation effects and expressions tell a story focused on a unique duality relating to Kogarah and the Georges River LGA.
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This installation features a small room, consisting entirely of three-dimensional black and white drawing, inviting festival-goers to step into a pocket of wonder. Viewers are invited to experience this cozy, intimate setting where simple line drawing becomes a means of connecting with our own creativity and inspiration.
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King Kogarah Bin Chicken Rave is a community site-specific sensory installation to celebrate Kogarah and the Georges River area. Chrissy Lau x EARWORM’s collaboration takes the ordinary sights and sounds of Kogarah and champions them in an extraordinary visual, light and sound experience.
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Silly Pear is a one man show run by Illustrator/ designer/ creative guy Charlie Nivison. His artworks are packed with bright colours and lively characters. They celebrate joy, movement, as well as modern symbols and motifs to help connect with the modern world and local community.
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ENTERTAINMENT & ACTIVATIONS
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Step into our vibrant world for our infamous Neon Life Drawing Workshop. Hosted by Nauti Studios, witness the magic as a live model comes to life under UV lights, their body painted with dazzling UV colours. This unique experience blends artistry with luminescence and is suitable for all skill levels.
Please note: there is no nudity, and the live model is clothed wearing a body suit.
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Feel good vinyl DJ crew offering a vintage look with a retro-modern twist! They love to hit all the right notes with songs that make people boogie, smile, and sing along, all from behind one of their gob-smackingly cool vintage hifi booths setups which incorporates an original stereo cabinet. Expect to hear classic tracks through the ages - upbeat rock and rollers, soul, funk, pop, disco, indie, electro, hip-hop and loads more!
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This soul-stirring performance seamlessly blends the awe-inspiring talents of Yolngu songstress Gambirra Illume, Maori sonic weaver Whaia, and Korean-born vocalist Sunny Kim. Directed by Corrina Bonshek, this original production is part ritual, part sound healing, and all heart.
Tower Divas was commissioned by Bleach* Festival. Corrina Bonshek & Collaborators is supported by the City of Gold Coast.
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Join us for a LED Lantern Workshop - a hands-on, family-friendly experience where creativity comes to life.
Design and decorate your very own glowing mushroom lantern, then watch it light up the night as part of the enchanting Uncontained Arts Festival.
Book your session on-site and let your imagination shine.
Uncontain your creativity and let it glow!
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Event Sponsors
Thank you to our major sponsor Optus and event sponsors VJB Group & Sydney Water for helping bring our events to life.
Accessibility
The Uncontained Arts Festival is an accessible event, inviting people from all walks of life across all abilities to take part in a celebration of our City’s creativity.
There are several accessibility services available to our attendees.
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Accessible toilets and a baby change space (located inside the Clive James Library, Kogarah).
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Accessible parking on Belgrave Street.
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Seating distributed throughout the Festival.
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Wheelchair accessible.
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Quiet space located at Clive James Library and Service Centre.
Please note that some installations will have flashing lights, smoke and music.
2025 accessibility map and information coming soon.
If you have specific requirements that the above measures do not meet, please email the Events Team at events@georgesriver.nsw.gov.au or contact (02) 9330 6400.
If you are deaf and/or find it hard hearing or speaking with people who use a phone, the National Relay Service (NRS) can help you.
Stay in the loop
Be the first to hear all the latest news and updates for the Uncontained Arts Festival!
Follow us on Instagram @uncontainedartsfestival for real-time announcements.
Volunteer at 2025 Uncontained Arts Festival
Applications for volunteer positions have now closed.
More information
For more information, please email the events team at events@georgesriver.nsw.gov.au or contact us on (02) 9330 6400.
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