Spring awakening

Across seven Saturdays this spring, you’re invited to get outdoors and celebrate Sydney’s unique neighbourhoods. Traffic will stop, for one day only, in Surry Hills, Pyrmont, East Sydney, Redfern, Haymarket, Glebe and Potts Point. These neighbourhoods will transform into trafficfree areas to walk, shop and dine. Acoustic musicians and roving entertainers will perform throughout the day. After a successful pilot earlier this year with ‘Summer Streets’, the program is back to get you out and about and enjoy what Sydney’s fantastic neighbourhoods have to offer. Crown Street, Surry Hills will kick the series off with a bang on Saturday, 1 October. There’ll be everything from window burlesque dancers at Sky Sirens and an 80s- style aerobics class at Hiscoes Gym to a doggie treat station at the Trinity and pet games and competitions at Vets on Crown. You’ll also see drag queens at the Clock Hotel, giveaways from All About Salon and tastings at Surry Hills Fine Wines.

“The Sydney Streets series is an essential part of what we’re doing to support our local businesses,” Lord Mayor Clover Moore .

Our first series of Sydney Streets parties through the last summer was a huge success and well received by residents and businesses alike. They want to see more people get out and about and enjoy what their neighbourhoods have to offer. Hit the streets from 11am - 10pm on: 1 October - Crown Street, Surry Hills

8 October - Harris Street, Pyrmont

15 October - Stanley Street, East Sydney 22 October - Redfern Street, Redfern

29 October - Parts of Dixon, Hay, Little Hay and Sussex streets, Haymarket

5 November - Glebe Point Road, Glebe

12 November - Darlinghurst Road and Macleay Street, Potts Point

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