Hoopla Festival,
Darling Harbour - 6th April - 9th April 2012
Look up, look
down, look all around - the circus is in town!
Go Cir-Crazy
at Darling
Harbour this Easter long weekend
The circus comes
to Sydney in big way this Easter long weekend. You will go cir-crazy as
some of the world's best acrobats, jugglers, stunt performers, sideshow
and street theatre acts make this Easter one to remember and yes, bring
your camera.
Australia's annual
circus and street theatre festival
Australia's premier
annual circus and street theatre festival is a surprise package full of
magical illusions, aerial circus acts, trapeze stunts, aerial ballet,
sway poles, juggling and sword balancing.
Four Days and Three
Nights of Pure Entertainment
 Enjoy
the high life at Darling Harbour this Hoopla Easter Long Weekend - Do
not try this at home :)
For four days and
three nights, Darling Harbour hosts everything from large scale performances
in the Big Top to street performances at the Harbourside Amphitheatre
and along the promenade outside Harbourside Shopping Centre (near Pyrmont
Bridge).
Big Top Trapeze
- Circus at its Best
Take a Ringside seat
and enjoy spectacular performances high in the sky! There'll be expert
aerialists flying around on a trapeze suspended below the Western Distributor,
and more death-defying tumbles and stunts for the whole family in the
Big Top.
Darling Harbour
Fireworks
A fireworks display
will take place at 8.30pm on Easter Saturday in Cockle Bay.
Where is the action taking
place?
1. Big Top: Located
in the Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre forecourt.
2. Ringside: Located in Palm Grove.
3. Street Performers’ Pitch: Located at Harbourside Amphitheatre,
along the promenade outside Harbourside Shopping Centre (near Pyrmont
Bridge).
4 . The Tiny Top: Located in the Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre
forecourt.
5 . Castello: Located in the Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre forecourt.
6. Circusworks: Located in Darling Quarter next to The Playground.
Oh those Hoopla
Easter Nights
And when the sun
goes down, the weird and wonderful come out to play at Hoopla Nights!
Wander in! Look around! There's more to Hoopla than you think!
Tell me more - the
Hoopla Festival Details
When?
6th - 9th April (Easter
long weekend)
Free Event
All outdoor entertainment
are FREE
Hoopla Nights
The fun does not
stop as the sun goes down - it just gets better. Most of the Hoopla Nights
Tickets cost was as little as $5, no more than $20. You get them online
Get with the Program (location)
Good Friday to Easter Monday
11:00am - Begat Theatre
(Roaming)
11.45am - Démodés
(Big Top)
12.00pm - Barbie The Castello and The Chipolatas (Ringside)
12.15pm - Tony Rooke - Get Rooked (The Tiny Top)
12.45pm - The Great Dave (The Castello)
12.50pm - The Little Red Trapeze Company (Ringside)
1:00pm - The League of Sideshow Superstars (Big Top) and Olivia Porter
- Cuckoo (The Tiny Top)
1.30pm - Pandora Boxes (The Castello)
1.45pm - Tony Rooke - Get Rooked (The Tiny Top)
1.45pm - Strapping Young Lads (Ringside )
2.00pm - Three Men in a Tub (Roaming)
2.15pm - Three High Acrobatics - Knock Off Big Top and The Great Dave
(The Castello)
2.30pm - The Birdmann (The Tiny Top)
2.40pm - The Chipolatas (Ringside)
3.00pm - Begat Theatre (Roaming) and Pandora Boxes (The Castello)
3.15pm - Démodés (Big Top) and Olivia Porter - Cuckoo (The
Tiny Top)
3.30pm - The Little Red Trapeze (Company Ringside)
3.45pm - The Great Dave (The Castello)
4.00pm - The Birdmann (The Tiny Top)
4.30pm - The League of Sideshow Superstars (Big Top), Las Cossas Nostra
(The Castello) and Strapping Young Lads (Ringside)
4.45pm - Olivia Porter - Cuckoo (The Tiny Top)
5.00pm - Three Men in a Tub (Roaming)
5.15pm - Mr. Vita - TNT (The Castello)
5.30pm - Three High Acrobatics - Knock Off (Big Top) and The Birdmann
(The Tiny Top)
Good Friday to Easter Sunday
6.00pm - Gareth Jones
(The Castello)
6.15pm - Shep Huntly - Master Showman (The Tiny Top)
6.45pm - Ring of Fire (Big Top) and Barbie (The Castello)
7.00pm - The Great Gordo Gamsby (The Tiny Top) and Begat Theatre (Roaming)
7.30pm - Pandora Boxes (The Castello)
7.45pm - Lilikoi Kaos (The Tiny Top)
8.15pm - Pandora Boxes (The Castello)
8.30pm - Precarious (Big Top) and Shep Huntly - Master Showman (The Tiny
Top)
9.00pm - Maple Staplegun (The Castello)
9.15pm - The Great Gordo Gamsby (The Tiny Top)
9.45pm - Gareth Jones (The Castello)
10.00pm - Lilikoi Kaos (The Tiny Top)
Enough with the Hoopla Already!
If the Hoopla Festival
is not for you or you have done it already, we have good news for you,
there is a lot more to do over Easter in
Sydney than just the Hoopla Festival and there are many more top things
to do in Sydney, hundred's in fact:
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