The festival has grown from year to year to become a key community and cultural happening in the Melbourne events calendar. Run by The Centre, a not-for-profit community organisation based at 58 Errol Street, the festival is produced annually to celebrate North and West Melbourne as great places to live, work, socialise and join together.
This year’s festival will include the jam-packed Three Crowns Music Stage, where Spring Fling is partnering up with North Melbourne’s Three Crowns Hotel to bring quality local, up and coming musicians out to entertain us for the day. Come along to support these makers of fine tunes while you enjoy a beer in the sun and some delicious food from nearby food trucks. Featuring over 20 acts including HOWQUA, Soul Safari, Thando, and Rockenspiele, it’s sure to be a rockin’ good time.
Then there’s perennial crowd-pleaser, The Spring Fling Dog Show. A quest to find the inner north-west’s most obedient, best dressed pooch, festival goers are welcome to bring their best mate along on the day to compete for the grand prize. Registrations from 11am, Dog Show starts at 2pm. There’ll also be the chance to chat to the teams from The Lort Smith Animal Hospital and The Lost Dog’s Home, and to pick the brain of one of North Melbourne’s most experienced local vets in an open Q&A.
Want more? The all-new Multicultural Hub, with a range of performances and stalls highlighting the diversity of cultures and cuisines present in Melbourne’s northern and western suburbs, will have something to tantalise any taste. If that’s not enough, the Spring Fling Artists Market will make its debut too, showcasing the talents of crafty locals and the finest of vintage wares. Looks like we’re in for an eclectic day of all the things that make life good (especially costumed dogs).
