A new winter festival in Collingwood is daring Melburnians to switch off their screens for 24 hours. Game?
Forget another bog-standard winter festival in Collingwood – Loco Motion is asking you to do something a little stranger: put your phone away for an entire day.
Trainscendence and Leaps and Bounds festival (City of Yarra) have joined forces to launch this brand-new two-day event in Collingwood, and it’s got a plot twist built right into the program.
Loco Motion unfolds like a three-act play.
Loco Motion – Collingwood
- Sat 18 July, 6pm-1am
- Sun 19 July, 1pm-8pm
- Trainscendence, 5-6/48 Easey St, Collingwood
- Tickets here
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Act One kicks off on the Saturday evening with a kaleidoscope of homegrown bands, digital music-mixers, projection art and a silent disco, all while whispers spread of the mysterious Spectacle Society – a group apparently cooking up some kind of modern-day magic.
By midnight, that Society reveals itself properly, inviting everyone present into a ritual that “pauses” technology for the next 24 hours.
Sunday then turns the whole thing on its head, swapping screens and synthesisers for market stalls, nature-based workshops and acoustic performances, before the Spectacle Society returns for one last word – this time, with what organisers hint could be a few new recruits.
It’s a delightfully odd, family-friendly little world to step into, especially given the venue itself. Trainscendence is a multi-building, multi-level creative hub in the inner city, famous for the rooftop trains of its “end-to-end” building.
By day it runs as a co-working space; by night it morphs into a music and arts venue with 10 individual rooms and six bars scattered throughout, having already hosted slots during Melbourne Comedy Festival and Melbourne Fringe.
The lineup leans into that homegrown, slightly left-of-centre energy too, with Atlas Talisman, Charlie Needs Braces, DJ Daikon Heat, Flash Poetry, Fyo Krasiny, Groove Coin, Jessie Monk, Local Sweetheart and DJ Myxomatosis all on the bill, alongside a midnight ritual and a curated lineup of market stalls.
Bands, workshops, or a front-row seat to a society pretending phones don’t exist for a day – Loco Motion’s got a reason to show up either way.
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This article was made in partnership with Trainscendence.
