Who? What? Where? Why?
Neo Pop Picnic
What Is Neo Pop Picnic?
Think a mini roving, Retro music and arts festival inspired by the 1980’s novelty of a purely takeaway picnic.
Hosted in the new urban neighbourhood of Darling Square, Neo Pop Picnic is a free public program of live music, roving performers and old school 80’s entertainment.
Darling Square was once home to Sydney’s Major Entertainment centre a significant cultural epicentre of the CBD which first opened in 1983.
Neo Pop Picnic event series pays homage to the legacy and history of this iconic location by celebrating the music and culture of this memorable decade.
Darling Square is a new urban neighbourhood and the perfect destination for Sydney to come together and reimagine cultural experiences. A place to socially connect, an active and vibrant town centre that illustrates the cultural and creative personality of Sydney.
This retro themed event provides the opportunity to explore the nostalgia, heritage and rich legacy of this once bustling entertainment destination.
Supporting Local Artists
This event has been made possible through a PLAY THE CITY grant funded by Create NSW. It has enabled Vintage Allsorts to engage a wide cross section of local independent artists with the majority of the grant funding going directly to these artists through performance fees.
There are no huge overheads, or expensive production requirements, no external agency commissions. Vintage Allsorts has exclusively managed all of the curation, admin and delivery of the event ensuring direct employment opportunities with the financial benefit going straight to local artists.
The line up features both established musicians and performers as well as emerging new talent. The curated weekly offering will showcase a diverse range of performance styles, genres as well as broad cultural, gender and age representation. The offering is an eclectic melting pot of energy and enthusiasm all wrapped together in an inclusive and accessible creative theme.The program has been developed to encourage and support artists to be flexible, agile and responsive to this new normal Covid Safe performance environment.
Why This Event?
Neo Pop Picnic is a platform for audiences to engage with new experiences that drive purposeful value and build meaningful relationships while supporting the local arts community through direct employment opportunities.
Vintage Allsorts is passionate about shaping and growing the independent arts sector. Live music doesn’t have to be seen in a concert hall, memorable culinary experiences don’t need to take place in a fine dining restaurant.
Through this event we are re-imagining cultural experiences and taking our creativity outdoors to connect with culture in the wide open, Covid Safe green spaces of Darling Square. Our community style picnic event will create a family friendly space for locals to come together and make memories in this new colourful, vibrant CBD town centre.
The Covid pandemic has reminded us of the need and for connection, community and a return to simpler pleasures.
Live entertainment drives culture and brings society together and now more than ever there is a desire for genuine human connection to experience real rather than digital life.
Why This Location?
A place to socially connect, an active and vibrant town centre and a platform to illustrate the cultural and creative personality of Sydney.
Darling Square is a new urban neighbourhood and the perfect destination for Sydney to come together and reimagine cultural experiences.
A place to socially connect, an active and vibrant town centre that illustrates the cultural and creative personality of Sydney.
This retro themed event provides the opportunity to explore the nostalgia, heritage and rich legacy of this once bustling entertainment destination.
About Darling Square
The new urban neighbourhood with big ideas on how to live, connect, relax, work and play. A new playground of innovative food, fashion, culture & experience, connecting Ultimo, Darling Harbour & Haymarket.
This hip, modern complex of specialty shops, diverse eateries & bars in vibrant, urban surrounds is the perfect place to embrace a sense of adventure, explore laneways and delight in the unexpected.
Food lovers, cool hunters, sweet seekers, hungry explorers & curious minds – are you ready?
Who Are Vintage Allsorts?
Vintage Allsorts is a boutique Sydney based creative agency dedicated to producing memorable and engaging vintage inspired events and entertainment. We are vintage era specialists making each event authentic and unique, bringing vintage inspired moments to life in a sophisticated and glamorous fashion.
We are curators, connectors and advocates for local artists and culture creators. We are dedicated to creating opportunities for paid performance to foster the growth of local cultural entrepreneurs. We create wild events, immersive experiences and experiential campaigns.
Our agile team of big thinkers are led by the director and founder of Vintage Allsorts Pia Andersen. Pia is a vintage culture aficionado, singer and stylist and one of Australia’s leading vintage personalities. Our talent is our point of difference and this network brings together an incredible array of artists, musicians, designers and culture creators all showcased under the Vintage Allsorts banner.
Pia is a well respected cultural entrepreneur in high demand across all of Sydneys creative industries. We have been the driving force behind creative concepts, curated programming, provided entertainment and delivered events for high profile clients such as The History Council of NSW, TEDxSydney, The Sydney Fringe Festival, Sydney Living Museums, The Sydney Festival, The National Trust Sydney Olympic Park Authority and Place Management NSW.
Our most recently produced public event was the highly regarded vintage inspired Deco Park Picnic ( Feb 2021) which was delivered through an Events and Activation Grant supported by Sydney Olympic Park Authority.
This project is supported by the NSW Government through Create NSW
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