The Glebe Street Festival...
Helen Blum, her first year living in Australia, took to the streets of Glebe to photograph the sights of the Glebe Street Fair 2009 ...
Glebe Street Fair celebrated its 26th birthday in 2009 and it was definitely time to enjoy the party. It's always a wonderful carnival day enjoyed by locals, families, friends and guests from all over Sydney … and everywhere else. The turn-out is always massive, and it's packed with characters and eccentric atmosphere.
Timed as it is every year to run in November, the Glebe Street Fair is always the perfect place to do your Christmas shopping - 5 weeks before Christmas. There's always anintriguing selection of the quirky, the funky and the unusual on offer from the 200+ stalls lining the street from the crew that bring you the popular Glebe markets every Saturday.
It's a kilometre long centre of bustling fun, filled with stalls, fabulous international food, kids’ rides, entertainment and activities. Glebe Point Road is closed to traffic from Broadway to Bridge Road.
The Glebe Street Fair is one of Sydney’s longest running annual events, attracting more than 100,000 people every November. Run by the Glebe Chamber of Commerce, the Glebe Street Fair has always had a strong connection to the Glebe community, and is proudly sponsored this year by the City of Sydney.
The Fair is run on a not-for-profit basis, with proceeds being used by the Chamber to support a variety of local community projects. Even the doggies were catered for with Glebe Dogs Day Out.
A Doggie Olympics was held at the Fair as part of the Doggies Day Out. Dogs and their owners were able to enrol in a series of athletic challenges or, for the more style-oriented pooches, there were ‘Doggie Fashionista’ events to enter.
There was plenty for the ‘Non-Doggie Fashionista’ types too withhuman fashion parades, heaps of funky gear to buy, as well as eclectic art and creative stuff etc etc etc ....
And the food, the awesome food - it was sensational yet again. Not that the model in the next photo looked like she ate much of it. More for us we guess.
Glebe Street Fair is one of Australia's longest running festivals, so for more info check out their website http://www.glebestreetfair.com
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