The main street will be lined with cafe-style seating, games, musical acts, children’s entertainers, roaming performance artists and DJs.
There will also be plenty of food stalls dishing out Chinese-Malaysian cuisine, with Campsie’s Beamish Street to be opened to pedestrians only.
The nearby Anzac Mall will be bustling with activity, a main stage set among a garden installation with performances, festoon lighting and street decorations lining the plaza.
The event will also include a unique digital cube, known as Storybox, which will present a collection of digital stories and artworks that explore historical and contemporary moments in the life of the Campsie community.
Canterbury Bankstown Mayor Khal Asfour says the festival will stimulate the local economy and help businesses still recovering from Covid.
“There’s no doubt local businesses were impacted,” he said.
“We recognised this and through the Campsie Street Festival, we’re hoping to show some much-needed love to the community and shine a light on this amazingly diverse, resilient and welcoming suburb.”
As well as supporting locals, the council is also hoping to attract people from outside the area into Campsie – perhaps for the first time – and introduce them to the delights this cosmopolitan suburb has to offer.
“I’m looking forward to coming down and trying out some of the different foods on offer and I invite everyone else to come down and do the same,” Mayor Asfour said.
Campsie Street Festival will held May 21-22, 11am-8pm.
Details: cb.city/CampsieStreetFestival.
Major food, art fest to bolster Campsie
CAMPSIE streets will come alive with a major food and arts festival, expected to attract thousands of people over two days.