Paint making the magic happen in Port Fairy

Paint making the magic happen in Port Fairy

Now in it’s 49th year the Port Fairy Folk festival has become an icon of Victoria’s music festival calendar, which is run over 3 days across the Labour Day weekend in March each year. Our collaboration with the Art team for the Port Fairy Folk Festival, known as the ‘Arty Farties’ continues to work it’s magic:

The ‘Arty Farties’ design, build and install the art on the festival ground and in and around town. The festival is held on two cricket ovals and we are part of the construction team that builds the infrastructure, from the cricket pitch up, to entertain 10,000 festival goers with local, Australian and international acts.


We are a team of 10 retirees and we gather a day a week from October then full time for four weeks around festival time. In creating art for the festival, we aim to build elements that can be re used and/or repurposed - building up a collection of elements that can be mixed and matched to give different effects over many years. We typically build in wood and then paint. This is where the Haymes Paint Magic happens. Adding weather protection as well!

As a not-for-profit, the support from Haymes Paint means we have the resources to expand our elements with new pieces each year and refresh many existing elements.
Our volunteers provide the human hours and the paint is the special ingredient that they use to convert ply into creative, interesting art and then make it look different next year!

We really appreciate the Haymes Paint contribution as it helps convert our team's hard work and commitment into festival magic!  We'd like to thank Haymes Paint for being an important part of our team and look forward to partnering with them for our 50th anniversary in 2027.

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