Celebrate at MacCabe Park

As the event activations are coming to an end, we have one last event to celebrate! The Barbie movie has been rescheduled!!! Come to MacCabe Park, Wollongong after work on Friday 31 May for our FREE movie night.

There will be free gelato, free popcorn, LED furniture and live music, followed by the screening of Greta Gerwig’s 2023 Barbie! The event will begin at 4pm and the movie will screen at 5:30pm.

The weather has delayed some of the installation of the final infrastructure interventions, but there has been some great progress:

MacCabe Park, Wollongong – We held weekly Exercise in the Park classes for women and Picnic in the Park for young people between December 2023 until April this year. We held several monthly Cinema in the Park which included Juno, Little Miss Sunshine and coming soon Barbie.

The fairy light installation will be complete by the end of May.

Dapto Square, Dapto – We held Sounds in the Square with weekly musical performances, and a monthly Cinema in the Square screening Freaky Friday, Bran Nue Day, and Barbie.

Some of the new features of the Square are:

• A new stage
• New gardens
• Relocation of the seating
• Maintenance of the bus shelter
• Improved street lighting

Works which will be completed mid-June will include:

• Fairy light installation
• Neon wall light installation
• New Shade sail and Softfall
• CCTV Installation
• Graphic art to be installed.

We've also installed LED lights at the train Station Car Park

Port Kembla – We have been working hard at planning the installation of our interventions in Port Kembla which look to be completed mid-year. The interventions include:

• Fairy lights on Darcy Road
• Festoon lights on Wentworth Street
• Art on the footings of the festoon lights
• Way-finding signage.

After all the installations have been completed, we will be conducting onsite walks with our participants to assess the improvements at each site.