The streets are alive

CROWDS filled Brisbane Street in Murwillumbah on Saturday for the second annual Tweed Regional Museum Street Party.

The event kicked off at 3pm, with families bringing picnic blankets and settling into the strip between the museum and Mt St Patrick’s School.

Food trucks, market stalls and the Earth Beer bar drew steady lines, while two stages and roving acts kept the crowd moving.

Uncle Franc Krasna opened the party with a Welcome to Country, followed by a full program of performers including Jerome Williams, Dennis, Amber Rose, The Jacks, Cosmic Vice, Betty Taylor and the Lollipop Ladies Trio.

Workshops and creative stations were scattered along the street, including Charm Corner, Knit Happens, Mini Portraits with Madeleine White, and After the Rainbow, a collaborative art project.

The museum’s mobile exhibit Museum on Wheels was on site, alongside Matthew Aberline’s art installation Love Follows a Line and Connection to Country drop-in yarns with Uncle Franc.

Kids joined in a silent disco, adventure game and face painting, or chalked the pavement in a section known as Chalk Street.

Tweed Shire mayor Chris Cherry praised the event and its organisers.

“Well done to the museum team, you are outstanding,” she said.

The event received $350,000 in NSW Government funding in July under the Open Streets 2025–28 Program.