The Festival Hub
The Festival Hub offers a place to meet, gather, eat, and absorb the festival vibes.
Open from 5pm-11pm each night, The Festival Hub will be the place to be during Enlighten, with installations, the bustling Food Park, local vendors, bars and a diverse lineup of homegrown talent taking to the stage each night.
The Festival Hub is located between Questacon and the National Portrait Gallery.
A Festival Map will be available soon with more details.
Discover more about the Enlighten Illuminations here.
Festival Hub Artworks
Festival Hub Artworks bring together installations and roving performances across the Festival Hub, offering audiences a mix of playful, reflective and immersive encounters to discover as they explore the event site.
Serendipity
A world-premiere sculptural work that reflects on time and chance through looping, interwoven forms, encouraging audiences to discover joy in small, unexpected moments.
Amorphia
Larger-than-life glowing puppets made from reclaimed soft plastics, transforming waste into wonder and sparking curiosity about sustainability, science and imagined new forms of life.
Glitch Monument
A series of holographic water and light projections that reimagine the monument as a living, unstable form.
Flamingo Flock
A roaming performance of solar-powered neon flamingos that responds to crowd movement.
Whispers of Wonderment
Illuminated puppets, roaming creatures and hands-on workshops, inviting audiences of all ages to step into a shared story of light, colour and imagination.
You Are Me
An all-ages participatory theatre installation where audiences guide a live performer, playfully exploring control, identity and collaboration in a digitally driven world.
The Breathing Garden
A moment of reflection through glowing sculptural forms and sound, celebrating creativity, resilience and wellbeing by people living with Parkinson’s in Canberra.
Entertainment
Main Stage
The Festival Hub will come alive each night with a curated live music program designed for all ages. Catch Murray and the Movers, led by Murray Cook, the original Red Wiggle, alongside Indigenous artists Tjaka and Lemonise, plus local favourites Koebi Faumui, Archie and the Divine Devilles. With many more artists performing across Enlighten, the Festival Hub offers a welcoming place to gather, listen and discover something new.
Discover the full program here.
Live Music
2025 Festival Hub Gallery
Enlighten Food Park
The Food Park at Enlighten Festival is a vibrant culinary experience featuring some of the best food trucks from Sydney and Canberra.
Symphony in the Park
Experience a world-first collaboration, Mark Seymour and the Canberra Symphony Orchestra unite for Symphony in the Park, only at Enlighten Festival on March 8
Sponsors
