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  • An outdoor event space at Harbour Esplanade Docklands, featuring a large screen broadcasting a sports match to an audience seated in colourful bean bags.
  • People waiting in line at an outdoor food truck, with several individuals wearing matching AFL football club scarves.
  • A family-friendly community pop-up event featuring children with face paint holding balloon swords while relaxing on outdoor beanbag chairs by the waterfront.
  • Two people seated at an outdoor rustic wooden picnic table featuring casual street food or food truck meals served in eco-friendly paper trays with cans of soft drink.
5 – 6 Sep

The Street Social: September of Sport

  • Free
  • Community

Docklands’ waterfront weekend destination, The Street Social, returns for it’s third event, a September of sport.

This is a free, family-friendly weekend hangout for everyone to enjoy, offering the city’s best food trucks, live music, live sport on the big screen and activities for families and kids. Welcome in the spring weather, head down to The Street Social to grab a feed, to catch an AFL finals match or to simply sit back and relax.

Located on Harbour Esplanade, this is Melbourne’s outdoor lifestyle at its best.

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Sat 5 Sep
  • 12pm - 7pm 12:00pm - 7:00pm
Sun 6 Sep
  • 12pm - 7pm 12:00pm - 7:00pm

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Harbour Esplanade
Docklands 3008

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This is a free event

Booking not required

Contact details

  • telephone number: 0460 011 138
  • email address: thestreetsocial.enquiries@gmail.com
  • Visit website for The Street Social: September of Sport
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