The 21st Bundeena Maianbar Art of Living Festival returns this weekend with an expanded program of events ranging from opera to medieval jousting.
There will be food, dancing, arts and crafts, a village fair, drumming and belly dancing.
This year the festival introduces camping at Bundeena oval on Saturday night so families can stay the weekend and all aspects of the festival.
Launched in 1995 to showcase local art and music, the Bundeena Maianbar Art of Living Festival has grown to attract attract people from across Sutherland Shire.
The event showcases and celebrates a variety of local art, activities and live music with quality feature acts.
The festival officially starts on Friday, August 26, with opening of the 2016 Art of Living Art Exhibition at the Bundeena Community Centre starting at 7.30pm
Saturday, August 27 will see the Village Fair at Bundeena Oval and includes the Great Afternoon Tea at the Community Centre and the Jedi Jousting action.
Sunday, August 28 is the main festival day with food and market stalls and a line-up of top music at Bundeenda Oval from 10am to 4pm featuring Fleetwood Mac tribute band The Dream, funk bassist Craig Calhoun and The Brothers of Oz, local musicians Brad Cole, Peter Morgan and Sally King, opera by Desiree Regina and her choir, the Bundeena community big band, drumming groups and belly dancing.
As part of the festival, there will be a screening of the film These Heathen Dreams at the Bundeena Bowling Club at 11am produced by Georgia Wallace-Crabbe and directed by Anne Tsoulis. Also screening at the club on Sunday at 11am is as a work in progress is the documentary Cultivating Murder by Gregory Miller about the murder of an environmental officer by a farmer to highlight the tensions of illegal land clearing.
There will be food and market stalls, rides for the kids and a traditional medieval jousting demonstration.
Admission to the festival is free.
For camping bookings visit www.artofliving.com.au.
