Snuff Puppets

14/10/2026

♫ Safe in Sound Festival ♫

improvised music, electronics, voice, found objects, prepared instruments, noise, composition, strange songs, unexpected collaborations

Presented by:
JOLT Sonic Arts + Make It Up Club + Liquid Architecture

Sat 31 Oct:
Footscray Drill Hall
395 Barkly St, Footscray - doors 5pm

Sun 1 Nov:
Jolted Arts Space
342 High St, Northcote - doors 4pm

Featuring:
Daniel Munnery & Tangerine, Jim Denley, Khaled Chahine & his Accidental Orchestra, Carolyn Connors, David Shea, Genevieve Fry, Jay Euesden, Danny Heifetz, Karina Utomo, Mat Watson, Joe Manton, Alessio Diletosso, Victor Meertens & The Noise Scavengers, Angus Lesslie, Robert Seamons & his Propagation Band, Tarquin Manek, Tête-à-tête, Ernie Althoff, Moses Carr & more.

Program:
www.safeinsound.com.au/events/safe-in-sound-2026

Tickets:

Sat 31 Oct - Footscray Drill Hall
www.trybooking.com/DQIYB
( venue access info: https://snuffpuppets.com/access )

Sun 1 Nov - Jolted Arts Space
www.trybooking.com/DQIYU

26/09/2026

The Monthly: "It just doesn’t make sense. I hear this again and again from the heads of long-running Victorian arts organisations that in 2025, just before Christmas, had their state government funding slashed or entirely withdrawn.

The madly spectacular S***f Puppets, established in 1992 in Melbourne’s inner west: $112,455 a year, gone.

Ahead of the launch of a new national cultural policy and a Victorian state election, Australian governments are increasingly treating the creative sector as an unaffordable indulgence.

It just doesn’t make sense.

From inner Melbourne to the regions, they’re shaking their heads and wondering why..."

Ahead of the launch of a new national cultural policy and a Victorian state election, Australian governments are increasingly treating the creative sector as an unaffordable indulgence

26/08/2026

🧠 Parramatta’s streets, laneways and public spaces will come alive with bold creativity this spring as Parramatta Lanes returns with a spectacular program of large-scale public art, immersive installations, interactive experiences and contemporary performances.

This year’s program features S***f Puppets’ Human Body Organs, a giant roaming performance spectacle!

The iconic free festival, set to be held from 21-24 October, will transform the Parramatta C*D into a cultural playground.

Parramatta Lanes returns this October, transforming the city into a vibrant cultural hub. Discover bold art installations, immersive experiences, and captivating performances across four exciting days.

22/06/2026

12/06/2026

✋🏽 Scarey Poster— S***f Puppets' seminal show — hand-printed with letter press type & lino cut at Melbourne Museum of Printing, 1996.

Limited Edition (rare)

To be auctioned off live as part of the - Act One - group art exhibition raising funds for Palestine, Sudan & First Nations.

Saturday 13 June
Footscray Drill Hall
395 Barkly St Footscray

Exbo open 1-8pm
Live auction 6pm (say hello to Skullie)
(Silent auction closes 7pm)
$5 entry

www.instagram.com/act.one.naarm

02/06/2026

🔥🐨 Wild Beasts of Oz to roam at Collingwood Children's Farm Winter Solstice Bonfire!

"Watch flames leap into the night sky as our spectacular bonfire blazes to life on the banks of the Birrarung"

18 Saint Heliers St Abbotsford
Sat 27 June
2-10pm

$25 - $46 👉🏿 farm.org.au/2026-solstice-bonfire-fundraiser

29/05/2026

FAT FRUIT present F** Fabulous Warehouse Party

"Serving post-punk, anti-glamour realness, the F**k Fabulous family are back in Footscray bringing big q***r love and protest performance art.

With drag kings, video art, trash-fashion, dance, circus, strip and live music, Fu*k Fabulous is a true family of misfits who by day are teachers, a death celebrant, social worker, visual artist, swimming instructor and full time rest on a journey to recovery from chronic fatigue.

By night, we step into our artist selves and revel in the ridiculous, collectively reimagining what it means to be Fabulous.

Come & get cozy with us this winter as we warm up the S***f Puppets space in the Footscray Drill Hall. Show & dancing afterwards."

🍇 Seth Sladen
🍌 Bec Matthews
🍑 Jess Love
🍐 Glitter & Sn**ch
🍉 Koko Ma$$
🍍 Sarah Ward

BEST CABARET GREEN ROOM AWARDS 2023

‘Sticks up a defiant middle finger to the commodification of q***r culture” – Time Out Melbourne

7pm Saturday 27 June
Footscray Drill Hall (S***f Puppets)
395 Barkly St Footscray

$25 / $45 👉🏾 events.humanitix.com/f-k-fabulous-warehouse-party

📸: Alexis Desauniers Lea

29/05/2026

🖼️ ACT ONE
art & photography exbo

Raising funds for people in Gaza, Sudan & our First Nations

Saturday 13 June
Footscray Drill Hall (S***f Puppets workshop)

🕐 1pm-8pm, Auction 6pm

www.instagram.com/act.one.naarm

19/05/2026

🍓 Fat Fruit present F$%k FABULOUS

Serving post-punk, anti-glamour realness, the F**k Fabulous family are back in Footscray bringing big q***r love and protest performance art.

With drag kings, video art, trash-fashion, dance, circus, strip and live music, Fu*k Fabulous is a true family of misfits who by day are teachers, a death celebrant, social worker, visual artist, swimming instructor and full time rest on a journey to recovery from chronic fatigue.

By night, we step into our artist selves and revel in the ridiculous, collectively reimagining what it means to be Fabulous.

Come and get cozy with us this winter as we warm up the S***f Puppets space in the Footscray Drill Hall. Show and dancing afterwards.

BEST CABARET GREEN ROOM AWARDS 2023

Saturday 27 June, 7pm
Footscray Drill Hall
395 Barkly St Barkly St Footscray

🥝 TICKETS 👉🏿

A q***r, winter warehouse party, with performances, live music and dance floor brought to you by the F**k Fabulous family. June 27 at the Footscray Drill Hall.

05/05/2026

🎨 "Victoria’s new Creative Industries Minister, the Hon Vicki Ward MP for Eltham, urgently needs to reverse the funding cuts to arts organisations recently instituted by Premier Jacinta Allan and the previous Creative Industries Minister Colin Brooks.

Even the Footscray based S***f Puppets have had their modest $112,000 annual support snuffed out.

These are not just minor cuts but massive blows to arts institutions that have defined Victoria’s creative identity.

Arts organisations with small funding commitments are now seen by Labor as expendable.

This is a sector that defines Victoria’s cultural identity, and contributes more than $40 BILLION annually to the Victorian economy.

The Opposition has also submitted a FOI to Creative Victoria to interrogate some of these inexplicable arts funding decisions.

So far, Creative Victoria has refused to provide us with these documents, and we have referred the matter to VCAT.

We are currently awaiting a directions hearing.

What process did the Allan Government go through to arrive at these savage and gratuitous cuts?

The Opposition has strongly opposed these cuts.

A Jess Wilson Government recognises the importance of the arts and creative industries, both for the soul of our state and for our economy.

Short-sighted cuts that leave our state poorer, in every sense, need to be strongly resisted.

We now call on the new Creative Industries Minister to reverse them before further cultural and economic damage is done.

Ward has her work cut out for her and must stand up for the arts and creative industries inside the Allan Government."

- Victoria's Shadow Minister for Arts & Creative Industries, the David Davis MP

Victoria's Shadow Minister for Arts and Creative Industries, the Hon David Davis MP, says the state’s new Creative Industries Minister has work to do.