THE ANNUAL Darlington arts festival is set to be held again this weekend Saturday and Sunday, November 1-2, cementing its legacy as Perth’s longest-running free-entry community festival.

The event, held at Darlington village, will become an artistic destination with all activities centred at the pine terrace location.

Darlington Arts Festival committee president Amy Pepper says the event, which has been running since 1954, will be “more audacious than previous festivals,” with the debut of a new interactive lightshow and massive expansion of activities.

“It’s going to be a really special milestone for us, it’s something that we really wanted to do… and we really wanted the lights in the tree this year,” she said.

The centerpiece of the event is the open art exhibition housed in Darlington Hall, which offers the community a chance to view and appreciate works by established and emerging Western Australian artists.

Attendees are also invited to walk the sculpture on the scarp trail, an open-air installation stretching the picturesque station reserve.

The festival will ramp up after dark with interactive digital projections from 6pm to 9pm on Saturday.

Two distinct pieces will be projected onto sculptures, with the digital projections changing and dynamically interacting with the music from two live bands, ‘Cosmic Butterfly’ and ‘Mariposa’.

The festival also aims to engage people of all ages through art according to Ms Pepper, running a number of extensive workshops for kids over the weekend.

“The goal of the event is really to provide a sense of community and belonging through art, and providing opportunities to artists of all levels of experience,” she said.

The workshops will teach attending children activities including felting, clay sculpting, weaving, circus performing, digital animation, and crochet.

The festival will also feature a massive performing arts lineup on four stages, with performances for both adults and children.

Attendees can enjoy more than 130 diverse stalls throughout the weekend, offering everything from food and drinks to arts and crafts.

The festival runs from 10am on Saturday and Sunday and Ms Pepper encourages everyone to “dip in and out,” noting that the experience changes throughout the day.

“You can go for a stroll among the sculptures very early in the morning, because it’s an open air event,” she said.

“You can check out stalls, have some breakfast, have some lunch, and then a dusk walk around the festival.”

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