Heartland is a concert that will bring together the sounds of the Horn of Africa in one mighty blast at the Big West Festival’s Big Backyard.

4 artists, 4 communities, 4 installations. This unique project seems professional artists work with a selection of communities in the west to explore and interpret notions of home and homeliness.

Cultures will collide in true Footscray fashion in your Big Backyard. This free community event celebrates the rich culture of the west, its artists, performers and musicians who make this side of Melbourne their home

Bring your knitted legwarmers, limber up and celebrate the casting off of the knitted bridge!

Big West will be colouring your world in this large-scale work that sees US sculptor Dave Cole 'knit' a major landmark of Footscray.

The heat is on with the return of Tin Chef! The knives are out in the west’s irreverent and colourful cooking contest staged at the Footscray Market.

19 Trains is a story of passion and love, of blood, shit and tears. Of how sometimes our fear of death means we never see the power of life.

Art-Vend is a unique exhibition in which paintings, prints, drawings, poems and stories will be on sale from a vending machine at Footscray Station during the Big West Festival

Comm Inc is a project by local artist Ilona Nelson that highlights the importance of communication within our lives and community.

Digital Pill is a video blog about the characters in the Melbourne music scene...

Every Angel Is Terrible explores stories in which the equation comes out differently, and the child’s life is the cost of the transaction.

Affordable local art inspired by Melbourne’s inner west.

Founder has many meanings – a person who starts something, an ancestor, a metal worker, or a beginner...

Over centuries, food and artists have had a close association and, for this reason, Raw Materials – The Studio have joined with 18 local artists to invite you to their Gourmet Art Banquet.

Jive Talk is a space for people to meet, listen, engage and dream about a better world through social conversation.

An online project by Miza Moreau of Boombarr Studio that investigates the relationship between cultural diversity, immigration and landscapes.

Mini Art is all about the detail. No work is larger than 40cm and all are for sale, perfect for that small nook in your home.

Moving Image will feature experimental digital media artwork inspired by the western suburbs and screened across multiple sites throughout the festival.

As part of Big West, director and writer Matt Scholten will be creating Mr Football, based on the remarkable life and legacy of EJ “Ted” Whitten, the legendary Footscray footballer.

Young people, their families and friends in Brimbank are invited to join us in celebrating the diversity and harmony within our community.

Presented by Footscray Community Arts Centre in association with Big West Festival

Artists from across the western region are opening their doors for you to take a look behind the scenes at where the art is made, in the artists’ home away from home, their studio.

Parking is a series of artist-created car covers will appear, disappear and reappear over parked cars across the west.

For the past four years, shop windows in Seddon have come alive with photos of the local neighbourhood.

By Simon Tengende. Sustained is a play about lives lived and experienced, loss and finding each other in difficult circumstances.

Benn Bennett offers you the chance to save the world from your bad writing...

The ravages of war brought Vietnam to a standstill post-1975. A country coming to terms with modernity, there was scarcely food on the table let alone film stock to feed the soul.

This exhibition dissects the ideas and politics behind the term un-Australian.

Media artist Tamsin Sharp will make a video artwork inspired by the childhood game of Chinese Whispers.

This event is a great opportunity to meet the filmmakers and learn about their craft, as each director will introduce their films and a short Q & A will follow after each screening.

Free afternoon and evening demos of the home arts.

That’s a workshop in an actual workshop, designed for women interested in handling big tools at Big Fish (where big things are made).