Half Bent OmnOCulture November 15th 2026!! 3pm-10pm
Half Bent and The Quadrophonic club welcome all to a seven hour feast of local, human made music, puppetry, magic, photography, visual art and dance. The day will take place at the Quadraphonic Club in Brunswick. There will be two stages operating allowing us to keep the fun going all day.
OmnOCulture
OmnoCulture is a celebration of creativity, new ideas and community spirit for everyone, of everything from everywhere.
Half Bent OmnoCulture follows on from their hugely succsesful community funded three day music festival held in West Brunswick.
Half Bent has programmed concerts and festivals around Melbourne, in Trades Hall, Arts House and Fitzroy Bowling Club and most recently in community spaces in West Brunswick. The organisation champions new and creative music, and diversity of thought and artistic practice;
but most importantly Half Bent aims to connect curious listeners and people from all walks of life: with each other, with live music, with their own community.
Half Bent is a 100% volunteer organisation and is powered by the energy and good will of it’s committee and helpers. Money is raised through ticket sales and donations from the community, to pay for venue hire, promotion, production hire and most importantly the performing musicians. All musicians performing in the festival will be paid for their work.
ThE Omnoculture Programme
Abada Capoeira (dance/music)
Bella Cloud
Bonkel Theatre (puppetry/music)
Dean Kalait Quartet Album launch
Delay 45 (Sydney)
Star Veneers
Gen Kuner
I Hold The Lion’s Paw meet Matt Horsley
Secret Home Music
SonusVisus Collective feat James Hullick
Zoe Barry & Sooji Kim string duo
plus photography, video, visual art
Our Manifesto
Half Bent is about 'itys' not'isms" - eccentricity not formalism, plurality not minimalism, spontaneity not plagiarism, creativity not conformism.
Half Bent is a musician-run organisation committed to enhancing and nurturing creative music through its successful concerts and the annual Half Bent Music Festival.
Though driven by a shared sense of delight in the sharing of music locally, Half Bent perceives it's role as part of a much bigger movement that is taking place all around the world. This movement is a revolt against the market driven ideologies of the last 50 years, whose effects have become far more apparent in the last decade.
With fewer major record companies, fewer independent media outlets and therefore less choice, local independent music is drowned out by the bland out of the mainstream. However, we are extremely fortunate to have a thriving independent radio network and a flourishing creative music scene in Melbourne. Half Bent is here to celebrate what is great about our scene and to ensure that it continues to flourish.
meet the organising team
Half Bent Friends
other community orgs
Get involved
Join the team as a volunteer-contact us at halfbentmusicfestival@gmail.com
DONATE
The Half Bent Music festival is completely community funded- Any financial or in kind donation will help us to create a music festival we can share with everyone. Get in touch here halfbentmusicfestival@gmail.com