Saturday 22 February 2014

White Night Melbourne

Was at the first ever White Night Melbourne in 2013, wasn't as organise, wasn't as epic, wasn't as many people (still a lot of people tho)...this year it is covered by media and been talking about it for weeks so no surprise it is much bigger than last year.

It always reminds me of some time ago when a number of people protested about safety at night time and wanted to reclaim the city at night.

There's this one night, you feel safe in the city even late in the night cause all the people around you, tho at some point, for the same reason you will feel unsafe cause all the people around you when you are one in the thousand of people happens to be near flinders street. However, all those people who gather for this festival had find a mutual way of moving (although very slowly) and allow people to pass through any direction (again very slowly) without any major incidents....

This is the one night when everyone are out to enjoy arts (but for me I found the people more interesting) and more importantly to enjoy our city

All these people i observed in the few hours I was out in the White Night Melbourne: The queue of men at nandos for the toilet cause it is the only place accessible on flinders street even theres only one cubical for men; Little kids whom have never seen this many people in their entire life(so far); Elderly people with walking stick admiring the transformation of the station with projection; Hotel patron who try to get out from the car park and needed the event staff to make a trail for them; Motorcyclist ended up having to push his bike among the crowd; Excited teenagers who got ready to party for the night; People who normally out on a saturday got slightly annoyed cause of all the people out there; people who run into long lost friends; friends who tried to look after or look for the friends they came with; people trying to meet up with other friends,etc etc

Anyway, it is nice to see our city looking bright and alive and fill with people who enjoy it :)

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