You Can Eat Shit At Splendour This Year, Thanks To The Arts & Craft Lineup

There’s plenty of cool shit happening as part of this year’s Splendour In The Grass art & craft program.

And by “cool shit” we literally mean ice cream made to look like human faeces.

Delish!

Coming to Splendour for the very first time, Mr. Poopie is the icy treat inspired by everyone’s favourite emoji: the jolly poop:

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“Jump in and marvel at the indulgent and delicious substance excreting from the ice cream dispensers. Dine-in or take-away, either way you wont forget Mr Poopie!” Promoters promise.

But Mr. Poopie isn’t the only choice nugget to be snapped off this year’s Splendour Art and Splendour In The Craft lineups.

Curated by internationally exhibited artist Craig Walsh, Splendour Arts 2016 will feature six major pieces of totally ‘grammable contemporary art experiences running across the festival site, including “intoxicating visuals and video art, mysterious communities and miraculous inflatable houses of worship”.

2016 will also see the fourth instalment of The Barn’s unique community with Bennet Miller’s Upper Downs. This year punters will be able to mingle with inhabitants inside an Amish casino that includes spinning wheels, a roulette table and a range of card games.

While Melbourne’s Sam Songailo will use Splendour attendees as his ‘test subjects’ and “release them into his artwork to watch as their reactions unfold” as part of his Program 2 piece, which “explores the limits of perception and the phenomenology of consciousness”.

Plus, Andy Forbes’ Un Intelligent Design will see punters to attend a wedding show inside a inflatable church, inspired by freaky side shows and circus art. It also houses a potent mix of live theatre, dance comedy and rock n roll.

Meanwhile, Splendour In The Craft also returns this year with a range of bedazzling workshops from Australia’s biggest craftmasters. You’ll be able to learn mad skillz to make paper chandeliers, lanterns, charm bracelets, dream catchers and more with art jedis like Beci Orpin, Meet Make Create, Each to Own, Apomogy, The Craft Parlour, Art Park and Craft Mafia.

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Staffers from your mum’s fave store Spotlight will also be on hand with the awesomely-named Mend It Like Beckham stall, where punters who rip their pants dancing to Flume can get their mending done for free!

And while you wait you can even grab a redskin cookie at the SouthSide Tea Room cafe, which just so happens to be run by Aussie indie band The Grates.

Sew much to do!

For more info on the full Splendour 2016 art & craft program, head to the official SITG website, or else gaze in wonder at this year’s full music lineup below.

Splendour In The Grass 2016 Lineup

Friday, 22nd July

The Strokes (only Australian show)

The Avalanches (only Australian show)

Violent Soho

Hermitude

Band Of Horses

The 1975

Leon Bridges

James Vincent McMorrow (only Australian show)

The Kills

Years and Years

Illy

Peter, Bjorn and John

DMA’S

Jack Garrett

Motez

Emma Louise

Nothing But Theives

Robert Forster

Fat White Family

Methyl Ethyl

High Tension

Roland Tings

Sampa The Great

Lucy Cliché

Dro Carey

World Champion

Kllo

Nicole Miller

Ribongia

Saturday, 23rd July

The Cure

At The Drive-In

Santigold

Matt Corby

Sticky Fingers

What So Not

Gang of Youths

Crystal Fighters

Ball Park Music

Snakehips

Michael Kiwanuka

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard

Lido

Beach Slang

Boo Seeka

Slum Sociable

LDRU

Harts

Ngaiire

Opiuo

Dom Dollar

Paces

Running Touch

Dreller

Sui Zhen

Banoffee

The Meeting Tree

Sunday, 24th July

Flume

James Blake

Sigur Ros (only Australian show)

Boy and Bear

Jake Bugg

Courtney Barnett

The Preatures

Duke Dumont (DJ set)

Golden Features

Tegan and Sara

City Calm Down

Mark Lanegan

Jagwar Ma

The Internet

Marlon Williams and the Yarra Benders

Lapsley

Slumberjack

Urthboy

Little May

Ganz

Spring King

Tired Lion

Green Buzzard

Just a Gent

Feki

Remi

Splendour In The Grass 2016

Friday, 22nd July – Sunday, 24th July

North Byron Parklands, Byron Bay

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