FAQs

Soul Street will take place in Dening Park and Jonson Street in Byron Bay on Tuesday 31st December. Jonson Street will be activated from 4pm and live music will start at Dening Park at 6pm. 

Yes, all the live performance, roving, workshops and activations are free. No tickets required. 

Yes, we will be having a selection of local food vendors at Dening Park for this year's event. You can complete the Vendor call out form located here. 

The Soul Street food stalls will be open from 6.00pm – 12.00am at Dening Park on Saturday 31 December 2022. Please take note of the following before submitting your expression of interest. A fee of *$150.00 for market/food stall holders and *$250.00 for food trucks will be charged per area Stallholders are required to supply their own table, chairs, gazebos, water, power and lighting Stallholders are required to have their own Public Liability Insurance (minimum of 10 million) and a current certificate will be requested as part of your form submission Stallholders and food trucks producing food cooked onsite are required to have a current food license which will be requested as part of your form submission All cooking areas and food trucks will be required to supply their own tarp to be placed under their cooking areas This is a single use, plastic free event

Yes, expressions of interest are open for local artists and artistic groups. To express your interest please fill out the EOI here. 

The event organisers will strive to provide as many paid opportunities as possible. 

The capacity at Jonson Street is currently 4500 people and Dening Park is 3500. This is subject to change due to Covid regulations. 

We will update this information closer to the event to ensure it is accurate and applicable to the event. 

Soul Street will operate under whatever government regulations are required on the date of the event. We look forward to keeping the community safe. 

Dening Park will have a waste free zone where we will encourage everyone to reduce their waste through waste education and by using reusables as much as possible. There will be two wash stations for attendees to wash their own cupe, cutlery, plates and bowls. There will also be the option to hire reusable and repurposed crockery.

We encourage all attendess to BYO picnic blanket, cup, cutlery, plates and bowls. 

We encourage all attendess to BYO picnic blanket, cup, cutlery, plates and bowls. 

Yes, Yes and Yes. This an alcohol free event.

This event is made for families, bring the kids and bring the grandparents. Participate in the workshops, capture memories in the Selfie Walk and enjoy the best local music Byron Bay has to offer.  

Soul street is dedicated to responsibly managing the waste generated over New Years Eve. We will have designated bin stations set up for disposal of recyclables (bottles and cans), compostables and landfill. We will also be partnering with Mullum Cares to install a wash station for reusables and have bin fairies to assist with where waste goes. We will also be working with stall holders to make sure they are using the best possible materials that we can recover or recycle.

It requires all of us to take care of the local environment, so we encourage people to bring their own reusable items, sort waste appropriately, reading signage or asking staff and volunteers.

It’s 2022 and BYO is the ‘new normal’!

This New Years Eve you can kick start a new year’s resolution to reduce waste and help protect the environment by avoiding single-use takeaway packaging. Single-use takeaway is a major waste issue, creating contamination, litter, methane just more waste in general. Single-use packaging items use the earth’s resources for the simple sake of “convenience”. But there is a solution….reuse. When we refuse single-use packaging, we save resources like land and water, minimise emissions, reduce litter, reduce waste to landfill and endorse a positive change for the future. Choosing to bring your own or reuse is an easy swap to make with a big impact.

Soul street this year will have a wash station set up in Denning Park, operated by Mullum Cares and supported by Council. You can take up the option of hiring a cup that can be washed, sanitised and reused. There will also be friendly bin fairies that will guide you where to put your waste should you have any.

 

Yes, we encourage people to BYO their own cups, plates and cutlery. Make sure they are clean so that you receive the best quality beverage.

Firstly compostable and biodegradable are different. If an item is truly compostable, it is made from natural materials and can break down in the right conditions. Biodegradable items are not necessarily made of 100% natural materials and can sometimes have plastic in them. They are made with an additive to help them break down without oxygen.

It isn’t always clear if items are compostable, there are no rules around labelling. They can impact the quality of the compost depending on what they are made of. Compostable items require using natural resources, land and transport and they are only used for a short period of time. The environmental footprint of single-use compostable is often still larger than reusable.

There are too many types of coffee cups, which creates a lot of contamination. They cannot be recycled, because they are made of paper and have a lining of plastic, bioplastic, PLA.

There is nothing more or less safe about reusables. It’s all about having the systems in place like with a café or restaurant. In many cases reusables can be more safe because they require less handling. They are freshly sterilised when they go to the vendors. Retail food service is highly regulated and reusable systems must meet strict safety and hygiene requirements

Some people are reluctant to embrace reusables because they may not be used to them, but there was a time when drinking hot beverages out of sippy cups was new. Once we understand and utilise reuse systems that make more and more sense.

 In order to encourage people to return cups and take care of them, there is a bond. This also helps to cover the cost of the items. In a controlled environment, like a club, cups can be collected. But at an outdoor event we need to make sure the cups come back for reuse. We hope to see a future where reuse is the only option and there will be less likely to be a cost.

The attached shows where the Water Fountain Locations are :

Jonson Street

Dening Street