A brand new festival takes over South Perth Foreshore next month!

Plus have you visited the Upside Down House yet?

October 07, 2025

Always exciting to hear about new large-scale events happening in Perth, and PICNIC Festival below looks like anything but your average rug-in-the-park. With different zones to cater to whatever your flavour, it looks like a very fun warmup to a busy summer ahead.

Get all the details below, along with Port Kennedy Bay’s new jetty, and upside down house sure to keep the kids happy this last week of school hols, a cool little roundhouse stay near Walpole and cool not-so-little home among the trees in Bickley.

Troy Mutton, Editor-In-Chief, Perth is OK!

EVENTS

Not your average PICNIC: A brand new festival takes over South Perth Foreshore next month!

Perth’s festival scene just got a sweet spring surprise, with a brand-new party landing on the South Perth Foreshore next month — and it's a dangerously-fun looking pre-summer soiree if we ever did see one!

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