Hampton Festival 2025: Festival for the high country an event run for community | Gallery
The ever-popular Hampton Festival, which celebrates everything Queensland’s high country has to offer, made a major change this year to keep up with a successful run of sold out crowds.
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This year’s festival of the high country has offered attendees two days of incredible music, art, food, and wine. The annual Hampton Festival included an art exhibition, selections of local beverages, community produce stalls, artistic workshops from pottery to mural painting, and incredible live music.
Hampton Festival president Wendy Allen said the festival showcased the unique aspects of the region and some of the incredible producers and artisans in the area.
“This is a community event, run by the community, for the community,” she said.
The event featured local musicians, artists, and producers and gave attendees the chance to engage in mini workshops.
For the first time in its 21 years, the Hampton Festival has been spaced out over two days, a decision Ms Allen said was made after the festival began to feel too crowded.
“The overwhelming response from community and stakeholders was ‘please keep the festival’,” she said. “But the festival is at Chapman Park and we don’t have any further area to grow.”
Day one of the festival was Art Immersion day with different workshops on offer while the focus of Sunday was on regional flavours and gave attendees the chance to learn from local producers in the region as well as take home a few new culinary recipes to add to the weekly dinner rotation.
“There’s a whole range of producers giving talks, and demonstrations and showcasing what they do so well,” Ms Allen said.
Ms Allen said with the cost of everything going up it can be challenging to maintain community events.
“With any volunteer organisation we always need people to help run the festival,” she said.
“It costs a lot of money to put on a festival and that’s a difficulty for a lot of community events.
“I takes money to run these events and if we don’t have that, then an event in a community like ours won’t continue to happen.”
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