The Canberra City Walk will be ablaze with activity for three days next week as Canberra Institute of Technology’s ‘Orange Wolves’ creative student team parks six transformed buses in the CBD.
The buses have been refitted by the Orange Wolves to create a cinema space, music venue, fashion parade catwalk and art installation spaces.
“Orange Wolves is a hands-on learning opportunity that exemplifies the significance of vocational education and training,” CIT Technology and Design Director, Fiona Dace-Lynn said.
“From designing a logo and pitching a concept to displaying their creations and wrapping up when the event concludes, the students are being assessed along every stage of the project,” Ms Dace-Lynn said.
City Renewal Authority Chief Executive, Malcolm Snow said the Orange Wolves experience would be a unique one for Canberrans.
“The Orange Wolves project will bring something totally different to our city’s public spaces and I am looking forward to seeing how the community interacts with these transformed buses,” Mr Snow said.
“We had a lot of great applications in the last round of City Grants funding, but our successful applicants really demonstrated how their project would make the city a more fun, welcoming and exciting place to spend time.”
Students from multiple CIT disciplines, including fashion, floristry, hairdressing, beauty, visual arts, photography, IT, graphic design, cultural arts, music, media, sound production, interior design, landscape design and building design contributed to the design of the buses, which took four months to transform.
The festival is free and open to the public from 26 to 28 November from noon till 10pm each day.
