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Explore your discomfort as The Eyes watch you, watching them, watching you – this winter at Fed Square.

This winter at Fed Square, enter a hair-raising, spine-tingling world – where we are watched, everywhere, all the time.  Our phones, our homes are listening. Our streets, our devices are watching. The Eyes are following you. Creepy, huh? In our winter Anything But Square: Under Surveillance program, we playfully explore these murky feelings of awkwardness and intrigue – the push and pull of the desire to know and the desire to be deceived. Enter: The Eyes. A colossal, sprawling sculptural dystopia of creepy-creepy eyes by artist studio Cool Shit, taking over the Square this winter. Discover your own discomfort – as The Eyes watch you, watching them, watching you. Check out the full program of activity below!

Fed Live is transforming, under the watchful gaze of The Eyes this winter.  It’s time to dance up a storm, like we’re all at an End of the World party in a dystopian movie. We’re imagining something in between The Matrix and Metropolis. But with DJs. It’ll be wild.   We’ll have free loaded hot chocolates and eye themed sweet treats from 6pm-9pm* every Friday night of Dance Dystopia. *Or until stocks are exhausted. All free, all ages, always. Check out the program below: 

Junior cryptologists and spy kids, get ready: we have a TOP SECRET mission for you! Visit each of Fed Square’s three cultural institutions during the winter school holidays, follow the clues to complete each mission – and you could win an Oculus Quest 2 VR headset or SpyX Night Hawk Scope – Real Infrared Night Vision goggles, worth up to $AUD639! Shhhhhh! Remember, it’s TOP SECRET.

K-Pop World Festival is an annual vocal / dance cover competition for people around the world with passion for K-Pop. The winner of Melbourne Preliminary Round will move on to compete internationally for the chance to perform at the final round in Korea alongside K-Pop celebrities. Get together with your friends and dominate the stage or come by to support the amazing talents that represent the city of Melbourne.

As the enormous Big Brother … er, Big Screen – looks down on us all from on high this winter, we’ll keep you rooted to the spot with a tantalisingly terrifying line-up of spy and surveillance-themed films. Whether you’re a junior cryptologist in the making, a bonafide Bond-aficionado or a card-carrying sci-fi buff, we’ve got a spooky, thrilling or mysterious film to unleash your inner spy. We’ll have the deckchairs out, so it’s time to bring a blanky and get cosy this winter, under the watchful gaze of The Eyes, for the Surveillance Film Festival at Fed Square. Free popcorn will be available from the Woofy’s Eye Spy Cart on Saturday 2 and 9 July, and Sunday 3 and 10 July at the start of each film and will be available until stocks run out. You can also purchase a blanket for a gold coin donation from the Woofy’s Eye Spy Cart near the Main Stage, before each film screening on Saturday 2 and 9 July, and Sunday 3 and 10 July. All proceeds will go to the Fred Hollows Foundation Indigenous Australia Program. We’ll also have free loaded hot chocolates and eye themed sweet treats from the Woofy’s Eye Spy Cart near the Main Stage from 6pm-9pm (or until stocks run out) on Saturday 6 August. Colours available are: Retina Red UV Blue Greyscale Grey Check out the program below.