Experimental

COOKED: Open Grill

A smoulderingly antipodean BBQ and performance space for gathering, cooking, art and participation.

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A sculpture of a sausage with an animated face is positioned on a metal trolley. There is an illustration of a creature with an elongated nose drawn over the top of the photograph.

Image Credit: Ben Clement, Long Prawn

  • Concept by: Long Prawn

  • Dramaturg: Lara Thoms, APHIDS

  • Presented by: Melbourne Fringe and Fed Square

Join around the public grill for free grilling and hourly drops of sausages and veg sticks. Heady in the air, onions, conversation amongst the clacks of tongs.

In a small dog park, Long Prawn once saw a businessman eating a freshly cooked steak straight from a public BBQ. No plate, no worries, just a hot serve of grilled meat for one, then back to the office. It got us thinking. The public BBQ is something special. It'll grill a lunch for one or feed for the masses. It's a place for multi-cultural, multi-culinary collision; snags alongside seafood and seitan, pots of rice, urns of rose tea, fatty lamb skewers or naughty but nice honey soy chicken thighs. The public BBQ is a genreless hotplate where the simple instruction 'apply heat and eat' sears together offerings from across the globe, gluing us together in a way that only food can.

In honour of this special food space, we have built a lively public BBQ space in the middle of Fed Square. It'll be a place to gather and grill, with food, performance, and conversation on the menu. COOKED makes space for divergent ideas and an unbagged BBQ for people and cultures to break bread.

This event occurs within the COOKED public BBQ space designed by Mikhail Savin Rodrick Projects and Long Prawn, with BBQ designed and built by Mike Hewson.

COOKED has been commissioned with Principal Partner support from the Naomi Milgrom Foundation. This project received Cash to Create through the Fringe Fund.

  • Duration: Come and go as you please

  • Event Accessibility: Blind or Low Vision Rating: Partially Accessible, Deaf or Hard of Hearing Rating: Partially Accessible, English no barrier

  • Age suitability: PG

  • Event warnings: Some Infrequent/Low Pressure Audience Interaction.

Guests are welcome to bring their own food to the BBQ to cook. Bookings are not required. 

COOKED will have a limited offering of free sausages and veg kebobs for guests to cook. 

  • Fed Square - Amphitheatre
    Cnr Flinders & Swanston Sts, Melbourne, Victoria, 3000

    Wheelchair Access

    Fed Square - Amphitheatre is wheelchair accessible.

    The undulating surface of the The Square is made up of sandstone cobblestones, with a marked access path. Swanston Street offers the best access to The Square and lift access is available from The Atrium. The Big Screen is equipped with a hearing loop and there are accessible toilets located next to Time Out Café.

    The Main Stage has lift access for performers. St Paul’s Court, Swanston Street Forecourt and The Amphitheatre also provide wheelchair access.

    For more information, please visit www.fedsquare.com/accessibility.

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  • Free Event

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Friday, 04 October 2024

12:00pm

Fed Square - Amphitheatre

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Friday, 04 October 2024

4:00pm

Fed Square - Amphitheatre

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Saturday, 05 October 2024

12:00pm

Fed Square - Amphitheatre

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Saturday, 05 October 2024

4:00pm

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Sunday, 06 October 2024

12:00pm

Fed Square - Amphitheatre

Free

Sunday, 06 October 2024

4:00pm

Fed Square - Amphitheatre

Free

Monday, 07 October 2024

12:00pm

Fed Square - Amphitheatre

Free

Monday, 07 October 2024

4:00pm

Fed Square - Amphitheatre

Free

Tuesday, 08 October 2024

12:00pm

Fed Square - Amphitheatre

Free

Tuesday, 08 October 2024

4:00pm

Fed Square - Amphitheatre

Free

Friday, 11 October 2024

12:00pm

Fed Square - Amphitheatre

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Friday, 11 October 2024

4:00pm

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Saturday, 12 October 2024

12:00pm

Fed Square - Amphitheatre

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Saturday, 12 October 2024

4:00pm

Fed Square - Amphitheatre

Free

Sunday, 13 October 2024

12:00pm

Fed Square - Amphitheatre

Free

Sunday, 13 October 2024

4:00pm

Fed Square - Amphitheatre

Free

Friday, 18 October 2024

12:00pm

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Friday, 18 October 2024

4:00pm

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Saturday, 19 October 2024

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