Robertson Park, duh.

Robbo Park is located in the heart of Orange. The park hosts major community events, including the night markets during Orange’s food and wine festivals. Find out more about Robbo Park.

Council has received funding under the Open Streets Program, part of the NSW Government’s Vibrant Streets Package, to temporarily close streets to vehicles for a day, or a series of days, and open them to people with placemaking activations. The Open Streets Program aims to inject vibrancy into our streets and help create thriving local places that support businesses, creative sectors and the community through events and activations. This funding cannot be used for anything other than the event we applied for. Orange City Council has provided co-funding, in the form of in-kind support with staffing for the event and already-owned infrastructure. We have also teamed up with some amazing sponsors.

This is for two reasons. The first being that it helps us keep track of numbers and how many people to expect. The second is the basic data tickets provide. For example, we want to know where people came from and their ages. We will also send out a post-event survey asking if you support Orange City Council doing bigger and better events. Please complete it. It gives us important data to help us improve and demonstrate the importance of thriving events to our community.  

Please leave your eskies at home but bring your camp chairs and picnic rugs. We have plenty of great food for purchase and, being a licensed event, alcohol will be available to purchase.   

Absofruitly – guests under 18 must be accompanied by a guardian or responsible adult at all times.

Please, please cancel your ticket. This makes attendance considerably easier to track.   

This is the first event of this scale that we have held in our CBD. As such, capacity will be determined on the day, but we expect it to be around 5000. 

As this is a free event, it is difficult to manage attendance. When tickets are free, the expected drop-out rate for an event is 50 to 60%. To try to manage this, we will make a  certain number of tickets available pre-event. The condition of these tickets is that entry is only guaranteed up to a certain time. If, as expected, we get a 50% drop-out, we will open tickets to the public again at 5pm, meaning there should be plenty of opportunity to come if you didn’t get a ticket pre-event.  If you pre-register for a ticket, and arrive after 5pm, your ticket is still valid, but admission is subject to the capacity of the event.

As this is a free event, it is difficult to manage attendance. When tickets are free, the expected drop-out rate for an event is 50 to 60%. To try to manage this, we will make a certain number of tickets available pre-event. The condition of these tickets is that entry is only guaranteed up to a certain time. If, as expected, we get a 50% drop-out, we will open tickets to the public again at 5pm, meaning there should be plenty of opportunity to come if you didn’t get a ticket pre-event.  If you pre-register for a ticket, and arrive after 5pm, your ticket is still valid, but admission is subject to the capacity of the event.

No, we are beholden to the infrastructure already in place in our city. Please either get dropped off or leave your car at home and walk into the event.  

We know dogs are often part of the family but Robbo Park with thousands of people, loud music and food outlets we’ve made the call that doggos are best missing out on this gig.

No, there will be no cash machines at the event. Most, if not, all, vendors will be cash free.  

This event has been made possible by the Transport for NSW Open Street Program. The purpose of this grant is to temporarily close streets to vehicles for a day, or a series of days, to open them to people with placemaking activations. The Open Streets Program aims to inject vibrancy into our streets and help create thriving local places that support businesses, creative sectors and the community through events and activations. 

In the event of poor weather, you will be notified a few days prior to the event of the move to our weather-contingent venue, the Naylor Pavillion at the Showgrounds. Please also keep your eyes peeled on socials for updates. In the event of the move our capacity is going to be reduced considerably, unfortunately this is unavoidable. In this instance admission to the event will be on a first come, first served basis. The conditions of your ticket will still remain. 

Zest Fest is strictly smoke and e-cigarette free. If you wish to smoke or vape you will need to leave the event area and do so away from the queues. Please dispose of your butts responsibly.