Pyrmont Festival Program 3 - 15 May 2011
  

The 12 day ‘Pyrmont Uncorks Mudgee’ Festival, opening 3 May, will celebrate the best food, wine and art from the successful new Pyrmont -Mudgee Region partnership in Sydney’s premier dining precinct.
Pyrmont’s most distinguished chefs will team up with Mudgee’s finest wine producers to bring you a series of "Meet the Winemaker" wine and food matched lunches and dinners at 13 of Pyrmont’s paciest eateries, including the critically- acclaimed Signorelli Gastronomia, Blue Eye Dragon, and Flying Fish, one of Sydney’s top seafood restaurants.  

Festival Grand Finale 
 

The Festival will culminate in a free, day-long sensory extravaganza on Sunday 15 May in Pyrmont’s award-winning Pirrama Park. Thirty Mudgee winemakers will be offering you over 120 superb wines to sample, complemented by tastings of delicious gourmet foods and unique regional cuisine direct from Mudgee. Delight your palate while you relax on the grass and enjoy live entertainment from popular local musicians. Wine tasting packages, including souvenir wineglass, start at just $15.00.
Other gastronomic temptations during the Pyrmont Festival will include:

• Sparkling wine and fresh oysters on Mother’s Day, Sunday 8 May, at Sydney Fish Market
• Free nutritious cooking workshops at Sanctuary - Sanitarium, Pyrmont
• Wine tastings at wine stores throughout Pyrmont and Ultimo 

Fifth Annual Pyrmont Art Prize 
 

The 5th annual Pyrmont Art Prize, the centrepiece of the grand finale, will display over 300 original artworks by emerging and established artists from metropolitan Sydney and the Mudgee area.
Competing for $10,000 worth of prizes, all entries will be on identical, 12-inch (31cm) sq. canvasses, creating a panoply of contrasting styles and subjects in various media from paintings to photographs and mounted reliefs. They will be judged by an expert panel and will be for sale.
Art lovers will also enjoy  the Art Think & Play Family Workshop presented by not-for-profit centre, Culture at Work, Pyrmont.
  

Pyrmont- Mudgee. A Red-Hot Partnership  
 

PUCC President Lawrence Gibbons is excited to see Pyrmont making its mark on Sydney’s events calendar: “Pyrmont is enjoying significant tourism growth, largely thanks to the increasing number of first class restaurants in the area. We aimed to create a special festival, combining our Annual Pyrmont Art Prize with recognition of both Pyrmont’s burgeoning dining precinct and our partnership and synergies with the fast-growing Mudgee Region.”
 
Lucy White, CEO of Mudgee Region Tourism Inc., says that Pyrmont’s dining renaissanceis paralleled by the rapid rise of the Mudgee Region wine industry. “...with up and coming winemakers like Jacob Stein, Michael Slater, Josh Clementson, Julia Conchie and Robert Black offering new varietals as well as well-known varieties,”
“Mudgee has five organic wineries, and it’s one of Australia’s first regions with an organic wine movement, Visitors to Pyrmont Festival will enjoy our diverse range of quality wines from organic to Italian varietals and our renowned big, bold reds.”
 
PUCC and MWGGA warmly thank Tourism NSW, NSW Department of Industry and Investment, Star City, and City of Sydney for their support.
  

Festival Website 
 

For full details of the Festival program, how to book a lunch or dinner and how to enter the Pyrmont Art Prize visit  www.pyrmontfestival.com.
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Sponsor the 5^thAnnual Pyrmont Art Prize And Reach Thousands! 
 

The Chamber is seeking prizes for this year’s Pyrmont Art Prize so DON’T MISS your chance to get your name out there!
The 5^th Annual Pyrmont Art Prize will be centrestage at the Pyrmont Festival grand finale on 15 May. The 2009 and 2010 Art Prize drew hundreds of locals and visitors to Union Square. This year’s Festival event in Pirrama Park, when leading Mudgee producers will be offering dozens of local wines and grourmet regional foods for tasting, is likely to attract many more. All prize donors and supporters will be fully credited on the www.pyrmontfestival.com. website and publicly thanked on the day.
This is just one of the marketing opportunities offered by the annual Pyrmont festival, the precinct’s business highlight of the year. The 2011 event ,“Pyrmont Uncorks Mudgee” and the Pyrmont Art Prize will enhance Pyrmont’s reputation as one of Sydney’s most rapidly growing tourist and dining precincts. It’s a prime example of industry collaboration involving over 20 local Pyrmont businesses, 50 regional food producers and cellar door owner -operated wineries teaming up with the public sector to boost economic activity, raise the precinct’s profile and increase visitor numbers.
 
If you’d like to donate a prize, please contact PUCC President Lawrence Gibbons at president@pucc.com.au

Festival Launch Event: Members Only 
 

There will be a gala Festival launch event at Star City’s lively new restaurant and bar, Bistro 80, Pyrmont, on Tuesday 3 May for Members only.
 Membership renewals are now due, and reminder notices have gone out, so please make sure you renew yours very soon, in order to receive your personal invitation to this very special soirée.
 
¨For more information please contact the PUCC administrator at admin@pucc.com.au