{"id":7236,"date":"2026-09-02T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/steampunk.au\/news\/?p=7236"},"modified":"2026-08-30T10:26:38","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T00:26:38","slug":"mount-vic-fest-costumes-flying-car-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steampunk.au\/news\/australian-events\/mount-vic-fest-costumes-flying-car-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Mount Vic Fest puts costumes before the flying car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"steampunk-standfirst\"><strong>The September festival pairs a public costume contest with live entertainment and a special Chitty Chitty Bang Bang matinee at Mount Vic Flicks.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mount Victoria has set Saturday 12 September 2026 for <a href=\"https:\/\/visitmountvictoria.com\/mountvicfest\/\">Mount Vic Fest<\/a>, a town wide day of cinema, fashion, music, food and community activity.<\/p>\n<p>One confirmed attraction is a costume contest at 12.30pm. Entry information is available through a QR code on the festival\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/visitmountvictoria.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Kids-costume-contest-Mount-Vic-Fest2.jpg\">promotional artwork<\/a>, although the accessible information does not specify rules, prizes or an entry deadline.<\/p>\n<p>Mount Vic Flicks says the day will also include markets, live music and circus entertainment. The cinema has supplied the most detailed part of the schedule: a special screening of <em>Chitty Chitty Bang Bang<\/em> at its Harley Avenue cinema.<\/p>\n<p>Doors open at 1.30pm, with live music before the film begins at 2pm. A theatre organ performance is planned for the interval, and the listed finishing time is 4.45pm.<\/p>\n<p>For costume makers and admirers of improbable machinery, the order is unusually neat: costume contest first, inventor\u2019s flying car second.<\/p>\n<p>Mount Vic Flicks lists tickets at $20 and $18, plus booking fee, and recommends booking ahead through its <a href=\"https:\/\/mountvicflicks.com.au\/sessions\/chitty-chitty-bang-bang\/\">Chitty Chitty Bang Bang session page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Event details<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Festival:<\/strong> Mount Vic Fest 2026<\/li>\n<li><strong>Date:<\/strong> Saturday 12 September 2026<\/li>\n<li><strong>Costume contest:<\/strong> 12.30pm<\/li>\n<li><strong>Cinema doors and live music:<\/strong> 1.30pm<\/li>\n<li><strong>Film:<\/strong> 2pm to 4.45pm<\/li>\n<li><strong>Cinema:<\/strong> Mount Vic Flicks, 2a Harley Avenue, Mount Victoria NSW 2786<\/li>\n<li><strong>Film tickets:<\/strong> $20 and $18, plus booking fee<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Check the <a href=\"https:\/\/visitmountvictoria.com\/mountvicfest\/\">Mount Vic Fest page<\/a> for festival information before travelling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mount Vic Fest will bring costumes, markets, music and circus entertainment to the Blue Mountains on 12 September 2026, followed by Chitty Chitty Bang Bang at Mount Vic Flicks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[25,28,26,23,27,24,11],"class_list":["post-7236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australian-events","tag-blue-mountains","tag-chitty-chitty-bang-bang","tag-costume-contest","tag-mount-vic-fest","tag-mount-vic-flicks","tag-mount-victoria","tag-nsw-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steampunk.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steampunk.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steampunk.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steampunk.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steampunk.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7236"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/steampunk.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7260,"href":"https:\/\/steampunk.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7236\/revisions\/7260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steampunk.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steampunk.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steampunk.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}