Now in its ninth year, the Frankston Street Art Festival is one of Australia’s most dynamic celebrations of creativity and urban expression — and for the past four years, it has been grown and delivered by a powerhouse production team led by Bo Kitty.
Working in close collaboration with the Producer, Bo has been the engine behind the festival’s extraordinary evolution. Her role is vast, deeply hands-on, and relentlessly complex. Bo manages end-to-end logistics from the ground up — sourcing and coordinating suppliers, negotiating contracts, managing bump-in and bump-out schedules, and navigating every moving part that comes with delivering a free public event across a live CBD. Roads need closing. Council staff need briefing. Permits need chasing. Stallholders, artists, AV crews, security, site infrastructure, waste management, accessibility requirements — Bo touches all of it, and she makes sure every single piece lands on time and under budget.
Producing a free public event for a local council in an active city centre is one of the most logistically demanding environments in the events industry. There are no ticket gates, no controlled entry points, no margin for half-measures — just open streets, thousands of people, and an obligation to get it right for everyone. Bo thrives in exactly this environment. She anticipates the problems before they arrive, builds the contingencies, manages the stakeholders, and keeps the whole machine moving with the kind of calm authority that only comes from real experience.
Under her leadership, the festival’s safety framework has been dramatically elevated, setting a new benchmark for how council-run arts events are planned, managed, and delivered. This isn’t about ticking boxes — it’s about building an event that artists, audiences, council, and stakeholders can trust completely, year after year.
And the results speak for themselves. Over four years, Bo has delivered the festival’s signature Night Walk — a stunning after-dark experience featuring cutting-edge projection and light works — produced and delivered the Cube 37 Gallery Takeover, and introduced the Street Art Studio this year, a bold new activation that brought 10 additional artists into the program and opened the festival’s world to audiences in an entirely new way. In 2026 alone, eight new large-scale murals were added alongside a groundbreaking holographic projection work, pushing Frankston’s total permanent public art collection to over 100 works. One hundred. A living, open-air gallery that belongs to the whole community, free and accessible 365 days a year.
From towering wall pieces to holographic spectacles, intimate gallery takeovers to hidden art interventions tucked into laneways — every layer of this festival has been crafted with purpose, professionalism, and genuine passion for the place and its people.
The Frankston Street Art Festival doesn’t just happen. It’s built — carefully, boldly, and with an expertise that only comes from four years of doing exactly this, better every single time.
