8B_StreetArt_Performance+Areas



Before you can start out as a busker it is compulsory that you get a permit. This allows you to perform in a particular area. There are four different categories you can apply for:

· **The General Area** The general area includes places of the City of Melbourne but is not permitted at Bourke Street Mall, City Square, Swanston Street between Collins and Flinders street, Federal and State Government buildings, Parliament House, Town Hall, against walls or building lines and not on steps or entrances into a train station. · The General area is used for the people that play any sort of musical instrument, perform a song, and produce a dance routine, statue, mime or any other sort of the same form of entertainment. · Performance Time: Buskers of the general area have a limit of two hours of performing with a half an hour break. When performing at different sites buskers have an extra two hours. · **Bourke Street Mall** Buskers that have performed in the general area for six continuous months can then apply for a permit to perform at Bourke Street Mall. The busking spots are especially for professional busker that can perform full time. · Buskers at Bourke Street Mall have to attend weekly meetings where they allocate separate places for each busker, but public events could possibly interfere with the performing times and places. · Performance Times: Performers are allowed to perform a full day at Bourke Street Mall, their performances last half an hour with half an hour breaks afterwards. · **Pavement Art ** This category is for the artists to display their art publicly, but is not allowed for commercial use or promotions for brands. It’s solely for those to do their own artwork, but not for those with pre-fabricated art or to trade in exchange for money. ·The location for pavement artists are usually around Southbank and The Docklands, there restrictions are along building lines, Bourke Street Mall or anything that affects the flow of the people on the street. ·Performance Times: Pavement artists have the whole day to produce their artwork. **· Circle Act ** The Circle Act is for experienced performers using props and/or dangerous merchandise. Applicants need to pass a safety test involving managing the crowd and safety before you can perform. Buskers of the Circle Act perform in these areas but attend weekly meetings and are assigned a designated area to perform.
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Lower Terrace, Birrarung Marr
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Piazza Italia, Argyle Square
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Southbank Promenade, between pedestrian bridge and Southbank spillway
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Southbank Promenade, lower terrace next to Hamer Hall
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Southbank Promenade, at Queensbridge Square
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">City Square, along Swanston Street between Collins Street and Flinders Lane

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Performance Times: Circle Act performing times last for 45 minutes per site.

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">All busking permits last for twelve months, and require yearly renewals. <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">There are permits specially for each category and each of those categories have to follow a special code of conduct. Below are each of the code of conducts the buskers have to follow:

<span style="background-clip: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 0px;">[|General Area Code Of Conduct] <span style="background-clip: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 0px;">[|Bourke Street Mall Code Of Conduct] <span style="background-clip: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 0px;">[|Pavement Art Code Of Conduct] <span style="background-clip: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 0px;">[|Circle Act Code Of Conduct]
 * <span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; border-collapse: separate;">[[image:8b_streetart_map1.png caption="Bourke St Mall"]] || <span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; border-collapse: separate;">[[image:8b_Streetart_map.png caption="City Square"]] ||


 * Busking has no universal code of conduct.
 * Busking is a constitutional right
 * The first law ever recorded for busking was in Rome 462 BC. This law was not to sing or parody about government or officials
 * in a public place and if you were to disobey this law you would recieve the death penalty.
 * In 1530 Henry VIII said buskers must be licensed, if they weren't they would get whipped two days continously.
 * Great Britian require a liscense and in some cases require an audition.
 * America has free speech for particular places
 * Some venues ask the busker to follow special rules
 * Some places also require a permit for electronically amped sound
 * Common law: buskers can't interfere with pedestrian flow, block entrances and exits.
 * Common law: buskers can not do anything to endanger the public
 * Common law: noisy behaviours may not be made after curfew
 * Common law: obscene material is not allowed unless in places like pubs and bars.