Hopkins Creek announces 2025 return after three-year hiatus

Hopkins Creek will be back in 2025, the festival announced overnight.

The much beloved Naarm/Melbourne festival, which originally ran from 2016 - 2021, left behind a vacuum that is yet to be filled by other events of its size. In 2022, after already having to postpone once due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Hopkins Creek had to cancel due to intense rain and wind. With a huge emotional, financial and physical toll, Hopkins very understandably did not return.

The days of Hopkins' calling the Kulkurt Crater home are over, and the 2025 event will take place on Taungurung Country in Victoria. This will mean that while it originally took place in Naarm's West, it will now operate somewhere in the North East, around towns like Bonnie Doon, Euroa and Strathbogie.

Hopkins' new art is all too fitting too. The key image is one of the 'ouroboros', a snake devouring its own tail, typically used to represent the eternal cycle of destruction and rebirth.

Naarm's long history of intimate, eclectically programmed festivals is one that artists, labels, promoters and punters alike are excited to see still alive and well in Hopkins' announcement. Words of support from all across the country have flooded in, demonstrating that this year's event is sure to be a very hot ticket.

Hopkins Creek 2025 will occur from November 7 - November 9 this year.

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Jack Colquhoun is Mixmag ANZ's Managing Editor, find him on Instagram.