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IT may be placed in the middle of what should be another freezing Warwick winter, but this year's Jumpers and Jazz in July festival is set to heat up with the main event La Pompa, or 'The Performance' in Spanish.

After a sell-out crowd raved about the 2008 wearable art performance in the Warwick Town Hall, organisers this year have aimed to make it bigger and better.

“It is a combination of wearable art, live music, dance and performance,” Warwick Art Gallery director Karina Devine said.

With limited numbers able to fit in the town hall, the event has moved to a marquee in Leslie Park, along with the first tree jumpers to move off our streets.

“With tree jumpers in the park for the first time we thought it was a natural flow to move this into the park,” Ms Devine said.

“We are hoping people can spend a few hours seeing the jumpers in the streets and move into the park.”

This year the event is also open to artists who want to design wearable art pieces for one of the four acts.

“There is reclaim, flourish, mystique and raw,” Ms Devine said.

“In the raw section we hope to have an African drummer.”

Students from the Killarney School of Dance and Michelle McMurtrie's belly dance classes will be models.

“People who are skilled in dance and who aren't necessarily in a school can also take part,” Ms Devine said.

Ms Devine said the wearable art event was fitting with the rest of the festival's theme.

“It's not a fashion parade, it is an art performance.

“People will be going to an art event, the only difference is the art isn't hanging on the walls - it's on people, the same way we put the art on trees.”

With Jumpers and Jazz still months away nearly all trees have been nabbed with only 20 remaining.

“All of Palmerin Street has been booked out,” Ms Devine said.

Tickets for La Pompa are already on sale with two performances on Saturday, July 18 at 10am and 2pm.

“We will allow for 220 seats per performance,” Ms Devine said.

Tickets are $10 for adults and $5 for children and can be purchased from the Warwick Art Gallery.