Always wanted to learn to paint or make prints, but don’t consider yourself an ‘artist’? Or perhaps you want to pick up where that almost-forgotten fine arts degree left off? …
Creative
We chat to the 20-something creator of blockbuster podcast Millennial about what it takes to get narrative audio off the ground.
New South Wales is the heartland of Australia’s creative industries, hosting 40% of the nation’s creative workers. Around 86% of those live in the Sydney region. Yet data from the …
The world-famous Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras is more than a parade and parties that go all night. There’re plenty of arts and cultural events on offer. Storytelling Drag …
If you’re working on a project that has an arts or cultural focus and could use some cash to get it off the ground, you’re in luck. Until 13 March, …
Get to know the stories behind the selected artworks in our creative hoardings program.
If you want to get an insight into emerging fashion designers, come by 72 Oxford Street in Darlinghurst and pick up new designs from these up-and-comers. Anne de la Motte, …
The wide-ranging public program put together by Head On Photo Festival this year really attests photography as the democratic art form of our time. As well as a major photo …
Since the inception of our rehearsal space program, a bunch of venues across our local area have been getting a workout. Designed to ensure we make use of available space …
Since 1982, Cleveland Street Theatre (formerly Railway Union Hall) has been home for independent contemporary art and performance. For over two decades, it provided affordable venue for Performance Space, which …
The biggest annual event for art lovers is upon us again. There’s no better time than Art Month to discover an emerging artist, become a burgeoning collector and have a …
There has never been a better time to apply for a grant with the City. We’ve overhauled the way our programs are structured, cut down the paperwork and moved the …
The Old Fitzroy Hotel’s intimate cellar theatre has inconspicuously backed emerging Sydney talent since 1997. Determinedly independent, it is a treasure of the Sydney art scene and has seen the …
When it comes to ideas and originality, Tiny Stadiums are local heroes. The annual festival of live art by PACT Centre for Emerging Artists has been infiltrating Erskineville for six …
This year’s BEAMS Arts Festival will be playing with the elusive notion of utopia. The memory of Chippendale’s industrial past is beginning to fade as the precinct materialises its potential …
Our short-term creative tenants are a productive lot. From creating workspace for hardware and prototyping developers, to providing space for artists, we take a look at what’s keeping our residents …
In her other-worldy, atmospheric installations, Lynette Wallworth is said to create, moments of transfiguration that come wholly unlooked for, as puncturing instants of experience…instants of shift that slip in under …
For Booker Prize winning author Thomas Keneally, who began what he describes as his ‘conscious’ life in the bush, Sydney in the late 30s might as well have been New …
In October 2012 we started to formally investigate why live music and performance in Sydney have been under so much pressure. Working with 11 people with robust music policy experience, …
This year’s smart ARTS exhibition, as part of Pine Street’s smart ARTS youth festival, brought together around 80 young artists from across Sydney. Artists between the ages of 15 and …
There’s no shortage of design talent in Sydney, but the reality of running a business can deter talented people just starting out. One of our latest short-term creative tenants, The …
We’re thrilled to announce the six talented artists taking up our very first residential tenancies. In late November last year we did a call out for people working in a …
We’re giving Sydney’s letters some love this month.
We may not have Copenhagen’s magnificent Black Diamond library, or an outdoor collection where the books are catalogued according to the feeling they arouse – but we do have a …
Storytelling and food are longstanding partners in crime (the indestructible prosperity of the cinema snack bar is but one mark of this idyllic union), however we haven’t seen them come …
If you have an idea for a short-term creative project, but your laptop-in-the-dining room or friend’s backyard just isn’t cutting it, share your idea with us and we might have …
If you’re partial to taking voyeuristic adventures through some of the best interiors in the country, you surely know about hugely successful design blog, The Design Files. Just looking at …
Guest Author: John Wardle, Live Music and Live Performance Taskforce chair It’s no secret that live music in Sydney has seen better days. In light of this, a series of …
The cost of rent in Sydney is a justifiably popular conversation topic at the moment. Particularly for artists and others working in a creative field, living in the inner city …
Arresting slow-moving images of an Aboriginal woman draped in cloth are currently being projected onto the grand, 20-metre sandstone façade of the Australian Museum until early 2014. The muted, sepia-toned …
You may have noticed we’re in the midst of a plague. The city’s being overrun (although ‘run’ is probably a bit ambitious!) by gigantic neon snails. But before you reach …
We are in the most important race of the century – a sprint to create a low-carbon city by 2030. Our target is pretty ambitious – a 70% reduction in …
The annual spring event takes art outside the white box confines of a traditional gallery and uses the city’s parks, laneways, squares and railways as canvas. Our hope is that …
Ever thought about what that little green man that blinks you to walk looks like in Dresden or Montreal? The universally rendered ‘man’ is both symbolically identical across the world …
Over the next ten years, our City Centre and George Street in particular, will be transformed through one of the most significant public works projects to occur in Australia in generations. In …
We own a number of properties throughout the city that are ideally suited as workspaces to artists and others working in creative industries. We chat to Amelia Holliday, one half …
Darlinghurst natives would be familiar with the beautiful old Burton Street Tabernacle, sitting on the corner of Burton and Palmer Streets. The church was a favourite place of worship for …