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RECOMMENDS
Vivid Creative Sydney Recommends is a city-wide program of events, exhibitions and performances. We gather Sydney’s best social, cultural and industry events and invite you to explore the creative community on their turf.
AWARENESS MUSCLE
Dates:
9 June - 2 July 2011
Venue:
At the Vanishing Point
Emergency Rooms consider artists as the cultural barometers of society, using creativity to raise important questions. Thierry says that in order to produce any answers we must produce effort. In the same sense that memory can be trained, an acute ...
Marley Dawson: RELAX
Dates:
27 May - 26 June 2011
Venue:
db project
db/tp presents Marley Dawson RELAX. Dawson received a Bachelor of Visual Arts (Hons) and a Masters of Visual Arts from Sydney College of the Arts in 2003 and 2007 respectively. Solo exhibitions include Box of Birds at Roslyn Oxley9, Sydney (20 ...
MEDIUM VINYL 2011
Dates:
20 May - 11 June 2011
Venue:
Hardware Gallery
Medium: Vinyl is an annual celebration of art and the vinyl record. The 2011 exhibition will display across two galleries: Hardware Gallery and Plump Gallery both on Enmore Road, Enmore. Up to 200 artists have been invited to make an artwork ...
No Laughing Matter Comedy Gala
Dates:
5 June 2011
Venue:
The Enmore Theatre
The No Laughing Matter comedy gala aims to raise awareness of suicide and suicide prevention in Australia and support Australia’s only national suicide prevention advocate; Suicide Prevention Australia! A truly amazing and unique line up ...
Together: Roger Foley-Fogg
Dates:
25 May - 12 June 2011
Venue:
Venue in Alexandria
Roger Foley-Fogg’s [aka Ellis D. Fogg] name is synonymous with light. This installation “Together” is made up of three illuminated sculptures - “Sol”, “One World” and “Hot” – and has been ...
BOOK LAUNCH: SEX, GENES & ROCK 'N' ROLL: HOW EVOLUTION HAS SHAPED THE MODERN WORLD
Dates:
10 June 2011
Venue:
Gleebooks
Why are so many people suddenly at risk of obesity? Why are more than 200 million Asian women missing? Why do so many rock stars end up dead at 27? Is there any hope of curbing population growth, rampant consumerism and the environment ...
FUTURE SHORTS ONE
Dates:
11 June 2011
Venue:
Trackdown
THE LARGEST SHORT FILM NETWORK IN THE WORLD Future Shorts is one of the leading and most innovative short film labels. Since 2003, Future Shorts has created a rapidly expanding network that allows filmmakers the opportunity to have their wo ...
H1 @ POPUP
Dates:
28 May - 11 June 2011
Venue:
Popup Parramatta
A group exhibition that specifically concentrates on portraying negative concepts and dark emotive imagery. The artworks that will be displayed will be of a variety of mediums by artists coming from different alternative subcultures from across Sy ...
"Tap Totem" Light Sculpture By Roger Foley - Fogg
Dates:
16 May - 12 June 2011
Venue:
Tap Gallery
60cm x 180cm, LEDs, electronic controller, acrylic Lumino Kinetic - Light Sculpture Installation based on work Fogg did in the late 60s showing at Tap Gallery, Darlinghurst. Three works, Psychedelic Kinetic Mandala #1, #2 and #3 ...
ART MOMENT GALLERY EXHIBITION
Dates:
13 May - 31 July 2011
Venue:
Art Moment Gallery
Art Moment Gallery is situated in the heart of Bondi Beach, the hub of Sydney’s creative talent. Art Moment Gallery presents work of high aesthetic and artistic merit across all media, from painting to photography to work on paper and s ...
When I Grow Up I Want To Be An Artist: tales of sustaining art practice in Sydney
Dates:
6 June 2011
Venue:
Studio 10, FraserStudios
Each year, Performing Artists, Visual Artists, producers and curators graduate from schools and educational institutions around Sydney to discover the sometimes harsh reality of being an artist in this city. As part of Creative Sydney’s frin ...
Love Street Bandits, FEAT. SOFLES, FINTAN MAGEE & SCOTT MARSH
Dates:
2 June 2011
Venue:
lo-fi collective
Some of Brisbane and Sydney’s finest come together to bring you an exhibition showcasing the times, trials, & misdemeanors of three dysfunctional roommates living down the dusty end of Brunswick street. Love street bandits is the col ...
Rizzeria screen printing workshop
Dates:
28 May 2011
Venue:
The Papermill
The Rizzeria allows users produce temporary “silk-screens” for a few dollars, a ludicrously cheap method of screen printing. This workshop will explore screen printing on fabric and paper and participants will take home tea towels or p ...
Etsy Craft Party 2011
Dates:
10 June 2011
Venue:
Eagle Soup Studio
Last year Etsy threw its first international Craft Party, with over 500 craft clubs held across the world on the same day. This year, join the global Etsy community and attend Sydney’s very own Etsy Craft Party. Hosted by the ...
ONCE WAS A FIELD By Chrissie Ianssen
Dates:
13 May - 17 June 2011
Venue:
Parramatta Artists Studios
Sydney is seen as a society of fragmentation; suburban spaces are seen to have nothing to offer culturally. Chrissie Ianssen however identifies rich historical and cultural references jammed up against one another in suburban plot after subur ...
Andrew Liversidge: FORMULAS WORK OUT BODIES GO UNDER
Dates:
27 May - 26 June 2011
Venue:
db project
db is proud to present Andrew Liversidge FORMULAS WORK OUT BODIES GO UNDER Liversidge's recent works; FOR THE AVOIDANCE OF DOUBT (QUID PRO QUO AND THE GOLDEN TORPOR) and Man In Space (Blanket) will be presented in both ...
SIXTY KILOGRAMS
Dates:
26 May - 12 June 2011
Venue:
MOP
Whalen’s performance for this exhibition at MOP Sixty Kilograms will feature a live piece staged in the gallery space. Like her earlier works it addresses both the mundane and the ritualistic, in this case based on ‘60kg’ t ...
FRAME BY FRAME
Dates:
28 May - 12 June 2011
Venue:
Assemblage Studios
What do Brendan Fletcher (Mad Bastards), Yoram Gross (Blinky Bill), David Russel (Star Wars: Return of the Jedi), Tom Zubrycki (Temple of Dreams), Tim Pyman (Happy Feet) and Christine Olsen (Rabbit-proof Fence) have in common? Aside ...
When Good Curators Go Bad
Dates:
26 May - 12 June 2011
Venue:
MOP
If you stop creating do you stop being an artist? Are years of study wasted if you don't go on to have an arts practice? Can you be an artist and curator at the same time? Without being sentimental the exhibition framework for When Good Curato ...
A4 PAPER FESTIVAL
Dates:
31 May - 5 June 2011
Venue:
The Papermill
Introducing the highly anticipated A4 Paper Festival - an event unique to Sydney, Australia and solely dedicated to the uses of print and paper. It will offer audiences insight in contemporary developments with paper, by means of groundbreaking ex ...
IF TALKS: FUTURE SHOCK
Dates:
9 June 2011
Venue:
White Horse Hotel
IF is about people that inspire more action, better ideas, and new ways of seeing the world. The impact you have in your life is shaped by the people you meet. We simply seek to accelerate that process by putting together an inspiring panel of ...