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Bankstown Arts Centre

Locality: Bankstown, New South Wales

Phone: +61 2 9707 5400

Address: 5 Olympic Parade 2200 Bankstown, NSW, Australia

Website: cb.city/artscentre

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25.01.2022 ‘Dyerren Dyerren Dragon Tree’ is a new work by longtime collaborators, Alison Clouston and Boyd for #bankstownbiennale. Using an Australian native cypress and steel, Alison has created a snaking serpentine tree, evocative of dragons in mythologies across cultures. The soundtrack, called Djirang (Dharug language meaning the leaves of a tree) has been composed by Boyd using recording of voices chanting the names of the species of animals and plants native to the Bankstown region.

24.01.2022 Missed out on the last Vegetable Plot workshop? Now worries, we're bringing you another dose! Join Aspara-gus and the rest of The Vegetable Plot for a delicious online song and dance workshop!

24.01.2022 Join Aspara-Gus and The Vegetable Plot for a delicious online song and dance workshop!

23.01.2022 Bankstown Biennale artists Selina Springett and Ale Berini are transforming the Incubate Studios into a sprouting garden! Thanks to those who came out to the studios to make their very own terracotta pots. These will be fired in the kiln at Bankstown Arts Centre and will become the beds for plant babies that will be sprouted from seeds and grown in the studios during Bankstown Biennale in October.

23.01.2022 Bankstown Biennale artists, Ilaria Vanni & Alexandra Crosby, discuss their work, ‘Mapping Edges.’ Mapping Edges uses a self-guided zine map filled with six invitations to care for and make allies with plants in our everyday life, and to make more meaningful connections with city ecologies.

23.01.2022 Calling all kids, families, foodies and groovies - it’s time to raise some soil, shake your stems and twist and sprout with the freshest, funnest, funkiest bunch in town: @thevegetableplotband! Join Aspara-gus and the rest of The Vegetable Plot for a delicious free online song and dance workshop on 12 September. You'll learn how to dance the ‘Spanish Onion’ and the ‘Zucchini break-dance.’

22.01.2022 We sat down with artist Glenn Locklee to discuss his works in his current show 'Urban Fragments,' online now and at Bankstown Arts Centre. Glenn describes the process and local inspiration behind one of his paintings, using Google maps and his memory of tracing Salt Pan Creek to the Georges River. You can listen to the interview on our Soundcloud or whilst touring the 360 degree online gallery! bit.ly/2EywMpN

21.01.2022 Our friends at Urban Theatre Projects are excited to announce the launch of M'ap Boulé by Nancy Denis. Presented online from 21 - 25 September, this major new online work is a summoning and a worshipping of ancestors a journey through fire, pain, ash and becoming. M’ap Boulé Home is where I lay is a play with songs telling the story of a child of immigrant parents growing up in Australia finding her identity. It explores the story of the first black-led republic of Haiti and the personal narrative of a Haitian-Australian woman living on Gadigal land in Waterloo. Tickets on sale now!

18.01.2022 @TheVegetablePlot presents a funky fresh soundtrack to the food revolution for kids, families, and foodies. Join Aspara-gus tomorrow 11am for a delicious (and free) online song and dance workshop!

18.01.2022 Bankstown Biennale artist Jason Wing, discusses his work ‘Covid 17-70.’ Jason’s work is part of a collaboration with Maddison Gibbs and Joan Ross.

17.01.2022 In an effort to expand access and inclusivity, Dance for Parkinson's Australia are piloting three virtual dance classes for Chinese communities in Mandarin. Classes are free and begin tomorrow! Register here: https://bit.ly/2H4xbSB

17.01.2022 As part of our drive to make Bankstown Arts Centre more accessible, we’re providing audio descriptions of Bankstown Biennale works. These beautiful audio descriptions can be accessed via the online gallery, on Soundcloud or by scanning the QR code at the Arts Centre. Audio descriptions provided by Imogen Yang of Insightful. [Image description: Bankstown Biennale logo in orange and red text. A large Gymea Lily in the bottom right corner. Video fades to image of the artwork being described before returning to the logo]

16.01.2022 Bankstown Biennale artist, Bonita Ely, discusses her work, ‘ Not a Drop to Drink: The Cooks River.’ The Cooks River and its tributaries have been, for tens of thousands of generations, the pristine home of Aboriginal people. It is now fed by waste water outlets transporting industries’ waste and toxic plastic litter strewn on suburban streets.

15.01.2022 Bankstown Biennale artist Middison Gibbs, describes her work ‘Wadanggari - Banksia in Dharug,’ part of a collaboration with Jason Wing and Joan Ross.

12.01.2022 Happening Now! The Veggie Plot Song and Dance Workshop Join us via Zoom!

12.01.2022 Bankstown Arts Centre is looking for creative, community-focused TAFE student to join our team! The Arts Trainee role is an opportunity to launch your career into the arts industry in a diverse and supportive community. Applications close 30 September. For more information, please visit Canterbury Bankstown’s position description.

10.01.2022 Want to be part of the Bankstown Biennale and take home your piece of it? Join artists Selina Springett and Ale Berini in one of two workshops, to make terracotta pots in preparation for the upcoming transformation of the Incubate studios. No experience necessary! RSVP for one of the two workshops tomorrow via Eventbrite. See you at the Incubate Studios!

08.01.2022 All of the #bankstownbiennale artists together in one (virtual room)! We’re so excited to work with all of these legends. Bankstown Biennale brings artists together to create work that examines the role of artists in facilitating individual, collective and civic responsibility for our planet’s sustainability. Watch this space! Featuring: Joan Ross, Maddison Gibbs, Nicole Monks, Jason Wing, Alison Clouston and Boyd, Claire Healy and Sean Cordiero, Sarah Anstee, Leah Smith, Aliah Parker, Machiko Motoi, Selina Springett, Alissandro Berini, Bonita Ely, Alexandra Crosby and Ilaria Vanni (Mapping Edges).

06.01.2022 A big thank you goes out to everyone who joined us for The Veggie Plot workshops last weekend! Look out for some exciting fresh tunes from The Vegetable Plot soon!

06.01.2022 Have you visited Glenn Locklee's exhibition ‘Urban Fragments?’ Can’t make it into the arts centre before it closes? Visit the exhibition online! You can view the works in a 360 degree virtual tour and listen to our conversation with Glenn about his inspiration. Urban Fragments closes on 22 September.

05.01.2022 We're now taking enrolments for Term 4! Tickets are available via Eventbrite: https://bit.ly/2RNXazB

05.01.2022 Are you joining us for The Vegetable Plot Song and Dance Workshop today at 11am? Here's a sneak preview featuring- Red Cabbage! Starring Lozz Benson as Red Cabbage Written by Luke Escombe (aka Aspara Gus)

04.01.2022 Stay in tomorrow and veg out with us! Aspara-Gus brings you the best of The Veggie Plot tomorrow at 11am. Join us on Zoom!

02.01.2022 If you joined us for our Sydney Festival production of Black Drop Effect, you’ll know how powerful Nardi Simpson’s writing is. From the creator of Black Drop Effect comes her debut novel, Song of the Crocodile. Get a copy at your local bookshop in September!