ARTIST PASS

BANNER IMAGE: WHITE RHINO ARTSPACE (2019) PHOTO BY MEG HEWITT

Our Artist Pass scheme is a loyalty program which affords artists heavily-subsidised hire of our spaces, free skills development training programs, priority access to our residencies, discounted tickets to our Flying Nun shows and opportunities to promote your skills, work and outcomes through our website. Use your login to access these benefits.

An Artist Pass supports Brand X as a not for profit organisation for 12-months.

To apply for an Artist Pass, you must identify as a professional performing, recording or visual artist (emerging or established). Please complete the application form and submit.

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Applications open for City Of Sydney's business support grants

Funding is still available for "Live Music and Performance" and "Night-Time Diversification" projects. The opportunity to apply for City Of Sydney's business support grants is open until 9 March 2020.
LAST MINUTE BOOKING DISCOUNTS

We are testing a new text message service for performing artists who wish to make use of vacant rehearsal space when a last-minute cancellation is received. First-in responses can receive a 50% discount for their hire of otherwise vacant space. Register here!
Flying Nun artist Tommy Misa talks about gentrification and queer nightlife at ARCHER MAGAZINE

Ahead to his new show "THEY TOOK ME TO A QUEER BAR", Tommy Misa writes about gentrification and queer nightlife through his own experience since he moved to Sydney from Canberra when he was 18 years old.
Tour Ready - Learn how to package your show so its tour-ready with Kate Gaul

In this session, Kate Gaul will give you the knowledge to get your production seen again (and again) with another season or with a tour. A2A Training by Brand X is a free program for Artist Pass holders ($25 for general public) of peer-to-peer training for artists to build the practical skills required to work as a freelance multidisciplinary professional in Sydney.

The Flying Nun Season 5 is your antidote to the ordinary!

Brand X’s performance showcase is back again with our 5th season. 13 new performance projects will take over the space at the East Sydney Community & Arts Centre during the weekends from January till May 2020. Tickets on sale for only $25 (or $20 if you hold a current Artist Pass subscription).
DELILAH BY THE HOUR

Sat 7 Mar at 8pm

You know the story: Samson and Delilah. Hair, eye gouging, bargains with Philistines - a secret divulged, for a price. Delilah by the Hour is a biblically charged interrogation of the economics of attention, identity fetishism and our cultural obsession with dangerous women. Tickets available for $25
ProtoSHOP: Our original Gift Shop

The ProtoSHOP by Brand X is a unique showcase of first-run curiosities made by local artists as "experiments" to test market appeal. Brand X's unique Gift Shop is where you have the opportunity to find the perfect present for those who love to be original.
Performing Arts Spaces

Brand X offer rehearsal spaces for theatre, music, film and dance practitioners across Sydney. These venues are specifically designed to cater for the needs of Performing Artists to develop their practice, make new work or prepare for production and presentation on stage or screen.

Performing arts residency

The Flying Nun program at the East Sydney Community and Arts Centre (ESCAC) in Darlinghurst, Sydney showcases outcomes from our performing arts residencies alongside local fringe performance that otherwise wouldn’t see the light of day. Application rounds happen twice yearly. Risk Everything.
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The Flying Nun

Celebrating the fringe, alternative and local contemporary counter-culture, come and be the first audience to witness new performance work fresh out of the rehearsal room and by doing so, support Independent Artists to propel their work on to stages across Sydney.
The Power of the Holy Spirit: Best Experimental

Harriet Gillies has been awarded the "Best Experimental Show" at the 2019 Melbourne Fringe Festival for her new work "The Power of the Holy Spirit" coming to The Flying Nun for 2 nights in November (15 & 16).
Opportunity: Spaces for Visual Artists and Creative Business

Brand X recently had openings for Visual Artist studios, office space, desk space for Creative Business and Visual Artists at St Leonards. All spaces have access to shared kitchen and Bathroom,NBN wifi, 24/7 access. Affordable spaces for Artists.
Short Term Empty Property

The City of Sydney and Brand X match properties available on a temporary basis with short term creative projects including creative working studios, exhibition space, creative retail and temporary office space for project work.
TWT Rehearsal Space - St Leonards

Rehearsal Space for hire in St Leonards Sydney for companies and ensembles preparing for production. The space is perfect for performance work in production or for casual hire for classes and workshops.
What is Brand X?

Brand X is a not-for-profit arts organisation run by Artists for Artists who are in the business of making space for Artists by re-purposing under-utilised properties in Sydney so performing, recording and visual art communities can practice their craft.
Brand X resident artist Tina Fox, finalist at the Woolahra Small Sculpture Prize

Woolahra Small Sculpture Prize Exhibition is on until 3 November at Woolahra Council Chambers. Brand X resident Artists Tina Fox is part of this year exhibition as a finalist.
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