Art & About Sydney 2021 program⁠ Apply now!⁠ ⁠

Art & About Sydney is looking for big ideas that will temporarily transform public and unusual spaces in the City of Sydney local area. ⁠
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They are seeking creative projects that engage, surprise, delight, and inspire Sydneysiders.⁠
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Ideas and proposals from all art disciplines are welcome. With a focus on art in unusual places, their year-long calendar of projects is part of realising the City of Sydney’s Cultural Policy and Action Plan.⁠
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This is an open call for proposals from local, interstate, first nations, and international artists. You don’t have to be an Australian citizen or permanent resident to apply.⁠
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Find out more here:⁠
www.artandabout.com.au/expressions-of-interest/⁠
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@cityofsydney⁠
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Image: Jonathan Jones, 'untitled (maraong manaóuwi)', Art & About 2020. Credit: James Horan⁠

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Introducing our New Access Consultant for Brand X

Brand X welcomes professional theatre director Dan Graham to the newly created position of Access Consultant. Dan will convene and lead an Access Panel of professional artists with a disability to audit Brand X and recommend accessibility improvements, guided by an Inclusion Action Plan which will set targets to ensure the organisation is inclusive for all professional artists in Sydney.
BORN OF A LIGHTBULB IT SEEMED (on-demand)

Recording of live performance on 8/5/21 at The Flying Nun, Darlinghurst

A woman lives alone, restless for expression. Staving off loneliness in a world clinging to the idea of Noah's ark where we must all travel to our deaths two-by-two, she begins to anthropomorphise objects in her house, until she finds the one. Is it a dissociative breakdown, or is it love?

Tickets available for on-demand: $5
Help Brand X continue our work in supporting Sydney artists

Last year, our community generously rallied around Brand X to turn the lights back on after lockdown. With your support, we reopened our rehearsal and performance venues on 1 July 2020 under Covid safe guidelines. DONATE NOW to help Brand X continue our essential work of supporting artists to experiment, innovate and create.
BRAND X IS SEEKING A GENERAL MANAGER

Brand X is seeking a qualified General Manager to join our team during a period of exponential growth. The role will support the day-to-day operations of our facilities while fortifying our work with comprehensive strategies to sustain our growth.

THE HUNGER

Friday 11 June @ 7pm & 9pm
Saturday 12 June @ 7pm & 9pm

A vampire’s human familiar, whose burning desire to be turned becomes all-consuming. The familiar mournfully traverses debris of iconography — a cowboy, a veil, a ghost double — in a futile search for transformation.

Tickets available for $25
Creative Retail Residencies

Brand X invite Visual Artists, Makers and Designers to apply for seed-funding to assist in the manufacturing of a bespoke, fine-grain product to be sold through our online gift shop. By commissioning artists to make new products, our intention is to test new ideas to ascertain market appeal and determine its potential.
TWT Visual Arts Studio – St Leonards

Brand X offers affordable, semi-permanent tenancy to visual artists, designers and craft practitioners in open-plan shared spaces and private enclosed studios.
LIMITS

Friday 18 June @ 8pm
Saturday 19 June @ 8pm

A grotesque creature navigating the world through the lens of a stereotypical “hot-body”. A creature trying to live up to the expectations of the world around her, riddled with insecurity and self-hate. Sabotaged by her limitations.

Tickets available for $25
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.
INTRODUCING AUNTY JUDE

Friday 9 July @ 7pm & 9pm
Saturday 10 July @ 7pm & 9pm

Join Aunty Jude on a journey from heartbreak to doing ‘whatever the hell she wants’ as she smashes down other people's expectations in an outrageous midlife debutante ball. A mix of clown, cabaret and the grotesque.

Tickets available for $25
FLYING NUN PERFORMING ARTS RESIDENCY

The Flying Nun is a contemporary performing arts program at the East Sydney Community and Arts Centre in Darlinghurst that supports artists making new work and taking risks.
ESCAC Rehearsal Space - Darlinghurst

Rehearsal space for hire in Darlinghurst, Sydney for Performing Artists, Dance, Theatre practitioners preparing for production, training or building their creative practice as well as being a venue suitable for performances, events, 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.
THE SUCKER

Friday 25 June @ 7pm & 9pm
Saturday 26 June @ 7pm & 9pm

Flying Nun favourites are back with their irreverent and hilarious brand of experimentation in a shiny new show filled with props and effects to smash the uncanny and the mundane. Promising some sick visuals for guaranteed LOL results. Not to be missed.

Tickets available for $25