Monthly programs across June 2024 - May 2025
Artist-2-Artist
A program of peer-to-peer training for artists and creatives to build the practical skills required to work as a freelance multidisciplinary professional. The program aims to foster self-reliance and self-determination for the sector by skill-sharing technical knowledge in different fields of the creative industry.
Fee/Cost: ARTIST PASS holders receive workshops for free and $25 for non-artist pass holders.
Current curated Facilitators and Dates:
Key Funding: Artist-2-Artist has been assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its arts funding and advisory body.
you’re okay
An art activation space in the foyer and front window of the City of Sydney Creative Studios. The space brings contemporary and experimental digital, performance and installation art directly to the busy footpath of Bathurst Street and the daily city commuters.
Showcasing local, national and the studio's in-residence talent, you're okay offers uncommon and unconventional art to take you out of your everyday.
Exhibition length: 3-4 months per artist or collective
Foyer opening hours: 7 am – 3 pm Monday - Friday; closed Saturday and Sundays.
Front window opening hours: 24 hours, 7 days/week.
Upcoming Artists/Exhibits and Dates:
Foyer: 20th June - 20th September: Abby Murray
Front Window: 26 July - 16 Oct, 2024: Feras Shaheen and David Prakash
Key Funding: you're okay has been assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its arts funding and advisory body; and is supported by the City of Sydney.
Residencies across June 2024 - May 2025
Scene Shift Residency ProgramCad Factory and Brand XJuly, 2024 + December, 2024Applications are now closed
The Cad Factory (Narrandera) and Brand X (Sydney) are committed to a rural and urban flow of artistic exchange and learning. This residency program gives a regional artist studio space in the Sydney CBD and gives a Sydney artist studio space in rural NSW.
The residencies will allow artists to connect with different communities, build industry connections and give time and space to develop work. It is a self-led and self-determined residency where artists can explore their practice within a different context. The aim of the program is to have meaningful dialogue between the art ecologies of regional and metropolitan NSW.
Brand X will host regional artists in their City of Sydney Creative Studios.
The Cad Factory will host Sydney artists in their recording studio.
Key Dates: July 2024 and December 2024
1st exchange: 08 July 24 - 21 July 24
2nd exchange: 2 - 16 December 24
Key Artist/s: Harriet Gillies (Sydney) and Scott Baker (Bermagui)
Key Funding: This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its arts funding and advisory body; and is supported by the NSW Government through Create NSW.
Petite SuiteSeptember 30 - October 4, 2024 - DATES TBCApplications open mid-2024
Petite Suite unleashes 7 artists on the Ace Hotel, Sydney – providing space for creativity to breathe new life and audiences to discover the secrets held within the walls of their favourite haunt.
True to Brand X’s mission, Petite Suite brings together artists and local infrastructure to foster new connections and creative outcomes for the community.
In 2024 seven artists/or collectives will occupy seven hotel rooms in a mini-residency to create seven minute experiences for intimate audiences. The structure of the program is fluid, allowing for the creation of diverse works which may respond to the hotel and its surroundings or a non-literal interpretation of the site.
Across one-hour sessions, audiences are invited to explore the hotel and the stories held
behind each door. The audience journey is facilitated by a host (think exuberant stage manager) who supports artists and guides the audience between spaces. The foyer is a high energy conduit between rooms, providing playful reprieve before audiences are encapsulated in the world behind each door.
Brand X curates 7 artists with experience in self-devised, site-specific performance installation and visual installation via an EOI to Petite Suite: a site-responsive residency program taking place at the Ace Hotel Sydney.
Key Artist/s: TBA via a callout process 7 artists will be selected.
Key Dates:
Location: The Ace Hotel, Sydney
The Flying Nun by Brand X Season 9OCT 2024 - MARCH 2025Applications for Season 9 are now closed
Brand X’s contemporary performance residency – The Flying Nun.
The Flying Nun is a space to embrace risk, inviting artists to explore experimental and innovative concepts and formats to push their own practice and audience experience.
The program supports new projects in the late stages of development, or existing projects undergoing significant re-development.
Performances will run for approximately 1 hour and include a range of disciplines including theatre, contemporary performance, dance, movement, physical and visual theatre, spoken word, live music and interdisciplinary art.
Program runs from October 2024 - March 2025
Key Artist/s: TBA
Key Funding: This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its arts funding and advisory body; is supported by the NSW Government through Create NSW; and The City of Sydney.
Programs Lead: Charlotte Otton
The Mill Residency Exchange (Part of The Flying Nun Season 9 Program)March 10 - 15, 2025Applications are now closed
Partnership with Brand X and The Mill (Adelaide) to present at The Flying Nun (Sydney).
The Mill is excited to be partnering with Brand X to present the second The Mill / Brand X Residency: an open project development and presentation platform available to South Australian performing artists working with contemporary culture.
The residency supports an artist/s or project to develop and show new or existing work and then take that work interstate for further development, presentation and networking opportunities.
The Residency begins at The Mill for 2-3 weeks, later followed by a 2-week residency and performance season at Brand X's The Flying Nun program.
In 2024/25 The Kinetik Collective will be presenting My Hair is Thinning is a new work by emerging South Australian playwright Anthony Nocera, directed by Clara Solly-Slade.
My Hair is Thinning is a darkly funny story about hair regrowth, navigating grief and learning to make peace with things that feel irreconcilable: genetics, death, who we fall in love with and the manner with which it happens.
Performing Arts Creative Development ResidencyCity of Sydney Creative StudiosNovember 12 - Dec 7 2024Applications are now closed
The program provides projects with time to play in a rehearsal space without the pressure of an outcome. It affords artists time to be brave and innovate within their practice, to bolster bold independent, experimental work and to strengthen future opportunities.
The City of Sydney Creative Studios Creative Development Residency will support projects with 1 or 2 weeks in our Level 2 rehearsal spaces.
Projects will receive a $1200 (solo) or $1700 (group) stipend each week they are in residency – covering costs such as engaging technical support and equipment, purchasing materials, working with collaborators or paying artist fees.
Depending on the rehearsal space, you may be required to bump-out into a storage space at the end of each day.
Projects will have access to Brand X equipment (on request and if available), wifi, storage, kitchenette and bathrooms with showers.
As part of the residency, artists will meet for a few hours on Saturday 9th November and Thursday 12th December to share ideas, goals and outcomes.
Residencies occur through November and December 2024
Programs Lead: Ian Sinclair
Multi Arts LaboratoryFebruary - May 2025 (TBA)
The Multi Arts Laboratory is a process-led, flexible and collaborative-model residency for creatives who work in more than one area of practice, across multiple artforms or beyond artforms (social, community group, science, advocacy) to create a new or further a developing dream project.
The Multi Arts Laboratory brings together emerging-established visual, performance, craft, sound, digital and socially-engaged artists in side-by-side creation, hybridity and community at the City of Sydney Creative Studios.
A self-directed, tailor-made 50-hour residency and ‘sharing’ sessions over three-four months, for 4 x artists (solo, duo or group) who work across or unite sound, visual, media, digital, performance and/or social practice.
With access to all CoSCS high-quality facilities, from painting studios to post-production suites, guided by either a selected or provided ‘provocateur’, artist fees, stipend, 2 x group ‘milestone’ sessions, industry showing and high-quality documentation.
The Multi Arts Laboratory aims to be a process-focused experience in which each project/artist collaborates with Brand X and the Multi-Arts cohort in formats tailored to their unique needs across early 2025.
This residency provides a holistic, build-block approach and unites sharing, time and play within our state-of-the-art venue and its resources for professional 4 x multidisciplinary practitioners (solo, duo or group). This pilot program has been curated by Brand X for this year.
Residencies occur at CoSCS Feb - June 2025.
Key Artist: TBA
Key Funding: This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its arts funding and advisory body.
GROUND ZEROApril - May 2025Applications open early 2025
Created for and led by artists with lived experience of disability. This lab and short works accessible performance season offers 5 contemporary performance artists time and support to create first draft, or further develop short works, with a showcase public presentation. With mentorship from Live Artist Eugenie Lee, CoSCS and ESCAC space, artist fees, stipend, access bursary and documentation.
Ground Zero is for artists living with disability, deaf, hard of hearing and/or neurodiversity working in performing arts.
5 projects will be selected from an EOI/ Callout process.
Each project will develop and perform a short 10-15 minute work for accessible performance.
The residency includes:
You can apply as an individual or a group.
The successful artists will have their residency in three stages:
Development, Rehearsal and Performance.
Stage 1 is development
This stage is up to 10 hours in a rehearsal studio at City of Sydney Creative Studios.
This time is flexible and can be used in a block or on different days.
Stage 2 is rehearsal
This stage is done as a group with all selected artists coming together for rehearsal week. There will be facilitators to support everyone during the week including professional artists with lived experience of disability.
During this week there will be times when all artists must be present but a lot of the week will be flexible.
The location is East Sydney Community Arts Centre at 34 Burton St. Darlinghurst.
Stage 3 is the performance
All 5 artists will present their 10-15 minute work in a night of accessible performance.
The performance is at the same location as the rehearsal, East Sydney Community Arts Centre in Darlinghurst.
Location: City of Sydney Creative Studios and East Sydney Community Arts Centre