Ghosts in the Kitchen Opening and Performance
Friday 17 October, 6 pm to 9 pmThis event has ended. Join us in celebration of the opening of Ghosts in the Kitchen with an evening of First Nations performance, dance, poetry and music.
Spring 2025
See the world from an Indigenous Australian and Oceanic First Nations peoples’ perspective, with the group exhibition Ghosts in the Kitchen: Food, Memory, and Resistance in First Nations Australia guest curated by Rebecca Ray.
Kids can get in on the fun too with Little Spirits in the Kitchen, a set of hands-on making workshops for school holidays led by First Nations artist, Merindah Funnell.
Our much loved and celebrated 2025 Blacktown Shorts Film Festival is back! Premiering again at the iconic Sydney Opera House, 3 filmmakers have been selected to tell their story. Also premiering that evening will be Silver tongues with Morgan Hogg, part of the Shortwave program. commissioned by Sydney Opera House.
And finally, make sure to join us for a celebration of fashion, family-friendly workshops and markets at our Western Sydney Fashion Festival and Pasifika Makers Markets!
Check out the full program and download here!
Image: Lakshmi Bee, Armando Crisostomo and Iki Haangana at The Leo Kelly Blacktown Arts Centre, 2025, photo by Garry Trinh
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Little Spirits in the Kitchen: School Holidays workshops
1 and 8 October, 10.30 am to noonThese workshops have ended. Join us for Little Spirits in the Kitchen, 2 fun-filled workshops unpacking themes from the Ghosts in the Kitchen exhibition.
Shortwave: Silver tongues with Morgan Hogg
Thursday 30 October, 7.30 pm to 9 pmThis event has ended. Silver tongues is an experimental moving image work by Cook Island Australian artist Morgan Hogg.
