Warm up this winter with Blacktown Arts!

First Nations Elders return to Friday mornings for Elders in Residence and Art and Yarn in the Winter School Holidays.

Get insight into the Blacktown City Art Collection with Raw Records: Materials in Practice, guest curated by Annie Areum Shin, celebrate homegrown artists with Arabic Treasures by Raneen Shamon and Bread and Longing by Stan Florek. Explore memory and cosmos with Parramatta Artists’ Studios at The Unseen.

Be immersed in movement with Woman’s Work by Dance Makers Collective, and discover local and newly arrived artists at Winter Music with Settlement Services International (SSI).

Make yourself at home and catch the encore season of Blacktown Shorts Film Festival, and see a selection of homemade films from the 2022 SmartFone Flick Fest. Plus, if you’re a young person interested in filmmaking or want to expand your TikTok skills, join the SmartFone FlickFest team for Introduction to Smartphone Filmmaking workshops.

Inspired? Get hands on with Making.

Learn from exhibiting artists Stan Florek and Raneen Shamon at one-off Still Life Drawing and Storytelling Through Collage workshops, and celebrate International Zine Month at a Zine Making with Priyanka Bromhead of ‘we are the mainstream’.

In the Winter School Holidays, collage with Muruwari artist Dr Virginia Keft at Colours of Country, and make a Quirky Koala in a video workshop with Skye Andrew.

And that’s just the tip of the iceberg!