Occasional Writing is a three-hour expansive writing workshop facilitated by Rachel Schenberg and Toyah Webb.
Prita Tina Yeganeh
My Soil Farsh فرش (Carpet) expresses the profound experience of placemaking through transforming and innovating a cultural object. For Prita Tina Yeganeh, the connection stems from the cultural values and rituals of kinship and community-building deeply embedded in the familial environment that nurtured her sense of belonging as a child.
Join us from 6-8pm on Friday 31 May for the opening of four new exhibitions at Firstdraft.
Join us from 5-7pm on Saturday 6 April for the opening of four new exhibitions at Firstdraft.
Join us from 2-4pm on Saturday 10 February for free artist talks with the artists of our February/March exhibitions; Charles Levi, Corey Black, Amanda Bennetts and Vedika Rampal.
Join us for our FIRST Exhibition Openings of 2024 featuring four new exhibitions by Charles Levi, Corey Black, Amanda Bennetts and Vedika Rampal.
Vedika Rampal
To be post-Partition, is simultaneously to be post-colonial. Yet the wounds of Empire still infiltrate and seep through folds of diasporic and intergenerational memory today.
Corey Black
You Won’t Believe The Snap In Your Throat examines the processes of digestion at the locus of industrial and post-industrial fabrication methods.
Amanda Bennetts
I feel the weight of the minute as I bend my body towards the clock is a multimedia installation examining time and the labour of self-care for the disabled and ill body.
A night of live artworks, performances and installations, co-developed by Firstdraft and Arab Theatre Studio in partnership with Art Month Sydney.
An international commissioning project supported by the Keir Foundation, co-developed by Firstdraft and Beirut Art Center.
For the month of December, interdisciplinary artist, writer and community organiser Julia Bavyka will be in-residence at Firstdraft developing new episodic dream-texts.
Soft Power is an online exhibition featuring a suite of new commissions by eight artists and writers, each exploring what is obscured and nullified in emergent and established systems of power.
Five new commissions by Tom Blake, Jazz Money, Amy Claire Mills, Athena Thebus and Leo Tsao, presented at Carriageworks.
