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CuriousWorks Welcome Future Culture 2026 – 2027 Cohort

How do you build a more relevant, equitable, sustainable and future-focused arts culture? You invest time and money in the people; and you create multi-directional opportunities for sharing, learning and …
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Meet the HOLDING SPACE 2026 – Rituals of Reciprocity – Land and Water artists

Please give a warm welcome to the 20 artists, who have been selected for the HOLDING SPACE 2026 – Rituals of Reciprocity – Land and Water program! In response to theme of …
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Future Culture: Artist-in-residence, Cassandra Li – Reflections

On the 18th of June 2025, we wrapped up our first iteration of Future Culture – our pipeline program that embedded two early-career artists (Cassandra Li & Emma Pham) as …
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Future Culture: Arts Worker Interns, Kirsten Maglalang & Kobra Sayyadi – Reflections

On the 18th of June 2025, we wrapped up our first-ever iteration of Future Culture – our pipeline program that embedded two early-career artists (Cassandra Li & Emma Pham) as …
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Future Culture: Artist-in-residence, Emma Pham – Reflections

On the 18th of June 2025, we wrapped up our first-ever iteration of Future Culture – our pipeline program that embedded two early-career artists (Cassandra Li & Emma Pham) as …
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Wrapping up Future Culture 2025

Last week, we wrapped up our program Future Culture and what can we say – the future is indeed BEAMING! Over the past nine months, we have had the privilege of learning …
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Meet the HOLDING SPACE 2025: Rituals of Welcome artists

Our HOLDING SPACE program recently kicked off! On the 5th of May 2025, a few of the selected artists came together to share their own ritual of welcome and collective intention for …
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Introducing the Future Culture 2024-25 Cohort

On February 12th, CuriousWorks had its first Future Culture session of the year based on sharing learnings around community arts and cultural development. It was great to meet and connect …
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An Interview with Artist, CJ Verita | Open Door Days

During our Open Door Days last year, Kiri & Miranda connected with the incredible CJ Verita, who is an artist/writer with spoken word poetry and digital art being her primary mediums. We recently …
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Everything Is Writing: We’re Still Here

Everything is writing. Outlining is writing. Brainstorming is writing. Reading is research, and research is writing! Led by facilitator Miranda Aguilar, this year, Everything is Writing: We’re Still Here is …
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Testing Grounds Has Wrapped Up for 2024

Testing Grounds recently wrapped up for 2024! To celebrate, we took some time out to reflect on what we learned and took from the year. These reflections culminated in these last …
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Crafting Applications: Learnings from the Future Culture Callout

How do you build a more relevant, equitable, sustainable and future-focused arts culture? You invest time and money in the people; and you create multi-directional opportunities for sharing, learning and …
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Let’s give a warm welcome to the Future Culture 2024-25 cohort!

We’re so excited to have these four wonderful individuals join CuriousWorks for the next 9 months! We welcomed Kirsten Maglalang, Kobra Sayyadi, Emma Pham and Cassandra Li into our team …
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Future Culture FAQ

Applications close this Sunday for our program Future Culture! We’re inviting EOIs for the following opportunities to work with CuriousWorks that will run as salaried, casual, fixed-term, one-day-a-week positions from …
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CuriousWorks introduces the 2024 Testing Grounds artists

CuriousWorks is proud to introduce the 2024 cohort of Testing Grounds artists: Addy Fong, Cristobal Olguin & Wendy Qi Zhang.
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FunPark & Western Sydney Mixtape presents The Mixtape

On the 8th of June 2024, FunPark and Western Sydney Mixtape joined to forces to present The Mixtape. Photos by Bryana Fe Wicks Mount Druitt Community Hall was buzzing with …
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Everything Is Writing: A New Workshop Program

Everything is Writing is a series of unserious writing and creativity workshops for adults. Open from April 17th - June 26th - register now!
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Testing Grounds Throwback: Seven Questions with Kim Pham

Kim Pham, a Testing Grounds participant from 2022, answers seven questions about her time with the program.
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2024 Testing Grounds is Back!

Applications are open for the 2024 Testing Grounds program! Applications close Monday, 1 April 11:59PM.
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You’re Invited: Utopia Exhibit

The exhibit for Utopia: Painting for Peace and Cultural Wellbeing is opening 8 March at Bankstown Arts Centre.
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Open Door Policy

CuriousWorks is hosting our second Open Door Days for local creatives to drop in and connect with us on July 1st & 2nd.
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Testing Grounds + Mental Landscapes

Testing Grounds last meeting of the year included reflection and evaluation across the past year and a mental landscape exercise.
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Last Utopia Workshop of the Year

Students from Liverpool Boys and Liverpool Girls have been creating new works at the Utopia workshops.
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CuriousWorks at the 2024 New Beginnings Festival

Artists Ali Resvani, Leila Beigli and Khishkok Abdo will be showcasing new work at the SSI New Beginning's Festival.
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Travelling with Homelands Tour 2023

CuriousWorks partnered with SSI for the Homelands Regional Arts Tour, showcasing artworks from Stories of Welcome and the Refugee Artist Development Program.
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CuriousWorks introduces the 2023 Testing Grounds Artists

CuriousWorks is proud to introduce the 2023 cohort of Testing Grounds artists: Kayla Hill, Nicole Cadelina and Sarah Leigh Carroll.
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Testing Grounds Applications Open Now!

Applications are now open for Testing Grounds, a CuriousWorks creative development and personal mentorship program for early career Western Sydney-based creatives.
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Urban Stories: En Route Celebrates 2022

CuriousWorks held their annual showcase, Urban Stories: En Route, celebrating grassroots and emerging artist projects and programs of 2022.
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Urban Stories: En Route farewells CuriousWorks CEO

Urban Stories: En Route was a celebration of artists, works-in-progress, process, and a farewell to our CEO, Vanessa Hyde.
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Urban Stories: En Route Coming Soon!

CuriousWorks annual end of year showcase, Urban Stories, is coming to Blacktown Arts!