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CuriousWorks and Sydney Opera House present TENDER | Opening Night Highlights

The opening night of Tender was the epitome of how art connects us in myriad ways. There’s a special magic in how it brings us together – sparking awe, conversations, tears, and …
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CuriousWorks at the Other Worlds Zine Fair

CuriousWorks shared Handle with Care at the 2022 Other Worlds Zine Fair.
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Handle With Care: Creating Through Lockdown

Handle With Care is an experimental workshop series where artists explore concepts of healing, thriving and power through art-making.
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Pride and Youth at Let Me Know When You Get Home

Let Me Know When You Get Home celebrates Western Sydney youth, LGBTQI+ pride and radical optimism.
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Bring Young People to the Theatre

Donate a theatre ticket and bring a young person to their first show! EDIT: WE REACHED OUR GOAL!
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Make Yourself At Home… Now Online

CuriousWorks launches Make Yourself At Home, an online experience where audiences explore the rooms and perspectives of artists in quarantine.
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Celebrating Samia and Shawn on #IDPWD 2020!

Curious Creators Samia Halabi and Shawn Spina had their Screenability films invited to be part of ABC iView's #IDPWD Digital Collection.
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Rituals at FCMG Launch

On December 6th, we launched the RITUALS exhibit at Fairfield City Museum and Gallery.
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Award-Winning Short Film the Face of the Wide Angle Film Festival

Shawn Spina's short film, Prone to the Drone, continues to touch hearts and make an impact.
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Prone to the Drone back at Fairfield

This week, Shawn Spina was invited to speak and share his short film, Prone to the Drone, at Fairfield RSL  for the Hume Housing Annual General Meeting. Shawn Spina spoke …
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CuriousTV! Launches at Flicker Fridays

CuriousTV! premiered on the Big Screen at Crescent Plaza Fairfield for Flicker Fridays.
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CuriousWorks heading to Canberra and Russia

While Prone to the Drone is heading across NSW and Canberra, Laka is heading to Russia for the Barents Ecology Film Festival.
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Making to Creating

What's the difference between 'making' and 'creating'? Shawn Spina reflects on the (sometimes scary, sometimes exciting) differences between helping someone make a project and creating your own project.
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The Audacity to Expect What You Deserve

"I must be spoiled. How else could I have the audacity to write something so niche – a play for queer young people of colour in Western Sydney – and …
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Not All Those Who Wander Are Lost

Andrea Beeten reflects on the trouble of finding the right work/life balance as an emerging artist.
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Public Play Reading at PYT

Let Me Know When You Get Home had its next creative development at PYT Fairfield. It culminated in its first, full-length public play reading.
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Sydney Film Festival Highlights

Prone to the Drone premiered at Sydney Film Festival in early June, and it was a whirlwind of a month.
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Prone to the Drone at Sydney Film Fest

Shawn Spina's short film, Prone to the Drone, is premiering at Sydney Film Festival this June.
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Long Table – Homeland Play Reading

Let Me Know When You Get Home has had its next creative development and public reading back in Penrith as part of The Q Theatre's Long Table - Homeland month.
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PLAYLIST 2019

Associate artist Miranda Aguilar had her work included in this year's Mardi Gras season with the inclusion of her work, Let Me Know When You Get Home at PLAYLIST 2019. …
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Las Rosas Parties in Casula & Blacktown Arts Centre

After all the hard work, the CuriousWorks team and our Curious Creators have finally released our webseries Las Rosas - Western Sydney's first telenovela online. We had our official launch …
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Miranda Aguilar – Writer in Residence

Miranda Aguilar had a four-day creative development at Joan Sutherland Performing Arts Centre to work on her latest play Let Me Know When You Get Home, with tremendous support from …
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Laka Launch at Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre

Join us at Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre for the opening on July 28th, where the exhibition, shown for the first time in its entirety, will be accompanied by a special …
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Flashback to Cambodia & Into the Closet

Sean Ly’s short documentary about his parents’ refugee journey from Cambodia to Cabramatta will be travelling the other way next month after being accepted into the Kampot Writers and Readers …
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Riz Film Music Available Now

Kurinji have released the soundtrack they created for Riz – our debut feature premiering at the Sydney Film Festival this weekend.
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Riz Returns for Western Sydney Premiere

Riz rocked at the Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre last night, as our debut feature film returned for its first screening in the region that inspired it.
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Riz has World Premiere at Sydney Film Festival

The incredible success story of our debut feature film, Riz, came to fruition last night as this ground-breaking western Sydney coming-of-age story had its world premiere at a Sydney Film …
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On the Riz Set With Our Curious Creators

How did an enthusiastic, but inexperienced, gang of aspiring film-makers end up with a debut feature at this year’s Sydney Film Festival?
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See the Story Behind Riz

Cast and crew shed light on why they think our first feature film, Riz, makes an important contribution to modern Australian cinema in this three-minute video.
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Debut Film Success for Western Sydney

A debut shoestring-budget film about life growing up in Sydney’s multicultural western suburbs will feature alongside the best and most innovative world cinema after Riz was selected yesterday for next …