Visual art - SAMAG

A Shared Table

Fri, 08 Mar 2024 05:00:00 +0000

Back for its second year, A Shared Table is a celebration of women, art, and culture through the universal language of food. This special event, presented in partnership with Lane Cove Council, brings together artists to share a dish of personal significance while exploring stories of culture, family, and artistic practice. This year, we invite you to take a seat at the table with a selection of contemporary artists (tba) as they present dishes that […]

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Untangling Insurance

Wed, 26 Feb 2025 02:00:00 +0000

Insurance cover is a necessary but often overwhelming undertaking that adds to the administrative burden carried by independent artists and arts workers. In a 101 session presented by NAVA and SAMAG, industry experts, Cover for Creatives, and artist Nadia Odlum will begin to untangle issues around risk, liability and coverage. While Nadia brings an artist’s perspective to the landscape of insurance, Cover for Creatives will speak to NAVA’s new and improved insurance package in further […]

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Lunar New Year at 4A

Wed, 29 Jan 2025 07:30:00 +0000

SAMAG invites you to welcome the Year of the Snake at 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art on January 29 2025 from 6.30pm. Join us for a relaxed evening of drinks, nibbles, and Lunar New Year fun with SAMAG members and friends.

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Weaving with Malima

Sat, 09 Nov 2024 00:30:00 +0000

Learn traditional weaving in this immersive Aboriginal weaving workshop with Malima. Led by Dharawal woman Vicki from the La Perouse Aboriginal Community, you will learn two traditional weaving techniques passed down through generations. This hands-on experience offers a unique opportunity to connect with Dharawal culture, history, and storytelling through weaving. In this introduction to weaving session, you will leave with new skills and a deeper understanding of Dharawal culture and respect for Country. Facilitators Vicki […]

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Beyond Paint and Sip

Tue, 08 Oct 2024 07:00:00 +0000

Gathering to discuss the state of life over a creative practice has long had benefits for communities, from ‘stitch ‘n bitch’ social knitting circles to the more recent emergence of ‘paint and sip’ commercial offers for friend groups. Whilst these play an important role in providing creative outlets in social settings, art has a deeper role in both understanding mental health and providing therapeutic pathways. Mental wellbeing is key to a resilient and vibrant arts […]

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A tour of Chau Chak Wing Museum with Katrina Liberiou Copy

Tue, 12 Dec 2023 05:00:00 +0000

Book Ticket via Eventbrite here* Please join us next week for a tour at Sydney University’s Chau Chak Wing Museum and some refreshments afterward. 2023 has been a year of learning and contemplation for SAMAG and we are looking forward to easing into the holiday period with some art and connection. Katrina Liberiou, Assistant Curator, will show us: Photography and the Performative – An exhibition exploring the intersection between photography and performance. Nyctinasty – A […]

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A Shared Table

Fri, 08 Mar 2024 06:30:00 +0000

Book Ticket via Eventbrite here We invite you to share a table with artists Julia Gutman, Jillian Kayrooz and Justine Youssef, who will each present a dish that holds personal significance for them. Through the medium of food, artists will narrate aspects of their personal, artistic and cultural journeys and swap stories of culture, family and community. This experience will be followed by informal drinks and the opening of Uneven Terrain: Surveying the Landscape (curated […]

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A New Sector: Transforming Working in the Arts

Sat, 23 Sep 2023 01:00:00 +0000

Book Ticket via Eventbrite here* For the last event of a SAMAG mini series on the theme of transformation we will discuss the changing landscape of professional arts administration and leadership with key voices in the field. Please join facilitator and artist Kalanjay Dhir, the CEO of CuriousWorks – Kiriaki Zakinthinos, Director of Bankstown Arts Centre – Rachael Kiang, and Director of Penrith Regional Gallery – Toby Chapman for a jam-packed, audience-engaged conversation. The discussion […]

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Making Space for Culture

Wed, 16 Feb 2022 07:30:00 +0000

Making Space for Culture: How the city’s cultural and property sectors can help solve the creative space shortage A significant decline in available space for the cultural and creative industries is one of the biggest challenges to cities across the world. Sydney is no exception: we are rapidly losing our creative spaces, pushing the creative economy out of the property market or out of the city altogether. Between 2012 and 2017, the City of Sydney […]

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Innovating Art Through Disability

Mon, 27 Sep 2021 08:00:00 +0000

Innovation and creativity go hand in hand, especially in the realm of arts and culture.
Creativity needs to be constantly shape-shifting to ensure the work produced by artists remains compelling and relevant. Join four of NSW’s leading voices in arts and disability, as they explore how people with disability are changing the culture of creativity. Discover their exciting new approaches and projects as well as those of other local and international practitioners. Find out about the latest research around creative accessibility for artists and audiences with disability.

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