Sydney’s most exciting and engaging musicians, artists and cultural activists in performance at Our Place – a one day event at the Australian National Maritime Museum, presented in partnership with Blacktown Arts, as part of Vivid Sydney 2022.

Panel talks and conversations, music, theatre, dance and film: Our Place is a packed program, with stories and songs from First Nations Elders and artists, Filipino classics performed by Sydney Sonata Singers, poetry with Mahdi and Jawad from PYT Fairfield, the sounds of vocal and ukulele ensemble Cook Islands Reo Manea and much more.

Spend a day with some of the most exciting and engaging performing artists and cultural ambassadors in Sydney. Our Place is set to inspire, delight and uplift with live music and dance ensembles, vibrant performances – and two special conversational events.

GATHERING HONEY – stories of family, ceremony, migration and place – a program of short films

See our city through the eyes of Western Sydney’s most exciting artists and filmmakers as they share stories of family, ceremony, migration and place. Featuring works by Uncle Wes Marne, Mustafa al Mahdi, Jagath Dheerasekara, Shivanjani Lal, PYT Fairfield, Agal Dance Company, Curiousworks, Jason Phu, Justine Youssef, Darug Custodian Aboriginal Corporation.

Curated by Blacktown Arts – for full program click here: Gathering Honey

Our Place Panel Talk: Simon Marnie hosts How food shapes Australia
Saturday 18 June 4.00 – 5.00pm

Everybody’s favourite ABC Radio host, Simon Marnie, will host a thought-provoking and illuminating Q&A with a panel of experts, looking at how food has helped shape modern and future Australia – true to the adage: ‘We are what we eat’. From food festivals to celebrity chefs, sustainable farming to meat pies and banh mi, this Q&A explores the ways our foods inform our understanding of who we are as Australians. With Panel members: Keg de Souza, Palisa Anderson, Clarence Slockee, Host and MC, Simon Marnie.

Register here: How Food Shapes Australia 

Our Place Conversation: Mehreen Faruqi and Osman Faruqi on Family, Food and Identity
Saturday 18 June 6.00 – 7.00pm

Mother and son, Greens Senator and Cultural columnist, in conversation – a duo that can lay claim to be one of the most influential in the current cultural, social and political landscape of Australia.
Migrant, engineer, activist, feminist and politician, Dr Mehreen Faruqi is joined on stage by her son, Osman
Faruqi, the Culture News Editor for The Age and Sydney
Morning Herald.

Register here: Family, Food and Identity



Our Place is free

When: 12pm-7pm, 18 June.
Where: 2 Murray Street, Darling Harbour, Sydney

For more information click here