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THE ROCKS POP-UP IS NOW CLOSED

Due to the success of The Rocks Pop-Up project in activating vacant spaces in The Rocks and a decrease in vacant buildings, The Rocks Pop-Up project has now closed and will not be accepting any further applications.

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Black Parrot - Art Room

Black Parrot will exhibiting original work, including paintings and drawings, as well as limited-edition giclee prints by four, established, Sydney-based artists: Anthony Buselli, Andrew Sullivan, Melody Willis and Anthony Springford. With free workshops, talks, and meet the artist events running in the weekends.

14 - 26 Aug at 47 George Street (entry via Atherden Street)

Wed-Sun 11am-6pm

Saturday 15 August 2015 3-5pm

Round-table Discussion 'Are galleries dead?' Are traditional art galleries failing artists and audiences? Join us for a provocative round table with some of the key players shaping the Sydney art scene.

Sunday 16 August 2015 11am-1pm

Family Printmaking Workshop Bring the kids for a fun, hands-on class, and go home with your own lino cut print! Materials and refreshments provided.

Saturday 22 August 2015 2-4pm

Artists in residency Meet the artists on show, and hear what drives and inspires them. Find out about the giclee print-making process, and why Black Parrot's artist have decided to make prints of their original works. Drop by for a chat!

Black Parrot Editions was established to make the best quality, most beautiful and most thoughtfully crafted works of fine art a big part of everyone’s life. 

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greg hits The Rocks

31 July to 11 August,  Mon-Sun 10am-5pm

47 George Street, The Rocks (entrance via 6-8 Atherden Street)

The visual artist simply known as greg will show over 30 of his stunning new photomontages in The Rocks from Friday 31 July 2015.

greg makes the maximum out of the minimum as he saturates his photographs in vivid colour to heighten each other’ effect. He also strips back the composition down to its very bare essentials, eliminating any unwanted detail.

Photographing his subjects exactly 36 times from 36 different perspectives the photographs are then meticulously laid out in a grid to create the final highly stylised geometric abstract work. Created over the last two months on a road trip from Sydney to the Whitsundays, the series features the iconic and the unknown, from Sydney’s Lunar Park to an abandoned tennis court in central Queensland.

With a love of modernist architecture many Sydney buildings feature in greg’s work including Harry Seidler’s Australia Square, Sydney Uni’s Fisher Library and the Reserve Bank and MLC buildings in Martin Place. Nature also features in many of the works, especially trees that are shot from below against the brilliant slab of colour of the wide-open Australian sky.

greg will also be showing a selection of work that he describes as pop-street photography that he shot in Seoul, Hong Kong and Taipei in 2014 that like his photomontages, are saturated in colour.

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There’s something brewing in The Rocks this July

Throughout the month you can see an evolving artwork painted in coffee and a photography exhibition of local coffee makers and appreciators, join a latte art workshop, and win more than $3,000 worth of prizes, including a Breville Oracle® Espresso Machine, by voting for your favourite brew in the Aroma Cup.

See it all and much more as roasters grind, baristas pour, milk froths, machines whirr, music drifts and thousands of cups are filled, sampled and sipped at the main event on Sunday 26 July.

Take the time to enjoy everything you love about coffee at The Rocks Aroma Festival. #AromaFestival #The Rocks

The Rocks Aroma Festival Sunday 26 July, 10am – 5pm With events and workshops throughout July

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The Book of Kevin

Join the team from 'Year of the Abbott’ and ‘Australia Votes 2013’ for another satirical send up as they give voice to one of the most fascinating figures in Australian political history in ‘The Book of Kevin’.

Set at the fictional book launch of Rudd’s autobiography, the show stars Nathan Lentern as our enigmatic former prime minister, alongside other comic characters portrayed by Youtube’s Tony Abbott Impersonator Jonas Holt (At Home with Tone & United Impersonations) & Timothy Hugh Govers (Year of The Abbott).

Wed-Fri 22, 23, and 24 July at 7pm

43-45 George Street, The Rocks 

Tickets HERE! 

Also showing at Bondi Feast, and Gleebooks.

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Like Me by Mongrel Mouth

June bring us a brand new production by Mongrel Mouth, laugh out loud at Like Me, a mad world where nonsense is the new normal.

After a sold out season in 2014 Mongrel Mouth returns to the Merchants House now with a comedy. The audience will have again an important part to play in the unfolding action and are free to explore the action occurring simultaneously in multiple spaces; each audience member has a unique and unpredictable experience. 

Laughter is all we have left! 

18 June - 11 July at 43-45 George Street Get your tickets HERE

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Space Folding is back!

That's right Space Folding by new-media artist and co-founder of Holly Zina Kaye will return to The Rocks!

If you missed the first showing as part of The Rocks Pop-Up then make sure you visit this stargate sculpture during Vivid Sydney!

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MATCH BOX PROJECTS

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URBAN COLLECTIVE

An exhibition of approximately 30 chosen artists from the Sydney Street Photographers Group as part of Head On Festival 2015

The images, by their very nature will indirectly expose the viewer to the nuances and passions of the photographers themselves, and often give a glimpse of the difficulties associated with the capturing of ‘street’ work.

The essence of this sometimes controversial art form is to discover the ability to observe and document society as it is, unpredictable, random, spontaneous...and as in any art form, many aspects need to come together to provide the viewer with a ‘memorable’ portrayal of the genre.

30 April - 13 May, Daily 10am - 6pm

47 George Street, The Rocks

Opening night on Friday 1 May at 6pm

Beverage Sponsor: Wine Society - www.winesociety.com.au

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Raffles Alumni set to rock Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Australia 2015

On April 16 the Raffles International Showcase will return to Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Australia with seven of Asia-Pacific’semerging fashion design stars hitting The Runway, at Carriageworks.

The runwayshow will celebrate the most promising alumni from Raffles College of Designand Commerce in Sydney, and Raffles College of Higher Education in Singapore. Eachof the Raffles designers will showcase a 10-piece ready-to-wear collection for Spring-Summer 15/16 including innovative women’s wear, contemporary menswear, couture design, and tailoring.

The outstanding creations will be showcased in the Rocks at 37 George Street on April 14, 15 and 16. To make appointments for showroom visits contact [email protected]

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Lucid a photographic exhibition

LUCID is an exhibition showcasing a series of images from seven emerging photographers studying at CATC Design School.

With Dreams and Visions as the chosen theme for their class exhibition, the artists took into account the favoured genres and wonderful diversity of style and preference in the class and decided on the name Lucid.

47 George Street

22-27 April Daily 10am-5pm

Opening night 22 April at 6:30pm

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Terravita - printmaking in The Rocks

Ten exhibiting artists from the Warringah Printmaking Studio's will be demonstrating contemporary print methods and the making  of artists books. Drop by Terravita to see artists working in a number of mediums including intaglio and relief printing, etching, lino, photopolymer, collagraph. Free demonstrations and artist talks every weekend from 1 to 3pm.

4-19 April at 47 George Street

Wednesday to Sunday 10am-5pm

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SHABBAT DINNER

Rock Surfers Theatre Company are stepping out of their Bondi home to present Shabbat Dinner, a unique performance experience created by multi-award-winning playwright Jessica Bellamy, as part of The Sydney Morning Herald Spectrum Now festival.

You’re invited to take a seat at the dining table, set with the Bellamy family’s finest glassware and a few lovingly mismatched spoons. The audience is invited to share a meal catered by the writer. As the evening unfolds, a community is built and then dismantled. The rituals, customs and habits of a Friday night are recreated in this new community. And then we will go about our lives once more.

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47 George Street

24 – 29 March

Tuesday to Saturday 7pm, Sunday 4pm

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THE SEAGULL

The HOT BLOODed Theatre Co in Association with Hurrah Hurrah present Experiments in Text Two (2): The Seagull, by Anton Chekhov.

The Seagull takes a large cast of ten actors, removes the conventions of blocking, direction, and shakes staging and allows the actors to make new and interesting choices, in the scene in the moment, on the night. No two performances will look or sound the same.

Where: Shop 2.03, 140 George Street, The Rocks

When: 18-28 March, Tuesday-Saturday 7:30pm, and Sunday 3pm

Tickets HERE

The work in Experiments in Text and The Seagull focuses on ensemble devised scenes, dynamic character relationships, dramaturgical exploration within the scene. Through improvisation, discussion, argument and practice and experimentation, we tear apart the text and delve deep into the spatial, social and dramatic world of the text.

The play explores ideas of art and form, what makes an artist an artist, and who has the right to challenge the accepted ideas and who has the right to accept a challenge as valid. Set beside a beautiful country lake on the grounds and rooms of a country estate a disparate family comes together, the young writer Treplyov attempts to please his mother, his uncle, and small country folk of his uncle's country estate and solidify the love of his lover Nina. A group of people whose own needs come constantly above those of the other. Whose own desires, wants and needs are the most important thing – when to give an inch to the other may be just what they need.