What's on

Choose Your Fighter

6 February - 6 March 2021

Fantasy armour, adornments and alternative personas—Choose Your Fighter brings together the work of young artists local to the Blacktown area. This exhibition explores concepts of world-building, placemaking and code-switching. Click here to learn more.

POWER | Dennis Golding

6 February – 13 March 2021

As the artist in residence for Solid Ground, Dennis Golding worked with the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students at Alexandria Park Community School to create 100 superhero capes depicting visual representations of connections to Country, memory, heritage and lived experience. Click here to learn more.

Eleni - Navigators of Polynesia | Faraimo Paulo

6 March – 3 April 2021

Faraimo Paulo has embarked on a mission to realistically capture on canvas the culture, stories and scenes of Tokelauan society, often using his family members as models. This exhibition represents a major survey of the artist’s recent work. Click here to learn more.

Elders in residence

Every Friday*, 29 January – 26 March, 10.30 am – 12.30 pm

Friends, family and community are all welcome to come by for a cup of tea and hear the personal stories of local Elders and absorb knowledge and stories of culture and Country from the traditional First Nations custodians. Learn the dreaming stories and hear first-hand of the more recent history of the area now called Blacktown and greater western Sydney.

*Please note, the Elders in residence program will not go ahead on 12 March or 2 April

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Please note

As with many public venues at present, The Leo Kelly Blacktown Arts Centre is legally obligated by NSW Health to collect information that would assist in COVID-19 tracing. Therefore, we kindly ask that you register your visit by providing your name, phone number and email address. If you are feeling unwell, please stay at home.

Sessions are booked in lots of 1-hour periods, but you are not restricted to 1-hour. You can book more than one session for yourself at a time, but please be aware of our limited capacity.

Due to updated NSW Health requirements, all visitors to The Leo Kelly Blacktown Arts Centre are now required to wear face masks. Children under 12 are exempt but are encouraged to wear masks where practicable.

Blacktown Arts has the right to exclude patrons from entering the venue. Conditions of entry to exclude patrons exhibiting flu-like symptoms, unwell, have been tested and are awaiting results, positive COVID-19 cases, those required to self-isolate by NSW government, those returning from overseas, those not wearing a face mask (children under 12 year will be exempt) and those refusing to register their details for contact tracing.