Image credit: Esem Projects and Alan Richardson
This special walking tour looks at the thriving cultural industries between the new Sydenham metro station and the Marrickville Library. We’ll examine the transitions between heavy industrial sites to areas of creative production, exhibition, performance, and entertainment, as well as the intersections between long established and emerging residential homes and apartments. There will be an opportunity to visit makers’ studios and potentially to sample some of the specialty coffee, beer, or food being produced in an area declared by Times London to be one of the 10th coolest suburbs in the world.
Note: Meeting point to be confirmed closer to the date.
Professor Chris Gibson is a Sydney-based academic and musician who has conducted research for three decades on music, cultural industries, and creative work in Australia. His most recent research project explores the post-pandemic experiences of creative workers in Sydney, drawing attention to the city’s diverse and changing spaces of creativity, the precariousness of such spaces in Sydney’s overheated property market, as well as spatial practices and adaptations to cope with upheaval.