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Welcome to the City of Canterbury Bankstown’s social media community. We love to read your comments, and we know others do too.

Bankstown Arts Centre is a cultural facility, where artists and community groups collaborate to explore ideas and learn, create and experience contemporary community-based arts. We’re excited to share, learn and engage with residents, visitors and businesses of CBCity, and entice others to join our beautiful City. Our channels include Library and Knowledge Centres, Leisure and Aquatic Centres, Arts Centre, Bryan Brown Theatre and Function Centre, and Active Canterbury-Bankstown, and other channels. Tips for engaging and enjoying our channels:
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30/10/2026

We’re thrilled to co-present AZIMUTH with BackStage Music on 6 November.

Eight diverse and innovative artists have developed new works in and around Bankstown Arts Centre over the past three months. The result is a brilliant, refreshing new interdisciplinary performance that shouldn’t be missed!

Tickets are selling fast! See you there!

🗓 Friday 6 November, doors 7pm, show 7.30pm
📍 Bankstown Arts Centre
🔗 Book: backstagemusic.com.au/azimuth

28/10/2026

⭐ ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: TIA MAVANIE

Tia Mavanie is a Gadigal-based artist with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Melbourne. Their practice is informed by their Assyrian-Iranian heritage and their lived experience as q***r, brown, and non-binary in Australia.

Working primarily across sculpture and spatial installation, Mavanie’s work explores cultural erasure, gender, identity, and belonging at the intersection of contemporary Western culture and Mesopotamian folklore.

They work with mixed media and found objects, using fire and water as elemental forces of destruction, renewal, and transformation. Their installations draw from their contemporary reality and influences, reflecting on how ancestral knowledge and cultural memory endure despite histories of erasure.

📆 See Anatomy of a Dream House at Bankstown Arts Centre
Showing until Saturday 21 November

Image credits:
Shemagh, 2026, wire, mirror, aluminium cans
Šassūru, 2026, wire, recycled plastic, fabric, timber
Bīt Rimki, 2026, water, sink, timber, moving image, projector
Photography: Dean Qiulin Li

27/10/2026

📣 JUST ANNOUNCED 📣

Syntrop(h)y: Web of Becoming
4th Bankstown Biennial

Bankstown Arts Centre's flagship two-yearly contemporary art festival is back for its 4th edition! Syntrop(h)y: Web of Becoming sees an exciting line-up of Australian contemporary artists coming together to explore what it means to be a part of a multilayered network, blurring boundaries between individuals, artistic traditions and between human and non-human worlds.

The Biennial will be open to the public from Sunday 6 December with special opening hours of 12-4pm.

Stay tuned for the full artist list and public program 👀

This project is supported by Create NSW, Creative Australia and the Copyright Agency Cultural Fund.

Animation by Keorattana Luangrathrajasombat

📆 WHAT REMAINS: CERAMIC CHIMÚ FIGURES WITH CRISTELLE CABRERASculpt your own ceramic figurines inspired by the Chimú cult...
20/10/2026

📆 WHAT REMAINS: CERAMIC CHIMÚ FIGURES WITH CRISTELLE CABRERA

Sculpt your own ceramic figurines inspired by the Chimú culture of coastal Peru!

Join artist Cristelle Cabrera in a special ceramics workshop as she guides participants through the process of creating figurines inspired by the Chimú culture of the northern coast of Peru, particularly its sculptural traditions and representations of human and animal forms. Learn basic hand-building techniques to sculpt bodies out of terracotta clay, then attach limbs and carve facial features with your own personalised designs.

This workshop has a maximum capacity of 12 participants.

Bankstown Arts Centre
Saturday 21 November, 2:30-4pm
Ages 18+
$7 + booking fee

Register via eventbrite.com/e/what-remains-ceramic-chimu-figures-with-cristelle-cabrera-ages-18-tickets-2002769979923

📣 JUST ANNOUNCED: Sydney Festival 2027 📣Bankstown Arts Centre presents Srey's Refuge, Home at LastArtist, label head, an...
19/10/2026

📣 JUST ANNOUNCED: Sydney Festival 2027 📣

Bankstown Arts Centre presents Srey's Refuge, Home at Last

Artist, label head, and musical polymath Maggie Tra brings finesse and flair to the dance floor by embracing the culture of the land she's in as well as the lands her family hailed from. After exploding onto the electronica scene in 2021, Tra has released several albums, featured at SXSW Sydney as an official artist, performed around the world, had her single 'Resist' highlighted in the hit Netflix series Heartbreak High and composed for Belvoir St Theatre's The Coconut Children.

For one night only at Sydney Festival, Tra will perform the full journey of her most personal work yet, Srey's Refuge, Home at Last, which delves into the loss of her mother, honouring her life and the sacrifices she made. With stage visuals by Jo Ngo, Tra blends traditional Khmer dance with contemporary movement and ancestral instruments with club-ready electronics, creating a sonic experience that celebrates Cambodian diaspora, resilience and the enduring power of home.

Srey's Refuge, Home at Last
Bankstown Arts Centre
Saturday 16 January 2027

This project is supported by Create NSW and Creative Australia.

Tickets on sale from Thursday 22 October, 9am.

📣 JUST ANNOUNCED: Sydney Festival 2027 📣Bankstown Arts Centre presents Sonic Rituals: CORIN & Maggie TraCORIN (Corin Ile...
19/10/2026

📣 JUST ANNOUNCED: Sydney Festival 2027 📣

Bankstown Arts Centre presents Sonic Rituals: CORIN & Maggie Tra

CORIN (Corin Ileto) is an electronic producer, performer and composer whose acclaimed 2023 album Lux Aeterna was hailed by The Guardian as one of the best Australian albums of the year for its "eclipsing, intense world-building". As part of Sonic Rituals, she presents DIWA, a visceral audiovisual exploration of Filipino ancestry and mythology based on her forthcoming album with VFX artist Tristan Jalleh. DIWA combines live performance on the Filipino kulintang gongs with live electronica and immersive visuals traversing volcanic and oceanic landscapes inspired by the Philippines.

Across two nights of experimental music, CORIN will be paired with label head and musical polymath Maggie Tra, who brings finesse and flair to the dance floor. Sonic Rituals will see Tra showcasing the beginning of Srey's Refuge, Home at Last, a deeply personal performance that blends traditional Khmer dance with contemporary movement and ancestral instruments with club-ready electronics, set against stunning visuals by Jo Ngo. Together, these two singular artists create musical maps of memory and cultural inheritance.

Sonic Rituals: CORIN & Maggie Tra
Bankstown Arts Centre
Friday 15 and Sunday 17 January 2027

This project is supported by Create NSW and Creative Australia.

Tickets on sale from Thursday 22 October, 9am.

📣 EXHIBITIONS NOW OPENLast Saturday, we celebrated the opening of Tia Mavanie's solo exhibition Anatomy of a Dream House...
14/10/2026

📣 EXHIBITIONS NOW OPEN

Last Saturday, we celebrated the opening of Tia Mavanie's solo exhibition Anatomy of a Dream House as well as Cass Li and Cristelle Cabrera's duo show What Remains. Thank you to all those who joined us on the day and to all the artists and curators involved in putting these exhibitions together.

Enjoy these highlights from the weekend!

Anatomy of a Dream House & What Remains
Bankstown Arts Centre
Tuesday-Saturday, 10am-4pm

Exhibitions close Saturday 21 November

Photo credit: Dean Qiulin Li

💬 WHAT REMAINS: IN CONVERSATION WITH CASS LI AND CRISTELLE CABRERAJoin us for the opening of What Remains where exhibiti...
03/10/2026

💬 WHAT REMAINS: IN CONVERSATION WITH CASS LI AND CRISTELLE CABRERA

Join us for the opening of What Remains where exhibiting artists Cass Li and Cristelle Cabrera will be discussing the role of their art in the preservation of memory, history and identity. Learn all about the exhibition and hear the personal stories behind each work on display.

This conversation will take place during the opening of the upcoming exhibitions Anatomy of a Dream House and What Remains.

🔗 Register via eventbrite.com/e/anatomy-of-a-dream-house-what-remains-opening-tickets-2001291763538

Anatomy of a Dream House and What Remains
Exhibition Opening
Saturday 10 October
2-4pm

What Remains: In Conversation with Cass Li and Cristelle Cabrera
2:30-3pm

Image credits:
Cass Li, aunties sending money (2024), digital photograph
Cass Li, photo courtesy of the artist
Cristelle Cabrera, photo by Harri Barnes
Tia Mavanie, Sassuri (2026), wire, recycled plastic, fabric, timber

Due to popular demand, we're excited to be adding a Friday class to our Kids Art Club for Term 4 🌟Running from 4-6pm fro...
01/10/2026

Due to popular demand, we're excited to be adding a Friday class to our Kids Art Club for Term 4 🌟

Running from 4-6pm from Friday 23 October to 11 December, Kids Art Club is open to children aged 6-12 years old. Classes for Term 4 run on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. Creative Kids Vouchers are accepted.

Register here 🌻
https://ow.ly/vnIj50ZSul4

We're pleased to share that we've added an additional class for Ceramic Hand-Building Projects to our Term 4 class progr...
30/09/2026

We're pleased to share that we've added an additional class for Ceramic Hand-Building Projects to our Term 4 class program 👐

Friday classes will run from 23 October - 11 December from 6:30-9pm and is open to students aged 18+.

Register below 🌟
https://ow.ly/n0SC50ZSuoz

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