Blank Cultural Platform

Blank Cultural Platform Independent culture and arts hub in a section of a building. Events, programs, coworking, rooftop bar, studios, and galleries. Ngunnawal & Ngambri Country.

Floors 1 & 2, 131 City Walk, Civic.

This winter, You Are Here is hosting a series of cozy creative workshops at our new HQ in the city. Come learn something...
11/06/2026

This winter, You Are Here is hosting a series of cozy creative workshops at our new HQ in the city. Come learn something new, meet some lovely people, and make something to cherish.

FLIP & FLAPPIN’ BIRD PUPPETS

Get hands-on and join Canberra artist Tom Buckland transforming cardboard and other recycled materials into fun moving bird puppets. With simple materials participants will learn how to create simple mechanical mechanisms to make their bird flip, flap and come to life. This workshop is suitable for all skill levels.

Tom Buckland is a Canberra based artist. Working with recycled materials such as cardboard and salvaged electronics, Buckland creates playful, interactive and experimental installation, video and performance work that invites the audience to embark on a journey of discovery. They have exhibited and taught widely across Australia.

Participants will progressively create their bird puppets over three weeks:

Workshop 1 - Wednesday 24 June
Workshop 2 - Wednesday 1 July
Workshop 3 - Wednesday 8 July

All workshops run from 6:30pm-8:30pm at our Workshop in the city! Level 1, 131 City Walk.

All materials are provided. These workshops are designed to be welcoming, relaxed, and low-pressure — perfect for absolute beginners as well as people looking to reconnect with their creativity or try something different this winter.

Our space is alcohol-free, open to people aged 16+, and focused on creating a comfortable and inclusive environment where you can experiment, make mistakes, and enjoy the process.

PLUS! participants can share their work at our Open Day on Saturday 1 August if they’d like to.

TICKETS
Three ticketing tiers available. Total price includes all 3 workshops. Choose whichever ticket tier works for your budget!

Places are limited, get in quick 😉

https://events.humanitix.com/flip-and-flappin-bird-puppets-workshops-with-tom-buckland

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🔥 ROOFTOP ROOTS + REGGAE 🔥 A winter gathering of music, community and good vibes @ Blank Cultural PlatformJoin us for 6 ...
08/06/2026

🔥 ROOFTOP ROOTS + REGGAE 🔥 A winter gathering of music, community and good vibes @ Blank Cultural Platform

Join us for 6 hours of roots reggae, dub, ska and heavyweight grooves high above the city with three of the region’s finest live acts, plus DJs, sound systems, winter vibes and a rooftop full of good people. 🎟️ TIX https://events.humanitix.com/rooftop-roots-reggae

🎺 → This Way Orkestra ←
Canberra’s own genre-bending collective blending reggae, dub, afrobeat, jazz and cinematic grooves into powerful horn-driven original music.

🌴 Kopasetic
Long-running Canberra favourites delivering uplifting roots reggae, soulful grooves and positive vibrations inspired by classic Jamaican soundsystem culture.

🔊 Agency Dub Collective
Australian live dub pioneers combining deep bass pressure, live instrumentation and immersive electronic textures into heavyweight soundsystem journeys.

🚲 Featuring the Spangled Drongos mobile sound system keeping the vibes flowing between bands + DJs DJ DeDe Da Cruz + Paulius Gutauskas + James Nichols.

The first Rooftop Roots + Reggae packed out the rooftop before Blank formally opened. This second edition is bigger, deeper and bass-heavier, expanding to three bands and a full evening of music from 4pm–10pm.

❄️ Winter air.
🔥 Warm rhythms.
🍻 Good drinks.
🤝 Great company.

Rug up, bring your crew and join us for a celebration of roots music, community and culture under the Canberra winter sky.

🎟️ TIX @ https://events.humanitix.com/rooftop-roots-reggae

Blank Archive - Baby Crawl by .cbr 23 May 2026Photography by Georgia Arndell Baby Crawl was a gig crawl by Red Ink that ...
05/06/2026

Blank Archive - Baby Crawl by .cbr
23 May 2026
Photography by Georgia Arndell

Baby Crawl was a gig crawl by Red Ink that involved both Blank and , featuring acts and performers staged across the two venues. Attendees were invited to walk between spaces with performances flowing sequentially.

Performed Baby Crawl at Blank:
(live)
(live)
B2B (DJ)
(live)

Red Ink is a Canberra-based magazine and organising crew that covers and platforms our arts scene.

This event also served as Blank’s first gig involving a local organising crew, bringing many learnings about signage and AV.

Blank Archive - Superconductor What is Blank Archive? We have been reflecting lately on how to best build cultural capit...
03/06/2026

Blank Archive - Superconductor

What is Blank Archive? We have been reflecting lately on how to best build cultural capital in Canberra. Great concepts and organising know-how are often lost as people come to Canberra for a reason or a season, and then leave with this knowledge to cities like Sydney and Melbourne. For Canberra to be able to meaningfully build its own scene and reputation, we strongly believe in the need for a library of activations and resources that anyone can access. The ability to see what has come before us is the best guide to what we might create in the future.

For every major event or happening going forward at Blank Cultural Platform, think of Blank Archive as a diary entry.

Superconductor was hosted by Ben Tindale under the artist name Mr. One Oscillator. Ben is a local analogue synth collector and enthusiast, and works as a freelance aerospace engineer and fabricator. He is a lifelong Canberra resident.

Superconductor was a concept event of a day and night live electronic jam, where any local musician was invited to plug in and sync up to a long table of instruments. Ben acted as the ‘super’ conductor, keeping these instruments mixed and EQ’d in real time.

Blank also used the opportunity of 12hrs of live music to invite along members of its community in graffiti and street art to host a painting jam, where we mural’d our terrace over the course of the gig.

31/05/2026

Big ups to .platform for having us last night. What a show that was! Shoutout to Josh Sellick on sound and .way.orkestra @6 .music and for killing it as well! Full set in high quality coming soon! More gigs on the way as well!

What a little treat we have cooking for you!Kicking off You Are Here’s series of delightfully cozy winter workshops and ...
31/05/2026

What a little treat we have cooking for you!

Kicking off You Are Here’s series of delightfully cozy winter workshops and gigs, we’re thrilled to welcome Sandy Ma for a very special weekend of sound, textiles and curious joy.

On Sunday 7 June, join Sandy for a two-hour Touching Wires workshop exploring textile computing, embroidery and sound-making through reflective storytelling and e-textiles.
With a background in creative computing, Sandy’s practice intersects embodiment, sound and performance to create playful and surprising interactive experiences. In this hands-on workshop, participants will embroider conductive textiles that can be plugged into Sandy’s Touching Wires synthesiser system to create sound, before taking home their own conductive embroidered memories.

Sunday 7 June
2pm-4pm
Hosted by at .platform

You can also catch Sandy performing with their Touching Wires synthesiser system the night before, at the vegetable.machine.animal gig on Saturday 6 June, joined by local legends including Reuben Ingall, Harland Rust and Feemer.

Bonus treat: if you grab a ticket to the gig first, you’ll get a discount on the workshop ticket.

Ticket links in bio!

Presenting Executive Dysfunction...the hottest business meeting you’ve ever been to.12 hours of corporate chaos. Symphon...
31/05/2026

Presenting Executive Dysfunction...the hottest business meeting you’ve ever been to.

12 hours of corporate chaos. Symphonic synergy. Performative productivity. Surely you know the drill by now.

Hosted by at .platform - tickets and info in bio!

LINEUP! Jazz and Friends - see ya there! Tix in .platform bio ;)
29/05/2026

LINEUP! Jazz and Friends - see ya there! Tix in .platform bio ;)

24/05/2026

CANBERRA - LAST CHANCE TO BOOK. BUZZY JAZZ FUSION GIG THIS SATURDAY. STEP INTO A COLOURFUL NEW WORLD. ONE NIGHT ONLY.

Come see freaky sound art from touring Aotearoa noise artist, vegetable.machine.animal! Supported by Ngunnawal’s pioneer...
21/05/2026

Come see freaky sound art from touring Aotearoa noise artist, vegetable.machine.animal! Supported by Ngunnawal’s pioneer of Microwave drone, Reuben Ingall, Canberra hardcore expats Harland Rust (Liam and Rosa), tactile synth pioneer Sandy Ma, and the best harmonic textural sculpture in town, Feemer

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