Sydney Festival comes to Bundanon. Join us for a weekend of performances, workshops and talks.
This weekend is also the one-year anniversary of the opening of Bundanon’s Art Museum and the Bridge for Creative Learning. As part of the celebrations, free face painting is available on Saturday and Sunday.
Siteworks 2022: From a deep valley is a series of events that position the artist as a kind of weather balloon, capturing ‘weather reports’ from this place and time. Read more about the Siteworks season (26 November 2022 – 12 March 2023).
INTRODUCTORY TALKS TO INSIDE, UNDERGROUND EXHIBITION
Every Saturday and Sunday, 11am & 2pm
Free with Art Museum entry
Art Museum foyer
Read more about the exhibition
Saturday 28 January
FREE FACE PAINTING
10AM – 1PM BOOKINGS NOT REQUIRED. Art Museum Forecourt, Bundanon
DROP IN WORKSHOPS
Drop in various times: 10am – 5pm BOOKINGS NOT REQUIRED. Boyd Education Centre, Bundanon
A day of relaxed workshops for all ages, providing fun frameworks for thinking about weather, collective activism and the transformative power of natural materials.
Read more about these drop-in workshops.
Sunday 29 January
FREE FACE PAINTING
10AM – 1PM BOOKINGS NOT REQUIRED. Art Museum Forecourt, Bundanon
PERFORMANCE: The Plant Sensibilia Machine
10AM – 5PM Boyd Education Centre, Bundanon
A large-scale hand-operated dyeing machine that brings the process out of the studio and into the public realm. The project brings together the plants of Bundanon and the Shoalhaven together with the significant Yuin voices of Aunty Deidre Martin and Jacob Morris.
Read more about this project
WORKSHOP: Hearing Country
10.30AM – 1.30PM Boyd Education Centre, Bundanon
This cultural immersion workshop is about learning to read and exist with Country.
Read more about this project
WORKSHOP: Drawing from Nature
11AM – 1PM Creative Learning Centre, Bundanon
An observational drawing workshop with Erica Seccombe.
Read more about this project
PERFORMANCE: Spells for weather
11.30AM – 12PM The Bridge, Bundanon
Join the Dirt Witches and Tree Venerators in a ritualistic experience choreographed by Lizzie Thompson.
Read more about this project
LABORATORIUM TALKS: 29 January 2022
2PM – 4PM Art Museum, Bundanon
Speakers include Jedda Lemmon (NSW Dept of Planning and Environment) and Dr Beth Mott (Environment and Heritage) will talk to the flora and fauna of the Shoalhaven, and the wider impacts of changing weather patterns in the region.
Read more about these talks
STAY AT BUNDANON
Make the most of your Siteworks Weekend with an overnight stay in Bundanon’s eco-friendly Bridge accommodation. Join wild food expert Diego Bonetto on a guided foraging walk, before a 3-course chef’s table dinner with local wines and beers. In the morning, a continental breakfast and a yoga class are also included.
Read more and book your accommodation
Image: Jedda Lemmon.
