The festival is set to celebrate local Western Sydney communities and the applied arts and sciences, and education.
A twenty-three-day Powerhouse Parramatta Opening Festival will feature a veteran astronaut, an acclaimed industrial designer and local Western Sydney acts performing.
Audiences will enjoy programs featuring leading Australian and international innovators, thinkers, creatives and artists, sharing new works, bold ideas, and immersive contemporary experiences.
Sixty-five percent of the opening program events are free, and all people under sixteen years old will receive free entry for all exhibitions.
The Museum will open seven days a week and during the opening festival the museum will stay open until 9pm on Thursday to Sunday. Mondays to Wednesday the museum will open 10am to 5pm.
The 179-event program can be found here .
The third biennial Fremantle Design Week program has launched, with over 60 events set to roll out across the port city in October.
The program is built around six ways of dissenting: design thinking, to scope alternatives; ‘craftivism’ and art practice as a political act; making by hand, …
