Footbridge Gallery Launch
Innovation Week 2019 Special Event
Join us to launch the new Footbridge Gallery. Engage with our multidisciplinary panel, moderated by City of Sydney Councillor Jess Scully, as we explore design solutions and digital placemaking in bringing urban communities together to share creative research, learning and art.
Event details
Date: Thursday 22 August
Panel discussion: 4.30pm
Official launch: 5.30pm
Performance, artwork, DJ until 9pm
Venue
Footbridge Square
Between Parramatta Rd Footbridge and Science Rd
The University of Sydney
About the event
Together with the University of Sydney’s Vice-Principal (External Relations), Tania Rhodes-Taylor, we invite you to share in launching the Footbridge Gallery, a digital placemaking area embedded in the landscape of the University. Enjoy light, sound and live performance as we kick off a new kind of open, shared space.
We’ll have food, drinks and a DJ to help us activate the gallery wall with new artworks. You can find the gallery on the external wall of the Footbridge theatre facing the Edgeworth David building.
Before the official launch we welcome you to our panel discussion. Moderated by City of Sydney Councillor Jess Scully, the interdisciplinary panel will discuss the role of creative disciplines in bringing urban communities together, driving conversations and nurturing a sense of place.
With backgrounds ranging from music composition to sculpture, digital design and performance arts, panellists will explore how sharing creative and innovative research in the arts can contribute to learning, civic debate, placemaking and community engagement. The panel will feature:
- Jess Scully, City of Sydney Councillor (Moderator)
- Dr Daniel Blinkhorn, Sydney Conservatorium of Music
- Dr Luke Hespanhol, Sydney School of Architecture, Design and Planning
- Associate Professor Ian Maxwell, Department of Theatre and Performance Studies
- Dr Sanne Mestrom, Sydney College of the Arts
Stay for a drink, a bite to eat, and to enjoy the artworks.
