Darebin Arts

Join us for the launch of our new exhibition season! 📣

Escape the winter cold and step inside our stunning heritage-listed galleries for the launch of four reflective exhibitions:

- 𝐂𝐡𝐨𝐠𝐡 چوغ | Curated by Alia Qasim Zada & Elyas Alavi. Featuring Razia Ghazal, Sha Sarwari, Alia Qasim Zada, Tamana Alizada, Sher Ali, Reza Foladi

- 𝐑𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐞𝐦 𝐢𝐧 𝐏𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫 (𝐑𝐈𝐏) | Gabrielle Skye Nehrybecki & Olive Guardiani

- 𝐏𝐨𝐬𝐭-𝐞𝐱𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐡𝐮𝐢𝐚 𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 | Sally Ann McIntyre

- 𝐀𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐇𝐞𝐫𝐞 | Heidi Schoenheimer

WHEN: Saturday 4 July | 2 - 4pm
WHERE: Bundoora Homestead Art Centre | 7 Prospect Hill Drive, Bundoora VIC 3083

Free entry - register via the Darebin Arts website: https://tinyurl.com/8tnc8tsd
Credit: Bundoora Homestead Opening Event 2025. Photography: Nicole Cleary

This Sunday, award-winning playwright and social worker Beck Lister brings her live chat show to Northcote Town Hall Arts Centre for an in-depth discussion with writer and broadcaster Jacinta Parsons; artist and musician Jess Ribeiro; and historian, author and broadcaster Professor Clare Wright OAM.

🎟 Tickets are available here: https://tinyurl.com/56auc3yf
📆 Sunday 21 June
📍 Northcote Town Hall Arts Centre
🎭 Presented by Anvil Productions
📸 supplied

Congratulations to local artist Candela Alconada on being commissioned for Darebin’s Powering Change Together comic strip series, part of Council's plan on community engagement to help spread the message of energy efficiency and electrification across the City of Darebin.

Candela is an artist and illustrator originally from La Plata, Argentina, who has been based in Australia since 2017. Her practice spans muralism, illustration and character-based storytelling, with a colourful and imaginative visual language inspired by fantasy, playfulness and the connection to our inner child. Through her work, Candela creates joyful and engaging images that invite audiences to connect with emotion, curiosity and imagination.

We look forward to seeing her vibrant storytelling bring energy efficiency to life for our community.

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A look back at the epic performance by Cash Savage and The Last Drinks, with support by Tongue Dissolver at Darebin Arts Centre earlier this year. It was great to see families share in celebrating Australian music. 🎸⚡

📸 Lord Media

Just one week until loscil brings an immersive audiovisual experience to the Darebin Arts Centre stage in a one-night-only Melbourne exclusive!

Don’t miss the chance to dive into loscil’s new album, Lake Fire, with its vast and enveloping auditory transcriptions of the landscapes of British Columbia, the destructive force of wildfires, and the period of rebirth that follows them.

loscil supported by amby downs.
Presented by Darebin Arts, curated by Brad Spolding.

📅 Thursday 18 June, 7.30pm
📍 Darebin Arts Centre, Preston
🎟️ Book via the Darebin Arts website: https://bit.ly/49HgoPL
📷 Courtesy of the artist

In just two weeks, Darebin audiences will be treated to an exclusive performance from amby downs, supporting loscil at Darebin Arts Centre!

amby downs is the musical pseudonym of interdisciplinary artist Tahlia Palmer. Experience their ambient/drone/noise soundscape project in a night of immersive audiovisual performance.

📅 Thursday 18 June, 7.30pm
📍 Darebin Arts Centre, Preston
🎟️ Book via the Darebin Arts website: https://bit.ly/43L5PYn
📷 Courtesy of the artist

In just four weeks, Darebin Arts Centre will welcome Canadian composer and multimedia artist Scott Morgan, AKA loscil , for a one-night-only, immersive audio-visual performance!

Morgan’s electronic music project is concerned with an intense interrogation of pulse, harmony and texture. Audiences will experience works from his latest album, Lake Fire, which charts the smouldering intensities of British Columbia's recent wave of wildfires.

📅 Thursday 18 June, 7.30pm
📍 Darebin Arts Centre, Preston
🎟️ Tickets via the Darebin Arts Centre: https://arts.darebin.vic.gov.au/Programs-and-opportunities/Programs/Darebin-Arts-Live-Music-Program/Loscil
📷 Supplied

Visita guidata alla mostra Darebin Art Prize 🇮🇹

Join us for an Italian language tour of the Darebin Art Prize! This exhibition tour will be in English with an Italian translator.

📅 Giovedì 11 giugno | Thursday 11 June
🕦 dalle 11:30 alle 12:30 | 11:30am - 12:30pm
📍 7 Prospect Hill Drive Bundoora
🎟️ Visita guidata gratuita. Free to attend!

Venite con noi al Bundoora Homestead Art Centre per una visita guidata alla mostra "Darebin Art Prize". L'esposizione riunisce alcuni tra i più stimati artisti contemporanei australiani, che lavorano con diversi mezzi espressivi e affrontano molteplici tematiche. La visita guidata si terrà in inglese con un interprete italiano.

Bookings encouraged. Register here: https://tinyurl.com/ypzcyjx7
Image credit: Something like a dream (install view) 2025. Photography: Lucy Foster

Darebin writers, this is your final call to submit a piece of work to be considered for publication in dSCRIBE 19, our annual literary magazine!

From our dSCRIBE 19 editor, Adalya Nash Hussein : “This year’s theme is ‘Point’. Point as in Power____. Point as in ‘It’s rude to ____’. Point as in ‘What is the ____ ?’.

We’re interested in writing that is purposeful, polemic and sharp (or at least textured). This theme is just a potential point of departure but it’s up to you to find the endpoint.”

🖋️ Submissions close this Sunday 17 May
➡️ All info and submissions: https://bit.ly/490uiw5
✏️ Cover artwork by Ben Juers, design by 3sidedsquare