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Arts and culture in Surry Hills

Rich in arts and culture, Surry Hills is a thriving hub of offbeat galleries and ethical design studios – while also being home to theatres, the famous Brett Whiteley Studio and long-running Actors Centre. The Surry Hills monthly market also promises a great day out.

Acting, art and design

Rich in arts and culture, Surry Hills is a thrivign hub of off-beat galleries and ethical design studios as well as theatres, the famous Brett Whiteley Studio and long-running Actors Centre.

Down an unassuming side street, you’ll find the studio of tha celebrated expressionist artist, Brett Whiteley, who lived and worked in an old, converted Surry Hills T-shirt factory from 1988-1992. Now a free museum, the studio exhibits a selection of Whiteley’s sketchbooks, photos, music collection and personal memorabilia.

Aboriginal art lovers will find a great collection at the Ann Snell Gallery on Albion Street, while intimate urban gallery, Friends of Leon on Malborough Street, features an intriguing mix of pop imagery genres. Collections are ever-evolving at Bourke Street’s striking, light-flooded Object Gallery;for contemporary art, don't miss the Ray Hughes Gallery on Devonshire Street.

Love performing arts? The historic Belvoir Theatre is well-known for its challenging program with the likes of Geoffrey Rush, Cate Blanchett, David Wenham and Judy Davis all having performed here. Budding thespians should head to the Actor’s Centre on Devonshire Street, which offers full and part-time acting courses as well as workshops and drop-in classes.

Bargain hunters also flock to the Surry Hills Markets on the first Saturday of the month, where you can go in with $20 and come out with anything from a vintage dress, pre-loved leather bag, pile of second-hand books or a 70s fondue set.

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  • Appiness Appiness - Vivid Sydney Inner Sydney, Sydney, Surry Hills

    Appiness is for people who love to make something new. We invite designers, engineers and entrepreneurs to gather for two and a half days of relentles...

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    Friday 24 May to Saturday 1 June
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  • Small and Tired Small and Tired Inner Sydney, Sydney, Surry Hills

    Orestes has come back to bury his father. He has been away a long time. His mother is hardened, his sister is strangely ill. He will see them, he will...

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    Thursday 26 September to Sunday 20 October
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  • Miss Julie Miss Julie Inner Sydney, Sydney, Surry Hills

    Julie is still in her teens. She is rich because her father is rich. Jean is not rich, but he would quite like to be. They have this much in common: t...

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    Saturday 24 August to Sunday 6 October
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  • Ray Hughes Gallery The Hughes Gallery Inner Sydney, Sydney, Surry Hills

    The gallery of Ray Hughes began in Brisbane in 1969 as Gallery 1Eleven in Musgrave Road. In 1988, the principal gallery moved to its present location ...

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  • The Baulkham Hills African Ladies Troupe The Baulkham Hills African Ladies Troupe Inner Sydney, Sydney, Surry Hills

    Yarrie Bangura grew up in a camp in Guinea. She is doing her HSC. Aminata Doumbia is from Sierra Leone. She is an ambassador for the UNHCR. Big Mama R...

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    Thursday 15 August to Sunday 8 September
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  • Ann Snell Gallery Ann Snell Gallery Inner Sydney, Sydney, Surry Hills

    The Ann Snell Gallery opened in 2003. It began humbly with Ann borrowing money to purchase her first collection but Ann's passion and keen eye fo...

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  • Hamlet Hamlet Inner Sydney, Sydney, Surry Hills

    Every generation feels the irresistible compulsion to attempt to stage this, the greatest play by the greatest playwright. Then, they are haunted by t...

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    Saturday 12 October to Sunday 1 December
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  • Coranderrk Coranderrk Inner Sydney, Sydney, Surry Hills

    At a Victorian Parliamentary Inquiry in 1881, the people of the Coranderrk Aboriginal Reserve went head-to-head with the Aboriginal Protection Board. ...

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    Saturday 7 December to Sunday 5 January 2014
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  • Theatre Old 505 Theatre - Surry Hills Inner Sydney, Sydney, Surry Hills

    Last year Venue 505 re-opened the doors to the old, much loved 505 warehouse, launching a new independent theatre development space which has been rec...

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  • Angels in America Part One: Millenium Approaches Angels in America Part One: Millenium Approaches Inner Sydney, Sydney, Surry Hills

    Actually, Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes is not one play but two. Millennium Approaches and Perestroika were the closing stateme...

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    Tuesday 28 May to Sunday 14 July
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