Opening Celebration and Artist Talks: Who’s Afraid of Public Space?

Sat 4 Dec 2021
2pm

This is a past program.
Main exhibition gallery
Free

Join ACCA for the opening celebrations for Who’s Afraid of Public Space?, a major new project taking place at ACCA and extending across Melbourne through a series of satellite exhibitions and programs in the public realm from 4 December 2021 – 20 March 2022.

From 2pm, join artists and creatives N’arweet Carolyn Briggs AM, Sarah Lynn Rees, Andrew Atchison, Stephanie Pahnis, Lauren Crockett, Nicola Cortese, Timothy Moore, and John Tanner as they share their approaches to transforming ACCA’s four galleries to become civic spaces: Gathering Space: Nargee Djeembana, Education Space: Creating Art in Public, Reading Space: The Common Room, and Project Space: The Hoarding.

Opening celebrations will take place from 3–5pm, with a Welcome to Country and opening remarks from the Hon. Nina Taylor MP and Lord Mayor of Melbourne Sally Capp.

Read more about Who’s Afraid of Public Space? here.

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