Carriageworks
One of the venue spaces at Carriageworks.
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| Established | 2007 |
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| Location | Redfern, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
| Coordinates | 33°53′39″S 151°11′30″E / 33.8942°S 151.1916°ECoordinates: 33°53′39″S 151°11′30″E / 33.8942°S 151.1916°E |
| Type | Contemporary multi-arts including visual arts, dance, performance space centre |
| Visitors | 400,000 (2013) |
| Website | carriageworks |
Carriageworks is a contemporary multi-arts centre located in Sydney. Carriageworks is artist led and engages artists and audiences with contemporary ideas and issues. Carriageworks is a cultural facility of the NSW Government and receives support from Arts NSW and the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts. The institution has a reputation for presenting large-scale immersive programs.
The Eveleigh Rail Yards were built on the site between 1880 and 1889, including the now heritage listed Carriageworks site. The rail yards contain the history of Australia's major rail network. Train carriages for Sydney's expanding rail network were built and maintained within the building and included the Royal Carriages constructed specifically for the Governor General of Australia and visiting Royalty, the first electric carriage, and the first air-conditioned train in Australia. From 1973 productivity at the site declined due to its inefficient older buildings, restrictive union practices and increased privatization of carriage construction and the site was closed in 1988.
In June 2002 the NSW Ministry for the Arts completed the purchase of the Carriage and Blacksmith Workshops at the Eveleigh Rail Yards site. Soon after, a construction project on the site commenced under the name of Carriageworks. Adaptive reuse of the workshop site began in 2003 with the housing of numerous contemporary arts practitioners, and Carriageworks was officially opened in 2007.
In 2013 over 400,000 people engaged with Carriageworks programs and in 2014 visitation was on track to rise to 550,000. In August 2013, the Carriageworks cultural precinct doubled in size, adding 5,000 square metres (54,000 sq ft) to its existing premises in Sydney's Redfern. Major programs presented at Carriageworks in 2013 included Ryoji Ikeda's Test pattern (No 5) presented in association with Vivid Sydney 2013 attended by over 56,000, FBi Radio's 10th Birthday attended by 8,000 and Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Australia attended by over 35,000. In 2014 Carriageworks presented Christian Boltanski’s Chance, Ganesh Versus The Third Reich by Back to Back Theatre, Tehching Hsieh’s Time Clock Piece, Stones in Her Mouth by Mau and presented by Carriageworks, Concertgebouw Brugge and Tjibaou Cultural Centre, and more.
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