Join us at The Leo Kelly Blacktown Arts Centre for Hive Festival, two fun-filled days of hands-on art making, music, performance and play for children and families, Blacktown-style! 

• Make your way to the Arts Centre by train accompanied by a kids-led audio adventure.
• Share stories and learn a thing or two with First Nations Elders Uncle Wes Marne, Uncle Danny Eastwood and Uncle John Farrington. Join Ngiyampaa and Guringai artist Tarni Eastwood as she shares her passion and knowledge of traditional and contemporary weaving techniques with hand-dyed raffia from Nula Weaving.
• Be inspired by our young artists with the Young Artists Prize exhibition, alongside the Blacktown City Art Prize. Join western Sydney’s first disability-led collective We Are Studios for a wearable art workshop led by We Are Studios artists.
• Go on musical adventure with children’s singer Emily Who and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra.
• Dance till you drop with World Rhythms Unleashed by dancer and choreographer Lucky Lartey; a mesmerizing and culturally-rich performance that brings together vibrant rhythms and percussion traditions from across the globe.
• Get excited for a live music program presented by Vyva Entertainment, featuring children’s favourites Zindzi (Play School) and the Zillionaires and more soon to be announced.
• Immerse yourself in architect and designer Noa Haim’s (Collective Paper Aesthetics) interactive cardboard sculpture as it visits Blacktown from the Art Gallery of New South Wales.
  
  

Visit the Blacktown Arts Centre website for the full program.