A Community Celebration of Surry Hills With roving entertainment Surry Hills has had a facelift, so to celebrate all the rejuvenated parks and new pocket parks we’re having a picnic! Grab a walking map of all the great new places to explore. Visit one, visit them all and have a rolling picnic on the day. […]
Ronnie Kahn started the OzHarvest food rescue project in 2004 after being inspired by a visit to the townships of Soweto in her native South Africa. With OzHarvest set to click into its third decade of operation next year, Urban Village’s Lachlan Colquhoun spoke with Ronni and found out that she is nowhere near finished […]
by Tess Scholfield-Peters TITLE Store’s Ian Underwood is at home amongst the records, books and film collections of the Crown Street store. He floats between the shelves and answers questions from browsing customers with ease and enthusiasm, as if it were his personal collection they were perusing. “I’ve spent my entire adult life in the […]
If, like me, you think being bilingual is impressive, meeting a person who is fluent in five languages is frankly awe-inspiring. Picture frame designer, interior stylist, published author, photographer, exhibited artist, multi-linguist: Marta Wawrzyniak-Ijichi wears many hats, from all over the world. Best known locally for her work at ACME Framing on Crown Street, Marta’s […]
Natalie de Silver could be the biggest rock star you haven’t heard of, yet. If you do know Natalie, you will know her as the mesmerising singer, guitarist and songwriter for Sydney band the Dandelion, just back from a tour of Europe. After playing 21 gigs in one month from the UK to Greece and […]
By Tess Scholfield-Peters Andrew Hoyne is the principal of Hoyne, Australia’s leading corporate and retail branding agency. The agency celebrates its 28th year this year, having won over 350 awards locally and internationally since its inception. Surry Hills is the embodiment of a diverse community, according to Andrew. It’s true; there isn’t another community in […]
By Fiona McIntosh Public art comes in many guises. At its core, its role is to encourage a more meaningful experience for a community of its shared public spaces. It provides a focus to publicly commemorate an event, or person, or express a collective sentiment. It enhances our architectural and environmental surrounds and, at its […]
The comic talks pub gigs, taboos and Twitter-bans. The Brisbane-born comic has written for shows like Josh Thomas’s Please Like Me, performed and written a pilot for ABC, opened for Conan O’Brien and last year was banned from Twitter for drunkenly tweeting she’d chop the PM’s head off. Talking to Becky reveals a genuine, insightful […]
James Winter moved to Sydney from Adelaide two decades ago because he was attracted to the “quirky, queer and contemporary” inner city culture. That culture has since been threatened, but Winter believes the city is on the verge of a new renaissance and he’s doing what he can to bring it on. Sydney sometimes makes […]
From Priscilla to Mardi Gras, Sydney’s history has always had rainbow-coloured undertones. But the hit American show RuPaul’s Drag Race has well and truly catapulted drag culture into the mainstream, Sydney-based drag queen Hannah Conda told Urban Village. Once existent only on society’s cultural fringe, drag artists and performers are now highly sought after by […]
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