107 Projects, Green Square, Joynton Avenue Creative Centre, Zetland.

Join us at 107 to launch Water Stories, an exhibition of the archives as estuaries of Green Square.

Joynton Avenue Creative Centre 3a Joynton Avenue Zetland, NSW 2017

Wed., 16 November 2022, 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm AEDT

You can register here or just turn up

Walkshop: 19 November

Join us for a slow walk around Green Square guided by objects in the landscape that connect with water stories of the area.

Joynton Avenue Creative Centre 3a Joynton Avenue Zetland, NSW 2017

Sat., 19/11/2022, 2:00 pm AEDT

You can register here

Workshop with Rizzeria : 3 December

Riso Print & Mapping the Local

Learn a new printmaking technique and explore your local environment in this 3 hour workshop. Learn the basics of risograph printing and how to create drawn, collaged or digital artwork to be printed in this colourful stencil technique at the Rizzeria coop https://rizzeria.com. Then we will work on a collaborative mapping project of the local environment directly around the Creative Centre.

Be inspired by the “Water Stories” exhibition by Mapping Edges Research Studio: https://www.mappingedges.org and then explore local surroundings yourself.

When we come together again we will draw, collage and create to add our personal discoveries of curious, personal, public, hidden things and places to create a risoprinted, collaborative map.

Sat. 3/12/2022, 10.00-am1.00pm AEDT

Participants Max 8 Time: 10-1 (3 hours)

Registration TBC

Did you know there is habitat for endangered frogs in Rosebery? Did you know there was once a violent cauliflower gang roaming the streets of Waterloo? Did you know dugong bones were found during excavation for the Alexandra Canal?

These little-told histories will surface in November in an exhibition at 107 Projects, Green Square, Joynton Avenue Creative Centre, Zetland. The exhibition is based on Water Stories, a collaborative research project led by the Mapping Edges Research Studio.

Developed during the 2021 and 2022 La Niña event, this interactive project maps, materialises and activates the social and environmental histories and practices of water in Green Square, Australia’s largest urban renewal project.

“The Country that is now known as Green Square is nadunga gurad, sand dune Country, known for millennia for its nattai bamalmarray, freshwater wetlands and ephemeral ponds,” says project collaborator D’harawal eora Knowledge Keeper & registered Sydney Traditional Owner Shannon Foster,

Explore the project at waterstories.info