Carriageworks
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Carriageworks is one of Australia’s most renowned and significant contemporary multi-art organisations. Located at the former Everleigh Railway Workshops in Redfern. Carriageworks exists to support artists and producers to develop and present major works in performance and visual arts. The organisation reflects the diversity of urban Sydney, encouraging the most unique and ambitious art forms. The site hosts up to 100 projects a year, varying in form, including theatre, dance, music, visual arts, film, fashions and culture events.
Built between 1880 and 1889 the site holds lots of history, thousands of people worked on the site by the 1900s building and maintain the rail works, working to develop the city for over 100 years. The workshops were one of the first sites to employ Aboriginal People and migrants on an equal basis, an act impressively well ahead of its time. In accordance with its advocacy for diversity the site was redeveloped into a cultural precinct in 2007.
