The day is almost upon us: Chinese New Year, a festival blessed by heavenly creatures and good fortune. The writing is cast in gold. The red pockets are strung up. The air is pierced by music and our fortune teller’s prophecies.
What awaits us? Have a look at our program.
Join us on Kensington Street this Saturday 3-7PM for a celebration of grand proportions, to crack open a year resplendent in opportunity. From gallery openings to retail pop-ups, Lunar Feasts and restaurant openings to Art Month, the Year of the Monkey is poised to be an auspicious one.
Open the heavenly gate. Let the good spirits into Kensington Street.
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Chefs Gallery
SATURDAY 6 FEBRUARY
3PM - 7PM
This Saturday, Kensington Street extends outwards like a branch of peach blossom, activity abloom all over. Each bud that unfurls opens up a world of dance, song, art and food for our visitors to behold.
Edison Dai, Pei Fang Vocal and Art Studio
From the terrace balconies, Laraine Li and Edison Dai of Pei Fang Vocal and Art Studio sing their Mandarin ballads, while our resident fortune teller Miao Hui deals out rounds of numerology and predictions for our visitors.
Confessions, Hyun Hee Lee
Visit Stephen Pong and have your profile rendered in caricature by his hand. Then visit our workshops, where Hyun Hee Lee introduces us to the art of Korean paper burning, Jayanto Damanik crafts handmade lanterns, Kayo Yakoyama folds her origami art and Tracy Luff takes us to the production line of her Mandarin Factory.
Follow a cavalcade of the most mesmerising acts: the fires ablaze at our food stalls, the martial artist’s sword slicing air, and lion dancers weaving past the doors of Twenty Twenty, a showcase of twenty artists at the forefront of contemporary Asian art.
Melt - Portrait of Ai Weiwei (2015), Adam Chang
The trees are dressed in handmade lanterns from Jayanto Damanik and decorations from the studio A artist collective. The Chinese merchants lay out their trinkets and lucky paraphernalia.
BlackSwan Dance
We adorn our terrace facades and open our doors this Saturday, awaiting the rise of the first moon in the lunar calendar.
The Year of the Monkey is here, and we’ll be dancing!
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Part of City of Sydney’s Lunar Feasts program, the chefs of Spice Alley present a lavish spread under lucky stars. With dishes seasoned with prosperity and served for good health and unity, join us at the Lunar Feasts from Sunday 7 February to Sunday 14 February!
8 days, $88 per person, 8 courses. Dine on the luckiest dishes in Sydney.
Direct all bookings to john@greencliff.com.au or 0424 756 969.
A heartfelt thank you to all generous partners and sponsors who have helped our Chinese New Year celebrations rise to celestial heights!
THURSDAY 4 FEBRUARY
6PM - 8PM
Conversation 23, Lisa Jones
Tonight, Thursday 4th February, Kensington Contemporary will open two new exhibitions - Milky Eye by Lisa Jones and Retrospective of the Late Japanese Artist Yoshio Koaze.
Jones’s mapping of bodily movement and memory and Koaze’s tributes to Japanese kabuki theatre present a rich and layered cartography that navigates each artist’s personal culture. Join us from 6 - 8PM to celebrate these artists, and indulge in some complimentary wine.
Ms Kasane and Mr Yoemon, Yoshio Koaze
Lisa Jones - Milky Eye - Download e-invite
Retrospective of the Late Japanese Artist Yoshio Koaze - Download e-invite
Kensington Street
Kensington Street is offering some brilliant opportunities for retailers!
As this street grows in national and international exposure (with coverage from publications such as Broadsheet, Time Out Sydney, CNN and The Guardian), this is the optimal time to launch your business as part of our retail neighbourhood.
Populated by world-renowned chefs, sustained by delicious coffee and founded on heritage listings, Kensington Street presents a most tenacious community, which you could be a part of.
Interested?
Direct all enquiries to Nicky Ginsberg, Creative Director of Kensington Street, on 0417 494 317.
Bistrot Gavroche - Bone marrow on toasted Poilane bread with garlic confit
Hot on the tails of recently launched ramen bar Ky-oto, come Lower Mekong and Bistrot Gavroche.
Headed by Bang Luck Thai Street Food’s young gun chef, Tiw Rakarin, Lower Mekong delivers Vietnamese cuisine to Kensington Street, preceding its brother Upper Mekong, which converges a menu of Indo-Chin cuisine for the curious.
In three weeks' time, Bistrot Gavroche will open within The Old Rum Store to conjure up all the charms of French cheese and charcuterie.
Ky-oto Ramen
Until then, dine on a bowl of Ky-oto's steaming udon, a plate of takoyaki, a bite of tempura. Keep your nose in the air - the kitchens of Kensington Street are cooking up a storm.
Bar Chinois
Treat a special someone to a charming dining experience - keep your ear to the ground for Valentine’s Day offers on Kensington Street!
Pink Minx, The Strutt Sisters
"We all live in our own little worlds spinning around in an erratic universe." - The Strutt Sisters
Catherine and Jennifer Strutt, collectively known as The Strutt Sisters, invite us into their world in a Kensington Contemporary x Art Month initiative.
Twin sisters, musicians, synaesthetes, artists and designers, these Renaissance women present Up Late with the Strutt Sisters, an evening illuminated by their brilliant talents and warmed by the pleasure of their company. Coinciding with their exhibition Let the Chips Fall Where They May in Kensington Contemporary and the Explore Chippendale Free Gallery Walking Tours, join us as these little worlds we live in begin to orbit each other, conversing in the erratic universe that is Art Month.
What news have we been stirring up this week?
Concrete Playground - Chinese New Year on Kensington Street
Forbes - Automata Sydney: Dispelling the Myth of the Hotel Restaurant
Good Food - Kensington Street Social
The Inner West Courier - Chinese New Year on Kensington Street
Jugernauts - Ky-oto Ramen, Spice Alley
Sydney Morning Herald - Chinese New Year on Kensington Street featured in Going out guide: Sydney’s best attractions for the week
Time Out Sydney - Chinese New Year on Kensington Street
Wallpaper - Kensington Street Social
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