During the festivities of Chinese New Year, our homes were doused in blessings and prayers, and on Saturday 6th February, Kensington Street opened all doors to a new year of prosperity, union and abundance, sweeping in good luck and dusting away the residue of last year’s plans.
5000 eager friends joined us in celebration as we welcomed an exciting array of festivities that entertained all until dusk beneath the lantern laden trees brimming with lucky charms, dangling artworks and joyful decorations.
Thank you to Greencliff, The Old Clare Hotel, Sekisui House, Frasers Property Australia and all our generous sponsors for making this special day possible.
Congratulations to @_studio_a_, the winner of our #CNYonKensingtonSt Instagram competition!
To all who captured Chinese New Year on Kensington Street in snaps and videos - you’ve helped us seize the new year!
During the celebration, Lion Dancers wove their way down our cobbled street to the bustling kitchens of Spice Alley, beating drums, clashing cymbals and resounding gongs. They brought with them the fabled good luck, good fortune and opportunity of the Lunar New Year to Kensington Street.
The rhythm of success and opportunity continues during the month of March with Art Month, more restaurant & cool bar openings, walking tours, and heritage function spaces here on Kensington Street.
Lower Mekong - Photography by Lauren Commens
Tiw Rakarin, executive chef of Bang Luck Thai Street Food (Spice Alley) and Mama’s Buoi (Surry Hills), is poised to launch his newest culinary brainchild, Lower Mekong, in the coming days. Accompanying our Spice Alley vendors, Lower Mekong will draw from the fresh ingredients that define Vietnamese cooking.
Soon to follow, we await another new venture, looking forward to the opening of Upper Mekong. Its menu of Indochinese cuisine will take you on a culinary journey across the various cultures of South Asia. From Thai to Indochina, it embraces a world of Asian spices to stimulate all the senses.
This is just for starters. Following next... keep your eyes peeled for news on Bistrot Gavroche and Bar Chinois - so much excitement in the air as Kensington Street becomes the most sought after food destination in Sydney.
More on this soon….
Learn more about all of our Spice Alley & Kensington Street vendors here!
Nomtella, KOI Dessert Bar
Meanwhile on Kensington Street, resident dessert king Reynold Poernomo has witnessed a mass pilgrimage to his sweet-tooth kingdom KOI Dessert Bar. With incredibly high demand and mass media coverage, reserve your spot now!
Harriet Watts, Ben Elbourne & Sarah Spackman - The Fortynine Studio
Kensington Street welcomes our newest pop-up, design collective The Fortynine Studio, who excite with hand crafted kitchenware and sumptuous drapery to feast our senses, and wish to walk with us to our next destination, HOME.
LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MAY
Exhibition Opening Night: Thursday 10 March, 6 - 8PM
Lunch with The Strutt Sisters: Saturday 12 March, 1 - 2PM
Up Late with The Strutt Sisters, Art at Night: Wednesday 16 March, 6 - 10:30PM
Wintry Day (2016) by The Strutt Sisters
Let The Chips Fall Where They May happily collides with Art Month, as twin sisters Catherine and Jennifer Strutt showcase their synesthetic prowess in a series of mixed media assemblages. The Strutt Sisters craft theatres of whimsy and humour, ushering their audiences through an “erratic universe” ruled by traditional folk costumes, vintage Scandinavia and 1960s suburban interiors.
Join us at Kensington Contemporary for their opening night, 6 - 8PM Thursday 10 March!
Named “Newcastle’s next big thing” by art critic John McDonald, the pair will also be hosting Up Late with The Strutt Sisters at Kensington Contemporary as part of Art Month’s Art at Night, Chippendale. Join us from 6 - 10:30PM, Wednesday 16 March for an evening where whimsy comes to life through creative narrative, intimate conversation and music from our resident songbird CuzN.
Download the e-invite - click here
SATURDAY 12 MARCH, 2 - 4:30PM
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This month’s Free Gallery Walking Tour crosses Chippendale’s nuanced terrain of gallery institutions, from Kensington Contemporary (Let the Chips Fall Where They May, The Strutt Sisters) to ascending up myriad collections in the UTS Tower. Here’s our journey:
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Kensington Contemporary: Let The Chips Fall Where They May, The Strutt Sisters
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University of Technology Sydney, Pat Corrigan Collection including works by Patricia Piccinini, Rosemary Laing, Shaun Gladwell, Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori, Wentja Napaltjarri and Michael Riley’s cloud series
Tour attendees will be accompanied by the highly esteemed art collector and philanthropist Pat Corrigan and our professional art curator Susannah Smith.
WITH THE STRUTT SISTERS AND PAT CORRIGAN
LEFT: Pat Corrigan - Sydney Morning Herald. RIGHT: The Strutt Sisters - Jennifer and Catherine
Delight with us in an insightful conversation, getting up close and personal with the ebullient Pat Corrigan and delightful duo, The Strutt Sisters.
For $25, between 1 and 2pm, our tour attendees can also join us for lunch in Spice Alley where we will sample the delights of the Kopi-Tiam, indulging in a sumptuous Asian feast specially prepared by our very talented chefs.
Complimentary wine as always!
Interested? Save your spot at lunch and on our gallery tour!
Email info@chippendalecreative.com.au or call 0417 494 317
Download the media release - click here
COME AND FEAST YOUR SENSES AND DANCE THE NIGHT AWAY
ART AT NIGHT on KENSINGTON STREET
WEDNESDAY 16 MARCH, 6 - 10:30PM
David Clare Photography
Join us on Wednesday 16 March, 6 - 10:30PM as Kensington Street comes alive in celebration of Art Month’s Art at Night, Chippendale.
The Chippendale Creative Precinct and Kensington Contemporary present Art at Night on Kensington Street, hosting pops ups, creatives and performers in their bid to take over the night.
Pop in to Kensington Contemporary for some stimulating conversation at Up Late with The Strutt Sisters, before English singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, CuzN makes your hips shake and your heart flutter with his infectious acoustic sermons on love and life.
Lyn&Tony, Scented Intoxication, Object: Australian Design Centre
Designer collective, Lyn Balze and Tony Perkins occupy 46/48 Kensington Street for Art Month in a continuation of their much celebrated exhibition, Scented Intoxication.
Straight from the Australian Design Center, the duo blur distinctions of art, design and craft as they continue their love affair with materials, textures and the forms and scents of the Australian landscape.
Look, feel and smell your way through this stunning exhibition.
Calling all artists from far and wide!
Each year, the Chippendale New World Art Prize explores a different facet of a reborn world, akin to the precinct’s revitalization over the past decade. This year, we shift our thematic focus onto Spirit, the force which invigorates the creative communities and spaces we thrive in.
The winner will be granted a $10,000 art residency with Arte Studio Ginestrelle Retreat in Assisi, Italy.
The Art Prize calls upon artists, creative agencies and students to be inspired by the capacity of art to breathe new life into the urban sphere, and to embrace the new world of art technologies within their entries.
Judges of this year’s prize include Wayne Tunnicliffe, Head Curator of Australian Art at the Art Gallery of NSW, and noted philanthropist and patron of the arts, Dr Stanley Quek.
SUBMISSIONS HERE
Project Botanicals, Bombay Saphire
Kensington Street is now offering its unique historical spaces for your next private function.
From fashion shows, international art fairs, cocktail parties and weddings to boardroom lunches, business conferences and team building workshops, Kensington Street’s Old Rum Store and Federation terraces will accommodate you and your needs.
The kitchens of Spice Alley, Mekong and Bistrot Gavroche are here for all your catering wants.
To find out more please contact Nicky Ginsberg Creative Director: nickyginsberg@kensingtonstreet.com.au
Media moguls have fixed their eye on Kensington Street. Here’s what’s been spinning out from the press recently.
Australian Financial Review - Dr Stanley Quek featured in "Chinese New Year tipped to bring new opportunities.
Belle Magazine - Orders Please feature on The Old Clare Hotel
Belle Magazine - LOCAL DESIGN featured in Euro Splash trends
Broadsheet - Automata's international co.lab program
Concrete Playground - LOCAL DESIGN, Sydney's brand new design hub.
Delicious Magazine - Insiders News, KOI - serving savoury bites and fine dining desserts!
Evening Standard - "Take a break from the sun and surf and explore Sydney's inner city via its newest bolthole, The Old Clare Hotel."
Forbes - The Old Clare: "The Design-Led Boutique Hotel That Sydney Needed."
Good Food - Clayton Wells (Automata)
Sunday Telegraph (Sydney Confidential) - Up and coming restaurants on Kensington Street
Sydney Morning Herald - KOI Dessert Bar (Good Food)
Sydney Morning Herald - Chinese New Year on Kensington Street
Tourism Australia (Korea) - Spice Alley
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