In 2025 we celebrate 20 years of curated programs at Arts House. Over that time, so many of the experimental, risky, contemporary new ‘Australian’…

 Arts House is a creative home nourishing artists’ agency and ambition.   We are thrilled to announce the next cohort of artists participating in The…

‘An ideal society should be mobile, should be full of channels for conveying a change taking place in one part to other parts. In…

Filled with field recordings, shifting and elusive soundscapes, and sonically charged performances, Okkoota centres the aural experience to interrogate histories and politics of cultural…

We spoke to past and current CultureLAB and The Warehouse Residency artists about their experiences making at Arts House.  Check out what they had…

As part of BLEED 2024, Arts House has commissioned a range of artists, thinkers and activists to explore the themes of the festival and…

BLEED returns in 2024, taking place 30 August – 29 September. Developing new contemporary art practices that are both enabled by and critical of…

We are committed to making the arts accessible to everyone. Our Season 2 program features many shows with accessible performances, including Auslan Interpreted, Tactile…

Our Season 2 program is rich with stories and perspectives both profound and resonant. Curated with justice at its heart, the season explores what…

Behind closed doors, artists are always working at Arts House. The gentle hum of music, the excitement of testing ideas, and sounds of laughter…

Last year we launched our second Disability Inclusion Action Plan (DIAP) – an action orientated plan offering transparency and momentum to the commitments we’ve…

Arts House is a creative home nourishing artists’ agency and ambition. We are thrilled to announce the next cohort of artists participating in The…

We’re thrilled to be launching our final season together as co-Artistic Directors at Arts House, and simultaneously, share with you all our Equity—Builder, and…

We are committed to making the arts accessible to everyone. Our Season 1 program features many shows with accessible performances, including Auslan Interpreted, Relaxed…

In celebration of launching our Disability Inclusion Action Plan 2023-2028, we have commissioned writer, policy advisor and Access Advisory member Jonathan Craig to share…

FRAME 2023 was an exciting pilot festival created through the collective capacity of local artists and partner organisations in Naarm. The dance sector values the…

Arts House is a place where artists research, create and present bold new ideas. Expressions of Interest for two of Arts House’s key national…

We are committed to making the arts accessible to everyone. Our Season 2 program features many shows with accessible performances, including Auslan Interpreted, Relaxed…

Ahead of YIRRAMBOI opening this week, Vanessa Morris sat down with Brent Watkins from Culture Evolves to talk about the first iteration in this ongoing series of collaborations.

Liang Luscombe: I was struck by the way Kirtika, you have described your experience as a Dalit artist working in Australia as informed by…

Liang Luscombe wayfinds her experience through Okkoota ಒಕ್ಕೂಟ and its imprints on the building through a glossary

Okkoota ಒಕ್ಕೂಟ opened on 12 April 2023. Below are the opening night remarks from Guest Curator, Vishal Kumaraswamy.  Firstly, let me start by saying…

Okkoota ಒಕ್ಕೂಟ opened on 12 April 2023. Below are the opening night remarks from Co-Artistic Director, Nithya Nagarajan.  Okkoota, a Kannada word meaning ‘assembly,…

Alongside our sibling venues, ArtPlay and Signal, we are thrilled and delighted to welcome Amrit Gill as our new Creative Program Lead. Amrit was…

The driving question behind Arts House’s opening program this year is one that sounds both ambitious and catastrophic: What is the place of culture…

Arts House, Melbourne and Utp, Sydney collaboratively designed a 10-month long spacious program for a transgenerational cohort of 5 artists from VIC and 5…

A huge thanks to our 196 applicants across CultureLAB and The Warehouse Residency this year. In my early days as co-Artistic Director, it was a distinct privilege…

Arts House is thrilled to reveal the cohort of artists participating in CultureLAB 2023-24.

The Warehouse Residency is Arts House’s main commissioning pathway for D/deaf and Disability-led projects presented at North Melbourne Town Hall. Let us introduce you…

To ensure we continue to develop approaches towards an equitable, welcoming, intersectional and inclusive environment at Arts House, we are pleased to announce our…

Arts House is committed to making North Melbourne Town Hall a welcoming and accessible space, and presenting work by Australia’s leading D/deaf and Disabled…

2022 was a bumper year for Arts House. Our Co-Artistic Directors, Emily and Nithya, have captured some of the highlights.

We’re beyond thrilled to welcome Louana Sainsbury to the Arts House team as Creative Producer.

In February 2023, City of Melbourne will commence works to restore the facade of the North Melbourne Town Hall, which was built in 1876….

FRAME: A biennial of dance is coming to Melbourne and surrounds in March 2023. You’re invited to assemble, discuss, participate and witness dance across…

Starting as a comment on their strange resemblance, Aaron and Sol share more on their friendship and how their creative partnership came to be.

Watch a creative development video of the work, featuring Aaron and Sol, from March 2019.

From March to May 2022, Catherine Dunn and Sam Martin worked with a group of Deaf artists to create a culturally safe space to…

Priya Srinivasan is joined by long-time collaborator Philipa Rothfield along with Uthra Vijay, an intergenerational Keerthana Women’s Choir, Hari Sivanesan, Govin Ruben and Marcus…

Growing up in Naarm, Melbourne was a dichotomous existence! I came from suburbia but through dancing, I was exposed to queerness and to radical…

Speak Percussion commissions three wunderkind composers to fuse screen and sound, projection and percussion, rhythm and light into a remarkable live performance event. 

The film that inspired the mystical new dance work.

And she was wearing trousers: a call to our heroines has brought together multidisciplinary artists to collaborate on an exhibition, live music, window installations and artist talks.

Rawcus is a vast and vibrant body of performers who together devise and present the company’s work. We’ve assembled their details to introduce you to the them.

Read more about the making of Jurrungu Ngan-ga. Presented as part of RISING 2022. 

A new dance festival for artists and audiences in Melbourne.

A new dance festival for artists and audiences in Melbourne.

Nat Randall and Anna Breckon bring together film and theatre in a way that transforms the nature of both. Learn more about their creative process and how Set Piece came to life.

We’re feeling ourselves again, and perhaps the best part of that feeling is being able to confidently share this magical season of new art…

We’re expanding our ticketing policy for Season 2 this year, and letting you choose the cost of your ticket.

Glimpses of the Hercules rehearsal room

“Hercules is a meme.” An artist statement by Daniel Schlusser Ensemble

Hercules is a powerful and challenging new work from the acclaimed Daniel Schlusser Ensemble that drops a mineshaft deep into the bedrock of the…

We’re delighted to introduce you to the team behind Hercules, the exciting new work by Daniel Schlusser Ensemble.

Introducing the Arts House Creative Advisory Group

Meet the team behind the exciting new work from Melbourne’s most surprising theatre luminaries, THE RABBLE.

Images: Pier Carthew YES – THE RABBLEWed 30 Mar – Sun 10 Apr, 2022 Auslan Interpreted performance: Thu 7 Apr, 7.30pmAudio Described performance: Fri…

“What happens if we abandon the structures of authority?” An artist statement by THE RABBLE

  YES – THE RABBLE Wed 30 Mar – Sun 10 Apr, 2022 Auslan Interpreted performance: Thu 7 Apr, 7.30pm Audio Described performance: Fri…

An investigation into the dynamics of power, consent, knowledge, truth and the complexities of one seemingly simple word.

Melbourne’s biggest festival is back to stay, and Arts House is here for it.

Announcing the Artist cohort taking part in our latest CultureLAB and Makeshift Publics programs.

We are thrilled to announce the inaugural residents for Arts House’s new five-year Deaf and Disability-led residency and commissioning program.

Meet our inaugural Warehouse Residency artists. 

Makeshift Publics supports artists to explore ideas of place in a changed city. Meet our cohort of artists for 2022-23 here.

CultureLAB is about new ideas coming to life. Meet our cohort of artists for 2022-23 here.

Lucy Guerin tells us all about what makes her latest creation tick.

Delve into the history of work between Lucy Guerin Inc and Arts House

Lucy Guerin Inc are back in the building and although you may be familiar with their work, we wanted to introduce you properly to the team behind Flux Job. 

This year we’ve doubled down on our commitment to making our art accessible to everyone, and $20 tickets across the board are just the beginning.

A dance work that shifts scale between the microscopic and the universal, Make Your Life Count is an invitation to lose yourself.

Arts House is kicking off 2022 with a riot of colour, music, movement and connection.

Makeshift Publics brings us the questions beneath the questions.

It’s been a big year for deep thinking. Also for carbs.  But for me, and for the Arts House team, this year has been…

An expanded understanding of the importance of the arts and communication in dealing with disasters.

The year is almost up but we’re just beginning: for one week in December we’re bringing you some of Melbourne’s most brilliant companies and artists. Welcome back.