A silver gelatin dry plate glass negative in landscape format.

Country Always

Caring for Country

A Corner of the Empire

The Garden Palace

Sepia photograph of the Technological Museum and a cow in the foreground

The Holding Pen

The Agricultural Hall

Sepia photograph of the Technological College and Museum in Broken Hill

Regional Networks

Across New South Wales

A Museum of Doing

Technological Museum

Black and white photograph of man walking through eucalyptus plantation

Expanding Stories

Evolution of the Castle Hill site from botanical research station to Museum Discovery Centre

Colour photograph of red corrugated iron building from a high vantage point

Transforming the Tramsheds

Powerhouse Stage 1 and the Harwood Building

A Symbol in Time

Sydney Observatory

Powerhouse Museum, Stage 2 exterior from high angle, city skyline in background

Ongoing Transformations

Powerhouse Ultimo

Blurred image from film with museum object number

Applied Arts and Sciences

Defining the terms in the 21st century

Powerhouse Renewal

Two people standing next to a cow in a field of cows.

Powerhouse Food: Producers

Across Western Sydney24 Aug 2024 — 25 Jul 2025

We Rise

Blak Powerhouse

A tall rocket with a long trail of burning fuel lifts off from a launchpad at Cape Canaveral.

Powerhouse-1 Mission Launch to the ISS

An initiative of the Powerhouse: Future Space program

Photofields

Across Sydney6—7 Dec

Exoskeleton

Powerhouse Parramatta

A woman stands on stage in front of a large audience. She has her left hand raised in the air and a microphone in her right hand. The audience are holding their phones up recording the woman.

Blak Powerhouse 2023

Powerhouse x We Are Warriors

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Program Spring School Holidays 2024

Creative Studio: Blak World Building

Name: Creative Studio: Blak World Building
Start: 2024-09-30T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2024-10-02T04:00:00.000Z
Location: PHIVE

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when

Ended 2 Oct 2024

price

Free

where

PHIVE

Collaboratively conceptualise and build your own fictional world in this free 3-day workshop with Awesome Black’s award-winning artist Travis De Vries.

Using gameplay as a creative tool, students will work as a team to build a shared environment for an ideal future growing a concept for them to further develop as a group or individuals. Students will be guided through by De Vries using various processes of game creation and play followed by environmental and character concept art making.

This workshop will prepare participants to develop and present their worlds at home to family and friends.

Presented by Powerhouse at PHIVE in partnership with TAFE NSW.

Artists

Awesome Black is a creative social enterprise, developing original First Nations talent and unique storytelling content across a variety of mediums.

Travis De Vries is a Gamilaroi and Dharug artist and the founding Executive Director of Awesome Black. He is renowned for mixing traditional landscape photography with a unique approach inspired by his oil painting practice. In the sonic space, De Vries is known as Source Decay, crafting ambient soundscapes and immersive audio experiences.