Join artists and arts workers Bec Gallo and Emma Harbridge alongside NAVA for a practical and engaging workshop exploring organisational models, collective practice and spaces. Tuesday 29 September, Fairfield City Museum & Gallery, 6pm - 8pm.
In this workshop, present and past Pari directors Emma Harbridge (emoeba h♡rtbridge) and Bec Gallo will share their experiences being founders and custodians of artist-run spaces, as well as navigating collaborative artistic practices. They will touch on some key questions and issues surrounding collective practice and spaces, including labour, values and ethics, governance and structures, organisational sustainability, and difficult conversations. The workshop will include opportunities for questions and discussion, as well as a creative activity exploring how our values shape the ways we approach working together.
Part of the Creatives in the Neighbourhood program, this workshop is delivered in partnership with the National Association for the Visual Arts and Fairfield City Museum & Gallery.
When: Tuesday 29 September, 6-8pm
Where: Fairfield City Museum & Gallery 634 The Horsley Drive Smithfield, NSW 2164
Cost: Free
Emma Harbridge (emoeba h♡rtbridge) is an artist + artsworker from southwestsyd aka Dharug + Bidjigal land. They began as a keeper at Pari and grew into becoming one of many co-directors; handling day-to-day parts of the space/community/group project. Em is passionate about visual and/or phonetic story-telling, film, movement, and collective-cultural-health. She has run food, movement, and art-making workshops for community in spaces like AGNSW, Utp, Crip Rave Theory (PACT), Think+DO Tank, Parramatta Artist Studios, PHIVE, and Firstdraft. She works interchangeably as an installer, caterer, and workshop facilitator.
The thing Bec Gallo is most proud of is co-founding artist-run space Pari on Burramattagal country back in 2019, and seeing it go on to thrive. They also make art as part of the collaborative duo Make or Break, whose process-based projects are often co-authored with other people, communities, systems, and things. Both solo and as part of Make or Break, Bec has exhibited in spaces around Australia and internationally, including at Campbelltown Arts Centre, Lismore Regional Gallery, the Institute of Modern Art Brisbane, and the Yokohama Museum of Art. Bec's work in the sector spans writing, curating, producing, teaching, and installing.
Disabled access to most buildings and parking available. The Machinery Shed (where the workshop will take place) is wheelchair accessible. There are no Hearing Loops or any other assistive technologies in the space.
Auslan interpreters can be organised if requested. Please include accessibility requirements in your registration form. If you have any questions, please get in touch with donnalyn@visualarts.net.au as soon as possible.
Image credit: Pari ARI, Parramatta. Photo by Garry Trinh, 2026.
ID: A group of people in an indoor exhibition, chatting and eating food on plates.
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