Arts House | A City of Melbourne Contemporary Performance Space

Arts House acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the land, the Bunurong Boon Wurrung and Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung peoples of the Eastern Kulin Nation, and pay our respect to Elders both past and present and, through them, to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

What’s On

Refuge 2021 Documentary - Portage: Shelter2Camp by Jen Rae, photo by Bryony Jackson - Two emergency services people wearing high-vis orange uniforms. One with a blond ponytail is holding a rope structure with a woman in a black headscarf

Refuge 2021 Documentary Short Film

For six years Arts House’s annual Refuge program has imagined how we might prepare in the face of a disaster. In 2021 we ask…

MASS MOVEMENT Documentary Short Film

Latai Taumoepeau

MASS MOVEMENT contemplates the reality of forced relocation of Pacific people from their submerging island nations. Following the coordinates of saltwater, freshwater and civic…

Refuge Talks Series: Recovering from a Pandemic

4 Jun

There’s no going back. In this final instalment of Refuge Talks Series we face forward. From seismic shifts in government and communities to…

Watershed

21 Apr – 16 May

Cass Lynch

Step out of the time shallows and into the deep-water memory of Boonwurrung Country. Developed in collaboration with Boonwurrung Elder N’arweet Carolyn Briggs, Watershed…

News & Insights

Artist Opportunities - Makeshift - Image by J Forsyth - Seven people sitting around a table in conversation, one is signing, there is a red curtain in the background

Arts House Artist Opportunities 2022-23

Arts House is committed to supporting artists to imagine new futures.

Arts House’s annual call-out for new ideas is now open.

Makeshift Publics Facilitator Group

Makeshift Publics is part of Arts House’s ongoing Makeshift program, which has been developed to directly respond to the situations we all face right now.

Meet the Makeshift Publics facilitators. In 2021 a group of 10 artists and eight facilitators from a range of artistic fields collaborated in peer-to-peer…

$20 for 2021 – that’s all you’ll pay for any ticket to Arts House this year

Arts House is a home for artists who take risks. As a team we build specific and careful scaffold structures for those risks –…

Our guide to living local

All of us at Arts House are super-passionate about the neighbourhood around us.
We spend a lot of time exploring Errol St and the surrounding area and we hope you will too.