107 on The Rocks

Information Desk
Ground, Atherden St, The Rocks
11am – 5pm Thu & Sun | 11am – 8pm Fri & Sat

Chat to the friendly team to find out more about 107 Projects and the 107 on The Rocks festival. Pick up an art map to help you find and explore the art hubs and take yourself on a tour through Sydney’s most historic precinct.

Music & Art Installation | FREE ENTRY
Ground, Atherden St
11am – 5pm, Thu – Sun

The House will showcase their new work Tender Young Creatures, which explores the stories of 100 women through a 100 minute original composition/live performance, among an installation of 100 hand-made red capes. 

The House creates platforms for female voices to shine now, and ensures they will be heard in the future. Artistic Director, Danielle O’Keefe, structures performances to place the audience in the centre of the experience, able to discern individual voices amongst the collective choral work.

Pop-up bar | FREE
Ground, Atherden St
5pm - 10pm, Fri 15, Sat 16, Fri 29 & Sat 30

Family-friendly vintage arcade games, provided by Z Ball. Free entry and no tickets required.

Workshops | FREE ENTRY
Level 1, Atherden St
10am – 3pm, Mon 11 – Thu 14; 10am – 3pm Tue 19 – Thu 21

A series of holiday workshops will be provided for young people (8-26yo) to explore their creativity and build self confidence while engaging and responding to the unique environment of The Rocks. Tickets to each workshop are limited. Register to secure your spot.

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Shopfront Movement & Storytelling Workshop | buy now
Shopfront Filmmaking Workshops | buy now
Shopfront Visual Arts Workshops | buy now

Video Projection Installation | FREE ENTRY
Unwins Courtyard
5pm – 8pm,  Thu – Sat

Multi disciplinary Gadigal, Wiradjuri, Yuin Artist, Sydney based, born in Sydney in 1969 on her ancestral country she has extensive training and skills in Western and Indigenous Art Practice.

Acknowledged as a Master Weaving practitioner engaged with ongoing revitalisation of traditional cultural practices ,supporting young and emerging artists to develop core skills.

Stay tuned for more specifics on the artwork.

Workshops | FREE – $20 Workshops
11:30am - 1pm & 3pm - 4:30pm, Sat 9
11.30am - 1pm  (Kids school holiday workshop), Sat 16
2pm - 3.30pm (ages 13+), Sat 16
1pm - 4pm, Sat 23
11am - 12.30pm & 2.30pm - 4pm, Sat 30

Step into Rizzotopia, a creative wonderland created by the team at The Rizzeria. Featuring daily workshops and demos with a large installation of printed works that grows over the four weeks from participants’ works. Tickets are free, however we recommend registering in advance.

The Rizzeria is a 100% volunteer-run, not-for-profit co-op. They own a ME9350 risograph stencil printer, which is made available to the public through open-print sessions and workshops.
Risograph printing is an affordable and unique stencil printing technique, known for its vibrant colours (including fluoro and metallic inks), its handcrafted aesthetic, and the ability to layer different colours. It is great for producing small editions of art prints, posters, postcards, zines and more.

Get tickets

• The Rizzeria @ 107 on The Rocks | Thu – Sun | FREE TICKETS
• Rizzo at the Rocks | Sat 9 & Sat 30| Tickets $15-20
• The Future Is Fluro | Sat, 9 April Tickets $15-20
• Making Changes (ages 13+) | Sat, 16 April | FREE TICKETS
• Let’s make changes! | Sat, 16 April | Tickets $15-20
• Riso Poster Making: Futures of work and play | Sat, 23 April | Tickets $15-20
• Mini Zines  | Sat, 30 April | Tickets $15-20

Live Music Series | FREE  – $15
The Courtyard

Balmy Nights brings delicious tunes, bevs and food together across multiple balmy April evenings.   

Programmed by FBi Radio and Sydney Improvised Music Association, there’ll be a mix of music genres from R&B, funk, hip-hop, jazz all mixed together for a balmy good time putting live music back on stages.

Live Performances

9 April – Great Southern Nights with Anieszka & Melanie April | BUY TICKETS

10 April – Shifting Basslines with Sittin Pretty | GET TICKETS

14 April – Balmy Nights Live Music | GET TICKETS

15 April – Balmy Nights Live Music | GET TICKETS

16 April – Honey Point | BUY TICKETS

17 April – Ella Haber & Madam3Empress | GET TICKETS

21 April – Kyoshi | GET TICKETS

23 April – SIMA | GET TICKETS

28 April – Cope Street Parade & 343 Brass Band  | GET TICKETS        

29 April – Friday with Heaps Decent | GET TICKETS

30 April – Saturday with Heaps Decent | GET TICKETS

1 May – Closing Party with LADY KING & Nardean | GET TICKETS

Video Projection Installation | FREE ENTRY
The Courtyard
11am – 5pm, Thu &  Sun | 11am -8pm Fri & Sat

The object of this piece is to 'reclaim' the urban facade in an attempt to restore the landscape to pre Colonisation. Imagining the cascading freshwater making its way down from the site of the Sydney Observatory. Prior to the rapid development of the docklands & its surrounds, the beauty of this tract of Cadigal Country would have been astounding. Blak Douglas (2022)

Art Installation | FREE ENTRY
The Courtyard
Accessible 24/7, 7 Apr – 1 May

Studio Dennis 3D will bloom to fill the Coroners Court courtyard with a garden of delight. Layers of modular pieces create a dense colourful arrangement of shapes transforming an empty urban space into bright, bold celebration. This work forms around for the 107 Balmy Nights programming but in daytime it is a stand-alone installation that offers respite from the hustle and bustle of the CBD.

Andrew B-W is an artist living and working in the sub tropics of Sydney since 2000. Studio Dennis is the collective name for a practice which covers multiple outputs such as mural art, painting, design, textiles and street graphics. Drawing from a diverse range of influences including 20th century art, low-brow comics, skateboard culture and points in-between, Studio Dennis has developed a unique language that is complex and unique.

Performance Nights | FREE ENTRY
6-8 Atherden St.
7pm – 10pm, Thu 7 – Sat 9 April

Out of Iso is back! Intimate Spectacle and the team that brought you the best of Sydney’s independent contemporary performance makers through the pandemic returns, with Out of Iso Again! (Again!)
Catch these three joyful nights in the heart of the city with eight fabulous artists across performance, dance and music. Tickets are free, however we recommend registering in advance to secure your seats.

Performance Lineup –
DJ Tropicante SoundSistema, Compañia Pepa Molina’s “Las Flamenkas”, Moreblessing Maturure, Mark Rogers & Snowy, Eliam Royalness, Christa Hughes,Rosell Flatley, Polly, MC Nitin Vengurlekar (Shammgods)

Curated by Phil Downing, Malcolm Whittaker & Latai Taumoepeau | Produced by Intimate Spectacle

Drag Kings Performance Night | $20
The Courtyard
7pm – 10pm, 22 April

Grab your dapper suits, button-down, or cuff links and join us for SYDNY KINGS SUPPER CLUB. For one night only, 107 On The Rocks will host a night of drag king performances, music and late night dancing to pay homage to kings past and present. 

Presented with the dynamic Sydney performer and talent Marlena Dali and Heaps Gay, this event has been slowly resurrecting a part of queer Sydney that still has a fervent audience of fans. 

Art Installation | FREE ENTRY
Coroner’s Cells 
11am – 5pm, Thu – Sun

Her work miyarnuwimanha translates to ‘learning, becoming knowledgeable’. The work addresses notions of knowledge transfer, resilience of the stolen generation, and the complexities of living off Country on other mob’s unceded land.

miyarnuwimanha was successful and highly acclaimed during its 2020 exhibition in The Lock Up, a colonial jail transformed into an arts space in Newcastle. Exhibiting the installation in the heart of colonial Sydney will add another layer to this highly emotional and engaging work.

Lighting Installation | FREE ENTRY
Upstairs Coroner’s Court
11am – 5pm, Thu – Sun

Jams in the Hueosphere is an interactive multimedia installation of 400 lights and 100 speakers by UNSW’s Interactive Media Lab with passerbys able to explore unique sound compositions by day and unique live music performances by night.

Live Performances ~
8:30pm – late, 9 April – Flower Boy 卓颖贤
7pm – 9:30pm, 21 April – Party Dozen
7pm – 9:30pm, 22 April – Rydeen
8pm – 9pm, 23 April – GAUCI
9:30pm – 11pm, 23 April – Flower Boy 卓颖贤 (encore)
7pm – 9pm, 24 April – Rydeen (encore)

Soundworks & Lighting Installation
Gillian Kayrooz, Joe Manton