Spaces & Initiatives
RMIT University
RMIT University’s Brunswick campus is dedicated to design across multiple disciplines. Building on its world-class fashion and textiles school, the campus has expanded to include industrial, graphic and product design with a focus on learning and teaching, research and innovation, and graduate opportunities.
420 Victoria Street
Ethical Property is investing more than $3m into 420 Victoria Street to transform it into a space for strategic collaboration, bringing together education, design, advanced manufacturing, healthcare and creative practitioners to design new products, develop new businesses, and create jobs in Merri-bek and beyond.
With a 20 year track record, over 30 sites globally, Ethical Property is coordinating an innovation ecosystem around this new civic space and establishing a coalition of well-established partners, with their own track records in effecting significant change at both the civic and social level.
Siteworks
Siteworks is a socially-inclusive cultural venue in the heart of Brunswick that supports a variety of community, creative and commercial uses. Siteworks welcomes a diversity of programs and initiatives, big and small, experimental and mainstream. The facilities are suitable for training, making, symposiums and exhibitions, performance development and a wide range of artistic activities. Venues range in size and specification, and are available for hourly, daily and weekly hire. It is home to over 25 creative and community organisations
Siteworks is programmed and operated by These Are The Projects We Do Together. Siteworks is proudly supported by Merri-bek Council.
Brunswick Library
Brunswick Library is a vibrant community hub located in the Brunswick Town Hall complex. In addition to having a huge range of books, CDs and DVDs to borrow – including downloadable ebooks and audiobooks – the Library is a place to attend events, work and study, or use as a meeting space, and there’s also a Makerspace on site.
Brunswick Library is a part of Merri-bek Libraries, who celebrate and preserve artistic achievements through its Made In Merri-bek collection of books, music, films and documentaries made by residents or set in the area.
Brunswick Town Hall and Counihan Gallery
Counihan Gallery
Located in the Brunswick Town Hall, Counihan Gallery presents innovative, inspiring and thought-provoking exhibition. The Gallery aims to inspire creativity, experimentation and dialogue about key ideas and issues in contemporary art and culture.
Counihan Gallery in Brunswick is Merri-bek City Council’s public art gallery and is named in honour of Australian artist and activist, Noel Counihan. Counihan Gallery manages and maintains the Moreland Art Collection, and advocates for contemporary art in Moreland.
Brunswick Mechanics Institute
Brunswick Mechanics Institute is a centre for experimental performance and artist-lead learning. Working with independent artists and creative organisations across Melbourne, the venue hosts a diverse cultural program of performance, film, talks and music. Behind the scenes, local and visiting artists use the spaces year-round to create new contemporary works.
Brunswick Mechanics Institute is Moreland City Council’s key performing arts venue and operated by Next Wave, who support artists in the development and presentation of experimental work.
Twosixty
Twosixty encompasses public programs at 260 Sydney Road as well as ‘a seat at the table’, shared workspaces at Brunswick Town Hall.
Programmed through an open application process, Twosixty encourages and supports community led programs that are political, creative, inclusive, educative and accessible, and that bring people together around artistic, civic, ecological, political and social ideas.
Twosxity is programmed and operated by These Are The Projects We Do Together. Twosixty is proudly supported by Moreland Council.