Family Days at the 25th Biennale of Sydney are a celebration of creativity, colour, and connection! Designed for kids (and kids at heart), these lively days invite families to explore, play, and make art together. Expect hands-on workshops, performances, and activities bursting with energy, music, and laughter, all curated by community-led organisations who bring their unique perspectives and local spirit to the program.
Joyous, loud, and full of life, Family Days are your invitation to dive into art, imagination, and shared experiences for all ages. And best of all, entry is free!
Presented by Major Partner Arada.
An.Other Collective: Open House: Leave Your Shoes By the Door
Open House: Leave Your Shoes By the Door is a participatory activation inviting families and visitors to reflect on the home as a site of healing, memory and care.
This space is an open house — a living room made public. Rooted in the ethics of dhiyafah (hospitality) and silaturahmi (connection), we invite you to enter not as a visitor but as a guest, and reflect on how the everyday rituals of home — gathering, hosting, resting — shape our sense of belonging. Across cultures and communities, the home carries memory. It holds the small, familiar acts that bring people together: sharing tea, setting a table, sitting side by side. This activation explores how these gestures can be extended into a public space, creating moments of care, reflection, and connection.
This installation unfolds across four connected experiences:
The Table That Grows (downstairs)
A communal table that expands throughout the day. You are invited to draw or write a memory of home on a coaster and add it to the installation. Each contribution is hung along red threads, gradually extending the table and building a shared archive of memories.
Activation will break from 12.30 pm-1 pm.
White Noise: A Living Soundscape (downstairs)
Contribute to our layered audio collage of domestic life and personal stories. Listen closely — fragments of memory, care, and lived experience gather here, transforming private reflections into a collective atmosphere of empathy and witness.
Activation will break from 12.30 pm-1 pm.
Community Photo (upstairs)
Help us grow an evolving collection of photographs capturing families, gestures, and moments of togetherness. We invite families and community members to create new memories by having their photos taken within a playful backdrop that reflects our collective memory of home.
Activation will break from 1 pm-1.30 pm.
Tea Time: A Ritual of Nearness (throughout the day, at the hour)
Tea is one of the simplest gestures of welcome — an offering that asks nothing in return, yet makes space for everything. Across diasporic homes, it signals pause, presence, and care. At certain moments, you may notice cups being poured, hands gathering, a quiet shift in the room. Follow it. Join if you wish.
An invitation
Move through the space slowly. Sit, listen, observe.
Take part if you wish — add to the table, share a memory, accept a cup of tea, take a photograph with us of your family or simply rest within the presence of others.
This house grows through you.
Nido Early School: Creative Continuum
Children are invited to contribute to two large collaborative paintings, one inspired by the bold abstract shapes of Wassily Kandinsky, and the other drawing on the storytelling and cultural connection of Garrwa / Yanyuwa artist Nancy Yukuwal McDinny.
At Nido, every expression matters, and this beautiful activation reflects their commitment to nurturing creativity from the very beginning.
Face Painting by Angel’s Artistry
11am – 4pm
Add an extra splash of colour and fun to the day, with little (and big!) imaginations invited to transform into butterflies, tigers, shimmering stars or whatever magical creature they dream up. Angel’s Artistry face painters will be on hand throughout the day, creating joyful designs that celebrate creativity and self-expression — the perfect finishing touch before heading off to explore the exhibition or joining a workshop. Come early, pick your favourite design and wear your artwork proudly as you roam White Bay Power Station.
You’ll find this colourful destination in Memory Lane Markets.
Memory Lane Markets
Memory Lane Markets brings together a vibrant mix of multicultural food vendors, each offering dishes shaped by memory, heritage and identity — echoing the themes of the 25th Biennale of Sydney, Rememory.
Across the markets, you’ll encounter flavours spanning Pakistani, Palestinian, Lebanese, Persian, East African, Chinese and South East Asian cuisines, alongside bakeries and nostalgic Australian desserts. Come hungry, wander, feed your curiosity, and taste your way through stories from near and far.
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