Blank Cultural Platform

✨ THIS FRIDAY!✨

For one gorgeous evening, this very d-i-v-e-r-s-e group of musicians will create a continuous long-form improvised performance shaped through deep listening, collaborating and responding.

The room will be stage-less so you can wander, find a cozy corner, or stretch out on the floor and sink into the musical conversation unfolding in real time.

🌙 Melt is the multi-instrumental project of Jordan Rodger, blending Eno-inspired loop-based music, post-rock grooves and contemporary jazz. For this special performance, Melt expands into a two-drum-kit quintet, with Jordan guiding the improvised shape of the evening.

🌙 Ziyu Chen is a professional guzheng player from Canberra’s GlowLing Band. Through the shimmering sounds of this 2,700-year-old Chinese instrument, she shares a sense of peace, beauty and connection to a rich musical tradition.

🌙 ALPHAMALE is the experimental viola-and-electronics project of Hannah de Feyter, whose work spans sonic installation, theatre sound design and film soundtracks. Immersive sounds somewhere between music and atmosphere.

🌙 Lucyvale is the ambitious solo project of Lucy Skipper, exploring music that unfolds slowly and transforms over time. Drawing from post-rock, folk, krautrock, noise and heavier experimental sounds, Lucyvale embraces long-form journeys and surprising destinations.
Our friends at Trust Club will be serving alcohol-free drinks and snacks ☕✨

Melt presents: Massa Fusa
Friday 19 June
doors at 6:30pm, music from 7pm
Level 1, 131 City Walk

Tickets: https://events.humanitix.com/massa-fusa

Hosted by You Are Here Canberra at Blank Cultural Platform

City Renewal CBR

Part crew, part label, part LARP, Dark Future Picnic Music is a Canberra-based concept art project led by a multi-disciplinary collective of DJs, musicians, designers, engineers, educators, data analysts, and visual artists. This project is driven by a single question:

How can rave culture bring community, resilience, and romance to a world beset by socioeconomic injustice, geopolitical turmoil, and a rapidly changing climate?

This event is an invitation to take part in DFPM’s first step towards answering this question. More than a launch or party, it is an invitation to face this reality and build hope from dystopia.

Join us on a six-hour musical journey into a dark future where the sounds of dub, dubby house, dub techno, dubstep, and steppers became the means for a culture of resistance.

🔗 Ticket link in bio!

Blank Archive: Jazz and Friends
30th May, 2026
Photography:

Jazz and Friends was a jazz fusion and live art event featuring @6, .5 with , .way.orkestra, and on the decks as Garaújo. Live art was performed by and roving circus entertainment was performed by

Jazz and Friends brought a crowd of 250 attendees and achieved a colourful and buzzy atmosphere. It was the first event to emerge from two members of Blank’s community working together to host a mutual passion project: of Rush Hour 5 / alumni of Blank’s Activation Lab, and (Blank’s founder)

As an organisation, we felt we had a better feel for delivering an immersive audience experience after learning from the first event in the programming, but the setup and demand on staff was still clunky. Between intermittent drizzles of rain over the outdoor venue and a few key team members away sick, getting everything ready within the time we had was challenging. However, aside from a slight delay on doors opening, the event ran smoothly and we recorded some new processes on dealing with weather events on the fly.

Thanks again to everyone who came, and to for making Blank Cultural Platform possible

This winter, You Are Here is hosting a series of cozy creative workshops at our new HQ in the city. Come learn something new, meet some lovely people, and make something to cherish.

FLIP & FLAPPIN’ BIRD PUPPETS

Get hands-on and join Canberra artist Tom Buckland transforming cardboard and other recycled materials into fun moving bird puppets. With simple materials participants will learn how to create simple mechanical mechanisms to make their bird flip, flap and come to life. This workshop is suitable for all skill levels.

Tom Buckland is a Canberra based artist. Working with recycled materials such as cardboard and salvaged electronics, Buckland creates playful, interactive and experimental installation, video and performance work that invites the audience to embark on a journey of discovery. They have exhibited and taught widely across Australia.

Participants will progressively create their bird puppets over three weeks:

Workshop 1 - Wednesday 24 June
Workshop 2 - Wednesday 1 July
Workshop 3 - Wednesday 8 July

All workshops run from 6:30pm-8:30pm at our Workshop in the city! Level 1, 131 City Walk.

All materials are provided. These workshops are designed to be welcoming, relaxed, and low-pressure — perfect for absolute beginners as well as people looking to reconnect with their creativity or try something different this winter.

Our space is alcohol-free, open to people aged 16+, and focused on creating a comfortable and inclusive environment where you can experiment, make mistakes, and enjoy the process.

PLUS! participants can share their work at our Open Day on Saturday 1 August if they’d like to.

TICKETS
Three ticketing tiers available. Total price includes all 3 workshops. Choose whichever ticket tier works for your budget!

Places are limited, get in quick 😉

https://events.humanitix.com/flip-and-flappin-bird-puppets-workshops-with-tom-buckland

Made possible by Visa in partnership with Main Street Australia. Helping Australia's Main Streets Thrive

🔥 ROOFTOP ROOTS + REGGAE 🔥 A winter gathering of music, community and good vibes @ Blank Cultural Platform

Join us for 6 hours of roots reggae, dub, ska and heavyweight grooves high above the city with three of the region’s finest live acts, plus DJs, sound systems, winter vibes and a rooftop full of good people. 🎟️ TIX https://events.humanitix.com/rooftop-roots-reggae

🎺 → This Way Orkestra ←
Canberra’s own genre-bending collective blending reggae, dub, afrobeat, jazz and cinematic grooves into powerful horn-driven original music.

🌴 Kopasetic
Long-running Canberra favourites delivering uplifting roots reggae, soulful grooves and positive vibrations inspired by classic Jamaican soundsystem culture.

🔊 Agency Dub Collective
Australian live dub pioneers combining deep bass pressure, live instrumentation and immersive electronic textures into heavyweight soundsystem journeys.

🚲 Featuring the Spangled Drongos mobile sound system keeping the vibes flowing between bands + DJs DJ DeDe Da Cruz + Paulius Gutauskas + James Nichols.

The first Rooftop Roots + Reggae packed out the rooftop before Blank formally opened. This second edition is bigger, deeper and bass-heavier, expanding to three bands and a full evening of music from 4pm–10pm.

❄️ Winter air.
🔥 Warm rhythms.
🍻 Good drinks.
🤝 Great company.

Rug up, bring your crew and join us for a celebration of roots music, community and culture under the Canberra winter sky.

🎟️ TIX @ https://events.humanitix.com/rooftop-roots-reggae

Blank Archive - Baby Crawl by .cbr
23 May 2026
Photography by Georgia Arndell

Baby Crawl was a gig crawl by Red Ink that involved both Blank and , featuring acts and performers staged across the two venues. Attendees were invited to walk between spaces with performances flowing sequentially.

Performed Baby Crawl at Blank:
(live)
(live)
B2B (DJ)
(live)

Red Ink is a Canberra-based magazine and organising crew that covers and platforms our arts scene.

This event also served as Blank’s first gig involving a local organising crew, bringing many learnings about signage and AV.

Blank Archive - Superconductor

What is Blank Archive? We have been reflecting lately on how to best build cultural capital in Canberra. Great concepts and organising know-how are often lost as people come to Canberra for a reason or a season, and then leave with this knowledge to cities like Sydney and Melbourne. For Canberra to be able to meaningfully build its own scene and reputation, we strongly believe in the need for a library of activations and resources that anyone can access. The ability to see what has come before us is the best guide to what we might create in the future.

For every major event or happening going forward at Blank Cultural Platform, think of Blank Archive as a diary entry.

Superconductor was hosted by Ben Tindale under the artist name Mr. One Oscillator. Ben is a local analogue synth collector and enthusiast, and works as a freelance aerospace engineer and fabricator. He is a lifelong Canberra resident.

Superconductor was a concept event of a day and night live electronic jam, where any local musician was invited to plug in and sync up to a long table of instruments. Ben acted as the ‘super’ conductor, keeping these instruments mixed and EQ’d in real time.

Blank also used the opportunity of 12hrs of live music to invite along members of its community in graffiti and street art to host a painting jam, where we mural’d our terrace over the course of the gig.

What a little treat we have cooking for you!

Kicking off You Are Here’s series of delightfully cozy winter workshops and gigs, we’re thrilled to welcome Sandy Ma for a very special weekend of sound, textiles and curious joy.

On Sunday 7 June, join Sandy for a two-hour Touching Wires workshop exploring textile computing, embroidery and sound-making through reflective storytelling and e-textiles.
With a background in creative computing, Sandy’s practice intersects embodiment, sound and performance to create playful and surprising interactive experiences. In this hands-on workshop, participants will embroider conductive textiles that can be plugged into Sandy’s Touching Wires synthesiser system to create sound, before taking home their own conductive embroidered memories.

Sunday 7 June
2pm-4pm
Hosted by at .platform

You can also catch Sandy performing with their Touching Wires synthesiser system the night before, at the vegetable.machine.animal gig on Saturday 6 June, joined by local legends including Reuben Ingall, Harland Rust and Feemer.

Bonus treat: if you grab a ticket to the gig first, you’ll get a discount on the workshop ticket.

Ticket links in bio!

Presenting Executive Dysfunction...the hottest business meeting you’ve ever been to.

12 hours of corporate chaos. Symphonic synergy. Performative productivity. Surely you know the drill by now.

Hosted by at .platform - tickets and info in bio!