Open House at 47 Easey Street

BAR Studio, a Melbourne-grown international hospitality design firm, has restored the historic warehouse at 47 Easey Street, Collingwood as its new studio. The local landmark, now an exemplar of adaptive reuse and green building practices, brings together a creative community of tenants that will form a new cultural hub.

The 47 Easey Street community invites you to see inside the building, open collectively to the public for the first time. Take a self-directed tour during the Open House, or book in for one of BAR Studio’s tours to learn about the story of the building’s adaptive reuse, and meet the creative community within it.

Explore publicly facing galleries:

• Agency Projects, celebrating and promoting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art, culture and people,
• Sarah Scout Presents, championing local contemporary artists,
• Useful Objects exhibiting collectible design by influential contemporary makers.

Plus see behind the scenes of creative studios, including:

• BAR Studio,
• Whale, an Amsterdam-born creative production agency, and
• Danielle Brustman interior design.

Self-guided access
1 – 4 pm
See inside the building and meet the creative community within it.

Guided tours (duration 45 minutes)
1 – 1.45 pm
3 – 3.45 pm
On the small group guided tour, learn about this exemplar of adaptive reuse and the sustainable building practices that allowed BAR Studio to preserve this building and give it a new life as a host to a creative community.

Discussion panel: Building Community and Place, Consciously
4 – 5 pm
Hear from the voices behind building the community: from the process of the building’s adaptive reuse to its current creative occupants.