Taking over USYD campus with art, music and so much more, Creative Month is here to flip everyday spaces into immersive experiences. It's a celebration of the creativity that's already thriving here, thanks to all of you! With accessible and inclusive events, performances and workshops, we're turning campus into a living canvas of imagination, collaboration and possibility.
This year, explore three distinct zones across campus come alive with creativity:
1️⃣ Seymour Centre, Verge Gallery, NAB International Student Lounge, Hermann's Bar
2️⃣ Fisher Library, Chau Chak Wing Museum, The Great Hall, The Cellar Theatre
3️⃣ Schaeffer Library, Manning Bar, Sydney College of the Arts (SCA)
🗓️ 3 - 25 September
📍 Camperdown/Darlington campus
Creative Month Highlights
In Bloom: Creative Month Launch Party
We're kicking off Creative Month with a celebration of new beginnings, cosmic harmony and vibrant potential! Join us at Hermann's Bar for a night of music, food, art and revelry as you preview what's to come for the month.
🗓️ 3 September, 5:30pm - 9:30pm
📍 Hermann's Bar
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Museum of Togetherness
A pop-up exhibition designed to support international students as they navigate homesickness, cultural adjustment and university life.
🗓️ 3 - 25 September, all day
📍 NAB International Student Lounge
Pocket Art Market
We're bringing a curated artist market celebrating student, emerging and independent to the iconic Great Hall. Pop by and find something sweet to take home in your pocket!
🗓️ 21 September, 10am - 4pm
📍 The Great Hall
Battle of the Bands
Discover the next generation of USYD's top student talent at Manning Bar.
🗓️ 8, 9 & 23 September, 6pm - 11pm
📍 Manning Bar
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Creative Clubs Precinct
Experience the creativity of USYD's student community with hands-on workshops and community events every Tuesday and Thursday throughout Creative Month.
🗓️ 8, 10, 15, 17 & 24 September, 12pm - 4pm
📍 NAB International Student Lounge
Creative Awards Night + Creative Month Closing Party
Send off Creative Month with a bang at Verge’s annual USU Creative Awards Night!
🗓️ 24 September, 5:30pm - 8:30pm
📍 Verge Gallery
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Full schedule
Zone 1
Museum of Togetherness
A pop-up exhibition designed to support international students as they navigate homesickness, cultural adjustment and university life.
🗓️ 3 - 25 September, all day
📍 NAB International Student Lounge
Creative Awards Exhibition
Explore the Creative Awards 2026 exhibition at Verge Gallery and immerse yourself in the works of Sydney’s up-and-coming artists, musicians, writers, and filmmakers.
🗓️ 24 August - 25 September, 10am - 5pm
📍 Verge Gallery
In Bloom: Creative Month Launch Party
Creative Month kicks off on 3 September with a Springtime celebration of new beginnings, cosmic harmony and vibrant potential. Join us at Hermann's for a night of music, food, art and revelry!
🗓️ Thursday 3 September, 5:30pm - 9:30pm
📍 Hermann's Bar
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Museum of Togetherness: Launch Party
Celebrate the opening of Museum of Togetherness with an evening of conversation, creativity and connection. See the exhibition come to life in a welcoming atmosphere designed to foster community and belonging.
🗓️ Friday 4 September, 4pm - 6pm
📍 NAB International Student Lounge
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Engo Revue: Sydney, We Have A Problem!
Get ready for a wild night of sketch comedy brought to you by the brightest minds from the engineering faculty and beyond. Strap in for a night of laughing, crying and rolling on the floor (but hopefully just laughing).
🗓️ 3 - 5 September, 7:30pm - 9:30pm
📍 Seymour Centre
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Creative Clubs Precinct
Experience the creativity of USYD's student community with workshops and events at the Creative Clubs Precinct. Learn new skills, meet fellow creatives and discover the many ways to get involved in campus life.
🗓️ 8, 10, 15, 17 & 24 September, 12pm - 4pm
📍 NAB International Student Lounge
Creative Awards: Spoken Word Night
From fantastical works of fiction to pieces of exacting cultural criticism, Spoken Word Night is an opportunity to engage with the vast array of material written and performed by Sydney’s next generation of writers.
🗓️ Wednesday 9 September, 5:30pm - 7pm
📍 Verge Gallery
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PULP - P2P Feedback Session
PULP's first go at a writing group! Come along with an almost finished piece of writing and get live feedback from other writers.
🗓️ Thursday 10 September, 12pm - 2pm
📍 USU Hub, Wentworth Building
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Science Revue: UP IN THE SKY! -ENCE REVUE!
20 years after a crash landing at USYD, the Science Revue returns in full force with a show of ULTRACOMEDY. Science Revue Society donates profits from the show to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.
🗓️ 10 - 12 September, 7:30pm - 9:30pm
📍 Seymour Centre
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Creative Awards: Short Film Screening
Support USYD's emerging filmmakers at our Creative Awards Short Film screening. Sit back, grab some popcorn and experience the works of the finalists on the big screen.
🗓️ Friday 11 September, 5:30pm - 7pm
📍 Verge Gallery
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Creative Awards: Artist Talks
Join us for an afternoon of artist talks. Hear from the finalists of the Art category of the USU Creative Awards about the concepts and processes of their works.
🗓️ Saturday 12 September, 11am - 2pm
📍 Verge Gallery
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Museum of Togetherness: A Memory Keepsake Workshop
What does home mean to you? Fill a keepsake bottle with memories and inspiration that captures what home means to you, inspired by the Museum of Togetherness exhibition.
🗓️ Monday 14 September, 12pm - 2pm
📍 NAB International Student Lounge
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Verge Projects Artist Talks
Hear from student artists currently exhibiting at Verge Projects talk about their works and their practices as emerging artists.
🗓️ Tuesday 15 September, 11am - 12pm
📍 Verge Gallery
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Creative Awards: Live Music Night
Immerse yourself in the sounds of the shortlisted works of the Creative Awards, LIVE at Hermann's Bar. From indie bands to ambient soundscapes, we're putting on a music show you don't want to miss.
🗓️Thursday 17 September, 5:30pm - 8pm
📍 Hermann's Bar
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Med Revue: Scalpels Out
🗓️ 17 - 19 September, 7:30pm - 9:30pm
📍 Seymour Centre
Museum of Togetherness: Batyr Mental Health Workshop
Join Batyr, a youth mental health organisation, to learn how to look after your wellbeing while at uni. It's a chance to connect, gain confidence to reach out for help and pick up useful self-care strategies.
🗓️ Wednesday 23 September, 12pm - 2pm
📍 NAB International Student Lounge
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Creative Awards Night + Creative Month Closing Party
Send off Creative Month with a bang at Verge's annual USU Creative Awards Night. Celebrate the next generation of USYD's top creative talent with a night of music, art and good food.
🗓️ Thursday 24 September, 5:30pm - 8:30pm
📍 Verge Gallery
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Zone 2
Sydney University Dramatic Society presents: Nailbiter
A night of betrayal, hookups, drunk spirals, and rampant alcohol and nicotine abuse awaits as six unwilling participants are forced to dissect their understanding of connection and relationships.
🗓️ 4 & 5 September, 7pm - 9pm
📍 The Cellar Theatre
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Printing Before Pixels: Letterpress Workshop
Ever wondered how books were printed before the digital age? Learn more about letterpress printing and get hands-on with the Library’s 1879 Piscator Press. You'll take home your very own print celebrating Creative Month!
🗓️ 8, 15 & 22 September, 12:30pm - 1:30pm
📍 Fisher Library
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Migrating Modernism: Student Talks on Art & Architecture
Every Wednesday, hear the next generation of artists, art curators and architects speak about across these new exhibitions at the Chau Chak Wing Museum: Migration Modernism: The architecture of Harry Seidler, Fibre Optics: First Nations women in fibre, Terraforming: Works from the Gene & Brian Sherman Collection and Tracey Moffatt Sorted – a look at her Archive
🗓️ 9, 16 & 23 September, 2:30pm - 3:30pm
📍 Chau Chak Wing Museum
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Practice as Research: Approaches to Practice as New Knowledge Production
Bringing together the best of Sydney's arts institutions, explore how artistic practice operates as a method of research at this one-day symposium
🗓️ Monday 14 September, 9am - 1pm
📍 Chau Chak Wing Museum
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Museum in Motion with MADSOC
Experience the museum in a new way as MADSOC (University of Sydney Movement and Dance Society) bring performance in conversation with the artwork at Chau Chak Wing Museum
🗓️ Tuesday 15 September, 12pm - 2pm
📍 Chau Chak Wing Museum
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Sydney University Dramatic Society presents: Gal Pals
A love letter to queer solidarity and community, Gal Pals sees the glowing formation of fast friendships and self-acceptance set against a shadowy backdrop of systemic homophobia.
🗓️ 16 - 26 September, 7pm - 9pm
📍 The Cellar Theatre
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Pocket Art Market
Fancy a trinket or two? Pocket Art Market is our curated artist market celebrating student, emerging and local independent creatives. Browse zines, artworks, trinkets and more, plus workshops will be running all day.
🗓️ Monday 21 September, 10am - 4pm
📍 The Great Hall
Music in the Museum with JazzSoc
JazzSoc presents an afternoon of classic jazz standards at Chau Chak Wing Museum, as they bring the room to life with swing and improvisation across multiple eras and styles of jazz
🗓️ Monday 21 September, 2:30pm - 4:30pm
📍 Chau Chak Wing Museum
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Zone 3
Arts & Crafts Society: Diorama Workshop at the Power Institute
Combat your study stress and AI anxieties with some good old hand-made craft! In this workshop you'll be given guidance and materials to make your own miniature fantasy forest 3D diorama.
🗓️ Monday 7 September, 12pm - 2pm
📍 Schaeffer Seminar Room, RC Mills Building
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Battle of the Bands: Heat 1
Who has what it takes to be the next winner of Battle of the Bands? Come and support the very best of the student bands on campus in this first night of heats.
🗓️ Tuesday 8 September, 7pm - 10:30pm
📍 Manning Bar
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Zine Workshop with School of Zines
Learn how to craft, bind and self-publish zines with School of Zines founder Aphrodite Delaguiado. Get inspired by found objects, preloved books and recycled magazines to create your very own zine to take home!
🗓️ Wednesday 9 September, 12pm - 2:15pm
📍 Schaeffer Seminar Room, RC Mills Building
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Battle of the Bands: Heat 2
Discover the next generation of Australian musical talent on the Manning stage. The second night of heats will decide the final contenders for Battle of the Bands 2026.
🗓️ Wednesday 9 September, 7pm - 10:30pm
📍 Manning Bar
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SCA Art Week: Soft Sculpture Workshop with Vicky Browne
Whether you're an experienced maker or have never picked up a needle and thread, everyone is welcome to drop in and create a soft sculpture. Bring along any materials to recycle, or be inspired but our collection.
🗓️ Monday 14 September, 11am - 4pm
📍 Isabel Fidler Room, Manning House
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SCA Art Week: Fellows Talk
🗓️ 15 & 17 September, 12pm - 1pm
📍 Sydney College of the Arts
PULP Dirty 30
PULP is turning the BIG 3-0, and we need your help to celebrate! Join us to celebrate this absolutely massive milestone with drinks, DJs... a live performance perhaps? All the things you love about PULP magazine and more.
🗓️ Wednesday 16 September, 6pm - 10pm
📍 Manning Bar
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Battle of the Bands: Finals
Who will be crowned the next winner of the legendary Battle of the Bands?
🗓️ Wednesday 23 September, 5pm - 11pm
📍 Manning Bar
💮 Stamp Rally
Take home a piece of Creative Month with our interactive stamp rally!
Throughout the month, collect stamps across campus to complete your very own limited edition artwork by Sydney College of the Arts artist Amethyst Townsend. Gather all four stamps throughout Creative Month and watch your artwork come to life!
Make sure to visit Verge Gallery, Chau Chak Wing Museum and Schaeffer Library to collect your coloured zone stamps. Plus, keep an eye out on our socials for which events will have the possum stamp to complete the image.
🚶 Art Walk
Did you know there are dozens of public artworks scattered across campus?
Discover a new side to the university through this self-guided art tour that takes you through the three zones of Creative Month and beyond. You're sure to find hidden spots, explore corners of the campus you've never been to and experience USYD in a way you've never before!
The Art Walk is presented by Verge Gallery and supported by Chau Chak Wing Museum.
