Concrete Playground

Sydney's best young creative people in 2010

Sometimes in Sydney you need to do a bit of work to find the truly excellent things. For a while there it felt like you had to know the secret handshake (always ends in a fist bump) or have a doubloon handy to hold against the skyline to work out the location of a venue that wasn’t going to be shut down by the time you reached it. Lately, however, the city is stirring.

In fact, so many events started popping into the fore each week that a directory of the best was needed online, and so began Concrete Playground. It soon came to our attention that, week-in, week-out, the most culturally interesting things happening aren’t being created by large institutions. More often than not, the events highlighted are put on independently or communally.

To celebrate and extend our appreciation we decided to select fifty creative conspirators to showcase in a book, Conspirators: A Snapshot of Sydney's Creative Community.

You can check out pics from the Concrete Playground/Conspirators launch party here on Pedestrian.tv

So, without further ado, the 50 contributors to the Conspirators book are...

Ampersand Magazine

Art vs Science

Bababa International

Babekuhl

Ben Frost

Black & Blue Gallery

Brown Council

Canyons

Catcall

Claire Greaves

Dappled Cities

Das Monk x Anna Lunoe

Elke Kramer

Ella Barclay

Even Books

The Finders Keepers

The Fondue Set

Francis Coady

GOODGOD (Small Club)

Greedy Hen

Imperial Panda Festival

James Brown

Jonathan Jones

Joseph Allen Shea

Kenzee Patterson

Kevina-Jo Smith

Lauren Brincat

Lucinda Schreiber

Michaela Gleave

Mitch Cairns

MOP Gallery

Ms. & Mr.

Naked On The Vague

Nina Las Vegas x Online Cred

The Paper Scissors

Pedestrian.tv

Rainoff Books

The Red Rattler

Samuel Hodge

Sam Smith

Serial Space

Sherlock’s Daughter

Soda_Jerk

Spat+Loogie

Tim Silver

Tom Polo

Trust Fun!

Underbelly

We Buy Your Kids

Will French

By Rich Fogarty