A place for ‘wondrous things’: new arts precinct opens to the public

Melbourne’s newest cultural precinct, Collingwood Yards, has opened to the public after a long gestation.

16 Mar 2021 12:00

Richard Watts

Visual Arts

Projection art (by Wendy Yu, resident artist at the Centre for Projection Art) and live performance featured at the VIP opening of Collingwood Yards. Photo credit: Natalie Jurrijens.

Featuring a carefully curated mix of arts and cultural organisations and small businesses, Collingwood Yards opened its doors to the public on Saturday.

The new cultural precinct was developed on the site of the old Collingwood Technical School (later the Northern Melbourne Institute of TAFE) which first opened its doors in 1912.

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Richard Watts OAM is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, a Melbourne Fringe Festival Living Legend, and was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize in 2020. In 2021 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Green Room Awards Association. Most recently, Richard received a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in June 2024. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts