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