Art After Hours — Tang

Overview

If you can find a better date than hearing talks and seeing live music over cheeky vinos in an art gallery, we'd love to hear about it.

For one lunar month, the Art Gallery of New South Wales's Art After Hours program is bringing their mega exhibition Tang: Treasures from the Silk Road Capital to life with a series of talks and live performances. Each Wednesday night, the Gallery will be brimming with free after-hours shenanigans that celebrate and explore Chinese history and culture.

During June, a different lineup of Chinese art-inspired happenings will take place in the Gallery, from comedy to talks and music. Want to learn up on your Chinese art history? Be sure to get there from 5.30pm for a series of exhibition talks from the curator and other experts. For something more 'Tang in cheek', you don't want to miss Benjamin Law's segment from 6.30pm. He'll be chatting with other prominent Chinese Australians — including SBS's Lee Lin Chin and chef Adam Liaw — about what it's like to move to and live in Australian as someone with Chinese heritage.

Then, from 7.30pm, Sydney producer and musician Rainbow Chan will be belting out tracks in the Gallery's entrance court. As the winner of FBi's 2011 Northern Lights Competition, she's the perfect artist to complete your sensory experience as you explore the exhibition.

Art After Hours runs until 10pm every Wednesday night.

By Shannon Connellan, Tom Clift and Lauren Vadnjal.