Open day at the Wharf

Last Sunday an open day was held in the arts precinct at Walsh Bay. In this area old wharves have been converted into the administrative and performing homes for various artistic companies as well as luxury harbourside apartment complexes complete with personal jetties for luxury water craft.

Piers 4/5 (pictured above) are the home for the Sydney Theatre Company (middle and top levels) and the Sydney Dance Company and the Bangarra Dance Theatre (both bottom level).

The 'outdoor' verandah on the middle level sits alongside the foyer to the Sydney Theatre Company's Wharf Theatre 1. There is a bar inside the foyer and a quality restaurant with spectacular harbour views adjacent.

This group was chatting on Piers 2/3. Second left wearing hat and dark glasses is Barry Otto and second right holding a pamphlet is Jacki Weaver. I assumed they were there simply for the open day but only noticed later that a theatre walk has been created around that pier.

As it turns out the group had been standing around Jacki Weaver's plaque.

I located Barry Otto's plaque further along the walk.

A short time later I came across our State Premier, Kristina Keneally, chatting with Jacki Weaver and actor, director John Bell (another plaque honoree and wearing hat) and other theatrical identities at what I assume was an official ceremony marking the creation of the theatre walk.