Support for arts and culture

Apply for the 2025 Sydney Lunar Festival banner gallery

We invite artists and creatives to design an outdoor public art installation for the 2025 festival celebrating the Year of the Snake.

Abril Felman

Sydney Lunar Festival is attended by more than 1.3 million people each year and celebrates the city’s diverse cultural communities.

We’re seeking to appoint up to 8 artists and creatives to design the banner gallery.

Successful concepts will use the street banner network throughout the city centre in a corridor-like effect along key thoroughfares and transit routes.

Your concept for the banner gallery should:

  • reflect the Year of the Snake or draw inspiration from one of the communities that celebrate the Lunar New Year
  • be highly engaging, vibrant and colourful, and appeal to a broad audience
  • demonstrate artistic excellence, innovation, and a creative approach
  • be designed in line with the banner specifications
  • consider the sequencing of banners with up to 6 designs permitted in each banner gallery.

Find out more about the banner gallery and apply by Monday 16 July.

Subscribe to our artist notification list to hear about other Sydney Lunar Festival artist opportunities later in the year.

Published 5 April 2023, updated 20 June 2024