Who we are 

Utp is a Western Sydney-based arts organisation. We create, support and facilitate impactful and meaningful creative experiences. Our projects are self-determined and led by the artists and communities we work with. We believe in the radical accessibility of the arts. We want creative and critical thinking to be available to everyone – particularly for people from Western Sydney, people from culturally diverse backgrounds, people experiencing financial hardship, First Nations people of Australia, people living with disability and young people.

What we do

Utp is a unique commissioning and producing organisation. We make long-term investments in collaborations with artists and communities from outside the dominant culture to give form to extraordinary ideas. We work with an exceptional set of partners to co-produce a year-round program of performance, dance, visual art, learning and community-led projects, unlike anything you have seen before.

who is ready for another world

who is ready for another world, our 2025 provocation considers this moment of collective grief, models of collective liberation and resistance to settler-colonialism. Drawing from a quote by Rasha Abdulhadi on X, "These are clarifying times, if we are willing to pay attention. If our hearts break let them break outwards into action. Let us practise being brave together today. We can notice, if we pay attention, who wants representation in empire and who is ready for another world."

who is ready for another world Programs

The Tamilization of Ahilan Ratnamohan
Another World Festival, on Dharug Nura first
Birang Ember – Brothablack
She Rested – Aimée Falzon
Bulunggayi – Leanne Tobin
Small Brave Nation (development lab, citizens assembly and performance)
Dharug Collective
Everything You Can Dream of is True (screening program)
Performance Space x Utp (development lab)
Utp Rising

Utp (Urban Theatre Projects) is a charitable institution and is registered as a deductible gift recipient. All donations made to the Urban Theatre Projects Public Fund of over $2 are tax deductible. All donors are issued a tax receipt.

Cover image: who is ready for another world artwork by Wasielah Noorsjamsi

Image: April Phillips, Body Place, 2024, photo by Jacquie Manning