ART

FOOD

CULTURE

 Specialty itineraries designed to enhance your creativity

Experience

Colour, Food, Textiles, Architecture, Markets, Living Culture & the Arts

with your host Anna Barnes

artist, chef & anthropologist

Sydney Sketch & Lunch Workshop

Art Food Culture Experiences. Sydney. Cultural Diversity. Connection. Empathy. Joy.

Food Walk. Explore the markets. Shop for unique ingredients. Wander with the locals. Talk about Art, Food, Culture. Swap recipes. Enjoy a beverage. Taste unique foods. Eat lunch. Capture your day creatively. Sketch, Draw, Paint, Photograph, Video, Journal or Write a Poem… Sketching tuition over lunch. Learn to create and keep an illustrated food diary. Enjoy the experience and stimulation of a vibrant environment.

Suburbs*

Cabramatta- South Vietnamese

Cabramatta- Lao

Cabramatta- Cambodian

Cabramatta- North Vietnamese

Harris Park - Indian

Eastwood - Korean

Burwood - Chinese

Toongabie - Sri Lankan

Merrylands - Persian

Blacktown - Afghan

Bankstown - North Vietnamese

Anna’s Art Food Culture Sydney Experiences

What you do:

1: We visit a cafe for a local beverage. We will taste a few cuisine specific foods and learn about local snacks. 

2: We discuss the cuisine and culture followed by a foot tour through the local markets. This is when you will have time to purchase unique ingredients and cooking implements specific to the cuisine. Bring your recipes and shopping lists, and Anna will help you buy the best quality ingredients. We will stop at the local dry market, the fish market, fruit shop and the butcher. The suburbs we visit have some of the most exciting and vibrant markets in Sydney.

3: Sit down for lunch in a comfortable and established restaurant that showcases the cuisine. Anna will demonstrate how to capture the essence of the cuisine in her food journal. She will focus on teaching you skills where you will simply sketch the main shapes of our food items and apply colour. We look at details such as applying text and colours that pop, as well as planning your pages. If you are not a sketcher (and not wanting to give it a try) then this is your chance to take photographs, share travel stories, participate in cultural discussions, or journal and fully immerse yourself in the restaurant experience.

Learn to keep a food diary

Journal your day

Connect with your creativity

  • Creative tuition and tour guiding on the day included.

  • Wear comfortable walking shoes – it is a walking tour.

  • Bring cash to make your market shopping a breeze (we wont be stopping at any ATM’s and most vendors only take cash).

  • Bring an esky bag with ice brick for your fresh food purchases (we shop before we lunch, so you’ll want to keep your food fresh).

  • Bring your sketch kit/journal if you will be food journalling (or camera or travel journal).

  • Bring your recipes and shopping lists (Anna has been a chef for many years and can answer all your questions and help with purchasing decisions).

  • Small group size (6 pp max), please inquire about booking your private group.

  • Cost for the day is $180pp

  • 5 hours 10am-3pm

  • Included- A local beverage, delicious shared lunch with the group, snacks & small tastes along the way, guided walking tour, and food journalling/creativity tuition.

  • Not included – Your personal travel expenses to our meeting location , alcohol/drinks not mentioned, personal market/fresh food purchases, tips, anything not mentioned in the itinerary)

  • This is no ordinary lunch date. We will be immersing ourselves in culture, streetfoods and authentic markets. I will encourage you to be creative whilst sitting, standing, shopping or eating. 

  • You may want to sketch, draw, paint, journal, film or photograph your day. Lets go and have some fun.

  • Please let Anna know well in advance if you have food allergies, preferences or intolerances so she can advise the chefs.

  • Anna Barnes has a degree in  Fine Arts and Social Anthropology (Syd Uni), and a Masters in Design Science (Syd Uni). She was an award winning chef and worked in Sydney’s restaurants for 25 years.
    She is an avid traveller, food journaller, and passionate sketcher of street food scenes. She hosts Art Food Culture Experiences in Sydney, The Blue Mountains and Vietnam.

  • Private group bookings available upon request. Get in touch to find out when the next experience has been scheduled.

Booking Form

Please fill out the booking form below. We will get back in touch with you to answer your questions, talk about the trip, and send you the link to place a deposit. This will also reserve your place in line. We can’t wait to meet you.