Sitara FIESTA - a one-night-only art party!

Come celebrate with Sitara Tanglaw (Marikit Santiago and L-FRESH The LION)

5;00pm Doors open

5:30- 7pm Interactive jam session with the browns and Ultra rare trading cards workshop

7pm - 7:30pm Music video launch

7:30- 8:30pm L-FRESH The LION performs

Indian street food, Filipino cakes and drinks will be available throughout the night

The Margaret Whitlam Galleries will be open 5-8:30pm

The light of the stars

Sitara Tanglaw (Marikit Santiago and L-FRESH The LION)

Western Sydney Creative Artists Commission 2026

5 August – 12 November

Who guides us through life? For many of us, our first guides are family members, elders, teachers and community leaders. As we grow, those guides often expand to include heroes found in music, sport, art, faith and public life - figures whose stories help us imagine who we might become. Yet guidance is rarely straightforward. It is shaped by migration, culture, memory, belief and the communities that surround us.

This exhibition premiers the collaborative practice of Sitara Tanglaw (Marikit Santiago and L-FRESH The LION), two Western Sydney artists whose practices are grounded in the lived experiences of the Filipino and Punjabi diasporic communities. Through painting, sound, storytelling and installation, they explore how cultural inheritance, faith and resilience are carried across generations and reimagined in contemporary Australia.

Sitara FIESTA is presented by Sitara Tanglaw in collaboration with Western Sydney Creative