The Gardening Australia host joins the likes of actor Bryan Brown as an official champion of the Centre, which despite the pandemic, is having one its busiest years including organising the inaugural Bankstown Biennale.
Running until November 21, the Biennale features 20 emerging and well-established artists exploring a theme of symbiosis to prompt ways society can grow and transform when met with crises.
Mr Georgiadis said that while everything else seemed to slow down, the Bankstown Arts Centre had “powered ahead to thrive” by creating and holding the first Bankstown Biennale.
“I’ve been absorbed by the fact that the Centre has an embedded art and ecology focus in its program, while it constantly looks at ways to engage community on challenging environmental issues,” he said.
“Its approach to showcase global challenges through local engagement at the community level is working … and I believe this wonderful community-based contemporary arts centre has a massive role to play moving forward.”
Proud to welcome Mr Georgiadis to his new ambassadorial role, Mayor Khal Asfour said there was “an incredibly diverse community, enriched in the arts and culture” within Canterbury Bankstown.
“Arts, culture and ecology aren’t topics that get a lot of headlines or a great deal of attention, but they are the essence of what differentiates our city from other areas,” he said.
For more information, visit cb.city/bankstownbiennale.
