Sunnybank School of Arts

074 Sunnybank School Of Arts

Name: Sunnybank School of Arts

Time: 1926 – Ceased?

Epoch: Early 20th Century

Category: School of Arts

Institution Category: Informing

Institution Group: Public Community Education

Coordinates: -27.578195, 153.057166666667

Street Address: Sunnybank School of Arts, 121 Lister Street, Sunnybank

Suburb: Sunnybank

Sector: Independent ‘Community’

Local Study Area: Sunnybank (East of Mains Road)-Runcorn

Study Stage: MBSH Stage 3 Local Study Areas

The Sunnybank School of Arts was opened in 1927. Its purpose was to provide entertainment to the area rather than education, although a library was started. The School provided dances and a local picture theatre. Catholic Church services held there on Sundays until their church was opened on Mains Road in 1938.

Geographic Description 1: Outside The Green Belt

Geographic Description 2: Bulimba Creek

Geographic Description 3: Flood Gullies; Hills; Ridgeline (Major — Mains Road)

Citations

Sunnybank: paddocks to pavements, Sunnybank State High School P and C Association, 1985, p. 90; Sunnybank School of Arts. Brisbane City Council Heritage Register

Image Citations

Sunnybank School of Arts. Archive: Brisbane City Council. [https://www.brisbane.qld.gov.au/things-to-see-and-do/council-venues-and-precincts/community-halls-and-facilities/sunnybank-hall]