Sydney keeps losing the spaces that matter – the intimate, independent, community-grown venues where scenes begin and artists take their first risks. In the months around Unholy's opening, Bar Freda's, Mary's Underground and the Stonewall Hotel all closed. Kat Dopper – founder of Heaps Gay and Pleasures Playhouse – set out to answer that loss with a year-long home for independent artists inside St John the Evangelist, a sandstone church on Kent Street built in 1868 and deconsecrated in the 1930s. Bar, stage and dance floor for 200, under one gothic roof.