Sydney Theatre Company, in partnership with the University of Sydney Faculty of Education and Social Work, has developed a unique program that helps primary school teachers to use drama to …
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Veteran street artist Numskull has just painted his biggest wall to date. His mural Here, Now created as part of Art & About Sydney, reminds the hurried crowds of Pitt …
At last month’s City Conversation, Graham Jahn AM, Director of City Planning, Development and Transport delivered an astute and rousing vision for Sydney. In case you missed it, you can …
When it comes to ideas and originality, Tiny Stadiums are local heroes. The annual festival of live art by PACT Centre for Emerging Artists has been infiltrating Erskineville for six …
Watch Australia’s most highly awarded pavement artist, Jenny McCracken and Dutch internet sensation Leon Keer create an incredible 3D artwork on the forecourt of Custom’s House as part of the eighth …
On 2 November, more than 50 of the city’s most architecturally inspiring buildings will open their doors. An event from Sydney Living Museums (formally Historic Houses Trust) – an organisation …
As if a day of sunning yourself with a gozleme in hand in Camperdown Memorial Rest Park isn’t reason enough to go, this year’s Newtown Festival is running a week-long …
A new public artwork honouring the services and bravery of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander servicemen and women has began in Hyde Park. This work is part of the City’s …
Paddington Town Hall today is most commonly known as a venue to host wedding receptions, school concerts or the odd community event or warehouse sale, but in its prime, its …
The smell of spring is in the air, which means Surry Hills Festival is around the corner. Leaving the well-trodden grassy knoll of Prince Alfred Park, the festival moves to …
This year’s BEAMS Arts Festival will be playing with the elusive notion of utopia. The memory of Chippendale’s industrial past is beginning to fade as the precinct materialises its potential …
Director of Antenna Documentary Film Festival, David Rokach, believes documentaries have a unique power to convey social, personal, artistic complexities. Rokach says, I don’t see documentary as different from fiction …
Original artworks hung in private homes are traditionally seen as the domain for the elite, rich or famous – or generally a combination of all three. But the City is …
A haunting new photograph exhibition officially opened by Lord Mayor Clover Moore at Customs House boldly confronts one of the biggest global events of our time. The Story of Our …
A brand new library and plaza is planned for the very centre of Green Square. Collector of enviable titles Jess Scully – editor, festival director and sometime provocateur in the …
Our short-term creative tenants are a productive lot. From creating workspace for hardware and prototyping developers, to providing space for artists, we take a look at what’s keeping our residents …
Big Fag Press is an artist-run printing collective that’s been independently producing a special limited-run press for about 10 years. They’ve recently moved to a brand new location on the …
In partnership with some incredible architects, we’re very excited to be recognised by the state’s architecture body, the Australian Institute of Architects Awards NSW, for three projects. Pictured are our …
If you ever imagined your living room as an ideal theatrical backdrop, you have an opportunity to make this happen during Art & About Sydney 2014. Sydneysiders with a sense …
In her other-worldy, atmospheric installations, Lynette Wallworth is said to create, moments of transfiguration that come wholly unlooked for, as puncturing instants of experience…instants of shift that slip in under …
From colonial edifices, grand fountains and murals by Indigenous artists, to kinetic sculptures and neon buildings, the preservation work of our public art collection has our City Art team up …
‘Cultural Chernobyl’ is the term that’s been brazenly thrown at the stretch of Elizabeth Street between Campbell and Goulburn Streets. Indeed, walking past the bleak, brown-bricked parking lot as buses …
East Sydney Community and Arts Centre is perched on the corner of Burton and Palmer Streets and beside Albert Sloss Reserve, a small playground in Darlinghurst. Built in the 60s, …
It’s no secret that the reality of finding affordable artist space in inner Sydney is more and more an Odyssean task. We’re not divorced from the reality this represents for …
Here at the City, we have a strong view that art should be an intrinsic part of Sydney and contribute to our everyday lives. The much-loved annual Art & About initiative …
At dusk, stroll down Glebe Point Road. You’ll hit Bicentennial Park, which has a great view of the Anzac Bridge. As you walk along the water’s edge, you will spot …
For Booker Prize winning author Thomas Keneally, who began what he describes as his ‘conscious’ life in the bush, Sydney in the late 30s might as well have been New …
In case you missed the news, Green Square’s industrial landscape is undergoing a major makeover. We’re working on a $440 million project to redevelop the area over the next 10 …
In October 2012 we started to formally investigate why live music and performance in Sydney have been under so much pressure. Working with 11 people with robust music policy experience, …
This year’s smart ARTS exhibition, as part of Pine Street’s smart ARTS youth festival, brought together around 80 young artists from across Sydney. Artists between the ages of 15 and …
John Kaldor’s very first project is credited as a ‘defining moment’ in Australian contemporary art. Edmund Capon once said that Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s 1969 massive Wrapped Coast ‘moved the experience …
There’s no shortage of design talent in Sydney, but the reality of running a business can deter talented people just starting out. One of our latest short-term creative tenants, The …
It’s no secret that the historic Royal South Sydney Hospital at Green Square is undergoing a major transformation. Located on the eastern side of the Green Square Town Centre currently …
Baz Luhrmann’s bringing back the sequins and taffeta of his 1992 classic in a world premiere of Strictly Ballroom The Musical. Rehearsals are well underway for the production, which features …
Australian historian Robert Musil once said: “There is nothing in this world as invisible as a monument.” This is ironic, considering commemorative public art is both ubiquitous and familiar; looming …
Well, we’re right in the thick of one of the biggest city-wide art events of the year. You’ve loitered around some of our best galleries, glass of white wine in …
We’re thrilled to announce the six talented artists taking up our very first residential tenancies. In late November last year we did a call out for people working in a …
If you are working on a cultural project with a public audience, listen-up as applications for our annual Cultural Grants Program are now open. We are offering funding over $5,000 …
Care to walk our city’s hidden spaces in search for birdcalls, whimsical shapes and homages to jazz musicians, or ruminate about early colonial monuments which once caused opposition? Or, perhaps …
We’re giving Sydney’s letters some love this month.
It all began in 2008 when love bloomed between Godwin Yidana from Bolgatanga, Ghana, and Gayle Pescud from Sydney, when they decided to hold ‘a day of peace’ in response …
Queer cinema was brought into the mainstream this year when Blue is the Warmest Colour – a beautiful indie film which tells the tale of a lesbian relationship – unanimously …
The humble library is many things. A fixture in most suburbs, it can be a place of quiet reflection for some or a chamber of paralytic terror for others (those …
Starting this year and for each of the upcoming three Biennales, the City of Sydney will commission a permanent work for our public art collection, City Art. If you’re thinking …
This month’s Instagram gallery shows our city’s coolest shade. Next month, we’ll feature the a to z of Sydney’s typography. If you want to see your Instagram photo here, use …
We may not have Copenhagen’s magnificent Black Diamond library, or an outdoor collection where the books are catalogued according to the feeling they arouse – but we do have a …
Storytelling and food are longstanding partners in crime (the indestructible prosperity of the cinema snack bar is but one mark of this idyllic union), however we haven’t seen them come …