NAIDOC Week (2 to 9 July), which stands for National Aborigines and Islanders Day Observance Committee, is held in the first full week of July. It is a time to …
Events & Festivals
We chat to the 20-something creator of blockbuster podcast Millennial about what it takes to get narrative audio off the ground.
The world-famous Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras is more than a parade and parties that go all night. There’re plenty of arts and cultural events on offer. Storytelling Drag …
Here’s a new way to do Art Month. Go to a talk or exhibition and on your way home, visit a sculpture or mural you haven’t seen before. Great for …
Whether Chinese New Year is celebrated in your family or it’s a whole new cultural experience, there’s lots to see around the city. Rickshaw tales Let Chinatown’s most exciting art and …
By bringing together local and international artists, Sydney Festival helps us ‘travel’ as far as the Amazon, the far north of the globe, or even deeper into Sydney, experiencing the …
The inconspicuously named The Other Art Fair is back. This year, it has set up in a great new space at COMMUNE Waterloo and features more than 100 emerging artists handpicked …
The best thing about a film festival is that you get to see brilliant films that may never be available through mainstream release. Antenna Documentary Film Festival will help you …
Sydney Fringe Festival is the largest platform for independent artists, spread across our parks, streets, pubs and theatres. It brings us a program brimming with surprising theatre, comedy, performances and …
Just like in Melbourne, where the local comedy festival is traditionally housed in the civic heart of the city, Sydney Comedy Festival is moving into Sydney Town Hall. For punters …
Keg de Souza’s work for the 20th Biennale of Sydney Redfern School of Displacement (RSD), is a call to arms to notice globally relevant issues of displacement and spatial equality. Believing …
The wide-ranging public program put together by Head On Photo Festival this year really attests photography as the democratic art form of our time. As well as a major photo …
Cockatoo Island’s charismatic post-industrial backdrop is perfect for contemporary art. Ever wondered what it takes to get Australia’s biggest contemporary art festival into 16 different venues? Gina Hall, the 20th …
We’re right in the thick of Art Month, so there’s no better time than now to get yourself to a couple of special happenings. In no particular order, we’ve created …
The 20th Sydney Chinese New Year Festival is more than delicious food, Lion Dancers and dragon boat races. We’ve picked out just a few of the fascinating art events around …
As Sydney Festival’s 40th anniversary draws to a close, we get inside the heads of its past artistic directors. Listen to the story of the festival’s beginnings, find out about …
If you find time slowing down as we get closer to the end of the year, there are plenty of cultural exhibitions to keep you centered. Here’s a list of …
On one day only, some of Sydney’s most intriguing buildings are throwing open their doors to the public. Ever wanted to explore the subterranean world of St James Station? Or …
If someone of authority told you to harm another person – how far would you go? Would you obey orders or face the consequences of saying no? In 1963, a …
The Other Art Fair (10-13 September) is where you can buy directly from local emerging artists, not yet represented by a gallery and maybe even discover future stars. The artists …
If its 2013 debut is anything to go by, this year’s Sydney Contemporary from 10 – 13 September, is going to be massive. The international art fair is Australia’s largest, …
From 5 to 12 July, join in the NAIDOC celebrations, which highlight the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people across the country. NAIDOC Week was …
Sydney Film Festival is here, so while you might still like to set aside at least a couple of hours to salivate over the huge list of captivating films, we’ve …
As part of Vivid Sydney, the REMIX Summit will take on some of the issues biggest faced by the cultural sector right now. Posed as the intersection between culture, technology …
How do we find a sense of purpose? How should we be living? These are the sorts of thought-provoking questions that will be discussed by almost 500 local and international …
107 Projects might be where you buy your morning coffee, or maybe you’ve been to exhibitions there before. Or, perhaps that’s where you saw that Canadian one-man-band that sings in …
Getting a behemoth like Maser’s ‘Higher Ground’ ‘off the ground’ is no mean feat. In their second year with Sydney Festival, Laura Pike and Anne-Louise Dadak of Province were part …
What does a dancer look like? A new, undaunted production puts bigger bodies on stage and reclaims their creative capacity in defiance of aesthetic norms. In her final work as …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
The Year of the Horse is fast approaching. As a large portion of our Asian community celebrates one of the biggest events of the year, we’re excited to see the …