Sat, 24 Sep - Sun, 2 Oct 2011
Sydney Opera House, Sydney
Storyteller Mike Daisey returns to Sydney to talk about the highs and lows of your gadgets.
Fri, 23 Sep - Mon, 26 Sep 2011
UTS University Hall Cinema, Ultimo
Get some animation in company, with shorts from around the world.
Fri, 23 Sep - Sun, 23 Oct 2011
Sydney City Streets and Parks, Sydney
There's this feeling sometimes in Sydney that's not unlike the vast nothing inside atoms. Despite the apparent solidity of its sandstone buildings, vertical offices, parks and sunny lanes, the city hides a labyrinth of empty spaces waiting to be filled. Throughout the year festivals, small bars, casual cafes and delivery vans cram in to try to top up those voids with dance, food or clever art. Graffiti aside, though, few things focus as much on filling up Sydney's quiet corners as the public art festival Art & About. This year's season opens with a debut evening on the streets at Friday Night Live, the return of Laneway Art and Michael Landy's public Acts of Kindness.
Fri, 16 Sep - Sat, 15 Oct 2011
Religion, spirituality and everyday Australia come together in this year's finalists.
Thu, 15 Sep - Wed, 5 Oct 2011
Palace Cinemas Sydney, Sydney
There's a divide in Italy, the North and the South. Sharper than the Sydney-Melbourne rivalry, both are well represented in the selection at this year's Italian Film Festival.
Wed, 14 Sep, 2011
FBi Social, Sydney
North American rhymers descend on Kings Cross. Whatever your poetic roots, the Social offers you a night to leave you lost in fast words.
Thu, 8 Sep - Sun, 13 Nov 2011
The Rocks
This year's show has escaped the confines of gallery walls, halls and plinths — being loosed instead on the alternative art space of the Rocks' narrow squares and forgotten alleyways.
Sat, 12 Nov 2011 - Sun, 25 Mar 2012
Paris comes to Sydney with a lush collection of Picasso's great paintings. The show promises to cover all of Picasso's highly varied styles and periods — 'blue', 'rose', Expressionist, Cubist, Neoclassical and Surrealist. Picasso collections tend to see his styles travel backwards in time, from the rose and blue periods' powerful realism, to arrive at his famous rough-brushed, cubist strokes. Realism came easily to Picasso, but the seemingly simpler stuff was the real work. He's said to have said "when I was just a child, I could already draw like Raphael, but it took me a whole lifetime to learn to draw like a child." And this week at AGNSW, you too can get overwhelmed by some of his child-like wonder.
Fri, 9 Sep - Sun, 2 Oct 2011
Addison Rd Centre, Marrickville
The edges of things can be the best bits. Dark corners, musty and long-forgotten places or cutting-edge ideas on the cusp of success. Fringe Festivals hang out at these edges, bridging the gap between acts and audiences that have been searching for each other. Sydney's Fringe returns for its first return engagement this year, bringing with it a staggering list of events. A Pop-Up Festival, Reclaim the Lanes, a Festival bar with visits from the Campfire Collective, vivified paintings by Frida Khalo and the return of the Mystery Bus are just a taste of the action. Focused in Marrickville, this festival sprawls across the city.
Thu, 1 Sep - Sun, 11 Sep 2011
Chauvel Cinema, Paddington
An elegant sufficiency of Russian film comes to Sydney.
Thu, 1 Sep, 2011
Oxford Art Factory, Darlinghurst
Shihad frontman Jon Toogood's side-project is age agnostic.
Thu, 25 Aug - Tue, 6 Sep 2011
Gaffa, Surry Hills
Three shows that focus on blurry places and half-seen worlds.
Wed, 31 Aug - Fri, 9 Sep 2011
University of Sydney, Darlington
Sydney Uni's annual festival brings you weird arts.
Wed, 31 Aug, 2011
Apple Store, Sydney
Guru of musical and educational electronica, Seb Chan, offers you a window into the museum of the future.
Sat, 20 Aug - Sun, 23 Oct 2011
Campbelltown Arts Centre, Campbelltown
Mohamed Bourouissa, Miranda July and others explore the nature of life in Western Sydney and beyond.
Thu, 25 Aug - Sat, 10 Sep 2011
Former Paramount Pictures Building, Surry Hills
Gallery A.S. is a moveable feast and its new exhibition is setting up shop in what was once the Sydney headquarters of Paramount Pictures in Surry Hills. Motion / Pictures takes filmic inspiration from its art-deco surrounds to present work from artists that sits with the building that it stands in. The exhibition promises to cover, allude to and explore all the facets of movie culture, be it sci-fi, art-deco or video tape. Curated by Joseph Allen Shea, the show will feature the time-shaping Daniel Askill, along with Andrew Long and Mel O'Callaghan. Jacob Ciocci will present the low-key video Dark Green, while Anthony Lister's rough-edged super heroes will make a showing.
Thu, 18 Aug - Sat, 10 Sep 2011
New Theatre, Newtown
Katie Pollock brings two generations of Burmese protest to the stage.
Thu, 18 Aug - Sun, 4 Sep 2011
MOP, Chippendale
Colour unites these two new shows at MOP.
Thu, 8 Sep - Sun, 11 Sep 2011
Factory Theatre, Marrickville
Under the radar, transgressive or just weird: 'underground' is a flexible word.