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GuideThe Best Free Events to Catch During Sydney Festival 2025
Sydney Festival is saving your wallet this summer with a cost-of-living defying program of free events throughout January.
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NewsAunty Donna Are Unleashing Their Brand-New Live Sketch Show 'Drem' on a Huge 2025 Global Tour
This news will go down well with a little bit of Christmas pud, with Down Under shows locked in for both Australia and New Zealand.
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NewsThe Top Page-Turning Titles of 2024 and Who to Gift Them to This Christmas
We've distilled the most popular literary releases of 2024 with a little help from the experts.
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NewsSXSW Sydney Has Announced Its 2025 Dates — and After a Huge Event in 2024, It's Planning Another Big Fest
The second-ever SXSW Down Under featured 1400 conference sessions, 95 screenings, 315 performances and 150 games.
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NewsAll About Women Has Announced Its First 2025 Events, Including Comedian Kate Berlant on Her Debut Australian Tour
'Alone Australia' winner Gina Chick and the return of the Feminist Roast are also on the lineup, with full details to be announced in January.
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NewsShipping Container Installations Séance and Flight Are Bringing Their Thrills to the Arts Centre Melbourne Forecourt
These two eerie Darkfield favourites are returning to Melbourne for three months from mid-December 2024.
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GuideGroup Dining: The Best International Restaurants for Celebrating the FIFA Women's World Cup 2023™
Get the gang together to fully embrace this footy season with a culinary journey throughout Sydney.
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GuideEight Vivid Sydney Highlights to Add to Your Diary If You Want to Farewell Winter with a Bang
Put these big-ticket items on your hit list, stat.
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GuideTen Sydney Solstice Highlights You Should Have on Your Radar This Winter
Don’t hibernate — head to debaucherous feasts, aquarium nightclubs and music-filled stargazing sessions instead.
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GuideSix Gigs to Catch During Sydney Solstice If You Can't Get Enough of Live Tunes
After so many months without live music, you've got some catching up to do — here's your chance.
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GuideNine Outdoor Adventures You Can Have in Sydney This Winter If You Unabashedly Love the Cold
Embrace your favourite season with laneway dance parties, harbourside ice rinks and kayak trips under the stars.
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NewsChapel Street Festival Is Finally Returning in February 2025 After a 25-Year Hiatus
Get around a chap laps car show, live bands and DJs, food and drink stalls, and wellness experiences.
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NewsRhys Darby Is Bringing His First Stand-Up Show in Almost a Decade to Australia's Stages in 2025
The 'Flight of the Conchords' and 'This Flag Means Death' favourite is heading back behind the mic, locking in a nine-stop Aussie tour.
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NewsAustralia's Asia-Pacific Triennial of Performing Arts Is Returning in 2025 with a Jam-Packed Performance Lineup
Asia TOPA's performance program includes 33 shows, 18 of which will make their world premiere, all in Melbourne in February and March 2025.
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NewsFair Day, Pool Parties, Honey Dijon, Romy, Trixie Mattel: Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras 2025 Has Them All
More than 80 LGBTQIA+ events will take over the Harbour City — including the return of WorldPride 2023's 'Blak & Deadly' First Nations gala concert.
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NewsDark Mofo Is Back: After Taking a Break in 2024, Tasmania's Winter Arts Festival Has Locked in Its Full Return for 2025
While the Winter Feast and Nude Solstice Swim still took place this year, next year they'll be joined by a complete festival lineup.
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NewsSydney Festival Is Celebrating Its 49th Year with a Wild West Takeover of Town Hall, True Crime and James Cameron
Boasting more than 130 shows and events on its lineup, 2025's fest is also doing $49 early-bird tickets across the entire program until early December.
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FeatureYour Essential Guide to SXSW Sydney 2024
Here's everything you need to know about SXSW Sydney 2024.
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NewsThe Six Best Ways to Celebrate Mid-Autumn Festival in Melbourne
Celebrate Mid-Autumn Festival (Moon Festival) in Melbourne by hitting up cultural performances, noshing on mooncakes, and gathering together a big group mates for a yum cha feed.
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NewsSXSW Sydney's Latest Round of 2024 Speakers Includes Lucy Lawless, Grace Tame and Tim Minchin
Sports stars Nick Kyrgios and Noémie Fox, playwright Suzie Miller and former Bangarra Dance Theatre Artistic Director Stephen Page have also joined the festival's lineup.
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NewsNude Photoshoots, Massive Parties and 120-Plus Events in Over 70 Venues: Melt 2024's Full Program Has Them All
Get snapped by Spencer Tunick in your birthday suit on the Story Bridge, hit up a 'Wicked'-themed Halloween shindig and watch queer cinema classics under the stars.
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NewsMaho Magic Bar, Séance and Flight Are Bringing Tricks, Drinks and Thrills to South Bank's Maritime Museum
The Tokyo-inspired pop-up and two of Darkfield's shipping containers are returning to Brisbane from early October.
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NewsTrent Dalton Wants You to Tell Him Your Love Stories Again for Museum of Brisbane's Next Residency
The 'Boy Swallows Universe' writer is returning to King George Square for an afternoon to capture Brisbane's romantic tales.
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NewsSave the Date: Vivid Sydney Will Return for Winter 2025 with a Program of Events Inspired by Dreams
The next time that this festival dazzles the Harbour City, marking its 15th year, it'll take its cues from nighttime slumbers.
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NewsSXSW Sydney's Festival Hub Is Returning to Tumbalong Park for 2024 with 60-Plus Hours of Free Entertainment
This year's lineup includes Silverchair's Ben Gillies, a 60th-anniversary screening of 'The Endless Summer', a day-long showcase of Indian creativity and more.
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NewsGet Ready to Spend 2024's Sydney Fringe Festival Hitting Up Four Precincts, 12 Hubs and 400-Plus Events
The Soweto Gospel Choir, a collaboration between Ngaiire and Anna Polyviou, the fest's first-ever Queer Hub and a 'Hunger Games' parody are among the highlights.
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NewsAce News If You Like Live Tunes and Parties: SXSW Sydney's 2024 Program Has Expanded Again
An extra 40-plus artists have joined the lineup, including Jorja Smith — and new talks will dive into international music tours and the streaming landscape.
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NewsNine of the Best Things to See at Now or Never 2024
This ambitious ten-day winter festival is celebrating the intersection of art, ideas, sound and technology at sites all over Melbourne.
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NewsComing Soon: Australian-Premiere VR Experience 'Horizon of Khufu' Will Get You Wandering Around Ancient Egypt
Who needs an overseas plane ticket, or a time machine, when you can journey 4500 years back into Egypt's history at this immersive virtual-reality experience?
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News'The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck' Author Mark Manson Is Returning Down Under to Give Brutally Honest Advice
You've read the bestselling book. You might've also seen the movie. Now, hear author Mark Manson share tips and stories live.
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NewsSXSW Sydney Has Announced Its First 2024 Keynote Speakers and Added a Stack of New Sessions to Its Growing Lineup
Human rights lawyer Jennifer Robinson and author Johann Hari will get chatting at the festival's second event Down Under in October 2024.
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NewsMelt 2024's First Lineup Drop Features Sophie Ellis-Bextor, a 'Wicked'-Themed Halloween Ball and a Pool Party
The just-announced festivities join Spencer Tunick's nude photography work on the Story Bridge and Brisbane's first-ever River Pride Parade.
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NewsMinjerribah/North Stradbroke Island's Quandamooka First Nations Festival Has Locked in Its 2024 Return
Jem Cassar-Daley, Uncle Joe Geia and Sachem lead the lineup so far, with the fest hosting its first full-scale event since 2022 across two days in August.
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NewsSXSW Sydney Has Added More Than 500 Speakers, Screenings, Artists, Workshops and Games to Its 2024 Lineup
If this year's festival already sounds huge — and it does — less than a third of the full program has been revealed so far.
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NewsFrom the Smartphone Backlash to Taking on the One Percent, 2024's Festival of Dangerous Ideas Program Is Here
Roxane Gay, Jean Twenge, Masha Gessen and David Runciman lead the lineup at Sydney's deep dive into crucial and complex topics, which will also be livestreaming some of its sessions.
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NewsRoxane Gay Will Get Chatting at Sydney's Festival of Dangerous Ideas and Melbourne's Now or Never
On the tenth anniversary of 'Bad Feminist', the writer and social commentator's 2024 trip to Australia will span two cities.
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NewsNow or Never's Second Huge Year Will Close Out Winter 2024 in Melbourne with More Than 100 Events
From live music in the Royal Exhibition Building to an audiovisual installation above the Yarra, this year's lineup is full of highlights.
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NewsBleach* Is Taking Over the Gold Coast with 110-Plus Performances When the Huge Arts Festival Returns for 2024
Immersive circus shows, free live tunes by the beach, 30-minute mini concerts in the Tallebudgera Valley: they're all on the lineup.
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NewsBrisbane Festival's 2024 Program Is Here with Dazzling Fashion, The Art Boat's Return and a Bingeable Theatre Show
Also on the lineup across September: a Warumpi Band celebration, 400-plus drones telling a First Nations story above the city and 'Eucalyptus' turned into an opera.
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GuideTwelve of the Best RISING 2024 Events That Will Help You Get Out of the House This Winter
RISING 2024's most-exciting events include an absurdist dinner party, a massive festival within the festival and a heap of different one-off parties.
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NewsSouthport Will Light Up 'TRON'-Style When the Big City Lights* Festival Returns to the Gold Coast for 2024
After debuting in 2022, this free fest is back for it second spin, with more than 39 works in 40-plus locations on the lineup.
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NewsVolume Has Added a World-Premiere Installation Scored by Flume and a Blak Country Night to Its 2024 Lineup
André 3000, Kim Gordon, Genesis Owusu and Tkay Maidza now have plenty of company on the Volume music series program.
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NewsA Lit-Up Train That's Pumping Out a Techno Soundtrack by Paul Mac Is Riding Sydney's Rails During Vivid 2024
This isn't your ordinary commute — this is 'Tekno Train', which takes you on a 60-minute trip filled with lighting and music that changes to match the train's speed and the landscape outside.
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NewsHannah Gadsby's New Stand-Up Show 'Woof!' Is Coming to Brisbane and Adelaide This Winter
The Australian comedian's latest show follows 'Nanette', 'Douglas' and 'Body of Work' — and it has locked in more gigs around the country.
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NewsRISING Has Expanded Its 2024 Program with Late-Night DJs, the Full Day Tripper Lineup and More
More Dirty Three, more 'Hellraiser', Melbourne Symphony Orchestra doing a secret pop-up show: they're all on the bill now, too.
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SXSW Sydney Has Dropped the First Lineup of Speakers, Musicians, Films and Games for 2024's Festival
Australian astronaut Katherine Bennell-Pegg, TikTok marketing head Sofia Hernandez, Courtney Act, Nakkiah Lui, Hamish Blake, 'Heartbreak High' star Ayesha Madon: they're all on the bill.
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NewsMelbourne's Firelight Festival Is Returning for 2024 with an Underground Light Show and Labyrinth Beneath Marvel Stadium
More than 144,000 lights will beam beneath the AFL stadium at this Docklands event, with the maze sticking around for over two weeks.
