• News

    This Plan Proposes Revitalising Kings Cross with New Music Venues, Theatres and a Town Square

    The plan looks to transform Kings Cross back into a neon-lit nighttime hub.

  • Guide

    A Big List of Must-See Shows, Festivals and Exhibitions to Add to Your Calendar This Year

    Dazzling displays of light, hit Broadway musicals, beloved music fests — they're all popping up throughout the rest of 2021.

  • News

    Midsumma Festival Returns This Month With a Big, Bold and Busy 2021 Program

    The long-running LGBTQIA+ celebration will dish up over 145 events across 17 huge days.

  • News

    Her Is a New Music, Art and Performance Festival Dedicated to Women

    The multi-genre festival will be held across 12 days next year.

  • News

    Harbord Hotel Is Hosting an 11-Day Surf Culture and Music Festival During the Narrabeen Classic

    Froth Fest will take over the Freshwater spot with a lineup of art, film, music, food and drink.

  • News

    Woolloongabba's 133-Year-Old Princess Theatre Is Getting a Huge Revamp From The Tivoli Crew

    It's Queensland’s oldest-standing theatre, and it's set to become a music and arts hub with a 900-person auditorium, four bars and a cafe.

  • News

    Shops Will Be Able to Stay Open Later and Host Small Events Under a New City of Sydney Plan

    The local council wants to help revitalise the city's nightlife by allowing later trading and encouraging small-scale cultural events.

  • News

    The Sydney Opera House Now Has Its Own Streaming Service Filled with Gigs, Shows and Talks

    It currently features over 30 hours of programming — which spans more than 45 different events.

  • News

    YCK Laneways Is the New CBD Cultural Precinct That's Launching with a Six-Week Block Party

    Ten bars are joining forces to kickstart the precinct, serving up a lineup filled interactive art, poetry readings and live music.

  • News

    Five Summertime Clips to Watch When You Want to Forget You're Back at Work

    Let those warm, fuzzy summer vibes wash right over you.

  • News

    Kings Cross Hotel Is Reopening Its Dance Floor at Exactly 12.01am Tonight

    Dust off your dancing shoes — the venue is letting Sydneysiders make shapes again from the very second that restrictions ease.

  • News

    An Extra $135 Million Will Be Injected Into Australia's Pandemic-Hit Arts and Entertainment Industry

    The money will help fund existing and new music festivals, stage shows, art galleries and more across the country.

  • News

    Sydney Solstice Is the New Winter Arts and Food Festival Popping Into Vivid's Usual Mid-Year Slot

    Set to run across 13 days in June, it'll focus on dining, drinking, entertainment, arts and culture.

  • News

    The NZ International Comedy Festival Has Announced a Jam-Packed Local Lineup for 2021

    Side-splitting laughter will sweep the nation for three weeks this May.

  • News

    Six of the Best Things to See and Do at CubaDupa 2021

    This year's festival features 470 free performances and 20 parades up and down the Cuba Street precinct.

  • News

    More Than 200 Artefacts From London's Famed Natural History Museum Are Coming to Melbourne

    The history-changing pieces will be part of the postponed 'Treasures of the Natural World Exhibition', which will make its Aussie debut at Melbourne Museum in June.

  • News

    First Nations Arts Celebration Yirramboi Festival Is Back for a Massive 2021 Edition

    It returns with a genre-hopping celebration of Indigenous creatives, spanning dance, music, comedy and performance.

  • News

    Sydney's Huge Tutankhamun Exhibition Has Been Cancelled Due to the Pandemic

    'Tutankhamun: Treasures of the Golden Pharaoh' was originally scheduled to display at the Australian Museum from February this year.

  • News

    The Cipher Room Is Expanding Its Escape Games and Puzzles to a Second Sydney Location

    It's launching this month with a new escape room set inside a haunted and abandoned toy shop.

  • News

    The Sydney Opera House Will Start Lighting Up Its Sails Nightly Again with First Nations Art

    Returning from April 23, the projection series will display its first all-female lineup.

  • News

    Sydney Writers' Festival Has Announced Its Jam-Packed Locally Focused 2021 Program

    More than 400 Australian-based speakers will take to the stage, all linked to this year's theme 'Within Reach'.

  • News

    Auckland Writers Festival Has Unveiled Its Whopping 2021 Lineup

    Seven days of ideas, readings, debates, stand-up poetry, literary theatre, children’s writers and free public events. 

  • News

    A Lego Exhibition That Recreates 'Jurassic World' with Six Million-Plus Bricks Is Touring Australia

    Lego finds a way, with more than 50 dinosaurs, props and scenes from the movie built out of the popular plastic bricks.

  • News

    Five Aussie Road Trip Videos That'll Make You Want to Quit Your Job and Holiday More

    Escape that sad desk lunch and watch these funny and dreamy road trip clips instead.

  • News

    Oxford Street's Mardi Gras Protest Is Set to Go Ahead After a Last-Minute NSW Health Exemption

    The march will take place on Saturday afternoon before the Mardi Gras Parade at the SCG.

  • News

    The Sugar Republic Team Is Bringing a Heart-Filled Pop-Up Museum of Love to Sydney

    It'll feature a confetti shower, a Las Vegas-style Chapel O' Love, a mirrored room so you can adore your own reflection and a heart-shaped ball pit.

  • News

    Five Things to Do at Australian Museum Once the Sun Goes Down

    Hang out with the king of the prehistoric predators, see cute pics of penguins and kick back to some live beats.

  • News

    Alice Springs' Luminous Parrtjima Festival Has Revealed Its Full 2021 Program

    The ten-day Indigenous arts, culture and storytelling festival is back with a lineup of large-scale light installations, live tunes, performances and more.

  • News

    The First Artist Lineup Has Been Announced for Queenstown's Snowboxx Winter Festival

    One week of local acts, slope-side parties and off-mountain experiences.

  • Guide

    Sydney Galleries and Museums Where You Can Get Your Culture Kicks After Work

    Clock off and kick on to something more exciting than your commute. 

  • News

    Collingwood Yards Is Turning the Former TAFE Campus Into a Huge Creative Precinct

    The 6500-square-metre site will span retail and hospitality tenants, rooftop and basement bars, galleries, and workshop and performance spaces.

  • News

    Concrete Playground Has Disappeared from Your Facebook Feed, But Here's Where You Can Find Us

    Just because Facebook is boring RN, doesn't mean you have to be.

  • News

    The NSW Government Has Given Powerhouse Museum's New Parramatta Site the Green Light

    The existing Ultimo venue is still sticking around — but the new location will spread across 18,000 square metres of museum exhibition and public space.

  • News

    Auckland Museum's Latest Permanent Suite Is Dedicated to Stories of Tamaki Makaurau

    Seven sections across four gallery spaces are dedicated to the new opening.

  • News

    Alice Springs' Dazzling Parrtjima Festival Will Light Up the Red Centre Again in April

    After COVID-19 delays in 2020, the Indigenous arts, culture and storytelling festival will return in its usual time slot in 2021.

  • News

    Lockout Laws Will Finally Be Scrapped in Kings Cross After Seven Years

    From next month, you'll be able enter clubs in the Cross after 1.30am and stay out drinking past 3am.

  • News

    Karangahape Road Will Soon Be Home to a Fabulous Rainbow Crossing

    Just in time for the end of Auckland Pride Month.

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