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    Wish I’d Said That

    Sunday, December 19, 2010 - Saturday, January 29, 2011

    Ensemble Theatre, Kirribilli

    We all wish we’d said certain things at certain times. This play explores what happens when we don’t: we short-change ourselves, professionally and personally. We short-circuit our long-term happiness and run the risk of forgetting what we wanted to say in the first place and why it mattered. The newest resident of the Foggadieu Retirement […]

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    Barry Divola: Nineteen Seventysomething

    Thursday, December 9, 2010

    Surry Hills Library, Surry HIlls

    It’s Nineteen Seventysomething and the world is changing fast &#151 or is it? The news has yet to reach the small town where Charlie sits around listening to The Best of Bread on vinyl and pondering which singer to lose his virginity to. It’s not Cat Stevens or Carol King, by the way. It’s Neil […]

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    The Fall

    Tuesday, December 7, 2010

    The Metro Theatre, Sydney

    The late BBC DJ legend John Peel famously summed up The Fall in this succinct remark: “They are always different, they are always the same.” Seminal post-punk trailblazers who carved a niche out of surreality, lo-fi guitars and copious speed use, The Fall have a dedicated cult following of disgruntled blighters, punks and would-be writers. […]

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    No Reserve Auction

    Wednesday, December 1, 2010

    Global Gallery, Paddington

    Paddington’s Global Gallery is presenting an exhibition and no reserve auction of pop artists, Dennis Ropar and Frank Malerba. Between them, Ropar and Malerba boast more than 50 solo shows in the mediums of painting and sculpture, and will exhibit over 100 works together. Linked by their love of fresh, juicy images and determination to […]

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    Bag Raiders

    Saturday, December 4, 2010

    The Forum, Moore Park

    Renowned for their remixes and live shows, this synth-driven Sydney duo promise to deliver a panoramic show full of juicy high-tech sweetness. The eighties promised us this would be the future, and they were right.

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    The Man Who Planted Trees

    Saturday, November 27 - Sunday, December 5, 2010

    Sydney Opera House, Sydney

    Transformed from prescient tale into madcap puppeteering masterpiece, this show is wonderfully moving, utterly unpretentious and unobtrusively didactic. Come with your day's baggage, leave with a pack of invisible acorns.

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    May Barrie + Tori de Mestre

    Tuesday, November 23 - Saturday, December 18, 2010

    Stella Downer Fine Art Gallery, Waterloo

    May Barrie is 93 and takes delight in bare existence &#151 the boulders that surround her Calderwood property, Callemondah, represent the way her internal and external worlds interconnect. She has passed her passion for shape and form onto her daughter, Tori de Mestre, who lives with her in simplicity and seclusion. May studied sculpture during […]

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    Belles Will Ring

    Friday, November 26, 2010

    The Gaelic, Surry Hills

    This Friday Belles Will Ring will bring their new single, Come North With Me Baby, Wow to The Gaelic Hotel. Equal parts the blameless blues of Morphine and the retro-quirk of Belle and Sebastian, these Blue-Mountaineers know how to make your memory pine for places it never went. Featuring distorted guitar lines and a dusty […]

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