https://concreteplayground.com/sydney Sat, 04 Apr 2026 10:00:21 +0000 en-au hourly 1 https://concreteplayground.com/sydney/event/photography-place https://concreteplayground.com/sydney/event/photography-place Sun, 13 Mar 2011 04:39:39 +0000 This retrospective is a thorough examination of a significant era of Australian photography and begs the question: What will define the next one?

]]> This retrospective is a thorough examination of a significant era of Australian photography and begs the question: What will define the next one?

]]> https://concreteplayground.com/sydney/event/warpaint https://concreteplayground.com/sydney/event/warpaint Sat, 05 Feb 2011 23:14:16 +0000 There’s something nostalgically romantic about the sound and story of Warpaint. It might be the fact that they formed on Valentines Day, or perhaps the level of reverb they use on their harmonised vocals, but there’s no denying the happy place Emily Kokal and Theresa Wayman take you to when they start singing. Their sweet […]

]]> There’s something nostalgically romantic about the sound and story of Warpaint. It might be the fact that they formed on Valentines Day, or perhaps the level of reverb they use on their harmonised vocals, but there’s no denying the happy place Emily Kokal and Theresa Wayman take you to when they start singing. Their sweet […]

]]> https://concreteplayground.com/sydney/event/coolie-asian-australian-performance-event https://concreteplayground.com/sydney/event/coolie-asian-australian-performance-event Sat, 05 Feb 2011 22:59:21 +0000 So successful has William Yang been at affecting audiences with his storytelling, that Performance 4A asked him to direct, teach and guide a group of Asian Australians in how to tell their stories in front of an audience: this is the enlightening result.

]]> So successful has William Yang been at affecting audiences with his storytelling, that Performance 4A asked him to direct, teach and guide a group of Asian Australians in how to tell their stories in front of an audience: this is the enlightening result.

]]> https://concreteplayground.com/sydney/event/sex-love-passion https://concreteplayground.com/sydney/event/sex-love-passion Sat, 05 Feb 2011 06:49:45 +0000 Although she was rather fond of the visually stimulating and sensuously heightening colours of a dance floor, Eloise knew that a library — not a discotheque — was where she felt most at home on a Friday night. Tonight however she found herself distracted by that buffoon who was making a ruckus of the usually […]

]]> Although she was rather fond of the visually stimulating and sensuously heightening colours of a dance floor, Eloise knew that a library — not a discotheque — was where she felt most at home on a Friday night. Tonight however she found herself distracted by that buffoon who was making a ruckus of the usually […]

]]> https://concreteplayground.com/sydney/event/the-big-fashion-sale-2 https://concreteplayground.com/sydney/event/the-big-fashion-sale-2 Sun, 23 Jan 2011 23:40:46 +0000 The sale to end all sales, this one comes but twice a year and promises a host of cult designer bargains from Ellery, Nathan Smith, Elke, Ruby Smallbone, Fernando Frisoni and many more.

]]> The sale to end all sales, this one comes but twice a year and promises a host of cult designer bargains from Ellery, Nathan Smith, Elke, Ruby Smallbone, Fernando Frisoni and many more.

]]> https://concreteplayground.com/sydney/event/holy-fuck-2 https://concreteplayground.com/sydney/event/holy-fuck-2 Sun, 23 Jan 2011 23:16:56 +0000 With music that lives up to the gasping expletive in their name, the pouncing electronic waves that spill from the leads and cables of this Toronto band's equipment is mind-bendingly fun - as is watching them live.

]]> With music that lives up to the gasping expletive in their name, the pouncing electronic waves that spill from the leads and cables of this Toronto band's equipment is mind-bendingly fun - as is watching them live.

]]> https://concreteplayground.com/sydney/event/misanthropology https://concreteplayground.com/sydney/event/misanthropology Mon, 10 Jan 2011 00:16:04 +0000 Eddie Perfect's sense of humour is disturbingly funny. With a three-piece band in tow, Misanthropology asks, 'What makes us human?' and 'Does a shopping trolley full of 'eco' and 'organic' make you a better person than one full of 'No Frills' and 'Made in China'?

]]> Eddie Perfect's sense of humour is disturbingly funny. With a three-piece band in tow, Misanthropology asks, 'What makes us human?' and 'Does a shopping trolley full of 'eco' and 'organic' make you a better person than one full of 'No Frills' and 'Made in China'?

]]> https://concreteplayground.com/sydney/event/2-dimensional-life-of-her https://concreteplayground.com/sydney/event/2-dimensional-life-of-her Mon, 10 Jan 2011 00:11:22 +0000 You might not call Fleur Elise Noble 'careful' but somehow, she manages to skirt around imagined, created and real with incredible fluidity and sanity. Using real-time 2D and 3D tricks (puppetry, animation and inventive brilliance), Noble plucks the characters out of her mind and interacts with them on stage.

]]> You might not call Fleur Elise Noble 'careful' but somehow, she manages to skirt around imagined, created and real with incredible fluidity and sanity. Using real-time 2D and 3D tricks (puppetry, animation and inventive brilliance), Noble plucks the characters out of her mind and interacts with them on stage.

]]> https://concreteplayground.com/sydney/event/support https://concreteplayground.com/sydney/event/support Mon, 08 Nov 2010 06:41:08 +0000 With the help of a bunch of talented artists and designers, Concert for the Cure aim to generate fresh discourse about breast cancer and raise money for further research into tumour dormancy.

]]> With the help of a bunch of talented artists and designers, Concert for the Cure aim to generate fresh discourse about breast cancer and raise money for further research into tumour dormancy.

]]> https://concreteplayground.com/sydney/event/double-glazed https://concreteplayground.com/sydney/event/double-glazed Mon, 08 Nov 2010 03:57:40 +0000 Even Books have more ideas for ways that nerds can have fun than the universe has room for. First they combined books, parties and braininess (whoever imagined THAT would be considered fun?). Then they created a Reader’s Festival during the Sydney Writer’s Festival(!) And now they’re taking over First Draft gallery. “But how”, you say, […]

]]> Even Books have more ideas for ways that nerds can have fun than the universe has room for. First they combined books, parties and braininess (whoever imagined THAT would be considered fun?). Then they created a Reader’s Festival during the Sydney Writer’s Festival(!) And now they’re taking over First Draft gallery. “But how”, you say, […]

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