Sat, 8 Oct - Sun, 16 Oct 2011
Sydney City Streets and Parks, Sydney
Sydney cycling gets a festival all its own.
Sat, 8 Oct - Sun, 16 Oct 2011
Sydney Opera House, Sydney
Spring is here, and the weather's notionally improved enough for outdoor sports. With winter receding and some fitful glimpses of the perhaps over-glorious summer to come, one film festival is giving you some excellent reasons to get active outdoors before the local climate is ready for it. This year's Sydney Bicycle Film Festival has a week of screenings, rides, markets and art, weaving in and out of a freshly minted Sydney Rides Festival that promises to take this year's cycling festivities to a truly city wide scale.
Fri, 23 Sep - Sun, 23 Oct 2011
Martin Place, Sydney
Michael Landy connects you to some local moments of grace.
Thu, 6 Oct - Sun, 6 Nov 2011
Cinemas Everywhere, Various locations
Willem Dafoe comes to terms with the Tasmanian wilderness in this adaptation of a novel by Sleeping Beauty director Julia Leigh.
Thu, 6 Oct, 2011
Curious Works, Surry Hills
Sure, you can zag with style and some tremored precision when you're out and about, but what you really want is to dance scruffy, like you do among the lingering curls of steam by the bathroom mirror. Now there's an evening of dance that gets your problem. A homegrown night out that's spawned a worldwide movement which many know, but few have seen. Hosted at Curiousworks, Sydney's inner-city hive of pan-urban storytelling, No Lights No Lycra invites you to dance away the evening with your groove on and the lights off.
Mon, 17 Oct - Sat, 17 Dec 2011
Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, Paddington
Tokujin Yoshioka brings his ethereal plastic arts to Paddington.
Wed, 5 Oct - Sun, 23 Oct 2011
Alaska Projects, Kings Cross
Alaska Projects opens its new space with an artistic note from the underground.
There's art everywhere, and Concrete Playground's sifted out the best parts of Art & About for you to get to.
Sat, 1 Oct, 2011
Chauvel Cinema, Paddington
Some of the world's best short films come to Sydney via the Big Apple.
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.