Tue, 29 Mar - Sat, 16 Apr 2011
Roslyn Packer Theatre, Walsh Bay
The naked bloke on the back of Sydney buses is for the Sydney Dance Company's Shared Frequencies, with guest talent dripping motion from around the world.
Thu, 24 Mar - Tue, 5 Apr 2011
Gaffa Gallery, Sydney
Four new shows at Gaffa feature snowy satellite imagery, unreliably narrated photos, cardboard geometry and Facebook escaping into the real world.
Thu, 31 Mar - Fri, 1 Apr 2011
State Theatre, Sydney
If all you know about the blues came from the Simpsons, Cyndi Lauper wants to educate you.
Tue, 1 Mar - Thu, 31 Mar 2011
The Argyle, Sydney
Carnivals were originally a farewell to the pleasures of the flesh before Roman Catholic lent. These days the focus tends to be more on the party.
Thu, 10 Feb - Sat, 26 Mar 2011
Anna Schwartz Gallery, Darlington
Brendan Van Hek's new neon-sculpture show at Anna Schwarz Gallery takes its cues from a hard-boiled Arthur Miller play, with sculptures of skewiff colour and shape.
Sat, 26 Mar, 2011
Sydney City Streets and Parks, Sydney
If you'd rather sit at home with the lights off than watch the NSW election coverage, you're in luck. This year's Earth Hour starts 8.30pm the night of the election, providing you with some alternative civic participation if you weren't looking forward to a night of margins and reported booths. The night started here in Sydney in 2007 and has become an international event in the years since. Earth Hour is a symbolic action. Although there is carbon saved by turning things off, the point is the unmissable demonstration that a huge chunk of the world's population can do the same thing at the same time. If they can do it for Earth Hour, why not for grander environmental things?
Sun, 20 Mar, 2011
Prince Alfred Park, Redfern
The Optus One80 Project has been taking 180-second short entries in a competition of 'pitches' to win a fully-produced pilot to screen on MTV, and this Sunday they'll be showcasing the finalists.
Wed, 30 Mar, 2011
Beach Road Hotel, Bondi
Genre doesn’t sit comfortably for Die! Die! Die! One moment their pop and punk roots are showing, the next they’re pure experimental thrash, the next they sound like an all-girl nineties band doing the Arctic Monkeys. Which is to say that they have range. They made their second album in a broken barn, and since their […]
Sat, 12 Mar - Sat, 2 Apr 2011
Carriageworks, Eveleigh
Whether you're up to speed or yet to be sold on the genre, the Platform Hip Hop Festival is returning to CarriageWorks' concrete halls for its fourth year to educate your senses.
Sat, 26 Mar, 2011
Francesca Martinez will tell you she’s wobbly. She started her career on the (only recently-cancelled) teen classic Grange Hill, has performed with QI favourite Jo Brand, and been on Extras and Spicks and Specks. She makes her living as a standup these days. She’s coming to Sydney, running her only local gig out of Parramatta’s monthly Laugh […]
Thu, 10 Mar, 2011
Red Rattler, Marrickville
A night of film at the Red Rattler mixing old films and new, where the evening's only rule is that any sound needs to be done live on the night.
Mon, 7 Mar - Sun, 8 May 2011
Rookwood General Cemetery, Rookwood
Hidden brings together over thirty artists in the grounds of Rookwood Cemetery, inviting the public to wander amongst the graves.
Wed, 9 Mar, 2011
Enmore Theatre, Newtown
Anarchic. Chaotic. Creative. Everything a sixties TV rockband was claimed to be, Os Mutantes was in real life.
Sat, 12 Mar, 2011
Riverside Theatres, Parramatta
This regular festivity is getting ready to break down the martini drinker's appeal into its constituent elements of glamour and sex appeal.
Thu, 3 Mar - Sat, 19 Feb 2011
Damien Minton Gallery, Redfern
Dean Manning, formerly of Leonardo’s Bride, and currently singing with Angie Hart in Holidays on Ice, has a big artistic side, with a style somewhere near early British colonial art and Sidney Nolan. Growing up around travelling side-shows, Manning very quickly learned to look at the downscale behind the small glamours of the carnivalesque. His new […]
Fri, 4 Mar - Sun, 20 Mar 2011
Good God Small Club, Sydney
Emerging this year as a bigger and better-funded incarnation of its former self, this festival of strange art, performance and general fringe activity is sure to inspire in its new SMAC award-winning home.
Sat, 26 Feb, 2011
Carriageworks, Eveleigh
Curated by sustainable rockers [i]Music For Trees[/i], this 5-hour session of live music will feature a stellar line-up of local talent throughout Carriagworks' cavernous foyer.
Sun, 3 Apr, 2011
Shady Pines Saloon, Darlinghurst
In bars, theatres and festivals around Sydney, one woman has been educating Sydneysiders in a new version of an old sound.