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    Shared Frequencies

    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.

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    4 Exhibitions

    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.

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    Cyndi Lauper

    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.

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    Carnivargyle

    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.

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    Some Kind of Love Story

    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.

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    Earth Hour 2011

    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?

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    One80 Project Festival

    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.

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    Die! Die! Die!

    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 […]

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    Platform Hip Hop Festival

    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.

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    Francesca Martinez

    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 […]

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    Living Sound in Silent Light

    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.

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    Hidden 2011

    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.

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    Os Mutantes

    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.

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    Arthaus Lounge: Shaken & Stirred

    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.

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    Dean Manning: Midgets and Giants

    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 […]

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    Imperial Panda Festival 2011

    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.

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    TED Live

    Thu, 3 Mar, 2011

    Bondi Pavilion, Bondi Beach

    If it has a cutting edge, people talk about it at TED. This year's main conference in California will be screened live for free at Bondi Pavilion Theatre.

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    Subtext

    Thu, 17 Feb - Sat, 5 Mar 2011

    Carriageworks, Eveleigh

    Art and Australia magazine, together with the Australian Literacy & Numeracy Foundation, is putting students at the front and centre with this poignant exhibition for a very worthy cause.

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    Unplugged + Uncomplicated

    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.

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    Lanie Lane

    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.

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