Thu, 4 Nov - Sun, 14 Nov 2010
Dendy Cinemas, Sydney
It’s a hundred years since the Mexican Revolution. Moustaches, cries of “land and freedom!” and ‘sombrero’ as a synonym for ‘big hat’ all flow from that revolutionary era. The Mexico it created is complex, layered and huge. Just like Mexico’s movies, which — thanks to this year’s Hola Mexico Film Festival — are again being […]
Sat, 30 Oct, 2010
Red Rattler, Marrickville
Live music and horror stories - what better way to celebrate Halloween. With general ghoulishness promised on the night, who knows what stories will be born and which rough bodies will be sewn together into life.
Sun, 24 Oct - Tue, 2 Nov 2010
Gaffa, Surry Hills
Former Chocolate Factory resident Mark Gerada’s new exhibition at Gaffa has two themes. One is the almost post-natal sadness that descends on you after you stage an exhibition. The other is an unreal tint of blue he saw while swimming in a sea-cave in the island of Gozo, off his ancestral Malta. Malta itself has […]
Wed, 27 Oct - Sat, 6 Nov 2010
New Theatre, Newtown
Need new drama? The New Theatre has concentrated it for you at its third annual Brand Spanking New season. A collection of authors, actors and directors have been pulled together by Stories from the 428 curator, Augusta Supple, to tell their disparate stories over a common set. This project offers seventeen different writers, each of […]
Thu, 21 Oct, 2010
LO-FI Collective, Surry Hills
On hearing that he was to be executed in Bolivia, Che Guevara reportedly turned white and said “It is better this way.” Dying Capuchin monks made churches with their deaths, their bones used for the deeply serious skeletal collages which still sit oddly in their Italian crypts. The point was to be an artistic momento […]
Tue, 12 Oct - Sat, 23 Oct 2010
Roslyn Packer Theatre, Walsh Bay
Watching Gat's dance is like keeping track of the hands in a Jason Bourne movie. His whole figure jumps with suddenness and grace - no movement is spare, and there arrives no moment of rest.
Fri, 15 Oct, 2010
Red Bull Gallery, Alexandria
If you looked at the news in 2008, you've already seen the movement called lowbrow art, or pop surrealism. Friday evening, the Red Bull gallery will be full of it to launch this collaborative exhibition.
Fri, 8 Oct, 2010
Object Gallery, Surry Hills
Studios across the inner-city will throw open their doors on Friday afternoon - Sixteen, including Object renovators Architect Marshall, eco-furniture designers Schamburg + Alvisse and more-than-jewelry-makers Dinosaur Designs, will take guests inside their space and process.
Tue, 21 Sep - Sat, 2 Oct 2010
Wharf 2, Wharf Theatre, Walsh Bay
It's a wooden-industrial macabre story of murder and revenge and has a blues-instrumented country feel, but this production is actually an organic, funny, weird, creepy, electric kind of comedy.
Tue, 28 Sep, 2010
Curious Works, Surry Hills
A weekly space to dance where you can dance like nobody's watching because nobody is. You don't have to worry about how you're doing it, what you're wearing or who you're with. Instead, you can concentrate on the pure joy of sound and movement.
Tue, 27 Sep - Sun, 9 Oct 2011
Carriageworks, Eveleigh
In some parts of the world it's getting harder and harder to get children into the more interesting places. But take them along to this decidedly messy festival and they'll get stuck into compost bins, play with clay, meet roaming dinosaurs and manufacture heads and no one will bat an eyelid. If you don't have kids, then borrow some and get along.
Sat, 25 Sep, 2010
Sidetrack Theatre, Marrickville
The 428 is an omnibus of mystery. A team of writers, directors and actors will observe and distil its action into play form for this restaging of April's successful season.
Wed, 1 Sep - Sun, 19 Sep 2010
Dendy Opera Quays, Sydney
Latin America produces good film. The documentary The Forgotten Tree, from Diego Luna and Gael Garcia Bernal’s travelling Ambulante Film Festival, revisits the slums of famous director Luis Bunuel’s masterpiece Los Olvidados, Mexico’s equivalent to Bicycle Thieves. Optical Illusions shows the world of a man whose sight is being slowly restored, while Eyes Wide Open explores […]
Wed, 1 Sep - Fri, 10 Sep 2010
University of Sydney, Darlington
Verge is strange. That's one of the best things about it. A silent disco, a 24-hour comedy gig and a NASA vs. NIDA debate are definitely some of the stranger pieces of the Verge mosaic. Which is varied, like a spotty art wall of Rubiks cube is varied - something they have at the festival. Verge is also perfectly normal. They'll have a best-of Theatresports (with Chaser members and cast from Thank God You're Here), a white-lit night market, open circus rehearsals and music. The festival has been running at Sydney University since 2003, starting as an experiment along the torn and sticky-taped graffiti tunnel and progressing down to a full-sized cultural event.
Fri, 6 Aug - Sun, 8 Aug 2010
China Heights, Darlinghurst
The everyday scenes in the statement accompanying Lance Richardson’s de MéXICO are almost as good a snapshot of Mexico as the exhibition itself. His photos come from right across the country — from Mexico City to Spanish colonial towns like Taxco and Guanajuato, from the ghostly and peyote-soaked Real de Catorce in the Mexican Desert, […]
Thu, 5 Aug - Mon, 30 Aug 2010
Edition, Darlinghurst
Askill mixes time the way The Chemical Brothers mix sound. His videos pull out ordinary moments until they've stretched into the raw stuff of movement. Somehow, this renowned video-artist has condensed his stunning works into a book, launching this week accompanied by small screenings of his work.
Wed, 4 Aug, 2010
Chauvel Cinema, Paddington
Take a rare look inside the world of indie rock god Stephin Merritt in this intimate, revealing documentary.