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NewsThe State of Fun in Australia
Gelato Messina, The Festivalists, Giant Dwarf and Secret Garden discuss active play, festival culture and whether red tape is killing creativity.
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NewsWin Tickets to See Grace Jones at Carriageworks
Be front and centre for this legendary Vivid Sydney headliner — there will be costume changes.
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NewsSee Studio Ghibli's Spirited Away as an 8-Bit Video Game
Hayao Miyazaki's beloved film, as an adorable platform adventure.
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NewsFlorence and the Machine Announce Splendour 2015 Sideshows
Their Coachella set finished up with 'Dog Days Are Over'. Just sayin'.
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NewsWatch Royal Headache's Opera House Vivid Gig Get Shut Down By the Cops
You can take the band out of the garage, but you can’t take the garage out of the band.
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NewsTen 2025 Oscar-Winning Films That You Can and Should Watch Immediately
Your newly Oscars-approved viewing list includes films about determined architects, whirlwind romances, catty cardinals, sandworms and more.
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NewsPredicting the Oscars: Who Should, Could and Will Win at the 2025 Academy Awards
From 'Anora' and 'A Real Pain' to 'I'm Still Here' and 'No Other Land', here's what's likely to emerge victorious at the 2025 Oscars.
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NewsHere's Where You Can Watch 33 of 2025's Oscar-Nominated Movies in Australia Right Now
Massive musicals, monumental dramas, stunning animated gems, heartbreaking documentaries, two Timothée Chalamet movies: they're all Oscar contenders, and you can watch them all.
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NewsTwenty-Five Exceptional Films by Indigenous Australian Filmmakers That You Can Stream Right Now
Celebrate Australia's First Nations filmmakers with these horror standouts, coming-of-age gems, Top End rom-coms, outback noirs, Aussie westerns and expressive dance flicks.
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NewsEleven 2025 Golden Globe-Winning Films and TV Shows That You Can (and Should) Watch Right Now
Make a cinema or a couch date with a freshly minted Golden Globe-winner — here's what you can watch right away, and where.
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NewsTwenty-Five Movies That You Can Stream This Christmas No Matter How You Feel About the Festive Season
Pour a glass of eggnog, find your comfiest spot on the couch, then enjoy everything from 'The Holdovers' and 'Die Hard' to 'Last Christmas' and 'Eyes Wide Shut'.
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GuideThe Best Free Events to Catch During Sydney Festival 2025
Sydney Festival is saving your wallet this summer with a cost-of-living defying program of free events throughout January.
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GuideMany of the Best Seats at Sydney Festival 2025's Headline Shows Are on Sale for Just $49 — Here's Why
As NSW's flagship arts fest prepares to celebrate its 49th birthday, affordability has been very much front of mind for Festival Director Olivia Ansell.
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NewsNine 2024 Emmy-Winning TV Shows That You Should Watch Immediately
Your new must-watch list of Emmy-winners includes 'Baby Reindeer' and its has-to-be-seen-to-be-believed tale, the history-making 'Shōgun' and, yes, 'The Bear'.
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NewsNine New Movies You Can Watch Right Now That Have Been Fast-Tracked From Cinemas to Streaming
Get comfy on the couch with Austin Butler's latest brooding role, serial-killer chiller 'Longlegs' and the animated antics of 'Inside Out 2'.
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NewsThe Australia Council Has Started Suspending Funding to Artists After Budget Cuts
Your calendar of shows to see might be looking a bit lighter a few months from now.
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NewsArtist Stanley Donwood's Retrospective Goes Beyond the Radiohead Album Covers
Now showing at Carriageworks, the artist talks collaborating with Thom Yorke and that time Glastonbury Festival just didn't understand him at all.
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NewsFive Tips for Survival in the Post-Financial Collapse Blackmarket
Scavenge some goods for post-apocalyptic trading in pvi collective's participatory performance.
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NewsSydney Fringe 2015 Has a Brand New Festival Village
Expect prohibition-style gin bars, masquerade horror installations and a huge focus on Erko.
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GuideThe Ten Best Gigs to See at Vivid Sydney 2015
Don't attend Vivid through your smartphone; get amongst the tunes.
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NewsLee Lin Chin Announced as Australia's Official Eurovision Spokesperson Because All Is Well
"I’m not worried about being up early, I’ll just have to take a break from the clubs for 20 minutes."
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NewsWin Tickets to See Wild Tales
Six people are driven to the verge of a nervous breakdown in this twisted tour de force.
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NewsGrace Jones Announces Third Vivid Sydney Show
The queen is staying a little longer at Carriageworks.
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NewsGiant Dwarf to Launch New Event Where Pollies Present Their Own Slide Night
Kristina Keneally and Julian Morrow invite Australian politicians to bring along their own personal photos — and explain themselves.
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NewsBlur Now Have Their Own Official 'Magic Whip' Ice Cream
For sharing with all the people, so many people.
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NewsWatch the First Trailer for New Parks and Rec-Style Muppets Show
Muppets in mockumentary format. Would watch.
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EventIngenia Holiday Parks Sydney Family Show 2025
Sat, 12 Apr - Sun, 27 Apr 2025
The Entertainment Quarter, Moore Park
The best thing about Easter isn't always the chocolate.
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EventWaterfall High Tea and Edible Garden at Eternity Cafe
Get down for a bubbly catchup with your besties, featuring a secret indoor waterfall, a jam-packed high tea and an edible garden.
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EventSouth Eveleigh Holi Hai Festival
Thu, 13 Mar, 2025
Innovation Plaza, Eveleigh
Get immersed in this Hindu festival, where visitors get covered in colours, dance to Bollywood tunes and dine on tantalising bites.
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EventEuropean Easter Market
Sun, 13 Apr, 2025
Polish Club, Ashfield
Get to know how the Polish celebrate Easter, with traditional cuisine and culture at Polish Club Ashfield.
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EventThe Unbound Art Show 2025: 'Horizons of Hope'
Thu, 20 Mar, 2025
Cell Block Theatre, National Art School, Darlinghurst
Buy a local artwork for a good cause at this one-night-only charity art show.
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EventTraveller Whiskey Launch at Jolene's Sydney
Thu, 27 Feb - Thu, 27 Mar 2025
Jolene's Sydney, Sydney
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EventLakemba Nights
Thu, 27 Feb - Sun, 30 Mar 2025
Haldon Street, Lakemba
Break your fast in the best way possible, with a sprawling street-food festival held throughout Ramadan.
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EventMoncur Cellars Wine Tasting Series
Multiple single dates
Bistro Moncur, Woollahra
Sip the best chardonnays in the land, with the first event in this wine lovers' tasting series featuring 80 renowned bottles.
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EventDarling Harbour's Culture Alive Festival
Sat, 22 Feb - Sun, 4 May 2025
Tumbalong Park, Sydney
Find your inner zen, bathe yourself in coloured powder and eat your body weight in souvlaki at these three festivals at Tumbalong Park.
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EventThe Music of Joe Hisaishi: Presented by the Sydney Symphony with Art of the Score
Thu, 25 Sep - Sat, 27 Sep 2025
Sydney Opera House, Sydney
Immerse yourself in the work of the legendary Japanese composer at these live concerts.
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NewsParlour Is Australia's New Start-Up Connecting Musicians with 'Stages'
Like Airbnb for musicians and big-backyarded music-lovers.
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NewsArt & About Breaks Its Curfew with a Swim at Paddington Reservoir Gardens
A new art installation brings to the surface the history of Paddington's pocket-sized park.
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NewsTen Movies to Book for Now at the 2015 Sydney Film Festival
You might not book your ordinary movie ticket a month in advance, but these aren't your ordinary movies.
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NewsOxfam to Launch Month-Long Oxjam Music Festival in Australia
A whole month of parties fighting against poverty across Australia. Even you can throw one.
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NewsWes Anderson Designed a Cafe That Looks Like One of His Movie Sets
You'd better believe it's kitschy as blazes.
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NewsThe 2015 Sydney Film Festival Program Is Out and On Sale
Book your perfect movie marathon of American indie dramedies, French superhero flicks and existential Swedish pigeon comedies.
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NewsHumans of New York's Brandon Stanton Photographed the 2015 Met Gala
Ordinary people as celebrities, celebrities as ordinary people.
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NewsPopcorn Therapy Is Sydney's New Immersive Cinema Experience
Let Curious Cartel entice you away from Netflix for a moment.
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NewsMeet the Young Sydney Artists Changing How We See Opera
What is a libretto, and why would you write one in 2015? Sydney Chamber Opera show us the light.
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GuideFive Festival-Level Art Exhibitions Opening in May
On the outside of the MCA and the inside of your Radiohead albums, get into multisensory art this May.
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NewsJohn Oliver Is Coming to Australia
He's roasted and praised Australia many a time, now the political satirist is coming to deliver truth nuggets in person.
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NewsThis Trailer for Studio Ghibli's Final Film Has Already Broken Our Hearts
Catch a glimpse of When Marnie Was There, Ghibli's last feature.
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NewsHow Photography in Australia Got from Gilded Copper to Ubiquitous Selfies
Given the effects of extreme heat, it's remarkable we took any photos at all.
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NewsWhat It's Like Learning to Dance in Pointe Shoes in 12 Weeks
To play Bottom in the Australian Ballet's The Dream, male dancers need to make like the ladies and go en pointe.
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NewsWin Tickets to Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter
The loneliness of the superfan is poetically told through the story of Kumiko and her quest for Fargo's buried money.
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NewsThe Book of Mormon Is Coming to Australia
Australians can finally get in on the crass magnum opus from South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone.
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NewsNo Lights No Lycra Has Some Big-Name Guest Playlisters in May
Festival-level pulls for your weekly lights-off dance party.
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NewsSplendour in the Grass 2015 Official Sideshows Announced
Missed out on a Splendour ticket? Just bring the festival to you.
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NewsMeet Australia's New Americana Camping Festival
Take your partner by the hand and head for Dashville Skyline.
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Underbelly Arts to Launch New Supper Club
Care to dine with ACME, Underbelly artists and Young Henrys?
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NewsFive New Reasons to Have High Hopes for Jurassic World
The Jurassic World trailer has taught us a lot about the made-up new dinosaur, Indominus (yes, Indominus).
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NewsWin Tickets to See Banksy Does New York
See the adult scavenger hunt that swept through New York's art scene.
