Woollahra Festival

Overview

The inaugural Woollahra Festival this weekend plans to divide itself into two parts for your entertainment. Siteworx will feed the performance parts of your brain on stages around Queen Street, while a program of talks will feed your ears, eyes and urge you to pipe up with a question. Siteworx is curated by ex-Griffin artistic director Ros Horin, and promises bands, choirs and an orchestra, as well as clowning, capoeira, comedy and tango. Roaming performers on Queen Street complete the line-up.

The talk* program starts Friday night with a Q&A-style forum on the festival theme of community, with a dedication to detail that includes a real, live Tony Jones as host. On Saturday, Dee Nolan will talk about mixing the pilgrim trail through Spain with some really good food, while David Malouf covers his literary career. You can also get some advice on international affairs from a panel including prolific tweeter, ABC PM host Mark Colvin. On Sunday have breakfast with a Slow food founder, or hear Delia Falconer talk about her powerfully ambivalent Sydney.  Either of the two strands would be enough to fill any regular festival. With both, you shouldn’t find a quiet minute on Queen Street.

*all talks require a reservation