
The Best Things to Do in Sydney This Weekend
Weekends are precious. Two glorious days devoid of responsibility and overflowing with possibility. Luckily, Sydney's got plenty happening to make sure you don't spend the days indoors binge-watching Netflix and instead discovering new bars, absorbing art and feasting your way through food markets. Here are our picks of the weekend's happenings.
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The Best Things to Do in Sydney This Weekend
See a movie under the stars, pair top-notch tacos with a few brews or head to a city-wide arts and culture festival.
The Best Things to Do in Sydney This Weekend
See a movie under the stars, pair top-notch tacos with a few brews or head to a city-wide arts and culture festival.
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Arts & Entertainment
Ammonite
Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan are exceptional in this exquisite period romance from the director of 'God's Own Country'.
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$21 Summer Tix
Nab discounted tickets to a show, event or experience at midday each day until the end of March.
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Food & Drink
The Garden Social
Food trucks, a gin and tonic bar, and live tunes — all in The Domain.
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Design & Style
Le Creuset Summer Sale
Snag some colourful French cookware that'll last you a lifetime at up to 25 percent off.
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Arts & Entertainment
Westpac Openair Cinema 2020–21
The annual openair cinema back with a jam-packed lineup of new, recent and classic flicks — all screening under the stars at Mrs Macquaries Point.
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Summerland
This this primarily World War II-set drama is mostly straightforward, but boasts memorable work from Gemma Arterton and a potent undercurrent of subversion.
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Promising Young Woman
Carey Mulligan is fierce and formidable in this brilliant, blistering and bubblegum-hued take on the rape-revenge genre.
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Food & Drink
All-You-Can-Eat Meat and Cheese Boards
Feast your way through unlimited German cheese, charcuterie and pretzels.
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Design & Style
Jungle Collective 'Summertime Madness' Indoor Plant Warehouse Sale
Fill your home with new green babies from this warehouse sale.
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Arts & Entertainment
Tina Havelock Stevens: Thank You For Holding
This new video installation explores the uncertainty and chaos of recent times.
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Dude, It's a Coen Brothers Retrospective
Screening everything from 'The Big Lebowski' and 'Fargo' to 'No Country for Old Men' and 'Inside Llewyn Davis'.
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Pieces of a Woman
'The Crown' star Vanessa Kirby plays a woman coping with trauma in this raw and resonant drama.
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The Dry
The best-selling Aussie crime novel jumps to the big screen, and Eric Bana is superb as its conflicted central cop.
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Humans 2.0
Celebrate what it means to be human with thrilling physical theatre.
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Sunshine Super Girl
You don’t need to leave New South Wales to see superstar tennis action this summer.
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The Cleaners
Will you be tempted to make the cleaners' job a little more challenging?
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A Mile In My Shoes
Literally walk in another person's shoes in this Sydney Festival experience.
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Food & Drink
Sydney's Happiest Hour
Score 50 percent off your entire bill at eight Sydney bars and restaurants throughout January.
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Travel & Leisure
Luna Park's Countdown Carnivale
Race around on rollercoasters and soar sky-high on the ferris wheel — before the historic fun park closes for a six-month revamp.
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Travel & Leisure
Dinosaur Valley
Keep your eyes peeled for a stegosaurus and T-rex at this outdoor exhibition in an ancient rainforest.
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The Rocks Goes Pop
Get your cultural kicks at The Rocks this summer with this series of pop-up events.
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Eternal
This new Darkfield Radio production is inspired by Bram Stoker's 'Dracula', and is designed to be listened to alone, at home, while you're in bed.
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Arts & Entertainment
Love & Neon: The Cinema of Wong Kar-Wai
Sydney Film Festival and ACMI are teaming up to screen 11 sumptuous films from the acclaimed Hong Kong director.
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Food & Drink
Wing Fest
Feast your way through a heap of chicken or cauliflower pieces — with 21 different rubs and sauces.
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Arts & Entertainment
Pat Larter
See the career-spanning first solo exhibition from one of the leading voices in the ‘femail’ art movement.
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Sydney Festival 2021
Sydney's biggest arts and culture festival is back for three weeks of exceptional locally made performances.
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Sydney Film Festival: Summer Season
SFF is hosting its first-ever program in conjunction with Sydney Festival, screening five films at the State Theatre over one January weekend.
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Travel & Leisure
Waterworld Central Sydney
Race your mates on the multilane Epic Racer slide, or cool off in a giant inflatable pool.
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Mov'In Boat Floating Cinema
Watch 'The Meg', 'Free Willy' and 'Death on the Nile' on a rowboat or floating pontoon in Darling Harbour.
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Rent — Sydney Opera House, LPD Productions and Sugary Rum Productions
The Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical hits the Sydney Opera House to celebrate its 25th anniversary.
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Arts & Entertainment
Frozen the Musical
The record-breaking Broadway musical, based on the smash-hit Disney film, is bringing Arendelle's frozen fractals and toe-tapping tunes Down Under.
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Food & Drink
Summer Staycations
Get ready for an epic summer escape — no expensive flight necessary.
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Arts & Entertainment
Moonlight Cinema 2020–21
Summer has arrived with the return of Sydney's always-popular outdoor cinema.
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Brett Whiteley: Feathers and Flight
Take a stickybeak into the famed Australian artist’s love of feathered creatures.
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Pippin the Musical
The Tony Award-winning acrobatic musical leaps into the Sydney Lyric this summer.
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Food & Drink
Sakura Summer
For those who can't make it to Japan this cherry blossom season, this Manly bar offers the perfect alternative.
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Lindy Lee Exhibition Events at MCA
Meditate alongside the celebrated artist, join in a sunset sketch session and head on a guided tour of the MCA's blockbuster summer exhibition.
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Real Worlds: Dobell Australian Drawing Biennial 2020
Admire the detail and diversity of extraordinary drawings by eight contemporary Australian artists.
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Ritz Laneway Cinema 2020–21
Watch new and classic flicks under the stars — while sitting in a director's chair in a laneway.
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Lindy Lee: Moon in a Dew Drop
The celebrated Australian Chinese artist is taking over Sydney's Museum of Contemporary Art with more than 70 ethereal, vibrant and thought-provoking works.
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InBloom
This colourful living exhibition features a 'watercolour painting' made from over 20,000 plants.
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Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards
Australia’s longest running and most prestigious art awards for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists is going digital — and it’s free to watch.
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Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2020
Direct from London's Natural History Museum, the best nature photographs from the past year are coming to Sydney.