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Experience community life by the ocean through the works of First Nations artists in Coomaditchie: The Art of Place at the Museum of Sydney. Read our review here!
Acclaimed multidisciplinary artist Julie Rrap has examined representations of the body in art and popular culture for over four decades, often using her own body as the subject.
Discover the joy of acrylic pouring and leave with a unique bear figurine that will impress everyone
The MCA’s annual exhibition of work by early-career artists living and working in Australia.
In 2024, almost 50 years since his work was presented at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in the 1976 Biennale of Sydney, Lee Ufan returns to Sydney. Within spaces designed by the artist, this new exhibition distils over six decades of considered experimentation into a series of new paintings and sculptures created especially for the Art Gallery.
Through the work of ten artists from around Australia, the 2024 edition of the Dobell Australian Drawing Biennial focuses on the compelling and allusive languages of abstraction.
Angelica Mesiti is creating an immersive installation for the former wartime oil bunker beneath the Art Gallery of New South Wales’ North Building.
The Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA Australia), will open Isaac Julien's compelling cinematic installation Once Again... (Statues Never Die) (2022) from 27 September 2024 until 16 February 2025.
Kwatja Kngarritja Tnyirlalhama (Big Rain Falling) invites children and families to drop in to create your own shapes or designs to add to Robinya’s immersive desert landscape wall.
Opening on 26 October, Magritte will feature more than 100 works and will be the first retrospective ever dedicated to the artist in Australia.
Leyla Stevens is an Australian–Balinese artist whose films and photographs uncover alternative histories, including of people, rituals and objects connected to the Indonesian island of Bali. Developed through extensive research and community collaboration, her works carry a potent emotive charge in their sensitive yet affecting retellings.
Drawing on both historical and contemporary references, Qureshi works in the space between tradition and experimentation, in a practice that extends to collage and photography. Born in Pakistan, she trained at the National College of Arts in Lahore, where she learnt the painting traditions that had been brought to the Mughal courts from Persia in the 16th century and developed in the region.
Pirates are taking over the Sydney Opera House! Learn how to paint your own face like a pirate in this step-by-step makeup art play workshop.
The Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA Australia) will host a major exhibition by acclaimed American artist Julie Mehretu, the first exhibition of the artist's work to be shown in Australia and the Asia-Pacific region.
Cao Fei: My City is Yours heralds the artist’s first retrospective in Australia.
Dance Clan is one of the ways we cultivate the ground to raise the next generation of Cultural leaders.
A contemporary exhibition interrogating the importance of water
Experience Creature, an immersive installation and workshop by Box of Birds/Stalker that explores our connection with the environment.
How much imagination can a person have? When we exercise, what will happen to our surroundings? Or what will happen to us?
Welcome to Sound Stories, where the ordinary becomes extraordinary! Get ready to embark on a unique sonic adventure, discovering the beauty of the sounds that surround you every day. This workshop is about turning the tapestry of everyday sounds into collaborative, enchanting soundscapes.
Colour In Worlds is an immersive installation for families by International Artist Mit Jai Inn. Add your own designs with paint. What worlds will you colour in or create?
During the Festival, you’re invited to share messages of hope for our collective environmental future. What is your wish for our lands and waterways? What can we do now for a sustainable tomorrow?
Children can unleash their creativity in this interactive maze of kaleidoscopic colours and choose-your-own-adventure art — from building blocks to swings to knitted playgrounds
This graceful giant of the ocean, the whale, has inspired cultures around the world holding a special place in stories and legends. The sight of a whale in the water moves even the most stoic heart to wonderment.
The neon lights of Las Vegas are calling. Join us in January for the wild rise and dramatic fall of magic’s dazzling duo, Siegfried and Roy.
Hive Festival returns this summer – a festival for children and families.
Hive Festival returns this summer – a festival for children and families.
Honouring a long lineage of shell artists
The New Beginnings Festival transforms the Australian National Maritime Museum into a vibrant canvas of contemporary expression for one extraordinary day each year.
How To Grow Your Garden is an immersive story built by the performers AND the participants, exploring what it means to nurture who we are and the people we care about through the seasons of life.
Celebrate the 2025 Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras with a free dance class for LGBTIQA+ community of all ages and all abilities!
Exhilarating acrobatics meet stunning voices in this thrilling new production of a timeless love story.
Vaslav Nijinsky was at the height of his career during the early 20th century. His unparalleled performances brought him adoring fans while his evocative and sensual choreography caused riots in theatres in Paris.
An earth-shattering experience from three of the world’s most inspired choreographers, Prism will leave you breathless with its raw intensity and revolutionary design.
Ten years since its spectacular premiere, David McAllister’s opulent production, The Sleeping Beauty, returns to whisk you away into a magical realm of fairies and spells, good versus evil and a royal romance.
Immerse yourself in the enchanting world of May Gibbs when you join us for a delightful day at the Gumnut Fair. May Gibbs magic comes to life as you meet and greet beloved characters, discover unique Christmas gifts, indulge in homemade slices, cakes and refreshing lemonade, and explore charming garden stalls.
A specially commissioned new storytelling and meditation experience with digital projections. This is a sensory world of vivid storytelling, dreamy electronic music, animation, and the wonder of our Sydney harbour.
Join Museums of History NSW for Sydney Open Adaptive Reuse, where we explore a selection of heritage properties that have been masterfully adapted to create new spaces for work, life and play.
Join us to celebrate the new North Sydney CBD at the inaugural North Sydney Festival, Saturday 2 November.
Experience Sleeping Beauty like never before in this dazzling dance and light show.
Sculpture by the Sea will return to the Bondi to Tamarama Beach coastal walk as the world’s largest free to the public sculpture exhibition in 2024.
Make and decorate your choice of wearable rock lobster claws or pearl clammy hands before choreographing and performing a group dance routine in our Centre for Creativity!
Join Museums of History NSW for a tour of Wendy Whiteley’s Secret Garden and learn how a disused railway dump was transformed into a public garden oasis.
Join our volunteer guides for a roving art-making tour of the Art Gallery of New South Wales collection in our north building, now known as Naala Badu.
Play with colours and lines in this free drop-in art-making workshop in the children’s art library.
Join the Sydney Opera House team in the foyer between Waru shows to create your own turtle artwork and learn about the Torres Strait Islands.
Get your groove on! Join leading dancing group Shaun Parker & Company for Dance Workshops as part of Play! Festival.
Budding artists and creatives can pick up some fun skills in these art workshops led by local artist and teacher Greta Thiering.
Learn about the architectural history of the Sydney Opera House with Architecture Club by getting creative through a series of fun and playful design exercises for beginners or design lovers.
With a jam-packed agenda of immersive story dinners, oceanic storytelling and the long-awaited Australian Poetry Slam National Finals (13 Oct) in Sydney, audiences are in for a lively celebration of spoken words and shared human experiences.
The Sydney Opera House has been visited by aliens! Join us on this interactive theatre play experience to find the left-behind alien.
Take a look behind the curtain with Isabel Hudson
Join our volunteer guides for a roving art-making tour of the Art Gallery of New South Wales collection at our historic south building, now known as Naala Nura.
In this workshop, you’ll make garlands, wreaths, dancing sticks or lanterns that celebrate seasonal change using forms and shapes from nature or the night sky.
Join this kids workshop and create your own city shapes and skylines using different types of card and textures.
During this 2-hour creative workshop children will explore the ceramic exhibition, Clay on Country, then guided by ceramic artist Claire Freer.
Join the Art Gallery of NSW these school holidays for a world of imagination and activity.
Be inspired by underwater exploration and maritime archaeology as you enjoy art making and experiments with your family.
Enter the captivating and ever-growing Paper Planet. Explore the gigantic cardboard forest and make it grow using only paper, sticky tape and your imagination! Our review here!
Boasting 200 + Australian and NZ exhibitors, a mouthwatering array of food and wine experiences and immersive, interactive art installations, this event is a vibrant and joyful celebration of independent design complete with shopping, eating, drinking, creating and playing – all under one roof.
Your next free opportunity to explore White Bay Power Station is here! Get ready for 3 supercharged days of local art, food, music and more.
Join us at the Centre for Creativity for an epic art odyssey!
Sydney Design Week 2024 brings together visionary designers, architects and artists, engaging research, storytelling and image making to create space for alternative futures.
Ku-ring-gai’s Sculpture Trail celebrates sustainable Art in the Ku-ring-gai Wildflower Garden. Read our review here!
Get ready for Fringe Kids at Darling Quarter this September and a dedicated week in October. Enjoy sensory displays, interactive music, bubble magic, mad science, and more at the Village Green Festival Garden. Family fun awaits!
