Concrete Playground

Friday, 7th August - 3AM
@ AGNSW

Biblical mythology, idyllic landscapes, wild animals, political caricatures, sensuality and hardcore pornography all come together in this collection of monochromatic lithography prints, derived predominantly from the AGNSW's collection.Linked by the... Read More »

Friday, 31st July - Sunday, 30th August
@ Various cinemas

Spain is full of exquisite buildings and women, dramatic landscapes, and strange characters who give you obscure clues and instructions in matchboxes, right?Jim Jarmush's new film is an exploration of... Read More »

Friday, 26th March - 9PM
@ Good God Small Club

Meet Smokey LaBeef and Exercise Mike, two dapper gentlemen who were drawn together by their ridiculous names and shared misfortune at having been born in the wrong decade.Rather that spend... Read More »

Sunday, 12th July - 3AM
@ Belvoir St Theatre

A coming-of-age story of three orphans and their lives over 18 years in one apartment, Alexei Arbuzov's The Promise has been rarely performed outside of Russia since it premiered in... Read More »

Friday, 31st July - 1PM
@ Belvoir St Theatre

This one man show might be about a bee sting, a childhood, a relationship with a woman - oh no, that's right, it's about nothing. But it does tell you... Read More »

Sunday, 23rd August - 3AM
@ University of Sydney

Are your weekends behaving like those annoying soft toys in grabber machines? Like elusive soul-sucking hussies watching you with mocking eyes as you try to pick them up with your... Read More »

Friday, 24th July - 5PM
@ Kaliman Gallery

Take a trip down memory lane with Richard and Stephanie nova Milne (aka Ms&Mr) and you find the lane soon becomes a labyrinth where parallel worlds collide, time is non-linear... Read More »

Saturday, 4th April - 2PM
@ Campbelltown Arts Centre

We love larks after dark. We love Campbelltown Arts Centre. We love their ace program this year. We love the artists they are commissioning new work from. We love the... Read More »

Friday, 21st August - 11AM
@ Chauvel Cinema

Semi-useful fact: 'babooshka'� is a widely but incorrectly used term for Russian Dolls. 'Babooshka' means 'grandma' in Russian and 'Kate Bush in a body suit' in English, and nothing else.... Read More »

Saturday, 29th August - 4AM
@ Serial Space

In celluloid we might have a chance to fight mortality and stay forever young, but who owns the images of ourselves on film and what happens when people start messing... Read More »

Friday, 4th September - 11AM
@ Firstdraft Gallery

Some say the reason Firstdraft is Sydney's oldest artist-run initiative, having survived 23 years in a town notorious for severely short-lived independent venues, is because of its rotating director program... Read More »

Saturday, 8th August - 3AM
@ The White Rabbit

It is a testament to Chippendale's final stage of gentrification that the old working class suburb is not only home to several ARIs and commercial galleries, but now houses a... Read More »

Friday, 4th September - Sunday, 18th October
@ Belvoir St Theatre

A good night at the theatre is like a night in the garden of Gethsemane: your ideologies are shaken up and you are forced to doubt your beliefs, but because... Read More »

Friday, 28th August - 3AM
@ Breenspace Gallery

The second law of thermodynamics, entropy, states that all energy is eventually equalised. Molecules disintegrate as matter is neutralised; like ice cubes melting in a glass of water which in... Read More »

Thursday, 10th September - 11AM
@ Firstdraft Gallery

With talk of building a utopia and working on the basis of 'doing everything', Bababa International cannot fairly be accused of lacking ambition. Thankfully, there seems to be an engine... Read More »

Tuesday, 1st December - 6PM
@ Pigeonground

Hearing someone talk completely candidly without a speck of pretence is always treat, even more so if they are speaking about their life as pioneer of Aboriginal theatre, drug addict,... Read More »

Tuesday, 8th December - 10AM
@ Depot Gallery

Dance and photography often make for a troubled marriage: one lives for motion and temporality while the other is bent on freezing movement and time.In an attempt to reconcile the... Read More »

Friday, 18th December - Sunday, 7th February
@ Sydney Theatre Company

When Sydney Theatre Company released their 2009 program including an "untitled project" from Steven Soderbergh, there were some grumpy mummers from prospective subscribers who felt that being asked to sign... Read More »

Thursday, 7th January - Sunday, 14th February
@ Belvoir St Theatre

Part girl, part monster of the deep, Claudia O'Doherty is a three-dimensional being from Aquaplex, a futuristic underwater city that exploded. As the sole survivor, she has come to share... Read More »

Thursday, 31st December - 8PM
@ Good God Small Club

Do you feed like an insatiable ogre off pride and praise, compliments and conquer, superiority and success? Of course you do. This December 31st, amongst the goodness, godliness and smallness... Read More »

Thursday, 14th January - 4PM
@ Secret Location

Arts Mobile Sydney is a free love-in at a secret location - kind of like that rave you went to in 1992 except this time you won't get stuck sharing... Read More »

Wednesday, 23rd December - Sunday, 31st January
@ Belvoir St Theatre

Adapted for the stage from the novel by Guus Kuijer, The Book of Everything takes place in Amsterdam in 1951 - with the trauma of WWII German occupation still clearly... Read More »

Friday, 8th January - Saturday, 20th February
@ Sydney Opera House

Beneath the thin veil of silliness in Voltaire’s Candide, little escaped his vicious attack: religion, art, politics, theologians, governments, armies and philosophers – especially Leibniz and his theories of the... Read More »

Monday, 1st March - 6AM
@ Sydney Opera House

Spencer Tunick’s tableaux vivants are supposed to impress us with the raw beauty and power of the human form, but if you’re like me and find the naked adult body... Read More »

Thursday, 11th February - 8PM - Saturday, 13th February - 8PM
@ Good God Small Club

The last time I chatted to Darren Sylvester about his work, he said that the American sibling pop duo The Carpenters embodied the main sort of parable he aimed towards.... Read More »

Tuesday, 23rd February - Sunday, 7th March
@ Various venues in Erskineville

There’s a large amount of large stuff out there. Houses, shopping centres, cities, steaks, ocean liners, corporations, human bodies/egos … big just keeps getting bigger.Tiny Stadiums offers a retreat to... Read More »

Monday, 22nd February - Thursday, 4th March
@ Japan Foundation Gallery

Beyond the clichés of cuteness and eccentricity, Japan is a country that has been through massive societal upheaval in the last four decades. It has seen the bubble economy and... Read More »

Saturday, 13th February - Sunday, 2nd May
@ Art Gallery of New South Wales

Ukiyo — most often translated as ‘the floating world’ — refers to hedonistic Edo Japan, in particular the ‘pleasure quarters’ of Yoshiwara where brothels, chashitsu tea houses, sumo wrestling... Read More »

Friday, 12th March - Saturday, 24th April
@ Wharf 1, Wharf Theatre

Theatres in Sydney over the last 12 months have been brimming with anti-epic domestic snapshots of fraught intimate relationships, and the latest from UK physical theatre company Frantic Assembly continues... Read More »

Thursday, 13th May - Sunday, 1st August
@ Artspace

When the Biennale of Sydney announced they would be transporting Tokyo’s SuperDeluxe to Artspace in Wooloomooloo, we weren’t sure exactly what they meant — but when we finally saw the... Read More »

Thursday, 27th May - 6PM
@ CarriageWorks

We have friends with amusing names like Yellow Giant, Supernova, Brown Dwarf and Stella Black Hole. They problem is they don’t know we exist. So we must yell until they... Read More »

Sunday, 13th June - Sunday, 25th July
@ Belvoir St Theatre

A harshly lit, harshly generic hotel room is visible behind drawn, translucent curtains. The scene is at once concealed and on display as the young Claudio and his betrothed Julietta... Read More »

Tuesday, 13th July - Saturday, 7th August
@ Old Fitzroy Theatre

Underneath the Old Fitzroy Hotel in Woolloomooloo for the next three weeks is the dark cavernous netherworld of nice sister Cat400 and mean sister Fluke, whose underground existence is turned... Read More »

Thursday, 19th August - Sunday, 21st November
@ Museum of Contemporary Art

Across the first two levels of the MCA things are being re-rendered, repositioned, re-presented and reduced. Banal snapshots from Flickr and Google Image are finely replicated in watercolour by Jackson... Read More »

Friday, 3rd September - Saturday, 31st December
@ National Gallery Australia

James Turell, a Californian artist who has worked with light and perception as his media and subject matter since the 1960s, apparently studied perceptual psychology, mathematics, astronomy and geology at... Read More »