Concrete Playground

Saturday, 15th August - 6AM
@ Ashfield Library

Dubbed an “Australian To Kill a Mockingbirdâ€� by The Monthly and a “deeply thoughtful, remarkably funny and playful … gloriously Australian book,â€� at Readings Monthly, it seems Craig Silvey’s Jasper... Read More »

Saturday, 8th August - 12AM
@ ABC Headquarters

You’ve heard of sit-ins. But what exactly is a knit-in? It too requires a bottom, a healthy handful of creative thinking … oh, and some 4mm knitting needles. Tied into... Read More »

Monday, 10th August - 3AM
@ Adjacent to CarriageWorks

If you do a little gurge in your mouth when you hear the phrase “arts and crafts," then listen up. This isn’t your usual collection of handmade bits and bobs,... Read More »

Monday, 18th January - 8PM
@ A huge crumbly room

When Sir Allen Lane stood daydreaming on an Exeter station in 1935, letting the seeds for Penguin Books take hold, he probably didn't imagine that his range of, intelligent books... Read More »

Thursday, 6th August - 3AM
@ Mori Gallery

Travel to the empty part of the map marked, "There be monsters here" and you might find some of the “strange and wonderful life and adventuresâ€� artist Alli Sebastian Wolf has... Read More »

Friday, 2nd January - Thursday, 31st December
@ The Red Rattler

Sounding like a crook’s name from Cluedo, or an 18th century lady killer, events space The Red Rattler certainly evokes an old-school charm. And so it should. Its ethos is... Read More »

Sunday, 20th September - 3AM
@ CarriageWorks

Remember the days when you could snag ten red frogs for ten cents? Or ten scribbled maps from your friend if you crafted ten stick people? That was when economy... Read More »

Tuesday, 10th November - Sunday, 15th November
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Did you know that aluminium can be recycled into infinity? No wonder it has the sheen of space years about it. And that Tetra Paks are mostly made from cardboard... Read More »

Saturday, 13th February - 12PM
@ Centennial Parklands

The Good Vibes line-up has become like one of those old, terry-towelling outfits you get out once a year - comfortable, fleeced with memories, and soooooo familiar. Luckily that outfit... Read More »

Thursday, 26th November - 6PM
@ Red Rattler

Pecha Kucha (ペãƒ�ャクãƒ�ャ) is one of those great onomatopoeic phrases that pepper the Japanese language. It means chit-chat, and is the perfect way to describe a night based around just... Read More »

Saturday, 28th November - 10AM
@ Powerhouse Museum

Google “Young Bloodâ€� and the first thing to come up is some kind of Skin Care product. Icky, right? The Young Blood Designers Market is less ewww and more yeoowww!... Read More »

Thursday, 28th January - 9PM
@ Good God Small Club

If you’ve been to a Deep Sea Arcade gig, you know it’s all about the swagger, the bop, the swing and the sonic scuttle, with a deep-ocean chill capable of... Read More »

Tuesday, 16th February - 6PM
@ Temperance Lane Sydney

Temperance is a strangely old-fashioned word. It’s like the lone priest that struts into a do-hick town, shaking things up, pouring precious booze down dusty drains, squeegeeing the hookers, and... Read More »

Monday, 15th February - 8PM
@ A huge crumbly room

They’ve asked us not to get the creepy-crawlies about this being the thirteenth Penguin Plays Rough. They’d probably ask us not to use the term ‘creepy-crawly’ either, because that’s a... Read More »

Monday, 1st February - Saturday, 1st May
@ Gaffa

You’d have to be some kind of cold-hearted, imagination-starved automaton not to want to step onto the silver screen like Gumby walked into any wall, Bill and Ted telephone-boxed into... Read More »

Wednesday, 17th March - 6PM
@ Peer Gallery

It’s a one night stand, all types welcome. Unless your name is Times New Roman, Brush Script, Curlz or Comic Sans. Then you’re a slut, and who knows what kind... Read More »

Thursday, 11th March - Saturday, 27th March
@ Bicker Gallery

Wanderlust: getting itchy dust in your travel knickers. Kissing your mum goodbye and bikies, Euro-gays, gypsies, dreadlocked backpackers, earnest eco-warriors, conservatives, Mongolian goat herds and endless strange and wonderful vistas... Read More »

Thursday, 11th March - Wednesday, 31st March
@ Horus & Deloris

In an odd, tucked-away little gallery in Pyrmont are two odd little exhibitions, one boarding a tripped-out ship to Planet Suburbia, the other stepping into a SUPERDOOPER HYPERDOME heaving with... Read More »

Saturday, 27th March - Sunday, 25th July
@ Museum of Sydney

You may remember a little thing called the Global Financial Crisis. It happened a couple of years ago, resulted in $900 extra dollars in the piggybank thanks to Uncle Kev,... Read More »

Friday, 7th May - 6PM - Saturday, 8th May - 10AM
@ CarriageWorks

Finders keepers, losers weepers ... it’s a childhood taunt that still has the power to make me plunge towards the asphalt like a deranged Olympian diver in the hope of... Read More »