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  • Barka: The Forgotten River

    Australian Museum

    First Nations exhibition developed by artists Uncle Badger Bates and Justine Muller is showing at the Australian Museum this autumn and winter.
    In Barkandji culture, Barka (Darling River) is more than a large body of water: Barka is a mother, an ancestor, a life source. It’s also in peril, along with everyone that lives along it, due to mismanagement of the Barwon-Darling system. If you’re keen to learn and understand more, you can do so at the new First Nations exhibition Barka: The Forgotten River, showing this autumn and winter at the Australian Museum.

  • Paradise Camp by Yuki Kihara

    Powerhouse Museum

    Paradise Camp by Yuki Kihara and curated by Natalie King, comprises a suite of twelve tableau photographs in saturated colour, situated against a vast wallpaper of a landscape decimated by the 2009 tsunami. Eleven of the works were shot on location in Sāmoa, from rural villages to churches, plantations and heritage sites, with a local cast and crew of over eighty people.

  • Reverberations: A Future For Memory

    Sydney Jewish Museum

    This interactive, high-tech exhibition shines a light on the humanity and life experiences of 43 of the Holocaust survivors who have shared their stories with our visitors in recent years.
    This is not an exhibition about the events of the Holocaust – it’s about the people who experienced it – and the painful decision these individuals make each time they relive stories of unimaginable loss for the betterment of humanity.

  • Devoted Service

    Anzac Memorial

    Devoted Service is a powerful and moving drama filled with insight and poignancy that is derived directly from the true stories of five remarkable women during the Great War.

  • The Centenary Exhibition

    Anzac Memorial

    The Centenary Extension provides a new exhibition gallery that illustrates the evolution of Australian military service, while focusing on the personal stories of NSW service.

  • Sweeney Todd

    Sydney Opera House

    The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
    Attend the deliciously dark tale of Sweeney Todd. A gruesome story of a man who is living life by the razor’s edge.

  • Zoe Leonard: Al río / To the River

    Museum of Contemporary Art

    Al río / To the River is a large-scale photographic project that depicts the river, Río Bravo/Rio Grande, which is used to demarcate the international boundary between Mexico and the United States. Since 2016, Leonard has photographed along the 2,000-km stretch of river that acts as the border between the two countries, mapping the river’s… Read More »Zoe Leonard: Al río / To the River

  • Miss Saigon

    Sydney Opera House

    Miss Saigon tells the story of Chris, an American male GI, who falls in love with Kim, a young Vietnamese orphan who works as a bar-girl and prostitute. When the city falls, the lovers are separated and Chris eventually returns to the U.S. Years later, Chris returns to Bangkok with his American wife, Ellen.

  • The Dismissal

    Seymour Centre

    Newly deposed Prime Minister Gough Whitlam descends the steps of Parliament House to rage against his dismissal by Governor-General Sir John Kerr, who has replaced him with the opposition leader, Malcolm Fraser. A scoop of reporters throng toward him—chief among them Gold Logie-winner, beloved larrikin, and Wollongong’s favourite son: Norman Gunston.

  • School Excursions for Textiles, Design and Technology students

    Sydney Design Week – Amodern

    Powerhouse Museum

    The 27th Sydney Design Week (2023) offers a platform to the critical research, industries, infrastructure and technologies that underpin design practice in our city, inviting plural perspectives from our local communities. The program enlists six fields of enquiry; Eco Systems, Material Cultures, Communal Cities, Micro Cycles, Connected Threads and Photofields, to explore the complex and… Read More »Sydney Design Week – Amodern

  • Tarek Atoui: Waters’ Witness

    Museum of Contemporary Art

    A sonic landscape and performances based on the hidden sounds of port cities. Waters’ Witness is based on Atoui’s ongoing project documenting the acoustic identities of port cities that are deeply connected to their harbours. Recording sounds close to the sea and under the water, Atoui produces a unique score for each city which becomes… Read More »Tarek Atoui: Waters’ Witness

  • Venus and Adonis

    Seymour Centre

    It’s 1593. Theatres are closed, players out of work, houses bolted, people terrified by the touch of another’s skin, the breath of another’s air.  Shakespeare, syphilitic and dangerously bored, publishes a scandalous response to the pestilence—an epic work about the very things lost to us, like intimacy, identity, and the erotic freedom of touch.His searing poem, Venus and Adonis, rips and tears at the founding myth of why human beings are cursed to love each other, in every form—him and her, her-as-him, him-as-her, love as equal and unequal, obscenely arousing and utterly destructive.

  • The Dictionary Of Lost Words

    Sydney Opera House

    Discover the secret power of words
    It’s 1886 and the very first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary is being compiled. Four-year-old Esme Nicoll has a front row seat. Well, she’s hiding under the sorting table, anyway. As her father and his male colleagues decide which words stay and which go, Esme collects the discarded (often gendered) scraps to compile her own far more radical, far more magical dictionary.
    A sweeping historical tale in the spirit of The Harp in the South, The Dictionary of Lost Words follows Esme from her childhood in the 1880s, into adulthood at the height of the women’s suffrage movement and the beginning of the First World War.