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.
New feature exhibition at the Anzac Memorial on the history of the Royal Australian Navy. In 1913 the Royal Australian Navy's brand-new fleet sailed through the Heads and into Sydney Harbour. Since then the RAN has served on all the world's oceans in times of peace and war. During the Second World War, the RAN… Read More »Serving the White Ensign: 110 years of the Australian Fleet
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 Extension provides a new exhibition gallery that illustrates the evolution of Australian military service, while focusing on the personal stories of NSW service.
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.
1001 Remarkable Objects presents an unexpected juxtaposition of objects in 25 rooms that lead us on a journey across time and memory. The selection includes objects that have never been exhibited until now alongside much loved Powerhouse Collection icons.
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
War rips your world apart, shredding your life in a flash of violence and leaving your family adrift without any place to call home. You have a new name now—refugee—and a new life to construct. Treehouse Theatre presents Why Us?, the real-life stories of teenage refugees who are learning to call Australia their new home. Through spoken word, lights, sound and movement, these young survivors share their stories of joy and horror, humour and pain, loss and belonging. You will laugh with them, cry with them and be inspired by them.
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. The spectacular coastal walk was once again transformed into a 2km long sculpture park over three weeks featuring more than 100 sculptures by artists from Australia and across the… Read More »Sculpture by the Sea
Redfern 1966. Cheryl, Lulu and Queenie are young and life is glorious, full of hilarity and joy, even if jobs are precarious, the police harass them, and racism seeps into everything. But as they gear up for the biggest night of the year – the Deb Ball – their lives, Redfern, the country are all… Read More »Big Girls Don’t Cry
The first solo museum exhibition by Warraba Weatherall. Kamilaroi artist Warraba Weatherall (b. 1987, Toowoomba, Queensland) considers how knowledge about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and culture is collected and conveyed by institutions. Throughout the 19th and into the 20th centuries, Aboriginal peoples were subjected to widespread and systematic colonial policies of surveillance and… Read More »Warraba Weatherall: Shadow and Substance
Cerith Wyn Evans creates epic contemporary environments of light and sound in our major winter exhibition. Conceived as if the audience were strolling through a garden, the exhibition will invite visitors to meditate and contemplate their own passage through space and time. Monumental light sculptures will occupy the MCA’s double-height exhibition galleries, including F=O=U=N=T=A=I=N (2020),… Read More »Cerith Wyn Evans …. in light of the visible
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE In Hollywood’s Golden Age, two queens reigned supreme — Bette Davis and Joan Crawford. Before Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? lit up cinemas, their off-camera rivalry was already a blockbuster. Anton Burge’s deliciously wicked two-hander pulls back the curtain on the set where egos clashed, tempers flared, and a legendary feud hit boiling… Read More »Bette & Joan
A heartwarming true story of friendship, 84 CHARING CROSS ROAD celebrates the enduring bonds forged through letters, books, and a shared love of words. When a wise-cracking New York writer and a reserved London bookdealer strike up a correspondence over their shared love of dusty old books, neither expects to find a lifelong friend tucked… Read More »84 Charing Cross Road