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January 2024

  • A promo shot for A'amar, Aseel Tayah's immersive work for Sydney festival 2024.

    The show inviting Australians into Palestinian life: ‘Artists can move nations if they want to’

  • Australian actor Janet Anderson in Overflow

    Overflow: this trans monologue set in a women’s bathroom has critics raving

  • Artist Luna Aquatica models a new outfit made out of discarded clothes at House of Fast Fashun at Sydney festival

    ‘Oh my God, I can put a shoe on my head’: waste walks the runway at Sydney festival

  • Grey Filastine on board the 70 tonne sailing ship, Arka Kinari moored at Newcastle.

    ‘We had a third of the Earth to ourselves’: the band that’s spent four years touring the world by sea

  • Big Name No Blankets review – Warumpi Band musical is a joyous, rollicking tribute

  • Nellie Small: the trailblazing, cross-dressing cabaret star who Australia forgot

  • An opera to float your boat: Sydney to be treated to free Puccini at Darling Harbour

December 2023

  • Pearling lugger in the waters of Thursday Island, Queensland
Details:Original version	Photographic print : black & white, Undated, Negative number: 1611
Summary: The crew of a pearling lugger at Thursday Island swimming in the water around the boat. The sailing boat has two masts. Other pearling boats can be seen in the distance.

    Australian arts in focus
    ‘It was too dangerous for white men’: the racist history of pearl diving in Australia

    Indentured Indigenous and Asian workers were forced by white bosses to dive in deadly conditions for decades. Now a dance troupe – including one former diver – hopes to tell the stories of those lost

January 2023

  • SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - JANUARY 13: Belvoir - Thomas Weatherall’s Blue Production photos on January  13, 2023

    Blue review – Thomas Weatherall gives finely tuned performance in gripping one-man show

  • Ty Segal and Kehlani gigs and shows from Thomas Weatherall and Stephanie Lake are among our event highlights in Sydney this January. Composite: The Guardian / Sam Roberts Photography / Denee Segall / Marcus Cooper

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    Your ultimate Sydney events guide: the best things to do this weekend, and what’s on through January

  • Thomas Weatherall.

    Heartbreak High star Thomas Weatherall on his new play: ‘I was always much more interested in writing’

  • Inside the Commercial Travellers’ Association Club, which has been transformed into a retro hotel, club and sound art experiment for the Sydney festival

    ‘At first, it’s fun’: could a night in Sydney’s ‘mushroom’ tower make me lucid dream?

  • Sun & Sea review – a delightful opera about the end of the world

  • ‘Moving ice can sound like it’s alive’: the musicians delving into Antarctica

  • Australian arts in focus
    Dogs, togs and critics agog: climate crisis opera washes ashore in Sydney

  • Three things
    Three things with The Huxleys: ‘That’s why I’m extra camp now – I’m making up for lost time’

December 2022

  • Australian actress and singer Christie Whelan Browne in Newtown, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    ‘I’m not afraid any more’: Christie Whelan Browne on Show People, Twitter trolls and her ‘horrible’ four years

  • Musician Katie Noonan standing against a softly lit grey background.

    Three things
    Three things with Katie Noonan: ‘I ran back to get it but it was already gone’

October 2022

  • People lying on towels on sand, seen from  above

    Sydney festival 2023: Town Hall to be filled with 26 tonnes of sand for program showpiece

    The heritage building’s floor will be covered in sand for an award-winning opera – one of a few architectural landmarks that will get a new life this summer

September 2022

  • Sydney festival’s 2022 production Thaw

    Australian arts in focus
    Sydney festival to suspend foreign government funding after mass boycott

    Israeli embassy funding overshadowed this year’s Sydney festival, leading to an independent review
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