Community Billboard 23rd – 30th January
This weekly community gig guide is proudly sponsored by City of Sydney’s plan for the future – Sydney 2030 – making our city more green, global and connected
Cross-section the Marketplace
Cross-section the Marketplace is a fortnightly, pop-up fashion bazaar, featuring some of Sydney’s local designers. It starts this Thursday, transforming Angel Place at twilight into a hub for new and established fashion designers. This Thursday the Marketplace will feature UTS Fashion graduate Gemma Kariotoglou, plus old favourites such as Serpent & The Swan and Faddoul. Cross-section the Marketplace gives Sydney’s grassroots fashion labels a chance to preview their collections to the local Sydney scene, as well as local and international industry peeps. It also gives us the chance for a cool, twilight shopping experience. So support our local fashion industry and head down to the Fashion Bazaar at Angel Place on Thursday from 5-9pm.
What: Cross-section the Marketplace – Twilight Fashion Bazaar
Where: Angel Place (near George St, Sydney)
When: Thursday 24th January, 5-9pm
Cost: free
My First Time
My First Time is a play written by Ken Davenport and real people – just like us. It’s a collection of stories, from hundreds of people, sharing hysterical and heartbreaking accounts of their first sexual experiences. It is performed by the stellar cast of Sharon Millerchip, Josef Ber, Annie Maynard and Kritian Schmid. This show has finally arrived from a 2 ½ year season off Broadway, to The Playhouse at Sydney Opera House. For more information or to book go to www.sydneyoperahouse.com
What: My First Time (Contemporary theatre)
When: Until Saturday 26th January (Thursday 7pm, Friday & Saturday 6pm & 9pm)
Where: Sydney Opera House, Playhouse
Cost: $39- $59
Symphony in the Domain: The Sound of Kubrick
Come and enjoy the last weekend of the Sydney Festival and our beautiful summer nights, for Symphony in the Domain. This year the program features work from Stanley Kubrick films like 2001 Space Odyssey, Eyes Wide Shut, A Clockwork Orange and The Shining and composers like Rossini, Beethoven and Shostakovich.
Bring your own picnic and head in early to claim your piece of grass for a night of spectacular music under the stars. Alternatively, you can buy food and drink on site.
For more information go to www.sydneyfestival.org.au
What: Symphony in the Domain: The sound of Kubrick
When: Saturday 26th January, 8pm
Where: Domain, Royal Botanic Gardens
Cost: free
Light Garden – Centennial Park turns 125!
Centennial Park is celebrating its 125th anniversary. There are all sorts of events and activities for the public, including a light garden that will run over 10 nights in the park. As the sun goes down the lights will come up. Bring a picnic and blanket and enjoy the show or wander around through the Boulevade of Light or the Light Garden. Make a wish for the future at the wishing tree, be enteratined by roving musicians or join in at one of the drop-in workshops. See the park like you’ve never seen it before. www.cp125.com.au
What: Light Garden
Where: Centennial Park
When: 18 – 27 Jan, each night from 6pm
Cost: free
The Poetry Object
A new display at The State Library of New South Wales will reveal what’s most important to Sydney children – through poetry. To celebrate the International Year of Reading, students from all over Sydney took part in an unusual creative writing program: The Poetry Object.
Over 700 primary and secondary students chose an item of great personal significance and composed an original poem on it.
Acclaimed Sydney poet, Astrid Lorange, carefully selected the top 30 students’ poems for this specially-designed poetry display. Along with the students’ work, celebrated poets Robert Adamson, Kate Middleton, Nicholas Powell, Rachael Briggs, SJ Norman and Samantha Hogg all wrote new poems about their own special objects.
What: The Poetry object – poetry exhibition
When: Daily
Where: State Library of NSW (Macquarie Street)
Cost: free
Francis Bacon Five Decades
‘Francis Bacon is a towering figure of 20th-century art. His paintings are gutsy, controversial and unforgettable. With painful beauty Bacon lays bare the struggles of the human condition.’
With over 50 paintings, this is the first major exhibition displaying his work in Australia. The works have been drawn from 37 collections including the Tate London, Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Shown alongside the paintings is a wealth of archival material from his chaotic London studio, offering a fascinating insight into the artist and his creative process.
As well as the exhibition, the Art Gallery of NSW is presenting a range of events as part of ‘Summer in Soho’- Art after hours on Wednesday nights.
What: Exhibition of Francis Bacon
When: Daily
Where: Art Gallery of NSW
Cost: Conc. $15, Adult $20