Community Billboard 7th December – 14th December
This weekly communtiy gig guide is proudly sponsored by the City of Sydney’s Plan for the future – Sydney 2030 – making our city more green, global and connected.
Try2Wheels at Rushcutters Bay
If you’re new to riding or just getting started, Try2Wheels will get you pedalling with confidence! From route planning advice to buying a new bike the Try2Wheels team provide expert advice tailored to you.
Try-a-bike along the beautiful foreshore, get a free tune up and tips from experienced city riders.
You can also enter the draw to win an early Christmas present – a new bike!
When: Saturday 7 December from 11am to 3pm
Where: Rushcutters Bay Park, New Beach Rd Rushcutters Bay 2011
Cost: Free
How to get to this event: Call 131 500 or visit https://www.transportnsw.info/
For further information click on https://sydneycycleways.net/bike-courses/try2wheels-rushcutters-bay
Coranderrk
Coranderrk is about what might have been.
In the neglected storehouse of Australian history, this is one of the definitive stories. At a Victorian Parliamentary Inquiry in 1881, the men and women of the Coranderrk Aboriginal Reserve went head-to-head with the Aboriginal Protection Board. Their goal was both simple and revolutionary: to be allowed to continue the brilliant experiment in self-determination they had pioneered for themselves on the scrap of country left to them.
Coranderrk recreates the Inquiry. This is both great theatre and great history. It revives the voices of all those, black and white, who fought for a better compact between the country’s oldest and newest inhabitants – three dozen of them from 132 years ago, speaking for themselves, directly to us, as though the question at hand remains unanswered today.
This special co-production between Belvoir and ILBIJERRI pays tribute to the resilience and adaptability of a people who rose to the challenge despite the odds, appropriating the power of the written word to make their own voices ring loud and clear.
When: Between Sunday 7 December and Sunday 5 January
6.30pm Tuesday
8pm Wednesday-Friday
2pm & 8pm Saturday
5pm Sunday
Where: Belvoir Street Theatre, 25 Belvoir St Surry Hills 2010
Cost: General $65 | Senior/Industry $55 | Concession/ Previews $45
How to get to this event: Five-minute-walk from Central Station. There are bus stops at the bottom of Belvoir Street from both Chalmers and Elizabeth Streets.
Visit https://belvoir.com.au/productions/coranderrk/ for more information.
Tropfest 2013
Tropfest is Australia’s most prestigious short film festival and one of its most iconic cultural events. It is also the largest short film festival in the world. The evnt is hosted at Sydney’s Centennial Park.
The annual short film competition is open to anyone who wishes to enter – regardless of their background or experience. 16 finalists are selected from an entry pool of an average 700 annual entries and compete for more than $100,000 in prizes.
Tropfest films are unique in that they have all been made specifically for Tropfest, will premiere at Tropfest and include the Tropfest Signature Item (TSI), which changes each year. The TSI for Tropfest February 2013 was “Balloon” and the TSI for the December 2013 Festival is “Change”.
Tropfest is free to attend. The festival itself is an outdoor celebration complete with live music and entertainment, public catering and bars, red carpet arrivals, and the highly anticipated film screenings followed by an awards ceremony.
When: Sunday 8 December from 2pm to 9pm
Where: Centennial Park NSW 2021
Cost: Free
How to get to this event: Call 131 500 or visit https://www.transportnsw.info/
Click on http://tropfest.com/au/ for further information.
Sydney Sings Choir
Sydney Sings was the very first of the With One Voice choirs to start in NSW…and is more like singing at a party than going to a traditional choir rehearsal.
We are fortunate enough to now have over 100 eager, friendly Sydney singers who endeavour to attend our rehearsal every Tuesday night.
So it is easy to come along and join in the crowd, regardless of what experience you have had as a singer.
Sing out, sing soft, hum along, it is all welcome.
We sing everything from 60’s folk music to Broadway (we even take requests!), and although we sometimes sing in harmony, and give great professional tips (from our conductors), the emphasis is on having total fun.
We are an extremely diverse group from CEO’s to refugees and migrants. We share stories and come together to sing With One Voice!
Everyone is welcome here, to this rich and unique environment, especially those who “don’t”, “can’t” or were told, “not to sing”!
So as reported in the Sydney Morning Herald, “get out of the shower and come and have some fun at Sydney Sings!”
You can join at any time. Bring your friends! Just turn up!
Free supper provided afterwards by Oz Harvest.
When: Each Tuesday between Tuesday 05 February and Tuesday 16 December, from 5.30pm to 7pm
Where: Pitt St Uniting Church, 264 Pitt St Sydney 2000
Cost: Free
How to get to this event: Town Hall Station
For more information visit https://www.creativityaustralia.org.au/.
My Food History – Adam Liaw
Adam Liaw is a TV host, cook and author. He is probably best known as the winner of Masterchef Australia in 2010. His victory was the most watched non-sporting event in Australian television history.
Adam was born in Penang, Malaysia, and moved to South Australia at young age. He has a mixed cultural heritage: His father is Hainanese Chinese from Malaysia and his mother is Singaporean-born with English, French and Indonesian background. Adam has lived and worked around the world in countries, including China, Australia, Malaysia, India and, most recently, Japan, where he spent seven years as a media lawyer in Tokyo.
The My Food History talk series invites some of Australia’s best loved chefs to explore their families’ cookbooks, share recipes passed down through generations, and discuss how their ancestry inspires what and how they cook today.
When: Wednesday 11 December from 7pm to 8pm
Where: Museum of Sydney, Cnr Phillip St and Bridge St, Sydney 2000
Cost: General $20 | Conc/Members $15 (includes entry to the “Eat Your History” exhibition from 6pm onwards
How to get to this event: Two-minute-walk from Circular Quay and Circular Quay train station
Call 02 8239 2288 or visit https://sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/food for more information.
Green Square Christmas Party
Join us in celebrating the festive season with a fun-filled family Christmas Party. There’ll be carols, craft, children’s activities, a BBQ and much more. Bring along your picnic blanket and best singing voices.
When: Thursday 12 December from 5.30pm to 8pm
Where: Green Square Library and Customer Service @ the Tote, Cnr Joynton Ave & Wolseley Grove Tote Building – 100 Joynton Ave Zetland 2017
Cost: Fee
How to get to this event: Bus No. 343 from Elizabeth St Surry Hills opposite Central Station or Green Square railway station
Click on https://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/explore/libraries for more information.
Strut the Streets
Our target is to raise over $200,000 for AIME to engage 3,500 indigenous high school kids across the country in 2014.
AIME works around Australia providing mentoring and educational services for indigenous high school students to see them get through at the same rate as every Australian child. Fusing coaching principles and mentoring, in 2013 AIME engaged over 2,000 indigenous high school students and 1,000 university students across Australia.
Our team of 100 staff is partnered with 14 Australian universities and the likes of Google, Atlassian, Virgin Australia and Coca Cola.
Led by one of Australia’s youngest CEOs, our award winning business was ranked 26th in BRW’s Best Places to Work in Australia.
AIME plans to reach 10,000 indigenous students annually by 2018 and have them finishing school at the same rate as every Australian child.
When: Friday 13 December from 12am to 5pm – The strut will start at 12 noon on Friday 13 Dec in Martin Place and finish at Ivy Pool Bar with an after party (+18) featuring leading Aussie performers
Where: Martin Place Sydney 2000
Cost: Budgy Smugglers $50 (includes a pair of Budgy Smugllers; men’s team) | Sunshine Strutters $50 (includes bikini OR one piece Smugglettes; women’s team) | Boardie Boys $100* (the men who don’t want to bare all – includes a piece of body smugglers) | Kaftan Queens $100* (the women who don’t want to bare all – includes a bikini OR one piece Smugglettes)
*extra charge is for NOT showing your thighs in the light of the day
How to get to this event: Buses along George, Pitt & Elizabeth St. Wynyard & Martin Place train stations.
Visit https://www.aimementoring.com/ for more information.
Buffalo – Revisited
For four decades Buffalo have laid dormant, and to this day are considered as Australia’s forerunners of Doom metal and Stoner Rock. With one of the bands originals and greats of Oz Rock, Pete Wells, no longer with us, fellow Buffalo co-founder Dave Tice (The Count Bishops / The Headhunters) has brought ‘together’ an All Star line up of players to revisit the classig songs from the Buffalo catalogue.
Revisited features drums by Paul Wheeler (Ice House/Choir Boys/Kevin Borich), thunder god of bass, Harry Brus (Australian Crawl/Renee Gayer/Borich x Borich) and indie metal man Peter Ross (Age of Menace) wielding the guitar with vocals by original co-founder Dave Tice.
Make no mistake, this line-up is in full metal jacket, and has risen to the stage to unleash Buffalo.
When: Saturday 14 December from 8pm to 11.55pm
Where: Bridge Hotel, 119 Victoria Rd Rozelle 2039
Cost: Adult $30 (pre-sale) | $35 (door)
How to get to this event: Call 131 500 or visit https://www.transportnsw.info/
Visit https://buffalorevisited.com/ for further information.