Community Billboard 17th July – 25th July
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.
Randwick Environmental Park Bushcare
If you’re passionate about the environment, then the Bushcare volunteers is for you! Help restore and renew the existing environment around the Randwick area with the Bushcare volunteers. The volunteers are helping increase and are expanding the natural vegetation in Randwick environmental park. For further details contact Randwick City Council’s Bushcare Officer on 9399 0708
What: Randwick Environment Park Bushcare
When: Jul 20 2013, 9am- 12pm
Where: Randwick Environment Park, Randwick
Cost: Free
City of Shadows Exhibition.
Come experience the truth behind Sydney’s underbelly. Focusing on the victims, perpetrators and vicinities of crime, the original City of Shadows introduced the world to the Museum’s extraordinary and compelling collection of police forensic photography dating from 1912-1960.
Since 2008, Sydney Living Museum curators have been investigating leads and following up tips from the public. New research has solved many of the mysteries surrounding the people and places in these compelling photographs, and the stories that lurk behind the images can now be revealed.
What: City of Shadows Exhibition
When: 10am -5pm, 17th Jul – May, 2014, Weekends only.
Where: Justice & Police Museum, Cnr Albert and Phillip Streets Circular Quay
Cost: Adult – $10
Seniors and Children – $5
Bondi Feast
Festival Directors Zoe Norton Lodge and Phil Spencer (pictured) hand pick a tasty selection of Sydney’s finest independent artists for a sumptuous fortnight full of comedy, music, theatre, storytelling, visual arts and hot foods, all washed down with mulled wine!
Bondi Feast will showcase the Sydney premiere of Melbourne Fringe hit show Certain Men (✮✮✮✮ Sydney Morning Herald). Part installation, part performance, Certain Men exposes the dreams, regrets and follies of men in the middle
What: Bondi Feast
Where: Bondi Pavilion, Bondi Beach
When: 17 Jul- 27 Jul
Cost: Tickets – $15-$20, Festival Pass – $40.
Beach Breaks Carnival and Surfing Walk of Fame 2013
Help Marboubra celebrate the inductions to their 2013 Hall of fame by getting down to the Beach Breaks carnival. There will be plenty of entertainment throughout the day, including; Rides and activities for kids of all ages – dodgem cars, laughing clowns & pirate ship DJ Will (Martini Club), Market stalls, also, bring your board down for FREE custom airbrush and posca art application by renowned artists Caspian de Lo
oze and Vinnie Gracanin as well as, FREE community surf lessons throughout the day by ‘Lets go Surfing!’
What: Beach Breaks Carnival and Surfing Walk of Fame 2013
When: Jul 28 2013
Where: Marboubra Beach
Cost: Free
Beached – Presented by The Griffin Theatre
Arty is huge. Ginormous. At over 400 kilos, he’s the world’s fattest teenager, in desperate need of a gastric bypass to save his life. Big questions loom as he is followed by a reality TV crew.
Unapologetically satiric, Beached is also the moving story of a man imprisoned in his own body. Featuring an all-star cast direct
ed by Shannon Murphy, this award-winning new Australian play lays bare the mercenary nature of reality TV and our insatiable appetite for human misery.
What: Beached
When: Opening show, 19th July
Where: SBW Stables Theatre, 10 Nimrod Street Kings Cross.
Cost: Adult: $49, Student: $38
Try2Wheels at Wynyard Park
Enjoy a free croissant while finding out everything you need to start pedalling with confidence – from expert route finding advice to buying a new bike. You can also bring your own bike along for a free tune up and brush up on bike maintenance with a series of 3, 15-minute workshops at 12:15, 12:45 and 1:15pm.
Also, in celebration of the world’s most famous bike race, (Tour De France) selection of pro level racing bikes with associated posters, hats and jerseys from around the world and through the ages – from the 50’s, 60’s, 70’s all the way through to a current tour model will be included.
What: Try2Wheels in Wynyard Park
Where: Wynyard Park, Cnr York Street and Margaret Street Sydney 2000
When: Thursday, 18th Jul.
Cost: Free