Sydney Events & Festivals

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This exhibition showcases the artworks from all member art societies. All paintings are for sale and are judged by a visiting judge...

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The 93rd Australian Open is set to make a triumphant return to Royal Sydney Golf Club in 2008 As it did in 2007, the national championship will provide the climax to the Australasian Summer of Golf calendar, and will again see some of the world’s...

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In the final, tension-filled seconds before midnight on December 31, Sydney becomes the New Year's Eve capital of the world - a billion eyes focus on the natural amphitheatre that is Sydney Harbour and its magnificent centre-piece, the steel arched Sydney...

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The Australian Fitness Expo bounces back to Darling Harbour in 2009 and is set to showcase the very latest in health, fitness, spa and yoga...

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The 25 match ICC Women's Cricket World Cup will be played at six venues in New South WalesAustralia will defend the title it won after defeating India in the final in South Africa in 2005...

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The Telstra Australian Swimming Championships will feature Rice, Hackett, Trickett, Jones, Sullivan and more - all vying to make the 2009 World Championship...

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Catch a Sydney FC Game in Sydney in 2008.

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AAMI Golden Slipper Day is the richest day of racing on the Australian calendar. The day boasts five Group 1 contests including the running of the world's richest race for two-year-olds, the $3...

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Acoustica Music Festival is a local Leichhardt festival which celebrates excellence in acoustic music, both local and international...

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18th Air New Zealand Golden Oldies World Rugby Festival will be held in Sydney from 26 September to 3 October 2010...

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Sydney's premier fine art gallery, the Art Gallery of New South Wales is open every Wednesday night until 9pm...

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Art in the Churches Tour is a day tour of churches in the outer Sydney area. Departing at 9am from Circular Quay visiting the historic St Luke's church in Liverpool which was designed by Francis Greenway, St...

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A dynamic and popular exhibition featuring a selection of outstanding student artworks developed for the HSC examination in Visual Arts each year...

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Audi Sydney Harbour Regatta, hosted by Middle Harbour Yacht Club is now Sydney's largest, most successful Regatta since the 2000 Olympics...

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The Australia Day celebrations in Sydney are befitting of Australia’s oldest and biggest city with events and activities spread far and wide...

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Celebrate Australia Day in The Rocks with free, live performances by an incredible all-Australian line up of blues, roots and rock...

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Every year Darling Harbour hosts Sydney's biggest Australia Day party with an impressive line-up of free entertainment for all the family...

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Enjoy a breathtaking performace by The Australian Ballet in 2008.

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The Australian Open surfing event in March 2009 heralds the return of Men’s Pro Surfing to Sydney after a five year hiatus...

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The Bondi to Bronte Ocean Swim has become one of the classics on the Sydney Ocean Swim calendar. The swim runs between the first two Surf Life Saving clubs in the world...

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A really elegant way to see in the New Year, this fabulous evening aims to drench its party goers in class and luxury...

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Three visionary directors. Three levels of earthly experience: community, family, self. In 2008, Bell Shakespeare takes three bold directions into the worlds within our world...

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Belvoir St Theatre in Surry Hills, Sydney, is the home of Company B, one of Australia's most respected theatre companies...

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The man. The music. The legend. It’s had audiences on their feet in every corner of the globe and now BUDDY, The Buddy Holly Story is back and ready to explode in a brand new production of this toe-tapping, hand-clapping live music extravaganza! 50...

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The Campbelltown Show, is one of the largest community events in the Macarthur Region, is well known as the 'mini Royal Easter Show' of Western Sydney...

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Cavalleria rusticanaPIETRO MASCAGNIPagliacciRUGGERO LEONCAVALLOIt is Easter Sunday and trouble is brewing between two of the hot-blooded young turks in a small village in Sicily...

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Featuring more than 50 events over three weeks, the City of Sydney's 2009 Chinese New Year Festival will be the largest celebration of the Lunar New Year outside of Asia...

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Celebrate the Year of the Ox at the Festival’s most compelling extravaganza - the Chinese New Year Parade on Sunday 1 February 2009...

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The Darling Harbour Jazz Festival has established itself as Sydney's premier Jazz Festival. The Festival extends over the June long weekend and attracts visitors from Sydney, interstate and around the globe...

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There is only one place to be as Sydney welcomes in the New Year and that is by the harbour. Every year hundreds of thousands of visitors converge on Darling Harbour to enjoy the occasion, the fireworks, the tradition and the party that our city has become...

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Dawn Chorus is a program of concerts that will take place at sunrise on some of Sydney's best loved beaches during the Sydney Festival...

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Feel history’s power with Q Station’s captivating theatre production, defiance. Relive the moving and inspirational true stories of life in quarantine...

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Sport
Come see America’s best Top Fuel drivers take on the Aussies at Western Sydney International Dragway at Eastern Creek...

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Dragon Boat Races with more than 2,000 paddlers bring Chinese New Year to Darling Harbour during two exciting days of the Dragon Boat Races...

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A giant indoor 360 cinema Orb, the biggest drum circle in the Southern Hemisphere, a luminous lantern parade, laid back Chai tent grooves, tantalising trapeze classes, thousands of yoga legs stretched out, Australia’s biggest group meditation and the...

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A chance to see a spectacular display of traditional quilts, while visiting historic Brush Farm House...

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Eco Expo Australia is an opportunity to assist Australians with realistic and achievable changes that we can all make in our everyday life...

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Experience the eclectic international cuisines of the Newtown precinct, along with Australian wines, boutique beers, bakers and ice-cream makers at this colourful festival...

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Sand, Sea, Surf and Film.Australia's premier international short film festival is on and will be screening the best short films and documentaries from Australia and around the world...

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2008 marks the 1000th anniversary of Japan’s oldest novel, The Tale of Genji, written by the court-lady Murasaki Shikibu...

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Give Us A Hand is a display of internally-lit sculptures, which will be placed at Sydney’s Circular Quay...

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Laura, a dizzy 24 year old from Bracknell is out to save the world. She trades her Cosmo for The Idiots Guide to the Koran and sets off on the adventure of a lifetime, volunteering as an aid worker in the far flung, third world country of Tambia...

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Great Collections is a major new landmark exhibition of national treasures from every State collecting institution of NSW...

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Guys and Dolls features one of the most Sensational Australian casts ever assembled including Lisa McCune, Marina Prior, Ian Stenlake, Garry McDonald, Shane Jacobson, and Magda Szubanski who reprise their highly acclaimed performances from the 5 month...

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Lisa McCune, Marina Prior, Ian Stenlake, Garry McDonald, Shane Jacobson and Magda Szubanski stars of Melbourne's acclaimed production of Guys and Dolls have been signed to appear for a strictly limited 12 week...

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Half Light Portraits from Black Australia.This is the first major survey of the work of Australian Indigenous artists engaging with the photographic medium and the portrait...

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This is a three day Show and is the biggest event held in the Hawkesbury and also the third largest agricultural show in New South Wales...

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The Sydney Home Show is the leading exhibition for Sydney’s homeowners.Visitors will have access to 200 exhibitors representing market leaders in furniture and furnishings, outdoors, building products, kitchens, bathrooms, technology and much more...

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Get ready for 'the start of something new!' The stage adaptation of the smash-hit Disney Channel Original Movie HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL is coming to Sydney for a strictly limited run at the Capitol Theatre...

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Welcome summer with an evening of superb live music under a starlit sky at Vaucluse House. Bring a rug, pack a picnic or take advantage of the selection of food and wine available on sale throughout the evening...

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