From old-school footy club feasts to whimsical rainbow high teas, this weekend is dishing up the full colour spectrum of fun. You can also dance into the past at the best retro dancefloors around the city and belt out some classics on Sydney’s best karaoke stages.
Carriageworks Night Market
There is a way to tick off the whole of Sydney’s dining bucket list in one fell swoop, and it’s by purchasing a ticket to the Burning Love edition of the Carriageworks Night Market. Fifty five of the city’s finest culinary talents will be in attendence for a night dedicated to feasts of heat, smoke and fire. You can also feed your mind with a demonstration of traditional Aboriginal fire making, seafood prepping and asado barbecue.
Sydney Harbour 10k and 5k
The main drawcard for the Real Insurance Sydney Harbour 10k and 5k races is that they’re both real flat and real fast. If you’re looking to smash a personal record, this is a fun and scenic way to do it. The 10k course kicks off at 8.30am and the 5k starts at 7.30am. The runs are an excellent warm-up opportunity ahead of City2Surf, the Half Marathon and full Marathon in September.
Beer, Footy and Food Festival
The old days of Sydney rugby league are being revived in a one day, family-friendly, beer food and footy festival. Grab the whole clan and set up on a blanket overlooking the oval. In between big hits and passes from the Newtown Jets vs Penrith Panthers, peruse the 20 craft beer stalls and acres of snacks. They’ll also be a giant slide, Ferris wheel, petting zoo, obstacle course, jumping castles and face painters.
Play with Clay: Wine and Cheese Night
Bring wine, a can-do attitude and your pals to this boozy pottery session. You’ll create a miniature ceramic vase and learn the basics of vessel design, pattern-making and glazing. Get ready to get your hands dirty and ditch the pottery wheel for the night. You’ll be working on ceramics using pinch-pot and coil techniques and some simple tools in a series of hand-building exercises.
A Taste of Honey
The play caused a stir with its portrayal of single motherhood, interracial relationships and teen pregnancy when it debuted in 1958. It follows pregnant teenager Jo, left alone after her African boyfriend returns to sea. When Jo meets arts student Geoff, who has been kicked out of his rented room for being gay, the pair form a solid if unconventional family – until Jo’s mother comes crashing back into her life again.
Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back in Concert
The Empire Strikes Back is widely considered the best of the eight Star Wars films. The first Star Wars sequel, it’s the movie that set the series on course for immortality, introducing Yoda and Boba Fett, offering the cliffhanging twist about Luke’s parentage, and bringing together Leia and Han. Now fans have the chance to hear John Williams’ thunderous score played live by the Sydney Symphony Orchestra.
Unicorn High Tea
Made By the Hill is getting a little help from Pasticceria Papa to host a rainbow-tastic high tea. The Unicorn High Tea will see the Western Sydney venue transformed into sweet, sweet fantasTea (gettit), with magical unicorn inspired desserts, drinks and decor. Papa’s much loved baked ricotta cakes, cannoli and macarons will get a multi-coloured make over, while drinks and cupcakes will be embellished with unicorn horns and sparkly surprises.
Aida review
Opera Australia’s new production of Aida uses ten massive, stage-filling screens that slide in and out of place and spin, creating a captivating cinematic experience that fuses live performance and video. Amongst the spectacle is the story of Ethiopian princess Aida who has been enslaved by the Egyptians but happens to be desperately in love an Egyptian captain who’s leading a war against her people and is making eyes at the Egyptian princess who Aida serves.
Bey vs Jay: Clash of the Carters
Goros is dedicating their next party to the ultimate music couple: Beyoncé and Jay-Z. DJ Levins will be spinning tracks from throughout their careers, going way back to hits like ‘Hard Knock Life’ and ‘Independent Woman’ and all the way up to their new collaboration, Everything is Love. You’ll hear remixes, guest spots and their greatest hits as the war over which Carter reigns supreme wages on the dancefloor.
Bondi Feast
Proving that the beach isn’t just for summer, the sixth Bondi Feast festival kicks off on July 17 with a jam-packed line-up. Over two weeks, Bondi Pavilion and surrounds will be transformed into a carnival playground, with more than 40 shows from the best home-grown performers, plus an old-fashioned parlour tent, art installations and a new pop-up restaurant.
Hot Dub Time Machine
Sydney DJ Tom Loud will enthrall audiences with an audio-visual performance that explores decades of popular music past with encyclopedic accuracy and dedication. Living up to his party master reputation, the show will be coloured with confetti cannons, balloon drops, light shows and a visual event on the big screen. Melbourne based singer-songwriter Samsaruh will also lend her captivating vocals to the party.
Euphemia Bostock: Fashion Collection 1987
Bundjalung-Munajali woman Euphemia Bostock was a founding member, chairperson and the logo designer of Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Co-operative. The Australian Design Centre is celebrating NAIDOC Week by exhibiting her hand-printed garments which were shown at the 1987 Au Printemps Department Store exhibition ‘Australis down under’ in Paris. See the collection for the last time this weekend.
Sydney’s Biggest Backyard on Show
Western Sydney Parklands has been keeping Sydneysiders entertained for 50 years. To celebrate, they’re inviting families and outdoors enthusiasts to a birthday bash of free activities across the 5,280 hectares of the park from July 20 until August 4. These include tours, astronomy nights, active adventures and an open day at Bungarribee with food trucks, tree planting and a visit from friendly zoo animals.
Love Song Dedications (without Richard Mercer)
From 1997 until 2013, there was only one radio show to listen to when you were taking a solo drive through Sydney late at night: Richard Mercer’s Love Song Dedications. But now that Mercer – aka the Love God – has officially retired, artists Tom Hogan and Bonnie Leigh-Dodds are reviving his legacy with this live performance at PACT.It’ll see the pair search for the ultimate therapeutic playlist and greatest love song of all time.
John Mawurndjul: I am the old and the new
Bark painting is among the most recognisable Aboriginal art, but you mightn’t know that it was only popularised in the 1930s. One of the greatest exponents of bark painting is John Mawurndjul, who rose to international fame in the late 1980s and ‘90s. The Kuninjku artist, based in Arnhem Land, is getting a major career retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art, made up of 165 works.
Lucia di Lammermoor
Donizetti’s tragedy has a fairly simple plot drawn from Scottish novelist Walter Scott’s The Bride of Lammermoor. Lucia’s brother Enrico has started losing his money and has a plan to marry off Lucia to the wealthy Arturo to secure the family’s fortunes. But what he doesn’t know is that Lucia is in love with Edgardo, his sworn enemy. Needless to say, there’s plenty of bloodshed by the end.
Spacemakers and roomshakers: installations from the collection
If you’ve ever walked the halls of the Art Gallery of NSW and smelt the scents of cumin, turmeric, paprika and cloves, you’ll be familiar with Ernesto Neto’s huge stalactite-like art installation Just like drops in time, nothing. Neto’s creation, alongside seven other contemporary installations, will be on show as part of the gallery’s new exhibition Spacemakers and Roomshakers.
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