Concrete Playground

art Colony Collapse

Wednesday, 7th July - Sunday, 25th July
@ Firstdraft Gallery

Tessa Zettel and Karl Khoe, otherwise known as the design duo Makeshift, are the sorts of people you look upon and think: wow, if only I was that humble. That morally for the planet. That eco and that sans ego about it. Yet this is what they do, and they...

art free Gang

Thursday, 15th July - Tuesday, 27th July
@ Gaffa

Gang, pronounced 'gung', is a creative network of artists from Sydney and Java. Taking their name from a variety of references — mostly the vernacular of both countries, such as the word for 'laneway' in Indonesian and closer to home 'gung-ho' (as in, gung-ho about Java!) — Gang are a...

art free play think Das Superpaper: The Critical Issue and Das 500 launch

Thursday, 19th August - 6PM
@ The Paper Mill

With thirteen issues of art-based writing behind them this free publication has already added the Das Cinema feather to their cap and will now introduce Das 500, another online venture featuring bite-sized critical reviews of exhibitions around Australia.

art music performing The Paper Mill Fundraiser

Wednesday, 25th August - 7PM - Thursday, 26th August - 6PM
@ Oxford Art Factory

Once up and running this artist-run gallery will be a festival of paper with an exhibition space dedicated to paper-based works, a library chock-full of local and international zines, workshops and classes as well as a studio residency program. But they need your help to get there!

art play Annie Leibovitz: A Photographer's Life, 1990 - 2005

Friday, 19th November - Sunday, 27th March
@ Museum of Contemporary Art

Annie Leibovitz's photographs are dreams upon dreams. Sinking. Beautiful. All that is sumptuous and glossy and far, far away.

art free think Group Show

Saturday, 29th January - Saturday, 19th February
@ Breenspace

Art galleries start to pry open their doors post-Australia Day with the lure of the group show. Seven gifted local artists come together under one roof for a visual feast of inspiring new work. A cracking start to the artistic year.

art free Karena Keys, Helen Shelley, Tye McBride & Ben Byrne

Wednesday, 2nd February - Sunday, 20th February
@ Firstdraft Gallery

This week at Firstdraft sees the opening of three new shows. Galleries 1 and 2 provide Karena Keys and Helen Shelley with the space to explore faith and constructed belief systems as physical representations in paint and its lateral definitions. Their two-person exhibition, The Otherings conjures up images of tribal...

art free Angelica Mesiti: The Begin-Again

Friday, 1st April - Saturday, 2nd April
@ Memorial Square

This self-directed walking tour includes five key destinations within Hurstville taking in numerous video installations and culminating in the live performances on the rooftop of the Westfield carpark.

art free music Kaleidoscope Gallery Fundraiser

Thursday, 28th April - Wednesday, 4th May
@ Kaleidoscope Gallery

Kaleidoscope Gallery is ripping off that artist-run gallery band aid and making the move to rub shoulders with the art elite of Danks Street, Waterloo. But they need your help!

film Snowtown

Thursday, 19th May - Wednesday, 29th June
@ Various cinemas

Snowtown is a beautifully lit and cold, blue hued film about the horrors elicit in circumstance.

film Latin American Cinema & Song

Saturday, 3rd September - Friday, 7th October
@ Instituto Cervantes

Gaucho cowboys and Argentinian vistas star in this year's offering from the Sydney Latin American Film Festival.

music Lost On The Catwalk

Saturday, 1st October - 5PM
@ Secret Location

With a secret venue texted to you on the day and commitment to theme like no other, this party is sure to pout and pose and photoshop away all those weighty world blues.

art free play World Fingerpainting Day

Sunday, 18th September - 12PM
@ Hyde Park, Sydney

Get your fingers warmed up, don your oldest t-shirt and get ready to get messy.

free play William Street Laneway Festival

Saturday, 24th September - 10AM
@ William St. Paddington

The boutiques along this landmark Paddington street will be hosting events to lure you away from the mega-complexes this Saturday.

art free Samuel Hodge at Alaska Projects

Wednesday, 11th January - Sunday, 22nd January
@ Alaska Projects

Photographer Samuel Hodge showcases the best of his archives at Alaska Projects.

art free Cool World at Alaska Projects

Tuesday, 31st January - Sunday, 12th February
@ Alaska Projects

In Alaska Project's second exhibition for 2012, nine painters were asked to submit work that they themselves love.

art free think The Drawing Room

Friday, 20th January - Saturday, 18th February
@ Breenspace

Breenspace's first show of 2012 opens up the dialogue surrounding what it is to sketch.

art free Passion Power Politics: Bronwyn Bancroft Retrospective

Thursday, 2nd February - Wednesday, 7th March
@ CarriageWorks

Carriageworks is offering you the opportunity to delve into the thirty year career of artist, fashion designer, illustrator and activist, Bronwyn Bancroft.