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free Craig Silvey on Jasper Jones

Saturday, 15th August - 6AM
@ Ashfield Library

Dubbed an “Australian To Kill a Mockingbird” by The Monthly and a “deeply thoughtful, remarkably funny and playful … gloriously Australian book,” at Readings Monthly, it seems Craig Silvey’s Jasper Jones has not only filled the boots leftover from his lauded debut Rhubarb (2004), he’s upgraded to a brand new...

free play Knitting Inns

Saturday, 8th August - 12AM
@ ABC Headquarters

You’ve heard of sit-ins. But what exactly is a knit-in? It too requires a bottom, a healthy handful of creative thinking … oh, and some 4mm knitting needles. Tied into the not-for-profit initiative Wrap with Love, and running in various venues for the whole of July, the knit-ins hope to...

free play Artisans' Market

Monday, 10th August - 3AM
@ Adjacent to CarriageWorks

If you do a little gurge in your mouth when you hear the phrase “arts and crafts," then listen up. This isn’t your usual collection of handmade bits and bobs, purchased to make you feel better about not calling your nana enough. Sure, there’s a bit of felt. And maybe...

play think Working Title at Penguin Plays Rough

Monday, 18th January - 8PM
@ A huge crumbly room

When Sir Allen Lane stood daydreaming on an Exeter station in 1935, letting the seeds for Penguin Books take hold, he probably didn't imagine that his range of, intelligent books at a low prices would one day be roughed up, played with, and soaked in semillon at a ramshackle flat...

art free Love Song for Pluto

Thursday, 6th August - 3AM
@ Mori Gallery

Travel to the empty part of the map marked, "There be monsters here" and you might find some of the “strange and wonderful life and adventures” artist Alli Sebastian Wolf has injected. Obsessed with C-grade sci-fis, cartoons and scrapheap theatre, Alli’s approach is definitely on the side of cultural renegade, citing,...

art film free music The Red Rattler

Friday, 2nd January - Thursday, 31st December
@ The Red Rattler

Sounding like a crook’s name from Cluedo, or an 18th century lady killer, events space The Red Rattler certainly evokes an old-school charm. And so it should. Its ethos is outdated by some standards. Not for profit? Community based? Green? All of these things, in Sydney? Yes, they say –...

play Rethreads

Sunday, 20th September - 3AM
@ CarriageWorks

Remember the days when you could snag ten red frogs for ten cents? Or ten scribbled maps from your friend if you crafted ten stick people? That was when economy meant something. When meaning something meant something. Well, now’s your chance to kick hard currency to the curb and shelve...

free play Recycling Week

Tuesday, 10th November - Sunday, 15th November
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Did you know that aluminium can be recycled into infinity? No wonder it has the sheen of space years about it. And that Tetra Paks are mostly made from cardboard (with only wee little prophylactic layers to protect them from sprouting mould offspring)? Ahh, recycling, who would’ve guessed that all...

music play Good Vibrations (sold out)

Saturday, 13th February - 12PM
@ Centennial Parklands

The Good Vibes line-up has become like one of those old, terry-towelling outfits you get out once a year - comfortable, fleeced with memories, and soooooo familiar. Luckily that outfit will go down a treat amongst the hundreds of thousands of partygoers (just be sure to add aviators and zinc...

performing Pecha Kucha

Thursday, 26th November - 6PM
@ Red Rattler

Pecha Kucha (ペチャクチャ) is one of those great onomatopoeic phrases that pepper the Japanese language. It means chit-chat, and is the perfect way to describe a night based around just that. Pecha Kucha sprang from the minds of architects Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham in 2003 and works on the...

play Young Blood Designers Market

Saturday, 28th November - 10AM
@ Powerhouse Museum

Google “Young Blood” and the first thing to come up is some kind of Skin Care product. Icky, right? The Young Blood Designers Market is less ewww and more yeoowww! thanks to hot-to-trot trinkets, tidbits and utensils, straight from the drawing pads of talented young designers. Past participants include the quirkily...

music Deep Sea Arcade's LONELY IN YOUR ARMS single launch

Thursday, 28th January - 9PM
@ Good God Small Club

If you’ve been to a Deep Sea Arcade gig, you know it’s all about the swagger, the bop, the swing and the sonic scuttle, with a deep-ocean chill capable of piercing fathoms of salt and carbon. We’re not talking about the music either. This is all the coin-bag jangle of...

art play In Temperance: Pop Up Gallery

Tuesday, 16th February - 6PM
@ Temperance Lane Sydney

Temperance is a strangely old-fashioned word. It’s like the lone priest that struts into a do-hick town, shaking things up, pouring precious booze down dusty drains, squeegeeing the hookers, and teaching the men how to be real men. In general it means moderation, but it’s come to be spelt with...

play think Penguin Plays Rough #13

Monday, 15th February - 8PM
@ A huge crumbly room

They’ve asked us not to get the creepy-crawlies about this being the thirteenth Penguin Plays Rough. They’d probably ask us not to use the term ‘creepy-crawly’ either, because that’s a cliché and so hated by good writers. There will be a few of those on offer come Monday night, as...

free bams & ted

Monday, 1st February - Saturday, 1st May
@ Gaffa

You’d have to be some kind of cold-hearted, imagination-starved automaton not to want to step onto the silver screen like Gumby walked into any wall, Bill and Ted telephone-boxed into the pages of history (and an A+!), and Marty McFly into the future (and almost incest). I would bet my...

art free Go Font Ur Self*

Wednesday, 17th March - 6PM
@ Peer Gallery

It’s a one night stand, all types welcome. Unless your name is Times New Roman, Brush Script, Curlz or Comic Sans. Then you’re a slut, and who knows what kind of viruses you might be carrying. Go Font Ur Self* is a shamelessly exclusive celebration of typography as wrought by...

art free Wonderlust at Bicker Gallery

Thursday, 11th March - Saturday, 27th March
@ Bicker Gallery

Wanderlust: getting itchy dust in your travel knickers. Kissing your mum goodbye and bikies, Euro-gays, gypsies, dreadlocked backpackers, earnest eco-warriors, conservatives, Mongolian goat herds and endless strange and wonderful vistas hello. If wanderlust is the desire to travel, what is wonderlust? The desire to ponder why? Spray can artist Xenz,...

art free Pre-Medicated & The World Doesn't Revolve Around You

Thursday, 11th March - Wednesday, 31st March
@ Horus & Deloris

In an odd, tucked-away little gallery in Pyrmont are two odd little exhibitions, one boarding a tripped-out ship to Planet Suburbia, the other stepping into a SUPERDOOPER HYPERDOME heaving with hues. What? You may ask. I was also perplexed and so trekked for what felt like hours through a squelchy,...

art Skint! Making do in the Great Depression

Saturday, 27th March - Sunday, 25th July
@ Museum of Sydney

You may remember a little thing called the Global Financial Crisis. It happened a couple of years ago, resulted in $900 extra dollars in the piggybank thanks to Uncle Kev, a nation-wide spending spree and cheaper plane fares. Crisis? Bring it on! You might not be so casual about a...

art free The Finders Keepers Market

Friday, 7th May - 6PM - Saturday, 8th May - 10AM
@ CarriageWorks

Finders keepers, losers weepers ... it’s a childhood taunt that still has the power to make me plunge towards the asphalt like a deranged Olympian diver in the hope of finding something shiny. The Finders Keepers Market held biannually at CarriageWorks is probably less likely to end in tears and...