Concrete Playground

The Museum of Contemporary Art’s first ARTBAR - a night of drinks, DJs, performance art, karaoke and much more - kicks off at 7pm this Friday, May 25, and Concrete Playground has tickets to giveaway.Tickling your late night gallery fancy, Friday’s ARTBAR will include Sydney-based photographer and video artist Justene Williams,...

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The Australia-wide Human Rights Arts and Film Festival is the only cultural event devoted exclusively to exploring humanitarian issues through creative media. The not-for-profit event will be showing at the Chauvel Cinema in from May 29 to June 1, and Concrete Playground has five double passes to give away for...

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In Mexico, muralists are rewarded with prominence in government buildings and sinking institutes of the arts. Here, we give them furtive street corners, the trendier offices and pride of place in our cafes. Illustrator and artist, Brad Robson, has had a turn a lot of these locations and is looking...

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Bel Ami is the adaptation of a nineteenth century French novel by Guy de Maupassant. And before you get all judgey about nineteenth century novels, you should keep in mind that while the Victorians were drinking tea and worrying about exposing their ankles, the French were all about sex, drugs,...

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DesignEx is Australia's leading design exhibition, and this year the Office for Good Design has curated a unique seminar series called 7 Kinds of Happiness to open an otherwise industry-focused event to the general, design-loving public.Seven seminars with major industry heavyweights explore how happiness impacts the practice of leading local and international...

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Six Hunter Valley winemakers will take to the road this month for New Generation's Caravan of Courage tour.The whistle stop trip will engage wine lovers in a series of pop-up bars and dinners held all along the east coast of Australia, from Melbourne to Noosa. The events will be hosted by...

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At every change in season the folks at Seasoned Music create a one-off boutique music event. This season's autumn event is inspired by the concept of a German beer garden. Expect plenty of schnitzels and imported beer, to be enjoyed to the tune of some of the world's most-renowned musical artists....

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Fitz (Jason Priestly), a devilishly handsome low-life of a used car salesman, is missing something. After years of womanising and substance abusing, he's on the hunt for his long-lost conscience. Fitz just didn't think he'd find him sitting at the office desk opposite his.Never much concerned with ending his sleazy...

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Why is it the most controversial topics that make us laugh the hardest?Perhaps it’s catharsis. Perhaps it’s because we dare not make the jokes ourselves. In either case, Sacha Baron Cohen’s latest film The Dictator requires no introduction. But let’s just say, Baron Cohen’s newest creation - supreme leader General...

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American funny guy Jim Breuer travels Down Under this week for his first Australian tour as part of the Sydney Comedy Festival. You will recognise Breuer from his four year stint on Saturday Night Live (Goat Boy, anyone?) or perhaps from his role alongside Dave Chappelle in 1998 stoner comedy...

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Boaz Yakin's 'Safe' follows the two-headed mission of former special forces operative Luke Wright (Jason Stratham) as he sets out to outwit Chinese Triads and the Russian Mafia. 12-year old Mei (Catherine Chan) is Wright's unlikely sidekick: a girl who holds potentially deadly knowledge.Mei has been gifted with mathematical genius,...

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In what's set to be a lively discussion on a current political hot-topic, four international authors will be debating the pros and cons of gay marriage at the Sydney Writers' Festival event, Why Get Married When You Could Be Happy?.Thrashing out controversial and thought-provoking insights into the civil rights issue...

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