Jenny Kee’s aunties honoured in her giant ‘song of Sydney’

Jenny Kee’s aunties honoured in her giant ‘song of Sydney’

The designer who helped shape Australian fashion pays tribute to her influential aunties as part of this year’s Sydney Festival.

  • byHelen Pitt

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Sydney’s Town Hall has been transformed into a vast indoor beach

The “beach” is the setting for this week’s Australian premiere of an acclaimed contemporary opera and one of the landmark events of Sydney Festival.

  • byNick Galvin
If Antarctic krill could sing,here’s what they might sound like

If Antarctic krill could sing,here’s what they might sound like

Antarctica,a new opera by Australian composer Mary Finsterer,is about to receive its Australian premiere.

  • byNick Galvin
The ultimate Sydney Festival guide:From big tickets to free tickets

The ultimate Sydney Festival guide:From big tickets to free tickets

The Sydney Festival begins this week. Here is our hand-picked list of the best free,family and big-ticket events - plus director Olivia Ansell’s personal recommendations.

  • byAbby Seaman
‘All of our voices not just one voice’:Jacob Nash on why we must listen

‘All of our voices not just one voice’:Jacob Nash on why we must listen

Bangarra’s Jacob Nash,Sydney Festival’s first creative artist in residence,asks us to listen to all Indigenous voices,ahead of a referendum on the voice.

  • byHelen Pitt
‘Improbable as a hummingbird’:The extraordinary life of Frida Kahlo

‘Improbable as a hummingbird’:The extraordinary life of Frida Kahlo

Cutting edge audiovisual technology brings the Mexican artist and her work to life.

  • byJohn Shand
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Artist Karla Dickens turned her life around in Australia’s ‘best jail’

Artist Karla Dickens turned her life around in Australia’s ‘best jail’

Art is therapy for the Indigenous installation artist after living through a troubled adolescence and 2022’s record-breaking Lismore floods.

  • byLinda Morris
Your complete A-Z guide to the Sydney Festival 2023

Your complete A-Z guide to the Sydney Festival 2023

From juggling grasshoppers to the Spanish queen of flamenco,from burlesque with mimosas to bin chickens,there’s something for everyone at this year’s festival.

  • byLenny Ann Low
Welcome to the Weary Traveller,home of the original influencers

Welcome to the Weary Traveller,home of the original influencers

The 2023 Sydney Festival hub at the Commercial Travellers Association opens a door into a forgotten Sydney from next week.

  • byHelen Pitt
Paul Yore’s delirious Word Made Flesh pulls into Carriageworks

Paul Yore’s delirious Word Made Flesh pulls into Carriageworks

You’ll hear the installation before you see it,and when you see it,you won’t know where to look.

  • byFiona Kelly McGregor
The gigs you shouldn’t miss in Sydney during January

The gigs you shouldn’t miss in Sydney during January

Elton John and Arctic Monkeys are standouts,but sprinkled in between are a handful of intimate and innovative live performances.

  • byAngus Thomson