Perfectly aligned with summer comes the Sydney Festival, an extravaganza of dance, music, arts and theatre that will be creeping into every crevasse of the Harbour City during January. The best part is that a huge portion of the program is completely free, often utilising Sydney’s renowned parks, gardens and public spaces. We take a look at some of the not to be missed events in the Sydney Festival Free Program.
Edge of Elsewhere
Having wriggled its way from Campbelltown through Haymarket and beyond, Edge of Elsewhere is a three year project that has engaged and highlighted the diverse cultural mix found in suburban Sydney.
Now drawing to a close in its final year, Edge of Elsewhere presents some of the most arousing contemporary arts practitioners from around Australia, Asia and the Pacific in works commissioned specifically to involve Sydney communities in the development.
Showcased across two venues, this immense, large-scale exhibition situates Sydney communities within a broader Asia-Pacific regional context. Edge of Elsewhere is a potent pledge to creative collaboration, community cooperation and the investigation and illumination of contemporary ideas.
Artists involved with the project include, Brook Andrew, Arahmaiani, Richard Bell, Dacchi Dang, Newell Harry, FX Harsono, Shigeyuki Kihara, Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba, Lisa Reihana, Khaled Sabsabi, Phaptawan Suwannakudt, Michel Tuffery and YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES.
4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Haymarket
January 13-March 3, 11am-6pm
Presented by Campbelltown Arts Centre, 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art and Sydney Festival
Travelling Colony
Sydney Festival presents a major new work by interdisciplinary artist Brook Andrew, whose arts practice travels to all corners of the globe. In the last two decades, Andrews has been crafting breath-taking interventions into history through portals of installation and interactive monuments, beckoning audiences into fresh points of view on important issues such as race, consumerism and history.
Now his new work, Travelling Colony makes the journey to Sydney. Inspired by his Wiradjuri heritage, circus and pop culture, Andrew handpainted caravans in a dazzling display to be exhibited in the immense industrial foyer of Carriageworks. Each of the caravans in Travelling Colony can be entered by the audiences, immersing participants in the stories of Sydney suburb Redfern. By passing through the caravans, the histories of Redfern will be reflected in archival footage, reminiscences and porjectors, presenting the area’s personalities, struggles and community.
Brook Andrew also appears as part of the Sydney Festival’s gram Microscope: Festival Artists in conversation with Caroline Baum.
Carriageworks, 245 Wilson St Eveleigh
January 8-March 4
10am-6pm daily and open late on performance nights
Presented by Sydney Festival and Carriageworks
Mike Patton’s Mondo Cane
As part of the ever-popular Summer Sounds in the Domain series, the Sydney Festival presents Mike Patton’s Mondo Cane. The perfect setting on balmy nights, this music event in the Domain has become one of the Festival’s most anticipated events, and is the perfect place to pitch a picnic rug.
In this very special concert, the summer heat will be joined by one of rock music’s most explosive artists – the admired and distinctive Mike Patton of Faith No More. Performing in the incarnation of an Italian pop crooner, the alluring Patton will be giving dramatic new life to pop and folk tunes from the 1950s and 60s. Hear the singer of hit song, “Epic” turn out hits made famous by Connie Francis and Sinatra – all back by an orchestra, choir and band.
The Domain, Royal Botanic Gardens
January 14 at 8pm
Supported byANZ and China Southern Airlines
Symphony in the Domain
The Domain takes centre stage yet again at another free night of spectacular music, this time filled with the sounds of the Sydney Symphony. Lead by conductors Brett Weymark and Nathan Aspinall, a new generation of soloists including Emily Sun (violin) and Nicholas Russoniello (saxophone), along with the Sydney Symphony.
Russoniello, who won the 2011 ABC Symphony Australia Young Performers Award, will play a soulful rendition of Yoshimatsu's beautiful concerto Cyber-bird.
Outstanding young violinist Emily Sun, a veteran of performing with Australian and Asian orchestras (she’s been at it since the age of ten), will play Bruch's famous Violin Concerto in G minor.
Another rising star in the orchestral world, Queensland conductor Nathan Aspinall will pick up the baton to guide the symphony through Strauss' Blue Danube.
To finish things of with a bang, the traditional concert climax, Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture will be performed.
The Domain, Royal Botanic Gardens
January 21 at 8pm
Supported byANZ and China Southern Airlines
For a full list of Free Events at Sydney Festival head to http://www.sydneyfestival.org.au/2012/Free/
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