Arr me hearties! Get ready for some fun with Dora the Explorer and her Pirate Adventure live show at Capitol Theatre Sydney! On for ONE SHOW ONLY on 15th Oct 2013, this is not to be missed by Dora fans!
Dora, her best buddy Boots the Monkey, and the rest of their friends embark on an exciting trip to Treasure Island. The audience helps them navigate over Dancing Mountain, through Silly Singing Bridge and to confront the Pirate Piggies. Along the way, the audience will use their map-reading, counting, musical and language skills to successfully help Dora reach the treasure. All ends happily onstage with a "yo-ho-ho!"
Look no further than Metro Hotel Sydney Central - right next door to the Capitol Theatre whilst being close to other iconic Sydney attractions. Great if you have young children who dislike walking too far or have prams.
LA BASTARD @ The Square in Palace Hotel Sydney Fri 21st June:
Melbourne's outrageous surf/rockabilly party extravaganza LA BASTARD return to Sydney for ONE NIGHT ONLY! @ The Square ~ Palace Hotel. Get ready for table dancing, crowd surfing and audience participation as LA BASTARD serve up their unforgettable live show! PLUS: • The Dunhill Blues • Bang Bang Rock N Roll
Feed your ears and then grab a beer at Palace Hotel pub upstairs!
Location: 730-742 George Street, Haymarket NSW 2000 (Corner of George & Hay Streets) Located underground the Palace Hotel, this live music and performance venue with a capacity for around 200 people already has attracted a strong lineup of the best Indie Rock and Punk bands from Australia and overseas.
Location: The State Theatre - 49 Market St, Sydney NSW 2000, Australia
It’s Sydney Film Festival’s 60th anniversary this year, bid a fond farewell to the 60th annual Sydney Film Festival at an evening filled with acclaim, applause, awards and one more example of the best in film. Join us at the magnificent State Theatre as we call it a wrap and celebrate the finale of another fantastic festival.
Before the screening of the SFF 2013 Closing Night film Twenty Feet From Stardom, you will be part of our awards ceremony, honouring the winners of the $60,000 Sydney Film Prize and the 2013 FOXTEL Australian Documentary Prize. You will also witness the announcement of the Dendy Awards for Australian Short Films, including the Live Action Short Award, the Rouben Mamoulian Award for best short film director and the Yoram Gross Animation Award.
This is another gala night full of excitement and colour and the perfect way to finish your film festival journey for another year. We hope you can join us!
Please note: This event is strictly 18+
SFFTV @ Martin Place
Time: 8AM - 10PM When: EVERY DAY OF THE FESTIVAL
Location: Martin Place
The big screen at Martin Place Amphitheatre returns for its third year, giving you a multi-levelled look at all things Sydney Film Festival, with an ever-changing mix of trailers, red-carpet coverage, short films and more.
When you're cruising through the city during the festival, stop by and catch a glimpse of what's on offer and what's been happening at the 60th-annual festival.
And it's not just SFF celebrating a milestone this year. The Film Australia collection,
a diverse range of more than 5000 documentaries and education programs, is celebrating its 100th anniversary. Film Australia's mission was to create a rich audiovisual record of Australian life.
We're proud to showcase on the big screen some great examples of this extraordinary collection, including Sydney-centric films featuring our beaches, harbour, markets, Lord Mayors and Sydney Opera House. Catch our collective memories every day as part of the big mix of material all on show for free in Martin Place.
NFSA presents a selection of Film Australia Collection titles shot in and around Sydney during the 1940s - 1970s.
Australian Colour Diary # 39: Ticket To Sydney (1971, 10 mins)
Calling Sydney Harbour (1960, 18 mins)
Five Bells (1978, 27 mins)
Letter Post (1948, 15 mins)
The Lord Mayor (1975, 24 mins)
Out They Go (1975, 20 mins)
Passport to Progress (1957, 11 mins)
Rooftopics (1971, 11 mins)
Saga of A City (1956, 11 mins)
Souvenir of Sydney (1954, 10 mins)
Surf Beach (1965, 17 mins)
Australian Colour Diary # 41: Sydney Opera House, 1972 (1972, 9 mins)
Metro Hotels offer affordable and comfortable hotel rooms and apartments around Sydney city districts that will keep you close to The State Theatre and major public transport hubs.
Each hotel or self-serviced apartment is close to major train stations, buses or ferries. Because all four are situated in the city, there are also plenty of taxis available to catch on the street. Our city also offers a free bus service (it's a completely green bus) that loops around the main streets of Sydney. Many of the attractions can be reached by foot from our hotels. Nearby there are also supermarkets, shops, restaurants, convenience stores, ATMs and public toilets all within walking distance.
Power House Museum Location: 500 Harris St, Ultimo NSW 2007, Australia
George Nelson: architect, writer, designer, teacher Opens on 3 August 2013
This exhibition is a comprehensive retrospective of the work of George Nelson (1908–1986), one of the most influential figures in American design during the second half of the 20th century. Nelson created classics of modern furniture and interior design, including the Coconut Chair (1956), the Marshmallow Sofa (1956), the Ball Clock (1947) and the Bubble Lamps (1952 onwards). He was also a prominent author, editor, lecturer, exhibition designer and a passionate photographer.
An exhibition of the Vitra Design Museum, Germany. This exhibition has been generously sponsored by Herman Miller International, Asia Pacific.
Australian International Design Awards 2013 Opens 2 August 2013
See a selection of innovative products from the Australian International Design Awards 2013 entries. Those displayed, are chosen for their outstanding design, innovation and significance to Australia’s material culture.
Playing with Light Opens 14 September 2013
Interact with a variety of illuminating hands-on displays! Make yourself shorter, taller, thinner or wider with our flexible mirrors, mix together coloured lights, freeze and interact with your shadows, use strobe lighting to examine a piece of machinery rotating at high speed, make light bounce down a stream of water, plus challenge your friends in our maze of lasers!
Produced by Scitech, Perth, Western Australia
The Oopsatoreum: inventions of Henry A. Mintox Opens late 2013
Author and filmmaker Shaun Tan’s new collaboration with the Powerhouse Museum is the fictional tale of a strikingly original but spectacularly unsuccessful inventor: Henry A. Mintox. Shaun’s whimsical stories of Mintox’s failed inventions are inspired by strange and largely obscure objects from the Powerhouse Museum collection. The Oopsatoreum exhibition brings to life the world of Henry Mintox. A mechanical dog and a prototype laptop messenger are some of the strange devices featured in the exhibition. Also on show are Henry’s personal items, including the 1927 Austin Tourer that he planned to drive to Tasmania and the fat suit he wore to impress his audience at a lecture in the midst of the Great Depression.
Powerhouse Museum garden
The Powerhouse Museum plans to establish a garden on-site in Ultimo. If you live in the neighbouring Ultimo, Pyrmont and Chinatown areas, we'd like to hear what you think.
The Museum has been working to establish a Museum Garden, as a learning and community engagement facility, for some time. The project has been delayed by development proposals which in turn have had an impact on plans for the proposed site, in the Museum car park.
In 2011, the Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority (SHFA) which owns part of the car park land, announced plans to reclaim the land for incorporation in a 'linear park' to connect Central railway station to Darling Harbour. This put on hold plans to establish a garden on the site, or for the possibility that the site be used for a much larger urban agriculture proposal, as a site for the City Farm, being developed by the City of Sydney. A feasibility study undertaken by the City had proposed the use of the car park, along with a much larger site at Sydney Park, as a possible two-site 'articulated model' for the proposed Farm.
Second Storey Window @ The Square in Palace Hotel Sydney Sat 15th June:
• Latest ep: Trip the Wire
• Feature Walls & Paul Roth
Feed your ears and then grab a beer at Palace Hotel pub upstairs!
Location: 730-742 George Street, Haymarket NSW 2000 (Corner of George & Hay Streets)
Located underground the Palace Hotel, this live music and performance venue with a capacity for around 200 people already has attracted a strong lineup of the best Indie Rock and Punk bands from Australia and overseas.
On Friday 11 & Saturday 12 October, the all-singing, all-dancing, all-American 1940s brassy big band musical revue hits the Capitol Theatre Sydney. In The Mood- To the delight of Hepcats, Lindy Hoppers and lovers of Swing Jazz, this brassy, all singing, all dancing, all-American 1940’s musical revue returns to Australia in celebration of its 20thseason.
The 1940’s was a time when America was in tune with sentimental ballads and up-tempo Swing Jazz rhythms, where the waltz and fox trot competed with the wild, acrobatic jitterbug, jive and boogie woogie crazed Hepcats, crowding the ballroom dance floor.
Featuring the hypnotic String of Pearls Big Band Orchestra, In the Mood Singers & Swing Dancers from New York, sassy costumes and sizzling choreography from Broadway veteran Alex Sanchez, fifty unforgettable hits are performed LIVE -
Chattanooga Choo Choo, Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy (of Company B), In The Mood, Tuxedo Junction, Sing, Sing, Sing, Well Get It, Lili Marlene, Bugle Call Rag, On The Sunny Side of the Street, What Do You Do In The Infantry, Over There, He’s 1-A in the Army, A-1 In My Heartand more.
In The Mood has travelled throughout the USA (including the 1997 Inauguration for President Bill Clinton), Canada and Europe and was selected by World USO as an official entertainment for the 50th World War II Commemoration.
All 32 shows sold out last tour so book early and get In The Mood for a sensational nostalgic journey through the music and movement which guided a nation’s spirit towards hope, promise and prosperity.
Location: 13 Campbell Street, Haymarket NSW 2000 Australia
Look no further than Metro Hotel Sydney Central - right next door to the Capitol Theatre whilst being close to other iconic Sydney attractions. Metro Hotel Sydney Central offers affordable and comfortable accommodation right in the heart of Sydney! Close to major public transport hubs, shops, supermarkets, cafes, restaurants and close to Sydney's major tourist attractions!
Zack Greinke of the Los Angeles Dodgers / Pic credit: Stephen Dunn/Getty Images/AFP
Paul Goldschmidt of the Arizona Diamondbacks / Pic credit: Christian Petersen/Getty Images
US Major League Baseball is coming to Sydney, with the opening series of next season - between the LA Dodgers and Arizona Diamondbacks - to be played at the Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG) in March 2014.
In a $13 million coup for the NSW state government, the opening series of the MLB will be held at the SCG on Saturday March 22 and Sunday March 23 - the first time a competitive US baseball fixture will be held in Australia and only the sixth time one has been staged outside America.
Sports Minister Graham Annesley said the event would "generate more than 10,000 international and interstate visitor nights to Sydney, which will help us reach our goal to double overnight tourism expenditure in NSW by 2020".
The games have been described as the biggest internationally recognised event in this country since the 2003 Rugby World Cup final and come exactly 100 years after the Chicago White Sox played against NSW at the SCG.
"Sydney will host the first two games for the opening series of 2014 Major League Baseball at the Sydney Cricket Ground," Premier Barry O'Farrell said.
"The opening series will feature the LA Dodgers and the Arizona Diamondbacks playing the first two games of the season.
"This is a significant win for Sydney and again delivers on my election commitment to bring major events to NSW. It's estimated the matches will deliver a $13 million benefit for the local economy, as well as attract visitors from interstate and overseas."
NSW will be showcased to an estimated global TV household audience of up to 168 million, including 75 million in the US.
Ironically - or perhaps fortuitously for sports fans who like to see a bit of biff - the Dodgers and Diamondbacks had a huge brawl in their game yesterday, with the entire squads of both teams running across the field to fight each other.
A similar spectacle can't be predicted next year but the Dodgers and Diamondbacks will be in Sydney for six days, when they will play the two games and open the doors to their training sessions.
"Sydney has a history of hosting significant baseball games at the SCG, with the Chicago White Sox playing against a combined NSW team in 1914," he said.
"The SCG will be transformed into an MLB field, with the construction of an infield clay area, pitcher's mound, dugouts and additional grandstand."
The Sydney Cricket Ground is a sports stadium in Sydney in Australia. It is used for Test cricket, One Day International cricket, Twenty20 cricket and Australian rules football, as well some rugby league football and rugby union matches. It is the home ground for the New South Wales Blues cricket team and the Sydney Swans of the Australian Football League. It is owned and operated by the SCG Trust that also manages the Sydney Football Stadium located next door.
