Want a culture fix but short on time/attention span? These events run for 60 minutes or less.
A wonderland of art and play for kids
Pier 2/3
$23 + BF
Trapeze talent sky high
Palm Grove, Darling Harbour
FREE
Weaving together our hopes for the future
Museum of Contemporary Art Australia
Time and space explored in a Thirsty Mile artist takeover
Walsh Bay Arts Precinct
Wonderment awaits in this interactive underwater world
Bondi Pavilion
12 nights of free live music and DJs
Moonshine Bar
A hilarious musical about childish grown-ups
Riverside Theatres
$39 + BF
An evening of music, performance and handsome harbour views
Celebrate Summer with Peruvian Nights at the Australian Museum
Australian Museum
Sonic clusters and chaotic energy collide through sight and sound
Art Gallery of New South Wales
An immersive Wild West fantasy
$35 + BF
Night-time art-making, talks and live music
Manly Art Gallery & Museum
Ethereal Icelandic art-pop
ACO On The Pier
$49 + BF
Groove with Sydney’s best-kept music secret
$59 – $69 + BF
A queered Filipino ghost story by Justin Talplacido Shoulder
Carriageworks
$59 + BF
Celebrating stories and sharing connections
Bankstown Arts Centre
A time-travelling tapestry tracing centuries of song
$79 – $89 + BF
Reimagining classics from the king of neo-soul
First Nations relationships to urban space and architecture
Chau Chak Wing Museum
Honouring Country through dance, installation, planting and story
The Studio Theatre at Bangarra
Paying tribute to a trailblazer, alongside fresh album material
The East London troubadour subverting British folk
Spiritual jazz, electronica and dub from Bristol’s finest
An all-encompassing showcase of multiculturalism in Sydney
Australian National Maritime Museum
Surreal humour and cyber futurism
$35
Ecstatic celebrations play out across seven monolithic screens
Embracing multiculturalism and co-existence through art
A contemporary exhibition interrogating the importance of water
A major career survey of one of the most significant painters of a generation
$28 + BF
Australia’s first retrospective of the celebrated surrealist
Honouring a long lineage of shell artists
A conversational, Pacific-led call for climate justice
Artspace