Sydney City Events

Explore the fascinating history of the World Heritage listed Hyde Park Barracks where thousands of convicts lived between 1819 and 1848. Learn about the daily lives of convicts and how they built the colony, try on some leg-irons, lie in a convict...

Bringing everything from fresh fruit and vegetables to rare-breed pork and seafood to Pyrmont Bay Park, the Sydney Morning Herald Growers' Market has been a tradition for the last 14 years. Enjoy a Saturday morning meal outdoors by the...

Come along and experience art into the evening with the MCA's extended hours every Thursday. Each week enjoy the current exhibitions, hear informal talks by curators and other creative thinkers on curious, controversial and personal topics....

Hard Rock Cafe Sydney is holding an open mic night every Monday at it's new location level 2 Harbourside Centre Darling Harbour. .

It's a great opportunity for musicians to meet, network and showcase...

Get your hands on cracking contraptions at Wallace and Gromit's World of Invention exhibition at the Powerhouse Museum from December 15. Step into the home of Wallace and Gromit and interact with their incredible inventions. Concoct smoothie...

A visit to the Art Gallery of New South Wales is a wonderful activity for kids of all ages. The Gallery holds a range of free programs for children from tots to teenagers, including free performances every second and last Sunday of the month and in...

City Recital Hall Angel Place and Kathryn Selby announce another year of fantastic lunchtime concerts in 2013.

Continuing the highly popular A Little Lunch Music series, the 2013 series will include an up-close and personal with...

Back by popular demand - season extended til May 26.

MUM'S IN: Stories from Razorhurst is a one-woman performance piece which lifts the veil on the Razor Gang era in Sydney during the 1930s, where sly grog, prostitution,...

The Addams Family, Broadway's smash hit musical comedy will make its Australian premiere in Sydney in March 2013 at the Capitol Theatre.

The Addams Family brings the deliriously delightful world of Gomez, Morticia, Uncle...

For families with children 5 to 12 years old.

Rescue puts you in charge as you discover what it's like to be involved in land, sea and air rescues. Take control of a full-size helicopter simulator, navigate a jet ski to...

War Horse is a remarkable tale of courage, loyalty and friendship. The exhilarating story of a young man’s journey to find his beloved horse Joey, against the backdrop of World War I, is an incredibly powerful play. It’s a...

The face that stops a nation

From over 800 entries, 39 finalists are chosen, but ultimately there can be only one winner.

Awarded to the best painting of a notable Australian - from politicians to...

In 2010 a team of explorers comprising wildlife photographers, filmmakers and scientists embarked on an expedition from the Antarctic Peninsula to South Georgia. This stunning visual record of the expedition captures life above and below the ice,...

Join the family fun every Sunday during school term at the Australian National Maritime Museum. Currently activities include making a pirates bandanna, a flag, a spyglass or a paper tall ship. There are also dress ups, books and interactive...

Pacha Sydney is a truly unique, jaw-droppingly mad and exciting Sydney destination. Taking place every Saturday night throughout ivy's 10 bars, 4 levels and three stages, it is a spectacular music and entertainment experience featuring...

Benjamin Lowy is renowned for pushing creative boundaries and pioneering the use of mobile phone photography in the highest rungs of his profession.

iAfghanistan encapsulates five years of intermittent work in the country over...

A unique piece of theatre written and adapted Gary Abrahams that explores several short stories by Katherine Mansfield. Combining classic drawing room comedy, surrealism and knife-edge Chekhovian like drama, Abrahams delicately weaves moments from...

An official part of the 2013 Reportage Festival Program

The Sydney Morning Herald Photos1440 Challenge is your chance to experience life as a photojournalist and win great prizes like a Canon EOS 5D Mark III Pro Kit (with...

This exhibition showcases the rich, large-scale photographs of documentary photographer Mine Konakci. The works reveal the connection between convict settlers, their direct descendants and the petty crimes that changes the course of their...

The Head On Photo Festival has opened entries to the prestigious 2013 Head On Portrait Prize and the newly established Head Off Landscape Prize and Head On Momento Photobook Awards. For the first time the Portrait Prize will be exhibited at the...