St George Open Air Cinema

WHEN:  12 JANUARY – 20TH FEBUARY

WHERE:  MRS MAQUARIE POINT

From 12 January 2010, the always anticipated St.George OpenAir Cinema returns to Mrs Macquaries Point to give Sydney-siders a festival of film other cities can only dream of.

Featuring a massive three-story-high screen set against a backdrop that spans the city skyline, Opera House and Harbour Bridge, St.George OpenAir Cinema captures all that’s great about Sydney in summertime.

 Visit www.stgeorgeopenair.com.au for schedules and more details.

SYDNEY BICYCLE FILM FESTIVAL

WHEN:

11TH – 15TH NOVEMBER

WHERE:

CHAUVEL CINEMAS, PADDINGTON

The Sydney Bicycle Film Festival is a 5 day event, beginning on Wednesday November 11th and running day and night through until Sunday November 15th.

The BFF film program (evenings from Friday November 13th- Sunday 15th) features films of all flavours. There’s even Where are you go?, a film about two brothers who race from Cairo to Cape Town on a bike unlike most you’ll see.

If you want to read more about Where are you go? or any of the other films screening at the Chauvel Cinema in Paddington http://www.chauvelcinema.net.au/, you can now see a complete listing of all the films and book your tickets also on Moshtix.com.au

 

 

Australian Architecture Association Annual Exhibition

 

WHEN:  1ST OCTOBER – 29TH NOVEMBER

WHERE:  CUSTOMS HOUSE – LEVEL 2

 

Five years after the first Australian Architecture Association (AAA) Young Architects exhibition, curator Gerard Reinmuth revisits this theme but with a focus on Sydney practitioners exploring the potential for digital technology in architecture and urban design practice and installations in line with Customs House’s own emphasis on digital media work in a range of disciplines.

In a city where a certain traditionalism defines architectural practice, this year’s annual AAA exhibition takes as look at the new wave of technologically savvy young architects such as Chris Bosse and Patrick Keane, and via a range of practitioners and students centred around the Department of Architecture Building at The University of Technology (UTS). These figures include expatriates Anthony Burke, David Burns, Tom Barker, Frank Minnaert and two locals Adrian Lahoud and Joanne Jakovich.  

An exhibition presented by the Australian Architecture Association (AAA). The AAA is committed to revealing Sydney’s architecture to a wider audience. Visit www.architecture.org.au for more information, tours and talks.

Testing Reality – The Architect and the Model

 

WHEN:  1ST OCTOBER – 1ST NOVEMBER

WHERE:  CUSTOMS HOUSE RED ROOM AND MEDIA WALL

 

Curated by Mark Szczerbicki as part of his Byera Hadley scholarship and coinciding with this year’s Sydney Architecture Festival, the exhibition explores the changing role of the model in today’s architectural practice.

A modernist building designed in the late 1940’s by the iconic Australian architect Harry Seidler – the Marcus Seidler House – becomes the focus of a series of architectural models produced especially for the exhibition. The models represent a wide variety of scales and materials, as well as techniques ranging from the traditional craft-based to emerging digital and 3D printing technologies.

The exhibition is supplemented by insights into the behind-the-scenes design process of some of Europe’s leading architectural offices through images and movies of the work of Jean Nouvel, Bolles+Wilson, EMBT and Delugan Meissl among others.

 

Brazil Film Festival

WHEN:

26TH – 29TH OCTOBER

WHERE:

DENDY OPERA QUAYS

EAST CIRCULAR QUAY

 

 

 

 

 

The Brazil Film Festival 2009 is the first ever cultural event in Australia dedicated exclusively to Brazilian film and cinema.
The Festival will open in October 2009 at Dendy Cinema, Circular Quay, presenting and offering a variety of activities related to the Brazilian cinema and its incredibly diverse people and culture. The event will offer a new look to Brazilian culture through a selection of the newest films produced in Brazil and will bring to Australia a taste of Brazilian atmosphere.

 4 FILMS, 4 DAYS !!!!!

A CUT ABOVE STREET ART

WHEN:

19TH OCTOBER

9TH NOVEMBER

WHERE:

PINE STREET CREATIVE

ARTS CETRE
64 Pine Street
Chippendale 2008

www.pinestreet.com.au

Are you inspired by Street Art?

If the answer is YES, this is an awesome introduction to making stencils like a pro. Learn about different stencil materials, selecting and designing images and making art from coin size to gigantic. Learn how to convert your photos or images to stencil in Photoshop or by hand. Stencil onto any surface from t-shirts, to posters, stickers, canvas and more. Find out why stencils have taken the world by storm! Please note: this course teaches alternative methods of applying stencils without aerosol. The tutor will provide a demonstration of safe work methods using aerosol but students will not be using spray cans/aerosol spray during the course.

CRAVE SYDNEY

WHEN:

1ST – 31ST OCTOBER

WHERE:

CITY OF SYDNEY

For more information and details about crave sydney, please visit the Official Website.

http://www.cravesydney.com

Crave Sydney is a major celebration of Sydney’s unmatched way of life, offering 31 days of food, comedy, outdoor art and fun.

Crave Sydney brings together:

* Art & About,1-25 October
* Sydney International Food Festival, 1-31 October
* Darling Harbour Fiesta, 2-5 October
* Sydney Harbour Island Hopping, 3-25 October
* World’s Funniest Island, 17-18 October
* Seven Bridges Walk, 25 October
* Breakfast on the Bridge, 25 October

DANK ST FESTIVAL

WHEN:

25TH OCTOBER

WHERE:

DANKS ST, WATERLOO

With live entertainment, fabulous food, exhibitions, markets and so much more, Danks Street Festival has become a much loved event on Sydney’s calendar.

Making its first appearance at the Festival this year is the Live Green Kitchen hosted by Lyndey Milan, with leading local chefs including Jared Ingersoll, Kylie Kwong, Alex Herbert, Dave Campbell and Ashley Hughes demonstrating cooking techniques that focus on sustainable food.

Also new for 2009 is a “Handmade Market” selling all the things you love about your local fete – everything from handcrafts to sweet treats, supporting local artists and charities.

There will be more performers than ever before in some surprise shows you’ll never forget and a great music line up that is guaranteed to have you cruising on a Sunday afternoon

LANEWAYS-BY GEORGE!

WHEN: 1ST-25TH OCTOBER

WHERE:  8 LANEWAYS OFF GEORGE ST

Discover new and unexpected worlds as you wander the hidden network of inter‐connected laneways in Sydney’s CBD. Eight exciting art installation projects not only enliven these urban spaces, they also challenge us to think about our future.

With a focus on collaboration, sustainability and the changing role of public spaces, each project was created by interdisciplinary teams that included artists, urban designers, landscape architects, engineers, gardeners, musicians, poets, a scientist and a lawyer.

Take time out to explore the transformation of these laneways with everything from a pocket size open air cinema, to a canopy of birdcages and seven metre bar highlighting climate change.

Art & About is presented by City of Sydney.

For more information visit the Art & About website.

Image: 7 Metre Bar – Richard Goodwin, Adrian Macgregor & Russell Lowe