Sydney Festival acknowledges the 29 clans of the Eora Nation, the Traditional Owners of the land on which the Festival takes place.
We pay our respects to Elders past and present, and recognise the continuing connection to lands, waters and communities.
The vibrant and incomparable Sydney Festival is back to take over our city once again this January, delivering on the NSW Government’s ambition for more bold and exciting cultural activities that engage our community and reflect our rich diversity. Now in its 46th year, the 2023 program promises to be wonderfully unique, and encourage everyone to get out and make the most of this fantastic summer festival.
The City of Sydney is a proud partner of Sydney Festival.
The Festival is a bold, cultural celebration that enlivens and transforms Sydney with the highest quality art and big ideas. We look forward to welcoming Sydneysiders and visitors to enjoy more than a hundred shows in our beautiful city.
Welcome to Sydney Festival’s exhilarating summer of art.
The past few years have been unprecedented and challenging. An opportunity to heal, listen and gather has never been more important. Sydney Festival has a rich history of championing artists for 46 years while supporting the unique voices and diverse stories of so many. Our role is to enable outstanding work by a broad range of compelling artists from Australia and across the globe.
This year’s highlights include all-female composed opera-performance Sun & Sea (Lithuania) at Sydney Town Hall, plus Australian composer Mary Finsterer’s Antarctica There’s a stimulating interactive experience about iconic feminist Frida Kahlo, and a specially commissioned installation at South Eveleigh honouring local legend Jenny Kee.
In Parramatta, Sydney Symphony Under the Stars will perform a special Lunar New Year’s Eve celebration, while family-friendly blockbuster Afrique en Cirque (Canada/Guinea) will delight audiences at Riverside Theatres. Night revellers can enjoy Sydney Festival’s dedicated music club, The Weary Traveller, as we tip our whiskeys to Sydney’s most retro haunt.
I would like to acknowledge Jacob Nash, Sydney Festival’s creative artist in residence, for curating this year’s Blak Out program, which has four world premieres including Tracker by Australian Dance Theatre in association with ILBIJERRI Theatre Company and Vigil: Awaken, an epic collaboration of ceremony, light and song activating Me-Mel and Barangaroo on the 25th of January, with legendary director and choreographer Stephen Page.
My sincere thanks to Sydney Festival’s principal philanthropic supporter Peter Freedman AM and our principal government partners the State Government through Create NSW and Destination NSW and the City of Sydney. would also like to thank our community of artists, audiences, staff and supporters who make the festival possible.
We look forward to welcoming you in January on what always was and always will be Aboriginal Land.
Ben Franklin Minister for the Arts
OUR GOVERNMENT PARTNERS
Clover Moore Lord Mayor
Olivia Ansell Festival Director
Jenny Kee: The Aunties
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BY JAMES THIERRÉE | FRANCE
EXCLUSIVE
ROOM Eleven exceptional musicians and dancers come together on stage to push the connection between the musical instrument and the body to fever pitch. Walls shift and howl with laughter and legs trot a tick-tock tempo within the vast and shifting ROOM James Thierrée returns to Sydney Festival with a surreal masterpiece that stirs chaos and imagination.
AUSTRALIAN
11 25 JanuaryRosyln Packer TheatreTHEATRE xxxxx A sublimely surreal spectacle ★★★★★ THE ARTS DESK
Richard Haughton
Richard Haughton
Manon Bollery
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LIMELIGHT
SYDNEY CHAMBER OPERA & ASKO|SCHÖNBERG AUSTRALIA/THE NETHERLANDS AUSTRALIAN EXCLUSIVE
An enchanting opera for the 21st century
A mapmaker, a natural philosopher and a theologian set sail for the last great wilderness. Composer Mary Finsterer and librettist Tom Wright’s original blend of early and new music styles is mirrored by period characters in a futuristic digital set. This is epic opera on a chamber scale from an all-Australian cast and creative team partnered with one of the world’s finest contemporary ensembles, Asko|Schönberg.
Sun & Sea
Winner of the Golden Lion at the 2019 Venice Biennale, this English-language opera-performance in the round dives into themes of climate emergency with humour and power. Scattered across a sandy beach viewed from above, holidaymakers sunbake and sing gentle elegies for the natural world.
OPERA
RUGILĖ BARZDŽIUKAITĖ, VAIVA GRAINYTĖ & LINA LAPELYTĖ | LITHUANIA AUSTRALIAN EXCLUSIVE
6–8 JanuarySydney Town HallOPERA
An opera-performance in the round, also in the sand
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"A masterpiece of culture in a changing climate"
THE
NEW YORK TIMES ★★★★
Andrej Vasilenko
Ada Nieuwendijk
Antarctica
5–8 JanuaryCarriageworksOPERA
76
star power”
Manifesto
Neighbours
DANCE Kairos Three remarkable Australian talents – director Meryl Tankard AO, composer Elena Kats-Chernin AO and visual artist Régis Lansac OAM – reunite for a thrilling deep-dive into the human experience of here and now in a new work commissioned and produced by FORM Dance Projects.
MERYL
TANKARD WORLD PREMIERE 19–21 JanuaryCarriageworksDANCE
Created in collaboration with legendary dance innovator William Forsythe, Neighbours unites two extraordinary and culturally distinct dancers. An abstract b-boy and a contemporary dancer, with Kurdish and Albanian roots respectively, explore what binds and separates us with stellar technique and surprising intimacy. BRIGEL GJOKA, RAUF “RUBBERLEGZ” YASIT & RUŞAN FILIZTEK | UK | AUSTRALIAN EXCLUSIVE 12–15 JanuarySydney Opera HouseDANCE
An explosive tattoo to optimism, Manifesto is a precision-guided, joyously unpredictable dance extravaganza designed to unleash rebellion and inspire wonder. Featuring nine dancers and nine drummers on nine separate drum kits, this is a show you will feel in your bones, as the unbeatable symbiosis of body and drum is celebrated en masse.
STEPHANIE
LAKE
COMPANY
WORLD PREMIERE SEASON 12–15 JanuaryCarriageworksDANCE Flamenco embraces bolero in this intoxicating new showcase from reigning queen and living legend of the form, Sara Baras. Lavishly costumed and performed with her dance ensemble and 7-piece live band, Alma wraps colour, shape and sensuality around technical mastery and those trademark hammering heels. An exhilarating encounter with the authentic soul of Spain. Alma
BALLET FLAMENCO SARA BARAS | SPAIN AUSTRALIAN EXCLUSIVE
27–28 January
Sydney Opera HouseDANCE
Spain’s formidable queen of flamenco ★★★★★ ARTS HUB “Sheer
THE TIMES Ursula Kaufmann
Sam Roberts
Régis Lansac Sofia Wittert 98
Vigil: Awaken
On the evening of 25 of January we bring together the peoples of Eora, look out across the water from Barangaroo reserve and awaken Me-Mel. Through ceremony, we cleanse her spirit and look to the future: soon she will be returned to her original custodians.
Created by Jake Nash and Stephen Page alongside Metropolitan Local Aboriginal Land Council, with composition and sound design by Steve Francis.
25 JanuaryBarangaroo Headland MUSIC & CEREMONY
Olivia and I are excited to share with you some of the most important stories from across this land in our 2023 Blak Out program. A myriad of Blak voices will fill our city with stories about us, for us. This year we share stories that are Personal, Profound and Intimate alongside big stories about Legacy and Land. These stories need to be told now more than ever, and we are honoured to be bringing together an outstanding group of First Nations artists to Sydney to inspire, provoke and challenge you.
The future is Blak.
Janet’s Vagrant Love
Hard-hitting truths about raising young Blak men as a single mum, delivered in a beautiful blend of music, drama and wry wit. 30 years of original song, 42 years of heart beating, and a millennia of returning spirit.
AUSTRALIAN DANCE THEATRE WORLD PREMIERE
In the footsteps of ancestors
In a culturally rich interweaving of dance, ceremony and text, choreographer-director Daniel Riley takes inspiration from his great-great uncle, famed Wiradjuri tracker Alec Riley, to explore shared cultural resilience through time. Created in association with ILBIJERRI Theatre Company.
Getting older is inevitable, but growing up takes courage. A tender, exquisite monologue written and performed by rising star Thomas Weatherall, Blue takes us deep into the beauty and sadness of a young life at a crossroads.
ELAINE CROMBIE
BlueBELVOIR ST THEATRE | WORLD PREMIERE
14–29 JanuaryBelvoir St TheatreTHEATRE
BLAK OUT
Creative Artist in Residence
FREE
19–22 JanuaryBelvoir St TheatreTHEATRE
Daniel Boud
Daniel Boud
Jonathan VDK
1110 Tracker
10
14 JanuaryCarriageworksDANCE
Hide the Dog
Nura (Women’s
Brenda Croft’s commanding portrait photography is
Old Government House,
First
Accompanied
performance,
on Dharug land
LIMELIGHT
Holding Achilles
ON THE WALL & DEAD PUPPET SOCIETY
Love in war and exile
Set against the violence of the Trojan War, Holding Achilles by David Morton turns a contemporary eye on one of the ancient world’s most famous heroes, and his relationship with not so well-known lover, Patroclus. With daring aerial work, exquisite puppetry and a haunting live performance from Montaigne, this epic adaptation of Homer’s Iliad is a story of mythic proportions with queer heroes at its heart.
Dyin
Place)
projected across
illuminating the site’s enduring significance for
Nations women.
by two evenings of music and
gather
for communal celebration and reflection. CITY OF PARRAMATTA 19–22 JanuaryOld Government HouseINSTALLATION Waru – journey of the small turtle Join our young turtle heroine Migi on a journey of discovery and survival under the starry skies of the Torres Strait. Bangarra’s first dedicated work for kids, Waru is an interactive adventure about climate change, respect and reciprocity. BANGARRA DANCE THEATRE 28–29 JanuaryThe Pavilion Performing Arts Centre Sutherland THEATRE & FAMILY
Meet Tigs, the last Tasmanian Tiger. Discovered in the bushes by two best friends, Tigs and the kids dodge hunters to set sail for Aotearoa and safety, but first they must outwit the Māori gods and palawa spirits in this magical work from Performing Lines TAS. NATHAN MAYNARD (PAKANA) & JAMIE MCCASKILL (MĀORI) SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE WORLD PREMIERE 6–8 JanuarySydney Opera HouseTHEATRE & FAMILY THEATRE
19–22 JanuaryCarriageworksTHEATRE LEGS
WORLD PREMIERE SEASON ★★★★
Daniel Boud Matt Sharah Brenda L Croft Photo Joel Devereux Artwork Jacob Brewer 1312
Paradise or the Impermanence of Ice Cream
Happy Meal
A joyful trans rom-com for the MySpace generation
Remember life in the days of dial-up? Then this might trigger the feels. Set in the awkward online worlds of your Millennial youth, Happy Meal by Tabby Lamb (they/ she) is a warm, witty and nostalgic story of two young people transitioning from teens to adults, from MSN to Tik Tok, from cis to trans – and falling in love along the way.
Othering
“Bright and witty”
A Broadcast Coup
When the world says you’re no-one, how do you show you are someone? Inspired by performer Debra Keenahan’s lived experience comes a powerful new work reflecting on the blasé ill-treatment of people viewed as ‘outside the norm’.
Cut-throat journalist Jez Connell is out for her next sting, and she’s got Michael King, top-rated darling of mainstream radio, in her sights. This fiery new comedy by Melanie Tait will spark both debate and wild snorts of
Life, death and melting moments
The wildly versatile Jacob Rajan (star of The Guru of Chai) transports you to the vibrant chaos of Mumbai for a multi-character one-man show that weaves puppetry, a dash of Bollywood and thoughts on the eternal into the real-life mystery of India’s vanishing vultures.
17–22 JanuaryRiverside TheatresTHEATRE INDIAN INK THEATRE COMPANY NEW ZEALAND | AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
LITTLE BIG WOMAN PRODUCTIONS WORLD PREMIERE 13–15 JanuaryCasula Powerhouse Arts CentreTHEATRE
laughter. ENSEMBLE THEATRE | WORLD PREMIERE From 26 JanuaryEnsemble TheatreTHEATRE Girls & Boys Navigating the giddy highs and crushing lows of a love affair and marriage gone awry, actor Justine Clarke holds you breathless as she walks the emotional tightrope of this lauded new work by the Tony Award-winning® British writer Dennis Kelly (Matilda). STATE THEATRE COMPANY SOUTH AUSTRALIA 5–15 JanuarySeymour CentreTHEATRE When love turns around ★★★★★ LIMELIGHT
ROOTS
& THEATRE ROYAL PLYMOUTH UK | AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
17–22
JanuaryEternity PlayhouseTHEATRE
THE GUARDIAN
Garry Heery
1514
Frida
Silvia Poch This absorbing interactive exhibition takes you beyond Frida Kahlo’s art and into the pivotal moments of her life and work, a unique way to experience a defiantly original feminist icon. Discover and engage with the incredible story behind the enduring muse, as The Cutaway is colourfully transformed with projection, holography, VR and music.
Kahlo: The Life of an Icon An immersive biography From 4 JanuaryThe Cutaway at Barangaroo IMMERSIVE & INTERACTIVE INSTALLATION LAYERS OF REALITY & FRIDA KAHLO CORPORATION SPAIN/MEXICO AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
David Ruano
1716
The Air Between Us
The Artist
A mesmerising aerial duet between acclaimed dancer/ choreographer Chloe Loftus and award-winning Māori dance artist and wheelchair-user Rodney Bell. Suspended in counterbalance, two bodies fly and entwine in a dance of strength, harmony and equality.
Aotearoa/New Zealand-born, Helsinki-based clowning sensation Thom Monckton paints a hilarious portrait of the creative process and the mad pursuit of the elusive muse. It’s physical theatre meets absurd humour meets a fruit bowl.
Afrique en Cirque
KALABANTÉ PRODUCTIONS CANADA/GUINEA AUSTRALIAN EXCLUSIVE
A joyous blend of acrobatics, music and dance
Explosive drumming and the melodious twang of the Kora soundtrack the infectious energy of the Canadian/Guinean troupe Kalabanté, as West Africa’s hottest acrobatic and musical talents take contemporary circus to dizzying new levels of fun. Expect strength, agility and a whole lot of joy.
PHYSICAL & CIRCUS
Werk It
The self-professed Spice Girls of circus flip, dip and thrust to 90s bangers in an acrobatic romp so funny you might wee. A gym-tastic fusion of funtimes, Werk It is stacked with big tricks and big characters. From trapeze to strong-woman, this late-night lovechild of circus, comedy and cabaret is a certified riot.
THOM MONCKTON & SANNA SILVENNOINEN NEW ZEALAND/FINLAND
18–22 JanuarySeymour Centre
PHYSICAL THEATRE & FAMILY
6–15 January
Riverside TheatresCIRCUS & MUSIC
CIRCUS TRICK
TEASE 12–22 January
Seymour Centre
PHYSICAL
THEATRE & CIRCUS
CHLOE LOFTUS & RODNEY BELL | NEW ZEALAND AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
20–22
JanuaryTallawoladah Lawn (opposite MCA)
PHYSICAL
THEATRE & FAMILY
FREE An acrobatic comedy romp with pumping 90s bangers
Peter Graham
Oliver Crawford Antti Saukko Rebekah Ryan
1918
TOO BIRDS
THE WEARY TRAVELLER 5–29 JanuaryThe Weary TravellerMUSIC Deep in the roots of Martin Place’s iconic Seidler mushroom building, there is a hidden gem of Sydney nightlife, a buried bastion of 1970s bar culture, and your new favourite haunt after dark this summer. Unpretentious and unrenovated, history lines the walls and so does the original red carpet at The Weary Traveller, Sydney Festival’s live music takeover in a rare retro find. Enjoy 16 nights of eclectic, cutting-edge music programming across January, from punk to pop, jazz to metal, indie, ambient and plenty of opportunities for a dance. Come for the music, stay for the characters. Great live gigs, retro digs COLOURED STONE
POTION HTRK
Jacquie Manning
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Sydney Symphony Under the Stars
SYDNEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA & GREATER SYDNEY PARKLANDS
The perfect summer evening
Join the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and conductor Benjamin Northey for a starlit evening of orchestral classics with a Lunar New Year twist. Featuring music from Tan Dun, Chinese folk favourites, the best of film music, and 18th and 19th century masterpieces, this will be an evening of good times, good company and great music.
Lisa Moore in Show Your Heart
Emma Donovan and Paul Grabowsky: The Old Rugged Cross
The voice of Emma Donovan carries deep currents in this tribute to country gospel from a powerhouse of soul, enriched by pianist Paul Grabowsky and
Asko|Schönberg in concert with Ensemble Offspring
Andriessen and beyond
One exclusive concert evening featuring the music of modernists masters. From the late Louis Andriessen’s Zilver, to Sweet Air by American composer David Lang, and Australian composers Mary Finsterer’s Silva and Kate Moore’s The Art of Levitation A Dutch/Australian collaboration celebrating the lineage of Andriessen’s influences.
Paul Capsis in Dry My Tears
An intimate acoustic evening featuring the inimitable Paul Capsis is back by popular demand. With Francis Greep on piano, Capsis interprets cabaret, jazz and classics by Kurt Weill, Elton John and more, with influences from Marianne Faithfull to Nina Simone.
Hamed Sadeghi in Empty Voices
Sink into a spell-binding ensemble performance led by tar (Iranian lute) virtuoso Hamed Sadeghi with jazz figure Sandy Evans and more. Known for his fusions of Middle Eastern and Western music, Sadeghi’s mystical new work explores the pursuit of holy love through ego-dissolution.
13 & 15 January
The
Neilson, ACO Pier 2/3MUSIC
14
January
The
Neilson, ACO Pier 2/3
MUSIC
“New York’s queen of avant-garde piano”, Australian-born musician Lisa Moore delivers visionary interpretations of Stravinsky, Janáček, Randy Newman, Philip Glass, Martin Bresnick and more. With violinist Jenny Khafagi and clarinetist Lloyd Van’t Hoff, this is contemporary classical at its best.
14–15 JanuaryThe Neilson, ACO Pier 2/3MUSIC
19 JanuaryCity Recital HallMUSIC
his inimitable arrangements.
9 JanuarySydney Opera House
MUSIC
THE NETHERLANDS/AUSTRALIA AUSTRALIAN EXCLUSIVE
21 January
The
Crescent, Parramatta ParkMUSIC
MUSIC FREE
Tom ten Seldam
Jill Steinberg
Alex AptWarren Lee
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Smashed: The Brunch Party
HEY BOSS
Morning mimosas and a cabaret kick-starter
Shake off your festival hangover with morning mimosas and fabulous drag, circus and cabaret hosted by award-winning cabaret queen Victoria Falconer. Inspired by the drag brunch phenomenon in New York and London, this adults-only hi-glam daylight soiree welcomes early birds and all-nighters. It’s the brunch option Sydney needs.
Joni Mitchell once described her iconic album Blue as “the purest emotional record that I will ever make in my life.” For one spine-tingling evening, ARIA award-winning artist Katie Noonan brings her own touch to the unparalleled artistry of Blue, accompanied by a five-piece band.
Prinnie Stevens in Lady Sings the Blues
Heart wrenching ballads from the great women vocalists – Aretha Franklin, Billie Holiday, Beyoncé and more
in the capable hands of Australia’s Prinnie Stevens (The Voice; The Bodyguard; Thriller Live). An evening of soul, struggle and R&B classics.
An Evening With Ursula Yovich
Sink into the soulful sounds of Ursula Yovich and a live band, in an electrifying evening of song from the multiaward winning performer with bassist Adam Ventura (Midnight Oil). A journey through the universal language of song, inspired by Ursula’s roots in Arnhem land.
Christie Whelan-Browne: Show People
BRYANT
No punches pulled in this funny, loving and completely unvarnished tribute to the world of Australian musical theatre from Christie Whelan-Browne, the star who turned a timely spotlight on the less-than-stellar backstage culture of our entertainment industry.
DEAN
12 JanuaryWharf 1CABARET
13 January
Wharf
1
CABARET
CABARET
8 JanuaryWharf 1CABARET
Peter Tarasiuk
Jacinta Oaten
Katie Noonan: Joni Mitchell’s Blue 50th Anniversary A date with your all-time favourite album
11
January
Wharf 1CABARET
KIN MUSIC & SUM MANAGEMENT
Cybele Malinowski
John McRae
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13 JanuaryWharf 1CABARET
2524
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith:
Call to the Morning
Bonobo (DJ set):
Call to the Night
The Lucid: A Dream Portal to Awakening
Bar
In Chamber
IMMERSIVERetroSplash! See website for detailsWORKOUT PARTY Direct from Japan, Maho Magic Bar speeds into Sydney like the Shinkansen, with superstar magicians and sleight-of-hand specialists ready to whisk you into a neon-lit Tokyo night of mischief, amazement, cocktails and laughter. 6–29 JanuaryTumbalong Park, Darling HarbourMAGIC Maho Magic
BROAD ENCOUNTERS
Manipulate your consciousness and drift into lucid dreaming during an 8-hour sound work held overnight in the iconic Seidler hotel shaped like a giant mushroom. Singer, cellist and polymuse Kelsey Lu crafts an out-of-body and out-of-this-world experience. 5-29 JanuaryThe CTA Business ClubDREAM EXPERIENCE
Lock yourself in solitude inside the safe of an Art Deco hotel. Alabaster has prepared a piece, in isolation, for you to experience, in your own isolation. Poetry and soundscapes that no one else will ever hear. Here, in chamber, where no one is looking, no one is listening, you’re just one. 10–28 JanuaryKimpton Margot SydneyIMMERSIVE AUDIO
Throw down on a hidden dance floor of the Sydney CBD. Maestro of the downtempo, Bonobo dials it right up for a one-time party in the brutalist Masonic Centre. Expect cheeky high hats and thumping bass lines to rattle the passing suits. 6 JanuarySydney Masonic CentreMUSIC & PARTY ALABASTER DEPLUME | UK | WORLD PREMIERE KELSEY LU | USA | WORLD PREMIERE UK Are you ready to get wet? Live your 1980s pool party fantasy, when immersive workout meets aqua aerobics extravaganza. Hosted by the Retrosweat All-stars, you’ll float, flex and flip as the sun sets behind the palm trees and a DJ plays 80s bangers. RETROSWEAT
Grant Spanier
Peter Wallis
Jacquie Manning
Tucked behind Milk Beach along the Hermitage Foreshore of Sydney Harbour, bathe yourself in ambient sounds. Welcome in a new year sunrise and reflect on the stillness of the city with this outdoor sonic ritual at dawn. 7 JanuaryStrickland EstateIMMERSIVE MUSIC USA 2726
Luminescent,
Garden
and
Sharks
Meet a sea of sharks, including the long-extinct Helicoprion and the infamous Great White. Face off with an 8m–long Whale Shark, and view the world from a Hammerhead’s perspective. It’s a blockbuster shark exhibition with interactive displays and touchable specimens.
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is
a six-metre-high
where
the
comes yet
from
of
world
The Insect Circus
Tip Duck
TERRAPIN
London’s String Theatre enlivens the traditional artform of long-string
in this delightful marionette show featuring some remarkably talented bugs. These tiny creatures are perfect entertainment for tiny audience members.
Behold bin chicken 2.0! Ibsen the giant ibis is specially trained to pick up litter and put it where it belongs – in the bin. After decades of development, Ibsen is ready to change the way garbage is collected in your city. I mean, we think he’s ready.
Guttered
RESTLESS DANCE THEATRE WORLD PREMIERE SEASON
Head down to a real bowling alley for a family-friendly interactive dance work on glory, failure and the dignity of risk. Bowling bags breathe stories and bodies hurl themselves down the lanes in this vivid study of life beyond a safety net.
DANCE
Brickwrecks
Shipwreck Odyssey
Rebuild sunken ships, clean oil pollution from a penguin and discover if you’d survive the Titanic sinking. Astonishing shipwreck stories come alive through Ryan ‘The Brickman’ McNaught’s stunning
models, hands-on activities and real shipwreck objects.
Voyage beneath the turquoise waves and coral cays of Queensland’s Wreck Reefs as the ghost ship Jenny Lind leads you on an adventure into our oceans through live storytelling, performance and a responsive projection playscape.
From 17 December
Australian National Maritime Museum INTERACTIVE PLAY
17–22 JanuarySeymour CentrePUPPETRY
LEGO
THE
BRICKMAN & AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL MARITIME MUSEUM
18–22 JanuaryVarious outdoorPUPPETRY
29 December–29 January Australian
National Maritime Museum
INTERACTIVE
PLAY
STALKER THEATRE, BOX OF BIRDS & AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL MARITIME MUSEUM
puppetry
STRING THEATRE | UK | AUSTRALIAN EXCLUSIVE
18–22 JanuaryKicks Tenpin & ArcadeIMMERSIVE
AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM until 31 JanuaryAustralian MuseumEXHIBITION FAMILYFREE FREE
immersive and more than a little splashy, Cupid’s Koi Garden by ENESS
the world’s first inflatable fountain. Enter
oasis of glowing fish
submerged sounds
movement triggers playful jets
water. From
creators
Airship Orchestra
another magical
plucked straight
our imaginations. ENESS 5–29 JanuaryTumbalong Park, Darling Harbour ART INSTALLATION A wonderland of sound and splashCupid’s Koi
Roy
Vandervegt
Sam Roberts
Rose Leahy Rebecca Mansell
Peter Mathew
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Jenny Kee: The Aunties
LGOP COLLECTIVE WORLD PREMIERE
Brett Whiteley Studio Sessions
Chloe Kim at the MCA
Three unique performers front man Tim Freedman (The Whitlams), singer/songwriter Martha Marlow with Chris Abrahams, and rising jazz star Alma Zygier make a response to the work of one of Sydney’s most iconic visual artists at the Brett Whiteley Studio.
Spanning jazz, experimental, minimalist and more, drummer Chloe Kim’s genre-bending sound is presented from within the Sydney International Art Series exhibition, Do Ho Suh in response to the South Korean artist’s large-scale installation Staircase-III (2010).
19 JanuaryMuseum of Contemporary ArtMUSIC
Jenny Kee in great height
You’ve never seen Jenny Kee quite like this. Meet The Aunties, the enormous squiggly beings sprouting up in South Eveleigh this summer, dressed in their brightly knitted best. These charismatic creatures are a bold new interpretation of Jenny Kee’s iconic UniOz design, and a celebration of an artist who has helped to shape Sydney’s visual identity.
January South Eveleigh Locomotive Street, Eveleigh ART INSTALLATION
Sydney Festival AT HOME
(working title)
The Art Gallery of NSW is transformed by MONUMENTAL (working title), a weekend of performance, works and live activations curated by Brian Fuata and Latai Taumoepeau.
Artists challenge the idea of the monument and what is chosen to be revered and memorialised.
Gallery
The Huxleys: Bloodlines
A loving tribute to the many influential voices silenced by the HIV/AIDS epidemic of the 80s and 90s, The Huxleys evoke the colourful rebellious spirit of these queer saints through costume design, performance and photography.
&
From 5 JanuaryCarriageworks
Hey culture lover, we’ve got great news. Wherever you are and whenever you feel like it, Sydney Festival AT HOME brings the art of summer straight to you. Enjoy live streams of aerial performance The Air Between s, this year’s Vigil Awaken plus conversations with the makers of opera Sun & Sea. On demand, watch Achilles following its world premiere season, Paradise (a documentary on the life of fashion icons Jenny Kee and Linda Jackson), Latitudes which platforms Western Sydney’s brightest filmmakers, and go behind the scenes of Afrique en Cirque, in the inspirational documentary Circus Without Borders tracking Kalabanté Productions’ rise to fame from West Africa Guinea to the international stage. All this and plenty more – available free, on demand.
14, 21 & 28 January
Brett Whiteley StudioMUSIC
PERFORMANCE
PHOTOGRAPHY
5–29
FREE FREE FREEFREE MONUMENTAL
28–29 JanuaryArt
of NSW PERFORMANCE ART INTIMATE SPECTACLE & ART GALLERY OF NSW BOOKNOW VIGIL: AWAKEN SEEFULLDETAILS 5JANUARY FREEBarangarooHeadlandParkWilsonRoad BarangarooNSW2000 The Huxleys, Leigh 2022, Giclèe archival print, 106 x 106cm Angela Goh, Body loss , part of ‘MONUMENTAL ( working title )’ presented at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, 9 and 10 April 2022. Curated by Brian Fuata and Latai Taumoepeau, produced with Intimate Spectacle. Photo © AGNSW, Mim Stirling Do Ho Suh, Staircase-III (detail), 2010. Installation view, Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar, 2019, polyester fabric, stainless steel, Tate: Purchased with funds provided by the Asia Pacific Acquisitions Committee 2011. Image courtesy the artist, Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar, Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York, Hong Kong, Seoul and London, and Victoria Miro, London and Venice, © the artist. Photograph: Antoine van Kaam
Brett Whiteley,
Self portrait in the studio , 1976 (detail)
BRETT WHITELEY FOUNDATION & ART GALLERY OF NSW
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In celebration of the art of summer, Sydney Festival worked with three iconic Australian artists in the development of our 2023 branding: the inimitable Jenny Kee, whose UniOz design with its bold Sydney icons features on our front cover, the dreamy landscapes of First Nations painter Thea Anamara Perkins, and the sparkling queer wonderland of The Huxleys, whose fabulous faces feature on this very page. Find out more about these exciting creative collaborations on our website.
Flight
The Party
of
Celebratory and
critical,
Flight
deconstructs
air travel, aviation, aerodynamics and the freedoms and perils that flight
promises following
our unprecedented break from the skies.
CASULA POWERHOUSE ARTS CENTRE Stripped back and steadfast portraits of the First Nations women and girls who are contemporary sovereign warriors and avatar-sentinals of Cammeraygal woman Barangaroo.
Thea
Anamara
Perkins’ ambitious
work
covers
the walls of Carriageworks, questioning how First Nations peoples should be portrayed in Australia. Thea Anamara Perkins: Stockwoman CARRIAGEWORKS From 21 January Casula
Powerhouse
Arts Centre VISUAL ART Artists and scientific researchers draw on climate research, First Nations knowledge and creative digital spaces in a program of art, outdoor installations, performance and workshops. Siteworks 2022: From a deep valley Exploring religious ritual, queer identity and pop-culture, in this anarchically composed installation of makeshift structures, found objects, painting, video, sound and light. Paul Yore: WORD MADE FLESH CARRIAGEWORKSBUNDANON From 14 December CarriageworksVISUAL ART From 26 November Bundanon VISUAL ART From 14 January UNSW Galleries VISUAL ART From 5 January CarriageworksVISUAL ART 5–29 January Barangaroo VISUAL ART A celebration
LGBTQIA+ nightlife culture in Sydney from 1973 to 2002. Ephemera from parties and venues plus work by artists and writers engaging with these histories.
UNSW GALLERIES & SYDNEY WORLDPRIDESUMMER Brenda L Croft: Naabami: Barangaroo FREE FREE FREE FREE FREE
ART OF The Plane (dreamer), 2019. Detail. Ceramic engine and parts, aluminium, found objects. Image courtesy of the artist. Lille (Arrernte/Bundjalung/Kalkatungu), 2022 Jacquie Manning Moore Hardy Zan Wimberley Installation view, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne. Commissioned by the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, and supported by Carriageworks, Sydney. Courtesy the artist and Hugo Michell Gallery, Adelaide, and STATION, Melbourne and Sydney. Photo: Andrew Curtis 3332
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Festival Feasts Tickets For all pricing details, info and to book, visit sydneyfestival.org.au Tickets available from 9am 19 October. Multipacks Book two or more events to save up to 20%. Remember – multipacks are here for a good time not a long time. Book early to avoid disappointment. Some exclusions apply, visit sydneyfestival.org.au/multipacks Getting there PUBLIC TRANSPORT We encourage you to use public transport when getting to and from Sydney Festival events. For transport information visit transportnsw.info or call 131 500. WILSON PARKING Receive 10% off Wilson Parking when you prebook your parking online using the promo code SYDFEST23. Only available at selected car parks in the Sydney CBD. Visit bookabay.com.au ALEX&Co. Parramatta Shop 2-4, 330 Church Street Parramatta 02 9194 4499 BrewDog South Eveleigh Bays 1 and 2 2 Locomotive Street Eveleigh Cafe Sydney 5th floor Customs House 31 Alfred Street, Circular Quay 02 9251 8683 Calle Rey 62-64 King Street Newtown 0475 587 074 Chef’s Gallery Town Hall Ground floor, shop 12 501 George Street, Sydney 0416 618 820 CHI by Lotus Shop 2/100 Barangaroo Avenue Barangaroo 02 7227 6290 Eat Fuh Shop 2, 1 Locomotive Street Eveleigh 02 8040 9379 Henry Deane at Hotel Palisade 35 Bettington Street Millers Point 02 9018 0123 Kittyhawk 16 Phillip Lane Sydney 0484 916 067 Londres 126 8 Loftus Street Sydney 02 7226 8804 Lotus The Galeries Level 1, The Galeries 500 George Street, Sydney 02 9247 6868 Lucky Kwong 2 Locomotive Street Eveleigh Misfits at the Redfern 106 George Street Redfern 02 93181497 Pepper Seeds Boutique Thai Bites Shop 4, 1 Locomotive Street Eveleigh 02 9310 3083 Re Shop 8, 2 Locomotive Street Eveleigh 02 8377 1877 The Dining Room, Park Hyatt Sydney 7 Hickson Road The Rocks 02 9256 1661 We’ve partnered with some of Sydney’s best restaurants to bring you exclusive $30, $55 and a la carte (ALC) menus near our venues, because a great art experience deserves a great meal for the debrief. Ask for Festival Feasts and head to sydneyfestival.org.au/ff to see what’s on offer. It’s a big program and you’ve got big plans for it. We salute you, art lover, and we’re here to help. Head to sydneyfestival.org.au/plan-your-festival for everything you need to know and do to get the absolute best from your fest. PLAN YOUR FESTIVAL $55 $55 ALC $30 $30 $55 $30 $55 $55 $55 $55 $55 $30 $30 $55 ALC
We welcome all visitors to Sydney Festival events, and make every effort to ensure the program is accessible to our whole audience. Our events are held at wheelchair accessible venues, except for In Chamber and The Lucid: A Dream Portal to Awakening For these events, alternate venues with wheelchair access are available, please contact us for session availability. Check the schedule in the back of this guide to find out which events are Auslan interpreted, captioned, offer relaxed performances, audio description or tactile tours. For further details on the Festival’s access program, precincts, venues and built environments, and for up-todate information on shows including duration time, visit sydneyfestival.org/access CONTACT US For disability access information and assistance, email access@sydneyfestival.org.au or call us on 02 8248 6500. Sydney Festival is happy to receive calls via the National Relay Service. 3534
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PHILANTHROPY
WITH SINCERE THANKS OUR PRINCIPAL PHILANTHROPIC SUPPORTER
PETER FREEDMAN AM AND ALL OUR PRIVATE SUPPORTERS:
MAJOR DONORS
Andrew Cameron AM and Cathy Cameron Hooper Shaw Foundation Roslyn Packer AC Jacqui Scheinberg
DIRECTOR’S CIRCLE
Antionette Albert John Barrer Fiona Martin-Weber and Tom Hayward Mitchel Martin-Weber Robyn Martin-Weber Rebel Penfold-Russell Scully Fund Zeke Solomon AM The Tal Family
FESTIVAL HEROES
Robert Albert AO and Libby Albert Larissa Behrendt AO and Michael Lavarch AO Ashley Dawson-Damer Stephen Fitzgerald Lisa and Mark Jackson-Pulver
David Kirk MBE and Brigit Kirk Anthony and Suzanne Maple-Brown David Mathlin and Camilla Drover Penelope Seidler AM
ASSOCIATE PRODUCERS
The Arcadia Syndicate Canny Quine Foundation Jonathan and Judith Casson Anna Cleary Carol Crawford Jennifer Dowling and James Hill Roslyn and Alex Hunyor Phillip Keir Amanda and Andrew Love Carolyn Lowry OAM and Peter Lowry OAM Julianne Maxwell Mary Read Victoria Taylor Carolyn and Drew Townsend Villa & Villa P/L Ray Wilson OAM
“I have long been an advocate for the Sydney Festival and strongly believe it is one of the world’s most important cultural events and most certainly Australia’s.
PETER FREEDMAN AM
FESTIVAL PATRON John and Helen Barclay Helen Bauer and Helen Lynch AM Iolanda Capodanno and Juergen Krufczyk Peter Cooper George El-Khouri OAM Dianne and Terry Finnegan Kiong Lee and Richard Funston Helena Harris Karen Moses Lyndall and Trevor McNally Peter Wilson and James Emmett
FESTIVAL LOVERS Olivia Ansell Paddy Carney Barry Fitzgibbon Cheryl Lo Catherine Maple-Brown Jerry and Ali Meades In memory of Jane Mathews AO Ann McFarlane Fiona Sinclair and Peter King Christopher Tooher Anthony Whealy QC
Head to sydneyfestival.org.au/philanthropy to find out more.
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The Kimpton Safe 10am– 11pm 10am– 11pm 10am– 11pm 10am– 11pm 10am– 11pm 10am– 11pm 10am– 11pm 10am– 11pm 10am– 11pm 10am– 11pm 10am– 11pm 10am– 11pm 10am– 11pm 10am– 11pm 10am– 11pm 10am– 11pm 10am– 11pm JANET'S VAGRANT LOVE Belvoir 7.15pm 7.15pm 2.15pm, 7.15pm 5.15pm JENNY KEE: THE AUNTIES South Eveleigh Innovation Plaza 10am– 10pm 10am– 10pm 10am– 10pm 10am– 10pm 10am– 10pm 10am– 10pm 10am– 10pm 10am– 10pm 10am– 10pm 10am– 10pm 10am– 10pm 10am– 10pm 10am– 10pm 10am– 10pm 10am– 10pm 10am– 10pm 10am– 10pm 10am– 10pm 10am– 10pm 10am– 10pm 10am– 10pm 10am– 10pm 10am– 10pm 10am– 10pm 10am– 10pm KAIROS Carriageworks 8pm 6pm, 8.30pm 5pm, 8pm KEY RELAXED AUDIO DESCRIPTION TACTILE TOUR AUSLAN-INTERPRETED CAPTIONS SHOW VENUE THU 5 FRI 6 SAT 7 SUN 8 MON 9 TUE 10 WED 11 THU 12 FRI 13 SAT 14 SUN 15 MON 16 TUE 17 WED 18 THU 19 FRI 20 SAT 21 SUN 22 MON 23 TUE 24 WED 25 THU 26 FRI 27 SAT 28 SUN 29 KATIE NOONAN: JONI MITCHELL'S BLUE 50TH ANNIVERSARY Wharf 1 7pm LISA MOORE IN SHOW YOUR HEART The 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1 11am, 1pm SUN & SEA Sydney Town Hall 5pm–9pm 4.30pm- 8.30pm 3.30-7.30pm SYDNEY MODERN Sydney Modern Today Today Today Today Today Today Today Today Today Today Today Today Today Today Today Today Today Today Today Today Today Today Today Today Today SYDNEY SYMPHONY UNDER THE STARS Parramatta Park 8pm THE AIR BETWEEN US Tallawoladah Lawn (opposite MCA) 5.30pm 1pm, 3pm 1pm, 4pm THE ARTIST Seymour Centre 6pm 6pm 6.30pm 11.30am, 4.30pm 11.30am, 4pm THE HUXLEYS: BLOODLINE Carriageworks 10am– 5pm 10am– 5pm 10am– 5pm 10am– 5pm 10am– 5pm 10am– 5pm 10am– 5pm 10am– 5pm 10am– 5pm 10am– 5pm 10am– 5pm 10am– 5pm 10am– 5pm 10am– 5pm 10am– 5pm 10am– 5pm 10am– 5pm 10am– 5pm 10am– 5pm THE INSECT CIRCUS Seymour Centre 2pm 11am, 3.30pm 11am, 3.30pm 11.30am, 4pm Multiple sessions 10.45am, 2.30pm THE LUCID: A DREAM PORTAL TO AWAKENING Commercial Travellers’ Club 10.30pm 10.30pm 10.30pm 10.30pm 10.30pm 10.30pm 10.30pm 10.30pm 10.30pm 10.30pm 10.30pm 10.30pm 10.30pm 10.30pm 10.30pm 10.30pm 10.30pm 10.30pm 10.30pm 10.30pm 10.30pm THE PARTY UNSW Galleries 12pm– 5pm 12–5pm 10am– 5pm 10am– 5pm 10am– 5pm 12–5pm 12–5pm 10am– 5pm 10am– 5pm 10am– 5pm 12–5pm 12–5pm THE WEARY TRAVELLER Commercial Travellers' Club Show 7pm+ Party 10pm Show 7pm+ Party 10pm Show 7pm+ Party 10pm Show 7pm Show 7pm+ Party 10pm Show 7pm+ Party 10pm Show 7pm+ Party 10pm Show 7pm Show 7pm+ Party 10pm Show 7pm+ Party 10pm Show 7pm+ Party 10pm Show 7pm Show 7pm+ Party 10pm Show 7pm+ Party 10pm Show 7pm+ Party 10pm Show 7pm THEA ANAMARA PERKINS: STOCKWOMAN Carriageworks 10am– 5pm 10am– 5pm 10am– 5pm 10am– 5pm 10am– 5pm 10am– 5pm 10am– 5pm 10am– 5pm 10am– 5pm 10am– 5pm 10am– 5pm 10am– 5pm 10am– 5pm 10am– 5pm 10am– 5pm 10am– 5pm 10am– 5pm 10am– 5pm 10am– 5pm TIP DUCK Multiple locations Today Today Today Today Today TRACKER Carriageworks 7pm 7pm 7pm 6.30pm 1pm, 6.30pm VIGIL: AWAKEN Barangaroo 8pm WARU: JOURNEY OF THE SMALL TURTLE The Pavillion Performing Arts Centre 11am, 1.30pm 11am, 1.30pm WERK IT Seymour Centre 8pm 6.15pm, 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