Arts

Discover the stories behind the art with our daily Rememory Art Tours.

Step into the whimsical world of beloved author and illustrator Pamela Allen.

Living Still LIfe Photographic Artworks that celebrate Australian Flora and Fauna

Discover rare and beautiful works by contemporary artists, from the Library’s little-known collection of artists’ books.

A free exhibition on show at the State Library of NSW.

Exhibition at White Rabbit Gallery

A free festival of contemporary art, ideas and unforgettable experiences.

Welcome back to the dazzling world of Burlesque with 'Burlyflexx', led by the mesmerising Lou P Scarlett!

Journey through the MCA with this activity trail designed for kids and their families.

Art without Boundaries

Explore works in the 2026 Biennale of Sydney with University of Sydney art and art history students

Experience glamour, confidence, and self-expression like never before with BURLYFLEXX!

Exhibiting now in the ‘you're okay’ window at the City of Sydney Creative Studios is ‘Chest Reveal’ by Felix Jackson.

Hear from the curators of MCA's major summer exhibition

Gain insight into artworks ‘Ancient Feelings’ and ‘Bent Forms #1–#4’ at the Museum of Contemporary Art

First of its kind in a major Australian museum and is presented as part of the Sydney International Art Series 2025–26.

A complete approach to developing your painting through the process of drawing!

Brush off the week with a fun drawing workshop hosted by The Fabulous Wonder Mama

Artspace presents Event Horizon by renowned Australian conceptual artist Michaela Gleave

Let it go at Hayden Orpheum Picture Palace

Kirsten Tranter will take you through a deep dive of the six essentials of fiction.

Reconnect with your creativity, boost confidence and make your life more spontaneous

A new international cirque-cabaret from the creators of Blanc de Blanc and LIMBO.

Screening of LITTLE WOMEN (1994) with acclaimed Director Gillian Armstrong live on stage for a Q&A

A dynamic display that illuminates histories, trajectories and highlights of the MCA’s Collection.

A rare glimpse behind the lens of one of Australia’s most important photographers.

Gurrgoni sculptor

Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue by Barp poses questions about where and how we live

Life drawing with professional models and a unique creative atmosphere

Author Emma Darragh will provide feedback on your story, enabling you to hone your skills over five months.

Sarah Malik will provide feedback on your essay/non-fiction work, enabling you to hone your skills over three months

Bronwyn Lea will provide feedback on your poetry, enabling you to hone your skills over five months.

A new installation by Patricia Piccinini exploring motion, hybridity and care through kinetic and hybrid forms.

Artist and wharfie Sam Wallman’s provides a fresh, first-hand take on contemporary dock life.

The complete filmography of Stanley Kubrick, screening April 2 - May 21

More than 300 original artworks of landscape and portrait paintings on permanent display at the State Library of NSW.

History becomes opera in Wael Shawky’s globally acclaimed work ‘Drama 1882’.

In this online writing course, author Jemima Shafei-Ongu will provide feedback on your writing for children.

Messy fun without the clean up!

Discover ceramics in this 8-week courses for beginner students

Knit, crochet, paint or draw with like-minded people

All levels and abilities welcome. Explore your medium. Develop your style.

Join us at Create and Make Workshop for our creative art and crafting workshops

Have you always wanted to paint but haven’t known where to start?

Learn to paint expressively with an individual approach while increasing your knowledge and understanding.

Ready to take your drawing skills to the next level?

Learn this empowering style focused on confidence, posture, strong lines and fluid movement in heels.

Free weekly music production sessions for young people (15-26). Professional studio, mentorship & safe creative space.

Learn how to play the ukulele, hulusi and erhu in this fun class for Mandarin and Cantonese speakers

Join us every Monday for an inspiring Poetry Open Mic night! Read your original poetry and sell your work here

Learn the most popular latin dance in the world! Meet new people, make new friends and learn how to dance Salsa

Learn to use the potter’s wheel to create simple, elegant ceramic forms in this hands-on eight-week course.

Immerse yourself in the luminous world of watercolour.

A solo presentation of significant ceramic installations by Yasmin Smith.

This course presents a unique approach to understanding and applying colour

Develop your drawing skills and unleash your creativity in structured, live online classes led by Rachel Fairfax.

Discover the joy of moving your body to stay active and healthy

Bachata is a popular Latin dance focusing on smooth footwork, body movement, and strong partner connection worldwide.

An accessibility program allowing blind and low-vision guests to explore works in the 2026 Biennale of Sydney.

An accessibility program allowing deaf and low-hearing guests to explore works in the 2026 Biennale of Sydney.

Solo Exhibition

Join a comprehensive, foundation course in figure drawing to develop your technical skills.

Solo exhibition of paintings by Pearl Austin

Exhibition Impermanent Light at Art2Muse Gallery 21 April – 4 May 2026

Join master printmaker Andrew Totman for this hands-on workshop.

Come discover the magic of sculpture with a term workshop class at TBSSS

Jenny Valentish will give you everything you need to know to navigate the world of self-promotion and public speaking.

For one evening, the Library Bar becomes a listening space where special guests bring the power of libraries to life.

Strum your troubles away in this fun class for all ages and levels of experience

Get creative at this super casual art group – just good company, creativity and a cuppa.

Your child will learn the fundamentals of ballet technique in a fun, relaxed atmosphere where learning best takes place

A great way for your dancer to develop their movement skills and have fun dancing

★★★★★ ''A thrilling and unmistakable sensation.'' - Theatre Noise

Discover ceramics in this 5-week course for beginner students

Tell your story through art and meet new people

Reignite your curiosity in this engaging course designed for beginners or those returning to the sketchbook.

Beautiful Lunchtime String Quartet Concert in Sydney CBD

Explore Italian craftsmanship in the heart of Sydney

Stunning photographs of legendary historic sailing yachts and black and white fine art portraits and abstract nudes

Studio access for experienced printmakers

Get a head start in the competitive world of screen acting.

Miriam Hechtman and Vashti Whitfield guide a small group through Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way.

Dark comedy on a Sydney construction site where power, hunger, and betrayal collide.

This course from bestselling author Ashley Kalagian Blunt will make 2026 the year you finally write that book.

Admire the beauty and history of Sydney Harbour through the lens of the Gadigal people

A free weekly class for beginners, led by an experienced Mandarin speaking tutor

Discover the joy of singing

An intimate evening in which Aled will talk, sing to tracks, tell stories, and engage with the audience.

A cosy open mic for poets and writers in a brewery

The Power Institute and the Chau Chak Wing Museum celebrate the launch of Blue Art Journal

Author Steve Miller discusses the impact of this legendary exhibition of modern masters

Sketch in the galleries after hours.

Learn songs and drum with a community band of guitarists, singers and Dj's to then showcase at community events.

A series of short films taking you behind the works on display at the MCA Australia.

This is life drawing in an intimate and quite beautiful space. It’s a gentler, more social approach.

MCA now opening late on Thursdays

Discover how to think of colour in ways that enables you to mix the exact colour that you want.

Are you new to painting or looking to expand your practice?

Blackwattle Distilling Co. X John Wren Art

Learn the skills to create vibrant watercolour paintings

Walmajarri artist John Prince Siddon and MCA curators Rebecca Ray and Tim Riley Walsh discuss his major new work

A late-night festival of ideas, music and performance considering the possibilities and risks of AI

“Ambivalence Amid” is a series of works that lie in the former, the present, and the space between.

Come work on your stitching skills in a relaxed, social environment!

Join calligraphy instructor Xueyi Bai to progress your skills through these on going workshops.

Based on your suggestions, your fears come to life in this improvised comedy!

Join a buggy tour around Australia's oldest botanic garden and a 30-hectare paradise adjoining Sydney Harbour

Learn how to capture the energy of street scenes and our urban environment with us

Do you want to learn to draw in a way that’s responsive to the unique qualities of your subject?

Explore a variety of hands-on clay-building techniques.

Get hands-on with this fabulously fun erotic pottery workshop using air-dry clay

Sydney Cinémathèque at the Art Gallery of NSW showcases the early films of Nicole Kidman

Learn to draw forms and structures of the human head, facial features and body dynamics.

Studio access for experienced printmakers

Enhance your throwing skills to create larger, more intricate forms on the potter’s wheel.

Biennale of Sydney: Picking Up The Pieces – First Nations History Tours, The Block

This workshop explores landscape drawing techniques and develops individual style.

Discover the fundamentals of printmaking in this 5-week introductory course

25th Biennale of Sydney presents Youth Soap Making Workshop with Ibrahim Awad

Nick Earls will focus on key aspects of short-fiction, and how to make choices that deliver compelling short stories.

Develop your skill and technique

Dive into watercolours with this compact 6 week course

A panel reflecting on how Aboriginal people have been represented throughout the Library’s history.

Screening of new darkly funny Australian thriller; followed by live on stage Q&A with film creatives

No obligation free introductory class to tango No partner or dance experience required

Join Poetica’s Miriam Hechtman for a writing workshop that uses prompts to get you writing.

Enhance your poetry crafting skills with our experienced author/poet Roberta Rlowing.

Learn the basics of how to write, manage and maintain creative grants.

Contemporary paintings of the Blue Mountains by Bruce Daniel

A weekly, low commitment, community networking opportunity held after business hours

Explore the mindful craft and learn best practices

Learn more about Wael Shawky’s Drama 1882 from MCA Senior Curator Jane Devery in this special talk

A curator led tour of Yasmin Smith: Elemental Life

Celebrate mark International Jazz Day with two distinctive voices from Sydney’s contemporary jazz landscape

Contemporary musical theatre at best. The Mad Ones may just be your new obsession.

Live demonstrations, expert talks and a Vinyl Revival Store

Enjoy a world of contrasts with a string trio, classical opera, and the intoxicating depths of Persian classical music.

Actors perform a rehearsed theatre scene with an unrehearsed improviser making up their dialogue!

The National Art School Gallery and Institute of Modern Art present an exhibition of work by Sydney-based painter and Archibald Prize winner Mitch Cairns

A major survey exhibition of work by Sydney-based artist and NAS alum Mitch Cairns

The original festival-style design market is back!

Sculpt with plaster and natural materials

Spend two hours learning and crafting your very own candle in a Japanese ceramic

Learn how to create your own stunning artworks at Reverse Garbage

Unforgettable musicians every Saturday night at The MiTCH in Alexandria

French fun, food and stalls

Join us for the opening of the Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Prizes 2026.

2.5 hours workshop to build painting confidence and master acrylic fundamentals with an expert tutor.

Explore art, express yourself and connect.

This brief course will help students undertake the basic techniques of carving

Melbourne Musician-Artist Chris Watts unveils his WILD CARD in Sydney

In the hands of Junkyard Beats, ordinary household items are transformed into extraordinary musical instruments.

This Artist-2-Artist by Red Rey offers clear, practical guidance on tax essentials for artists and creative freelancers

Learn to work with oil paints with us

Encouraging early art and fostering creativity, one craft at a time! Suitable for 2-5 years

Once-in-a-lifetime concert with Alan Menken, 8-time Oscar-winning Disney legend, live in Australia for the first time.

Get ready to be swept up in the spaceship of music that is ELO

Playtest a variety of upcoming indie games from Aotearoa New Zealand you've never seen before!

“The Citizen Kane of Bad Movies” – Entertainment Weekly

Join Art Club at Empower Create Thrive for hands-on fun, creativity, and good friends!

The first daytime drag pub crawl at Oxford St. Five venues. Four drag artists. One winner. One ticket.

Learn how to test, apply, and fire glazes to suit your own practice.

This Mother’s Day, join our expert volunteer guides for a special guided walk through this open-air gallery

Unwind, create and connect in a relaxing Mother’s Day botanical watercolour workshop

Learn how to shoot, edit, organise and print your work

Learning to see and draw the human figure as a three-dimensional, sculptural form.

Biennale of Sydney: Picking Up The Pieces – Jewellery Making Workshop​ with Dennis Golding

Make you own handcrafted textured bangle or cuff in our Sunday afternoon beginner workshop

Have you ever wondered how to paint your pet or another animal?

Be inspired, challenged and motivated to bring your voice to the page.

Unleash your creativity in our fun and social portrait drawing workshop for beginners.

Tiny Stories - enormous impact! Fall in love with Fiction in a Flash!

Carve. Slow Down Embrace the imperfect.

Ready for an unforgettable encounter with writing?

Let us ignite and nurture your passion for writing

Make 2026 the year you finally write that book in this course from author Amy Lovat.

The biggest night of laughs is back again!

Rewriting Australia’s deep history – a rock art lecture

A solo exhibition by renowned master of modern Korean art, Sung Kun Lee

Join us on the third Thursday of every month, 1:30–3 pm at Gaden Community Centre. All materials included!

Co-presented by the Power Institute and MCA Australia, as part of the Visual Research Program.

World premiere of new Australian musical

Works by Alice Pulvers, Sophie Pulvers and Lucy Pulvers

A feast of hot club swing, upbeat Latin sounds and European jazz

Experience the exquisitely serene colours and pure, effevescent joy of Poulenc’s Gloria and Duruflé’s Requiem.

Learn the mindful Japanese art of golden ceramic mending to give new life to a damaged piece

A delightfully cozy autumn-themed art market in the heart of the city

Hip-hop infused collection of hilarious and heartbreaking stories from the youth justice system

DirtyFeet invites people aged 16-30 with and without disabilities take part in four free contemporary dance workshops

Create a small finished soapstone sculpture in this one day workshop.

From washes to whispers: A 2.5hr hands-on watercolour journey

Develop your manga art skills in this monthly workshop and learn techniques to level up your art style.

Art2Muse is proud to present Olivier Rasir's exhibition

“Two powerful women who use body and limb to depict a world gone mad. Radical.” — Hildegard Devuyst, audience member

Poetry as truth and meaning, beauty and feeling, resistance and connection

Experience live music performed by fourth-year students from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music.

Part of Vivid Sydney 2026, a bold vision of Oceanic futurism by Sāmoan/Australian artist Angela Tiatia

Uncovering the truth isn’t easy

Our largest Vivid Sydney program to date, celebrating Indigenous artforms and storytelling.

Three improvised comedy sets. Two performers at a time. One big twist.

An interactive adventure for young children and their families, presented by Vivid Sydney.

Discover wine, beer, spirits and produce from regions across NSW.

Starting at Customs House, you will discover some of Sydney’s CBD architectural masterpieces with a trained AAA guide

Eleven-piece powerhouse groove band live on stage at Hayden Orpheum Picture Palace!

Learn how to make striking natural artwork

Unlock your imagintion, reflection, connection, beyond journalling

Learn the basics of working with clay in this 6-week course

Words of courage from Australia’s leading readers, writers and thinkers

Unplug & rediscover the art of seeing in this 2.5-hour workshop

Vivid Sydney’s Wednesday night gatherings for the creative industries and curious at the State Library of NSW.

A talk with Sāmoan/Australian artist Angela Tiatia and MCA Curator Antares Wells.

An evening at NSW Parliament House

Learn to paint using acrylics

‘Moonage Daydream’ shows at The Orpheum this May as we celebrate David Bowie’s life ten years since his passing

Welcome to Art Café, where creativity is always on the menu

Join artist and teacher Monika Scarrabelotti for five evenings of life modelling in clay

Create a beautiful still life botanical painting using acrylics in a relaxed 2.5-hour Sunday morning workshop

The museum will transform into a vibrant harbour-side meeting place for one luminous night during Vivid Sydney.

Some films can’t be described – they have to be experienced. Sydney Film Festival, June 3 - 14. You’ll see.

Insightful, outspoken and unpretentious art critic Jerry Saltz brings his razor-sharp wit to Sydney Town Hall.

An electrifying, world-class celebration of the King of Pop.

An open-air extravaganza of aerial acrobatics, dance and unbelievable circus feats at the Sydney Opera House Forecourt.

An exhibition for perfume lovers, art lovers, and curious minds

The award-winning creator of ‘Fangirls’, Yve Blake, premieres her new work – a reimagining of Shakespeare’s Macbeth.

An acclaimed participatory lecture-performance revealing the pervasive origins of our digital tools.

Discover the art of ceramic clay marbling and create unique vessels in this three-week short course

Concert highlights from Verdi’s grand opera with the 950-voice ChorusOz choir

Sunday Vibes at Ultimo: paint your own Australian landscape

Powerful voices of women in crime fiction

Bold, camp and unfiltered — a series of short plays about queer identity, love, family, and living out loud.

Vivid Sydney’s Wednesday night gatherings for the creative industries and curious at the State Library of NSW.

An immersive audio-visual experience of Astor Piazzolla's music and life at the Sydney Opera House.

A Sydney Biennale project asking (and answering) what a constitution for the 21st century might look like

Elevate your art: explore advanced watercolour techniques in this hands-on Sunday morning workshop

Learn painting skills and how to use oil paints with us

A Swingin' Sixties Variety Show

Cark It Café: Queer, creative & death-positive — let’s plan our endings with flair, not fear

Experience the art of botanical painting through watercolour

A series of spectacular Organ Recitals on the St James Dobson Organ

Take a brilliant musical imagination, a creation story, and a radiant choir and orchestra and you get Haydn’s Creation.

Visual artist Matteo Bernasconi shares his extensive knowledge of painting

SMASH! Sydney Manga and Anime Show is an annual convention for everyone

Hans Christian Andersen has a very, very, very dark secret. McDonagh's twisted masterpiece.

Discover the art of transforming simple shapes into beautiful silver jewellery

Learn to sketch urban street scenes!

A funny, fast-paced cross-examination of moral dilemmas, family dynamics, and the true cost of success.

Margaret Olley: Australian Intimiste celebrates the legacy and significant achievements of Margaret Olley AC

Craft your own candle creations!

Sex. Death. Life. And bodies... an outrageously black comic look at grief and love.

A collection of original photographs and collages made predominately from original photographs.

Australia's finest classical musicians from home and around the world return in August

Six teens. One accident. A darkly hilarious musical about what makes life worth living.

Don’t miss Bell Shakespeare’s illustrious night of collaboration between actor and winemaker

Romeo and Juliet meets Happy Feet — the true story of Sydney’s iconic gay penguin couple.

A witty, intimate dive into modern dating, with a twist.

Bell Shakespeare’s lively script reading series celebrating rarely read classics continues in 2026.

Playwright Eloise Snape delivers a whirlwind of laughs and truth bombs in this no-fluff office satire.

California Legends performed by Wild Things Run – live!

Attention artists and art lovers: the annual Glebe Art Show is back in October 2025!

Popular Playhouse returns to Flight Path Theatre with another hilarious Bible spoof!

An exhibition of landscape paintings with glimpses of birds and animals by artist Geoffrey Adams.

A gothic horror – an intimate unravelling of womanhood, control, and the violence disguised as love.

A man wakes in the woods with no memory. A genre-smashing horror meets Arthurian fairytale.

An exhibition of works by our 2026 Master of Fine Art (MFA) and Doctor of Fine Art (DFA) graduate students.

Experience an unforgettable evening with legendary cellist Mischa Maisky, joined by his daughter, pianist Lily Maisky.

Shakespeare’s most haunting thriller follows the story of Macbeth, a Scottish general, famed for his exploits.

Three sisters. One funeral. Grief, laughter, and the strange tides of memory.