Stuff to do over your Christmas break
Thursday, December 24th, 2009Christmas Day Friday 25 December
Merry Christmas from everyone at White! http://www.thewhiteagency.com.au/wakeupasanta/
Boxing Day Saturday 26 December
Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race (Picnic Cruise)
Boxing Day on Sydney Harbour is an iconic Sydney event. Feel the ocean breeze and experience the excitement as the 2009 Rolex Fleet line up for the gun. Follow the strart of the race as the yachts set sail out to Sydney Heads.
(Excerpt from captaincook.com.au)
Cost: $79 per adult
More Info: http://www.captaincook.com.au/home.asp?pageid=1661F5DD27C61DDC&cruiseid=E1DBC6CCA689A52A
Sunday 27 December
Fiona Foley: Forbidden (Exhibition)
A unique political art exhibition that will get you thinking using painting, printmaking, photograph and installation works.
Where: Museum of Contemporary Art
More Info: http://www.mca.com.au/default.asp?page_id=10&content_id=4814
Monday 28 December
Nowhere Boy (Film)
The words, “The Beatles” are never uttered in Sam Taylor-Wood’s debut feature film Nowhere Boy, and, for the most part, neither are the screaming girls that the phrasing conjures. That’s because the film focusses intensely on John Lennon’s life aged fifteen-eighteen, an intimate portrait of a specific time period rather than the usual longwinded biopic.
(Excerpt from concreteplayground.com.au)
More Info: http://www.concreteplayground.com.au/event/525/nowhere-boy.htm
Tuesday 29 December
That Was The Year That Was: The Gala Comedy Event of the Year
Having knocked 2008 into comedic shape, That Was The Year That Was returns to the magnificent Sydney Opera House for a second year, bringing with it an all-star line up of Australia’s best and brightest comic talent to tackle the news, views and issues of the many-headed beast that was 2009.
The line-up includes Mikey Robins, Wendy Harmer, Wil Anderson, Eddie Perfect, Celia Pacquola, Flacco & The Sandman, Felicity Ward and Scared Weird Little Guys.
When: 8pm
Cost: $85-$110
Where: Concert Hall, Sydney Opera House
More Info: http://www.sydneyoperahouse.com/whatson/That_Was_the_Year_That_Was.aspx
Wednesday 30 December
Tot Mom (Theatre)
Steven Soderbergh has created Tot Mom – a compelling look into how a crime can come to grip an entire nation through intense media and public attention. Tot Mom seeks to hold up a mirror to our society, raising ethical questions about the way in which such a case is dealt with in the public domain. How does justice operate in an environment where such a case has become a media phenomenon?
(Excerpt from sydneytheatre.com.au)
Where: Wharf 1, Pier 4/5, Hickson Road, Walsh Bay
More Info: http://www.sydneytheatre.com.au/2009/tot-mom
New Years Eve Thursday 31 December
Peats Ridge 2009 Arts and Music Festival
On NYE the festival reaches its peak. At dusk artists, musicians and festival-goers gather and masquerade through the festival site making music and building the mood for the rest of the night. All ten stages are in action all night with the festival’s best performers including playing into the night. Catch performances by the likes of Blue King Brown, Jeff Martin, Sarah Blasko, Lost Valentinos, The Panics, Lamb and more.
Where: Glenworth Valley
More Info: http://www.peatsridgefestival.com.au/
New Years Day Friday 1 January
Field Day 2010
As a new year dawns, few things are certain – except of course that Fuzzy’s legendary Field Day is the most life-affirmingly fun way to launch into 2010. Under the shimmer of the iconic Sydney skyline and bathed in the green of more grass, beautiful trees and wide open spaces than any other Sydney festival, the Domain provides the ultimate location for what is a truly unique event.
(Excerpt from fuzzy.com.au)
Performances by: 2manydjs live, The Presets, Major Lazer Soundsystem feat. Diplo, James Murphy and Pat Mahoney (LCD Soundsystem), Architecture in Helsinki and more.
Where: The Domain, Sydney
When: 11am – 11pm
Cost: $137
More Info: http://www.fuzzy.com.au/coming-up/212/info Tickets are still on sale!
Saturday 2 January
Skream + Benga (Dubstep Gig)
I’m told that when you’re in a room and can feel the bass [of dubstep] rattling your bones, you start to involuntarily dance like a giant fondu set. And, as the music speeds up you’ll lift your arms and ‘just go crazy’. …Give dubstep a shot with Skream and Benga, they’re the leaders of their genre and rarely disappoint. Plus the gig goes ’til 5am. Epic!
– Hayley Morgan (via http://www.twothousand.com.au/out/skream-and-benga/)
Where: Gaelic Club, 64 Devonshire St, Surry Hills
When: 10pm-5am
More Info: http://www.twothousand.com.au/out/skream-and-benga/
Sunday 3 January
Stranger than Fiction
A collection of strange objects that have arrived in boxes of corporate records, family papers, literary manuscripts, pictures, photographs and books that have accumulated in the Mitchell Library over the last 100 years.
Where: State Library of New South Wales, Macquarie Street, Sydney
More Info: http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/events/exhibitions/2009/stranger_than_fiction/index.html
