Stuff to do this week
Friday, January 29th, 2010Friday 29 January
Chinatown Night Market
Delight your sense and taste buds at the 50+ market stalls that come to life in Chinatown every Friday night.
When: 4pm to 11pm
Where: Dixon Street, Sydney
More Info: http://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/WhatsOn/html/custom/2234-event-details.asp?EventID=75253
Saturday 30 January
Happy as Larry (Dance Theatre)
Nine remarkable performers with nine very distinctive personalities explore the elusive nature of human happiness in Shaun Parker’s latest dance theatre work, accompanied by a vibrant electro-acoustic score from Nick Wales and Bree van Reyk. The cast of characters is developed from the Enneagram, a psychological system that maps nine personality types: the Perfectionist, the Seducer, the Performer, the Tragic Romantic, the Observer, the Devil’s Advocate, the Optimist, the Boss and the Mediator.
(Excerpt from sydneyfestival.org.au)
When: 2pm
Cost: $30
More Info: http://www.sydneyfestival.org.au/2010/Dance/Happy-as-Larry-Inner-West/
Sunday 31 January
Martin Sharp (Exhibition)
Artist Martin Sharp presents a unique and personal account of Sydney, featuring material from his own collection and family archive. Iconic images of Luna Park, his ‘Eternity’ series, cartoons and posters all provide an instantly recognisable Sydney, its people and places.
(Excerpt from hht.net.au)
When: 9:30am – 5pm
Cost: $10
Checkout the drawing wall from the exhibition here http://www.flickr.com/groups/martinsharpdrawingwall
More Info: http://www.hht.net.au/whats_on/highlights/exhibitions/martin_sharp_sydney_artist
Monday 1 February
Mirror Mirror (Exhibition)
In the 1960s, mirrors began to be used by artists across a spectrum of international movements from pop, kinetic, minimal and conceptual art. Mirror Mirror presents classic mirror pieces from the 1960s and early 1970s by such major artists as Shusaku Arakawa, Art & Language, Ian Burn, Richard Hamilton, Joan Jonas, Yoko Ono, Meret Oppenheim, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Robert Rauschenberg and Robert Smithson.
(Excerpt from usyd.edu.au)
When: 10am – 4.30pm
More Info: http://concreteplayground.com.au/event/1346/mirror-mirror-then-&-now.htm
Tuesday 2 February
People doing strange things with electricity (Presentations)
Dorkbot Sydney presents their first event of 2010. Presentations will revolve around interactive poems, guitar pedal circuit-bending, exercise bike computer games and a fire visualiser.
When: 7pm for a 7:30pm start
Cost: FREE
More Info: http://dorkbotsyd.boztek.net/
Wednesday 3 February
Philippine Abstractions
An exhibition of the work of the first abstract painter in the Philippines – H. R. Ocampo.
Ocampo wrote of his abstractions, “In my pictures I am more interested in how hues, values textures and lines interact on one another in spaces than a photographic semblance of nature. I am preoccupied with the creation of new realities in terms of strain and stress rather than the portrayal of such conventional emotions as hate, love, anger, jealousy.”
(Excerpt from slot.net.au)
More Info: http://www.slot.net.au/current.htm
Thursday 4 February
Daniel Johnston (Concert)
In between his Laneway Festival Performances, Daniel Johnston will play a one night headline show in Sydney. His live set consists of a stunningly fragile solo set, acoustic numbers and a full rocking band performance.
Daniel’s beautiful but broken songs about girls, movie monsters and teen superheroes have enthralled the likes of Kurt Cobain, Thurston Moore and Matt Groening since the 80’s when he recorded and hand delivered cassette copies of albums to his fans, one-by-one. In a live capacity Daniel Johnston’s power to connect at the rawest of levels is almost spooky.
(Excerpt from metrotheatre.com.au)
When: 8pm
Cost: $49.10
But the idea of putting it on the back of a cereal box is creative.
