Embracing the city and its cultural instigators like never before, artistic director Wesley Enoch and the Sydney Festival team realised an entirely “Australian Made” program that manifested throughout the city through over 130 events across three weeks from 6–26 January 2021.


BLAK OUT

Burrawa
Bridgeclimb

Casey Donovan in concert

Defying Empire: 3rd National Indigenous Art Triennial
Australian National Maritime Museum

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Carol McGregor and Judy Watson

Dalarinji – Ours, Yours, Everyones
Wesley Enoch and NBN

Firestarter – The Story of Bangarra
Sydney Film Festival: Summer Season

Fractures & Frequencies
Megan Cope

Heartland
William Barton and Véronique Serret

Mariw Minaral (Spiritual Patterns)
Australian National Maritime Museum

Spirit: a retrospective 2021
Bangarra Dance Theatre

Sunshine Super Girl
Andrea James and Performing Lines

The Colour Line
Archie Moore and W.E.B. Du Bois

The Complication of Lyrebirds
Jasmin Sheppard

To Cook Cook or Not
Biennale of Sydney

The Vigil

Under the Madhan
Jo Clancy

WugulOra Ceremony

Yellamundie
Moogahlin Performing Arts


THEATRE

Badu
Erth Visual & Physical Inc.

Duba
Erth Visual & Physical Inc.

Dorr-e Dari: A Poetic Crash Course in the Language of Love
PYT Fairfield

KENNY
Ensemble Theatre

Maureen: Harbinger of Death
Jonny Hawkins and Nell Ranney

Pleasuredome
Xanthe Dobbie and Harriet Gillies, Griffin Theatre Company

Queen Fatima
Riverside's National Theatre of Parramatta

RAPTURE: a song cycle of Desire and Ecstasy, Murder and Mayhem
Paul Capsis and iOTA

Sex, Drugs and Pork Rolls
UTP and Sweatshop

Sunshine Super Girl
Andrea James and Performing Lines

The Museum of Modern Love: Open Rehearsal and Reading
Tom Holloway and Seymour Centre


CABARET / MAGIC

Darlo Supper Club hosted by Andrew Bukenya
Sydney Fringe

Undressing Hollywood
Sydney Fringe


CIRCUS / PHYSICAL THEATRE

A Bee Story
Arc Circus and Cluster Arts

AutoCannibal 
Mitch Jones

Humans 2.0
Circa


DANCE

Bandaluzia Flamenco
Sydney Fringe

Explicit Contents
Rhiannon Newton

In Situ
Dance Makers Collective and Future Makers

Spirit: a retrospective 2021
Bangarra Dance Theatre

The Complication of Lyrebirds
Jasmin Sheppard

The Last Season
Force Majeure


INSTALLATIONS / VISUAL ARTS

52 ACTIONS
Artspace

ADC Makers Markets - The Sydney Festival Edition
Australian Design Centre

A Mile in My Shoes
Australian National Maritime Museum

Design Isolate
Australian Design Centre

Defying Empire: 3rd National Indigenous Art Triennial
Australian National Maritime Museum

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Carol McGregor and Judy Watson

Fractures & Frequencies
Megan Cope

Groundswell
Matthias Schack-Arnott

HIVE MIND
Dead Puppet Society

Keeping Peace
LGOP

Lindy Lee: Moon in a Dew Drop
Lindy Lee and Museum of Contemporary Art

Mariw Minaral (Spiritual Patterns)
Australian National Maritime Museum

Requiem
Janet Laurence and Sydney Environment Institute

  • Opening - Smoking Ceremony
  • Rescript - Julie Vulcan
  • Sydney Environment Institute Panel - What caused the fired?
  • Wild Australia: After the Fires Film Screening
  • Botanical Talk
  • Poetry Performances
  • Christina Christensen: cello solo
  • Groundswell Event - Voices from the Frontline
  • Artology presents - William Barton and Véronique Serret
  • Groundswell event - Caring for Country: Story telling for Kids with Lille Madden
  • Sydney Environment Institute panel - An Endangered Menagerie
  • Water Bar Talk: Bruce Shillingsworth
  • Myosotis' - her requiem
  • Sydney Environment Institute panle - Entanglements
  • Dirt Witches
  • Juz Kitson Installation
  • Yasmin Smith Installation
  • Charles Dove Video Projection
  • H2O: Water Bar
  • Living Plants Centrepiece Installation


Rooftop Projections
Australian National Maritime Museum

Space YZ
Campbelltown Arts Centre

Tina Havelock Stevens: Thank You for Holding
Tina Havelock Stevens and Carriageworks

The Colour Line
Archie Moore and W.E.B. Du Bois


MUSIC

12 Hands 6 Grands
Sydney International Piano Competition

Afternoon Tea at Six
Eishan Ensemble and Sonya Holowell

Allowed and Local
Sydney Festival and Sydney Fringe

  • Annie Hamilton
  • Christine Anu with Okenyo + Jacki Tut
  • Clarissa Mei
  • E^ST with Jaguar Jonze
  • Dot Dash Recordings w/ HANDSOME + Sui Zhen
  • Dollar Bin Darlings
  • Haiku Hands with Kobie Dee + Cult ShΦtta
  • Inês
  • Mel Bailey
  • Ngaiire with Milan Ring + Jamaica Moana
  • Of Leisure's Brunch
  • Spvrrow
  • Thandi Phoenix + Becca Hatch + Ella Haber
  • Urthboy
  • William Barton Didge Fusion

Bhoomi: Our Country
Arjunan Puveendran and Indu Balachandran

Casey Donovan in concert

Cycles
Sydney Chamber Choir

Disruption! The Voice of Drums
Jeremy Rose and The Earshift Orchestra

Future Remains
Sydney Chamber Opera

Heartland
William Barton and Véronique Serret

It’s a Party
Zindzi and the Zillionaires

Musical Microparks
Ensemble Offspring

Phillip Quast: Is This All Then?
Philip Quast and Anne-Maree McDonald

poem for a dried up river

Jane Sheldon and Sydney Chamber Opera

Salon Series Concerts
Sydney Festival

  • Emily Sun with Andrea Lam playing French Favourites
  • Emily Sun with Andrea Lam
  • Duo Histoire
  • Zela Margossian and her Quintet
  • Mambo Influenciado
  • Orava Quartet


Songs of Don

Katie Noonan, Christine Anu, Isabella Manfredi and Emma Donovan

Sydney Symphony Under the Stars
Sydney Symphony Orchestra and Parramatta Park Trust

The Beautiful Things
Stu Hunter

The Rise and Fall of Saint George
Paul Mac and Lachlan Philpott, Performing Lines

The [Uncertain] Four Seasons
Sydney Symphony Orchestra

TÌNH KHÚC TỪ QUÊ HƯƠNG / Songs from Home
Dang Lan and Toby Martin

Universal Woman
Australian Brandenburg Orchestra


MUSICAL THEATRE 

H.M.S. Pinafore
Siren Theatre Co

Rewired: Musicals Reimagined by Hayes
Hayes Theatre Co


FILM

Sydney Film Festival: Summer Season

  • Firestarter – The Story of Bangarra
  • High Ground
  • Girls Can't Surf
  • Minari
  • Another Round

TALKS / TOURS / Q&As

Burrawa
Bridgeclimb

Dalarinji – Ours, Yours, Everyones
Wesley Enoch and NBN

djillong dumularra Artist Talks
Artspace

  • Carol McGregor and Judy Watson in conversation with Wesley Enoch
  • Out of Country: Blood and Bone Panel Discussion with Dr Lyndon Ormond-Parker, Dr Gaye Sculthorpe, Prof. David Trigger, Judy Watson and Daniel Browning


Isolate Make Artist Talks
Australian Design Centre

  • Isolate Make: Creative Resilience in a Pandemic
  • Isolate Make: Creative Resilience in a Pandemic exhibition
  • Making with Paper workshops
  • Making with Clay Workshops


Morning meditation with Lindy Lee and friends
Museum of Contemporary Art

Sydney Writers Festival: Something to Talk About

  • An Educated Guess
  • Douglas Stuart: Shuggie Bain
  • Recommended Reading

To Cook Cook or Not
Biennale of Sydney

True West
Riverside's National Theatre of Parramatta

  • Reading: Myths and Legends
  • Reading: CAPTAIN by Shiyan Zheng
  • Creative Compass - Panel around playwriting in Western Sydney, hosted by Joanne Kee
  • Solo Physical Performance Workshop


UTS Big Thinking Forums

  • Impacts of Isolation
  • Memory, Memorials and Truth
  • The Art of Nature


UTS Big Thinking Workshops

  • Future Thinking: Exploring Innovation and Creativity through Play
  • International Journalism: Global Reach, Global Impact
  • Making Sense of a Complex World
  • The Art of Entrepreneurship

Walkleys Live: The Journalist Gene
The Walkley Foundation for Excellence In Journalism

  • Chris Reason: Terror on the Ground - Lindt Cafe Siege
  • Kate McClymont: Digging up the Underbelly of Sydney's Upper Echelon
  • Laura Murphy-Oates & Lorena Allam: The Killing Times
  • Nick Moir & Sylvia Liber: Triggered - Photo Journalism in Natural Disasters
  • Patrick Abboud: 'Doing' Diversity


AT HOME

Sydney Festival Livestreams from The Headland

  • RAPTURE: a song cycle of Desire and Ecstasy, Murder and Mayhem
  • Songs of Don
  • Spirit: a retrospective 2021
  • The Rise and Fall of Saint George
  • The Vigil
  • The [Uncertain] Four Seasons

I Want To Dance With Somebody
Sydney Dance Company

SBS on Demand: Australian Made Curated by Wesley Enoch

  • Faboriginal
  • First Contact
  • Future Dreaming
  • Is Australia Racist
  • Untold Australia : Lebanese Beauty Queens
  • Little J and Big Cuz
  • My Family Matters
  • The Family Law
  • The First Australians
  • SBS CQ: Who Should Tell Indigenous Stories?


Sydney Festival Podcasts

  • Scott Wright creates puppets to save pygmy possums
  • Katie Noonan believes the best musicians are from Brisbane
  • Kate Gaul is gender bending theatre classics
  • Michael Kantor wants to bring musicals to supermarkets
  • Darcy Grant wants to normalise five person handstands
  • Dalarinji – Ours, Yours, Everyone’s
  • Walkley’s Live: Nick Moir & Sylvia Liber
  • Walkley’s Live: Laura Murphy Oates & Lorena Allam
  • Walkley’s Live: Patrick Abboud
  • Walkley’s Live: Kate McClymont
  • Walkley’s Live: Chris Reason

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