The 2022 Sydney Festival program was designed to be outdoor, indoor and online, and despite several challenges including the ongoing global pandemic, we’ve successfully delivered over 80 events and employed 756 artists at a time of great uncertainty for the live performance sector.
MUSIC
Amyl and the Sniffers
-Barra
Bennelong Presents Sunday Jazz
Big Hart's Acoustic Life of Boatsheds
Busby Marou
Casey Donovan
Emma Pask Big Band Show
Fat Freddy's Drop
Floors of Heaven: Submersive Study
Future Classic x Sydney Festival Warm Up
Gordi
Gordon Koang
Italian Baroque with Circa
James Morrison Quartet with William Barton
Joseph Tawadros Quartet
Josh Cohen: Radiohead for solo piano
Katie Noonan
Kelly Lee Owens
Martha Marlow
Night of the Soul
Soapbox at Speakers Corner
Sunshine and disco faith choir
Sydney Symphony Orchestra Percussion and String Players
Sydney Symphony Under The Stars
WASHINGTON presents Insomnia - 10th Anniversary
DANCE
Decadance
Grey Rhino
The Pulse
Yung Lung
THEATRE
44 Sex Acts In One Week
A Chorus Line
Black Brass
Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Girl From The North Country
Green Park
Jali
Lizzie
Lost in Shanghai
Rich Kids: A history of shopping malls in Tehran
Set Piece
Slow Burn
The Last Shot
The Museum of Modern Love
The Nightline
Things Hidden Since The Foundation of the World
Wudjang: Not the past
宿 (Stay)
INSTALLATIONS / VISUAL ARTS
Airship Orchestra
Cherine Fahd: Ecdysis
Dean Cross: Icarus, My Son
Happy Objects
Inside The Tide
Matisse: Life & Spirit
THAW
The Construct
FAMILY
Erth's Prehistoric Picnic
Fluffy
Perahu-Perahu
Sea of Light
ZOOOM
BLAK OUT
Future Dreaming
NRMA Aboriginal Dreaming Cruises
The Last Shot
Unsettled
Vigil: Songs for Tomorrow
Wudjang: Not the past
TALKS
The Reckoning: Australia's Turning Point
The Reckoning: Goodbye Misogyny
The Reckoning: Pandemic Politics
The Reckoning: The Price of COVID
Destination Sydney: The Natural World