DC TIMEOUT: HOLIDAY
What is going on?
Sydney Festival
January 5th - 29th
Embracing the art of summer since 1977, Sydney Festival is a city-wide celebration of culture, creativity and the questioning mind. From the streets to the beach, in stately theatres and in secret basements, it animates locations across Greater Sydney with a trailblazing free and ticketed program of theatre, music, dance, visual art and all the experimental in-between places of live performance.
LOCATION: Sydney Throughout
Noel Sydney
December 9th -24th
A massive multi-dimensional Christmas festival is coming to the Royal Botanic Gardens for 16 nights from Friday, December 9. The free festivities will bring lights, projections, Christmas carols, a pop-up market, food trucks and a drone show to the gardens, running all the way until Christmas Eve.
LOCATION: Royal Botanic Gardens
Pixar Putt
December 16th - February 16th
Designed to challenge both eight-year olds and adults, Pixar Putt features nine- and 18-hole courses that take you past childhood heroes like Buzz Lightyear, Sheriff Woody and Elastigirl. Flicks such as Monsters Inc, Onward, Finding Nemo, Up, A Bug’s Life, Wall-E, Inside Out and Soul all get some putting love, too. Clearly, there’s no need for a trip to Disneyland — and this year’s course features new holes inspired by Pixar’s recent Turning Red and Lightyear.
LOCATION: Sydney & Frankston
MPavilion
Until April 6th
This year’s winning MPavilion design is a vibrant canopied structure driven by celebrated architect Rachaporn Choochuey. Now open in its short-term inner-city home, the venue designed by Bangkok-based architecture and design practice all(zone) marks the ninth MPavilion in the series. After a couple of years spent indoors due to Melbourne’s pandemic lockdowns, it also aims to offer a celebration of outdoor living.
LOCATION: Queen Victoria Garden
Feared and Revered: Feminine in Power Through The Ages
Until August 27th
This exhibition celebrates the power and diversity of female spiritual beings in cultural traditions and beliefs across the globe. Spanning six continents and 5,000 years, it explores how goddesses, demons, witches, spirits and saints have shaped our understanding of the world.
Featuring more than 160 objects from the British Museum’s exceptional collection, this is a timely exhibition that explores and questions feminine power, authority and identity.
LOCATION: National Museum of Australia
