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2024

2024 saw an exhilarating summer of live performance and art installation for Sydney Festival 2024. More than 1250 artists from home and abroad gathered across Sydney to stage 148 events, including 28 world premieres and 58 free events. 2024 was also the inaugural year of a new Festival precinct, The Thirsty Mile, at Walsh Bay Arts Precinct.


BLAK OUT

GURR ERA OP
Force Majeure and Ilbijerri Theatre Company

Healing Scars by Warren Mason
Moogalin Performing Arts and Belvoir St Theatre

Living Sculptures: How the Birds got their Colours
Arc Circus Co.


MUSIC

ACO Up Close: Inspired by Bach
Australian Chamber Orchestra

Alma Zygier: Premarital Sextet

Amaro Freitas

Andrew Bukenya: Bach in Colour

Anoushka Shankar

Arka Kinari
Filastine & Nova

Astral People & Kerfew: Nabihah Iqbal (Live)

Astral People: Silent Jay & Setwun present Nu Dialects

Australian Brandenburg Orchestra: Bach & the Artists

Bach Akademie Australia: JS Bach – A Life in Music

Benjamin Skepper: Praeludium y Fuga

Brett Whiteley Studio Sessions: Anoushka Shankar

Brett Whiteley Studio Sessions: Harold López-Nussa

Brett Whitely Studio Sessions: Jo Davie

Brett Whitely Studio Sessions: Judith Hill

Brett Whiteley Studio Sessions: Rizo

Brett Whitelely Studio Sessions: Tim Freedman

Closing Night Party feat. Mo Laudi

Conic Rose

Control: Euphoria

David Keenan

Deborah Conway and Willy Zygier: Songs from the Book of Life

Edge of Reality: Elvis Presley Songbook
Raz Music

Eliza Hull feat. roya the destroya

Ensemble Apex: Come Sweet Death

Finely Tuned: Tornado Wallace & Fantastic Man

Harold López-Nussa

Il Tabarro
Victorian Opera

Josh Meader Trio

Judith Hill

Julie Byrne

Kee'ahn

Korkmaz Can Saǧlam 

Lilja

Night Songs at Coney Island
Sydney Philharmonia Choirs

Peter Cat Recording Co.

Singular Voices: Lisa O'Neill
City Recital Hall

Soliloquy
Genevieve Lacey and Gideo Obarzanek

SUO

Switched on: Courtney Barnett's End of the Day
City Recital Hall

Sydney Symphony Under the Stars: Pictures in the Sky
Sydney Symphony Orchestra & Greater Sydney Parklands



CABARET

An Evening Without Kate Bush
Sarah Louise-Young & Hey Dowling

It's a Sin: Songs of Love and Shame
Michael Griffiths

Prinnie Stevens: Lady Sings the Blues Volume II

Rizo: Prizmatism

Send for Nellie
Send For Productions and The Art House Wyong

Smashed: The Nightcap
Hey Dowling


DANCE

Encantado
Lia Rodrigues Companhia de Dancas

SKID by Damien Jalet & SAABA by Sharon Eyal
GöteborgsOperans Danskompani

Hope Hunt and the Ascension into Lazarus / Wolverine
Oona Doherty / Dance Makers Collective

Mutiara
Marrugeku

Sculptured Riddims
Azzam Mohamed



THEATRE

Are we not drawn onward to new erA
Ontroerend Goed

Big Name, No Blankets
Ilbijerri

Masterclass
Brokentalkers and Adrienne Truscot

Ode to Joy: How Gordon got to go to the nasty pig party
Stories Untold Productions and James Ley

Overflow
Darlinghurst Theatre Company

Saplings
Australian Theatre for Young People and Youth Action


MUSIC THEATRE

BANANALAND
Brisbane Festival & Queensland Performing Arts Centre


COMEDY

Multicultural Comedy Gala
A-List Entertainment


CIRCUS AND PHYSICAL THEATRE

Orpheus & Eurydice
Opera Australia, Opera Queensland and Circa


IMMERSIVE

A'amar
Bukjeh

Banyan Nights at Seymour Centre

Exhibitions After Dark

Hi-Vis
Michael Shaw

House of Fast Fashun
Fast Fashun Art Collective

Mood Ring
Garden Reflexxx

New Beginnings Festival
Australian National Maritime Museum and Settlement Service international 

On View: Icons
Sue Healey

SPIN
Anna Seymour

Sunrise Yoga


VISUAL ART

Brett Whiteley: Chapters 1959–69

Earth, Sea and Sky: Australian Contemporary Photography

Eddie Abd: The unbearable right to see and be seen
Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre

In our Time: Four decades of art from China and beyond, The Geoff Raby Collection
National Art School

Kandinsky
Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation & Art Gallery of NSW

Katy B Plumber: Margaret and the Grey Mare
Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre

Leanne Tobin: Memories of Water (Badu)
Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre

Lost in Palm Springs
Manly Art Gallery & Museum

Louise Bourgeois: Has the Day Invaded the Night or has the Night Invaded the Day?
Art Gallery of NSW

Miwatj Yolŋu – Sunrise People

Tacita Dean
Museum of Contemporary Art Australia

Talking Posters: Garage Graphix 1981–98
Blacktown Arts

Te Wheke a Muturangi: The Adversary, 
Lisa Reihana


TALKS

Daniel Browning in conversation with Larissa Behrendt

Iconic: Lost in Palm Springs Panel Discussion
Manly Art Gallery & Museum


FAMILY

A Bucket of Beetles
Papermoon Puppet Theatre

Camp Culture
Dale Woodbridge Brown & Cluster Arts

Dinosaur World Live
Nicoll Entertainment and SK Entertainment

Octopus Garden
Australian National Maritime Museum & Junior Major

Hive Festival
Art Gallery of New South Wales and Blacktown Arts 

Hive Festival: Trains by The Kids
The Kids

Seagulls
Snuff Puppets

Sugung-ga: The Other Side of the World
Moksung Theatre Company


WORKSHOPS

Cambodian Circus Workshop
Phare, The Cambodian Circus

Groove and Inner Rhythms Dance Masterclass

Marrugeku Workshop: Intercultural Dance Choreographic Processes


AT HOME

Big Name No Blanket (2013)

Brett Whitely Studio Sessions: Tim Freedman

Cirque du Cambodia

Fast Fashun: Behind the Runway

Hamed Sadeghi in Empty Voices

Il Tabarro

Lisa Moore: Show Your Heart

Living Sculptures: How the Birds got their Colours

Vigil: The Future

What happens if our island sinks?

GURR ERA OP

Kulintjaku, Wankantjaku (Listen, Talk)



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