JUNE 15   Experience the magic of 2023’s National Indigenous Music Awards Artist of the Year, Budjerah, who’ll deliver his powerful brand of rhythm and blues pop. Indie-pop sensation and proud Gumbaynggirr/Bundjalung woman Jem Cassar-Daley, will also light up the stage. Tumbalong Park Free vividsydney.com ...

Join in and celebrate the oldest living culture on earth The Gai-mariagal Festival, a celebration of the oldest living culture on earth, is currently taking place until 14 July. With local events planned including workshops, performances, bush walks and art activities,...

There’s something for everyone at the community fun run in Mosman Get ready for a whole day of entertainment, sports and solidarity on 16 June when the Mini-Mos Community Fun Run and Fair returns. Celebrating its 42nd anniversary, this is Australia’s longest-running,...

Enjoy an afternoon of indigenous culture and music Michael Birk is set to bring the music of Aboriginal artists to the Northern Beaches for the 10th year running, with the Singing Up Country event to be held on 7 July. Michael...

JUNE 8-16   Join the Sydney Film Festival and enjoy Ousmane Sembéne: A Revolutionary With a Camera. It’s a retrospective of films by groundbreaking Senegalese filmmaker Ousmane Sembéne at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Art Gallery of NSW $18+ artgallery.nsw.gov.au ...

For over 60,000 years, humpback whales have travelled along the Australian coast. The annual northern migration of these magnificent creatures along the east coast of Australia has already started, and is expected to run until August. In days past, the local...

MAY 24-JUNE 15   The beating heart of Vivid Sydney’s Light Walk, Tumbalong Park is your festival go-to for free and contemporary music. Celebrate our shared humanity as both international and local talent perform under the stars for 12 nights of free...

MAY 17-JUNE 23   Lauded for his critically acclaimed performance in A View from the Bridge on Broadway, Anthony LaPaglia returns to the world of Arthur Miller as Willy Loman, joined by a company of some of Australia’s finest actors in one...

MAY 9-JUNE 9   This exhibition explores how we use play and games in our lives to deal with, practice for and talk about difficult situations. Through play, satire and repurposing material like children’s toys, artists raise awareness of and confront subjects...

MAY 24   The ultimate ‘blues brother’, Eric Bibb is known globally as a singer-songwriter with true soul, grounded in the folk and blues tradition but with contemporary sensibilities. To experience Eric’s life is to be struck by his sheer humanity and...