BEST MAJOR FESTIVAL

1271952089image web 220x204 BEST MAJOR FESTIVAL17th Biennale Of Sydney

The Biennale of Sydney is Australia’s largest contemporary visual arts event, showcasing the freshest and most provocative contemporary art from Australia and around the world. During the Biennale, a program of public tours, international guest lectures, artist talks, film screenings and special events are held across the city – and most events are free. Over half a million people attended this year’s exhibition.

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This year the famous Laneway Festival moved to the greener surrounds of the Sydney College of The Arts in Rozelle. “A laneway festival not in a laneway?” many cried, “How can that be?” But the change made for a truly impressive, enjoyable festival, with an incredible line up of local and international acts. To whit: Echo & The Bunnymen , Florence and TheMachine, Black Lips, The XX, Daniel Johnston, Sarah Blasko, NASA, Eddy Current Suppression Ring, Hockey, Dappled Cities, Mumford and Sons, Radio Clit, The Very Best Wild Beasts, Whitley, The Middle East, Kid Sam.

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Over the October long weekend in 2010 the Festival Of Dangerous Ideas brought Sydney dangerous ideas about art, climate change, children, economics, families, freedom, happiness, justice, peace, politics, religion, robots, terrorism, war and more. Big issues, along with things that matter in everyday life … each with an edge keen enough to cut even the careless.

sydney film festival 220x168 BEST MAJOR FESTIVALSydney Film Festival

The Sydney Film Festival is one of the longest running events of its kind in the world. Each year the festival brings the best new films from around the world to audiences here in Sydney. As well as brand new features from over forty countries, they screen short films, Australian films, documentaries and archive titles, many of which are recently restored.

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Vasili Kaliman and Michael Reid, two prominent Sydney gallery owners, decided that if writing, good food and Mardi Gras could all claim months then the visual arts should do so too! And so was born Art Month Sydney. The inaugural Art Month Sydney ran from 1-31 March 2010, uniting the various elements of the city’s art world under one umbrella for the first time. A diverse cross-section of art was showcased with more than 70 of Sydney’s leading commercial galleries, artist-run initiatives, public art museums and auction houses hosting exhibitions, talks, behind-the-scenes tours and special events across the city.

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Days Like This kicked 2010 off with a mighty bang, rolling on with the famous mash up of genres that made the inaugural 2009 event truly special. Roots Manuva, Cat Power, Dirty Delta Blues, Amp Fiddler, Dilated Peoples, The Black Seeds, PVT (when they were still Pivot!) and so many more were spread across the four stages, and we have yet to come across a person who went along and didn’t leave with a giant smile plastered on their noggin. The 2011 festival has been postponed but we’re crossing our fingers that they’ll be back in 2012.

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