Things
To Do / What to do, Over The Labour Day Long Weekend In and Out of Sydney
Monday
3rd October is Labour Day, a public holiday! After a long winter the long
weekend is back!
Things
To Do Over The Labour Day Long Weekend in October in Sydney
Newtown
Theatre Sydney Fringe Festival - September 9th - October 2nd
The Sydney Fringe
Festival is one of those hit and miss events that requires a little open
mindedness and patience. Listen out for the silent movies, take your old
chum to the cabaret, go the distance with a serious play or ponder over
a short production. Get the brain cells going and / or the heart pumping.
The Sydney Fringe Festival consists of a smorgasbord of events and there
is bound to be something to tickle your fancy. You can never quite tell
what to expect until you're there, and that's half the pleasure.
Tickets range from
a cheap $32.50 to a cheaper $15.00. You pays your money and cross your
fingers! Be brave.
Art & About
Sydney - 22nd September 2011– 23rd October 2011
With four weeks of
fabulous art, performance and music in Sydney's streets and public spaces,
City of Sydney's annual celebration of public art, Art & About Sydney
is back.
Highlights from last
year's Art & About Sydney included the popular Sydney Life exhibition
in Hyde Park North, the City's collaboration with John Kaldor from Kaldor
Public Art Projects bringing portraits of 100 Sydney faces to the City
banners, intriguing works of art in city laneways, and flamboyantly decorated
Sydney statues that reinterpret Australian history.
Lord Mayor Clover
Moore MP said: "Art & About is our major celebration of public
art and our creative industries in Sydney. The month-long festival celebrates
the city's unrivalled capacity for wonderful food, stimulating art and
good fun in our incomparable outdoor environment. I encourage everyone
to come along and see what we have in store."
This years theme
is "What If?". Entries have closed and now the organisers are
collating, preparing, organising, panicking and, of course, preparing
to get art and about:
10,000 BEERS, Darlinghurst
Theatre - By Alex Broun
10,000 Beers is
the story of the Panorama Pirates, a footie team on their end of season
jaunt to Sydney. As you might have guessed by the title, the aim is to
drink a ridiculous, if not potentially fatal, number of beers in one weekend.
It starts with a Friday night pub crawl to the casino on Saturday and
serious drinking on Stupid Sunday.
The play explores a real enough scenario rarely 'tackled' on stage. 10,000
Beers is something we all might relate to in different ways. As the beers
flow so does the humour but it doesn't take too long before things start
to get just a little nasty.
10,000 Beers was
written by Alex Broun, a rugby journalist with clearly some insight into
his field. Lee Lewis directs the satire where mateship, larrikinism and
competition are taken to extremes. What happens on tour, stays on tour.
Previews:
16 – 20 September
Season: 22 September – 9 October
Times: Tuesday – Saturday at 8pm, Sundays at 5pm
Matinees: Saturday 1 & 8 October at 3pm
Drive in Cinema
at Randwick
The Racecourse drive-in
is the latest family attraction to come to the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney.
Bringing back the days of the 50s and 60s when taking the family to the
drive-in was all the rage. Now you can relive those days and enjoy the
magic of the drive-in cinema and watch movies from the comfort of your
own car.
The Sydney Racecourse
drive-in is the perfect entertainment for families as well as couples
and groups of friends. So why not pack your car with blankets, pillows
and the kids in their pyjamas and come down to the Sydney Racecourse drive-in
cinema for a memorable night out.
Sydney CBD
To see what's on
in the CBD in Sydney and Sydney's fringe you can't beat City of Sydney's
What's On List:
What's
On Courtesy of the City of Sydney
Sydney Olympic Park
What's
on at the Sydney Olympic Park
North of Sydney
You might feel the
need to escape the big smoke for a day or few. A treasure troth of top
things to do awaits just north of Sydney.
Things to do South
of Sydney Over The October Long Weekend
Perhaps South is
the go. Kangaroo Valley has an almost English countryside look to it (somewhat
appropriate given who's Birthday it is) mixed in with gum trees and Aussie
bush. The civilised Fitzroy Falls is also well worth a visit. The beautiful
coastal scenery of Jervis Bay invites exploration and just north of the
Royal National Park lies one of Australia's great coastal drives.
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