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What is on in Sydney this weekend? What are the top events, festivals and activities taking in place in Sydney this week and weekend

Festival of the Winds - Sunday 12 September, 2010 - 11.00 am to 4.00 pm

Spring has arrived and wind chill is officially replaced by refreshing breeze. This is kite season and they come in all shapes and sizes over Bondi this Sunday. Colourful cartoon characters, giant animals and flowers, fighter kites, box kites, delta kites and more make the skies come alive over Sydney's most famous beach. Australian and international kite flyers demonstrate their great flying skills and wonderful hand-made creations from 11am with winners announced at 3pm on the day. You can also join in and fly your own kite on the beach or make your own wonderful creation at one of the kite making workshops on offer throughout the day.

In order to avoid a stiff neck you can also focus on the food stalls from all over the world, free dance workshops, children's rides, workshops, activities, roaming entertainment, puppet shows and demonstrations.

The Bondi Pavilion Gallery will also be holding it's own colourful exhibition this year. 'In-flight (Project Another Country') from husband and wife team, Isabel and Alfredo Aquilizan. This large aeroplane shaped sculptural work is constructed from hundreds of small hand-made planes and can be added to by everyone's own small creative contributions, making this exhibition another fun interactive activity to add to the day. The gallery will be open daily for viewing from 10 am -5 pm, with the exhibition running 2-27 September. Admission is free.

Festival of the Winds

Manly Arts Festival - 3 – 19 September 2010

One of the many great things about Manly is there is often something of interest happening to further encourage getting on that great big green Manly Ferry. The Manly Arts Festival consists of a smorgasbord of artistic delights from the visual arts through to music and dance. The festival caters for kiddies as well as adults. So flick through the website, find what's of interest to you and plan your trip accordingly. For me, the "Sydney Vocal Arts Centre Showcase" looks like its worth seeing and its on this weekend:

"Sydney Vocal Arts Centre showcases its most talented performers in a concert featuring four different choirs, with a special performance by the highly talented children’s choir ‘Out of the Blue’. Enjoy soloists from classical through to contemporary, featuring many of our finest local young singer/ songwriters".

Manly Arts Festival

Slow Burn - 6 August – 19 September 2010

A century of Australian female artists at the S.H. Ervin Gallery in the Rocks

Slow Burn showcases the best works of Australian artists who happen to be female. Slow Burn presents ninety three Australian artists ranging from the delicate pastels of Janet Cumbrae Stewart to the modernist prints of Margaret Preston through to the bio-techno sculptures of Patricia Piccinini. The works in the exhibition demonstrate the skill and versatility of women artists over the past hundred years. Slow Burn is a private collection(s). Come the 20th September your chance to immerse yourself in this great pool of work will be gone.

Slow Burn

Paths to Abstraction - Art Gallery of NSW - 26 June – 19 September 2010

Paths to Abstraction is arguably the most influential collection of art the Art Gallery of NSW has ever managed to beg, borrow and plead for. Contributors include the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Museu Picasso Barcelona, Centre National d’Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou, Tate Modern and National Gallery of Art, Washington. You have to see this. With the work of the world's most influential artists of the modern era to work with the Gallery charts a course through a transformational period from the end of the 19th to the beginning of the 20th centuries. Allow some the greatest artist talent the world has ever seen to take you on a historical artistic discovery tour like no other.

Art Gallery of NSW

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.

Drive in Cinema at Randwick

Manly Arts and Craft Market

The Manly Markets offers a unique range of Australian designed and made fashion and accessories, jewellery, home wares, object design, photography furniture, arts & craft.

The Manly Markets are open every Saturday and Sunday between 10am – 5pm. You will find them in Sydney Road near "The Corso".

A trip to the markets can be combined with a ferry ride, North Head and / or a stroll to Shelly Beach.

Manly Arts and Craft Market

Manly things to do (No.1, 4, and 5)

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

Go West of Sydney (Blue Mountains)

Go West. Head for The Blue Mountains. For families, a small tip if I may, visit Selwood's Science and Puzzles at Hazelbrook and the nearby Wentworth Lake for a great playground and kiddies 'Pirate Ship' with some pleasant water views for the upgrowns.

Things To Do In The Blue Mountains

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