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One of Australia's biggest arts festivals is celebrating 50 years but has launched a smaller offering for audiences due to rising costs.

The first weeks of 2025 have seen catastrophic wildfires locally and internationally, record global ocean temperatures, and unprecedented coral bleaching events.

The Puccini opera Il Tabarro will be performed on the Carpentaria Lightship as part of the Sydney Festival, with the audience to stay on land for the spectacle.

Sydney Festival looking for a digitally savvy, arts-loving Marketing & Social Media Specialist to join their Marketing and Communications Team for Sydney Festival 2024. You’re a skilled storyteller who can capture the essence of our Festival’s artistic magic and make it shine on social media. You know your way around…

Sydney Festival is looking for a digital savvy, arts loving Marketing and Social Media Specialist to join their Marketing and Communications Team for Sydney Festival 2024. The role manages Sydney Festival’s Social Media channels, creates compelling content for audience engagement and assists with the delivery of paid digital campaigns. To…

The best of this year's Sydney Festival included a "tattoo to optimism" featuring nine drum kits, an anxious opera on an indoor beach, a harbourside vigil, and a devastating debut play.

In its opening week, Sydney Festival pulled out all the stops to entice audiences with "immersive" and unique experiences in unusual locations — but how was the art?

Joyously embracing the art of summer since 1977, Sydney Festival is a city-wide celebration of culture, creativity and the questioning mind. With a 46-year legacy of dynamic, conspicuous programming, the Festival draws the finest artists in the world to Sydney, and showcases our nation’s diverse storytellers to the world. As…

Sydney Festival has been in the eye of a storm this summer, as a $20,000 sponsorship blew out into a boycott and culture clash of international proportions. Here’s how it felt for the artists.