The Latest Breaking News from Sydney Festival

Major arts festival director vows to keep it affordable

From First Nations-led art and Filipino parade floats to inflatable surf installations, a major festival is promising a city-wide celebration of culture.

AAP · Oct 18

From grand harbour spectacular to intimate perfection: the varied dance at Sydney Festival 2026

Of all the arts, dance has a special capacity to create worlds. Centred around the moving body, these worlds draw on other art forms – music, visual art, design, projection – to fill-out visions in time-space.

The Conversation · Jan 22

Stoush over symphony concert move after spending shift

A western Sydney council has hit back at the decision to move a concert that's long been a key attraction of the city's arts festival.

AAP · Nov 7, 2025

Harbourside cabaret kicks off Sydney's 'summer of art'

This year's Sydney Festival will bring more than a thousand local and international artists to venues across the city.

AAP · Jan 5, 2024

Sydney Festival cans music event blaming cost pressures

A three-day music event planned as part of the Sydney Festival has been cancelled with organisers blaming operating expenses and living cost pressures.

AAP · Nov 30, 2023

Sydney Festival to set sail with opera staged on a ship

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.

AAP · Oct 25, 2023

Featured jobs: Sydney Festival, Goodwill Projects & ToniMay

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…

Pedestrian.tv · Jul 27, 2023

Featured jobs: Sydney Festival & B Seated Global

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…

Pedestrian.tv · Jun 23, 2023

Sydney Festival: From Thomas Weatherall's Blue to Stephanie Lake's Manifesto and the harbourside Vigil, this year hit us in the feels

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.

ABC News · Jan 27, 2023

Sydney Festival brings Frida Kahlo to Barangaroo, Sun and Sea and lucid dreams to the CBD, in program big on ‘immersive’ experiences

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?

ABC News · Jan 13, 2023