Join burra (eel) on a fascinating learning journey through Country, at this exciting new state-of-the-art education space that immerses you in Western science and First Nations knowledges.

Explore a kaleidoscope of colour, plants and passion at Love Your Nature at The Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney. This gorgeous NEW exhibition at The Calyx is now open. Donations are welcome to fund this not for profit exhibition and the gardens. This year’s exhibition celebrates all kinds of plant-love with 20,000 plants on display.

Immerse yourself amongst native Australian flora and fauna and gain a deeper understanding of the relationship Aboriginal Culture has with Country at Nura Diya Australia.

Eden Unearthed exhibition returns in 2023 for its seventh year featuring over 35 stunning installations set amongst the breathtaking gardens at Eden. Read our review.

The exhibition features over 100 thought-provoking photographs across 10 categories, including ocean conservation, ocean adventure, ocean wildlife, and young ocean photographer and human connection awards. Read our review here.

Transport yourself back 3,300 years, across the sands of the Sahara Desert where you reach the heartbeat of Ancient Egypt ruled by the most celebrated pharaoh in the country's storied history.

One of the most extensive exhibitions dedicated to a woman artist ever presented in Australia, Louise Bourgeois: Has the Day Invaded the Night or Has the Night Invaded the Day? will be the first monographic exhibition to be presented in the Art Gallery’s new building.

Dive into the remarkable world of an Australian marine pioneer Valerie Taylor has recorded the marine environment and shared her knowledge with the public for over 60 years, staunchly advocating for better protection of the ocean, its animals and their habitats. Read our review here.

Beneath the glossy surface of progress lurks a simmering undercurrent of violence. Cities tear themselves apart to make way for towering skyscrapers and gleaming high-rises. However, in this bright new world, one question arises: where have all the people gone?

Immersive Gamebox will offer an unforgettable immersive gaming experience that will ignite the spirit of adventure and fun through interactive smart rooms.

Embark on a journey through a realm of cutting-edge, captivating technologies showcasing 360-degree projections, three-dimensional audio, and holographic innovations that promise an experience like no other.

Dive into the mesmerising world of one of the ocean’s most enigmatic creatures. Play, hunt and hide in the Octopus Garden at the Australian National Maritime Museum. Read our review.

This stunning street art exhibition of museum quality features over 160 artworks, including new originals added for Sydney, and is a “must-see” to celebrate Banksy’s art. The show is now touring Australia after its incredible worldwide success with over 1,650,000 visitors!

Inspired by the unique design genius of architect Jørn Utzon and the Sydney Opera House, get creative through a series of fun and playful design exercises for beginners or design lovers, whilst learning about the architectural history of the Sydney Opera House.

Kids Music Café is a beautiful introduction to live music and instruments for our littlest audience members.

The award-winning anthemic pop musical, & JULIET, is coming to Sydney in February 2024 after a spectacular sold-out season in Melbourne.

Visit the Museum on Thursday between 1pm - 4:30pm for a Sensory Friendly Session!

Titled Ten Thousand Suns and curated by co-artistic directors Cosmin Costinaş and Inti Guerrero, the 24th Biennale of Sydney seeks to convey a ‘solar joy’ of cultural multiplicities – the constellation of factors that contribute to our different identities.

The 24th Biennale of Sydney is headed to White Bay Power Station! The Biennale of Sydney is delighted to be the inaugural world-class experience at this iconic site with free admission for all, and are thrilled to contribute to the evolving cityscape with Ten Thousand Suns. READ OUR REVIEW HERE.

The 24th Biennale of Sydney, Ten Thousand Suns, proposes celebration as both a method and a source of joy, inspired by legacies of collective resistance and coming together to thrive in the face of injustice.

Jelena Telecki is a Sydney-based artist known for paintings and sculptures that address human relationships – including of power and dominance – and uniquely merge the real and the imagined. Often portraying partly concealed figures and fragmentary, dreamlike moments, her works are rich in intrigue, with flashes of levity and humour.

Videogame joysticks, a fossilised radio, VHS tapes spun into haunting life-size figures ... this exhibition reanimates supposedly defunct media.

Guests can discover, play, and win with Haunted Habitats - an interactive adventure that will see them embark on a fun journey through the aquarium and zoo in Darling Harbour. Discover amazing animals and learn fun facts. Engage with interactive booths to keep guests looking out for ghostly visitors who are temporarily calling the much-loved Sydney attractions home!

Guests can discover, play, and win with Haunted Habitats - an interactive adventure that will see them embark on a fun journey through the aquarium and zoo in Darling Harbour. Discover amazing animals and learn fun facts. Engage with interactive booths to keep guests looking out for ghostly visitors who are temporarily calling the much-loved Sydney attractions home!

Cast in cast out is inspired by Sydney-based Kamilaroi/Gamilaraay artist Dennis Golding’s experiences and childhood memories of growing up in ‘The Block’, an Aboriginal community in the inner Sydney suburb of Redfern.

The No. 1 Party Musical GREASE returns to the Australian stage in a new, multi-million dollar live production.

Experience community life by the ocean through the works of First Nations artists in Coomaditchie: The Art of Place at the Museum of Sydney.

Jason Donovan stars as Frank N Furter ready to party once more at home in Australia

KIDS GO FREE ALL APRIL at Featherdale Sydney Wildlife Park!
Up to 2 KIDS (3-15 years) can visit ABSOLUTELY FREE with every paying Adult!*

The Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA Australia) is delighted to announce A World Undone, a major exhibition by Australian artist Nicholas Mangan, opening from 5 April to 30 June 2024.

Immerse yourself in the moment the night comes alive. Feel the magic as you ride the Scenic Railway, Cableway and Skyway as dusk settles across the Jamison Valley.

From 6th April to 5th May 2024, Mega Creatures and Mega Creatures Night Safari will return to Hunter Valley Gardens! Explore and discover amazing pre-historic dinosaurs, giant insects & mythical creatures come to life! Including our T-Rex, Brachiosaurus, Stegosaurus, Triceratops, and so much more!

Whatever your age, there’s so much to see and do at the Art Gallery of New South Wales throughout the school holidays, including drop-in workshops and roving art-making tours.

There's magic afoot in the Park as The Australian Shakespeare Company makes its long awaited return to Sydney in celebration of its 35th anniversary with Glenn Elston’s acclaimed flagship production of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.”

Princess Diana: Accredited Access Exhibition will showcase the emotional journey of the world’s most loved Princess through a side of the story that has never been experienced before.

Join Top Ryde’s Jurassic journey and embark on an epic adventure with 15 giant dinosaur animatronics, transporting you back to the prehistoric era.

From the 13th to the 28th of April, Sydney Zoo in Eastern Creek presents the beloved pair of Heeler pups, Bluey and her little sister Bingo, for an exciting Live Interactive Experience.

These Autumn Holidays, meet the new additions and checkout a new kids trail!

Dust off your hypercolour t-shirt, get some colourful gear for the kids and make your way to Sonic Neon, a playful experience where music is transformed into captivating visuals. Located within Luna Park Sydney's iconic fantasy palace on the water's-edge of Sydney Harbour, this family-friendly experience showcases innovation, turning light and sound into an immersive, breathtaking spectacle.

At the Sydney Opera House these April School Holidays, we have three papercraft costume making activities inspired by the animals of our current shows Polar Bear & Penguin and RATBURGER. 

The Powerhouse Autumn School Holidays program runs from 13–28 April 2024. It provides a range of in-depth workshops and free drop-in creative experiences, including popular digital programs Minecraft, Coding and Digital Design, and artist-led creative workshops.

Become an ocean superhero these autumn school holidays at the Australian National Maritime Museum, and dive into our fresh program of creative workshops, performances, tours, and trails inspired by the superheroes both within and who take care of our oceans.

Join Alice on her amazing journey through Wonderland and experience an adventure like no other.

After a stellar sell-out season in January, the maddest of mad scientists, Magnus Danger Magnus, returns for an encore season of KABOOM these April school holidays!

Step into the world of David Walliams, as his bestselling book comes to life on stage.

This internationally award-winning, sell-out sensation is flipping into town for the April school holidays!

Enjoy a modified environment to suit people on the autism spectrum and with a range of differing abilities

Grab your camera and venture out to Chatswood CBD as chess takes over. Spot giant inflatable chess pieces.

Come along to a week filled with fun in the jungle at Warringah Mall. From decorating cupcakes, creating your own fun jungle back pack to face painting, there is lots of fun to be had.

From 22 April - 19 May, hundreds of comedians from around Australia and beyond will take to stages across our great city for the 2024 Sydney Comedy Festival!

This multi-award-winning, sell-out sensation of the past four years is headed to Sydney for a very special season at the glorious Spiegeltent this April - with more whimsical wonders than ever before!

Adapted from the award winning picture book by Julia Donaldson & Axel Scheffler, published by Macmillan Children's books.

Get ready to be inspired at Carriageworks as The Finders Keepers Sydney Design Market makes its highly anticipated comeback in 2024.

After wowing sell-out audiences Australia-wide in 2023, this HUGE army of Massive Machines are bounding back into East Coast Arenas! With action-packed weekend events in air-conditioned all-weather comfort, surrounded by giant screens & blazing floodlights there isn't a bad seat in the house!

After two sell-out years, GLOW at Sydney Zoo is back – bigger than ever before! Plus, with an exciting pre-sale offering up to 50% off tickets, you won't want to miss out.

See celebrated children’s author Libby Hathorn’s work come to life in a world premiere show.

The children’s version of Li Cunxin’s iconic autobiography, Mao’s Last Dancer, The Peasant Prince is an extraordinary production of a remarkable story – of a peasant boy turned dance giant. It will inspire and enthral young audiences.

Arriving directly from Switzerland is Game Theory – a fast-paced, funny and playful dance celebration of play, sport, big emotions, and the highs and lows of playing games! This season will have you looking at dance from a whole new perspective.

An electronic labyrinth of light, colour and sound pulses to life when Dark Spectrum: A New Journey reawakens deep beneath the streets of Sydney as part of Vivid Sydney 2024.

Vivid Sydney is back in 2024 with great installations for families and kids! Checkout top 23 events we have hand picked for you!

Wendy Sharpe: Spellbound is a sumptuous aesthetic journey into the nature of creativity. Composed of drawings, sketchbooks, artist-made books, paintings, ceramics, sculptural forms and site-specific wall murals, it creates a complete artistic creation or gesamtkunstwerk (a German word meaning ‘total work of art’).

Experience the ultimate cheesy feast with our mouth-watering selection of cheesy foods. From hot dogs and crepes to cob loaf fondue, our participating restaurants have created special cheesy dishes just for the festival.

The Archibald Prize for portrait painting is Australia’s most celebrated and democratic – sometimes controversial – art award. Open to any artist living in Australia or New Zealand, since 1921 it has reflected the unique experiences of the people who live in this region, highlighting figures from all walks of life.

What the world needs now is love, sweet love... and at Vivid Sydney 2024 all you need to do is look to the sky to find it.

Murder, greed, corruption, exploitation, adultery, treachery… and All That Jazz… so begins the international multi-award-winning musical, CHICAGO.

One of art’s great stylistic innovators, Alphonse Mucha (1860–1939) created some of most instantly recognisable and best-loved works in modern European art. In seductive, sinuous compositions, he developed a new language that defined the look of late 19th-century Paris to be the very spirit of art nouveau.

Sydney, the Good Food & Wine Show is back! Step into a world where flavour, flair, and fun unite.

Berlin-based Australian artist Emily Hunt draws inspiration from the extraordinary history of the occult and spiritualism in Australia.

It started as a play and Broadway laughed. A movie and a TV series followed and the whole world laughed. Now, laugh all over again with this hilarious new Australian stage production of The Odd Couple.

2024 marks the fifth year of this iconic ethical marketplace, which showcases creations from remote and local First Nations artists, designers and makers from across Australia who will come together on 29-30 June for the National Indigenous Art Fair on Gadigal Land at the Overseas Passenger Terminal in the Rocks.

ARC is an Amphibian and Reptile Conservation Centre opening at Taronga Zoo in July 2024. See animals such as the Tuatara, Red-eyed Tree Frogs, Taipans, Diamond Pythons, plus more!

Climb aboard the world’s juiciest fruit as Roald Dahl’s James & The Giant Peach rolls off the page and onto the stage in Shake & Stir’s most delicious adventure yet. 

Don’t miss the return season of our enchanting sell-out show, How to Catch a Star, an ACO Families production for children and their families, next July school holidays.

One of the most-read and famous children's books of all time, The Very Hungry Caterpillar emerges off the page in a masterful theatrical experience for children 18 months+ and their adults.

Mem Fox and Julie Vivas’ beloved picture book ‘Possum Magic’ has enchanted children for over 40 years. Seen by over 150,000 young people across Australia, Monkey Baa’s delightful adaptation returns to the stage.

Create an imaginary city through projections and play

Delight in an interactive performance where you’ll encounter insects and dinosaurs that once roamed the Earth, including the Australovenator, a carnivorous theropod discovered in QLD, Australia.

Spanning more than five decades of Lesley Dumbrell's practice, this exhibition presents a selection of paintings and works on paper as well as recent forays into sculpture that demonstrate Dumbrell's unique abstract language, which probes the nuances of colour, rhythm and visual perception.

In 2015, Cyclone Pam ravaged the South Pacific. Edgell Junior, a Ni-Vanuatu man from Pentecost Island experienced and survived Cyclone Pam and its aftermath. Based on his lived experience, this moving production emphasises the importance of community cooperation and resilience.

The MOULD Cheese Festival is back and all about celebrating and championing the best of Australian cheese.

It's official! Producers Jeffrey Seller and Michael Cassel today announced that the Tony®, Grammy®, Olivier and Pulitzer Prize winning musical, HAMILTON, will return to Sydney in 2024.

Susan Hill’s acclaimed ghost story comes dramatically alive in Stephen Mallatratt’s ingenious stage adaptation – “The most brilliantly effective spine-chiller you will ever encounter” (Daily Telegraph).

Hot Wheels Monster Trucks fans of all ages; the wait is officially over! For the first time ever Hot Wheels Monster Trucks Live Glow Party will roll into Australia in July 2024 and tickets are already selling fast!

Praise be! The habit is coming to Australia. John Frost for Crossroads Live is delighted to announce the arrival of the most heavenly of musicals, Sister Act, which will make its Australian debut from August 2024.

Little Murmur is a new international dance theatre performance featuring groundbreaking projections, an extraordinary soundscape and a blizzard of paper and confetti.

PAW Patrol™ Live! “Race to the Rescue,” the action-packed, music-filled production presented by Nickelodeon, VStar Entertainment Group, and TEG Life Like Touring, is touring Australia in July-September 2024 and tickets are now on sale.

After a sold-out capital city tour in 2022-23 to celebrate its 70th birthday, Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap will embark on a further tour across Australia in 2024.

A winner with audiences and critics alike, DreamWorks’ How to Train Your Dragon is a captivating and original story that combines humour, fire-breathing action, and epic adventure!

Witness an epic new production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical masterpiece Sunset Boulevard, starring Sarah Brightman and an incredible cast of Australian theatre royalty.

In 2024, almost 50 years since his work was presented at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in the 1976 Biennale of Sydney, Lee Ufan returns to Sydney. Within spaces designed by the artist, this new exhibition distils over six decades of considered experimentation into a series of new paintings and sculptures created especially for the Art Gallery.

Celebrating the 10-year anniversary of bringing ‘panto’ to Australia, Bonnie Lythgoe Productions announces a brand-new version of SNOW WHITE running for an exclusive limited season from 7 September at Riverside Theatres, Parramatta. 

Through the work of ten artists from around Australia, the 2024 edition of the Dobell Australian Drawing Biennial focuses on the compelling and allusive languages of abstraction.

Drawing on both historical and contemporary references, Qureshi works in the space between tradition and experimentation, in a practice that extends to collage and photography. Born in Pakistan, she trained at the National College of Arts in Lahore, where she learnt the painting traditions that had been brought to the Mughal courts from Persia in the 16th century and developed in the region.

Angelica Mesiti is creating an immersive installation for the former wartime oil bunker beneath the Art Gallery of New South Wales’ North Building.

Being the only emu at the zoo has him feeling glum and thinking perhaps the grass is greener on the other side of the fence. Is life more fun for the seals or the lions or the snakes?

Big Sky unfolds over a single night, from sunset to dawn and follows 12 unforgettable characters as they look forward to their futures, show off, get spooked, prank each other and get up to mischief. Featuring the phenomenal circus skills of the world-renowned Flying Fruit Fly Circus in a show performed by kids, for kids.

Step right up as the Circa Carnival unfolds, introducing a fantastical world where zebras juggle, kangaroos skip, and even dinosaur bones join the rhythmic spectacle.

In Bangarra’s first dedicated work for children, join our heroine Migi as she undertakes a journey of discovery and survival.

After sell-out seasons across the world, including London’s West End & Broadway, The Gruffalo returns to Australia!

Sculpture by the Sea will return to the Bondi to Tamarama Beach coastal walk as the world’s largest free to the public sculpture exhibition in 2024.

Following sensational sell-out seasons across Australia, the pop musical phenomenon SIX the Musical is set to make a triumphant return to Melbourne, Sydney, and Brisbane!

Leyla Stevens is an Australian–Balinese artist whose films and photographs uncover alternative histories, including of people, rituals and objects connected to the Indonesian island of Bali. Developed through extensive research and community collaboration, her works carry a potent emotive charge in their sensitive yet affecting retellings.

A specially commissioned new storytelling and meditation experience with digital projections. This is a sensory world of vivid storytelling, dreamy electronic music, animation, and the wonder of our Sydney harbour.

LUZIA takes you on a journey through an imaginary Mexico. LUZIA is a poetic and acrobatic ode to the rich, vibrant culture of a country whose wealth stems from an extraordinary mix of influences and creative collisions – a land that inspires awe with its breathtaking landscapes and architectural wonders, buoyed by the indomitable spirit of its people.

Sir Peter Wright’s The Nutcracker is a magical production of the beloved festive ballet that remains faithful to the 19th-century original and will fill you with the Christmas spirit.

Experience Creature, an immersive installation and workshop by Box of Birds/Stalker that explores our connection with the environment.