Con Open Academy is Ready for Spring!

The Conservatorium Open Academy’s Spring Short Course Program If you have a yearning for music and learning OPEN ACADEMY’S short course program for adults is open for enrolment. Classes are held at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music with a handful of classes online. Conservatorium Open Academy offers a range of singing, instrumental, music technology, writing […]

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Kabushka Ngemba Workshops Come to the Eastern Suburbs

Indigenous Artist Kabushka Ngemba brings arts & culture workshops to Sydney’s East Kabushka Ngemba brings her Dot Art Circle Workshops to the Eastern Suburbs. Learn all about the meaning of indigenous art, the stories behind each component and compose your own work of art by the end of the session. Kabushka is a highly entertaining, […]

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Tom Avgenicos Wins Freedman Jazz Fellowship

Finalists compete in three-way playoff for $21,000 award Sydney trumpeter, composer and innovator Tom Avgenicos was awarded the 2022 Freedman Jazz Fellowship in an exciting final playoff at the Sydney Opera House on Saturday 3 September. The sold-out crowd enjoyed the return to the Studio, after a two-year hiatus due to COVID-19. The three finalists […]

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The Comedy of Errors

Far-fetched coincidences and chaotic hilarity Shipwrecked and separated 33 years earlier, two sets of long-lost twins miraculously find themselves in the same city on the same day. What could possibly go wrong?   The Comedy of Errors is a hilarious romp of swapped identities, misguided love, mistaken imprisonment, and chaotic mishaps, leading to an unbelievably […]

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Women’s Jazz Fest 2022 – Pre-sale this Friday!!

We trust you all can keep this hush hush until Friday, August 19th when you’ll receive exclusive access to the festival pre-sale. Keep an eye out for the email! This pre-sale offer is available to all who are subscribed to the SIMA newsletters, and tickets will open up to the general public soon! Performances include: […]

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2022 Freedman Jazz Finalists Announced: Concert on Sale Now!

After a competitive search for Australia’s most exciting young jazz talent, The Music Trust’s Freedman Jazz Fellowship finalists have been announced for 2022. Tom Avgenicos, Flora Carbo and Holly Conner will go before esteemed judges, Virna Sanzone, Andrew Robson and Steve Barry in a live concert finale on September 3rd, at the iconic Sydney Opera House for the chance to take home […]

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Live At The Village

Saturday, 27th August 2022 Live at The Village, a much anticipated all-day music festival, will take place in Springwood, The Blue Mountains on Saturday, 27th August. The festival includes jazz, folk, world and Bluegrass music and dance performances presented in partnership with the Blue Mountains’ premier destination for the performing arts, The Blue Mountains Theatre. […]

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Jeremy Rose Quartet’s New Album “Face to Face”!

Join the Jeremy Rose Quartet for the launch of his new album, Face to Face. Praised as “one to watch on the Australian jazz scene” (Jazzwise Magazine UK), and “one of the most creative and restless musicians in the Australian jazz scene,” saxophonist Jeremy Rose has released over a dozen albums of original music and […]

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In A Nutshell

A journey through Shakespeare’s best-loved plays in Bell Shakespeare’s new theatre space at Pier 2/3 in the Walsh Bay Arts Precinct. Bell Shakespeare will present the first production in their new theatre space The Neilson Nutshell at the newly redeveloped Pier 2/3 at Walsh Bay Arts Precinct from 4 – 7 August. In A Nutshell […]

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Both Sides Now

They paved paradise, and put up a parking lot… Singer, songwriter, painter, poet, activist and voice of a generation, Joni Mitchell has been a quintessential part of the twentieth-century soundtrack. She grew up with folk music in the 60s, railed against injustice in the 70s, put feelings into song in the 80s and reinvented herself in the […]

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Offsite renewable electricity (GreenPower): the basics

No solar panels? No worries. You can still join the renewable energy revolution – with just a simple call to your electricity provider. Rooftop solar isn’t the only way you can power your home or business with renewable electricity. A GreenPower electricity plan (known generically as “offsite renewable electricity”) is a simple alternative for those residents and […]

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