Sydney Festival returns to Carriageworks in 2023 with three solo exhibitions by Australian artists The Huxleys, Paul Yore and Thea Anamara Perkins alongside six performances spanning opera, dance, puppetry and music.
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Free exhibitions
Thea Anamara Perkins:
14 Dec, 2022 – 12 Feb, 2023
Wed-Sun, 10am-5pm
Paul Yore: Word Made Flesh
5 Jan – 26 Feb, 2023
Wed-Sun, 10am-5pm
The Huxleys: Bloodlines
5 Jan – 5 Mar, 2023
Wed-Sun, 10am-5pm
Ticketed events
Antarctica
Thu 5 Jan, 7:30pm
Fri 6 Jan, 7:30
Sat 7 Jan, 7:30pm
Sun 8 Jan, 3pm
Polar Force
Fri 6 Jan, 7pm
Sat 7 Jan, 12pm
Sat 7 Jan, 4pm
Sat 7 Jan, 7pm
Sun 8 Jan, 12pm
Sun 8 Jan, 4pm
Tracker
Tue 10 Jan, 7pm
Wed 11 Jan, 7pm
Thu 12 Jan, 7pm
Fri 13 Jan, 6:30pm
Sat 14 Jan, 1pm
Sat 14 Jan, 6:30pm
Manifesto
Thu 12 Jan, 8:30pm
Fri 13 Jan, 8:30pm
Sat 14 Jan, 3pm
Sat 14 Jan, 8:30pm
Sun 15 Jan, 6:30pm
Holding Achilles
Thu 19 Jan, 7pm
Fri 20 Jan, 7:30pm
Sat 21 Jan, 1pm
Sat 21 Jan, 7:30pm
Sun 22 Jan, 5pm
Kairos
Thu 19 Jan, 8pm
Fri 20 Jan, 6pm
Fri 20 Jan, 8:30pm
Sat 21 Jan, 5pm
Sat 21 Jan, 8pm
Cohab Coffee will be open throughout Sydney Festival serving light refreshments.
Wed 4 Jan
5pm – 11pm
Thu 5 Jan
10am – 7.30pm
Fri 6 Jan
10am – 7.30pm
Sat 7 Jan
10am – 7.30pm
Sun 8 Jan
10am – 5.30pm
Mon 9 Jan
Closed
Tue 10 Jan
3pm – 7.30pm
Wed 11 Jan
10am – 7pm
Thu 12 Jan
10am – 8.30pm
Fri 13 Jan
10am – 8.30pm
Sat 14 Jan
10am – 8.30pm
Sun 15 Jan
10am – 6.30pm
Mon 16 Jan
Closed
Tue 17 Jan
Closed
Wed 18 Jan
10am – 5.30pm
Thu 19 Jan
10am – 8pm
Fri 20 Jan
10am – 8.30pm
Sat 21 Jan
10am – 8pm
Sun 22 Jan
10am – 5.30pm
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Presented by Carriageworks and Sydney Festival.
Covering the walls of Carriageworks’ public space, Stockwoman is the most ambitious work to date of Arrernte and Kalkadoon artist Thea Anamara Perkins. Stockwoman traces ancestral stories across Country from Alice Springs to Redfern to reframe our imagining of the Australian landscape.
Curated by Aarna Fitzgerald Hanley
14 Dec 22 - 12 Feb 23
Bloodlines is multi art form exhibition which honours and worships legendary artists lost to HIV/AIDS. The Huxleys work evokes the colourful rebellious and creative spirit of these outwardly LGBTIQA+ artists that helped shift the worlds of queer art and culture into new realms. The exhibition will feature large scale photographic work, video art, music, and a huge queer performative celebration.
Curated by Jacob Boehme.
5 Jan - 5 Mar
Paul Yore: WORD MADE FLESH is a new architecturally-scaled installation, anarchically composed of improvised makeshift structures, mixed media sculpture and found objects, collage and assemblage, painting, video, and pulsating sound and light. Conceived as a cacophonous, kaleidoscopic ‘gesamtkunstwerk’, WORD MADE FLESH imagines a queer alternative reality.
Curated by Max Delany, in collaboration with Paul Yore and Devon Ackerman.
5 Jan - 26 Feb
Featuring the world-class Dutch ensemble Asko|Schönberg, Antarctica is a mesmerising exploration of the historic, mythic and scientific beliefs inspired by the last great wilderness on Earth.
5-8 Jan
Antarctica’s beauty and infinite complexity are explored in Polar Force, an immersive and multi-sensorial live music performance combining custom-built instruments with pristine field recordings within a white inflatable structure.
6-8 Jan
Developed by celebrated First Nations creatives, this beautiful interweaving of dance, ceremony and text invites the audience into an open and transformative ceremonial space to explore the complex legacies of decisions made in the context of racist colonialism.
10-14 Jan
Manifesto brings together nine dancers and nine drummers on nine kits in an explosive ‘tattoo to optimism’, rooted in the ancient and frankly unbeatable symbiosis of dancing and percussion.
12-15 Jan
Bring your creative energy and join The Huxleys for a ‘Stitch n Bitch’ session where you can contribute to their Bloodlines Quilt as well as hear from an influential voice from the LGBTQIA+ community.
14 Jan + 25 Feb
Written by David Morton, this co-production is a vibrant interpretation of one of the great mythic stories. Featuring aerial performance and exquisite puppetry, Holding Achilles blends heightened physicality and powerful design to weave a story of mythic proportions.
19-22 Jan
Kairos is a vibrant new dance work responding to the political, social and environmental unrest that defines the turbulent present. Created by three world-renowned Australian artists, this production will encompass a vast lexicon of human experience and human movement: the dark and challenging; the ugly and beautiful; the humorous and joyful.
19-21 Jan