Check out the website for ideas about how to hold your very own Dogtober event.

Don’t have time to organize an event? Why not decorate your own collar and wear it to work, wear it to a presentation, wear it while playing a game of football or wear it for a week at school? Get your friends and family to sponsor you being brave and sporting a collar!

For more details check out the Dogtober Website

Experience the mysterious art of ancient Egypt in ‘Egyptian Treasures: Art of the Pharaohs’ – exclusive to the Australian Museum from 13 September – 6 December 2009.

This spectacular new exhibition will showcase more than 250 exquisite antiquities from the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna – home to one of the world’s most important Egyptian collections.

Dates: 13 Sep 2009 to 06 Dec 2009
Location: Level G, Special Exhibition Space
Australian Museum,  College St Sydney  NSW 2000

Entry: Adults $22; concession $17; child $14, family $36 (1 adult + 2 children); family $58 (2 adults + 2 children); extra child $10; DVA Gold Cardholders and Blue Pension Cardholders $8; FREE children under 5 years

Share your thoughts about the Australian Museum here

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It’s that time of year again folks.  Rosemount Australian Fashion Week Spring Summer 2009/10 starts today (27 April) and will run through to 1 May 2009  – set against the spectacular backdrop of Circular Quay.

A selection of Australia and the Asia Pacific’s best designers will present their collections to some of the world’s most significant members of the fashion industry. RAFW is an exclusive industry-only event, made accessible to registered buyers, agents, media, stylists and other fashion industry representatives.

Located at the Overseas Passenger Terminal in Sydney, the official five-day schedule will feature designers in on-site and off-site Collection Shows, RAFW Agent Designer Suites at The Westin Hotel, Emerge and The Boutique Showrooms.

Click here for more info about Rosemount Australian Fashion Week.

Not on the industry guest list?  Well you can enjoy some of the fun too…just a couple of months later!  Following on from the success of  RAFW – comes the Sydney Fashion Festival.    Brought to you by the same experts responsible for RAFW, the Fashion Festival brings Australia’s biggest fashion names to the public from 17 – 22 August 2009.  Yes, August is some time away, but if you want to be part of it, you need to opt in now for the first release tickets.

Last year saw five days of free and ticketed public events.  The festival profiled the contemporary Spring Summer collections of local and international fashion brands as these new season’s looks arrived into stores throughout the city. A specially built, state-of-the-art marquee at Martin Place welcomed international models to the catwalk and celebrities to the front row.

Click here for more information about the Sydney Fashion Festival and to register for your 1st release tickets.

Saturday 13th December 2008

Celebrating their 5th anniversary, the Australian Breakdance Championships, are back in Sydney this December, hosting the top eight crews from around Australia battling it out for the title. Crews will compete for a cash prize from Nutrient Water, bragging rights, and the title of the offical number one breakdancer in the nation.

The international guest judges will include former World B-boy Champion Juse Boogy from the Massive Monkees crew, Seattle, USA. He will be performing on the night along co-judges Ill-Will direct from the Bronx NYC and Pepito, Australia’s number one International. Carlo “JESTER” Sorono (SYTYCD) will also make an appearance.

Sydney based crew, SKB, will be defending their title. However, the standard of b-boying in Australia has once again risen and former champions Fresh Sox from Melbourne will be battling harder than ever to win and make breaking history with a fourth championship!

Australia’s best b-girls will also be battling it out in a ‘one on one’ contest.

Music will be courtesy of Australia’s top B-boy DJ’s and will feature a special guest set by DJ Jumps from The Cat Empire.

What: 5th Annual Australian B-Boy Championships
Where: The Carriageworks
When: Saturday 13th December
Entry: $30 / $20 (Juniors under 12yrs) / $60 Family of 4

More info & tickets – click here

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We ‘really’ hope the weather holds out for this one!  Come and join us (and quite a few others we should imagine) down at Vaucluse House this Sunday for Jazz in the Garden.

Sit under a starlit sky and listen to the young blood of Australian jazz talent in the picturesque surrounds of this harbourside estate. Bring a rug, pack a picnic or take advantage of the selection of food available and a range of wines from the Angove Wine Bar on sale throughout the evening.

  6pm – KRISTIN BERARDI with JAZZGROOVE MOTHERSHIP ORCHESTRA
Formed in 2003 to present world class performances of jazz orchestral music and to further develop jazz orchestra and big band as an art form, the Jazzgroove Mothership Orchestra is the most consolidated assemblage of respected young improvising talent in Australia and was nominated as Australian Jazz Ensemble of the Year in 2006 & 2007. The orchestra is joined by the exquisite vocalist Kristin Berardi, winner of the 2006 Shure Montreux Jazz Voice Competition and the Freedman Jazz award, 2007.

7pm - ELIXIR featuring KATIE NOONAN
Praised for her mesmerising stage presence and classically trained voice, Katie has won cult status in Australia, topping both the pop and jazz charts. Her jazz/folk ensemble ELIXIR, featuring Stephen Magnusson on guitar (Melbourne) and Zac Hurren on saxophones (Brisbane), performs a selection of their original material and also new songs from Katie’s highly anticipated brand new album Blackbird – the music of Lennon and McCartney. Katie has just returned from recording this album in New York with jazz legends Joe Lovano, John Scofield, Ron Carter and Lewis Nash.

  8pm - CSB (CRUSTY SUITCASE BAND)
A heady cook-up of horns, drums and old-school instrumentation, CSB is the brainchild of two of Sydney’s finest musos, percussion maverick Ben Walsh and jazz legend Matt Ottington. Inspired by powerhouse horns and drums from around the globe, funkified hip hop, swing/jazz harmonies and phat breaks, CSB serves up originals to get your booty shaking.

Jazz in the Garden
When: sunday 23rd November
Where: Vaucluse House
Time:  6pm – 9pm
Entry: General $30 Conc/Members $25 Family $85

NOTE: If you’re thinking about purchasing tickets for this, purchase them ASAP. They are selling fast!

More info & ticket purchase – click here.

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Starting from Monday 10th November, Planet Ark is hosting National Recycling Week.   To start off the week a Swap Party is being held in Martin Place on Monday afternoon.

This is a great initiative to help educate people on the benefits of recycling as well as education on how to recycle properly.

The Swap Party will run from 12.30 to 1.30.  The idea is, you take along 3 easy-to-carry items (of a moderate quality) that you would like to swap for something else.  Items might include books, CDs, DVDs, clothes, bric-a-brac etc.  i.e. Don’t think about dragging your banged up washing machine or falling apart lawn mower down there

Simple exchange your items for tokens and then browse, choose, swap and enjoy.  If two people want the same item, the decision will be made by a sudden-death game of rock, paper, scissors. Yes, we are serious.

Recycling has never been so much fun!

Recycling Collections
Do your part for National Recycling Week by bringing in old mobile phones, printer cartridges, batteries and eye glasses for recycling at collection stations located near Martin Place station on the day.

This is a free event run by the City of Sydney and the Planet Ark Environmental Foundation.

National Recycling Week – Swap Party
Monday 12.30pm – 1.30pm
Martin Place, CBD
Entry is Free

For more information check out the Planet Ark site here

Presented by The Newtown Neighbourhood Centre the Newtown Festival is a fundraiser for the Centre’s services for the disadvantaged in the community.

So please remember, help YOUR community by giving generously to the Newtown Neighbourhood Centre coin collectors at the festival entrances.

The Newtown Festival is a rare and wonderful place where community groups, environmental groups, local residents and the broader community can come together in one place for one day and celebrate diversity and once again experience the true sense of ‘community’.

Newtown festival is without a doubt firmly established as one of Sydney’s largest and premier festivals.

Expect a full on day of fun, laughter, music and entertainment for all of the family.

Newtown Festival
Sunday 9th November
Camperdown Memorial Park
Corner of  Lennox and Australia Street, Newtown
9.30am – 6pm

Entry is by gold coin donation

Organised by Co.As.It -Italian Association of Assistance – their aim is to promote an authentic event that educates, celebrates and remains true to the Italian culture and heritage of the Leichhardt community. The much-anticipated event will see Norton Street transform into a whirlwind of colour and excitement featuring traditional entertainment and activities.

Highlights include, Nonni in Cucina hosted by Joanna Savill, wine, cheese and olive oil appreciation workshops by Italianicious Magazine, Slow Food Sydney’s pesto competition and communal street dining, osteria (tavern) style, hosted by Barilla.

Entry is FREE!

Norton Street Italian Festival
Norton Street (Leichhardt)
October 26th 10am – 5pm