TONIGHT:

- Night Noodle Markets  (Civic Park, N Sydney)
Happening every Friday night from now until April. Good chance to get the taste buds going, before the Night Noodle Markets start in Hyde Park next Thursday. (More on that next week)
(From Leanne S)

- Black & Blue Gallery (Surry Hills)
David Withers & Lachlan Anthony – Make Yourself at Home
We’ve heard this is meant to be a pretty cool show.

“A piquant show of installation, sculpture and photography that interrogates artefacts which fill domestic and urban fields of contemporary experience. Reconfiguring the scale, location and state; of furniture, clothing and products, affects an uncanny climate in which the audience is asked to re-think the significance and potentiality of previously understood objects. Whilst humorous at first encounter, upon closer engagement these surreal reconfigurations intimate a more malevolent undertow.”
(From Edwina S)

THE WEEKEND:

- Australian International Motor Show  (Darling Harbour)
9th – 19th October

- Crack the Code! @ Sydney Olympic Park (Kids)
Using a compass, orienteer yourself around the centre of Sydney Olympic Park.  Collect the clues along the way, decode the message and collect your prize from the Visitor Centre.
(from Tara W)

- The Way We Wear Vintage Fashion Fair (Hunters Hill)
Hunters Hill Town Hall/Masonic Temple/RSL Hall
$12 Adults / $6 Child / $30 Family
The fifth ‘The Way We Wear Vintage Fashion Fair’ with dealers from all over Australia in three separate buildings selling two hundred years of fashion and fashion accessories.
(from Yvonne G)

- C-90 @ Palmer Projects (Darlinghurst)
Mark Drew (China Heights founder) explores cassette related artworks through a variety of installations, prints and canvas.
(from Ed Q)

- Art & About Activities (across Sydney)
Lots of stuff going on here, including Live Lanes and Sydney Life previously covered in the blog.

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Picnic and dance at this harbourside garden party and experience new musical sounds in the majestic surrounds of Government House.  Relax on the lawns, explore the house, play a spot of croquet, soak up the views, and enjoy the fine food and wine.

Live acts include:

HERMITUDE: multi- instrumentalists whose Cuban influenced rhythms blend their formal jazz, and classical backgrounds into a new hip hop sound.

MISTA SAVONA: complete with his high energy 10 piece band play jumping raw roots reggae, dancehall; hip hop and heavyweight dub.

ENTROPIC: travel from stompin’ dance floor beats to jazzy percussive melodies bridging the gap between acoustic and electronic.

TECOMA: combines her award winning vocals with country, jazz and roots music, drum n bass rhythms, and sampled beats.

Full details here

We’ll see you there!  Come and say hello. We’ll be the ones with RAYV stickers all over us

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