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A decade of creativity: Giving children a voice
It started with just a trestle table and some colouring pages. Now, a decade later, ‘Creative Play’ is a fully-fledged artistic program, involving over 40,000 children each year.
Community
Local artists illustrate your Opera House memories
We asked five local artists to bring your most cherished Opera House memories to life.
Community
What the Year of the Ox has in store for you
2021 is the Year of the Ox and to mark the occasion we’ve pulled together a summary of what lies ahead for you in terms of career, relationships or love
Talks & Ideas - All About Women
Cheat Sheet: Laura Bates
Why you should know Laura Bates – a global authority on the burgeoning radicalist movements that are indoctrinating boys and men.
Talks & Ideas - All About Women
Cheat Sheet: Koa Beck
Why you should know Koa Beck – the former Editor in Chief of Jezebel who's trying to upend feminism's status quo.
Talks & Ideas - All About Women
Cheat Sheet: Isabel Allende
Why you should know Isabel Allende – the “literary legend” whose books have defined a genre and a generation.
Building
Sydney Opera House to scale
Whether miniatures on a movie set or a global Minecraft mission, building the Opera House remains a feat of intricacy and ambition. This longform visual story looks at over 50 years of attempts.
Talks & Ideas - All About Women
Beyond ‘exploitation’ and ‘empowerment’ in sex work
All About Women's Tilly Lawless on rejecting the common preconceptions of her work.
Online puzzle
Trials of Wisdom: A Virtual Escape Room
In this one-of-a-kind online escape room, you need four passwords to earn your freedom. Adventure through the House, solve a series of cryptic puzzles and attempt to #EscapeTheHouse.
History
The story of the missing Attenborough Opera House film
A potty-mouth David Attenborough, an upstart Aussie filmmaker, and a controversial movie that wasn't supposed to see the light of day. This is the scandalous story of Autopsy on a Dream.
Architecture
6 architectural beauties worth the detour on your next NSW road trip
We're not the only architectural marvel worth visiting this World Architecture Day. Here are our picks of lesser-known buildings to check out on your next pastoral pilgrimage.
Music
Why the quest for a ‘good night’s sleep’ is as important as ever
Sleep expert Professor Danny Eckert, in discussion with neuroscientist and Max Richter collaborator David Eagleman, dives into the power and beauty of a full night's rest.
Building
Rosso's tapestry obsession
Design enthusiast and presenter Tim Ross became so fixated by the Opera House's historic tapestries he went on to host our podcast about them.
Community
The most popular videos, podcasts and articles of 2020
Cooped up in our homes for most of 2020, we all did what we do best: we watched, we read and we listened.
Talks - All About Women
Music as medicine
As we endure a period of collective anxiety and trauma, psychologist Mary Hoang has teamed up with a composer to unpack the therapeutic benefits of music.
Building
How MADE students are proposing to revitalise the Sydney Opera House
The Australian-Danish exchange program imagines what a future icon might look like.
Environment
An octopus’ garden underneath the Opera House
Discover the sea creatures that dwell beneath the harbour in our artificial reef along the Sydney Opera House sea wall.
Building
Sydney Opera House at rest
This visual story from photographer Daniel Boud offers an eerie but hopeful look inside the sails of Opera House, where it's quiet for the first time in nearly 50 years.
Renewal
Preserving the Grand Organ
Each of the 10,244 pipes will be cleaned by hand – it’s a tricky job.
Podcasts
Where to start listening: Deadly Voices From the House
Favourites from conversations with leading voices in First Nations art.
First Nations
Learning from Country: An Indigenous design perspective
After speaking as part of Antidote panel Resetting the World, Jefa Greenaway writes on why it's more critical than ever than we infuse Indigenous perspectives into our everyday design thinking.
When I Was Little
Kids
When I Was Little: Graham Hosking
By day, he investigates insurance claims; by night, he is the genius creator of Sidney Opera Mouse – the little mouse with big dreams. We spoke to English author Graham Hosking about what his big dreams were when he was little.
Kids
When I Was Little: Teeny Tiny Stevies
They may be Teeny Tiny but they’ve made a great big mark on the children’s entertainment world. We spoke to the talented sisters about what it’s like to live your childhood dreams.
Kids
When I Was Little: The Listies
Australia's favourite kidult comedy duo The Listies are introducing Shakespeare to kids with turbo-charged story-telling and silliness!
Kids
When I Was Little: Tim McGarry
There's a Sea in My Bedroom director Tim McGarry shares his childhood dreams in our new series chatting with theatre-makers and creatives who bring magic to our stages, and wonder to our little ones.
Theatre
John Bell in seven acts
Building
House of Wonder
Environment
Restore and rejuvenate
Theatre
Eternal history
First Nations
Why NAIDOC matters
Community
Leading Man: Michael Falzon remembered
Talks & Ideas
Essential summer reads
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