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Art
The case for everyday creativity
Meditation teacher and academic Dr Nadine Cameron writes on casting aside the “fear of the quality of output” and finding fulfilment in everyday acts of art and imagination.
Online puzzle
The Disappearing Act: A virtual escape room
When a friend is kidnapped during an Opera House magic show, it's up to you to work out what's going on. In this free virtual escape room by the Sydney Opera House, you're challenged to solve puzzles, discover passwords, and #EscapeTheHouse.
Kids & Families
Stage Direction: Grug & Magic Beach
How does a treasured childhood classic become a living, breathing three-dimensional theatre tale? Lenny Ann Low looks at the art of adapting two iconic picture books for the Opera House stage.
Dance
Cheat Sheet: Matthew Bourne ballets
Get to know one of the most successful names in dance, who has brought ballet into the 21st century with innovative reimaginings of classic works, before renting five of his greatest works on Stream.
Contemporary Art
Giant Bonsai – A photographic project by Garry Trinh
Artist Garry Trinh’s Giant Bonsai (2011 -) is an ongoing photographic project, digitally presented for Antidote, that celebrates the incidental charms of creative urban vegetation pruning in Sydney.
Environment
Spare a thought for the birds of Circular Quay
For decades, ibises and seagulls have moulded their behaviour around the tourists and workers of the city. But what happens when all the humans disappear?
Talks & Ideas
Your Liane Moriarty story ideas brought to life
We asked for murder, mystery and suburban mayhem – you delivered. These are the three winners of our Liane Moriarty blurb competition, brought to life by a team of talented artists.
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.
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.
Technology
Outlines – Bursting with E-Motion
As lockdown intensifies, artists and institutions alike turn to technology to do what they can’t – enter other people’s lives and living rooms. Ashley Chang looks at how technology and performance are co-existing in the age of digital.
Diverse Emerging Writers Mentorship
Talks & Ideas
There’s a bomb in my closet – On being queer, Arab and Muslim 20 years after 9/11
Highly Commended in the Antidote and Sweatshop Mentorship Program for Diverse Emerging Writers, Adrian Mouhajer reflects on growing up queer and Muslim in a post-9/11 world.
Talks & Ideas
Now you see us – On the shortcomings of #StopAsianHate
Recipient of the Antidote and Sweatshop Mentorship for Diverse Emerging Writers Patricia Arcilla writes about the “tidiness” of #StopAsianHate in the face of deeper systemic problems.
Talks & Ideas
Mother tongues and minor feelings
Recipient of the Antidote and Sweatshop Mentorship for Diverse Emerging Writers Joyce Chew on family, migration, language and the “glittering visage of the Australian ‘fair go’”.
Talks & Ideas
Soul-searching with Pepe the Frog
Highly Commended in the Antidote and Sweatshop Mentorship for Diverse Emerging Writers, Tiffany Fong looks at the dangerous, cult-like appeal of the alt-right to a generation seeking community and meaning.
Talks & Ideas
The education conversation Australia has to have
Finnish educator and author Pasi Sahlberg writes on the chasm of inequality that exists in our school system and the systemic issues holding Australian schools back.
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.
Community
Opera House yarns – 5 books to fill the void
These five books have the Opera House as a centrepiece – of treasured memories, bumpy journeys, and triumphant careers.
Community
A career in sails - 50 years at the Opera House
Peter Tucker started working at the Sydney Opera House 50 years ago, before the building was even complete. Since then, he's worked all across the House, and even met the President and the Queen on the job.
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.
Community
5 superb Sydney Opera House hats
Hold onto your hats, we're crowning the best buckets and bonnets that pay tribute to the Opera House. Here are our top five spectacular (impractical) Opera House hats.
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.
Stage Direction
Musical theatre
Stage Direction: Cry-Baby
A camp musical set in the 1950s from cinema’s ‘Pope of Trash’, John Waters’ Cry-Baby has endured as a cult classic. Elfy Scott follows the film's complicated journey from screen to stage.
Musical theatre
Stage Direction: The Phantom of the Opera
Now a pop culture staple, Gaston Leroux's tale of the Phantom has taken countless forms over the years. Melanie Tait looks at the origins of the musical that took over the world.
Theatre
Stage Direction: The Little Prince
In the first of our new series on page-to-stage adaptations, Neha Kale looks at how Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s poignant tale of a young prince lives on in the 21st century.
Recipes
Food
Recipe: Peter Gilmore's cherry jam lamington
Peter Gilmore's lamington recipe is the cherry on the cake of the Bennelong menu and now you can make it at home.
Food
Recipe: Bennelong pastry chef Rhiann Mead’s “perfect croissant”
Reenter the picnic game with these "perfect croissants", courtesy of the best in the business, Bennelong Head Pastry Chef Rhiann Mead.
Food
Recipe: Leche flan donuts by Portside Sydney's Exec Chef Elton Inglis
Try your hand at these Filipino-inspired, moreish donuts that Elton Inglis created for his wife during lockdown.
Cheat Sheets
Antidote
Cheat Sheet: Elizabeth Kolbert
Our picks of essential writing from environmentalist, author and Antidote headliner Elizabeth Kolbert.
Antidote
Cheat Sheet: Yanis Varoufakis
Everything you need to know about the influential economist, politician and author Yanis Varoufakis.
Antidote
Cheat Sheet: Afua Hirsch
Meet Afua Hirsch, the journalist, lawyer and friend-of-Rihanna who’s spearheading complex discussions about British identity.
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.
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.
Kids & Families
When I Was Little: Lucky Lartey
In this edition of When I Was Little, we speak to dance artist Lucky Lartey, star of Infusion, No Movement, No Sound, whose work draws from a rich Ghanan upbringing full of rhythm and dance.
Kids & Families
A decade of creativity: Giving children a voice
Talks - All About Women
Music as medicine
Talks & Ideas - All About Women
Beyond ‘exploitation’ and ‘empowerment’ in sex work
Building
House of Wonder
Environment
Restore and rejuvenate
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