Digital
Enjoy a selection of recordings, reads and podcasts.
Plus, experience Antidote live from our stages to your sofa with our ticketed livestreams.
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Cheat Sheet: Elizabeth Kolbert
Our picks of essential writing from environmentalist, author and Antidote headliner Elizabeth Kolbert.
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Cheat Sheet: Yanis Varoufakis
Everything you need to know about the influential economist, politician and author Yanis Varoufakis.
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Cheat Sheet: Afua Hirsch
Meet Afua Hirsch, the journalist, lawyer and friend-of-Rihanna who’s spearheading complex discussions about British identity.
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Our Antidote book recommendations for lockdown
Need a book to help you through lockdown? These are the Antidote must-reads according to the Opera House team.
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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.
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“I cannot pronounce my name” – An extract from Brit(ish) by Afua Hirsch
In this extract from her book Brit(ish), Antidote headliner Afua Hirsch unpacks the cultural legacy implanted in her name.
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Wes Anderson and white innocence – An extract from Minor Feelings by Cathy Park Hong
In this extract from her book Minor Feelings, Cathy Park Hong argues that Hollywood's fondness for whimsical, stylised nostalgia has led to the whitewashing of traumatic periods of American history.
Queerstories: Sarah Tiong
Sarah Tiong is best known as one of MasterChef Australia's favourite contestants, and a successful author of sensational cookbook Sweet, Savory, Spicy. Growing up in a conservative, traditional Chinese-Malaysian family and carving out a career as a lawyer, Sarah found herself facing challenges and expectations to overcome in order to follow her passion and create her own path.
How has COVID-19 reset the world?
2020 will go down in history as a year of disruption. From catastrophic bushfires, to a global pandemic that collapsed economies, relationships, and social norms. At ANTIDOTE 2020, three future-facing thinkers, Jessica Irvine, Jefa Greenaway and Rebecca Huntley consider some of the new philosophies emerging from the fray.