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UPU

Studio

7 – 10 May 2025

  • Theatre
  • First Nations

UPU is an exhilarating theatre experience featuring Oceanic performers from NZ, blending profound poetry, gripping storytelling and captivating performances to explore culture, identity and the Pacific Ocean’s rich voices.

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Saltbush & Starlight Dining Experience

The Lounge

23 May – 14 Jun 2025

  • Experiences
  • First Nations

A night under the stars and sails savouring a stellar three-course dinner by Mark Olive featuring Indigenous ingredients.

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Megan Cope and Raven Chacon

Utzon Room

20 May 2025

  • Talks and Ideas
  • First Nations

Quandamooka artist Megan Cope and Diné winning composer and artist Raven Chacon explore how First Nations cultural work can work in defiance of Indigenous erasure, reasserting indigenous knowledge and processes.

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Illume

Joan Sutherland Theatre

4 – 14 Jun 2025

  • Dance
  • First Nations

Illume, an iridescent new theatrical experience drawing together music, visual arts and dance to explore the ways light has captivated and sustained Indigenous cultural existence for millennia. Step out of the shadows and into the phenomena of light.

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Badu Gili: Healing Spirit

Monumental Steps

2 Jan – 12 Dec 2025

  • Experiences
  • First Nations

Watch the sails illuminate nightly with Badu Gili: Healing Spirit, a new projection celebrating the work and stories of local and international First Nations artists.

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Central Australian Aboriginal Women’s Choir

Concert Hall

27 Mar 2025

  • Contemporary Music
  • First Nations

This unique Central Australian ensemble sings sacred music in the Western Arrarnta and Pitjantjatjara languages, two living languages of the Northern Territory and South Australia.

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DanceRites

Forecourt

19 & 20 Oct 2024

  • Dance
  • First Nations

DanceRites is Australia’s only national First Nations dance competition, and will be held in the Sydney Opera House Forecourt on 19 and 20 October 2024. Dance groups from across the nation will share their culture and compete for the $22,000 DanceRites prize.

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Dance Clan

3 – 14 Dec 2024

  • Dance
  • First Nations

For over 25 years, Dance Clan has fostered the talents of a new generation of Bangarra storytellers, designers, dancers and choreographers. This year, three of our artists will tell their own stories, developing two original dance works and one dance film.

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The Pacific tales given a modern dance spin in MĀUI

  • Dance
  • First Nations

Direct from Aotearoa and created by Fresh Movement Collective comes MĀUI, a contemporary dance reimagining of Pacific storytelling. The production focuses on tales revolving around the heroic demigod, Māui. It vibrantly explores his many sides, from pulling down the sun to lifting the islands out of the water, and more.

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Cheat Sheet: Horizon

  • Dance
  • First Nations

Here's your cheat sheet to the stories behind Bangarra's exquisite Horizon. Learn all about the choreographers and their country across the seas from the Torres Strait Islands to Lake Taupō, Aotearoa.

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