Art Gallery of NSW

The culture of Sydney is diverse and multicultural. Many of the individual cultures that make up the Sydney mosaic are centred on the ethnic, linguistic and religious communities formed by waves of immigration. (See History of Sydney.) In addition, as a major Australian city, Sydney boasts a full roster of musical, theatrical and artistic activity. Image File history File links Front_of_gallery. ... Image File history File links Front_of_gallery. ... The Sydney Opera House is one of the most iconic landmarks in the world, and since its opening it has become an international symbol of Sydney Sydney (pronounced ) is the state capital of New South Wales, located on the east coast of Australia. ... History of Sydney stretches back to prehistoric times. ...

Music

The Sydney Symphony Orchestra is internationally noted and frequently performs at the Sydney Opera House. The Sydney Dance Company under the leadership of Graeme Murphy during the late 20th century has also gained acclaim. Many well-known Australian rock bands have had their genesis in Sydney, including Midnight Oil, The Easybeats, AC/DC & INXS, as well as a host of independent groups from punk rock Radio Birdman, indie rockers The Clouds and The Crystal Set, to electronic music pioneers Severed Heads, Single Gun Theory and Itch-E and Scratch-E. Another notable band to appear from the Sydney music scene is Wolfmother. To a lesser extent jazz and new music (such as Sydney-based The Necks) has found a home in places like "The Basement" and the Harbourside Brasserie. Australia's other major arts institution has its headquarters in Sydney: Opera Australia, whilst the Australian Ballet locates its main corporate offices in Melbourne. Sydney Symphony Orchestra, now known as the Sydney Symphony, is a symphony orchestra based in Sydney, Australia. ... The Sydney Opera House is one of the most iconic landmarks in the world, and since its opening it has become a symbol of Sydney The Sydney Opera House is located at , in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. ... The Sydney Dance Company is one of Australias most successful and well-known dance companies. ... Graeme Murphy (born November 1950) is one of Australias most well known dance choreographers and formed the Sydney Dance Company in 1976 with fellow dancer and collaborator Janet Vernon. ... (19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s As a means of recording the passage of time, the 20th century was that century which lasted from 1901–2000 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar (1900–1999 in the... Rock group (or later rock band) is a generic name to describe a group of musicians specializing in a particular form of electronically amplified music. ... Midnight Oil was an Australian rock band known for their driving hard rock sound, intense live performances and their overt left-wing political activism. ... The Easybeats were a rock and roll band in the 1960s from Australia. ... AC/DC is a hard rock band formed in Sydney, Australia in November, 1973 by rhythm guitarist Malcolm Young and his brother, lead guitarist Angus Young. ... INXS (pronounced In Excess) is an Australian rock group. ... Punk rock is an anti-establishment music movement beginning around 1976 (although precursors can be found several years earlier), exemplified and popularised by The Ramones, the Sex Pistols, The Clash and The Damned. ... Radio Birdman was one of the first punk bands. ... Indie rock is a subgenre of rock music often used to refer to bands that are on small independent record labels or that arent on labels at all. ... The Clouds were an indie rock band from Sydney, Australia formed in 1989. ... The Crystal Set was a Sydney-based Australian indie rock band formed in the late 1980s featuring Russell Kilbey (bass and lead vocals), Phillip Maher (guitar & vocals), Craig Moore (keyboards & vocals) and Tim Seckhold (drums). ... Electronic music is a term for music created using electronic devices. ... A photo of The Severed Heads from the back of the album Since The Accident. ... Itch-E and Scratch-Es debut EP Irritable from 1992 Itch-E and Scratch-E is an Australian electronic music group formed by Paul Mac and Andy Rantzen in Sydney in the early 1990s initially recording on the Volition label. ... Wolfmother are a band from Erskineville, Sydney, Australia. ... The Necks are an ambient jazz trio from Sydney, Australia, comprising Chris Abrahams on piano and Hammond organ, Tony Buck on drums and Lloyd Swanton on bass guitar and double bass. ... This article is being considered for deletion in accordance with Wikipedias deletion policy. ...

Many popular songs are inspired by Sydney, including "Sydney Town" by The Mexican Spitfires, "From St. Kilda to Kings Cross" and many others by Paul Kelly, "Summer Hill Road" by The Executives and John Kennedy's "Love Gone Wrong". The Mexican Spitfires were a Sydney-based Australian indie rock/indie pop band formed in suburban Strathfield in Strathfield Municipality in the mid 1980s. ... Paul Kelly (born 1955, South Australia) is an Australian singer-songwriter, based in Melbourne, and widely considered as an icon of Australian music. ...

Luna Park

Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (2288x1712, 727 KB) Sumari Luna Park, Sydney, Australia Licensing File links The following pages link to this file: Sydney Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner used to create or digitize it. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (2288x1712, 727 KB) Sumari Luna Park, Sydney, Australia Licensing File links The following pages link to this file: Sydney Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner used to create or digitize it. ... Luna Park Sydney (originally Luna Park Milsons Point, now formally Sydneys Luna Park) is a historical amusement park, located on the northern shore of Sydney Harbour, Australia. ...

Literature and theatre

The Sydney Theatre Company boasts a regular roster of local plays, such as noted playwright David Williamson, classics and international playwrights. From the 1940s through to the 1970s the Sydney Push, an intellectual subculture of authors and activists questioning of authority grew, its members included Germaine Greer. The Sydney Theatre Company (STC) is one of Australias most well-known and notable theatre companies operating from the Wharf Theatre near The Rocks area of Sydney. ... David Williamson (born 19 February 1942) is one of Australias most well-known playwrights who has also developed screenplays for film and television. ... // Events and trends World War II was a truly global conflict with many facets: immense human suffering, fierce indoctrination, and the use of new, extremely devastating weapons such as the atomic bomb. ... The 1970s decade refers to the years from 1971 to 1980, inclusive. ... The Sydney Push was a predominantly left-wing intellectual sub-culture in Sydney from the late 1940s to the early 70s. ... Prof. ...

Art

Sydney has been home to many visual artists, from the lush pastoralism of Lloyd Rees depictions of Sydney Harbour to Jeffrey Smart's portraits of bleak urban alienation. The Archibald Prize is a noted portraiture prize awarded each year by the Trustees of the Art Gallery of New South Wales located in Sydney. A south coast road (1951) by Lloyd Rees, painted at Werri beach Lloyd Frederic Rees (March 17, 1895 – December 2, 1988) Australian landscape painter. ... The flea market, Rome (1966) Jeffrey Smart (1921 - ) is an expatriate Australian painter, who is known for his modernist depictions of urban landscapes. ... Marcus Willss winning painting in 2006, The Paul Juraszek Monolith, was based on this print by an earlier Marcus, Marcus Gheeraerts The Archibald Prize is regarded as the most important portraiture prize, and is the most prominent of all arts prizes, in Australia. ... The Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW) is an art gallery, open to the public, and located in The Domain in Sydney, Australia. ...

Festivals

Sydney is a host to many different festivals including the Sydney Festival, a celebration of free performances throughout January; the Big Day Out, a travelling rock music festival which originated in Sydney; the Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras (see below) the Sydney Film Festival and many other smaller festivals such as Tropfest. Sydney Festival is Australias largest and most attended annual cultural event running for three weeks every January since it was first held in 1976. ... The Big Day Out (BDO) is an annual music festival that tours Australia and New Zealand. ... Rock and roll (also spelled Rock n Roll, especially in its first decade), also called rock, is a form of popular music, usually featuring vocals (often with vocal harmony), electric guitars and a strong back beat; other instruments, such as the saxophone, are common in some styles. ... The Sydney Film Festival is a non-competitive film festival that started in 1954. ... The Tropfest short film festival is held in Sydney, Australia each year. ...

Sydney communities and subcultures

Ethnic communities

Examples of ethnic communities in Sydney include;

• Cabramatta (predominantly Vietnamese, but also Lao and Han Chinese)
• Chatswood (Cantonese)
• Leichhardt (Italian)
• Strathfield (Shanghainese)
• Fairfield, New South Wales Sydney's Assyrian community est,35-50,000
• Eastwood (Korean and Cantonese)
• Bankstown (Lebanese)
• Mount Kuring-gai (Polish)
• Earlwood/Brighton-Le-Sands (Greek)
• Petersham (Portuguese)
• Auburn (Turkish)
• St Ives (South African/Jewish)
• Bondi (Jewish)
• Liverpool (Fijian/Indian)
• Northbridge (Japanese)
• Hurstville (Chinese)
• Willoughby (Armenian)
• Blacktown (and surrounds - Filipino)
• Kingsford (Indonesian)
• Homebush (Sri Lankan/South Indian)

While such ethnic groupings exist, these are only general representations of the relative distribution of ethnic groups in Sydney. So, for example, while there are many Asians in Eastwood, the majority of the population is still of a European background. Areas with a large proportion of people born overseas and with non-English speaking backgrounds include Auburn, Fairfield, Liverpool, and Bankstown. Generally Western European and North American born people have settled around the Lower North Shore and eastern suburbs, Middle Eastern people around the Lakemba-Auburn region, Indo-Chinese in the south-western suburbs, South Asians around Parramatta and the south east, and North East Asians in major nodes such as Hurstville, Burwood, Strathfield, Chatswood, Eastwood, Campsie and the Central Business District. Cabramatta shops For the state electoral district, see Electoral district of Cabramatta. ... Han Chinese (Simplified Chinese: 汉族; Traditional Chinese: 漢族; Pinyin: hànzú) is a term which refers to the majority ethnic group within China and the largest single human ethnic group in the world. ... Chatswood pedestrian mall, facing west towards Chatswood station Chatswood is a suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia and the seat of the City of Willoughby local government area. ... Guangdong (Simplified Chinese: 广东; Traditional Chinese: 廣東; Pinyin: GuÇŽngdōng; Wade-Giles: Kuang-tung; Postal System Pinyin: Kwangtung or Canton Province, Jyutping: gwong2 dung1), is a province on the south coast of the Peoples Republic of China. ... Leichhardt is a suburb in the Municipality of Leichhardt in the inner-west of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. ... Originally called Redmyre after the red clay found in the area,Strathfield is a suburb of Sydney,in the state of New South Wales, Australia, a significant centre in Sydneys Inner West. ... Situated on the banks of the Yangtze River Delta in Eastern China, Shanghai (Chinese: 上海; pinyin: ; Shanghainese: ) is Chinas largest city by population. ... // Location Eastwood (Postcode 2122, S33. ... Guangdong (Simplified Chinese: 广东; Traditional Chinese: 廣東; Pinyin: GuÇŽngdōng; Wade-Giles: Kuang-tung; Postal System Pinyin: Kwangtung or Canton Province, Jyutping: gwong2 dung1), is a province on the south coast of the Peoples Republic of China. ... Bankstown CBD skyline as seen from the elevated end of Jacobs Street Bankstown is a suburb in the City of Bankstown in south-western Sydney, in the state of New South Wales Australia. ... Earlwood is a suburb in the City of Canterbury in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. ... Brighton le Sands also simply known as Brighton by locals, is a suburb in the City of Rockdale in southern Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. ... Petersham is a suburb in the inner-west of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. ... Auburn is a suburb in the Local Government Area of Auburn Council in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, about 15 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district. ... St Ives is a suburb in northern Sydney, Australia, part of the Upper North Shore and 16 kilometers north of the CBD. It is part of the Ku-ring-gai Local Government Area. ... The word Jew ( Hebrew: יהודי) is used in a wide number of ways, but generally refers to a follower of the Jewish faith, a child of a Jewish mother, or someone of Jewish descent with a connection to Jewish culture or ethnicity and often a combination of these attributes. ... Bondi is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. ... The word Jew ( Hebrew: יהודי) is used in a wide number of ways, but generally refers to a follower of the Jewish faith, a child of a Jewish mother, or someone of Jewish descent with a connection to Jewish culture or ethnicity and often a combination of these attributes. ... Liverpool is a suburb in the City of Liverpool, New South Wales in the south western Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. ... Northbridge is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. ... Hurstville is a suburb in the City of Hurstville, in southern Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. ... Willoughby is a suburb in the City of Willoughby on the North Shore of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. ... Blacktown is a suburb in the City of Blacktown, in Western Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. ... Kingsford is a suburb in Sydney, Australia located about 7km south of the central business district, falling under the authority of Randwick council. ... Homebush is a suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, located in the municipality of Strathfield. ... South India is a geographic and linguistic-cultural region of India. ... Europe is conventionally considered one of the seven continents of Earth which, in this case, is more a cultural and political distinction than a physiographic one, leading to various perspectives about Europes borders. ...

Apart from English, the 30 most widely spoken languages in Sydney are: (2004)^{[citation needed]}

1. Arabic
2. Cantonese
3. Greek
4. Italian
5. Vietnamese
6. Mandarin
7. Spanish
8. Tagalog
9. Korean
10. Hindi
11. Croatian
12. Macedonian
13. Serbian
14. Turkish
15. Indonesian
16. Maltese
17. German
18. Polish
19. Assyrian
20. Russian
21. French
22. Persian (Farsi)
23. Tamil
24. Portuguese
25. Samoan
26. Japanese
27. Khmer
28. Hungarian
29. Armenian
30. Bengali

All languages above have over 5000 speakers in the city; Arabic and Cantonese both have over 150,000 speakers. Countries where Arabic is spoken. ... This article is on all of the Yue dialects. ... This article is on all of the Northern Chinese dialects. ... Tagalog (pronunciation: ) is one of the major language of the Republic of the Philippines. ... Hindi (हिन्दी hind), an Indo-European language spoken mainly in North, Central, and West India, is the official language of the Indian Union. ... The Serbian language is one of the standard versions of the Štokavian dialect, used primarily in Serbia and Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina and by Serbs everywhere. ... Relief from Assyrian capital of Dur Sharrukin, showing transport of Lebanese cedar (8th c. ... Persian is a language spoken in Iran, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Bahrain, Iraq, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Southern Russia, neighboring countries, and elsewhere. ... Tamil (தமிழ் ) is a classical language and one of the major languages of the Dravidian language family. ... Khmer (ភាសាខ្មែរ) is one of the main Austroasiatic languages. ... Bengali or Bangla (বাংলা ) is an Indo-Aryan language of South Asia that evolved as a successor to Sanskrit, Pali, and Prakrit. ...

The gay community

Sydney is famous for its gay community, centred on Oxford Street, and the annual Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras. The Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras is a parade and pride festival for the gay and lesbian community, held annually in Sydney, Australia. ...