NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Sydney Entertainment Centre

The Sydney Entertainment Centre is an entertainment venue located in Haymarket, Sydney, Australia. Opened in May 1983, the centre is currently owned by the Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority, which administers the neighbouring Darling Harbour area, and managed under a lease. Capable of seating almost 12,500 people, it hosts concerts, family shows, sporting events and corporate events. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Haymarket is an inner-city suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. ... The Sydney Opera House on Sydney Harbour Sydney (pronounced ) is the most populous city in Australia, with a metropolitan area population of approximately 4. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Year 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1983 Gregorian calendar). ... The Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority is an organisation set up by the NSW government of Australia in order to maintain the Sydney Harbour foreshore area. ... The Sydney Kings are a basketball team competing in the National Basketball League in Australia. ... The National Basketball League is Australias top-level professional basketball competition. ... Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five active players each try to score points against one another by throwing a ball through a 10-foot high hoop (the basket) under organized rules. ... Haymarket is an inner-city suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. ... The Sydney Opera House on Sydney Harbour Sydney (pronounced ) is the most populous city in Australia, with a metropolitan area population of approximately 4. ... Darling Harbour is a large recreational pedestrian precinct situated on the western edge of central Sydney, Australia. ...

A wide range of musical artists have performed at the centre such as Coldplay and Coolio as well as international circuses and shows such as Disney on Ice. As a sporting venue, the SEC is best known as the home stadium for the Sydney Kings basketball team, but other sports such as boxing, tennis and indoor motor-cross have also been held there. In the 2000 Summer Olympics, the SEC was the venue for the volleyball tournaments. Disney on Ice is a touring ice show produced by Feld Entertainment (CEO Kenneth Feld) under agreement with The Walt Disney Company. ... The Sydney Kings are a basketball team competing in the National Basketball League in Australia. ... Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five active players each try to score points against one another by throwing a ball through a 10-foot high hoop (the basket) under organized rules. ... Professional boxing bout featuring Ricardo DomÃnguez (left, throwing a left uppercut) versus Rafael Ortiz Boxing, also referred to as pugilism is a combat sport in which two participants of similar weight fight each other with their fists in a series of one to three-minute intervals called rounds. ... Arthur Ashe Stadium at Flushing Meadows, New York Tennis is a game played between two players (singles) or between two teams of two players (doubles). ... The 2000 Summer Olympics or the Millennium Games/Games of the New Millennium, officially known as the Games of the XXVII Olympiad, were the Summer Olympic Games held in 2000 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. ... Volleyball is an Olympic sport in which two teams separated by a high net use their hands, arms or (rarely) other parts of their bodies to hit a ball back and forth over the net. ...

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Categories: 1983 establishments | Basketball venues in Australia | Indoor arenas in Australia | Music venues in Australia | Sports venues in Sydney | Venues of the 2000 Summer Olympics The Sydney Opera House on Sydney Harbour Sydney (pronounced ) is the most populous city in Australia, with a metropolitan area population of approximately 4. ... The Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre, is located in Sydneys Darling Harbour near the Central Business District. ... The Finger Wharf or Woolloomooloo Wharf is a wharf in Woolloomooloo Bay, Sydney, Australia. ... The Queen Victoria Building, or QVB, is a grand Victorian building located in the heart of Downtown Sydney. ... The observatory photographed in 1874 The observatory today The Sydney Observatory evolved from a fort built on Windmill Hill in the Sydney central area now known as The Rocks, to an astronomical observatory during the nineteenth century. ... 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