Find some great arts events, Sydney families! 

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Splish Splash Science! (Riverside Theatres)

Riverside Theatres - Parramatta Corner Church and Market Streets, Parramatta

Roll up! Roll up! It’s the splishiest, splashiest show on Earth! From the multi-award-winning creators of The Alphabet of Awesome Science and You Are a Doughnut comes a wet and wild science circus where the star of the show is (drum roll please…) —...

$34

Same Like Yesterday (Riverside Theatres)

Riverside Theatres - Parramatta Corner Church and Market Streets, Parramatta

Experience Same Like Yesterday – a vibrant, animated storytelling production sharing Adnyamathanha culture through art, music, and Dreamtime stories. Created by senior Adnyamathanha women in collaboration with SharingStories Foundation and the local community, the show follows the journey of Virlkuthalypila, two ancestral...

Free

Tinkerbell and the Dream Fairies (Royal Botanic Garden)

Royal Botanic Garden Mrs Macquaries Road, Sydney

Join the magical fairies as they go on an exciting musical adventure! In an enchanting world of song and dance, the adventurous Tinkerbell meets up with the fairies from A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Together, the cheeky Mustardseed, fluttery Moth, daring...

$30

Murmur (Sydney Opera House)

Sydney Opera House Bennelong Point, Sydney

Direct from Europe, Murmur is both circus and sound theatre for families. Daringly, it plays with all the senses - with rustling sound backpacks, a landscape of speakers and an acrobatic composer! For the first time in Australia, join Murmur’s visual circus and a...

$42

Bottom’s Dream (Bell Shakespeare – Pier 2/3)

Bell Shakespeare - Pier 2/3 13A Hickson Road, Dawes Point

Bottom has had a most rare vision. He’s just woken up in the forest after a strange dream involving fairies, magic flowers and donkey ears. Was it just a dream, or was it real? Join us these school holidays for...

$30

Where to Hide a Star (ACO on the Pier)

Australian Chamber Orchestra Pier 2/3 Suite 3/13A Hickson Rd, Dawes Point

From the creative team that brought you the smash-hit production How to Catch a Star, comes a brand-new theatrical adventure based on Oliver Jeffers’ sequel, Where to Hide a Star – a sparkling celebration of imagination, friendship, empathy, courage and love. In this...

$39

Gardener’s Apprentice (Carriageworks)

Carriageworks 245 Wilson Street, Eveleigh

Gardener’s Apprentice is a heart-warming intergenerational experience, during the school holidays, for young people aged 5+ and their grandparent or favourite elder. Together, they’re invited to share stories, spark memories, and connect through gentle movement, music and play. Part workshop...

Mario the Maker Magician (Sydney Opera House)

Sydney Opera House Bennelong Point, Sydney

Contagiously upbeat and full of heart, the ever-innovative Mario the Maker Magician leads you through an explosion of handmade art and robot magic for all ages. He’s “magic’s punk rock Peter Pan philosopher!”  Do what you love, use what you have and...

$50