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25 - 27 July
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2008 Sydney Retirement & Lifestyle Expo
The Retirement & Lifestyle Expo is a one-stop shop not only for people seeking advice on issues relating to a happy, active and hassle-free retirement, but also for families of retirees. With so many people now needing to plan for their retirement as well as the huge market of those who have already retired, this expo has significant importance to the wider community.
The Retirement & Lifestyle Expo is designed to be very interactive with product demonstrations, stage performances, information seminars and many wonderful features and attractions.
Hundreds of exhibitors attend, including financial and investment planners, a vast variety of lifestyle villages and resorts , a host of domestic and overseas holiday and travel operators, tourism destinations, taxation and legal advisors, government information services, property investments, superannuation and insurance advisors, health and hearing specialists, caravan, campervan and motorhome suppliers, amongst others.
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25 - 27 July |
Byron Bay Writers Festival
The Byron Bay Writers Festival 2008 will be held at the Byron Bay Beach Resort and venues around town.
At the Festival site, you will find four white marquees with conversations, panels, readings and lectures running concurrently. Most sessions are an hour in length, and you can sit and listen for an entire session or wander between marquees. The day starts at 9am and the last session will conclude at 5pm.
There are coffee and food vendors or you can bring a picnic to enjoy on the grass. The official bookseller for the Festival is Dymocks which supplies books by the authors featured at the Festival.
On Festival Saturday, one marquee is turned over to children’s authors and the kids can have a special day meeting their favourites. In the evening, you can enjoy one of the feature events around town.
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| 27 July |
National Tree Day
National Tree Day, co-ordinated by Planet Ark and proudly sponsored by Toyota and the AMP Foundation, is Australia's biggest community tree-planting event and a day for all Australians to help out by planting native trees and shrubs at a Tree Day site in their local area.
Co-founded by Olivia Newton-John and Jon Dee in 1996, to date more than 1.5 million volunteers have planted over 11.5 million native trees and shrubs.
Tree planting makes a positive difference to our environment, and provides an opportunity for schools, community groups and local residents to come together under the umbrella of one event. Planting local native trees, shrubs and ground covers helps to provide food and shelter for Australia's wildlife, increasing native biodiversity and combating the habitat loss that threatens much of our wildlife.
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| 27 July |
Choral Classics
The Southend Choirs are paying a return visit to the Sydney Opera House on the 20th Anniversary tour of Australia and Singapore. The Sydney Male Choir, as in 1998, will again join the Southend Choirs in this concert.
These internationally acclaimed and award winning choirs have performed with UK and European orchestras and in recent years featured in the BBC Proms Series, most notably in the 80th Birthday Concert for Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth.
Adults $30
Australian Pensioners $25
Children under 16 $20
Students $20
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7 Jun - 14 Aug |
Living in the 50s
The 1950s was an exuberant decade that saw the birth of rock and roll, new fashions and social mores, and a breakaway generation who became known as teenagers. At the turn of the 21st century there are some for whom the '50s never died. Photographer Steven Siewert has spent years documenting Sydney's rockabillies, a vibrant subculture who live and breathe an era that predates their earliest birthdays. The boys dress for cool with stovepipe jeans and slick quiffs, while the women wear dazzling cocktail frocks by night and colourful vintage dresses by day.
Steven Siewert's work straddles documentary and press photography. He combines professional work as a Sydney Morning Herald photojournalist with personal projects such as this.
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10 May - 14 Sept |
Sydney's golden age of aviation
1938 saw the dawn of a golden age of aviation when Rose Bay became home to Sydney’s first international airport, servicing the mighty flying boats – large, luxurious, four-engine aircraft that alighted on water.
This was the beginning of an era when air travel was new, exciting and glamorous and a ticket cost more than the average annual wage. Passengers on the journey from Sydney to England enjoyed a leisurely ten day trip in first class comfort with over 30 exotic stopovers.
Flying boats played a vital role in World War II, and after the war they opened up the South Pacific and Lord Howe Island as popular holiday playgrounds for Australians. As a result Sydney operated the last major flying boat base in the world until 1974.
Featuring photographs, posters, film, models, flight crew uniforms, a recreated cabin, a flying boat engine and the fascinating personal stories of travellers, crew and the workers at the Rose Bay base, Flying boats celebrates the early days of transoceanic air travel and presents a definitive account of this extraordinary chapter in Sydney’s history.
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