Featured Events in The Rocks in July, 2025 (June Updated)

The Intelligence of Painting throws a spotlight on the energy of contemporary painting in Australia today through the work of 14 Australian women artists. The exhibition includes recent MCA Collection acquisitions, as well as new and recent paintings by Karen Black, Angela Brennan, Eleanor Louise Butt, Prudence Flint, Maria Madeira, Thea Anamara Perkins, Kerrie Poliness, Jude Rae, Jessica Rankin, Julie Nangala Robertson, Gemma Smith, Jelena Telecki, Jenny Watson and Nyapanyapa Yunupingu. The Intelligence of Painting responds to the MCA’s commitment to be a platform for living artists and the Museum’s privileged role in showcasing their art to the broader public in Australia and to the world.

Cerith Wyn Evans creates epic contemporary environments of light and sound in our major winter exhibition. Conceived as if the audience were strolling through a garden, the exhibition will invite visitors to meditate and contemplate their own passage through space and time. Monumental light sculptures will occupy the MCA’s double-height exhibition galleries, including F=O=U=N=T=A=I=N (2020), an architectural wall of white neon three metres tall and ten metres wide which audiences are welcome to move around and through.​

Learn how to write and perform your own original songs! Created for students in Years 9-12, AIM’s new high school music workshops provide incredible opportunities to explore songwriting, mentored by AIM’s own accomplished musicians and educators. This songwriting workshop is essential for any high school students curious about writing songs and performing and is a golden opportunity to work with incredibly accomplished songwriters. Join us these school holidays and discover the songwriter and performer you were born to become. Over the course of the workshop, students will work with professional Songwriter/Composer/Producers Dominic Cabusi & Bronte Maree O’Neill to expand their songwriting skills in a collaborative and inspiring environment. They will workshop harmony, melody, style, lyricism, basic arrangement and/or production and artistic performance. Under their guidance, they will use these new devices to write original music in collaboration with other students in the class to present a performance for family and friends. JOIN US FOR OUR SONGWRITING WORKSHOP Date: Monday 7th – Tuesday 8th, 2025 Time: 10am to 5pm Location: AIM Sydney, Enter via 27 Nurses Walk, The Rocks NSW 2010 Performance for parents and friends commences at 4pm on Tuesday. Information Source: Australian Institute of Music | eventbrite

Learn how to write and perform your own original songs! Created for students in Years 9-12, AIM’s new high school music workshops provide incredible opportunities to explore songwriting, mentored by AIM’s own accomplished musicians and educators. This songwriting workshop is essential for any high school students curious about writing songs and performing and is a golden opportunity to work with incredibly accomplished songwriters. Join us these school holidays and discover the songwriter and performer you were born to become. Over the course of the workshop, students will work with professional Songwriter/Composer/Producers Adrianna Cicchitelli& Bronte Maree O’Neill to expand their songwriting skills in a collaborative and inspiring environment. They will workshop harmony, melody, style, lyricism, basic arrangement and/or production and artistic performance. Under their guidance, they will use these new devices to write original music in collaboration with other students in the class to present a performance for family and friends. JOIN US FOR OUR SONGWRITING WORKSHOP Date: Monday 7th – Tuesday 8th, 2025 Time: 10am to 5pm Location: AIM Sydney, Enter via 27 Nurses Walk, The Rocks NSW 2010 Performance for parents and friends commences at 4pm on Tuesday. Information Source: Australian Institute of Music | eventbrite

PERFORMANCE MASTERCLASS SCHOOL HOLIDAY WORKSHOP AIM’s new school holiday workshop is designed for high school students interested in music performance. Created for students in Years 9-12, the workshops provide incredible opportunities to experience playing and performing music, mentored by AIM’s own accomplished musicians and educators. Learn, practice and perform contemporary and classic pop, rock and soul tunes, under the expertise of Australia’s leading music mentors. Over the course of the workshop, students will work with two AIM alumni, Gian Timothy Gho who is a professional drummer, and Noa Kidd, a professional guitar player, to expand their performance skills in a collaborative and inspiring environment. They will workshop communication in an ensemble, chart reading, rhythm, pitch, dynamic, improvisation, stylistic interpretation and performance. Under their guidance, they will use these new rehearsal and performance techniques to create a small set of diverse songs in collaboration with other students in the class to present a performance for family and friends. JOIN US FOR OUR PERFORMANCE WORKSHOP Date & Time: Monday 7th – Tuesday 8th Location: AIM Sydney, Enter via 27 Nurses Walk, The Rocks NSW 2010 Performance for family and friends commences at 4pm on Tuesday. Information Source: Australian Institute of Music | eventbrite