The best of the Inner West from 13 to 15 November
Good morning, Inner Westies.
Inner West Council has made its call on boat, trailer and caravan parking, and plenty of you had something to say about it. This weekend brings the Greek Street Fair in Burwood, the last weekend of the Made in the Inner West Festival and Finders Keepers at Carriageworks. Plus, to celebrate turning two, we’re doing a giveaway, and nominations are open for our Christmas Gift Guide.
Grab your morning coffee and let’s explore the Inner West together.
Have a great weekend,
Jess
Note: Please check to confirm details are accurate with venues, event providers, restaurants and pubs by clicking through to their site. Events are occasionally cancelled at the last minute.
Inner West Guide turned two in August, and to celebrate we’re doing a belated giveaway. I want your help to pull together the Inner West Edit: tell us about a local place you love and you’ll go in the draw to win.
The prize bundle includes dinner for two at Darling Glebe, a $200 MUCHO Group voucher for bars including Bar Planet and Super 44, a $200 digital gift card from Sourced Property Buyers Agents, two tickets to House of Hymns, six donuts from Donut Garage and a $100 local makers pack from us. Entries close Friday 11 December.
Thanks to our supporters who have donated prizes. Please show them some love.
Councillors voted 14–0 on Tuesday to back a 12-month trial stopping boats, trailers and caravans being parked on selected streets, and added four more streets to the list. Nothing changes yet. Residents, businesses and sporting clubs will be consulted first, and there’s no start date. Our reel drew more than 400 comments and plenty of debate. You can check it out below.
🏠 Home of the Week 🏠

Images courtesy of BresicWhitney
This was once the Oh Boy Candy Company warehouse. Now there’s a rooftop pool and a nine-metre ironbark kitchen island. Inside are 400-year-old ship masts, exposed timber roof trusses and an internal garden. The lounge has a five-metre library wall and a suspended fireplace that rotates. The main bedroom looks towards the city, and the cellar holds 500 bottles. Callan Park is a short walk away. Lollies not included.
📍 5 bed / 3 bath / 3 car / 465sqm approx.
👉 Listed with BresicWhitney

Photo credit: Anna Hay
Be average. Feel iconic. After a sold-out September debut, House of Hymns returns with karaoke backed by a live 12-person choir. Host Jonny Hawkins (Aunty Jonny) leads a night of pop and queer anthems, from Madonna and Kylie to Robyn, Lady Gaga, Chappell Roan and George Michael.
No auditions and no perfect notes required. Register ahead for a performance spot, try your luck as a walk-in, or sing along from the crowd. Doors open at 7pm on Thursday 19 November, with performances from 7:30pm. Tickets start at $35.
Photos don’t do this justice. Watch this video to see how good it really is.
📆 Thu 19 Nov / Doors 7pm; performances 7:30pm
📍 Pleasure Club, Newtown
👉 Find out more

This is your last chance to hit the Made in the Inner West Fest, which finishes on Sunday. Thirteen local breweries have teamed up with neighbouring makers for one-off beers, including Grifter’s bread pilsner with A.P Bakery and Heaps Normal’s Mapo Gelato collaboration.
Buy a beer at a participating brewery to get a stamp in your festival passport. Ten stamps earns a free tote bag and all 13 adds a stubby holder, while stocks last.
📆 Until Sun 15 Nov
📍 13 breweries across the Inner West
👉 Find out more

Image courtesy of Burwood Council
Greek food, dancing and market stalls fill the streets around Burwood Station on Saturday. The main stage moves from community dance groups into live music, with Efi Karra and her band at 5:30pm and Konstantinos Nazis and his band at 7:30pm.
Ford Lane has its own Greek music program all day, and the taverna runs cooking talks and a tavli lesson at 5pm. Catch the train if you can: the streets close from 5am and parking is limited.
📆 Sat 14 Nov / Noon – 9pm
📍 Railway Parade, Burleigh Street and Ford Lane, Burwood
👉 Find out more
I’m putting together an Inner West Christmas Gift Guide, full of local makers and shops. Run a local business, or know one that deserves a spot? Nominate it here. It’s free. Round one closes Sunday 22 November.

🐴 Grow Together Family Fun Day
A free open day at the Marrickville childcare centre, with pony rides, a petting zoo, face painting, balloon twisting and Messina gelato.
📆 Sat 14 Nov / 9am – 11:30am
📍 Grow Together Early Learning, Marrickville
🎂 Rozelle Community Childcare’s 40th Birthday
The centre marks 40 years with live acoustic music, face painting, a balloon artist, a photo timeline and birthday cake, plus a ticketed bush scavenger hunt with Greater Sydney Parklands rangers.
📆 Sat 14 Nov / 10am – 1pm
📍 Callan Park, Lilyfield
🧸 Social Enterprise Festival
More than 50 social enterprise stalls, plus free family sessions including a toy swap and a Toys Reimagined workshop from 1:30pm.
📆 Sat 14 Nov / 10am – 3pm
📍 University of Sydney, Camperdown
📝 Young Creatives: Rear Window Writing Workshop (ages 14+)
Writers Claudia Blane and Yasir Elgamil run writing exercises about places you know and places you imagine. Poetry, prose and lyrics are all welcome.
📆 Sat 14 Nov / 11:30am – 1:30pm
📍 Chrissie Cotter Gallery, Camperdown ♿️
🥕 The Vegetable Plot
The four-piece kids' band plays an early all-ages show of veggie-themed songs and dancing at the pub. RSVP for a ticket.
📆 Sat 14 Nov / 4pm – 5pm
📍 The MiTCH, Alexandria
📷 Young Creatives: Digital Negative Cyanotypes (ages 14+)
Photographer Sophie Willison shows you how to turn your own photo into a digital negative and print it as a Prussian blue cyanotype on paper and fabric.
📆 Sun 15 Nov / 11am – 1pm
📍 Chrissie Cotter Gallery, Camperdown
🤖 Maker & Creator (ages 8–12)
Program Sphero and Ozobot robots, battle Edison bots, build marble runs and light up LEDs in the library makerspace.
📆 Tue 17 Nov / 3:30pm – 4:30pm
📍 Darling Square Library, Haymarket ♿️
🏀 NBA Basketball School (ages 6–13)
NBA-approved coaches run on-court skill sessions in age groups, and single-session passes are available for the rest of term.
📆 Tue 17 Nov / 4pm – 6pm
📍 Huntley Street Recreation Centre, Alexandria
🎭 The Addams Family
Wednesday Addams falls for a boy from a respectable family, sending Gomez, Morticia and the household into chaos in Teatro’s returning musical comedy.
📆 Tue 17 Nov – Sun 6 Dec / Various times
📍 Teatro at the Italian Forum, Leichhardt ♿️
🧵 Flip Fashion Forever (high school students)
Free drop-in sewing and upcycling for students at Canada Bay schools. Bring a piece of clothing to rework or use the thrifted fabric supplied. It's the last session of the pilot.
📆 Wed 18 Nov / 3:30pm – 4:30pm
📍 Five Dock Library
🌱 Beanstalks Sensory Playgroup (ages 6 months–6 years)
Free, teacher-led sensory play for little ones and their caregivers; drop in without booking.
📆 Thu 19 Nov / 9:30am – 12pm; weekly on Thursdays
📍 Livvi’s Place, Five Dock
📚 Youth Comics and Graphic Novel Club (ages 12–17)
Create characters and stories with youth workers, who also introduce First Nations graphic novels, with art materials and snacks provided.
📆 Thu 19 Nov / 3:30pm – 5pm
📍 Benledi House, Glebe ♿️

ALL WEEKEND
🍻 Made in the Inner West Festival
It's the final weekend to try 13 brewery collab beers made with local bakers, gelato makers and distillers, and to fill your passport for free merch.
📆 Fri 13 – Sun 15 Nov / Brewery hours vary
📍 Breweries across the Inner West
🛍 The Finders Keepers Sydney Design Market
More than 170 designers and makers sell one-offs and limited editions, with junk journalling and snail mail workshops and a bar stocked with stallholders’ drinks.
📆 Fri 13 Nov / 4pm – 9pm; Sat 14 – Sun 15 Nov / 10am – 5pm
📍 Carriageworks, Eveleigh ♿️
♻ Garage Sale Trail
It's the trail's second and final weekend, with garage sales and thrift markets across the council area and every sale pinned on the trail map.
📆 Sat 14 – Sun 15 Nov
📍 Various Inner West locations
🖼 Public Schools Arts Festival
Final weekend of collaborative artworks by local public school students, shown in a professional gallery space at Addi Road.
📆 Fri 13 Nov, 1pm – 4pm / Sat 14 – Sun 15 Nov, 11am – 3pm
📍 Stirrup Gallery, Addi Road, Marrickville
🇱🇧 Lebanese Festival
Lebanese street food, traditional sweets, live music and belly dancing fill the market for a free two-day celebration.
📆 Sat 14 – Sun 15 Nov / From 11am
📍 Hay St Market, Haymarket
🖼️ The Inner Landscape
Ten artists open their working studio for an exhibition of painting, printmaking, photography and mixed media, with works for sale.
📆 Fri 13 Nov, 6:30pm – 9:30pm / Sat 14 – Sun 15 Nov, 9am – 5pm
📍 Flow Studios, Camperdown
FRIDAY
🗣️ The Human Soundboard
Beatboxer and live-looper Zsaris Mendioro teaches rapping, basic beatboxing and vocal sound effects to build scenes in a one-day ITS Comedy Festival workshop.
📆 Fri 13 Nov / 10am – 5pm
📍 Improv Theatre Sydney, Alexandria
💃 Latin Nights by the Bay
A free beginner lesson with Sydney Latin Flow kicks off a night of salsa and bachata DJs, dance performances and the Lucerito León Trio.
📆 Fri 13 Nov / 6pm – 10pm
📍 Palm Grove, Darling Harbour
📖 Young Creatives: Live Readings
Young writers from this year’s Young Creatives Awards read their stories and poems, with free copies of the anthology and People’s Choice voting.
📆 Fri 13 Nov / 6pm – 8pm
📍 Chrissie Cotter Gallery, Camperdown
💬 Teaching Classics in Prisons
Three academics share what happened when they took Aristotle, Latin and ancient philosophy into Australian and British prisons.
📆 Fri 13 Nov / 6:30pm – 7:30pm
📍 Gleebooks, Glebe ♿️
🤠 Friday Night Line Dancing
Line dancing in the pub courtyard under fairy lights with Maple Social Club. Dressing up is encouraged and RSVP is required.
📆 Fri 13 Nov / 7pm – 9pm
📍 Public House Petersham
SATURDAY
🚶 Love on the Loop
Singles meet new faces on a 7km morning walk around Iron Cove. Come solo or bring a single friend, and register ahead.
📆 Sat 14 Nov / 8am
📍 The Bay Run Café, Five Dock
💿 Vinyl Record Pop-Up
Crates of records, a few rarities and live DJs set up alongside the market's regular stalls of antiques, tools, Pyrex and pre-loved designer gear.
📆 Sat 14 Nov / 9am – 3pm
📍 Rozelle Collectors Market @ Rozelle Public School ♿️
🚗 Galmatic Car Maintenance Workshop (ages 16+)
Hands-on sessions on checking oil, coolant and tyre tread, looking under the bonnet and practising a tyre change.
📆 Sat 14 Nov / 10am – 2pm
📍 Woodstock Community Centre, Burwood
🛠 Handy Human Workshops
Short DIY sessions on using a cordless drill, changing a garden tap washer and hanging a picture on a gyprock wall, plus a fix-it Q&A.
📆 Sat 14 Nov / 10am – 2pm
📍 Woodstock Community Centre, Burwood
✍ Inner West Writers Group
Writers of fiction, memoir, poetry, playwriting and more share work and swap constructive feedback in a supportive group.
📆 Sat 14 Nov / 10am – 12pm
📍 Marrickville Library and Pavilion
🏉 What Ability Day
A free disability-inclusive morning for people with disability and their families: throw a footy with local athletes, hit the silent disco and grab a BBQ.
📆 Sat 14 Nov / 10am – 12pm
📍 ENGIE Stadium, Sydney Olympic Park
🌳 Timbrell Park Official Opening
See the $6 million upgrade, with six hectares of new turf, LED sports lighting, shared paths and an outdoor fitness station, plus a free barbecue and coffee.
📆 Sat 14 Nov / 10am – 12pm
📍 Timbrell Park, Five Dock
🛍 Haus of Marigold: Spring Emergence
Asian-owned small businesses, makers and food stalls fill the old Marigold Chinese restaurant, with ticketed workshops in teacup painting, mahjong, flower arranging and lantern making.
📆 Sat 14 Nov / 10am – 5pm
📍 Former Marigold Restaurant, Haymarket
🧵 Kimekomi Mari: Japanese Fabric Ball Workshop
Japanese artist Izumi Montgomery shows how to cover paper clay balls in vintage kimono fabric and Liberty prints, then finish yours as a necklace or keychain.
📆 Sat 14 Nov / 10am – 12pm
📍 Reverse Garbage, Marrickville
🇯🇵 JAM Fest Sydney
An all-ages day of Japanese and anime music from 13 local bands, including Sydney idol-band KiraHana and Wasabi Galaxy, plus a merch area and J-music trivia.
📆 Sat 14 Nov / 10:30am – 9:30pm
📍 Ashfield Town Hall
🇬🇷 Greek Street Fair
Feast on souvlaki and loukoumades, browse the market stalls and catch traditional Greek dancing and live bands, with music continuing into the evening.
📆 Sat 14 Nov / Noon – 9pm
📍 Railway Parade, Burleigh Street and Ford Lane, Burwood
📓 Burwood Journaling Social
Try zine-making, calligraphy and junk journaling at a free creative meetup with materials supplied; bring your own notebook.
📆 Sat 14 Nov / 12pm – 4pm
📍 Burwood Library and Community Hub
🌱 Crop Swap: Plants, Seeds & Produce
Bring labelled seeds, plant cuttings or harvested produce to swap with other gardeners.
📆 Sat 14 Nov / 1pm – 3pm
📍 Inner West Sustainability Hub, Summer Hill
🎥 Experimental Video-Making Workshop
Walk the garden verges with artists Emily Simek and Shelley Watters, then make and screen a group video about local flowering plants.
📆 Sat 14 Nov / 2pm – 4pm
📍 Invisible Art Space, Balmain ♿️
🏳🌈 Heaps Gay Offensive Trade 13th Birthday
Amanda Lepore, Hercules & Love Affair and Mallrat lead a huge line-up of DJs, drag and live acts across three stages.
📆 Sat 14 Nov / 3pm – 11pm
📍 White Bay Power Station, Rozelle
SUNDAY
🧺 Flour Mill Markets
Stalls of fresh flowers, produce, baked goods, food, homewares and clothing. Dogs are welcome.
📆 Sun 15 Nov / 9am – 1pm
📍 Flour Mill of Summer Hill
🥕 Marrickville Organic Food Market
Certified organic and conventional fruit and veg, fresh bread, cheese, deli goods and hot food, plus vintage, plant and homewares stalls.
📆 Sun 15 Nov / 9am – 3pm
📍 Addison Road Community Centre, Marrickville
🎙️ Stand-Up Comedy Masterclass
Comedian Dave Crisante of Sydney Comedy School coaches working comics on crowdwork, character, delivery and stronger punchlines.
📆 Sun 15 Nov / 9:30am – 12:30pm
📍 Newtown Neighbourhood Centre
🎤 Marrickville Sunday Session
Grab the mic for all-ages karaoke, watch Greek and Vietnamese performances and tuck into lamb wraps and honey balls. Free entry, plus free bike tune-ups.
📆 Sun 15 Nov / 12pm – 3pm
📍 Calvert Street Carpark, Marrickville
🎶 Sunday Sessions with Danny Telas
Take a dip or relax by the pool while Danny Telas plays live acoustic and jazz.
📆 Sun 15 Nov / 12pm – 2pm
📍 Fanny Durack Aquatic Centre, Petersham
🏳️⚧️ Where Is Jiā? Stories of Forcibly Displaced Trans & Gender Diverse Queer Chinese in Australia
A screening of the documentary Xiaodi, new research and a Mandarin-language community panel with English captions, for Transgender Awareness Week.
📆 Sun 15 Nov / 12:30pm – 3:30pm
📍 The Connection, Rhodes
📿 Jewellery Shorts: Upcycled Jewellery
Bring a broken necklace or lone earring and rework it with recycled chains and beads into a new necklace, pendant or earrings.
📆 Sun 15 Nov / 1:30pm – 4pm
📍 Pine Street Creative Arts Centre, Chippendale
🐶 Paint a Puppy: A Dog Portrait Painting Workshop (ages 14+)
Paint a dog portrait on a prepared canvas, with guided instruction, materials and light refreshments included.
📆 Sun 15 Nov / 2pm – 5:30pm
📍 The Dale Library, Chippendale
🏀 Sydney Kings v New Zealand Breakers
The Kings wear their Indigenous jerseys for Indigenous Round as they host the Breakers in a Sunday afternoon NBL game.
📆 Sun 15 Nov / 3pm
📍 Afterpay Arena, Sydney Olympic Park
COMING UP
🏏 WBBL: Sydney Thunder v Melbourne Stars
The Thunder host the Melbourne Stars in a Monday night Women’s Big Bash League match.
📆 Mon 16 Nov / 7:10pm
📍 Drummoyne Oval
🎬 Japanese Film Festival
Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Look Back opens a program that includes Yōji Yamada’s Tokyo Taxi, animated feature We Are Aliens and Takashi Miike’s SHAM.
📆 Tue 17 – Sun 29 Nov / Various times
📍 Palace Norton Street, Leichhardt
🔌 The Bower: Second Life Electronics
Donate working small appliances and electronics to support people recovering from crisis; check the accepted-items list before dropping off.
📆 Wed 18 Nov / 2pm – 6pm; weekly on Wednesdays
📍 The Bower Reuse & Repair Centre, Summer Hill
🌏 Carbon Challenge
A beginner-friendly climate workshop that uses quizzes, guessing games and role play to work out what really cuts Australia’s emissions.
📆 Wed 18 Nov / 6pm – 8pm
📍 Erskineville Town Hall ♿️
🎤 House of Hymns: Karaoke Backed by a Live Choir
Sing pop and queer anthems from Kylie to Chappell Roan backed by a live 12-person choir; register ahead to perform.
📆 Thu 19 Nov / Doors 7pm; performances 7:30pm
📍 Pleasure Club, Newtown
🤝 BNI Inner West Ember
Meet local business owners, build professional connections and share referrals at a weekly networking breakfast.
📆 Fri 20 Nov / 7am
📍 Salisbury Hotel, Stanmore
🎲 Burwood Games Club: Hub Takeover (ages 14+)
Australian-made video and tabletop games fill every room, plus Dungeons & Dragons sessions, mini painting and learn-to-play demos.
📆 Sat 21 Nov / 11am – 6pm
📍 Burwood Library and Community Hub
🎶 World O World: VOX 25th Anniversary
Sydney Philharmonia’s young adult choir VOX turns 25 with a new Dan Walker commission alongside Whitacre, Pärt and Jacob Collier.
📆 Sat 21 Nov / 3pm – 5pm
📍 White Bay Power Station, Rozelle
🤼 Rampage 2
Pro Wrestling Australia brings an all-ages outdoor wrestling show to the top green.
📆 Sat 21 Nov / 4pm
📍 Petersham Bowling Club

Hannah Ferguson Announces Bracelet Day Fundraiser
Inner West local and Cheek Media founder Hannah Ferguson is holding an online fundraiser on Tuesday 17 November for her independent campaign in Grayndler. The first 500 people to donate $5 or more on the day will receive a handmade campaign bracelet. The campaign is raising funds ahead of new federal political funding rules taking effect on 1 January 2027.
Marrickville Timberyards Moves Into Its Next Construction Stage
Remediation is finished at the Marrickville Timberyards site, and work has moved on to excavation, piling and foundations. The first of three tower cranes goes up in mid-December, and the last buildings at 129 and 131 Sydenham Road will be demolished. The project team says it has received more than 450 emails, 11 of them complaints, mostly about noise, trucks, dust, work hours and vibration.
Enmore Park Pathway Lighting Moves Into Design
Inner West Council has backed new lighting for the dark stretch of path between Enmore Road, Victoria Road and the Annette Kellerman Aquatic Centre, which lost its lights in earlier upgrades. Design will be funded this financial year with $30,000, while the $470,000 needed to build it will be considered in the 2027/28 budget.
St Peters Town Hall and Library to Close for Upgrades
St Peters Town Hall, Library and meeting rooms will close from Monday 7 December until 30 April 2027 for new finishes, refurbished bathrooms, LED lighting, and acoustic and safety upgrades. Inner West Council is pointing library users to Marrickville Library in the meantime.
30-Storey Tower Proposed for Parramatta Road, Five Dock
A state significant development proposal for 235 Parramatta Road, Five Dock would deliver a 30-storey building with 260 apartments, including 31 affordable units, plus shops and a health services facility. The NSW Government, not Canada Bay Council, will make the decision. Submissions close Tuesday 8 December.
Forest Lodge Rezoning Heads to City of Sydney Council
A City of Sydney planning proposal for 14 sites along Parramatta Road, Arundel Street and Ross Street in Forest Lodge would allow buildings up to 85 metres, with about 462 apartments, 791 co-living rooms and affordable housing equal to roughly 80 to 86 homes. Councillors vote on Monday 16 November on asking the state for approval to put it on public exhibition.
NSW Government Moves to Untangle Cooks River Ownership
The Cooks River was realigned between 1946 and 1963, but land boundaries were never fully updated, which has complicated repairs to its ageing steel walls. The NSW Government will make it a single Crown waterway, has put up about 200 metres of temporary fencing at high-risk spots and has given Canterbury-Bankstown Council $150,000 for riverside works. A plan setting repair priorities goes on exhibition in early 2027.
Late-Night Trading Plans for Glebe, Redfern and Alexandria
The City of Sydney is proposing more than 20 special entertainment precincts, where venues would get pre-approved trading hours, set sound rules and incentives such as 80% off liquor licence fees. Proposed areas include Glebe Point Road, Broadway, Redfern Street, South Eveleigh, north Alexandria and parts of Chippendale. Feedback closes at 5pm on Thursday 26 November.
City of Sydney Wants Fewer Share Bikes
The City of Sydney has proposed cutting share bikes in its area from around 12,000 to 7,000, a 42% reduction, to clear footpaths and public spaces. Transport for NSW will set the final cap, with new state share-bike rules expected around March 2027.
Have Your Say on Birchgrove Park’s Future
Inner West Council is drafting a 10-year plan of management and master plan for Birchgrove Park and wants early input, including on watercraft storage and replacing the wharf. Feedback closes Monday 23 November.
Shared Zones and Raised Crossings Proposed for Balmain East
A draft traffic plan for Balmain East and Birchgrove proposes 10km/h shared zones on streets including Gipps, Rosser, Caroline and Thomas streets, raised pedestrian crossings in Booth and Johnston streets, and making Davidson Street one-way. Some changes need Transport for NSW approval and would cost a few parking spaces. Feedback closes Sunday 6 December.
Inner West Council Plans a Sydney for Multiculturalism Coalition
After last month’s Inner West BBQ for Multiculturalism drew more than 2,000 people, councillors unanimously backed Mayor Darcy Byrne’s plan for a Sydney-wide coalition of community groups and civic leaders to defend and strengthen multiculturalism. A roundtable comes first, with a report back to Inner West Council on next steps.
Inner West Council Backs Plug-in Solar for Renters
Inner West Council has voted to support plug-in, or “balcony”, solar panels, which could let renters and apartment dwellers use solar power without a rooftop system. Federal and state governments are still working on the rules and safety standards, so Inner West Council will write to Energy Ministers Chris Bowen and Penny Sharpe in support.

🧁 All-Star Charity Bake Sale
Bakers from Humble, Good Ways, Tokyo Lamington, Shadow Baking, Tuki and more sell their bakes, with all money raised going to Chris O'Brien Lifehouse.
📆 Sat 14 Nov / 8:30am – 11am
📍 Poor Toms, Marrickville
🍖 Tony's Tavern Saturday Buffet
An all-you-can-eat spread of meats, salads, sides and a DIY taco station for $45 a head, with one child under 12 free per paying adult and extra kids $10. See venue for terms and conditions.
📆 Sat 14 Nov / 11am – 1pm
📍 Tempe Hotel
🌮 Taco Supremo Opens in Glebe
The team behind Radio Taco grills Tijuana-style carne asada for tacos on house-made flour tortillas, serving three for $24.
📆 Open now / Tue – Sun, 11am – 9pm
📍 Taco Supremo, Glebe
🍷 Angus Opens for Dinner
The Meeks Road daytime spot now stays open into the evening for wine, snacks and dinner, with walk-ins welcome and dinner bookings encouraged.
📆 Open now / Thu – Sat 4pm – 10pm; Sun 4pm – 8pm
📍 Angus, Marrickville
🥐 Pantry Story's Hong Kong Toast Monkey Bread
The bakery's November special is a Hong Kong toast take on monkey bread, made with croissant, peanut butter custard, dulce de leche and salted butter.
📆 Available now
📍 Pantry Story, Stanmore
🍔 Pacho's Bay Run Deal
Show your Bay Run on Strava and get free fries or tots plus a drink with any burger. See venue for terms and conditions.
📆 Available now
📍 Pacho's Burger Truck, Rozelle

🍺 Elliott's Bar & Bistro Reopens in Balmain
The downstairs bar and courtyard are open, with $6 schooners and $9 pints on selected beers through November. The upstairs restaurant relaunches on Thursday 19 November.
📆 Open now
📍 Elliott's, Balmain
🎧 El Patio at Pepito's
Sosilly Records DJs Reenie, Jerkboy and the Santamaria Brothers play the rear courtyard while Pepito's serves Peruvian snacks and drinks. Free entry, 18+.
📆 Sun 15 Nov / 4pm – 9pm
📍 Pepito's, Marrickville
HAPPY HOUR HEROES
🍸 Elliott's Bar & Bistro, Balmain | Every day | 4pm – 6pm | $6 beer of the week, $10 house wines and cocktails from $13 - see venue for terms and conditions.
🍷 The Glebe Hotel | Monday to Friday | 4pm – 6pm | Members’ Happy Hour. Beer and wine from $6 - see venue for terms and conditions.
GET YOUR EVENT ON THE LIST 🎸
Our deadline is the close of business on Wednesday for each Friday edition.

Abstract Synergies: Kevin White & Sergei Shatrov | Gallery LNL, Newtown
Alana Hunt: To the Owner | UTS Gallery, Ultimo
Ancestor Spirits and In the Half Light | 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Haymarket
Black Myth | White Rabbit Gallery, Chippendale
David Hockney: Bigger & Closer | Carriageworks, Eveleigh
Francesca Raft: Between Worlds | Artsite Contemporary, Camperdown
Hanako Murakami: Radiant Force | The Japan Foundation, Chippendale
Ian Kingsford-Smith: Preoccupied with the Unresolved | Gallery 371, Marrickville
Jude Williams: Vessels of Memory | Tiliqua Tiliqua, Enmore
Malvern Hill Exhibition | Burwood Library and Community Hub
Next Stop, Strathfield: Travel Through History | Ironbark Gallery, Homebush
Quartet | Utopia Art Sydney, Waterloo
Spring Introductions | Artsite Contemporary, Camperdown
Undoing the City, Making Home | Chau Chak Wing Museum, Camperdown

Bernie Dieter's Club Kabarett | Carriageworks, Eveleigh
Fuccbois: Live in Concert | Darling Quarter Theatre, Haymarket
Medley | KXT on Broadway, Ultimo
RARA | Flight Path Theatre, Marrickville
Yerma | Genesian Theatre, Rozelle

Friday
Afterpay Arena Sydney Olympic Park | Khalid + Newport | 7:30pm
Botany View Hotel Newtown | Large Mirage + WoodHill, Mazy | 7:30pm
The Bridge Hotel Rozelle | Steel Assassins Day 1: Pustilence, Bengal Tigers, Asylum, Petrol, Rawtism, 308, Dead by Dawn | 5pm
Buddy’s Bar Newtown | Euan Hart + Josh Evans | 7:30pm
Camelot Lounge Marrickville | Trio: Peter Northcote, Brydon Stace, Bernie Segedin | 8pm
The Chippo Hotel Chippendale | The Gay Agenda: FVNERAL, Cry Club, Worm Girlz | 7:30pm
Crowbar Leichhardt | Dream On Dreamer + Wayside, Lotus Born | 8pm
Django Bar @ Camelot Lounge Marrickville | Royale With Cheese: The Funk Royale | 8pm
The Duke of Enmore | Step in Blood + Decimator, Demon Devine | 9pm
Enmore Theatre Newtown | Kip Moore + Kingswood | 8pm
Factory Theatre Marrickville | The Reverend Horton Heat + The Johnnys, Pat Capocci | 7:30pm
Gasoline Pony Marrickville | Dame Joan's Love Children: Mick Moriarty & Friends | 7pm
Gifts of Mercy Emporium Petersham | Local Tough Guy + Motion Sickness, Mouse Trap | 7pm
Golden Barley Hotel Enmore | Buddy Dingo + Durry Mums | 8pm
Heaps Normal Health Club Marrickville | L.A.R.M Album Launch + Itchy and the Nits, Olivia's World, DJ King Opp | 6pm
Kiss My Brass Marrickville | 4H4NN4H: Butterflies and Restless Nights Album Launch | 7pm
Knox Street Bar Chippendale | The Creators: Mia Lovelock + Josh Keys, GNOMEH, Grace Alexandra, Zailya | 7pm
The Lansdowne Chippendale | The Tullamarines | 7pm
The Lansdowne Chippendale | House of Strangers + Eva and Avaiki, Alina Grace | 8pm
Lazybones Lounge Marrickville | Cuban Social Club | 8:30pm
Lazybones Lounge Marrickville | Old School Funk & Groove: Cameron Undy, Carl Dewhurst, Stu Hunter, Declan Kelly | 8:30pm
The Living Room Theatre Marrickville | Chaos Collective | 8pm
Manning Bar Camperdown | Mick Jenkins | 8pm
Marrickville Bowling Club | Druid Fluids + Magic Machine | 9pm
The Merton Hotel Rozelle | The Stray Dogs | 8pm
Miss Celie’s Ashfield | Darren Heinrich Trio | 8pm
MoshPit Bar Erskineville | The Owen Guns + Steve Towson and the Conscripts, So I Says to Mabel | 7pm
Petersham Bowling Club | Moon Brain + Fringe, Enamel | 8pm
Pyrmont Bridge Hotel | Class Action | 9pm
Sappho Books, Cafe & Bar Glebe | Emad Younan + Jess Randall | 7:30pm
Sneaky Possum Chippendale | Sian Fuller + Haley Holgate, Zoe Kemp | 7pm
TikTok Entertainment Centre Darling Harbour | Ashanti + RIAH | 7:45pm
The Vanguard Newtown | Ella Thompson + Ella Haber | 7pm
Vic on the Park Marrickville | The Vandastruts + Dead Routes | 9pm
Saturday
Afterpay Arena Sydney Olympic Park | Joji + Tommy Richman | 8pm
Bald Rock Hotel Rozelle | Strolling Bones | 7:30pm
Botany View Hotel Newtown | The Dated + Spice Child, A Place in the Sky | 8pm
Camelot Lounge Marrickville | In the Air Tonight: Celebrating the Music of Phil Collins | 8pm
The Chippo Hotel Chippendale | Baby's Alright: Grass Goo, Kurve, Skirtless | 7:30pm
Darling Harbour Theatre | George Wassouf + Adam | 7:30pm
Django Bar @ Camelot Lounge Marrickville | Miriam Lieberman Trio | 8pm
The Eveleigh Hotel Redfern | ALZZY | 6:30pm
Factory Theatre Marrickville | Breaks N Bass: Andi A., Negrolator X, Thierry D, Perchance, Rhythmiic-X | 1pm
Factory Theatre Marrickville | Alex Lloyd + Abby Dobson, Lo Carmen | 8pm
Gasoline Pony Marrickville | Miau + Anni's Fins | 3pm
Gasoline Pony Marrickville | Skyscraper Stan & Oskar Herbig | 7pm
Golden Barley Hotel Enmore | Queen Juno + The Clean Break | 8pm
Lazybones Lounge Marrickville | Boogie Affair | 8:30pm
The Living Room Theatre Marrickville | MARA! | 7:30pm
Manning Bar Camperdown | The Mark of Cain | 8pm
Marrickville Bowling Club | Nursery Crimes + Grytt, Blame, Dirt Road Wave | 7:30pm
The Merton Hotel Rozelle | Django Blackheart | 8pm
Miss Celie’s Ashfield | Tokyo Boho Trio | 4pm
Miss Celie’s Ashfield | French Deception | 8pm
Petersham Bowling Club | R(A)mped Up #4 | 7pm
Petersham Town Hall | The Graduates 2026: Embrosia, T.U.B.B, Anticz, .jpeg, Freak, The Avenue, RETEP, Judy Seltman + more | 1pm
Pyrmont Bridge Hotel | Ca$hed Up Band | 5pm
Pyrmont Bridge Hotel | Coogee Bay Road Band | 9pm
Red Rattler Theatre Marrickville | Umoya: TeeSoul, Mr Bradley, DJ Stok3y | 10pm
Sappho Books, Cafe & Bar Glebe | Lil Hazelton | 7pm
Seymour Centre Chippendale | Flux State + Azyminh | 6:30pm
Sneaky Possum Chippendale | Eva Diana + Hark Marquee, Alex & Anna | 6:30pm
Sydenham Skate Park | Save Lazy Thinking Fundraiser: Back By Unpopular Demand, Cherubs' Son, Pushkin, The Suburban Skulk | 3pm
Tokyo Sing Song @ The Marlborough Hotel Newtown | Qurio: Sa Dilim: DJ Metro Line Extension, Kngsly, Lesbionic, Mishsquish, Ssuki, Uardo | 9pm
The Vanguard Newtown | All India Radio + USER | 7pm
Vic on the Park Marrickville | Sega Jade + Sydney Water | 9pm
White Bay Power Station Rozelle | Heaps Gay Offensive Trade 13th Birthday: Amanda Lepore, Cain Culto, CCL, Chippy Nonstop, Hercules & Love Affair | 3pm
Yulli's Brews Alexandria | For the Cause Vol.002: Benjamin | 5pm
Sunday
Bald Rock Hotel Rozelle | Linden Furnell | 4pm
Botany View Hotel Newtown | Geoff Bull & The Finer Cuts | 5pm
Church St Studios Camperdown | Dom Roche Quartet | 7:30pm
Enmore Hotel | Grytt + Outcest | 7:30pm
Enmore Theatre Newtown | Melanie C | 8pm
Factory Theatre Marrickville | The Animals | 7pm
Fanny Durack Aquatic Centre Petersham | Danny Telas | 12pm
Gasoline Pony Marrickville | SuzyG & Friends | 3pm
Lazybones Lounge Marrickville | Rohan Windle | 6pm
Lazybones Lounge Marrickville | Mike Love | 6:30pm
The Living Room Theatre Marrickville | Ephemera Quartet + Clayton Thomas, Lily Innis, Mariel Roberts, Freya Schack-Arnott & Phillippa Murphy-Haste | 8pm
Marrickville Bowling Club | The Hokey Carmichaels | 4:30pm
The Merton Hotel Rozelle | Four | 6pm
Miss Celie’s Ashfield | Finkt | 7pm
Pyrmont Bridge Hotel | Bonnie Kay & The Sweet Patooties | 3pm
The Vanguard Newtown | Kristin Hersh | 7pm
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