Good morning, Inner Westies. It’s a stacked weekend of vivid lights, live music, new bars, creative workshops, and family fun.

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Grab your morning coffee and join us as we explore the Inner West together.

— Jess Thorning

Tequila Bar Run Dos Run Opens on Enmore Road 🍹🇲🇽

Run Dos Run has hit Enmore Road! A relaxed yet playful tequila bar serving up bold Mexican cócteles, fresh flavours, and great times. The team behind this venture have over 30 years in the business, bringing their extensive knowledge of tequila and mezcal straight from Mexico, with some exclusive offerings direct from Oaxaca. The bar’s name pays homage to the memory of a beloved Sydney DJ, whose great nature and big laugh lives on in every corner of this venue. Capturing the joy and vibrancy of a Mexican street party, Run Dos Run is an approachable, authentic, and alive late-night spot on Enmore Rd.

📍 Run Dos Run / 49 Enmore Rd, Newtown
👉️ Check out their Website and Instagram for more info

100 Years of Yeo Park + Mini Exhibition 🖼️ 🎉

To celebrate the 100th anniversary of Yeo Park in Ashfield, a special community celebration will be held this Sunday featuring a mini exhibition by local artist Sorrel Trevarthen of Picket Fence Illustrations. The milestone event at Outfield Cafe will showcase the park's rich history through art, complemented by live music from Generate Music Festival artists including Ceffie Music and The Delicates from 2:30pm. Families can enjoy afternoon tea, free kids' art activities, and browse the mini-market while soaking up the community atmosphere.

📍 Yeo Park, Ashfield / Sunday 1 June 2025 / 2pm – 4pm
👉️ Check out Picket Fence Illustrations Instagram for more info

🐢 Water Safety Storytime (ages 3 to 5)
Special storytime with Terry the Turtle teaching water safety fundamentals for pools, beaches and backyards with take-home resources.
📍Stanmore Library / Friday 30 May 2025 / 10:30am – 11:30am ♿️

 🌟 Vivid Kids: Light Walk, Music & Family Fun 
Start your Vivid Sydney adventure with FREE family-friendly shows designed to get little legs moving and imaginations soaring. Special performance this Saturday is Bennytime. Perfect start to your Light Walk adventure.
📍Tumbalong Park, Darling Harbour / Saturdays 24 May to 14 June 2025 / 5pm – 6pm

🎇 Vivid Kids: Adventure @ Darling Square 
Explore hundreds of dazzling fairy lights and illuminated installations creating a magical night for little ones! Your kids will love the FREE neon face painting and glitter tattoos that glow in the dark, plus enjoy family-friendly live music while you dine. Great for kids of all ages.
📍Darling Square, Haymarket / Saturdays 24 May to 14 June 2025 / 6pm – 9pm for face painting and glitter tattoos

🎨 Free Neon Face Painting - Glow Up for Vivid @ Hay St Market 
Get dazzling free neon face painting with bold stripes, glowing florals or just shine as bright as the installations. Their artists will transform your look into a Vivid-worthy masterpiece.
📍K-Pocha Korean Quarter - Hay St Market / Friday 23 May to Saturday 14 June / Friday to Sunday 6pm – 8pm

🐶 Minis Craft Puppy Adoption Studio 
Choose your own cuddly plush puppy to adopt, name, and make your own. Then get creative by decorating a personalised puppy carrier for your new furry friend. $3 per ticket, with all proceeds donated to Glebe Youth Services
📍Broadway Shopping Centre, Glebe / Saturday 31 May / 10am, 11am & midday

🚂 Trackless Train Rides & Ozobot Workshops @ South Eveleigh 
Every Saturday in June, jump aboard the trackless train for a ride around the precinct. Afterwards head into the Locomotive Workshops for Ozobot programming sessions where you can learn to program a mini robot.
📍South Eveleigh / Every Saturday in June / 10am – 1pm

🐕 Temptation Alley with Dog Royalty @ South Eveleigh 
Every Sunday in June, join Dog Royalty for an interactive challenge to help pups of all ages build better recall and impulse control. Interactive puppy training with helpful tips and distraction courses.
📍South Eveleigh / Every Sunday in June / 10am – 2pm

🎲 Tabletop Games (ages 13 to 18) 
Explore thrilling quests and epic battles with games like Dungeons & Dragons, Magic: The Gathering, and more.
📍 Leichhardt Library / Saturday 31 May 2025 / 1:30pm – 4:30pm ♿️

📚 HSC Workshop: Business Studies
Workshop designed to help students unlock their potential and perform best in assessments and exams.
📍Ashfield Library / Sunday 1 June 2025 / 11am – 2pm ♿️

🧱 Burwood Brick Builders (ages 5 to 12)
Monthly afterschool brick building challenges with team activities and library displays to showcase creativity and skills. Space limited, but no booking required.
📍Burwood Library and Community Hub / Wednesday 4 June 2025 / 3:15pm – 4:15pm

🌍 World Environment Day (all ages)
Celebrate World Environment Day with a frog and tadpole educational display and presentation.
📍Burwood Library and Community Hub, 2 Conder Street, Burwood 2134 / Thursday 5 June 2025 / 3pm – 5pm

👶 Intergenerational Playgroup
Intergenerational playgroup bringing parents and toddlers together with aged care residents for songs, stories and activities.
📍Thomas Roseby Lodge Uniting Aged Care, Marrickville / Thursday 5 June 2025 / 10am – 11am ♿️

All Weekend

🔥 Dulwich Hill Relit Festival
A festival celebrating cutting-edge contemporary music and performance in expected and unexpected spaces in Dulwich Hill. Running over two weekends from 23 May to 1 June 2025.

This Weekend:

• Friday 30 May - Adam Pringle + Friends, Music for Libraries 1 ’Threads’, Daily Toll Presents - Between the Scenes, The Köln Concert – A Tribute by Matt McMahon & In Honour of Jeff Beck, by Paul Mason

• Saturday 31 May - Ella Hooper and Friends, The Dave Tice 4, Smudge and Friends, Music For Libraries 2 - Curated by Lawrence English//Room40, La Fiesta Callejera Night 2, The Great Piano Recital & Magdalena Mira Trio + Jonathan Zwartz

• Sunday 1 June - Victor Martinez Parada + Lily Guerrero & Andro Martinez, Perfect Actress Presents - The Actress Roundtable, The Great Scout Hall & Carl Dewhurst Trio + Lisa Parrott

🌟 Vivid Sydney 
It’s back and transforming the city with spectacular light installations, free live music and immersive experiences across multiple precincts from Circular Quay to Darling Harbour. Families can enjoy dedicated kids' activities every Saturday at Tumbalong Park at 5pm, along with the expansive Light Walk featuring child-friendly displays and interactive installations.

• Experience Tumbalong Nights - free live music, family fun, and DJ sets at Tumbalong Park—Vivid Sydney’s vibrant hub— from 7:30pm. Plus, special kids' performances on Saturdays from 5pm – 6pm.

• Neon Dreams by Trolley'd, a retro-futuristic roller disco diner, is coming to the Pier St Underpass on Tumbalong Blvd. Running from 6pm – 11pm each night, book your tickets in advance.

Friday & Saturday

🍻 GABS Craft Beer Festival – Sydney
The ultimate celebration of drinks, with the best brewers, skilled distillers, and mouthwatering bites – all under one roof! Over 120 brews, live entertainment, games and more. Book tickets before sold out.
📍 ICC Sydney, Darling Harbour / Friday 30 – Saturday 31 May 2025

Friday

✏️ Nudenight Life Drawing at Doodler 
Life Drawing with professional models and an amazing creative atmosphere every Wed/Thur/Fri/Sat/Sun. Tickets $29.
📍Doodler, Marrickville / Friday 30 May 2025 / 7pm – 8:30pm ♿️

🚢 Vivid Sydney Glow Boat 2025 
Hop aboard the Vivid Glow Boat and see Sydney Harbour transform into a brilliant Vivid wonderland! 📍Darling Harbour / Friday 23 May to Saturday 14 June 2025 / Every day 5:15pm – 8:30pm

🎨 Perfect Match Street Art 
Check out Deslyn Marsh's newly commissioned Perfect Match street artwork at the Heart Research Institute. Titled 'Banyar Dulguh' ("Healthy Heart") in Minjungbal Bundjalung language, this artwork embodies unity, healing, and the pursuit of better Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health outcomes, particularly in cardiovascular care.
📍Heart Research Institute, Newtown / Friday 30 May 2025 / All day ♿️

Saturday

🥯 Maple Social Club: Bagels & Beats
Saturday morning bagels, house music, and social hangs with the maple social club community.
📍Brooklyn Boy Bagels, Marrickville / Saturday 31 May 2025 / 10am – 12pm

⚽ PV4 Street Football Showdown @ Tempe
Street football tournament with car meet, bike meet, live DJ, food vendors and 3v3 cage matches with cash prizes.
📍Tempe Recreation Reserve / Saturday 31 May 2025 / 6:30pm – 11pm

📚 Inner West Writers Group @ Marrickville Library 
Spend your Saturday morning sharing your work with likeminded writing enthusiasts. No bookings required.
📍 Marrickville Library and Pavilion / Saturday 31 May 2025 / 10am – 12pm ♿️

🎭 Burwood Art Prize Tours 
Guided small group tour through the 2025 Burwood Art Prize artworks and highlights.
📍Burwood Library and Community Hub / Saturday 31 May 2025 / 11am – 11:30am, 2pm-2:30pm

👶 Grandparenting Workshop 
Tailored workshops to help you transition into grandparenting with essential practical skills.
📍Yanada Community Room, Lewisham / Saturday 31 May 2025 / 9am – 4pm ♿️

🖨️ Lino Printing Workshop for Beginners 
Learn how to lino print with Reverse Garbage and produce your own stunning artworks to take home.
📍Reverse Garbage, Marrickville / Saturday 31 May 2025 / 10am – 1pm

🎵 Under the Milky Way 
Sydney Gay & Lesbian Choir presents Australian music spanning generations with iconic hits from Cold Chisel, Kylie Minogue, and Yothu Yindi. Auslan interpreted.
📍Petersham Town Hall / Saturday 31 May 2025 / 4pm – 6pm ♿️

Sunday

🖼️ 100 Years of Yeo Park + Mini Exhibition
Bring your family to celebrate 100 years of Yeo Park at the opening of the Yeo Park Mini Exhibition by local artist Sorrel Trevarthen of Picket Fence Illustrations at Outfield Cafe in Yeo Park. There will also be live music.
📍 Yeo Park, Ashfield / Sunday 1 June 2025 / 2pm – 4pm

👉️ Flour Mill Markets @ Summer Hill
Fresh artisan baked goods, fresh produce, hot food and artisan products from local makers and creators. 
📍 1 Flour Mill Way, Summer Hill / Sunday 1 June 2025 / 9am – 1pm

🐾 Pet Portrait Clay Workshop @ Annandale 
Learn how to create your pet's portrait in clay with beginner-friendly sculpting and hand-painting techniques.
📍Market Studio, Annandale / Sunday 1 June 2025 / 11am – 1:30pm

🎵 BarberSoc A Cappella Concert @ Balmain
Featuring a cappella choirs Power Chords, Pitch Please, Duly Noted and The Accidentals in musical performances.
📍Balmain Town Hall / Sunday 1 June 2025 / 1pm – 3pm & 6pm – 8pm ♿️

✏️ Beginner Drawing Workshop @ Ultimo
Learn line, tone and contour techniques with still life drawing using pencils and charcoal, guided by a professional artist.
📍Ultimo Community Centre / Sunday 1 June 2025 / 10:30am – 1pm

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Our deadline is close of business Wednesday for each Friday edition.

Restaurants & Cafes to Try

🇮🇳 Cardamom Restaurant Marrickville | Newly opened, serving up Modern Indian cuisine. Enjoy traditional tandoors and fragrant curries alongside contemporary dishes like truffle naan and deconstructed chaats.

🥕 Mama B’s Vegan Pub Bistro @ The Chippo Hotel | Roast dinners launching this Sunday 1 June, with limited availability, so bookings essential. Choose The Mama Roast (sharing for 2) with giant Yorkshire pudding filled with house-made roast, or The Papa Roast (individual serving). Both include roast potatoes, gravy, stuffing, vegetables and all the traditional trimmings.

🔥 20 Chapel Marrickville | 2025’s 93rd best steak restaurant in the world has a great set menu with select bottomless beverages on Saturdays. Check out the menu here.

Food Specials

🍸️ Traders Bar @ Hay St Market | Wednesday to Friday | 4pm – 6:30pm | Happy Hour at Traders Bar. A range of bites available, from a $15 Burger Box to $8 Korean Fried Chicken | See venue for details and terms.

🍔 The Quarryman’s Pyrmont | Friday $20 beef or veg burger, Saturday $21 Parmigiana and Sunday $29 Roast | 4pm – 6pm | Offered with the purchase of a drink | See venue for terms.

Vivid Sydney

🔥 Vivid Fire Kitchen returns to The Goods Line at Ultimo with "Fire & Spice", featuring live demonstrations and flame-cooked cuisine from world-class pitmasters and chefs under the Vivid Sydney lights in this open-air culinary celebration.
📍The Goods Line Ultimo / Friday 23 May to Saturday 14 June / 6pm – 11pm

🍸️ Traders Bar @ Hay St Market | Wednesday to Friday | 4pm – 6:30pm | Happy Hour at Traders Bar. $8 house beers, ciders & wines, $9 house spirits + $15 classic cocktails | See venue for terms.

🍺 The Quarryman’s Pyrmont | Monday to Thursday | 4pm – 6pm | Hoppy Hour - $7 selected beers & house wines | See venue for terms.

• A Good Idea Exhibition | Tin Sheds Gallery Darlington

• Basia Zielinska "Sydney Heart Beats" Art Exhibition | Polish Club Ashfield

• Berlin Sydney Art Show | Local Edition Gallery Glebe

• Consuelo Cavaniglia: seeing through you | Chau Chak Wing Museum Camperdown

• David Manks: Divergence | Artsite Contemporary Camperdown

• Displacement | Corner Gallery Stanmore

• DJ and Jim Sagurit | We Three Bar Marrickville

• Gilli Gurung | Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Co-operative Leichhardt

• Hannaford Byrne Camera Annual Exhibition | Leichhardt Library

• Instrumental: Collections from Science | Chau Chak Wing Museum Camperdown

• Kerameikos the Potters' Quarter | Chau Chak Wing Museum Camperdown

• Lissa Barnum: Upside of Passing | Tiliqua Tiliqua Enmore

• Mark Maurangi Carrol – Islands not to scale (ueata) Act I | Nasha Gallery Haymarket

• Micro:Macro – models of insight and inspiration | Chau Chak Wing Museum Camperdown

• Mungari: Fishing, Resistance, Return | Chau Chak Wing Museum Camperdown

• On the Road to Justice: Remembering the Freedom Ride | Glebe Library

• Revisiting Beauty | The Corner Gallery Stanmore

• Soft Hurts | Chrissie Cotter Gallery Camperdown

• Still Life: Image and Object | Gallery LNL, Newtown

• Student Life: Max Dupain at the University of Sydney | Chau Chak Wing Museum Camperdown

• The Trace is Not a Presence ... | Chau Chak Wing Museum, Camperdown

• Union Made: Art from the University of Sydney Union | Chau Chak Wing Museum Camperdown

Friday

• Botany View Hotel Newtown | Flippin' Kick Outs + Alice Joy, Talismanic | 8pm

• Buddy's Bar Newtown | Angela Rose | 7:30 pm

• Camelot Lounge Marrickville | Lloyd Spiegel & Charlie A'Court | 6pm

• The Chippo Hotel Chippendale | Sam Haven + Saleeha, Soma Plume, Oils | 7pm

• Church St Studios Camperdown | Ian Date and George Washingmachine | 6:30 pm

• Crowbar Leichhardt | Zoobombs + The Unknowns, Liquid Zoo | 8pm

• Enmore Hotel | Harry Foxton | 8pm

• Factory Floor @ The Factory Marrickville | Bones and Jones + Beryl, Chet Sounds | 8pm

• The Lansdowne Chippendale | Smalls + Great Job!, The World Is Not Round, Tigermarie | 6pm

• The Lansdowne Chippendale | After Dark + Danté Knows, Dayshawn, Speaking of Which, Ah Honey | 8pm

• Lazy Thinking Dulwich Hill | Between the Scenes + Hubcaps & Lewis Lockwood, Mosley, Hamed Sadeghi, Daily Toll, Photogenic, Solo Career, Elmo Aoyama | 6pm

• The Lord Gladstone Chippendale | Garage Sale + Twelve Point Buck | 7:30 pm

• Marrickville Bowling Club | Totally Unicorn + Sun Run, Terrificus, Cumquats | 7:30 pm

• The Merton Hotel Rozelle | Blueshound | 8pm

• Miss Celie's Ashfield | The Newts | 7pm

• MoshPit Bar Erskineville | Soz Not Soz + Kung Fu Grip, Leigh Hawkins | 7pm

• Petersham Bowlo | Bract + Society of Cutting Up Men, California Girls, Double Date | 7pm

• Pyrmont Bridge Hotel | Alan Parmenter Trio | 9pm

• Stucco Housing Cooperative Newtown | All Roads Lead to Stucco + Lucy's House, mopoke, Monstahouse, Euterpe | 5pm

• Trocadero Room Enmore | Rufino and the Wreckage | 7pm

• Tumbalong Park | NextGen: V-Pop + Mỹ Anh, Chi Xê | 6:30 pm

• Union Hotel Newtown | Bimbo | 8pm

• Vic on the Park Marrickville | Ethan Nicholas + Skirtless | 9pm

• Waywards @ The Bank Hotel Newtown | Studio 178: Volume 2 + Cammy Cautious and the Wrestlers, Gnome, The Med Heads | 10pm

• Yulli's Brews Alexandria | Canned Heat + Major Arcana | 8pm

Saturday

• Bald Rock Hotel Rozelle | The Loungephonics | 7:30pm-10:30pm

• Balmain Bowling Club | Mountain Devils | 5pm-8pm

• Butchers Brew Bar Dulwich Hill | The Dave Tice 4 | 2pm

• Butchers Brew Bar Dulwich Hill | Magdalena Mira + Jonathan Zwartz | 7pm

• The Chippo Hotel Chippendale | Club Miramar + Miramar, Charlie Shell, Lupo.TheBoy, Maver, Tamongotchi B2B Mayke, Dipsmith, Grid, Dickie, Oli Main, Rupert George, Tuff Times | 2pm

• Church St Studios Camperdown | Gypsy Swing Soirée + Cameron Jones Trio, Anna Weaving | 1:30 pm

• Crowbar Leichhardt | The Night Flight Orchestra + Big Red Firetruck | 8pm

• Darling Harbour Theatre | Alison Moyet | 7pm

• Enmore Theatre | Wolfmother | 7pm

• Factory Floor @ The Factory Marrickville | Alta Falls | 7:30 pm

• Factory Theatre Marrickville | Electric Mary | 6:30 pm

• Gasoline Pony Marrickville | Amy & the Grey Zone | 3pm

• Golden Barley Hotel Enmore | Fait Accompli + The Vors, Blood Thinners | 7pm

• ICC Sydney Theatre | Alison Moyet | 6pm

• The Lansdowne Chippendale | Behind You + Inimata, Parasocial | 7pm

• Lazy Thinking Dulwich Hill | Ella Hooper + Darcy Forever, Mlaika Mfalme | 2pm

• Lazy Thinking Dulwich Hill | Smudge + Bridge Dog, Pearle | 5:30 pm

• The Merton Hotel Rozelle | The Ugly Truth | 8pm

• Miss Celie's Ashfield | Casey Golden Quartet | 4pm

• Miss Celie's Ashfield | Greasy Chicken Orchestra Tix $20 | 7:30 pm

• MoshPit Bar Erskineville | Whopping Big Naughty + Woolly Smugglers, Kissin Cousins | 2:30 pm

• Petersham Bowlo | The Petrov Affair + Golden Fang, The Urban Cartel | 7pm

• Pyrmont Bridge Hotel | Arkles Pharmacy | 5pm

• Pyrmont Bridge Hotel | French Deception | 9pm

• Trocadero Room Enmore | Lemonise + Lemon Joe, Cross Pollinate, Possum Pants | 7pm

• The Vanguard Newtown | Cone of Confusion + Zeal.H [FKA Mia Petra] | 7pm

• Vic on the Park Marrickville | Lahgo + Lily B | 6pm

• Warren View Hotel Enmore | The Curse Of Montecito | 4:21 pm

• Waywards @ The Bank Hotel Newtown | Skyscraper Stan + Lady Lyon | 8pm

Sunday

• Bald Rock Hotel Rozelle | Traditional Irish Session | 3pm-6pm

• Balmain Bowling Club | Mark n The Blues | 3pm-6pm

• Butchers Brew Bar Dulwich Hill | Carl Dewhurst Trio + Lisa Parrott | 6:30 pm

• Gasoline Pony Marrickville | Team Building + Amy Yoshiko, Connor Britton | 4pm

• Lazy Thinking Dulwich Hill | Perfect Actress + Punko, Xiao Xiao, Kidskin, Boba Lego, marumaru | 2pm

• LazyBones Marrickville | Isabel Palethorpe | 4pm

• LVL 1 @ LazyBones Lounge | Isabel Palethorpe | 5pm

• The Merton Hotel Rozelle | Finkt | 6pm

• The Midnight Special Newtown | Meteor Infant + David Akerman | 7pm

• Miss Celie's Ashfield | Johnny G (Solo) | 4pm

• Miss Celie's Ashfield | Kid Hank & His 3 Piece Ockerstra | 7pm

• Palomino Lounge Enmore | Trash Springfield | 7:30 pm

• Petersham Bowlo | Jodie Macaroni & Elizabeth Jiglin | 3pm

• Pyrmont Bridge Hotel | Ramona & the Ripons | 3pm

• Pyrmont Bridge Hotel | Dr Gumbo | 7pm

• The Scout Hall (Dulwich Hill) | The Great Scout Hall + Sam Gill & Phillippa Murphy-Haste, Jim Denley / Peter Farrar Duo, Fate Maps, Believe | 4pm

• Union Hotel Newtown | Monnone Alone + Johnno Lattin, Victoria | 3pm

• The Vanguard Newtown | Ashkan Shafiei + Chloe Kim | 7pm

Thank You!

Thanks for reading. Please feel free to reply with any feedback.

Reminder: 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 and specials can change.

Have a fun weekend!

Jess