Sydney Chamber Choir
2024 through 2025
The Sydney Chamber Choir is passionate about choral music and its unique ability to celebrate and reflect upon the stories of our past, present and future. After a stellar 2024, with sell-out concerts and critical acclaim, the Choir celebrates its 50th year in 2025 with five extraordinary concerts - the Bonhoeffer Project (23 February at Sydney Grammar); Faure’s Requiem (5 April at St James Church); 50th Anniversary Gala (5 July at City Recital Hall); Connections (28 September at the Sydney Conservatorium); and Bach’s B minor Mass (22 November at City Recital Hall).
Ku-ring-gai Philharmonic Orchestra
Season 2025
The Ku-ring-gai Philharmonic Orchestra enjoys an unrivalled reputation for superb presentations of exciting, popular and innovative music.
Its community-focussed programs include the NSW Secondary Schools Concerto Competition, Kids' Proms concerts, Composer Workshops and commissions of special works from leading Australian composers.
Among a wide and varied 2025 concert program, the KPO’s major Symphonic performances at the Concourse in Chatswood include Dvorak & Tchaikovsky (9 March), the 41st annual Secondary School’s Concerto Competition (29 June) and Beethoven and Strauss (31 August).
The Campaign to Restore Marian St Theatre
Closed since 2013. The business case is complete. It’s designed. Just build it!
A rebuilt community hub at Marian St that is welcoming and accessible for all, supporting artists and offering a diverse range of artistic, cultural and community activities.
Local residents and arts lovers have launched a new campaign to save Marian Street Theatre. The iconic and historic Killara theatre has laid virtually unused and bereft of public funding for over a decade. However, now a grassroots community action group has called challenged Ku-ring-gai Council to prioritise the arts. Marian St ACTION (Arts and Culture Together In Our Neighbourhood) called on Ku-ring-gai residents to make their voices heard.
Email Ku-ring-gai Council to prioritise the arts by 31 August srv@krg.nsw.gov.au
SmartFone Flick Fest (SF3)
23-25 January 2026
Inspiring anyone with a smartphone to tell their story through film
SF3 is one of the biggest smartphone film festivals and educators in the world, bringing affordable and accessible filmmaking to all. The SmartFone Flick Fest is one of the world’s leading smartphone film festivals. We are open to anyone with a smartphone or tablet and a great idea for a short film and we get hundreds of entries each year from filmmakers of all ages and abilities from over 60 countries around the world.
Treasures of Old Jewish Sydney by Jana Vytrhlik
Award-winning story of a visual heritage
Richly illustrated, this book reveals the presence of a Jewish cultural heritage and important synagogue architecture in Sydney. Included are Jewish ritual objects, or Judaica, such as silver Torah ornaments, testimonials, gold embroidery textiles, illuminated manuscripts, and rarely published nineteenth-century portraits and archival Jewish community records.
The book's author, Jana Vytrhlik, is a historian with a PhD in Art History from the University of Sydney, specializing in Jewish art and architecture. Her research and writing provide a comprehensive overview of the topic, including the story of her own journey from Prague to Sydney. The book also includes personal stories and reflections on the significance of these treasures for the Jewish community.
Indian-Jewish Food by Elana Benjamin
Award-winning book of heritage and recipes!
Indian-Jewish Food: A Book of Recipes and Stories from the Back Streets of Bondi captures the spectacular – but little-known – cuisine of India’s Baghdadi Jews who immigrated to Australia in the 1950s and '60s. The collection of recipes is divided into five sections: Sides, Vegetarian, Fish & Chicken, Meat, and Sweet. Recipes include chakla bakla (pickled vegetables), cheese samoosas (cheese-filled pastries), chittarnee (tomato-based chicken curry) and chatpatay (chickpeas and potatoes in tamarind sauce).
The book also tells the story of Eze Moses’ legendary Bondi spice shop. Eze Moses was a Baghdadi Jew from India, and for many years, his shop was the only place fresh spices could be bought in Sydney, making it a magnet for all Indian immigrants – Jewish and otherwise.
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