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Festival of the Spoken Word
Sunday 2 August 2026 - Sunday 30 August 2026Across music, theatre, live podcasts, conversations and performance, Jewish artists use the spoken word to explore the diversity of Jewish life.
Tickets available, bookings required.- Exhibition
- Visual Arts

Holding Light
Saturday 25 April 2026 - Sunday 28 June 2026A major exhibition at The Bondi Pavilion Art Gallery, bringing together professional artists and community members in creative response to the Bondi Beach terror attack.Open- Environment
- Adamama

Permabee
Friday 12 June 2026 - Friday 11 December 2026
Every Friday 9am-12pmOpen- Ideas
- Visual Arts

Letters to Bondi
Sunday 28 June 2026
6:00-8:00pmSeven local leading Jewish writers reflect on the events of 14 December through the form of personal letters.Tickets available, bookings required.- Social
- Adamama

Clay & Sip 2026
Sunday 19 July 2026
6-9pmA hands-on night of sculpting, sipping, and learning new skills.
Tickets available, bookings required.- Social
- Adamama

Adamama Young Families Retreat – Aug 2026
Friday 21 August 2026 - Sunday 23 August 2026
4pm Friday - 11am SundayThe Adamama Young Families Retreat is low-key, joyful, and meaningful — with structure when you need it, and freedom when you don’t.
Tickets available, bookings required.- Environment
- Adamama

Community Garden Project
Thursday 30 July 2026 - Thursday 31 December 2026
Multiple Dates/TimesAdamama Community Garden Project – Join Us in 2026!Waitlist- Musical Theatre
- Festival of the Spoken Word

One of a Kind
Sunday 2 August 2026
3pm & 7pmSemi-staged musical theatre in one act
Tickets available, bookings required.- Literature
- Festival of the Spoken Word

Australian Jewish Writer Awards
Monday 3 August 2026
7:00pmJoin shortlisted writers and audiences for an evening celebrating contemporary Australian writing on Jewish subjects.
The evening includes announcement of the 2026 award winners, followed by a conversation with international authors and refreshments.
Tickets available, bookings required.- Literature
- Festival of the Spoken Word

Bring Us Home from Sorrow
Tuesday 4 August 2026
7:00pmJoanne Fedler speaks with Magdalena Ball about her new memoir Bring Us Home from Sorrow (2026), written following the death of her mother from ovarian cancer in 2020.Tickets available, bookings required.- Theatre
- Festival of the Spoken Word

Dear Jessy, Dear Miriam
Thursday 6 August 2026
7:00pmPerformed as a live dramatic reading, Dear Jessy, Dear Miriam imagines the friendship Jessica Chapnik Kahn and Miriam Hechtman might have shared had they met as teenagers, decades before encountering each other as adults.Tickets available, bookings required.- Music
- Festival of the Spoken Word

Out of the Depths
Sunday 9 August 2026
12:00pmDrawn from Mima’amakim (Out of the Depths), one of the earliest collections of Holocaust songs, this event brings those works to life through live performance alongside stories of the composers, lyricists and the remarkable effort to preserve their voices.Tickets available, bookings required.- Poetry
- Festival of the Spoken Word

Voices of the Tribe
Thursday 13 August 2026
7:00pmAn intimate evening of spoken word, live music and Jewish storytelling, Voices of the Tribe brings together poets tracing pride, grief, humour, longing and the strange feeling of recognition when language suddenly feels shared.Tickets available, bookings required.- Music
- Festival of the Spoken Word

Out of the Depths
Saturday 15 August 2026
7:30pmDrawn from Mima’amakim (Out of the Depths), one of the earliest collections of Holocaust songs, this event brings those works to life through live performance alongside stories of the composers, lyricists and the remarkable effort to preserve their voices.Tickets available, bookings required.- Music
- Festival of the Spoken Word

Who By Water
Sunday 16 August 2026
6:00pmA new body of songs by multidisciplinary artist Anita Lester, informed by Jewish memory and the cultural rupture of recent years, these unreleased works sit between liturgical cadence and folk storytelling.Tickets available, bookings required.- Music
- Festival of the Spoken Word

Fugitive
Thursday 20 August 2026
7:00pmMusic and language meet as equal partners in this live performance built around Sergei Prokofiev’s Visions Fugitives and excerpts from Simon Tedeschi’s memoir Fugitive.Tickets available, bookings required.- Theatre
- Festival of the Spoken Word

Wake
Saturday 22 August 2026
7:30pmStaged Reading – Written by Ron Elisha. Sydney East Location.Tickets available, bookings required.- Theatre
- Festival of the Spoken Word

The Border | Sacrifice
Sunday 23 August 2026
6:00pmTwo new plays exploring conflict, identity, power and belonging through intimate encounters shaped by pressure, memory and survival.Tickets available, bookings required.- Theatre
- Festival of the Spoken Word

Groyse Tsores
Sunday 23 August 2026
2:00pmPart performance, part creative development, Groyse Tsores offers a rare encounter with original contemporary Yiddish theatre in formation. Blending live music, movement, puppetry and conversation, the event presents songs and scenes from Der Griner Giraf, a new intergenerational work exploring childhood through Yiddish language and song.Tickets available, bookings required.- Poetry
- Festival of the Spoken Word

Bible Slam
Tuesday 25 August 2026
7:00pmBible Slam brings together performers to reinterpret the Torah through character, poetry, storytelling, song and dialogue.Tickets available, bookings required.- Music
- Festival of the Spoken Word

Hineinu: Songs for This Time
Thursday 27 August 2026
7:00pmHebrew and English song, prayer, chant, niggunim and spoken word come together in this live gathering responding to the aftermath of the Bondi attack and the long shadow of October 7.Tickets available, bookings required.- Comedy
- Festival of the Spoken Word

You Were Great in Shule!
Saturday 29 August 2026
8:00pmYou Were Great in Shule! turns the awkwardness, chaos and emotional intensity of Jewish coming-of-age culture into a live comedy podcast recording packed with storytelling, nostalgia and communal oversharing.Tickets available, bookings required.- Poetry
- Festival of the Spoken Word

On Having Been Here
Sunday 30 August 2026
7:00pmAn intimate poetry reading with music bringing together three distinctive Jewish Australian voices whose work is shaped by long lives, deep memory and a restless curiosity about the world.Tickets available, bookings required.- Comedy
- Festival of the Spoken Word

A Jewish Guide to Surviving History
Sunday 30 August 2026
2:00pmFrom Torah to TikTok, Amalek to Kanye West, A Jewish Guide to Surviving History races through thousands of years of Jewish history in an expansive one-woman performance blending spoken word, storytelling and comedy.Tickets available, bookings required.