It’s hard to know what to do after work sometimes… when you’ve got The Z Factor and Please Date My Horribly Awkward Son doubling up on TV, how could you possibly consider heading back outside?! Luckily, we’re keeping our eyes out to bring you the best, brightest, and usually cheapest stuff on the Sydney arts and culture scene.

So when the lure of comfortable pants and reality TV threatens to maroon you on the shores of mediocrity, FBi’s culture guide has got you sorted…

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ALL WEEKEND :: Get amongst live urban art and DJs

Our mates from amBUSH gallery are transforming Darling Harbour into an open-air studio with live paintings by Adnate, Jodee Knowles, Numskull and Rone and music from Future Classic DJs. Shweeeet!

WHAT: Project 5 Volume 5: Live art, exhibition and auction
WHERE: Darling Quarter Village Green, Darling Harbour
WHEN: Tonight 6-9pm, Saturday & Sunday 12-3pm, auction October 18th
HOW MUCH: FREE

TONIGHT :: Get some spring in your step

A special edition of the MCA’s after hours art party tonight themed Primavera, with one-night-only performances, video works, installations and DJs.

WHAT: Art Bar: Primavera Edition
WHERE: MCA, 140 George St The Rocks
WHEN: Tonight 7pm – 11pm
HOW MUCH: $20/ $15 concession / $25 on the door

TONIGHT :: Nudity, extinction and booze. Nuff said.

A life drawing class with a nude model, dinosaur projections and a promise that “no one tells you your proportions are shit because honestly shit proportions are encouraged’.

WHAT: Halflife drawing
WHERE: The Sly Fox, 199 Enmore Rd Newtown
WHEN: Tonight 7pm
HOW MUCH: Free (usually $6 but this is one’s courtesy of Sydney Fringe!)

SATURDAY :: Reconnect with reality and return to Earth

Catch the final showing of the latest play by Lally Katz, featuring The Sapphires star Shari Stebbens, who plays a young woman struggling to adjust to ‘normal life’ on her return to her rural home town.

WHAT: Last day Return To Earth
WHERE: SBW Stables Theatre, 10 Nimrod St Kings Cross
WHEN: Saturday 2pm matinee & 7pm
HOW MUCH: $15 – $38

SUNDAY :: One Day Sundays at The Projects

Sydney hip-hop collective One Day Crew are taking over the The Projects at The Vic on Sunday for their monthly session of music, markets, live graffiti art and basketball.

WHAT: One Day Sunday
WHERE: The Vic on the Park, 2 Addison Rd Marrickville
WHEN: Sunday, 1pm – 8pm
HOW MUCH: FREE

Don’t forget to tune in to Arvos on FBi for more Culture Guide– each weekday at 4:30pm.