Best of the week: what to see, hear and do from January 24 to 30
The WugulOra Australia Day smoking ceremony at Barangaroo. Credit:Kate Geraghty
SUNDAY, JANUARY 24
RIDES Take a last whirl, or hurl, on Luna Park’s 18 rides, including the Devil’s Drop, Power Surge, Wild Mouse and Rockin’ Tug, before the 85-year-old amusement park closes for renovations. 10.30am-4pm, Luna Park, 1 Olympic Park Drive, Milsons Point, $50, lunaparksydney.com
MONDAY, JANUARY 25
EXHIBITION Peruse four CBD street art installations, including environmental group Dirt Witches’ footpath micro-forest on Barlow Street and We Are All Astonishingly Wise, Katy B Plummer’s interactive fortune-telling ghost on Abercrombie Lane. 24 hours, CBD streets, Sydney, free, news.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au
TUESDAY, JANUARY 26
CEREMONY Mark Australia Day with the WugulOra Festival, a dawn gathering led by Australia’s First Nations people. Listen to elders speak and watch dancers and singers perform. 7.30am, The Headland at Barangaroo Reserve, Hickson Road, Barangaroo, free, sydneyfestival.org.au
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27
ANIMALS Snaffle half-price tickets (until January 31) to ogle Taronga Zoo Sydney’s six tiny Bolivian squirrel monkeys, an Australian sea-lion pup called Amalie and newly arrived Giraffe calf Ebo at Taronga Zoo. 9.30am-5pm, Taronga Zoo Sydney, Bradleys Head Road, Mosman, $14.50-$24.50, taronga.org.au
THURSDAY, JANUARY 28
FILM Enter the lush, dreamlike world of master Hong Kong filmmaker Wong Kar-Wai’s martial arts epic Ashes of Time: Redux, part of Sydney Film Festival’s Love & Neon: The Cinema of Wong Kar Wai (until February 18). 6.30pm, Dendy Newtown, 261 King Street, Newtown, $21/$18, sff.org.au
FRIDAY, JANUARY 29
THEATRE Actor Gabrielle Scawthorn inhabits three monologues of differing remorse in The Apologists (until January 31), a study in public regrets. 6pm and 8.30pm, Old 505 Theatre, 5 Eliza Street, Newtown, $30/$40, old505theatre.com
SATURDAY, JANUARY 30
FILM Watch Flickerkids’ short films for ages 5-12, including Dust Cloud’s badly behaved cattle dog and Tina Two Times’ magic friend. 1.30pm, Flickerfest Spiegeltent Indoor Cinema, Festival Garden North Park, Bondi Beach, $12, flickerfest.com.au