• Monthly Activity – Queen Victoria Building History Tour (DEFERRED TO 26 OCTOBER)

    Queen Victoria Building 455 George St, Sydney CBD, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    For our Monthly Activity, experience a 123-year-old historical story of resilience, culture and progress first hand. Discover the QVB’s grand architectural and design features, including stunning stained glass windows, clocks and magnificent atriums, whilst hearing the true tale of the building's creation, near destruction and modern preservation as you visit Ground Floor through to Level […]

  • Monthly Activity – ‘Unsettled’ Exhibition at the Australian Museum (DEFERRED TO 5 OCTOBER 2021)

    Museum of Sydney Phillip Street, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Join SWIC for a guided tour of Unsettled at the newly refurbished Australian Museum. Produced by First Nations' curators, Unsettled provides visitors direct and undiluted access to the stories and experiences of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people during the time since European arrival. As a powerful instrument of truth-telling, curators, artists and community have had […]

  • Monthly Activity – QVB History Tour (DEFERRED TO 25 NOVEMBER 2021)

    Queen Victoria Building 455 George St, Sydney CBD, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    For our Monthly Activity, experience a 123-year-old historical story of resilience, culture and progress first hand. Discover the QVB’s grand architectural and design features, including stunning stained glass windows, clocks and magnificent atriums, whilst hearing the true tale of the building's creation, near destruction and modern preservation as you visit Ground Floor through to Level […]

  • Monthly Activity – Queen Victoria Building History Tour (NOW FULL)

    Queen Victoria Building 455 George St, Sydney CBD, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Experience a 123-year-old historical story of resilience, culture and progress first hand. Discover the QVB’s grand architectural and design features, including stunning stained glass windows, clocks and magnificent atriums, whilst […]

  • Monthly Activity – An Outing to May Gibb’s Cottage – ‘Nutcote’

    Nutcote 5 Wallaringa Ave, Kurraba Point, Neutral Bay, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Nutcote, built in 1925, is the beautiful harbourside home of May Gibbs (1877-1969), Australia’s foremost children’s author and illustrator and best known for her iconic story, The Complete Adventures of Snugglepot & Cuddlepie. It is also the location for some of the scenes in the recent movie, ‘Ladies in Black’. Located in Sydney’s Neutral Bay, […]

  • Monthly Activity – An Outing to North Head Quarantine Station, Manly

    North Head Quarantine Station 1 North Head Scenic Drive, Manly, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Located within a 30-hectare site on the North Head of Manly, you will find a unique destination, that is Q Station. An enduring part of Sydney’s history, for 150 years the Quarantine Station was for many the beginning of a new life in Australia after making the arduous and lengthy journey from their homelands. Ships […]

  • Monthly Activity – Bush Tucker Tour at the Royal Botanic Garden

    Royal Botanic Gardens Mrs Macquaries Rd, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    We will walk with our First Nations guide through the Royal Botanic Garden to learn more about Indigenous bush foods and how these foods were used traditionally and adapted to the modern plate and palate. On our one-hour tour, we’ll journey through the Cadi Jam Ora garden and learn about some of the hottest bush […]

  • Monthly Activity – Utzon and the Sydney Opera House Architectural Tour

    Sydney Opera House Bennelong Point, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    This month we are going to tour an architectural tour de force - the Sydney Opera House! On 28 June 2007 the Sydney Opera House was included on the UNESCO World Heritage List under the World Heritage Convention, placing it alongside the Taj Mahal, the ancient Pyramids of Egypt and the Great Wall of China […]