Buckle yourselves in for Bondi Festival’s ridiculously good line-up for 2026! For three weeks, we’ve got an incredible roster of comedians, artists, musicians and performers taking to venues, stages and iconic spots around postcode 2-0-2-6 because this is quite literally Bondi’s year. Prepare to encounter mesmerising art installations, mouth-watering food stalls, live music and other unexpected surprises all over our neighbourhood.
Bondi Festival is on from 3rd to 19th July.
One click on a Facebook ad for sperm donation and Darby sets sail across the seas of queer existential mayhem, discovering the absurdities of clinical procreation and considering his own future as a potential gay parent. 🌈
Join musical comedian Darby James for his multi-award-winning cabaret about the process of sperm donation. As he navigates questionnaires, psychological evaluations and questions of parenthood, Darby finds himself stranded as a seaman in moral purgatory, facing the question: should we be having children?
Winner: Best Cabaret at Melbourne Fringe Festival (2023).
Winner: Green Room Awards for Outstanding Production, Outstanding Direction and Outstanding Writing (2024)
Winner: The Somewhere: For Us Fringe Award at Edinburgh Fringe (2025)
★★★★ ““Unexpected, thought-provoking and bursting with heart”” — The List
★★★★★ “A masterpiece” — Glam Adelaide
★★★★★ “James is a major talent on the ascent.” — Theatre Matters
Little Squirt
🗓️ 16 – 18 July
📍 Bondi Pavilion, Seagull Room
🎟️ Tickets available via the link in our bio!
#BondiFestival has a whole other side after dark.
As daylight fades, Bondi Festival shifts gears with light and art installations, incredible food, live performances and an unmissable atmosphere that keeps the energy going long after sunset.
We’ve got a stacked program this weekend with something for everybody – and the party doesn’t stop when the sun goes down.
Bondi Festival
🗓️ 3 - 19 July
See you all there x
🎥 @michael_j_herman
#whatsonsydney #sydneyevents
🐩 Only one more sleep until the pooches take centre-stage at Bondi Pavilion Courtyard!
Get ready for the pawfect day out with canine friends and plenty of activities for everyone to enjoy.
Registrations for the howl-arious, rarely predictable best in show are in-person from 9am tomorrow while the main show starts at 11!
Don’t have a pup of your own? Borrow someone else’s! This fun is for everyone. 🐕
🐾 Pavilion Paw Parade
🗓️ 11am - 2pm
📍 Bondi Pavilion Courtyard
🌤️ The sun is peeking out of the clouds just in time for another amazing weekend at Bondi Festival! Come in the daytime and stay through the night, with a program so epic you’ll be spoilt for choice.
🐶 Catch festival favourite Pavilion Paw Parade, where every pooch is a star, grab a feed from the food markets and listen to live music in the park, witness the hillarious antics of Hot Department at Amalgamation or try your hand at beating AI in Pigeon Fool. Or, if you feel like taking the ride of a lifetime, hop aboard Back of The Bus and experience a journey like never before.
With some sessions of Back of The Bus already sold out and Bingo, Burlesque & Bondi Vybes down to the last few tickets, we are getting ready for our biggest weekend yet.
🔗 Tickets available via the link in our bio!
See you all there! x
We stopped four people to ask them if they could beat AI.
They had 35 minutes to play the game to the best of their human abilities. The results were surprising 😅
🤖 Do you think you can outsmart the machine?
Pigeon Fool is on until 12 July, with multiple sessions running. That means if you lose once...you can always try again.
Pigeon Fool
🗓️ 9 - 12 July
📍 Bondi Pavilion High Tide Room
STARTS TODAY! 🚌 Back of the Bus by @javadancetheatre
From 9 – 12 July, hop aboard this magical ride, where the show starts when the wheels roll!
Join us for this highly acclaimed, immersive moving performance staged on an actual driving bus. The 60-minute show features dancers performing acrobatic stunts, hanging from the roof, and delivering physical comedy all while rolling through the streets of Bondi.
Tickets are selling FAST. Make sure you’ve got your seat on the bus secured!
🎟️ Tickets available via the link in our bio.
Back of The Bus
9 – 12
#bondifestival #whatsonsydney #sydneyevents #bondifest
🤖 Welcome to Pigeon Fool. It’s you vs. the machine.
Step into a blacked-out room and decide whether what’s in front of you is real… or AI-generated.
Part Turing Test. Part game show. All mind game.
You’ve got just 35 minutes to outsmart artificial intelligence.
🕦 The clock is ticking.
Can you beat AI?
Pigeon Fool
🗓️ 9 – 12 July
📍 Bondi Pavilion High Tide Room
#bondifestival #bondifest #whatsonsydney #bondipavilion #sydneyevents
🤩 Bondi Festival opening weekend served the ultimate winter festival vibes: we laughed, sang, danced, watched, ate, skated and Weekend Two is gearing up to be even bigger and better, if that was even possible...
On this week:
▶️ Pigeon Fool: 9 – 12 July
▶️ Back Of The Bus: 9 – 12 July
▶️ Gladdy Drawing Club: 9, 11 July
▶️ Amalgamation: 9 – 12 July
▶️ Pavilion Paw Parade: 11 July
▶️ Bingo, Burlesque & Bondi Vybes: 11 July
🎟️ With shows selling out quickly, be sure to get your tickets ASAP via bondifestival.com.au
Bondi Festival | 3 – 19 July
📸 @sometimesnotalways
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