nventing the Tradition is designed to be challenging and, above all, to be entertaining and stimulating. It is a festival not a conference but it has the serious aim of investigating the relationship between the mainstream and the margins, between tradition and the avant-garde. Poets will be reading from their own work but they will be contextualising their readings by reference to poets whom they admire and by briefly mentioning the theories, traditions (or anti-traditions) from which they write.

Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946) was one of the most influential figures in 20th-century American art. He was a true visionary and among the first to recognise the power of photography as an artistic and poetic medium, the epitome of a new way of seeing. A legendary figure who wanted to break with the past, Stieglitz was devoted to shaping a new cultural identity for America in a new century.

The world's premier theatrical ice skating company, The Imperial Ice Stars, are back with a dynamic new interpretation of their award-winning masterpiece Swan Lake on Ice. With Tchaikovsky's glorious music, exhilarating new choreography from leading ice director Tony Mercer, and dazzling new costumes, this innovative portrayal of the classic love story will take your breath away.

In the 22 weeks of the 2010 Toyota AFL Premiership Season we've seen our great players use their incredible skills to compete in the one sport that truly is in a league of its own. Now, with just 8 teams in the hunt for Premiership glory, they all must take their game to the next level. And they'll need all the support they can get. Like in all finals football it will be the roar of the crowd that will help them rise to the occasion. Make sure you're a part of the heart-stopping action and help your team write themselves into AFL history.

Come and see the Manly Sea Eagles as the race for the finals hots up.

JERSEY BOYS, the Tony Award®-winning, worldwide hit musical about Rock and Roll Hall of Famers, Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons - Frankie Valli, Bob Gaudio, Tommy DeVito and Nick Massi - is coming to Sydney's Theatre Royal from 3 September. This is the story of how four boys from the wrong side of the tracks became one of the greatest successes in pop music history. They wrote their own songs, invented their own sounds and sold 175 million records worldwide - all before they were thirty!

Long before Dorothy dropped in, two other girls meet in the Land of Oz. One, born with emerald-green skin, is smart, fiery and misunderstood. The other is beautiful, ambitious and very popular. How these two unlikely friends end up as the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good Witch makes for the most spellbinding new musical in years. WICKED, the untold story of the witches of Oz, features music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz (Godspell, Pippin, Academy Award® winner for Pocahontas and The Prince of Egypt) and book by Winnie Holzman.

It's Friday night. Stag Lee is 17, bored and figuring out how to make fast money from a life of crime. Silent Leila is at the all-night superstore feeling stupid and ugly, wishing she lived inside the pages of a celebrity magazine. A chance meeting. A life-changing event. In a heartbeat the duo are headed north in search of refuge. Marooned in an unforgiving landscape, this unlikely Bonnie and Clyde are forced to hunker down and confront who they really are.

Gwen is 90. She woke up this morning to discover that purgatory is sitting alone in a new home in a new subdivision on the edge of town, trying to work out if the remote in her had operates the TV, the aircon, or the fan forced oven. Written especially for Company B Belvoir, it is Tommy Murphy's brilliant existential comedy. He is one of the country's most formidable playwrights. Neil Armfield directs this portrait of an old life in search of a graceful ending staring Melissa Jaffer

Savion Glover is widely acknowledged as the world's greatest tap dancer. Having started his professional career at the age of 12, alongside Sammy Davis Jr., Glover is regarded as one of the greatest revolutionaries of the genre, taking it way beyond its old-fashioned image, adapting it to the rhythms of contemporary jazz and hip-hop.

From the broken asphalt of the open-air Galiwinku Saturday Night Disco, the teenage Chooky Dancers of Elcho Island captured 1.4 million YouTube fans worldwide with their exuberant interpretation of Zorba the Greek. Just off the coast of Arnhem Land, Elcho Island is a remote Northern Territory community of little more than 2,000 where the majority of islanders are under 21- yet their Yolngu culture is connecting profoundly with peoples everywhere.

The St George Illawarra Dragons will play their last 6 home games at WIN Jubilee Oval, Kogarah in the second half of the 2010 NRL Telstra Premiership.