Showbags, Stockmen and Shearing Oh My: Everything Worth Seeing and Doing at the 2025 Sydney Royal Easter Show
It's that time of year again, and it's set to be a goodie.
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Somehow, it's already Easter, which only means one thing – the 2025 Sydney Royal Easter Show is here. This year, from Friday, April 11 to Tuesday, April 22, Australia's largest agricultural event will be hosting an exciting array of entertainment and world-class competitions at the Sydney Showground at Sydney Olympic Park, ready and waiting for the whole family to enjoy.
We've narrowed down our top recommendations for things to do and see while you're there to help you out.
Live Entertainment
Nightly Evening Entertainment
Head to the Main Arena from 7.00pm each day for hours of after-dark fun. Standouts include the 'Disco Fever Street Parade', the 'K9 Superwall Challenge' where city and country dogs compete in a test of strength, agility and determination and off-road buggy races. But the proverbial iceberg of entertainment runs deep, and there'll be epic fireworks displays to round it all up.
Grand Parade
Get up close and personal with the very best in Australian agriculture as prize-winning animals are paraded through the main arena. One of the most long-standing events – taking place every year since 1907 – this iconic tradition of the Sydney Royal Easter Show, one true to its core, isn't one to be missed.
Bluey Bonanza Bluey has well and truly taken over the world as Australia's most beloved export, and this year's Sydney Royal Easter Show is putting the beloved Heeler family front and centre. Keep the kids happy by treating them to Bluey and Bingo's live interactive spectacular, which will see the duo play their favourite games of Magic Asparagus, Magic Xylophone, Keepy Uppy and more.
Paul Bunyan Lumberjack Show
New to the Sydney Royal Easter Show for 2025, the lumberjack shows bring high-energy action and crowd-pleasing, log-chopping entertainment to the show. Watch on as lumberjacks saw, chop, axe, and log roll across the pond with daily shows including two-man cross-cut sawing, chainsaw vs cross-cut races, axe throwing, underhand and standing block chopping, quick chainsaw carving, log rolling and log run. Who knew logs could provide so much fun?
Wrangler Federation Rodeo Challenge
Not for the faint-hearted, but an agricultural classic: watch as Aussie riders take on bull riding, bareback, saddle bronc and female breakaway roping with the biggest and brawniest cattle you've ever seen in the Main Arena.
Animal acts
ADVANCE™ Sydney Royal Cat and Dog shows
Taking place for more than 150 years, the cat and dog shows are not to be missed. If your a dog person, witness more than two hundred breeds battle it out in categories including obedience, rally, agility, jumping, scent work and trick dog. Or, if you're more of a cat person, head to the Pat a Cat interactive experience.
Sydney Royal Aviary Bird Show
If you're in your bird-watching era, then this one's for you. Featuring judging of breeds, including Finches, Budgerigars, African Lovebirds, Canaries, and Parrots, the Sydney Royal Aviary Bird Show is a celebration of aviculture in Australia, with some of the prettiest domestic birds you're likely to ever see on display.
The Animal Walk
Perhaps unsurprisingly, the Sydney Royal Easter Show is home to over 13,000 animals representing over 400 different breeds and over 6,000 agricultural exhibitors. And when you come and visit, you can see them up close, organised by species, along The Animal Walk – you'll feel like you're on a country farm despite being in the city. See sheep, pigs, goats, horses, alpacas and plenty more, and get your steps way up on the way.
Jamison Station
Get down and dirty with a 2025 addition: the new 'working farm' precinct, which will host hands-on animal experiences as well as live milking and blacksmithing demonstrations. And yes, you can try your hand at milking a cow.
Food
Woolworths Fresh Food Dome
Another iconic Sydney Royal Easter Show offering, the Woolworths Fresh Food Dome, is where you get to see and taste everything under the sun. From fresh fruit, rich charcuterie, boutique sauces, baked goods and quite literally everything in between, it's easy to get lost in this culinary wonderland for hours, so come hungry.
Live judging: Aquaculture edition
While you're at the Dome, head to Aquaculture to watch oyster judging live. Taking place on Wednesday, April 16. You might think you know your oysters, or at least your fresh from your Kilpatrick, but here, foodies can watch on as judges assess the precise uniformity of shape, presentation, texture, colour, freshness, and the all-important taste of these oceanic morsels.
Don't miss your chance to be a part of the action with tickets for the 2025 Sydney Royal Easter Show on sale now.
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