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FESTIVAL Enjoy a laid-back picnic at the AnnanROMA​ Food and Wine Festival with stalls selling cured meats, pulled pork rolls, gozleme, churros and more. Plenty of entertainment for little ones is also scheduled with live performances, a giant slide and mud pie making. 10am-4pm, Australian Botanic Garden Mount Annan, Narellan Road, Mount Annan, free, australianbotanicgarden.com.au.

CLASS Foraging expert Diego Bonetto leads participants on the Wonderful Wild Weeds tour to teach them how to spot and harvest the most common edible species found locally. 10am-1pm, Wild Play Discovery Centre, Dickens Drive, Centennial Park, $29, centennialparklands.com.au.

BOOKS Pick up a few small-run publications, stickers or iron-on patches at the fifth year of Other Worlds Zine Fair. Noon-4pm, Marrickville Town Hall, 303 Marrickville Road, Marrickville, free, facebook.com/otherworldszinefair.

MUSIC Melbourne indie rock outfit Augie March have popped an extra show on the Sydney leg of their current tour so fans can hear them play songs from their sixth studio album, Bootikins, plus tunes from their back catalogue. 7pm, Lansdowne Hotel, cnr City Road and Broadway, city, $45.40, oztix.com.au.

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MUSIC South African singer Jeremy Loops is a busy man. Not only is he co-founder of a tree-planting organisation, the musician is also in the midst of a 10-country tour playing tracks from his sophomore record, Critical as Water. 7pm, Factory Theatre, 105 Victoria Road, Marrickville, $49, factorytheatre.com.au.

THIS WEEK

MONDAY, MAY 28

EXHIBITION Get up close to examine the best photojournalism from 2017 at World Press Photo (until June 24) with more than 150 striking images from across the globe on display. 9am-8pm, State Library, cnr Macquarie Street and Shakespeare Place, city, free, sl.nsw.gov.au.

TUESDAY, MAY 29

EXHIBITION James Cameron – Challenging the Deep (until January 30) highlights the film director's obsession with deep-sea exploration with objects from the construction of the submersible vehicle he used to reach the planet's deepest-known point, as well as props and costumes from Titanic and The Abyss. 9.30am-5pm, Australian National Maritime Museum, 2 Murray Street, Darling Harbour, $20, anmm.gov.au.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 30

TALK The Clear Spot Club was founded in 2016 to bring together experts from different fields to converse about everyday issues. For their upcoming discussion panel a philosopher, a poet, a divorce lawyer and a cardiologist share their views on the topic of, "What to do with a broken heart?". 6.30pm, Belvoir Upper Rehearsal Room, 18 Belvoir Street, Surry Hills, $28.50, clearspotclub.com.

THURSDAY, MAY 31

MUSIC For the 20th birthday of Cat Power's melancholy masterpiece Moon Pix the songstress performs the record in its entirety with collaborators Jim White and Mick Turner of the Dirty Three and a string section. 8pm, Sydney Opera House, $69-$109, sydneyoperahouse.com.

FRIDAY, JUNE 1

MUSIC Listen to tracks from Sarah Blasko's latest release, Depth of Field, which has garnered some of the best reviews of her career with Mojo calling it, "clever and very subtle grown-up electronic pop that beats with a broken heart". 8pm, Metro Theatre, 624 George Street, city, $51.10, ticketek.com.au.

SATURDAY, JUNE 2

STAGE For the 60th anniversary of lost musical Lola Montez, the most commercially successful Australian musical with an original score, a one-night-only production has been mounted starring Genevieve Lemon and Red Symons alongside Debora Krizak in the title role as a femme fatale on the goldfields of Ballarat in 1854. 8pm, Riverside Theatres, cnr Church and Market streets, Parramatta, $74.90, riversideparramatta.com.au.

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