What’s on at the Ocean Lovers Festival 2025

Take a look at the full program of Ocean Lovers Festival 2025. This year is going to be bigger and better than ever, with the festival expanding Sydney-wide across March and the iconic Bondi Festival taking place on the 22nd & 23rd of March. 

Start the month long festival and join in Clean Up Australia Day on Sunday 2 March 2025. Removing litter from our streets and waterways is essential to keeping our oceans clean. Register to host or join a Clean Up event and help make this Clean Up Australia Day the biggest ever!

Ocean Lovers Sydney 2025 Festival Program Highlights

A 4-week celebration inviting audiences to immerse, experience and
explore Sydney’s wonderous blue heart.

• Bondi Festival with markets, talks, music, art, films and workshops
• High-level networking events and conferences for impactful collaboration
• Science talks, presentations and workshops
• Science restoration tours and behind-the-scenes open days
• Indigenous care for sea country talks/tours
• Art exhibitions, entertainment and activations
• Action events including a Marine bio blitz and clean-up campaigns
• Education and student programs
• City-wide free and ticketed events

Check out the full program for 2025 and plan your Ocean Lovers Festival experience now.

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Saving the Ocean with Science​

The Ocean Lovers Talks are a feature event of the Ocean Lovers Festival. The talks are focused on solutions from the ocean and ways we can better protect our ocean. The free inspirational talks are presented by leaders and luminaries, scientists, innovators and adventurers.

Festival-goers can literally turn-up in their swimmers to hear from the change makers and future proofers sharing hopeful and inspiring views for the future.

Saturday 22 March

11am – 11.20am	Life after shark nets: a shark smart future
11.30am – 11.50am	Young ocean crusaders: the next generation saving our seas
12pm – 12.20pm	Supernatural sea dragons and seahorses
1pm – 1.20pm	Crash though the trash: solving the ocean trash crisis
1.30pm – 1.50pm	Ancient wisdom, modern science: sharing solutions for the love of the ocean
2pm – 2.40pm	Valerie Taylor’s mission critical – saving the grey nurse shark
3.15pm – 3.35pm	Sustainable seafood – what you need to know!
3.45pm – 4.05pm	Meet seaweed and algae – the super heroes
4.15pm – 4.35pm	Coral crusaders: how to save our reefs
4.45pm – 5.05pm	Sydney’s ocean guardians – protecting and restoring our unique marine ecosystems

Sunday 23 March

11.45am – 12.15am	What’s with the weather? Ocean driven extremes
1.45pm – 2.05pm	Octopus – the ocean’s mastermind
2.15pm – 2.35pm	Join the rescue – citizen science for all
2.45pm – 3.05pm	Beauty beasts of the ocean

Check out the details for all the Ocean Lovers talks in 2025

Feature Image: Community day Ocean Lovers Festival Bondi

Inspiring Australia NSW is proud to support the Oceans Lovers Festival