The Lazy Mountain Music & Arts Festival is coming this Easter!
Launching the inaugural year with two of Australia’s finest, most successful and hardest working musical exports, overachieving multi-platinum selling, multiple ARIA and 2022 J Award winners Gang of Youths and superhuman multi-instrumentalist, singer, songwriter Tash Sultana, Sydney indie pop rock sweethearts Middle Kids, Melbourne indie punk rockers Slowly Slowly, Wollongong born, South Coast raised singer-songwriter Tyne James Organ, Snowy Mountains, via Beijing, via Thailand rapidly ...
Night Feast is coming to the Brisbane Powerhouse this March!
Set within a temporary village of Queensland fretwork, Cantonese lacquer and luminous neon, a selection of Brisbane’s top chefs will feature their signature dishes.
The culinary feast is paired with a menu of immersive art interventions, light installations and performance.
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The first of what will become a biannual event, Night Feast follows the seasons with Night Feast – Autumn each March and Night Feast – Spring each October.
Night Feast is a non-pr...
The Ocean Film Festival World Tour is coming to the Brisbane Powerhouse!
This unique collection of short films from around the globe document the beauty and power of the ocean, and celebrate the divers, surfers, swimmers and oceanographers who live for the sea’s salt spray; who chase the crests of waves; and who marvel at the mysteries of the big blue.
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The films feature captivating cinematography, complete with awe-inspiring underwater scenes and fast-paced wave sequences that have been captured from unbelievable vantage ...
Good Times is a new intimate concept to combat your festival fatigue!
The aptly named “Good Times” music festival will make its debut on Saturday 25 March 2023 at the same epic riverfront venue which hosts Strawberry Fields in Tocumwal, NSW.
With a strict capacity of just 1,000 lucky souls, the family-friendly event will feature one intimate stage, riverfront hot tubs, an epic wood-fired food program, handpicked natural wines and a lush bedouin lounge.
“While good music is fundamental to the experience, we’re placing just as much focus on ...
Brisbane’s Bayside festival Wynnum Fringe returns bigger than ever before!
Each week of the program runs through a different theme, starting with yana marumba – meaning “walk good” in Quandamooka language, highlighting Wynnum Fringe’s strong connection to Country and the Bayside’s Indigenous community as well as First Nations programming including Dane Simpson’s Digeridoozy.
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Eurotrip and Local Legends follow over the next two weeks, respectively, which will see productions from internationally-renowned artists to homegrown ...
Valley Fiesta returns in a free, three-day celebration of music, culture and community!
Gather, feast, groove and enjoy Friday’s opening night at the all-ages King Street Food Fiesta as restaurants along the dining strip serve tasting plates of signature dishes from 4pm to 9pm, with roving entertainment and live music from Brisbane’s best emerging talent.
Saturday dawns with the Hidden Lanes Festival Pop-Up inviting people of all ages to discover the secret treasures of Bakery, Winn and California Lanes.
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Choose your own adventure as the sun ...
Japanese Film Festival is coming to Brisbane this month!
This year when you meet us at the cinema, you might join forces with an unlikely team, who work to uncover the secrets that lie behind the first map of Japan.
You may even meet a quirky pair of teenage assassins learning to cohabitate and adjust to the facade of ‘normal life’, or four elite chefs in Tokyo who work tirelessly to perfect their craft.
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Featuring the latest box office hits alongside rare 35mm film screenings of master filmmaker Mikio Naruse’s ...
MELT Festival returns for 2022!
Global headliners, award-winning cabaret, high-energy music club nights, a queer comedy gala, cutting-edge contemporary dance and First Nations art are all on the star-studded program.
Curated by award-winning writer, director and producer Daniel Evans, the 18-day LGBTQIA+ festival will transform Brisbane Powerhouse into a playground of neon chapels, club nights, “pleasuredomes” and secret cinemas.
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MELT Festival is presented by Brisbane Powerhouse, proudly ...
The Flying Fists of Joyce Godenzi is coming to The Australian Cinémathèque!
In a brief but unforgettable career, Joyce Godenzi established herself as a consistently electric presence in a variety of film genres – most notably as a stylishly skilful star of some of Hong Kong’s premier action films.
Born in Hong Kong in 1965, Godenzi initially found fame upon winning the 1984 Miss Hong Kong pageant. She parlayed this newfound celebrity into an acting career with roles in Lam Ngai Kai’s The Ghost Snatchers 1986 and The Seventh Curse 1986, before her breakth...
Greece is the word as Paniyiri (finally!) returns to Brisbane!
The official program has just been released on this epic event which features a huge lineup of entertainment.
And did we mention the food? Paniyiri is all about the food, with 20 food stalls serving an incredible array of authentic food from 11 different Greek regions, and where no one judges you if you eat multiple plates of BBQ calamari, souvlaki, haloumi and honey puffs.
And culture, it's a day and night celebration of Greek dance, music, and mythology. Where you can channel your ...