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Brisbane Street Art Festival returns to Brisbane this month!

Since 2016, BSAF has rapidly been growing into one of the largest Street Art festivals in Australia. Building on the foundations and support from the last six years, BSAF is returning in 2022 with a worldclass program throughout Brisbane. The BSAF 2022 mural program will welcome artists from around the world and across the country to join significant local artists in revitalising some of Brisbane’s most iconic locations with public art.   //   BSAF 2022 is also ...

2022 German Film Festival has announced first highlights and “Kino for Kids” sidebar!

This year’s Festival Special Presentation is DEAR THOMAS (Lieber Thomas), a historical monochrome biopic of East German writer and filmmaker Thomas Brasch, starring rising star Albrecht Schuch (Fabian: Going to the Dogs and Berlin Alexanderplatz GFF21). Brasch was born as a German-Jewish emigrant in England, moving to the GDR with his family in the 1950s. As he grows into a prolific writer and poetic rebel, he struggles with the reality of censorship in communist East Germany. The ...

Greece is the word at Paniyiri where we party like the Greeks!

Tickets have just gone on sale to 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 ...

Jacques Tati Retrospective at Dendy Coorparoo!

The French maestro Jacques Tati is an amalgam borne of the tradition of silent film comics like Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, and Laurel & Hardy. Though he made only a handful of films Jacques Tati ranks among the most beloved of all cinematic geniuses. With a background in music hall and mime performance, Tati steadily built an ever-more-ambitious movie career that ultimately raised sight-gag comedy to the level of high art. Tati only made six feature-length features in his ...

Brisbane Writers Festival celebrates 60 years with a placemaking program of stories and stars!

From suburban restaurants to Valley nightclubs, the 2022 program exemplifies BWF’s ‘Where our stories live’ vision, sharing stories that range from the intimate to the epic, told by unique voices from across Australia and the Pacific. “The spaces of our city plus the stories we tell create the place we live, and we hope this year’s Festival does Brisbane proud as it reflects our city’s culture, diversity and literary depth,” BWF CEO Sarah Runcie said. The 60th annivers...

No Joke: Brisbane Comedy Festival returns with 100+ international, national and local artists!

A hilarious hitlist of more than 100 notorious international acts, repeat offenders and homegrown heroes will have audiences LOLing in the aisles at more than 350 shows across five weeks at Brisbane Powerhouse, The Fortitude Music Hall and The Tivoli. Audiences can catch a stellar international comedy contingent on stage again, including Malaysia’s favourite doctor turned funny man, Jason Leong, Irish comedy crooner David O’Doherty and brand-new stuff from stand-up and podcast host ...

Garry Starr’s Greece Lightning is coming to the Brisbane Comedy Festival!

Never before has Medusa been looser, Achilles more sillies, or Uranus so heinous. Having single handedly saved the performing arts in 2018 with his multi-award-winning debut show, comic wunderkind Garry Starr returns with another anarchic masterclass not to be mythed. Damien Warren-Smith grew up in the sleepy snowy mountains town of Cooma before studying at Actors Centre Australia. Upon graduation he moved to London where he spent more than a decade working as a theatre actor as ...

The Morro Spanish Film Festival set to shine this April!

The Festival opens with the Australian premiere of OFFICIAL COMPETITION (Competencia oficial), a star-studded, bitingly funny behind-the-scenes satire of filmmaking, in which a wealthy businessman hires a neurotic director to produce a brilliant art film. Penélope Cruz stars as the eccentric director and Antonio Banderas and Oscar Martinez as the actors – a Hollywood heartthrob and a radical theatre actor. Other highlights from the programme include THE DAUGHTER (La hija) - from one ...

Adventure cinema is coming to the Dendy!

There are no actors, no blue screens and no second takes when it comes to THE EUROPEAN OUTDOOR FILM TOUR 2021. Hailed as the most renowned film event on the European outdoor calendar, the tour is back again with even more this year. Screening at Dendy Coorparoo March 23. Adventure Entertainment also presents Jérémie Heitz and Sam Anthamatten finding beauty and displaying grace in the dangerous world of free-skiing. Follow them as they set off around the world to find the most awe-dro...

Roaring Twenties Cinema returns to Brisbane on Thursday 31st March!

The silent features this month are... SEVEN YEARS BAD LUCK (1921) After breaking a mirror in his home, superstitious Max tries to avoid situations which could bring bad luck-- but in doing so, causes himself the worst luck imaginable. Starring Max Linder Followed by... SEVEN CHANCES (1925) A man learns he will inherit a fortune if he marries by 7 p.m. that same day. Starring Buster Keaton Both films will have live piano accompaniment by Fin Taylor Brisbane's cheapest form ...