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2023 German Film Festival is returning this May!

The festival will open in Sydney on 2 May, in Adelaide, Brisbane, Canberra on 3 May and in Melbourne, Perth and Byron Bay on 4 May, then concludes on 24 May in all cities. This year’s line-up will feature an impressive selection of the best in contemporary German cinema including two excellent dramas direct from the 2023 Berlin International Film Festival. The much-loved Kino for Kids sidebar, presented by the Goethe-Institut, will also return and you can explore them all below plus ...

The inaugural Sunshine Coast Chilli Festival is coming to Aussie World this month!

Gather the people that help you laugh, eat, sweat, race, shop and smile for this sizzling day celebrating the spice of life. Featuring: 🌶Sampling and Shopping 🌮Fresh Food Trucks 🌶Eating Comps 🎡Amusement Rides 🍺Beer Garden 🤡Kids Eating Comps 🎟Charity Food & Wine Raffles 🍹Cocktail Bar   //   Meet the makers while supporting small business with over 300 chilli sauces to sample and shop. Sunshine Coast Chilli Festival March 18, 2023 ...

City Symphony A Live Music & Film Series currently playing GOMA!

Presented as a series of 10 live music and film performances, the program will run monthly from February to November throughout 2023. Insightful and fascinating, these early cinematic experiments are a meld of documentary and film poem, that respond to the complexities of urban life and range from a joyous celebration of the bustling metropolis to a revealing portrait of hardships in communal and industrial spaces.   //   These stylish snapshots of city life include ...

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.   //   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.   //   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.   //   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.   //   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.   //   Featuring the latest box office hits alongside rare 35mm film screenings of master filmmaker Mikio Naruse’s ...