West End Film Festival calls action on 10th Birthday!
The short film competition, held in one of Brisbane’s most vibrant communities, will mark the milestone by doubling its major prize to $3000.
Two new co-directors will spearhead WEFF in 2019: documentary filmmaker Adam Finney and photographer and videographer Anthony Toci.
The duo is working with an industry and community judging panel to curate five screenings of officially selected films across three days.”
Tickets are now on sale with a full schedule for each session ...
A 30th Anniversary Screening of When Harry Met Sally is coming to Dendy Cinemas!
Featuring dazzling performances from Meg Ryan, Billy Crystal, Carrie Fisher and Bruno Kirby, When Harry Met Sally is an explosively funny commentary on friendship, courtships - and other hardships - of the modern age.
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Will sex ruin a perfect relationship between a man and a woman? That's what Harry and Sally debate during their travels from Chicago to New York. Will these two best friends ever accept the attraction that's existed since the very first moment When ...
Queensland Theatre is bringing Storm Boy to QPAC this July!
Young Storm Boy lives a simple yet free life on the coastal wilds of the South Australian Coorong, combing the beaches with his reclusive father, Hideaway Tom.
During a long summer, he makes two friends who will shepherd him from childhood into adulthood: the jester Fingerbone Bill, who teaches him about his country; and Mr Percival, an orphaned pelican who prepares Storm Boy for the wider world with a poignant lesson about love, loss and letting go.
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The Boy Diver Exhibition at Metro Arts
Here, the artist returns to their tenth birthday party, where they would find a treasure at the bottom of a public pool: a $1 coin. The exhibition focuses, not on obtaining the coin, but on reaching for it and the potentiality of this moment of endeavour and expectation. As the coin’s glint is followed through the water, the uncertainty of the moment suggests a flow of energies, yet to be regulated, that have unrestricted potential.
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The artist’s body is ...
Laser Beak Man is coming to QPAC this October!
Power City was once the most beautiful city in the world – clean, pure, perfect – and local hero Laser Beak Man worked hard to keep it that way. Drawing energy from the underground Magna Crystals that power the city, his beak-shot lasers turn bad things to good. But now the city isn’t what it used to be, and Laser Beak Man is thoroughly over it. That is until his estranged childhood friends Peter Batman and Evil Emily return to steal the Magna Crystals. Robbed of his super powers, ...
Giantess – written and perfomed by Cassie Workman – is coming to the Brisbane Powerhouse
Taken to a strange house, Sam’s captor tells her she is sick and can never ever leave. Now only the power of a giant can save her.
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Created by the multi-award-winning comedian Cassie Workman, Giantess is a story of self acceptance. Interweaving music, comedy, storytelling and illustration, Cassie’s one-person-show explores the anguish of coming to terms with a gender identity that doesn’t match your body.
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Brisbane Powerhouse, Brisbane
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The Beatles’ Abbey Road Live 2019 Australia Tour
The album will be performed in full, from start to finish, followed by a second set comprising of a selection of Beatles hits.
Joining ARC live on stage will be special guests Ash Naylor, Linda Bull, Brett Wolfenden and James Fleming.
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'Abbey Road' is a stately, majestic, playful yet fiercely rocking masterpiece of pop music, often regarded as one of the greatest records of all time. It is the 11th studio album by The Beatles, released on 26 September 1969 by ...
We Koppel, We Dala Exhibition at Metro Arts
Apartheid continues. Disguised globally. Framed within South African Apartheid history, the exhibition seeks to consider adjacent histories of colonialism such as that of so-called ‘Australia’ and its own histories of segregation, and to acknowledge this.
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We Koppel, We Dala explores personal relationships within these histories, by occupying significant sites of reclamation and loss: the mountains where Khoi and San ancestors traversed; memorials of the 76’ ...
Cabaret De Paris returns to QPAC for three shows only!
Cabaret De Paris is a stage spectacular celebrating old-fashioned showgirl glamour combined with the skill of adagio dancers, aerial pole artistry, comedy circus performers, quick change performers, illusionists and of course the famous French Cancan Dancers! (please note: the 2pm show on Saturday will be covered, while the two evening performances are topless)
Australian born and trained Marissa Burgess, the longest-serving principal performer in the Moulin Rouge's 120-year history, ...
Puccini’s politically-charged thriller Tosca is coming to QPAC this June!
First performed in 1900, Nolan said Tosca’s importance was undiminished 120 years on.
“Tosca is often described as the greatest opera of them all, owing in large part to Puccini’s exquisite score. Yet, as a story, Tosca still has so much insight and relevance for contemporary audiences.
The questions it asks and the social, political and economic scenarios it examines keep it alive to the here and now,” Nolan said.
“In a world where political tyranny and intolerance is ...
