2019 Bleach* Program heralds new era for the Gold Coast!
The eighth annual festival runs from April 17-28 and heralds a new era for the Gold Coast while celebrating its unique rituals and culture with a jam-packed program that spans large-scale opera, award-winning dance, eye-popping cabaret, free live music, a thoughtprovoking political swimming carnival and a thrilling drive-in with a difference.
Over 12 days, the Gold Coast’s beaches, waterways, parklands and civic gathering places become playgrounds for contemporary performance and ...
The Brisbane Street Art Festival 2019 is returning this May!
BSAF is an annual public art event that seeks to provide opportunities for creative practitioners and the wider community to develop positive partnerships through engagement and collaboration. As an avenue for artistic expression, BSAF endeavours to create a multi-disciplinary platform that encourages any and all art forms to participate. BSAF provides a framework of showcase and engagement for public art across Brisbane.
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Building from the strong response and ...
The 2019 Moro Spanish Film Festival has announced its full program!
Screening nationally at Palace Cinemas from 16 April, the 22nd edition of the festival features two key programme strands: New Spanish Cinema and Cine Latino.
Opening with Javier Fesser’s critically acclaimed Goya Award-winning box office smash hit CHAMPIONS (Campeones), the festival will close with a digital restoration of the firecracker comedy WOMEN ON THE VERGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN (Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios), directed by leading Spanish auteur, Pedro Almodóvar, ...
Supercell, A triple threat dance festival returns to Brisbane for a third year!
The premier showcase of contemporary dance leaps on to stages across the city, spotlighting Queensland’s major dance companies including Expressions Dance Company, Dancenorth, Queensland Ballet, Phluxus2 Dance Collective and The Farm as well as interstate artists and emerging and independent talent.
Curator and co-founder Kate Usher said the 2019 theme was The view from here: Dance in the Asia Pacific and encompasses seven major performance pieces, emerging works, a film program, a ...
The 15th annual Sydney Comedy Festival announces a huge 2019 program!
Across four big weeks from 22nd April to 19th May, the Festival will welcome performers from all corners of the globe including Joe Lycett (UK), David O’Doherty (IRE), Daniel Sloss (SCO), Melanie Bracewell (NZ), Ron Funches (USA), Storm Xu (CHN), Dusty Rich (RSA), Jinx Yeo (SGP), Kanan Gill (IND), Takashi Wakasugi (JPN), Ivan Aristeguieta (VEN) and Gillian English (CAN).
Crowd favourites taking to the Festival stages include Danny Bhoy (SCO), Arj Barker (USA), Jay Pharoah (USA), Lauren ...
Brisbane Ice Cream Festival is back this month!
Here’s the scoop, friends: Brisbane Ice Cream Festival is back for Round 3, after 2 show-stopping, sold out years of icy indulgence.
Head to West Village on Saturday 23rd and Sunday 24th – it’s frozen, it’s fun, and entry is free (although registering is necessary if you wish to attend, more on securing tickets below)!
For the first time ever, not one, but TWO incredible days, three ticketed sessions and 17 addictive food stalls await. Get ready to melt, Brisbane, this ...
Big Pineapple Music Festival 2019
The Sunshine Coasts' hottest music festival returns to its iconic home in Woombye, QLD on Saturday 25 May 2019 and is set to squeeze a bunch of the sweetest bands touring the world right now across its four diverse stages.
From masters of the drop and platinum selling electronic luminaries, to international pop queens and indie underground legends, the seventh edition of Big Pineapple Music Festival will have your musical tastebuds tingling.
Are you ready to taste the goodness?
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Comedy Queen, Queenie van de Zandt goes back to her Netherlands at Brisbane Comedy Festival 2019!
Since unleashing alter-ego Jan van de Stool at the Brisbane Cabaret Festival in 2004, Queenie’s Dutch-born “musical therapist” has become one of the greatest cult comedy acts in Australia, touring festivals nationally and reaching the semi-finals on television juggernaut Australia’s Got Talent.
Next month, Australia’s favourite self-help guru (self-appointed) will conjure the laughs in a one-woman exposé: Jan van de Stool in PARTING THE RED CURTAINS.
“I’m inviting all ...
Cesar-nominated films to screen at this year’s Alliance Française French Film Festival
The Sisters Brothers (Les Freres Sisters), Jacques Audiard's western starring Joaquin Phoenix and John C. Reilly, has received nine nominations, including for Best Director. The film has already enjoyed a number of international accolades including winning the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival last year and screened at the launch of the 2019 Alliance Française French Film Festival just two weeks ago.
The Alliance Française French Film Festival’s Opening Night film, Pierre ...
30th Alliance Française French Film Festival – In Brisbane from March 14!
This very special Festival edition, which will showcase its innumerable delights across 12 distinct categories with self-explanatory titles ranging from “Paris Snapshots,” “Summertime,” “Lighten Up,” and “Critically Acclaimed,” will also present a selection of outstanding movies from Belgium, Canada and Switzerland via its “Across Borders” category including The Fall of the American Empire (La chute de l’empire Américain), a richly amusing comedy drama from renowned ...
