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The Proclaimers are set to tour Australia this May!

A highly-individual blend of punk, folk, pop, poetry, country, soul, socialism and new wave, The Proclaimers walk precisely the right line between romance and bitter reality. Their songs are timeless; with their catchy tunes and stirring harmonies they capture the full gamut of human emotions.   //   Expect to hear the classics Let’s Get Married, Sunshine on Leith, Letter From America, I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) and songs from their highly acclaimed 11th studio album ...

Ruel’s Painkiller Tour is coming to Australia this May!

Celebrating these remarkable feats by hitting the road in May on his Painkiller tour, Ruel will be stopping in Brisbane, Hobart, Melbourne, Forbes, Darwin and of course, Sydney as he takes in the largest venues of his short but extremely eventful career and showcasing tracks from his highly anticipated second EP. A transcendent new star on an unstoppable trajectory, the London-born, Sydney-based songwriter found himself on the ARIA podium as he took out the 2018 Breakthrough Artist gong ...

Hans and Nora Heysen: Two Generations of Australian Art Exhibition at NGV

In many ways, theirs is an archetypal twentieth-century Australian story of migration, family life, wartime separation and a deep connection to place. Both artists travelled in Europe and their work demonstrates both international influences and engagement with their Australian contemporaries. While Hans devoted his mature practice predominantly to the depiction of landscape, Nora became renowned as a portraitist and painter of still life.   //   Hans and Nora’s ...

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, ...

The ultimate celebration of Mickey Mouse is headed to Brisbane!

Tickets are on sale from 9am Tuesday 19 March 2019. Tickets from $33* through www.Ticketek.com.au/DisneyOnIce And in more exciting news, Tom Williams, Australian media personality, father of two and Disney On Ice fan, has been confirmed as Australia Ambassador for the 2019 tour! “I’m thrilled to be the ambassador for the 2019 Disney On Ice tour. My family and I have always been huge fans of the show, and Rachel and I will be able to share our childhood Disney memories with our ...

Gabriella Hirst awarded 2020 Ian Potter Moving Image Commission

Gabriella Hirst has been awarded the prize from a field of impressive candidates vying for the prestigious visual art commission – an initiative of The Ian Potter Cultural Trust (IPCT) and the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI). The commission will make possible a new work, Darling Darling (working title), which will have its world premiere at ACMI in 2020. The proposed work parallels the precise and elaborate care taken to preserve colonial paintings of the Australian ...

Cirque du Soleil is returning to Australia with Kurios

Tickets ON SALE from Monday 18 March at 9am by visiting cirquedusoleil.com/kurios or by calling 1800 036 685. KURIOS – Cabinet of Curiosities had its world premiere in Montréal April 2014 and since its debut, the critics have been raving across North America: “It is not to be missed on any account,” said Chris Jones in The Chicago Tribune.  “KURIOS is the most enthralling, consistently over-the-top magical show Cirque du Soleil has sent our way in a long time,” raved Robert ...

Banff Mountain Film Festival Australian Tour

Showcasing a carefully curated selection of the best films from Canada’s famous nine-day international festival, the event will travel to 30 Australian towns and cities, inspiring audiences in 70 packed screenings. Travel to exotic landscapes and remote cultures, and get up-close and personal with adrenaline-packed action sports, the 2018/2019 World Tour is an exhilarating and provocative exploration of the mountain world. Give your adventure dreams more oxygen this year, with a ticket ...

Aurora 2019 Sideshow Announced!

Aurora will be heading out for theatre sized shows in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Fremantle and, much like the enchanting light display with which she shares her name, this prodigiously talented 22-year-old songwriter is an inspiring spectacle.   //   Having amassed over 200 million streams and huge sales of her debut album All My Demons Greeting Me As A Friend, Aurora recently released the first instalment of an ongoing project titled Infections Of A Different Kind ...

Jungle touring Australia this April!

Fellow Brit, Georgia, will add a twist of electro-pop into the mix, joining the seven-piece on the road in both Australia and back home in the UK. Taking inspiration from the likes of M.I.A. and Micahu, Georgia broke on to the scene with a self-titled debut album in 2015, sporting her very own brand of unmistakably British underground pop. Her most recent tracks, ‘Feel It’, ‘Mellow’ featuring Shygirl and ‘Started Out’ are shining examples of Georgia’s thrilling pop lyricism ...