month : 04/2019 58 results

Sydney’s Belvoir Theatre’s Barbara and the Camp Dogs is coming to Brisbane this May!

When a family tragedy beckons, Barbara and her sister (and fellow muso) René set off on a long and winding motorbike adventure from Sydney, through Darwin, and finally to Katherine – where the bickering pair come face to face with some home truths.   //   Part madcap buddy comedy, part electrifying rock gig, and part clarion call against the taint of inequality, this effervescent play with songs sold out its original season at Sydney’s Belvoir Theatre. Now it’s ...

Stones Corner Festival 2019

One of Brisbane’s largest and most anticipated annual street parties, the free celebration of the inner-city suburb and its community will bring together great local food, breweries and artisans in support of the MND and Me Foundation, supporting Queenslanders living with Motor Neurone Disease and funding ongoing research. Live acts will take the stage with electrifying performances from 12pm, and joining the high-energy headliners will be sets from must-see Brisbane rockers Cheap ...

Watch the trailer for the hotly anticipated film 2040!

The hit 2015 documentary That Sugar Film saw Gameau transform himself into a ‘human lab rat’ to trial the effects that a high sugar diet has on the human body. The film received widespread critical acclaim and at the time of release became the most successful Australian documentary ever released. Damon’s new film 2040 is a journey to explore what the future could look like by the year 2040 if we simply embraced the best solutions already available to us to improve our planet and ...

MØ with DUCKWRTH – Groovin The Moo 2019 Sideshows Announced

Possessing one of the most streamed voices on the planet, MØ will arrive in Australia with latest album Forever Neverland tucked securely under her arm. Released in October last year, it added a sparser side to this wildly popular alt- popstar’s arsenal, while losing none of the bite that took her to the top. Known to her friends as Karen Marie Ørsted, MØ has built an audience as a featured vocalist on tracks by the likes of Snakehips, Cashmere Cat, SOPHIE, Noah Cyrus, Justin Bieber ...

Breaking Habits Movie Review

She endured hardships that would have left most people broken. She was married to a man for seventeen years who stole over a million dollars from her and then turned out to be a polygamist. She was kicked out of the house she shared with her brother and children because of his criminal activity and even spent time being homeless.   //   Throughout these ordeals however, she remained strong. As inspirational as her story is, the tale of the community she calls home is ...

Cinderella is coming to QPAC this month!

This Cinderella is not about princes and princesses. It’s about a single woman trying to go on a half-decent date, and a single guy who has an unreasonable fear of not being heard over loud music in bars. There may not be any ugly sisters, but there’s the occasional mysterious animal. There’s midnight. There’s a shoe. There’s definitely dancing. And there’s beautiful transformation. From the curious mind of preeminent playwright Matthew Whittet (Girl Asleep, The Book of ...

Win a double pass to Peterloo!

Mike Leigh's latest film is an epic portrayal of the events surrounding the infamous 1819 Peterloo Massacre, where a peaceful pro-democracy rally at St Peter's Field in Manchester turned into one of the bloodiest and most notorious episodes in British history. The massacre saw British government forces charge into a crowd of over 60,000 that had gathered to demand political reform and protest against rising levels of poverty. Many protestors were killed and hundreds more injured, ...

BIFF 2019 short film competition now open!

Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) Director Chris Saines said short films selected for screening would also be considered for the Festival awards across five different categories. ‘Queensland-made entries will be eligible for the Screen Queensland Short Film Award valued at $7500, with the winner given the option of either concept development funding or travel and marketing to attend a film market of their choice,’ Mr Saines said. ‘It is a fantastic opport...

Watch the trailer for the highly anticipated film Ride Like A Girl!

She leaves school at 15 to become a jockey and after early failures she finds her feet, but a family tragedy, followed by her own near fatal horse fall all but ends the dream. But with the love of her dad and her brother Stevie, Michelle will not give up.   //   Against all the medical advice, and the protests of her siblings, she rides on, and meets the Prince of Penzance. Together they overcome impossible odds for a shot at the dream: a ride in the 2015 Melbourne Cup, ...

German Film Festival 2019 first program announcement!

With the best new films from Germany, this year’s program, presented in collaboration with German Films, showcases festival favourites, works of auteurs as well as the brightest new talent. The opening selection, BALLOON (Ballon) by Michael ‘Bully’ Herbig is a spectacular and thrilling true story of two ordinary families who extraordinarily escape from East to West Germany in a homemade hot air balloon. Starring Karoline Schuch, David Kross, Friedrich Mücke and Alicia von Rittberg ...