Salamander is coming to the 2023 Brisbane Festival!
Time to go, Time to wake up
Time to stand up and hold each other
before it is too late
Before there is nothing left
Do we fight and stay?
Do we make a change? Or do we adapt?
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A dance-theatre visual feast, Salamander sees a warehouse at Northshore, Brisbane transformed into a fully immersive, climate-fiction dream-like world through light, sound, design, and movement. Es Devlin’s labyrinthian and kinetic sculptures live within a flooded ...
Check out the first look at the 2023 St. Ali Italian Film Festival Lineup!
The Festival is thrilled to welcome the wonderful and talented Italian-Australian food writer, TV producer and host Silvia Colloca as the 2023 Festival Ambassador. A great film lover, Silvia will be talking about her top picks plus her Italian heritage and will be in attendance to open the Festival in Sydney and Melbourne.
Opening the 2023 Festival is the exciting drama THE LAST NIGHT OF AMORE (L'ultima notte di Amore) led by Italian superstar Pierfrancesco Favino. The stylish, Milan set ...
Brisbane Festival unveils a World-Class 2023 Program!
The fourth program from Artistic Director Louise Bezzina simultaneously welcomes the world and spotlights Brisbane on the global stage across 23 days of evocative, accessible, and uplifting work.
Brisbane’s premier arts venues and some of the city’s most iconic locations will stage more than 1000 performances – 230 of which are free – including 19 world premieres, two Australian premieres and 11 Queensland premieres.
Brisbane Festival will provide employment opportunities for ...
Screwball season arrives at the Australian Cinémathèque!
The screwball comedy is one of the great treasures of American cinema. Emerging in the 1930s, these fast-talking farces subverted the conventions of romantic comedies with acid-tongued wit and slapstick silliness.
The genre rose to prominence amid the economic turmoil of the Great Depression, with audiences responding to the intermingling of metropolitan glamour and acerbic class commentary. Famously described by critic Andrew Sarris as ‘sex comedies without the sex’, screwball ...
The global hit, Lightscape, finally lights up Brisbane!
This uniquely created immersive experience takes you on a journey of the senses through light, colour and sounds, showcasing the gardens as never seen before.
Journey beneath glowing tree canopies filled with colour. Stroll alongside larger-than-life flowers and neon roots bursting from the undergrowth and amble through sparkling tunnels of light or under giant poppies suspended high in the night sky.
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These breathtaking lightworks follow a two kilometre path to ...
The Big Bike Film Night 2023 is coming to Brisbane this September!
With its humble beginnings back in 2015, The Big Bike Film Night is now a much-anticipated Film Festival that brings a love of cycling to cinemas, presenting an array of international movies specifically selected by New Zealander Curator/ “Film Pedlar”, Brett Cotter.
“Each year I set out with just one goal- to bring together the best cycling short films from around the world for our audiences- this collection is awe-inspiring and celebrates the fun, the adventure, and inspiration ...
The 2023 Saxo Scandinavian Film Festival programme has been revealed!
Opening the Festival is the Australian Premiere of LET THE RIVER FLOW (Ellos eatnu – La elva leve), fresh from being crowned the Audience Award at the 2023 Göteborg Film Festival, and starring magnetic newcomer and proud Sámi Ella Marie Hætta Isaksen. Based on true events that inspired a generation of young Norwegians, writer/director Ole Giæver’s elegant, multi award-winning drama follows a young woman who is unintentionally drawn into a protest against a dam that may flood ...
From the Coats to the Hinterland, Horizon Festival returns to Queensland this August!
From 25 August to 3 September, as Queensland’s winter draws to a close, the highly anticipated festival will captivate locals and tourists alike with a diverse array of music, cabaret, theatre, comedy, family events and more.
Horizon Festival salutes the vibrancy of the Sunshine Coast, with artists, their stories and the community at the heart of this year’s program. Staged in stunning locations and unique venues, the 2023 program is bursting with free and ticketed events for all ...
Music Anniversary Concerts and Films screening at Dendy Cinemas!
First on stage is the celebration of Willie Nelson’s 90th Birthday with LONG STORY SHORT: WILLIE NELSON 90; a two-hour concert film featuring his most memorable performances plus a star-studded list of performances including Neil Young, Sheryl Crow, Tom Jones and many more.
Screening 10 & 11 June
This 90-year celebration is followed by the 10-year anniversary of Korea’s greatest music exports – BTS. Follow along as two of the band members forge solo careers in J-HOPE IN THE ...
