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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? P...

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 ...

Sunshine Coast Asian Food Festival 2019

Guests are encouraged to bring a picnic blanket and relax in the sunshine whilst enjoying the amazing tastes of Asia. There will be live entertainment all afternoon. This is sure to be a not to be missed afternoon so get a group of friends and come and enjoy!   //   Join them for an afternoon Riesling Masterclass with Spicers own sommelier Peter Marchant. Due to the nature of this event unfortunately dietary requirements cannot be catered for. Sunshine Coast Asian ...

Save the date, s’il vous plaît! The Alliance Française French Film Festival is coming to Brisbane this March!

The full festival line-up will be released on Thursday January 31st with tickets on-sale the same day through www.palacecinemas.com.au. The Festival promises to be more passionate, more emotional, more dramatic, more French than even before with over 50 films and special events showcasing the best of French cinema.   //   Mark January 31st in your diary and keep March & April completely free so you can take full advantage of this amazing cinematic event! We are ...