Backbone Festival 2018 – How Soon Is Now?
The tyrannical grip of the internet incites rebellion against cold and passive interactions, leaving humanity searching for places to be touched and for artworks that move them. In a world where all is shared, from our breakfast to our relationships, where can we find those unforgettable intimate moments that add unpredictable dimensions to the rectangular screens we see ourselves framed in?
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Backbone Festival – How Soon Is Now? is Backbone’s annual event that ...
Golden Age of Czech Animation coming soon to the Australian Cinémathèque!
Jiří Trnka’s stop motion puppet animations rivalled Walt Disney in both output and international acclaim, earning him the title the ‘Disney of the East’. Karel Zeman took animation to new poetic heights, interweaving animation techniques with live-action filmmaking.
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All three overcame the constraints of postwar politics to create extraordinary works which still inform the work of filmmakers like Jan Švankmajer, Terry Gilliam, Tim Burton and Wes Anderson...
The Valley Fiesta returns for 2018!
With live music, theatre and arts presented over a new five-day format, the twenty second edition of the Valley’s flagship festival offers a packed program of live entertainment from 29 August – 2 September.
The 2018 program includes music, performance, food, workshops and visual arts across three laneways and more than 40 venues. Highlights include the Brunswick Street Mall Main Ring, which will host free daily entertainment including Le Coup Cabaret, a high-flying performance by ...
Brisbane Festival is returning this September with a fantastic program!
There will be almost 600 performances – 100 of them free – of almost 70 shows across 17 venues. More than 1,000 artists are involved.
In a coup for Queensland, Brisbane Festival will premiere eight brand new works, involving major commissions from some of Australia’s leading companies including Circa, Dancenorth and Legs on the Wall.
Program highlights include two major Riverstage music events bookending the Festival on the opening and closing nights and headlined by homegrown ...
Ferrell Fest is coming to Brisbane this August!
Time to crack out the Jazz Flute and get ready to Shake and Bake with a festival dedicated to Will Ferrell!
Event Cinemas Myer Centre Brisbane are bringing some of his greatest films back to the big screen this August!
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The must see classic movies include Anchorman, Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, Blades of Glory and Step Brothers. If you have never seen these legendary flicks, now's your chance to see them on the big screen! Get in quick though, ...
Sonic Masala Fest is back this August!
Back at Greenslopes Bowls Club (Club Greenslopes) for another day of mates, music, bowls, beers, bands and good times. Roll on down and let's keep this thing alive!
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This year, these legends are playing:
Harmony / Orlando furious. / TV HAZE / Tom Lyngcoln / Marville / MOD CON / DEAFCULT / BARGE with an antenna on it / Gold Stars / Slumlawwd / AirJordans / Terra Pines / Nova Scotia / Bad Bangers / Lying Down / Pure Milk / Elder / Eyes Ninety / Glomesh / Oranges / ...
Introducing the artists of the 2018 Australian Festival of Chamber Music!
The lineup of international artists making their AUSTRALIAN DEBUT at this year’s Australian Festival of Chamber Music (AFCM) is nothing short of extraordinary…. celebrated Chinese musician and master Sheng player Wu Tong, Argentina’s acclaimed bandoneon player and composer JP Jofre, two Norwegian superstars in viola- player Lars Anders Tomter and trumpeter Tine Thing Helseth, pianist Katya Apekisheva from the UK, and the famed violinist Pavel Fischer from the Czech Republic.
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The Volvo Scandinavian Film Festival returns this month!
Opening the festival is UNDER THE TREE, a very dark comedy from Icelandic writer-director Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurdsson. The shade from a front-yard tree sees the already simmering tensions between two families come to the boil in an astute observation of suburban mores.
Mid-way through the 20-day festival will be special event screenings of AMATEURS, winner of the 2018 Göteborg Film Festival award for Best Nordic Film. The comedy from director Gabriela Pichler hints at the changing face of ...
The Teneriffe Festival 2018 is coming this month!
Owned and delivered by Teneriffe Festival Incorporated – who are a volunteer board of professionals living and operating businesses in the community – the Teneriffe Festival seeks to cement the area’s reputation as a destination for exceptional dining and entertaining experiences, unique historical perspectives, cultural and innovative diversity and iconic lifestyle and design. The Festival engages culture-savvy Brisbanites and entices visitors into the community. A plethora of ...
The Great Detective at QAGOMA Cinémathèque
The program’s opening weekend features a screening of the silent mystery classic Sherlock Holmes 1916 with live musical accompaniment. Thought lost for more than half a century, it was recently rediscovered and restored. And, don’t miss a classic private eye pairing when Robert Mitchum’s Philip Marlowe appears in Farewell, My Lovely 1975 before Humphrey Bogart as Sam Spade sets out on the case of The Maltese Falcon 1941.
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