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Walker Stalker Con is coming to Australia Early 2018!

Walker Stalker Con is the largest zombie, horror and sci-fi convention in the WORLD, with more than 250,000 attendees globally across three countries and twelve cities. The Australian leg will see thousands of fans embarking on the Sydney and Melbourne Showgrounds in February 2018 for an unforgettable experience for everyone from the diehard fan, to families, to those with an ever-growing interest in the genre. Both cities will be treated to two full days of one-of-a-kind experiences, ...

Byron Spirit Festival 2018 First Line Up Announcement!

YOGA PROGRAM Yoga is championed as the undisputed elixir of life, a moving meditation that is open to everyone, anywhere, at any time! A philosophy Angel and Gopala from Byron’s Rainbow Yoga subscribe to, with their family friendly approach to teacher training focusing on kids, partners and families, bring the whole tribe to enjoy their workshop. As does world renowned yoga teacher and author of The Yoga of Heart and The Promise of Love, Sex and Intimacy, Mark Whitwell who has been ...

The End of the Line Festival 2017

As per tradition, the musical line-up has been curated by Shannon Logan at Jet Black Cat Music and features heaps of local and interstate bands playing across the day and night. This year’s line-up includes the likes of WAAX, Jeremy Neale, Terry, Flowertruck, Slow Dancer, Loose Tooth, Nice Biscuit, Future Haunts and Spirit Bunny.   //   Restaurants extend their licenses into the cul-de-sac on Logan Rd to give a unique urban dining setting. Live music stages, market ...

Japanese Film Festival 2017 Returns for Another Year!

With each city’s program carefully curated by The Japan Foundation, Sydney, the 2017 Festival will present the most exciting new films direct from Japan, including comedies, samurai and yakuza action, manga adaptations, romances, drama and much more. The Festival will open in true Japanese style with MUMON: THE LAND OF STEALTH, an action-packed film about a deadly ninja with unmatched strength who accidentally triggers a deadly battle between a warlord’s army and the ninjas in his ...

West End Street Art Festival 2017

Featuring the work of artists and independent crafters from Brisbane and around the country, WESAF brings together some of Australia’s best creative talent for an amazing festival. West End will be transformed by some of Brisbane’s most talented street artists in an effort to raise the profile of street art painting several buildings along Boundary Street with large murals.   //   The festival will also include an arts and design market, live music and a live ...

Wonderland Festival 2017 at Brisbane Powerhouse

The 2017 program features internationally acclaimed acts and interstate guests alongside homegrown heroes and festival favourites, canvassing comedy to burlesque, contemporary circus, cabaret, music, art installation and more.   //   This year’s highlights include beatbox sensation and one-man orchestra Tom Thum and bohemian singer- songwriter Jamie MacDowell joining forces for a musical mash-up that defies conventions and expectations. American comedy legend Arj ...

Party with iconic members of Brisbane music royalty – The Go Betweens!

Guests Kriv Stenders, John Willstead, Lindy Morrison OAM, Damian Nelson. Includes food, drinks and DJ following the film! Brisbane musical royalty, The Go-Betweens’ music still reverberates around the streets of this town, more than a decade after the untimely death of one of the band’s co-founders. Part memoir and part concert film, this inspiring documentary by Kriv Stenders (Red Dog) charts the rockers’ path to greatness and examines the passionate, creative and sometimes ...

Brisbane Writers Festival 2017

New for Festival audiences in 2017 is a live literature experience, bringing to life Alexis Wright’s seminal novel Carpentaria through a large-scale interpretive artwork by Gordon Hookey. Audiences will be immersed in the world of Carpentaria through a program of performance, storytelling and talks exploring Indigenous art, history and culture.   //   From 6-10 September this year, BWF will be exploring how writers curate the fictional and real worlds we enter through ...

Baltic Spotlight at BIFF

Escaping Riga (Latvia, 2014) A garrulous philosopher and flamboyant film director trying to survive the extremes of life somewhere between a tsar, a king, Hitler and Stalin. Two young boys are forced to escape their native city of Riga as the First World War is transforming the existing world. Later these same boys turn out to be among the most extraordinary personalities of the previous century: one becomes a leading commie film director and the other a mentor to the entire British ...

Celebrate Studio Ghibli

Headed by visionary director Hayao Miyazaki, Studio Ghibli has captured the imaginations of millions through its collection of acclaimed movies including Spirited Away, My Neighbour Totoro, Princess Mononoke, Ponyo and Howl’s Moving Castle.   //   Throughout August and September various cinemas around Australia will be screening all of Studio Ghibli’s films as part of Celebrate Studio Ghibli – a showcase of the visionary talent of Hayao Miyazaki and his team. ...