Brisbane City Council’s Green Heart Fair is coming to Brisbane this September!
Brisbane’s favourite sustainable living event is going virtual with an exciting online program and a number of ‘Brisbane Sustainability Agency’ pop-up stall locations to provide residents with an opportunity to collect a free native plant from 20-26 September.
Brisbane City Council’s Green Heart Fair
20-26 September 2021
www.greenheartfair.com.au
North Queensland’s premier arts festival PUNQ unveils 2021 program!
From sugar-cane fields to island beaches, the 10-day festival will take place in some of the world’s most beautiful natural locations, inviting attendees to explore what lies beneath the surface of these seemingly sleepy sites.
The biennial PUNQ festival aims to disrupt perceptions of North Queensland and this year expands from its roots in Wulgurukaba and Bindal Country (Townsville) to include Yunbenun (Magnetic Island), Gudjal Country (Charters Towers) and Warrgamay, Nywaigi & ...
Brisbane Comedy Festival Returns in 2021!
The Brisbane Comedy Festival returns with a star-studded line-up hitting the river city for three huge weeks of laughs and live gigs from 16 July to 8 August 2021.
Warm-up your winter with a packed program of sizzling highlights featuring homegrown heroes repeat offenders and fan favourites playing three big Brisbane venues: Brisbane Powerhouse, The Tivoli, and The Fortitude Music Hall.
In time-honoured fashion, the Brisbane Comedy Festival Opening Gala kicks off the 24-day event on ...
Brand new festival – Brisbane Winter Sessions – is debuting this August!
After a challenging past 12 months for the live music industry, Winter Sessions is all about celebrating our city’s amazing live music scene. Taking place in Brissie’s most iconic venues, from the CBD to the suburbs, the Winter Sessions program features a stellar lineup of established and emerging artists, across a wide range of music genres.
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The inaugural year of this festival includes more than 30 free and ticketed events, with over 100 artists performing in ...
Vive La Revolution French Festival is coming to Dendy Coorparoo this July!
Celebrating Bastille Day, and running July 1-28, the same month as the 2021 Festival de Cannes, Dendy has collated twelve iconic titles, each either hugely influential in their own right, modern classics exemplifying the titanic talents of France’s celebrated film industry, or just possessing a certain je ne sais quoi.
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Between romance and drama, comedy and adventure, experience these films as they were meant to be - on the big screen- and rediscover the artistic ...
Brisbane Street Art Festival is returning bigger and better in 2021!
Since 2016, BSAF has rapidly been growing into one of the largest Street Art festivals in Australia. Building on the foundations and support from the last five years, BSAF is back in 2021 bigger and better than before. BSAF 2021 is incredibly excited to be announcing an extensive mural program with over 40 artworks being created by some of the most exciting street art practitioners from Brisbane, Australia and Internationally.
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Running alongside this is our largest ...
Melt Beauty Pageant is coming to the Brisbane Powerhouse this May!
While this may look like your ordinary beauty pageant, we challenge our contestants to show us their true beauty, whatever form that may take. Join in the chaos as the contestants go head to head across a number categories, all vying for the role of Brisbane’s most vivacious drag queen, drag king or gender blending beauty.
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Join an all-star judging panel and the infamous Tina Bikki as host for a sickening selection of some of Brisbane’s best drag performers!
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2021 German Film Festival returns with a feast of films!
This year’s programme, presented in association with German Films, will screen from 25 May – 20 June at Palace Cinemas across Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Byron Bay, Canberra, Perth and Adelaide.
German Film Festival spokesperson Bettina Kinski said, “We're truly excited to return to screens with the latest in German Cinema, something we sadly missed in 2020. The Festival will be a great opportunity for people interested in German language films and culture to reunite and reconnect ...
Aleksei German: History Though a Keyhole is screening at GOMA’s Australian Cinémathèque!
With the exception of his final work, the Boschian sci-fi Hard to Be a God 2013, German’s films are all set within the post-Revolution pre-Khrushchev Russia of 1918-1953. This tumultuous milieu underpins his portraits of morally complex characters often teetering on the edge of calamity. Through these stories, German builds allegorical explorations of both his own past and the past of his compatriots.
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German crafted a unique cinematic language that extends ...
Movie Review – The Goddess of Fortune
From the outside looking in, Alessandro (Edoardo Leo) and Arturo (Stefano Accorsi) are the perfect couple, but the cracks are starting to appear. When a former muse, Annamaria (Jasmine Trinca), and her two young children arrive unbeknownst to Alessandro, it shifts the couple’s dynamic in a major way. When the truth behind her visit becomes known, it shifts things into overdrive.
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Every family has its secrets and Annamaria’s upbringing was rife with trying times ...
