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Opera Queensland's 2019 season will open with the Brisbane premiere of Patrick Nolan’s Helpmann® Award winning work, A Flowering Tree. This enchanting work is based on folktale from the Kannada language of Southern India and is a contemporary love story about magic, metamorphosis and the dawning of moral awareness, sung in English and Spanish. The opera recounts the... Continue Reading →
The Low Road Cafe 25 Eildon Rd, Windsor We finally paid a visit to The Low Road Cafe and it was worth the wait! Just around the corner from Windsor train station, this little cafe is shaded from the road by leafy shrubs and umbrellas but yo can't miss it - the neon signs, abundance... Continue Reading →
International Women's Day is March 8, and so I'd like to take a moment to celebrate all the incredible female-identifying creatives that work in our city. I've made a little list of some of my favourites below - I own pieces from some of them and can only dream of owning pieces from others, for... Continue Reading →
La Boite Theatre Company began their 2019 season by welcoming audiences back into The Golden Phoenix for Michelle Law’s Single Asian Female. Pearl is the long-suffering matriarch of the Wong family; intelligent, driven, and occasionally overbearing as she juggles running her Sunshine Coast restaurant with the mothering of her daughters Zoe (manoeuvring online dating and... Continue Reading →
Queensland Symphony Orchestra kickstarted their 2019 season on February 16 with an evening of otherworldly music from Mozart and Mahler. In place of the pre-concert talk that occurs before most QSO Maestro concerts, Timothy Matthies hosted an in-conversation with Brisbane-based guest soprano Morgan England-Jones, who performed the solo role in Mahler’s fourth symphony later in... Continue Reading →
Queensland Symphony Orchestra will open their 2019 season with Heavenly on February 16, the first Maestro concert of the year and a continuation of Music Director Alondra de la Parra’s Mahler cycle, featuring soprano Morgan England-Jones and Artist in Residence Paul Lewis as a soloist. Following a spine-tingling performance of Mahler 3 in November to... Continue Reading →
The Alliance Française French Film Festival celebrates its 30th anniversary in 2019, and tickets are on sale from January 31 to the fifty-four films gracing this year’s festival line-up. The festival is acknowledged as the largest assemblage of French cinema outside of France, and is presented in association with the Embassy of France in Australia... Continue Reading →
2019 marks the tenth year of Brisbane Comedy Festival and a four-week program jammed with stand-up, sketch, improvisation, and cabaret will keep Brisbane giggling from Friday, February 22 to Sunday, March 24. “Brisbane Comedy Festival hits the big one-oh, and just like any pre-teen is growing up before our very eyes,” said Brisbane Powerhouse Artistic... Continue Reading →
Here are 5 of my favourite cafés that are a little out of the way / something new to try! B+C Lab 31 Musk Ave, Kelvin Grove Lovely, proper matcha is something that I missed when I returned from my student exchange to Japan in 2017, and I hadn’t really found it in Brisbane before... Continue Reading →
The QPAC International Series continues to bring the biggest stars of ballet exclusively to Brisbane audiences – the renowned Bolshoi Ballet have been announced for the 2019 Series, performing Spartacus and triple bill Jewels between 26 June and 7 July, 2019, in the ballet company’s return to Queensland. The Bolshoi Ballet’s Director Makhar Vaziev said... Continue Reading →
Queensland Theatre will open their 2019 Season of Dreamers with the play that defined the 20th Century – Arthur Miller’s award-winning classic, Death of a Salesman. I have two double passes to give away to the preview performance on February 11 – head over to Instagram for your chance to win. As the death-rattle of American optimism echoes... Continue Reading →
Christopher Wayne, co-creator of The Naked Magicians, has written an hour-long love letter to the blood, gore, and quirks of Quentin Tarantino’s films, and it makes for a really fun night at the theatre. Presented with Brisbane Powerhouse as part of Wonderland Festival 2018 and directed by Maureen Bowra, Two Man Tarantino is set in... Continue Reading →
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