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2021 in programs 📚✨ this year I saw 40 shows across theatre, dance, comedy, musicals, song, orchestra, cabaret, and opera, from the theatres at QPAC to the varied venues of Anywhere Festival. I'm so grateful to all of the artists, onstage and backstage and everywhere in between, who have poured themselves into these brilliant creative works amidst all the complex difficulties the industry has faced in these past two years. It's been a joyful year of memorable, often challenging, art, and I'm reflecting on this as we look to the new year.

Cheers to the festive season 🥂💐🎄 As borders open up, I hope that you are safe, and well, and able to reunite with the people you love. Merry Christmas, if you celebrate it, and if not then I wish you a pleasant and restorative break if you're able to take one.

Colours of the season ❤💚

An appreciation post for the Milton 1991 Everyday Dress from Phoebe Paradise, with which I am unequivocally in love 💖 I am WILD about the neon design (the houses! the giant snake! the lil froggy! 🐸) and the colours are so vibrant. I wasn't sure that velvet would wear well in the QLD summer but it's some kind of magic light velvet that is great for both sweating and swishing around in. It dresses up (I wore it to QPAC) and down. Sizes go from S to XXL (I wear a M, am usually somewhere between a 10-14 because women's clothing lol). It's also important to me that the dress is not only designed in Brisbane, but the fabric is printed here and the dresses are handmade here! If you've gone looking, you know that's pretty rare. Honestly, I will recommend anything by @phoebe.paradise to everyone forever, thank you for coming to my TED talk.

This magic post-storm sunset yesterday (photos never do it justice, do they?), then a thunder-and-lightning show tonight 🌇⚡

It was an appropriately dark and stormy night on Tuesday when we saw Queensland Ballet’s Dracula. Richly costumed, visually compelling, and with the score performed live by Camerata, this was a story of love and horror that was heavier on the love. My other quibbles were the same I always have with QB - timing, and technique - but overall the quality of the dancing was high, the extensive sets had wonderful depth and detail, and the lighting was superb. Although I would have liked some proper, grotesque, gothic horror, Krzysztof Pastor's choreography was largely modern (this work only premiered in 2018) and showcased the ballerinos in a way that many story ballets don’t - the pas de deux between Dracula and Jonathan was a highlight for me 🧛‍♂️🧛‍♀️

It's not Brisbane, but it is Queensland Theatre! We saw Othello at Bulmba-ja in Cairns on Saturday night, and it was exceptional - Shakespeare's tragedy reimagined by Jimi Bani and Jason Klarwein in the Torres Strait during World War II. Masterfully performed, this production exemplified what Shakespeare can be on a modern stage - enduring stories of human emotion and fallibility woven into different historical, narrative, and geographic locations with commitment, context, and care 👏👏

It's the twelfth and final day of Backstreet Brisbane's 12 Days of Christmas - gifting an experience! From workshops and at-home making to tickets, season passes, and subscriptions, these are gifts that keep on giving.

Day 11 of Backstreet Brisbane's 12 Days of Christmas is a big one - local drinks! There’s always plenty of champagne and six packs in our family fridge for Christmas (and usually heaps left over for New Year’s celebrations) - find a list of local tipples on the blog now. Cheers! 🥂🍻

Holidays are so often centred around food, and it’s a great gifting choice if the people you love have enough ‘stuff’ in their lives – from locally made sweet treats to fresh produce, check out the tagged local businesses for your food-loving loved ones!

Day 9 of Backstreet Brisbane's 12 Days of Christmas is gifts and goodies for the children in your family, whether they be two-legged, four-legged, or otherwise! 👶🐶🐱

Day 8 of Backstreet Brisbane's 12 Days of Christmas is a gift guide for the artists and crafty people in your life - if you're looking for something special for an at-home maker, check out the list of local businesses on the blog now! 🎀🎨

Celebrate an evergreen Aussie Christmas with living gifts that will keep on giving for years to come - Day 7 of Backstreet Brisbane's 12 Days of Christmas is a gift guide for the green thumbs and plant mums in your life 🌿🌱🌳

Day 6 of Backstreet Brisbane's 12 Days of Christmas is for the caffeine fiends and leaf lovers - whether you're shopping for a gift or just looking for a good cuppa yourself, this is a guide to the best local tea and coffee ☕🍵

Day 5 of Backstreet Brisbane's 12 Days of Christmas is for the readers in your life - a guide to Brisbane's best independent bookshops and comic book stores 📚📚

‘Tis the season where everything sparkles! Day 4 of Backstreet Brisbane's 12 Days of Christmas puts the spotlight on local creators of lovely jewellery and funky accessories💎💍👛👜

Day 3 of Backstreet Brisbane's 12 Days of Christmas is about gifts for the home - art you can eat off, drink from, or hang on the walls to admire every day! ☕️🖼🕯️

Day 2 of Backstreet Brisbane's 12 Days of Christmas is about local apparel for the fashion lovers in your life 👚👗👢👠👒

It's that time of the year! Every year, I curate the Backstreet Brisbane 12 Days of Christmas - a gift guide, shared over 12 days, for shopping small and local at this time of year 🎄

A starry night at Northshore, Hamilton last Thursday attending the opening of Van Gogh Alive ✨🎨 housed in the custom-built Grand Pavilion, this exhibition offers a different way to experience the art of Dutch post-impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh.

Backstreet Brisbane was founded and continues on the unceded land and waterways of the Jagera and Turrbal people.

I acknowledge and pay respect to the traditional custodians of the land where I live and work, to their Elders past, present, and emerging, and to all First Nations peoples.

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