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Plantapolooza at Brisbane Markets, 2023. Photographed by Claudia Baxter Plantapalooza 6am - 12pm, Saturday 11 October 2025 Brisbane Markets, 385 Sherwood Rd, Rocklea Plantapalooza will transform Brisbane Markets into a dream of lush greenery, blooming flowers and garden accessories, inviting local green thumbs to unite in a celebration of spring and all things plants. Located out... Continue Reading →
Contours exhibition, photographed by Claudia Baxter Contours 23 September – 18 October 2025 Mitchell Fine Art, Fortitude Valley, Brisbane Mitchell Fine Art in Brisbane’s Fortitude Valley presents a group exhibition of paintings illuminating the deep layers of ancestral connection between First Nations artists and their traditional homelands. Contours is an exhibition of contemporary Aboriginal artworks... Continue Reading →
Image credit: Claudia Baxter King George Square Showdown 4pm, 27 September 2025 King George Square, Brisbane City Grab your leg warmers and slip into your sequins for Brisbane’s ultimate dance battle! Join Common People Dance Project as they cut some moves on the city’s biggest dancefloor for a free, all-in, feel-good dance showdown in front... Continue Reading →
Imagery supplied by Mitchell Fine Art Placky Bags 26 August – 20 September 2025 Mitchell Fine Art Gallery, Fortitude Valley Melbourne artist Margaret McIntosh returns to Mitchell Fine Art with her second solo exhibition, Placky Bags, illuminating societal waste and overconsumption and highlights the intersection between urban waste and natural scavenging. Drawing a striking parallel... Continue Reading →
Shostakovich Ten 19 & 20 September 2025 Concert Hall, QPAC Rebellion and revolution take centre stage as QSO pairs Shostakovich’s Symphony No.10 with William Kentridge’s acclaimed film Oh To Believe in Another World, a politically charged collage of puppetry, animation, and history that reimagines the Soviet era. The concert also features internationally acclaimed pianist Alexander Gavrylyuk,... Continue Reading →
The Playground in the Sky 22 - 25 September 2025 Ron Hurley Theatre, Seven Hills Play on Stage presents The Playground in the Sky, written by Brisbane writer Harry Fritsch. This theatre experience for kids, families, and adults provides insight into childhood resilience and imagination, inspired by the 2022 floods in South East Queensland. With... Continue Reading →
Mechanical Reef sculptures. All imagery supplied by Dead Puppet Society. Sculptures & Sips Mechanical Reef: 16 October, 6 November | $135 Flapping Butterfly: 13 & 14 November | $90 Festive Feathers: 4, 5, 10 & 11 December 2025 | $135 Dead Puppet Society Fabrication Workshop, 6 Annerley Rd, Woolloongabba Pop the champagne and unleash your... Continue Reading →
Camerata: Your Eternal Memories Saturday 13 September 2025, 7pm Concert Hall, QPAC Music is the soundtrack to our lives, featuring in life’s most significant moments. Music triggers memories – but what if we turn that around? What memories spark what sort of music? Camerata explores the relationship between memory and music in this nostalgic, moving,... Continue Reading →
Afterglow 5 - 27 September 2025 City Botanic Gardens, Alice St, Brisbane City Follow the flame and be captivated by dancing shadows, candlelit installations and fire sculptures in the world premiere of Afterglow. The fire trail is an all-ages experience in the City Botanic Gardens, presented by Sony Music Entertainment as part of Brisbane Festival... Continue Reading →
Takács Quartet & Angie Milliken 20 August 2025 QPAC Concert Hall, South Bank In a celebration of two major anniversaries, the Grammy Award-winning Takács Quartet returns to Australia this August to present the world premiere of Sonnet in Emigration, Australian composer Cathy Milliken’s new work for string quartet and spoken voice, narrated by Australian screen legend and... Continue Reading →
A Midsummer Night's Dream 15 - 30 August 2025 PIP Theatre, Milton “The course of true love never did run smooth…” On a midsummer night, four young lovers—embroiled in a love quadrangle—escape the constraints of the city and flee into the woods just outside Athens. There, the line between the real world and the fairy... Continue Reading →
The Dragon Queen of Argos 15 August - 6 September 2025 'The Barney', 28 St Barnabas Place, Red Hill For mature audiences - find more details on The Curator's website Written & directed by Michael Beh, the second play in the Post Dramatic Troy Disorder trilogy pays homage to Aeschylus, Charles Mee’s Remaking Project +... Continue Reading →
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