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Pearls 3pm, 1 June 2025 QPAC Concert Hall, South Bank Experience music that transcends time and embraces the soul when Southern Cross Soloists return to QPAC's Concert Hall this June with Pearls — a luminous program with guest soloists, pianist and composer Joe Chindamo OAM, soprano Nina Korbe (pictured above), alongside Southern Cross Soloists. Featuring... Continue Reading →
Julia Johnson and Terry Hansen (back) and Amanda McErlean (front), photographed by Naz Mulla The Children 4 - 21 June 2025 PIP Theatre, Milton Australians recently voted in a federal election where one major party sought a mandate for a nuclear-powered future. Olivier Award-winning playwright Lucy Kirkwood’s play The Children asks us all: when do... Continue Reading →
BSAF 2020 in 96 Albert St. Image credits: @mellumae Brisbane Street Art Festival 10 - 18 May 2025 Northshore Brisbane with mural locations across Brisbane Brisbane’s most iconic locations are set for a stunning makeover when Brisbane Street Art Festival (BSAF) returns for its 10th big year. Ambitious, large-scale murals will transform Northshore Brisbane, including pieces from internationally... Continue Reading →
Image credit: Kris Anderson / Images by Anderson Love You Hate You Drive You Wild 1 - 10 May 2025 PIP Theatre, Milton Bianca Butler Reynolds' Love You Hate You Drive You Wild comes to PIP Theatre, presented in collaboration with Minola Theatre and starring Alisha O’Brien, Bianca Butler Reynolds, Matthew Filkins, Daren King, and... Continue Reading →
Camerata & Paul Grabowsky: The Art Of Wednesday, 7 May 2025, 7pm Concert Hall, QPAC This fresh and joyful concert brings QPAC’s Art of the Possible artist, the inimitable ARIA award-winning pianist Paul Grabowsky AO, together with Camerata - Queensland's Chamber Orchestra, who always perform without a conductor. The concert program celebrates tradition and reimagines... Continue Reading →
Little Women 2 - 24 May 2025 Pavilion Theatre, Beenleigh Showgrounds, James Street, Beenleigh For their second show of 2025, Phoenix Ensemble present Louisa May Alcott’s beloved story of the adventures of the four March sisters, Little Women, brought to vivid musical life with book by Allan Knee, music by Jason Howland, and lyrics by... Continue Reading →
Caroline Sparrow and Dudley Powell, photographed by Kris Anderson / Images by Anderson Octopolis 14 - 24 May 2025 PIP Theatre, Milton "There were three people in my marriage. Three people and twelve legs..." Meet George: professor and octopus expert. Her most intimate relationship these days is with the clever Frances, an octopus she obsessively... Continue Reading →
Big Gay Day 2025 4 May 2025 The Wickham Hotel, Fortitude Valley One of Brisbane's largest LGBTQIA+ street festivals, Big Gay Day, turns 25 this year and the city’s fabulous rainbow festival is bigger and better than ever. Held on the Labour Day long weekend, one-day event will be headlined by Peach PRC and The... Continue Reading →
Shakespeare’s The Tempest 3 May 2025 QPAC Concert Hall, South Bank It’s one thing to hear music inspired by Shakespeare, but it’s another thing to hear it performed alongside narration from a living theatre legend. Helpmann Award-winner John Bell has directed, acted, and written about Shakespeare more times than you can count. In this concert, he’ll... Continue Reading →
Image credit: Sam Scoufos The Last Princess of Lebanon 23 - 24 May 2025 Queensland Multicultural Centre, Kangaroo Point Uncovering the buried truth of a real-life lost princess, The Last Princess of Lebanon is a new theatre work that unravels family secrets, migration, and identity in a journey that takes audiences from the palaces of... Continue Reading →
Affordable Art Fair 8 - 11 May 2025 Exhibition Building, Brisbane Showgrounds, Bowen Hills Pick out the perfect piece when the global art phenomenon Affordable Art Fair returns to Brisbane with a four-day celebration of art at Brisbane Showgrounds. About 50 independent Australian galleries will participate in the second annual Brisbane Fair – held over Mother’s... Continue Reading →
Patricia Piccinini's Skywhalepapa, 2020 Horizon Friday 2 to Sunday 11 May Kabi Kabi and Jinibara Country, Sunshine Coast Sunshine Coast’s leading contemporary arts festival, Horizon, returns in 2025 with a brand-new date, a bright new identity and a bold program of captivating events. The 10-day festival will include more than 50 entertaining and evocative events... Continue Reading →
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