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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 →
Wondered 5 - 6 April 2025 Ron Hurley Theatre, Seven Hills Hub, 28 Tallowwood St, Seven Hills After a decade of mystery and madness, Mira Ball Productions’ award-winning theatrical sensation, Wondered, is making its return for a strictly limited season. Celebrating ten years since its first performance, this production promises to be darker, bolder, and... Continue Reading →
Trilogy 3pm, 30 March 2025 Elm House, Mt Glorious Celebrate the start of Ensemble Trivium's new season with a concert full of lyricism, elegance, and passion in their return to the cozy setting of Elm House. The program opens with Dvořák’s Terzetto, a warm and lyrical piece alive with playful, folk-inspired themes, adapted from its original... Continue Reading →
MUD 14 - 22 March 2025 PIP Theatre, Milton Content warnings: Strong coarse language, sexual assault Mae lives on a farm in feverish poverty with her not-brother Llyod. Mae knows she deserves a better life. Mae knows she can have one. And in an effort to excavate herself from this dreary existence, Mae is going... Continue Reading →
Camerata & Brendan Joyce: Schumann Thursday, 13 March 2025, 7:30pm Concert Hall, QPAC Share in the joy, passion, and love of music with Camerata’s opening 2025 concert, featuring Camerata’s very own Artistic Director and leader Brendan Joyce on solo violin for Schumann’s Violin Concerto (arranged from the Cello Concerto). In this concert, Camerata will also... Continue Reading →
Ode to Women: A Peace Play, photographed by Naz Mulla The Curators Theatre returns in 2025 with Ode to Women: A Peace Play, a bedazzled and broad-reaching ensemble piece that ruminates on the cost of war for those beyond the fighting. Ode to Women is the first in the Post Dramatic Troy Disorder trilogy that... Continue Reading →
Image credit: Artshoot Media Jess Hitchcock & Penny Quartet 4 March 2025 QLD Conservatorium Theatre, South Bank Experience a feast of creativity as Melbourne-based Indigenous singer-songwriter Jess Hitchcock joins forces with the award-winning Penny Quartet for a five-city national tour, presented in association with the Adelaide Festival and Perth Festival. Musica Viva Australia is thrilled... Continue Reading →
Absolute Trash 28 February 2025 Arcana Theatre, Moorooka In Brisbane for one night only, Absolute Trash is an iconic and ironic celebration of all things garbage! See incredible circus, a bin chicken with big dreams, and performers more flexible than the government's idea of sensible climate policy. Guiding you through this up-cycled fever dream is... Continue Reading →
Image credit: Cinnamon Smith In A Moment 13 - 22 February 2025 PIP Theatre, Milton When an unassuming accountant and an eccentric homeless man cross paths on a park bench, neither expects the encounter to leave a lasting impact. But in a moment, everything changes. This thought-provoking new play by Tim Jackman and Tammy Tresillian... Continue Reading →
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