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Life's ups and downs happen to all of us. So, chances are someone you know might be struggling.  Your genuine support can make a difference whatever they are facing, big or small.? So, don’t wait until someone’s visibly distressed or in crisis. Make a moment meaningful and ask them how they’re really going.? Your conversation could change a life.? R U OK? has developed FREE resources to help you encourage everyone in your school, workplace and community to think about who in their world might...

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Sense the Connection | West Village

West Village West Village 97 Boundary Street West End, QLD 4101, QLD, Australia

Protect, respect and connect with your senses in this family friendly workshop hosted by first nations caretaker and chef Kieron Anderson (Quandamooka, Kullilli, Wakka Wakka). Immerse yourself in sacred cultural knowledge and learn to walk together as caretakers of this mother earth, all responsible for protecting the precious natural resources to prevent further endangering and extinction. Using theatrical storytelling, Kieron will guide families on a sensory exploration of the sights, sounds, smells, feelings and flavours of nature's beautiful forms.

Free

Good Tunes Sessions at The Burrow

The Burrow 52 Russell Street, West End, Queensland, Australia

Good Tunes weekly sessions are back at The Burrow. Bring your own acoustic instrument to play a wide range of traditional-style folk tunes from around the world. All levels of musicians are welcome to join — the aim is to have fun and get everyone playing. There is plenty of food available at The Burrow: pizza, burgers, salads and drinks.

$10

Undercover Artist Festival | Queensland Theatre

Queensland Theatre 78 Montague Road, South Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Access Arts presents Undercover Artist Festival at Queensland Theatre. The three-day ground-breaking festival is a highlight event within this year's Brisbane Festival. Unlike other festivals, this festival showcases bold and daring works from disabled artists across Australia. Participants have the opportunities to enjoy impressive performances by disabled performing artists alongside a dynamic program of forums, workshops and events. Please visit Undercover Artist Festival for ticketing information.

Momentum – First Nations First | QPAC Cremorne Theatre

The Cremorne Theatre QPAC Melbourne Street, South Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

It’s Spring 2031 and communities are thriving. People are safe in homes, streets and workplaces. Country is in balance hearing its languages, feeling its people’s footsteps. Everyone is equal regardless of gender. How did we get here? Join Dr Jackie Huggins AM FAHA, Treaty Working Group Co-Chair, and June Oscar AO, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner in a conversation led by Associate Professor Sandra Phillips, UQ Associate Dean (Indigenous Engagement).

$20

Let’s Be Friends Furever | The Powerhouse Theatre

Brisbane Powerhouse 119 Lamington Street, New Farm, Queensland, Australia

The Powerhouse Theatre will be transformed into a dog park this September as besotted owners and their beloved pooches take to the stage, sharing stories of love, loyalty and laughter. Theatre-makers The Good Room have found local canines with barkworthy tails to tell. From an 80 kilogram dog with his own bedroom, a dogfluencer with more followers than you, and a national champion with fur to die for, hear from their companions in this hour of uplifting – and tear-jerking – theatre. Featuring video and...

$45

Forgery at Cremorne Theatre QPAC

The Cremorne Theatre QPAC Melbourne Street, South Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Developed by award-winning Australian dancer, sound designer, choreographer and creative coder, Alisdair Macindoe, the six renowned Australasian Dancing Collective (ADC) dancers will be fed instructions from a series of algorithms live on stage. Each show is different every performance due to the cutting-edge technology. The algorithms are also in charge of lighting, costume and music. ADC embraces this technology to pose questions about creative agency in the digital age.  

$39 – $99

Victoria Park Halloween Putt Putt

Victoria Park 271 Gilchrist Avenue Herston, Brisbane, QLD, Australia

Get a Halloween Scare at Victoria Park’s spooktacularly decorated Putt Putt course! They'll be creeping it real with feature holes including Pumpkin Patch, Witch’s Way, The Freaky Forest and Skeleton’s Graveyard. Bookings online are essential.

$22

Wilbur the Optical Whale – New Benner Theatre

Metro Arts West Village, Boundary Street, West End, QLD, Australia

Created by inclusive theatre company indelabilityarts, Wilbur the Optical Whale is a fully immersive, interactive and accessible story for children about friendship and celebrating difference. Using alternative storytelling methods, including interactive media with integrated Auslan, circus, music, movement and spoken word, this heartwarming production delivers a strong anti-bullying message and promotes acceptance. All performances are relaxed allowing audiences to engage with the work on their own terms in a calm and inviting underwater setting. After purchasing tickets to a performance of Wilbur the Optical Whale attendants receive an invitation to...

$25

Funny Mummies Comedy Gala at New Benner Theatre

Metro Arts West Village, Boundary Street, West End, QLD, Australia

Join award-winning comedian and mother of six Jenny Wynter for an evening of comedy. Launched with a mission to improve mothers’ mental health through laughter, Wynter has assembled some of Australia’s funniest comedians who also happen to have birthed loin fruit. You’ll cackle, you’ll shriek, you’ll make like Patrick Swayze and have the time of your life.

$42

Provocateur – Book Launch at QUT Art Museum

QUT Art Museum U Queensland University of Technology 2, George St, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Fiona Foley, the leading Badtjala artist will hold a book launch at QUT Art Museum, to coincide with the exhibition - Fiona Foley: Veiled Paradise. "Fiona Foley Provocateur: An Art Life" is a biography of Foley's life and work. It is written by one of Australia's most celebrated art writers, Louise Martin-Chew. The book launch is open to the public, so anyone interested is welcome. Please register via Eventbrite.

Free
La-Boheme

La bohème Opera Queensland Studio

Opera Queensland 140 Grey St, South Brisbane, Brisbane, QLD, Australia

Opera Queensland presents La bohème, a new production for high school students. This production explores how young people cope with the uncertainty and pressures of today’s world in a contemporary reimagining of Puccini’s masterpiece. Follow a group of misfit friends as they learn to survive, fall in love, find their voices and face adversity in a social media driven world. Suitable for ages 13+

Kate Miller-Heidke’s Child in Reverse Tour at Brisbane Festival

South Bank Piazza

Kate Miller-Heidke returns for her first national tour since releasing her acclaimed fifth album, Child in Reverse, starting in her hometown with this show for Brisbane Festival. With a full six-piece band of musical geniuses and a suite of brand-new and favourite songs, Miller-Heidke is set to show Brisbane once again why she’s Australia’s brightest music star. With five top-10 studio albums, Miller-Heidke is the only artist in the world to have performed on stage at Coachella, the New York Metropolitan Opera, and the Eurovision...

$60 – $75

BUNGUL at Concert Hall QPAC

QPAC Concert Hall Grey Street & Melbourne Street, South Brisbane, Brisbane, Queensland

Bungul is a ceremonial celebration of the talent and musical legacy of Gurrumul Yunupinu. Created on country in North East Arnhem Land with the Yunupinu family, Gurrumul’s final, posthumously-released album, Djarimirri (Child of the Rainbow) is a transcendent experience. Experience the traditional songs, dances, and paintings that inspired the album in a live performance by Yolnu dancers, songmen and musicians from the Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University as well as Camerata — Queensland’s Chamber Orchestra directed by Senior Yolngu Don Wininba Ganambarr and Nigel Jamieson.  

$59 – $69

Sunsuper Riverfire at Brisbane Festival

Brisbane River

Sunsuper Riverfire returns this September to ignite our skyline and wrap up three weeks of Brisbane Festival. Tribal Experiences Managing Director and Yuggera and Turrbal man Shannon Ruska will open the event with a smoking ceremony. Fireworks will be fired by Foti Fireworks from multiple bridges, barges and city rooftops. Ahead of the pyrotechnics the Australian Army and Royal Australian Air Force will demonstrate their flying, with Army helicopter displays and the aerobatics of the Roulettes.

Free

Navy Stokers Ceremony

south brisbane memorial park 459 Stanley St, South Brisbane QLD 4101, QLD, Australia

The Naval Association of Australia will raise the White Ensign in salute to the Stokers at their monthly commemoration to honour lesser known branches of the Navy on September 30th at 11 am. It is nearly 150 years since the Royal Navy introduced steam driven ships to the fleet, demanding under-deck workers known as Stokers. The September ceremony at Jack Tar will celebrate the Stokers who emerged during the Transition from Sail to Steam and beyond, by the Naval Association of Australia at the Jack...

Mark Vincent with Special Guest Mirusia at QPAC’s Concert Hall

QPAC Concert Hall Grey Street & Melbourne Street, South Brisbane, Brisbane, Queensland

One of Australia’s most successful Tenors, Internationally acclaimed sensation Mark Vincent will be embarking on a national tour of Australia performing his brand new show From London’s West End To Broadway with Special Guest Soprano – Mirusia. Mark Vincent will perform songs from some of the greatest musical theatre productions including The Phantom Of The Opera, Les Misérables, West Side Story, Cats, Evita, Oklahoma, South Pacific and many more. Audiences can expect a magical night to remember as Mark Vincent performs with the 30 piece...

$99.90 – $129.90

Be Kind to Animals Week (online)

To put forward the importance of being kind to animals, Edgar's Mission, a not-for-profit sanctuary for rescued farmed animals, organises Be Kind to Animals Week online. This year, Be Kind to Animals Week is hoping to exceed 5000 pledges. Participants are required to eat kind by choosing to dine on plant-based recipes for the week, and can be extended to shop and live kind too. Moreover, participants will receive free Kindness Kits along with daily mails filled with planted-based recipe inspiration and other kindness tips....

Free

Little Gay Day at Wickham Hotel

The Wickham 308 Wickham St, Fortitude Valley, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

The third year of the Little Gay Day will be held at the Wickham Hotel. The event will be headlined by Sahara Beck and it will showcase a heap of local talent. Donations on entry will support Diverse Voices, a local LGBTQIA+ charity that operates QLife, a queer support hotline, where people can call and receive peer counselling for issues such as gender identity and sexuality.

Free

Celtic Spectacular at Concert Hall QPAC

QPAC Concert Hall Grey Street & Melbourne Street, South Brisbane, Brisbane, Queensland

Watch Musical Director Patrick Pickett (a true ‘Lord of the Dance’!) swirl his baton as he works  Celtic classics in one of the Queensland Pops’ most requested series of concerts. Hear the legends, the fables, the humour, the melancholy and the euphoria all come to life with some of Australia’s best-loved sings and traditional instrumentalists and dancers. Savour the spectacular precision of the all-star line-up of dancers who will be the crowning glory of the Celtic Spectacular: the Watkins Academy of Irish Dance, the OzScot Highland Dancers and the glorious strains...

$82 – $88

Return to the Dirt | Billie Brown Theatre

Bille Brown Theatre 78 Montague Road, South Bristbane, Queensland, Australia

Winner of the Queensland Premier’s Drama Award (2020-21), Return to the Dirt is a play written by Steve Pirie and directed by Lee Lewis, premiering at the Billie Brown Theatre. In a year spent tending to the dead, a young man learns to live. It’s a refreshing, honest and surprisingly uplifting invitation to start the conversations we all try to avoid.

En Route to Normal | QPAC’s Concert Hall

QPAC Concert Hall Grey Street & Melbourne Street, South Brisbane, Brisbane, Queensland

In Bill Bailey’s new show, En Route to Normal, Bailey ponders questions that this moment in history has thrown up and tries to see a way through the strange unreality of our new world. With Bailey naming the show before we’d even heard of COVID-19, En Route to Normal has become not just a funny, heart-warming mix of stories, music and history, but a personal mission to find our way through these strange times! En Route to Normal will be the seventh show that Bailey...

$89.90 – $99.90

Fourthcoming | QPAC Cremorne Theatre

The Cremorne Theatre QPAC Melbourne Street, South Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Fourthcoming is an adults-only, reality-theatre production starring Johnny Balbuziente (Married At First Sight) and Cece Peters (Playing for Keeps, True Story with Hamish & Andy, The Wrong Girl). Gwen is in a love rut. Keen to break the cycle once and for all, Gwen embarks on a series of four first dates with one explosive goal in mind. This choose-your-own-adventure theatre-experience at QPAC’s Cremorne Theatre sees the audience voting in real-time for what Gwen does next - this happy ending is in your hands.

$69 – $96

Away | La Boite

La Boite Roundhouse Theatre 6 Musk Avenue, Kelvin Grove, QLD, Australia

Australia’s most-loved play receives a 35th anniversary recreation in a sparkling new production directed by Daniel Evans. Set in 1967 against the backdrop of an Australia embroiled in the Vietnam War, three separate families pack-up their lives for Christmas at the beach where a freak storm forces their respective vacations to fall apart and intersect. With a rollicking 60s soundtrack and star-studded cast including Queensland theatre luminaries Roxanne McDonald, Christen O’Leary and Bryan Probets, this revival breathes new life into Michael Gow’s Australian classic, taking audiences on a nostalgic journey...

$35

Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel: The Exhibition @ The Ice Cream Factory

The Ice Cream Factory Level 2, above Harris Farm Market West End, QLD, West Village, 97 Boundary St,, Brisbane, QLD, Australia

Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel: The Exhibition—a life-size up-close, never-before-seen perspective of the genius masterpieces—is coming to Brisbane after being all around the world from Shanghai to Chicago, Phoenix, Berlin or Vienna, among many others. Brought to life using a special printing technique that emulates the look and feel of the original paintings, visitors are given a chance to engage with the artwork in ways that were never before possible: seeing every detail, every brushstroke, and every color of the artist’s 34 frescoes. Each image is accompanied...

$13.70

SIx the musical

SIX The Musical at Playhouse

The Playhouse Russell St, South Brisbane QLD 4101, Brisbane, QLD, Australia

The Australian producers of SIX, the electrifying musical phenomenon by Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss, are thrilled to announce its tour will resume in Australia in November 2021. Following a sold-out season at the Sydney Opera House in 2020, this new Australian production will premiere in Brisbane at QPAC’s Playhouse  Theatre in November and make a triumphant return to the Studio at Sydney Opera House from December. The tour will then continue to the Canberra Theatre  Centre, Her Majesty’s Theatre in Adelaide, and Melbourne’s Comedy...

Invincible – The Helen Reddy Story | QPAC Concert Hall

QPAC Concert Hall Grey Street & Melbourne Street, South Brisbane, Brisbane, Queensland

Helen Reddy was Australia’s very first truly international superstar. In 1973, her song “I Am Woman” became the unforgettable anthem of the women’s liberation movement and made her the first Australian to win a Grammy. She placed three US Billboard #1 hits and six more in the top 10 and sold over 25 million albums. Then, she lost it all. In 2020, the feature film I am Woman brought some of Helen’s incredible life story to screens worldwide. In 2021 Australian singer and actress, Nikki...

$69.90 – $89.90

Elvis If I Can Dream Spectacular | QPAC Concert Hall

QPAC Concert Hall Grey Street & Melbourne Street, South Brisbane, Brisbane, Queensland

Come and celebrate the magical hits of The King Of Rock ‘n’ Roll in a sensational two hour concert spectacular. All of Elvis’ No 1 hits will be performed in the original style that made Elvis the greatest performer that ever lived. Internationally acclaimed sensation Mark Anthony, one of the most dynamic Elvis tribute artists in the world today, brings the songs, the costumes, the emotion, the energy, and raw power. Come and relive and experience what it would have been like to see Elvis...

$99.90

The Guilty Feminist Live | QPAC Concert Hall

QPAC Concert Hall Grey Street & Melbourne Street, South Brisbane, Brisbane, Queensland

The podcast The Guilty Feminist, hosted by Deborah Frances-White, is part comedy, part deep-dive discussion and part activism. Examining our noble goals as 21st century feminists and our hypocrisies and insecurities that undermine those goals, The Guilty Feminist has had a spectacular 90 million downloads in five years. Deborah has brought the show to Australia and New Zealand on several successful tours and is bursting with near hysteria to come back and be with her Antipodean guilty feminist crew after a year and a half...

$56.90 – $69.90

Grease at QPAC

QPAC Lyric Theatre Grey St & Melbourne Street, South Brisbane, QLD, Australia

Musical Theatre students from Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University (QCGU) have graduated straight to the Queensland Performing Arts Centre’s (QPAC) Lyric stage in a special presentation of Grease in November. Grease is the classic story of Danny, Sandy, the T-Birds and the Pink Ladies as they navigate the trials and tribulations of teenage life, love and leather jackets. Set to one of the most enduring, electrifying soundtracks in theatre history, these shows promise to be a rock ‘n’ rollicking good time for musical fans of all...

$49 – $69

David Gray at BCEC

Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre Corner Merivale Street and Glenelg Street, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Presented by: Frontier Touring & Chugg Entertainment, multi-platinum, multi-Brit and Grammy-nominated British singer-songwriter David Gray brings his rescheduled White Ladder: The 20th Anniversary Tour to Australia in November 2021, to celebrate the trailblazing album’s 20-year anniversary. The White Ladder Tour will see Gray performing the iconic 7 million record-selling record in its entirety, together with all the original band members and with all the original equipment – followed by a set of the greatest hits.  

$149.00

Opera Queensland Verdi @ QPAC

QPAC Concert Hall Grey Street & Melbourne Street, South Brisbane, Brisbane, Queensland

Opera Queensland's VERDI celebrates the grandeur and energy of the master Italian composer, with a large ensemble of solo artists, 50-strong Opera Queensland Chorus and the Queensland Symphony Orchestra led by conductor Johannes Fritzsch. The full line-up has now been revealed. ConductorJohannes Fritzsch, Director Patrick Nolan, Lighting Designer Ben Hughes, Eva Kong, Sofia Troncoso, Rebecca Cassidy, Hayley Sugars,Rosario La Spina, Virgilio Marino, José Carbó, Timothy Newton, James Clayton,  represent the Oprah Queensland Chorus.    

$+38

Body of Work @ QPAC Concert Hall

QPAC Concert Hall Grey Street & Melbourne Street, South Brisbane, Brisbane, Queensland

Hannah Gadsby, award winning comedian, has a new live show – Body of Work — hitting stages across Australia and New Zealand. In 2018 the global sensation and ground breaking Netflix special Nanette changed things for Hannah. Opportunities came knocking, but Hannah decided to stick with what she loves: stand up comedy. In 2019 she wrote and toured the critically acclaimed Douglas from Helsinki to Washington DC, culminating in recording the show for Netflix in Los Angeles in February 2020. 2020 saw Hannah bunkering down...

$74.90

River Quay Turns 10 | South Bank

River Quay South Bank Little Stanley Street, South Brisbane, Qld, Australia

Brisbane riverside dining precinct at River Quay has been gracing the community with its premium restaurants, riverside long lunches, and luscious green lawn space for 10 years. To celebrate, eatSouthBank will be hosting a picnic to mark the special occasion on November 27 and 28. River Quay restaurants at South Bank - OTTO, Aquitaine, Popolo, The Jetty and River Quay Fish - will be celebrating what they do best: combining stellar city views with premier dining experiences. The restaurants will be offering special in-house celebratory deals, from fresh seafood platters, Italian degustations, cocktail...

QSO Song to Symphony | QPAC Concert Hall

QPAC Concert Hall Grey Street & Melbourne Street, South Brisbane, Brisbane, Queensland

Queensland Symphony Orchestra's final 'Music on Sundays' concert for 2021 features a folk-inspired repertoire. Song to Symphony's program includes Brahms’ famous Academic Festival Overture - a medley of drinking songs arranged for orchestra - Copland’s rendition of the tune 'Simple Gifts' in his Appalachian Spring, and Dvorák’s lyrical Silent Wood which started life as a piano piece. In this concert held at the QPAC Concert Hall, Dvorák’s music will be presented as a cello and orchestra arrangement featuring QSO cellist Hyung Suk Bae.

$65 – $95

A Christmas Carol | QPAC

QPAC Cnr Grey and, Melbourne St, South Brisbane QLD 4101, Brisbane, QLD, Australia

This December, the award-winning stage spectacle – Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol – returns to lift your spirits. Brimful of song, humour, love, and lashings of festive joy, A Christmas Carol is a magical, grand-in-scale production – perfect for the entire family. t’s Christmas Eve and Ebenezer Scrooge is counting down the seconds until the silliness of the season passes. Deeply entrenched in his own misery, Scrooge receives a visit from four ghosts who whisk him away on a journey through Christmases past, present and future. Here, he revisits fragments of...

$62

QSO Season Closing Gala | QPAC Concert Hall

QPAC Concert Hall Grey Street & Melbourne Street, South Brisbane, Brisbane, Queensland

Queensland Symphony Orchestra closes its season at the QPAC Concert Hall with a dynamic repertoire, conducted by Umberto Clerici and performed by one of the biggest assemblies of stage musicians in 2021. Visit the Italian opera hall for The Thieving Magpie overture by Rossini; continue treading through the world of opera with the suite from Richard Strauss’ Der Rosenkavalier (The Knight of the Rose); and be transported to the ocean shores in Debussy's La mer (The Sea). Experience the musical journey through three distinct composers, countries,...

$85 – $119

Symphonic Santa | QSO Studio

Queensland Symphony Orchestra Studio 114 Grey Street, South Bank, QLD, Australia

Symphonic Santa is the Queensland Symphony Orchestra's Christmas family event. Join Sneezy the Reindeer and Izzy the Elf as they help Santa and Mrs Claus get ready for Christmas. Held in the QSO studio and hosted by the QSO musicians, there will be mischief, merriment, and lots of music from festive favourites to new works. Children will enjoy the relaxed and interactive concert, listen to well-known tunes, and experience an introduction to live orchestral music.

$30 – $49

Queensland Ballet The Nutcracker | Lyric Theatre

QPAC Lyric Theatre Grey St & Melbourne Street, South Brisbane, QLD, Australia

Queensland Ballet brings the enchanting Christmas Eve story to life at the QPAC Lyric Theatre. The Nutcracker will feature a dance by the Sugar Plum fairy, a Waltz of the Flowers in the Land of the Sweets, and elements of family parties, festive ornaments, mice, toys, and lollies. Experience the dream and imagination of a young girl through the art of dance. This classical ballet was first performed in Russia in 1892, while Queensland Ballet’s production was choreographed by Ben Stevenson OBE in 1976 and...

$75 – $160

Love Actually in Concert | BCEC

Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre Corner of Merivale Street & Glenelg Street, South Brisbane, QLD, Australia

Following recent sold-out performances across UK and Australia, Love Actually in Concert featuring the Queensland Pops Orchestra will again be bringing the magic to Brisbane this year just in time for Christmas. The live orchestra will perform the hit soundtrack with the film being projected onto a big screen at the Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre. Come dressed in your favourite Christmas outfit as you watch Christmas love stories unfold and experience the emotion of the ultimate romantic comedy. Early Bird tickets are available from...

$60.10 – $141.60

Imagineria | South Bank

South Bank Adjacent to Queensland Maritime Museum, 412 Stanley Street,, South Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

IMAGINARIA is where technology and imagination collide and it’s at home in a purpose-built and enclosed playground underneath the Goodwill Bridge, next to the Queensland Maritime Museum at the top end of South Bank until January 31. The immersive experience features 10 jaw-dropping rooms – eight of which are brand-new and exclusive to Brisbane – that bring together the creative talents of architects, authors, audio-visual artists, future-thinkers, renderers and sound designers. School Holiday hoursz: Sunday - Thursday 10am - 6pm, Friday & Saturday 10am - 7pm, Monday...

$29.95

An American in Paris | QPAC

QPAC Cnr Grey and, Melbourne St, South Brisbane QLD 4101, Brisbane, QLD, Australia

Captivating audiences and critics alike worldwide, this multi award-winning musical about a young American soldier and a beautiful French girl features a timeless love story, sumptuous set design and unforgettable songs by George and Ira Gershwin. Be transported to the most romantic city in the world in this big hearted, spare no expense Broadway romance.

Bliss n Eso @ Fortitude Music Hall

Fortitude Music Hall 312 Brunswick Street Fortitude Valley QLD 4006

Bliss n Eso have announced their national tour. The three-time ARIA-award winning group are to take their electric energy and unmatchable flow to audiences. As a group that has grown up through their music over many years, The Sun initiates a new cycle and provides solace in this age of disquiet, thematising contemplation, healing and fortitude.

$79.90

Japanese Film Festival

Online

The Japanese Film Festival (JFF) in Australia is an annual film festival that has been presented by The Japan Foundation, Sydney since 1997. The first-ever Japanese Film Festival Online was held across five continents and 20 countries from November 2020 to March 2021. 2021 marked the 25th year of JFF Australia, offering newly-released Japanese titles along with rare 35 and 16mm film screenings.  The JFF Satellite Program also tours a hand-picked selection of Japanese films across Australia.

QSO Harry Potter Performance | BCEC

Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre Corner of Merivale Street & Glenelg Street, South Brisbane, QLD, Australia

Queensland Symphony Orchestra presents a Harry Potter-inspired performance at Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre. Nominated for a World  Soundtrack Discovery Award, composer Nicholas Hooper uses experimental techniques and unique instruments to compose two new main themes reflecting not only Dolores Umbridge but Voldemort’s inflection into Harry’s psyche. By using Japanese Taiko drums, Hooper allows a deeper and more nefarious undercurrent to permeate the magical adventure of Harry and his friends as they prepare for the wizarding war ahead.

$59 – $100

Professor Brian Cox’s Horizons | BCEC

Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre Corner of Merivale Street & Glenelg Street, South Brisbane, QLD, Australia

Professor Brian Cox is back with a new live-on-stage show in 2022. Horizons takes audiences on a cinematic journey; a story of how we came to be and what we can become. Using state-of-the-art LED screen technology, arenas will be filled with images of far-away galaxies, alien worlds, supermassive black holes, and a time before the Big Bang. The deepest of questions will be explored using the latest advances in our understanding of quantum theory, black holes, biology, planetary science, astronomy and cosmology. Brian will be joined...

DZ Deathrays | Tivoli

The Tivoli 52 Costin Street, Fortitude Valley, QLD, Australia

It's been 2 years since DZ Deathrays released Positive Rising: Pt 1; the first instalment of their 2-part album. With a moodier tone than its predecessor, Positive Rising: Part 2 draws the outline of an apocalyptic scene, one that sees the band stepping outside of themselves, seeking out new perspectives and surveying the world from above. Expect scenes of high energy, chaos, light shows, heavy riffs and a party like only DZ Deathrays know how to throw.

$57.00

50 Years of Queen | BCEC

Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre Corner of Merivale Street & Glenelg Street, South Brisbane, QLD, Australia

Following a successful sell-out tour, Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody is returning with a brand new tribute show in 2022 at the Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre, presented by Ben Maiorana and featuring well-known Australian Freddie Mercury impersonator Thomas Crane. Performing Queen's greatest hits such as We Will Rock You, Crazy Little Thing Called Love, We Are The Champions, Bohemian Rhapsody and more, Thomas and his band will bring back to life the energy, visual and sound experiences of a Queen concert.

$59.90 – $69.90

Brisbane Cycling Festival

Australia’s biggest multi-disciplinary cycling event returns with 20 days of rides, races, expos, entertainment and a free pop-up Festival Village. This citywide celebration of cycling has something for everyone to enjoy the ride from elite pros to new cyclists and spectators.

The Mystery of the Valkyrie | QPAC

Playhouse Theatre, QPAC Grey Street & Melbourne Street, South Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Starring Hugh Parker as Sherlock Holmes, a new mystery unravels with the world premiere of The Mystery of the Valkyrie. Witness one of the most legendary characters of literature and screen come to life on stage with this new highly anticipated Australian work. Journey back to 221B Baker Street with Holmes, Watson, Adler and Moriarty in this fast-paced dramatic thriller adapted for the stage. Presented by Woodward Productions and written and directed by Michael Futcher, this play will have you on the edge of your seat until...

$79 – $109
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