Melbourne Street, Brisbane CBD, Brisbane, Queensland 4101, Australia
How do we make electricity? How does an electric guitar work? Do animals use electricity? With 40 interactive exhibits and information modules, the Megawatt exhibition explores the role of electricity in our everyday lives and highlights the importance of safety when dealing with electricity. Explore how electricity is everywhere and how it entertains us and takes us places. Renewable and sustaina ...
PREVIOUSLY HELD: Saturday 19th February 2011 - Sunday 5th February 2012
Stanley Place, Brisbane CBD, Brisbane, Queensland 4101, Australia
GoMA is the exclusive Australian venue for 'Surrealism: The Poetry of Dreams', a landmark exhibition of surrealist works direct from the Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris.
This exhibition presents more than 180 works by 56 artists, including paintings, sculptures, 'surrealist objects', films, photographs, drawings and collages.
'Surrealism: The Poetry of Dreams' is an ...
PREVIOUSLY HELD: Saturday 11th June 2011 - Sunday 2nd October 2011
2 George Street, Brisbane CBD, Brisbane, Queensland 4000, Australia
William Robinson's self-portraits have played a significant part in his artistic production since submitting his first Archibald Prize entry, William with Josephine in 1984. In 1987, Robinson rose to national prominence when he won the coveted portrait prize amongst much controversy with Equestrian Self Portrait. He subsequently won a second time with Self Portrait with Stunned Mullet in 1995 - pl ...
DATE / TIME: Sunday 21st August 2011 - Sunday 15th April 2012
2 George Street, Brisbane CBD, Brisbane, Queensland 4000, Australia
Remarks on Colour presents a look into the world of Australian watercolours. The selection of works, drawn largely from QUT Art Collection, surveys a range of styles and genres, from landscape and still life to abstraction. The exhibition seeks to celebrate the unique qualities of a medium that is quite often overlooked - its transparency, luminosity, technical difficulty and unpredictability. His ...
PREVIOUSLY HELD: Tuesday 23rd August 2011 - Sunday 23rd October 2011
2 George Street, Brisbane CBD, Brisbane, Queensland 4000, Australia
The Chanel suit is one of the 20th century's most iconic garments. Seen by many as the epitome of style, its classic silhouette is instantly recognisable, and yet owning one is for most women only a dream. Dreaming of Chanel is about the dreams attached to pieces of clothing, whether they are made by famous designers or unknown dressmakers. This exhibition brings to life the garments contained in ...
PREVIOUSLY HELD: Friday 26th August 2011 - Sunday 16th October 2011
Adelaide Street, Brisbane CBD, Brisbane, Queensland 4000, Australia
Believe what you see, for you will never see what you believe...
In 1599 (or thereabouts) Peter Quince presented the most lamentable comedy and most cruel death of Pyramus and Thisbe for the wedding of Theseus, in A Midsummer Night's Dream. Three hundred and thirty three years later, in his unclassifiable MGM film, Freaks, Tod Browning created the famous 'wedding feast' sequence to fant ...
PREVIOUSLY HELD: Sunday 4th September 2011 - Saturday 24th September 2011
Melbourne Street, Brisbane CBD, Brisbane, Queensland 4000, Australia
Le Grand Cirque returns to Brisbane's Queensland Performing Arts Centre for the September school holidays with the jaw-dropping visual feast, Adrenaline - the most dangerous, entertaining and thrilling acts combined with physical comedy routines and feats of skill and agility.
Extravagant and mesmerising, witness three daredevil motorbike riders race around inside the Globe of Death and marvel ...
PREVIOUSLY HELD: Thursday 15th September 2011 - Friday 30th September 2011 (TBA)
166 Ann Street, Brisbane CBD, Brisbane, Queensland 4000, Australia
Do you like Space Invaders? Bleeding Heart Gallery will be transforming into an 80's arcade as part of Emulator, an 11-day festival that celebrates the nostalgia and importance of classic gaming.
There will be 100 per cent playable retro arcade machines, an eight-bit inspired art exhibition, public game challenges, a kids gaming day and more! Great for young and old, gamers and anyone who remem ...
PREVIOUSLY HELD: Monday 19th September 2011 - Friday 30th September 2011
109 Edward Street, Brisbane CBD, Brisbane, Queensland 4000, Australia
Using voice, electronics, video, movement and sensor-based gestural controllers, Macrophonics navigates the interface between humans and machines in performance.
From sensor-based microphones to autonomous robots, post-rock, no-rock, dronescapes and experimental electronica; the program presents music, audio-visual and installation works. The performance features leading Australian sound and m ...
PREVIOUSLY HELD: Tuesday 20th September 2011 - Saturday 24th September 2011
109 Edward Street, Brisbane CBD, Brisbane, Queensland 4000, Australia
Brisbane band, Mr. Maps, delivers a new kind of music performance in You Are Here. By doing away with the stage, they construct an immersive sound, light and spatial experience in which their angular rhythms, lush sweeping melodies and transcendental live performances can envelop the audience.
Showcasing complex layers of bass, drums and guitar lifted by piano and cello, and punctuated by elect ...
PREVIOUSLY HELD: Tuesday 20th September 2011 - Saturday 24th September 2011
Adelaide Street, Brisbane CBD, Brisbane, Queensland 4000, Australia
Grammy award-winning musical virtuoso's Eighth Blackbird are gracing Brisbane Festival audiences with their provocative and mind-changing performance.
Lauded for their unusual performance style, the US-based sextet debunks the myth that contemporary music is only for a cerebral few and is credited for its efforts to make new music accessible to wider audiences. ...
109 Edward Street, Brisbane CBD, Brisbane, Queensland 4000, Australia
The second instalment of the Neon Mountain program has been curated by Dan Lewis, the man behind local boutique music imprint, Bon Voyage. Like the work of the label, his curatorial bent aims to shine a light on underground music. Taking the stage for your entertainment is Sydney's industrial post-punk quartet, Naked on the Vague; Melbourne witch-house mystery Horse MacGyver; Brisbane's own dark p ...
266 George Street, Brisbane CBD, Brisbane, Queensland 4000, Australia
Brisbane Square Library will come alive on the last Sunday of every month with the Acoustics on Sunday sessions. The sessions showcase the talents of a range of new, emerging and established musicians. Join some of Brisbane's most talented singer-songwriters as their original sounds resonate through the library.
Featuring Susanna Carmen and Loren.
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Roma Street, Brisbane CBD, Brisbane, Queensland 4000, Australia
Take a ride on a steam train just like the one used in the Cloncurry to Duchess Train robbery! Travel from Roma Street Station in Brisbane to The Workshops Rail Museum to try your hand at solving the mystery at The Great Train Robbery event. Tickets include return transport to Roma Street Station and entry to the Museum. ...
PREVIOUSLY HELD: Wednesday 28th September 2011 (TBA)
2 George Street, Brisbane CBD, Brisbane, Queensland 4000, Australia
The 48 Hour Game-Making Challenge returns for its fifth year. In 2011, up to 20 teams will go into lockdown (that's 120 game makers!). They'll work to produce a playable prototype in just 48 hours. Think you've got what it takes? Registrations will open soon.
All the action will be streamed live at the official website and you can also join the chatter on Twitter.
Sponsors include, R ...
PREVIOUSLY HELD: Friday 30th September 2011 - Sunday 2nd October 2011 (TBA)
Botanic Gardens Path, Brisbane CBD, Brisbane, Queensland 4000, Australia
Parklife is a labour of love that started as a very small party in a park in March of 2000.
Parklife started because the organisers wanted to share the music they love with other like-minded people in a beautiful outdoor setting close to the centre of the city... and although it's grown just a bit over the last 11 years the idea is exactly the same: Music they love, smiling people and a great ...
Queen Street, Brisbane CBD, Brisbane, Queensland 4000, Australia
Suitcase Rummage is a mini scaled market with giant rewards; it promises to be everything that is a market without the hassle. It's about bringing a suitcase (or two!) filled to the brim with your goods and treats.
You can be a part of the Rummage experience by selling wares or come along to buy some real beauties! There will be brilliant vintage, artwork, bric-a-brac, clothing, books, ...
Fortitude Valley Precinct, Brisbane CBD, Brisbane, Queensland 4006, Australia
Attracting more than 100,000 people each year, Valley Fiesta is a not to be missed celebration of the arts, fashion, culinary delights and of course Brisbane's renowned live music scene.
Valley Fiesta has grown out of the cultural melting pot of the always vibrant, eclectic, fashionable and innovative entertainment precinct that is Fortitude Valley. Valley Fiesta is a weekend long party that sh ...
PREVIOUSLY HELD: Friday 7th October 2011 - Saturday 8th October 2011
Roma Street, Brisbane CBD, Brisbane, Queensland 4000, Australia
All aboard Steam Train Sunday! Travel through Brisbane on an historic steam train and relive the splendour of a bygone era. It's big loud fun as you board the steam train from either Roma Street Station or South Brisbane Station for a one hour trip through the City. Pass through 20 stations and enjoy two river crossings on your journey aboard vintage carriages.
There are three trips per day dep ...
28 Vulture Street, Brisbane CBD, Brisbane, Queensland 4101, Australia
The Wilson HTM Brisbane to the Gold Coast Cycle Challenge - 100 kilometres, is Queensland's biggest bike ride (it's not a race!) from Brisbane to the Gold Coast. The mass participation ride starts at South Bank and utilises the South East Busway to Eight Mile Plains and then travels through Eagleby, Logan, Beenleigh, Coomera and Helensvale, with a finish at Southport. The Wilson HTM Logan ...
2 George Street, Brisbane CBD, Brisbane, Queensland 4000, Australia
A Sydney institution for over a decade, The Wharf Revue team returns in 2011. The outrageously talented trio - Jonathan Biggins, Drew Forsythe and Phillip Scott - step up to serve up their special blend of side-splitting sketches and musical hilarity.
Once more, you can be sure the Revue will be packed full of its trademark up-to-the-second satire of contemporary politics and popular culture, w ...
PREVIOUSLY HELD: Thursday 13th October 2011 - Saturday 15th October 2011
59 Gardens Point Road, Brisbane CBD, Brisbane, Queensland 4000, Australia
Clockwork Entertainment, in association with triple j and Scene magazine have brought together the largest all Aussie Hip Hop line up to ever hit Brisbane for the inaugural Sprung hip hop festival - A Celebration of Australia's partying, urban lifestyle!
This 12 hour all ages event is going to blow the roof off Brisbane's Riverstage facility. ...
1 Parkland Boulevard, Brisbane CBD, Brisbane, Queensland 4000, Australia
The Queensland Multicultural Festival is one of the most anticipated community events on Brisbane's cultural calendar. It is a free one-day event specifically designed to showcase and promote the harmony and diversity of cultures in our state.
Each year the festival attracts approximately 50,000 people of all ages keen to celebrate Queensland's cultural diversity through music, dance, food, art ...
Smith Street, Brisbane CBD, Brisbane, Queensland 4163, Australia
The Christmas in Cleveland Craft Fair is a craft show featuring the handmade work of 45 local and South East Queensland craft persons with all the work for sale at reasonable prices.
The Craft Fair will have a Christmas theme with Christmas decorations and other Christmas items such as table runners, wall hangings, Santas, Saint Nicholas, reindeer and snowmen. In addition there will be a large ...
PREVIOUSLY HELD: Saturday 22nd October 2011 - Sunday 23rd October 2011
2 George Street, Brisbane CBD, Brisbane, Queensland 4000, Australia
Union with Reality celebrates the work of Leonard Brown, an artist whose images of vibrant presence transcend the many paradoxes that lie between the material world and the world of the Sacred. Best known for his compelling abstract works executed with a limited palette, Brown is also a painter of the Byzantine Icon - their usual context being within orthodox Christian liturgy and prayer. Bringing ...
PREVIOUSLY HELD: Tuesday 25th October 2011 - Friday 23rd December 2011
Ann Street, Brisbane CBD, Brisbane, Queensland 4000, Australia
What better way to meet new people than over a friendly and fun game of Scrabble, chess or Connect Four ? On the last Thursday of each month King George Square becomes the place to learn some new games and bond over your old favourites. Bring your own board game, or join in with someone else. For those who want an audience, large-scale versions of classic games will be on offer.
Presented by Br ...
Ann Street, Brisbane CBD, Brisbane, Queensland 4000, Australia
The BrisStyle Indie Twilight Markets in the heart of Brisbane's King George Square offer a unique home-grown experience like no other event of its kind in Australia. These Friday night markets combine the laid-back attitude of south-east Queensland with the buzz of Brisbane's Central Business District to create a lantern lit celebration of local independent art, craft and design.
Meander throu ...
2 George Street, Brisbane CBD, Brisbane, Queensland 4001, Australia
Since its inception in 1951, the Blake Prize has stimulated a fascinating dialogue between art and religion in all its manifestations in Australia. The Prize is named after the legendary British artist and poet William Blake (1757-1827) whose artistic innovations, visionary imagination and radical politics made him an outsider in his day.
In difference to art prizes that are awarded for ...
PREVIOUSLY HELD: Friday 28th October 2011 - Friday 23rd December 2011
266 George Street, Brisbane CBD, Brisbane, Queensland 4000, Australia
Brisbane Square Library will come alive on the last Sunday of every month with the Acoustics on Sunday sessions. The sessions showcase the talents of a range of new, emerging and established musicians. Join some of Brisbane's most talented singer-songwriters as their original sounds resonate through the library.
Featuring Beth'n'Ben and Tom Carty.
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Stanley Place, Brisbane CBD, Brisbane, Queensland 4101, Australia
Southern Cross Soloists' Music and Words series continues with three Sunday afternoon concerts in the Auditorium of the beautiful State Library of Queensland. This fascinating series celebrates the bond between music and the written word and many of the remarkable interactions between the two by contrasting passages of great literature - read by outstanding Brisbane actors - with related pieces of ...
Roma Street, Brisbane CBD, Brisbane, Queensland 4000, Australia
All aboard! Travel through Brisbane on an historic steam train and relive the splendour of a bygone era. It's big loud fun as you board the steam train from Roma Street Station Station for a one hour trip through the City. Pass through 20 stations and enjoy two river crossings on your journey aboard vintage carriages.
There are three trips per day departing at 10.10a.m., 11.40a.m. and 1.10p.m. ...
Queen Street, Brisbane CBD, Brisbane, Queensland 4000, Australia
Suitcase Rummage is a mini scaled market with giant rewards; it promises to be everything that is a market without the hassle. It's about bringing a suitcase (or two!) filled to the brim with your goods and treats.
You can be a part of the Rummage experience by selling wares or come along to buy some real beauties! There will be brilliant vintage, artwork, bric-a-brac, clothing, books, ...
Grey Street, Brisbane CBD, Brisbane, Queensland 4101, Australia
Is it possible to survive being dressed up and dragged into a tier of society that's utterly unfamiliar? Eliza is about to find out. In George Bernard Shaw's renowned play, uppity phonetics professor Henry Higgins plucks Eliza Doolittle off the streets in an effort to pass her off as a duchess.
Can he transform a sow's ear into a silk purse in just six months to win a bet with his chum Colonel ...
PREVIOUSLY HELD: Monday 7th November 2011 - Sunday 27th November 2011 (TBA)
Parklands Drive, Brisbane CBD, Brisbane, Queensland 4000, Australia
Yoga Aid Challenge is a free yoga charity event. There will be a two hour sequential yoga experience with a rest period. The event will open and close with ceremonies including a beautiful Yoga Dance. There will be family fun and kid's activities areas, a free vegan and vegetarian barbecue, stall with your favourite stuff and live music and kirtan. ...
2 George Street, Brisbane CBD, Brisbane, Queensland 4000, Australia
Dance '11 is a diverse program of challenging new works showcasing the best of the Queensland University of Technology's dance performance students.
This year's final Dance production will be split into two separate showcases. In the first week, first and second year performance students will present works choreographed by guest Jane Pirani and QUT Dance Lecturer, Csaba Buday.
The second wee ...
PREVIOUSLY HELD: Wednesday 16th November 2011 - Thursday 24th November 2011
59 Gardens Point Road, Brisbane CBD, Brisbane, Queensland 4000, Australia
Take the line-up of your typical European multi day event, cut out the filler and the acts that everyone has seen one too many times and pack all the greatness into one incredible day for discerning music lovers.
An amazing start would be to convince Portishead to return to Australia after a 14 year absence. Then augment that coup by gathering a collection of the planet's most outstanding and ...
266 George Street, Brisbane CBD, Brisbane, Queensland 4000, Australia
Brisbane Square Library will come alive on the last Sunday of every month with the Acoustics on Sunday sessions. The sessions showcase the talents of a range of new, emerging and established musicians. Join some of Brisbane's most talented singer-songwriters as their original sounds resonate through the library.
Featuring Leah Cotterell and Jamie Clark. ...
59 Gardens Point Road, Brisbane CBD, Brisbane, Queensland 4000, Australia
Stevie Nicks, known for both her work with legendary super group Fleetwood Mac plus her own hugely successful solo career, will be touring this November and December.
Joining Stevie for these special shows will be celebrated musician and songwriter, Dave Stewart, from Eurythmics, who co-produced Stevie's new solo album, In Your Dreams.
Stevie Nicks' incredible solo career has given her more ...
Queen Street, Brisbane CBD, Brisbane, Queensland 4000, Australia
Suitcase Rummage is a mini scaled market with giant rewards; it promises to be everything that is a market without the hassle. It's about bringing a suitcase (or two!) filled to the brim with your goods and treats.
You can be a part of the Rummage experience by selling wares or come along to buy some real beauties! There will be brilliant vintage, artwork, bric-a-brac, clothing, books, ...
