Tweed Coast Weddings are coming back strong in 2021 with a free, interactive workshop, perfect for all who are looking to plan, improve, or obtain ideas for their perfect wedding day.

The Welcome is a life-affirming collection of short films sharing stories that will transport you across countries, borders, and oceans. Hear fresh voices and emerging Queensland artists from diverse backgrounds tell honest and authentic stories about migrant and refugee experiences and what it means to belong in Australia. The Welcome is an extension of La Boite’s […]

La Boite Theatre is raising the curtain on a reinvigorated season in 2021, with Act 1 featuring a powerful line-up of mainstage productions including two world premieres, a new film project and a slate of HWY events from January to April. Leading into Season 2021, La Boite has revitalised how it programs and presents work […]

One year on from the devastating 2019-20 Black Summer bushfires, Brisbane’s Institute of Modern Art unveils a new contemporary art exhibition confronting this period of significant ecological change. 'On Fire: Climate and Crisis' features work by 15 Queensland artists and interrogates the state’s image as a subtropical paradise by considering the themes of global warming […]

New parents Emily and Simon are struggling. With Simon in LA for work, a sleep-deprived Emily is left alone to care for baby Dylan, triggering a chain reaction that will alter everyone’s lives. Audiences are in for a heart-stopping psychological thrill ride, not knowing who to trust and who to believe, as the couple’s relationship […]

The Australian Premiere of the hilarious New York and Las Vegas hit Friends! The Musical Parody has been secured for the Gold Coast. Friends! The Musical Parody national tour will open with seasons in Melbourne, Perth, Adelaide, Sydney and Brisbane following. Join your six favourite friends at their favourite café for a night of unstoppable […]

Screen Forever, Australia’s flagship screen industry conference and content market will take place at The Star Event Centre Gold Coast in February 2021 with COVID-19 protections. With all necessary safety measures in place, the event will go forth in order for the conference for film and industry professionals to tackle issues the screen business is […]

This is cabaret as you’ve never seen it before! Bigger & Blacker is a comedy cabaret guaranteed to get you laughing, thinking, and shimmying in your seats over one action-packed hour of entertainment.  Steven Oliver, the star of ABC’s hit television series Black Comedy, is fresh and fabulous in the world premiere production, based on […]

An extravagant array of culture and film is making its way to Byron Bay this autumn. The Alliance Francaise French Film Festival is coming to the coast. This French film festival brings forth a charcuterie platter of French culture and will be active in Byron from the 24th of March to the 14th of April. Alliance […]

Gold Coast Cultural Precinct HOTA, Home of the Arts' inaugural exhibition program will be presented in the new $60.5 million HOTA Gallery. HOTA Gallery will launch with Solid Gold: Artists from Paradise 10 April. Presented across the Gallery and the HOTA parklands, and featuring major new commissions and art work by emerging and established Australian […]

Bring the kids down to Montague Markets for these School Holidays, with a range of activities and workshops for kids of all ages, Montague Markets have something for the whole family! Tote Bag Decorating from April 14th & April 16th, brings out the little one’s creative side as they design and create their own Tote Bag […]

The long-range forecast is for fun, flashbacks and fashion when ABC’s revered weather presenter Jenny Woodward premieres her one-woman stage show at Brisbane Powerhouse on 23 April 2021. Weathering Well is a potted history of the life and times of the popular presenter who chalks up 35 years with the national broadcaster in 2021. Combining […]

Lethbridge Gallery is hosting its inaugural landscape prize with an exhibition of finalists being staged from April into May. There is also a Salon des refuses exhibition of works being shown only online. Exhibition opening hours will be extended to include Sunday. They include Tuesday 12pm-6pm, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday 9am-6pm, Saturday 10am-5pm and Sunday 10am-2pm.

The team behind Queensland’s most exciting celebration of LGBTIQ+ arts and culture are excited to announce the return of MELT: Festival of Queer Arts and Culture and the annual MELT Portrait Prize in 2021. Shining the spotlight on LGBTIQ+ culture, the 12-day festival will celebrate visibility and inclusivity among the community when it takes over […]

Australia’s premier festival of contemporary dance Supercell 2021 celebrates its new home at HOTA, Home of the Arts on the Gold Coast, with the debut of The Makers Program and Mini-Fest. The Makers Program commissions more than 100 artists from across Australia to travel to the Gold Coast and create original works within 10 days, […]

Through political speeches, dance, dialogue and surprise cameo appearances, La Boite's The Time Is Now gives a platform to a diverse group of young Queenslanders whom are part of a generation often silenced and dismissed.  The show gives this young citizen’s assembly a stage and a platform to address audiences, threading dance, dialogue and surprise […]

Winner of the prestigious Brett Whiteley Travelling Scholarship (2016), Lucy O’Doherty completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts at the National Art School, Sydney, in 2011. Highly commended in the Pro Hart Outback Prize in 2016, she has been a finalist in the Mosman Art Prize in 2015, the Brunswick St Gallery Small Works Prize in […]

Following a majorly successful public art installation River Totem Revival at Royal Brisbane Women’s Hospital (RBWH) in 2020, Joanne Currie Nalingu and Ian Waldron join forces in an exhibition presenting a broad range of their work. The exhibition, also titled River Totem Revival, at FireWorks Gallery, will be officially opened by curator Lynne Seear. A dynamic […]

Veiled Paradise surveys three decades of Badtjala artist Fiona Foley’s practice. This leading contemporary Aboriginal artist’s work is informed by her ancestral connection to K’Gari/Fraser Island, drawing equally upon its serene beauty and the history of systemic violence and sexual exploitation perpetrated on its shores. Spanning over thirty years, Foley’s practice—from the founding of Boomalli […]

Darkest Hour transforms the Gallery into a playground, blaring with live music, art, and performance. Explore beyond the velvet ropes and blow-out the lights. Every part of the HOTA Gallery will be open for you to forge and conquer. New experiences by Libby Harward, Adrienne Kenafake, Donny Love, The Oogars and Smells Like Nanna’s House […]

Art, performance, film, music, theatre and even a dance party or two – across three winter nights, UNDERGROUND is all about big ideas, brave artists, shared moments and the spaces in-between, complete with a festival pop-up bar and disruptors-in-residence. It’s a kaleidoscope of uncharted works, and artistic roulette. UNDERGROUND it’s HOTA’s newest art festival featuring […]

Developed by the IMA in partnership with the ACCA, Melbourne, Missile Park is a major new exhibition of work by Yhonnie Scarce. First shown in Melbourne, the exhibition now travels to Brisbane. The exhibition includes a series of new commissions plus a comprehensive survey of the past 15 years work from this leading Australian contemporary artist. Yhonnie […]

View the newest addition to the Jan Murphy Art Gallery, exhibition by Michael Muir titled Rabbit Holes. Muir has been included in countless major award shows including the prestigious Sulman Prize, and has exhibited extensively in Australia and internationally. The local Sydney artist continues his exploration of colour and composition with subject matter that expresses […]

The Australian Premiere of the hilarious New York and Las Vegas hit Friends! The Musical Parody has been secured for the Gold Coast. Friends! The Musical Parody national tour will open with seasons in Melbourne, Perth, Adelaide, Sydney and Brisbane following. Join your six favourite friends at their favourite café for a night of unstoppable […]

Australian artist Amanda Parer's "humanoids" are on show at Portside Wharf this September as one of their many destinations across the globe. Inspired by the 1973 Czech/French film Fantastic Planet (La Planète Sauvage), these five-metre tall luminous inflatable figures is present on the wharf at Northshore for everyone to see.

Brisbane's Art Boat is a floating art experience traveling along the Brisbane River between Northshore Brisbane, Hamilton and South Bank, featuring art and technology from ENESS's studio. Airship Orchestra will be present for the first part of the festival, featuring giant space-themed inflatables with googly eyes that light up and perform a mesmerising choir as visitors can walk […]

In 2021, The Irish Film Festival Australia will offer audiences an incredible line-up of Ireland’s best feature films and compelling documentaries, online for the second consecutive year. Films from both emerging and established directors focus on a full range of genres including family-friendly animation, comedy, moving drama, musical biopics and even a horror movie. Audiences […]

IMAGINARIA, the newest immersive playground will debut in Brisbane Festival's BOQ Festival Garden precinct. The stunning immersive play experience combines audio-visual art, inflatable architecture, light installations and futuristic gamification suitable for all ages. IMAGINARIA will be located in a purpose-built enclosed playground underneath the Goodwill Bridge, next to Queensland Maritime Museum. Step inside the multi-sensory […]

Performed as part of this year's Brisbane Festival, Dancenorth Australia's RED illustrates the universal challenge of biodiversity and survival for genetic mutations, in this case the gene that gave rise to red hair in humans, through a large inflatable structure from which air is slowly emptying, ultimately sealing the dancers trapped inside. Red hair, like many other […]

Streets Serenades are back as part of this year's Brisbane Festival in September. Contemporary musicians, DJs, cabaret sows, circus, folk, jazz and world music concert, classical musicians and ballet dancers will perform in various public spaces in 190 across Brisbane, from streets to parks. The Hamilton performance will feature Common People Street Party's Dance Project, […]

Two Australian artists will showcase their artworks at FireWorks Gallery. Rod Moss: All My Fat Country will comprise a series of large, magnificent graphite drawings on Waterford paper, while Samantha Hobson: Willa Blo Punga (Tide of the Fish) will feature some twenty recent paintings completed in glistening turquoise blues and greens. Although both artists used distinctly different […]

Piano Burning, performed as part of this year's Brisbane Festival, is a homage to the first of Annea Lockwood's Piano Transplants, in which she reimagined people's relationship with the iconic instrument. In the original Piano Burning, Lockwood celebrated the transformation of objects by burning an irreparable upright piano on the banks of the Thames in London, in […]

It’s common sense not to invite vampires into your home (unless you want a permanent house guest, that is) - however the King of Lancre has invited the city’s newest fanged residents to celebrate the birth of his daughter… and they have no intention of leaving… ever. As the residents of Lancre are about to […]

Energies 21 is presented by HOTA in partnership with Gold Coast Visual Arts educators and in consultation with HOTA Gallery and Visual Arts Education Reference Group art work is selected from Gold Coast students based upon individual merit and skill. For more than 30 years, Energies has provided a platform for local senior secondary visual […]

A Bee Story is a unique physical theatre performance for children and families presented by HOTA. It is a kaleidoscope of circus, acrobatics, dance, and live music. Exploring themes of environmentalism, sustainability, and community, A Bee Story is created and directed by Australian performer and director Robbie Curtis (Circa, Cirque du Soleil, Circus Oz, Australian […]

Adrienne Gaha's new exhibition Verdure is showing at the Edwina Corlette gallery in October. An alum of the Sydney College of the Arts and the National Art School, Adrienne Gaha's work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions throughout Australia as well as New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and Mexico. A finalist in the Grace Cossington […]

Stewart MacFarlane's new exhibition Odyssey is showing at Mitchell Fine Art in Fortitude Valley in October. MacFarlane is a figurative artist whose work is saturated with contrasting blocks of colour and exaggerated angles. His paintings are dramatic narratives, uncertain and unsettling. Three years in the making and impacted by the changing world and restrictions to global […]

This year Cavill Lane Surfers Paradise will be another GC evil residency to get your Halloween thrills on with their debut Haunted Halloween weekend nights of The Haunted Passage. This atmospheric showcase is designed to transport you into a haunted passage influenced by horror films and haunted attractions, for an experience of an immersive event. These […]

Travel back in time to the summer of 1967 in this sun-kissed revival of Michael Gow's Australian classic. Directed by Daniel Evans and featuring Queensland thespians including Roxanne McDonald and Bryan Probets, Away follows three families on an unexpectedly magical Christmas beach vacation set in an Australia entangled in the Vietnam War. Delve into a […]

Presented by the Japan Foundation and returning for its 25th year, the Japanese Film Festival will screen at the new venue of Palace Cinemas. The Japan Foundation will start its national tour in Canberra, Perth, Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney from 28 October. The Festival program will feature newly-released titles in different genres, such as action, […]

Explore provocative themes of racism and social media in seven methods of killing kylie jenner, written by Jasmine Lee-Jones and co-directed by Zindzi Okenyo and Shari Sebbens. The two-woman play is 'a deep dive into the murky waters of colourism and the commodification of Black women' in an era of URL to IRL politics. La Boite […]

From the first glance to the last kiss, discover the experience of falling in and out of love in La Boite Theatre's The Last Five Years. Written by Jason Robert Brown and directed by Darren Yap, this bittersweet musical journey follows Jamie and Cathy telling their love story from two different perspectives. Since its 2001 […]

A Treasure Trove of Five-Generations of Rare Jewels Comes to MoB  Her bold jewellery designs feature in the collections of discerning buyers around the world and now Brisbane’s Margot McKinney OAM is unlocking her archives and revealing the family story behind her brand for MoB. With a lifetime dedicated to luxury, Australian jewellery designer Margot McKinney’s […]

To Be Human is the first major survey exhibition of Australian-Japanese artist duo Ken + Julia Yonetani. Working together since 2008, the artists have built a collaborative practice that unearths and visualises hidden connections between people and their environment. Responding to environmental degradation and global economic systems, their work addresses coral bleaching, increasing salinity levels, nuclear […]

Hmong-Australian artist Vanghoua Anthony Vue, will imbue colour and connection through found objects as Museum of Brisbane's BrisAsia 2023 Artist-in-Residence during the annual BrisAsia Festival. Weaving everyday items and recycled materials into artworks, Brisbane-based Vanghoua Anthony's bold and vibrant imagery celebrates traditional Hmong textiles. Visitors can interact with the artist at work, allowing a behind-the-scenes […]

Australia's biggest ballet gala is coming to Brisbane for one night only at the Brisbane Powerhouse. See world stars from Staatsballett Berlin, The Royal Ballet, American Ballet Theatre and Astana Opera, perform highlights from the most iconic ballets including Swan Lake, Spartacus, Thais Pas, Les Bourgeois and more. International stars including Iana Salenko, Marian Walter, […]

We are excited to begin 2023 with solo exhibitions by Queensland artists Keith Burt and Laura Patterson. This summer, many of our artists feature in exhibitions around the country and overseas, and we encourage you to visit. Below is a list of shows that are well worth a look over the summer period. Please click the […]

Drop by The Condensery for the opening of the Australian art collective Barbara Cleveland's upcoming Thinking Business exhibition. This event explores forms of female friendship, collaboration, and artistic labour. Originally established in Sydney on Gadigal land and founded by Diana Baker Smith, Frances Barrett, Kate Blackmore and Kelly Doley, the collective takes their name from a […]

Join Brisbane-born but now Sydney-based renowned artist Ann Thomson as she celebrates her 90th year at her new exhibition at the Mitchell Fine Art Gallery. This exhibition includes rarely-seen pieces from the 1970s and other incredible artworks by Thomson. The event is being opened by QAGOMA (Queensland Art Gallery of Modern Art)'s director Chris Saines […]