Brisbane's inner-city voice since 2014
Brisbane's inner-city voice since 2014
Brisbane's Cultural Calendar
Festivals, shows, exhibitions and events happening around Brisbane — curated by The Urbanite.
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GOMA (Gallery of Modern Art), Brisbane
A world-exclusive exhibition of more than 500 objects spanning the Jim Henson Company's 70-year history, including real Fraggle Rock production sets.
Australian premiere — visual art, installation, family.
Brisbane Botanic Gardens Mt Coot-tha, 152 Mt Coot-tha Road, Toowong
Botanic by Night: NightGlow lights up Brisbane Botanic Gardens Mt Coot-tha after dark until 10 October. Walk a lantern-lit trail past illuminated animal sculptures by First Nations artists, with food trucks at the Amphitheatre.
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GOMA (Gallery of Modern Art), Brisbane
A world-exclusive exhibition of more than 500 objects spanning the Jim Henson Company's 70-year history, including real Fraggle Rock production sets.
Australian premiere — visual art, installation, family.
Brisbane Botanic Gardens Mt Coot-tha, 152 Mt Coot-tha Road, Toowong
Botanic by Night: NightGlow lights up Brisbane Botanic Gardens Mt Coot-tha after dark until 10 October. Walk a lantern-lit trail past illuminated animal sculptures by First Nations artists, with food trucks at the Amphitheatre.
Talbot Theatre, Thomas Dixon Centre, West End
Queensland Ballet's annual Bespoke season returns with three world premieres — a triple bill on ecological grief, psychological tension and the cost of belonging.
Brisbane German Club, Kangaroo Point
The Brisbane German Club marks its 52nd Oktoberfest across five weekends of Bavarian tradition, live music and imported Munich beer.
multiple locations
Featuring an original design by Dylan Mooney Make the work.
Brisbane Powerhouse
Four days of conversations, panels, salons and talks covering literary fiction, crime, history, memoir and comedy.
Saturday Fresh Market, 385 Sherwood Road, Rocklea
Brisbane's spring plant festival returns to the Saturday Fresh Market in Rocklea — expanded plant stalls, a free wildlife show, jumping castle and $2 entry.
Queen Street Mall
Look out Queen Street Mall – Mad Dance House is performing a FLASH MOB for Melt Festival, Sunday October 18th at 12:30pm!!
SUN Deck, W Brisbane, Level 4, 81 North Quay
W Hotels' global live music series makes its Australian debut, with Melbourne duo Shouse closing out a national roadshow at W Brisbane's SUN Deck.
Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre
Live cook-off competitions inside the Food & Hospitality Queensland trade show decide the state's best chef and best pizza maker for the year.
Bille Brown Theatre
Immersive, near-silent Queensland Theatre production set at a five-day retreat, performed with audience headphones.
Brisbane Powerhouse
Melting Pot in collaboration with QUIVR, is back again transforming into a vibrant hub each week of Melt Festival.
Brisbane Powerhouse
Bloodlines is a sparkling séance for queer art’s silenced legends — The Huxleys channeling artists lost to HIV/AIDS back into dazzling, defiant life through photography, video, costume and performance.
Cremorne Theatre, Queensland Performing Arts Centre
Enter “Strange Phenomena”, howl with the “Hounds Of Love” and dance on the moors with “Wuthering Heights”.
Brisbane Powerhouse
The internationally acclaimed Armenian pianist and composer brings his latest work, Manifeste, fusing jazz, progressive rock and Armenian folk traditions.
QUT Library, Gardens Point
This pop-up exhibition presents a series of written responses to selected works from the QUT Art Collection.
Museum of Brisbane
Step into the vibrant world of Sunday Jemmott, an early-career artist whose colourful, texturally rich works exude joy.
Turbine Platform, Brisbane Powerhouse
With Love, From the Future is an evolving, community-driven art installation and intimate letter-writing space created by Noa Wolf Smith Fletcher.
Pip Theatre
A queer dark comedy about power, privilege… and debating.
State Library of Queensland
The Treasures Wall showcases a selection of items from the State Library of Queensland’s collections and during Melt Festival, Queen’s Birthday Ball posters from the Laurence James Dean Archive.
Fish Lane: Town Square
A study by the University of Melbourne revealed that 25-30% of male native black swans (Cygnus atratus) were in same-sex partnerships.
PIP Theatre
Heartbroken and spiralling Phoebe follows an Influencer’s advice to pray to love.
