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Footscray Community Arts: Bright

Footscray Community Arts 45 Moreland Street, Footscray, VIC, Australia
Footscray Community Arts presents Bright – a joyful art exhibition that ignites the senses, inviting audiences to touch, explore and connect from 10 October to 12 December 2023. The exhibition’s radical curatorial process brings together five installations without a defined beginning or end, each beckoning the artlover to interact with…
Event Series mane djang karirra: the place where the dreaming changed shape

Maningrida Arts and Culture: mane djang karirra: the place where the dreaming changed shape

Flinders University Museum of Art Flinders University, Sturt Road, Bedford Park, SA, Australia
An exquisite collection of 48 works spotlighting contemporary painting practice in central and western Arnhem Land and the recent rise and recognition of women in this realm. It comprises paintings on bark and on carved and woven objects, featuring imagery that has its roots in ancient rock art and ceremonial…

Australian Dance Theatre: Tracker

Wiradjuri director-choreographer Daniel Riley evokes an immensely powerful and personal story of his Great-Great Uncle, Alec “Tracker” Riley. Alec, a Wiradjuri Elder and tracker, served the New South Wales Police Force for 40 years, leading numerous high-profile cases. As an Elder of his community he forged a path between the…

Sydney Symphony Orchestra: Mozart & Haydn

Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
If Haydn is the father of the symphony, Mozart took the form to new and unimagined heights. In this program, the connection between the composers emerges as a scintillating conversation led by Donald Runnicles, our Principal Guest Conductor. Meticulous in expression, Haydn’s Symphony No.88 brims with charm, elegance and humour.…

shake & stir theatre co: Frankenstein

QPAC Corner Melbourne St and Grey St, South Bank, QLD, Australia
From the company behind the award-winning stage spectacles Jane Eyre, A Christmas Carol and Dracula – comes Mary Shelley’s electrifying tale of creation and humanity, retold in a large-scale theatrical event. Victor Frankenstein, a brilliantly ambitious young scientist, pushes the boundaries of theory and morality to create a living being from the remains of the dead.…
NTC Casablanca

Newcastle Theatre Company: Don’t Mention Casablanca

Wiles Auditorium 90 De Vitre St, Lambton, NSW, Australia
Playwright Michelanne Forster is the granddaughter of Michael Curtiz, the director of Casablanca. 'Don't mention Casablanca' exposes the unknown side of this Hollywood genius and compulsive womanizer. The play is set amongst the growing menace of Nazi Germany and follows the story of the author's grandmother Thilde Foerster, a screenwriter,…
Event Series Out West Piano Fest 2023

Piano+: Out West Piano Fest

Blackdown Farm 90 Eleven Mile Drive, Bathurst, NSW, Australia
Following last year’s sell-out inaugural event, Out West Piano Fest returns to Bathurst to celebrate an incredible weekend of food and wine, music and art from Friday 27th October to Sunday 29th October. Held in the glorious regional setting of Blackdown Farm, just five minutes from the town centre of…
Loot-New Theatre

New Theatre: Loot

New Theatre 542 King St, Newtown, NSW
“Euthanasia is against my religion so I decided to murder her.” Young thieves (and lovers) Hal and Dennis need a place to stash the cash from a bank robbery. The coffin of Hal’s recently-deceased mother, currently at home awaiting burial by her bereaved husband Mr McLeavy, is the perfect solution.…
Much Stuff

The Blue Room Theatre: Much Stuff

The Blue Room Theatre 53 James St, Perth, WA, Australia
Have you told your friend you’re in love with them yet? Blake and Charlie can only say the wrong words at the right time. One’s brain goes brrr, the other’s clunk clunk. Join these two in a mess of gay panic and neurodivergency as they navigate the glorious awkwardness of…

Stephanie Lake Company: Manifesto

Arts Centre Melbourne Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Stephanie Lake Company's Manifesto makes its triumphant return to Melbourne following sell-out seasons around the country. An electrifying performance with nine dancers and nine drummers on nine drum kits set against a towering watermelon-velvet curtain, each drummer and dancer work in unison to create a powerful collision of movement and…
Event Series Made in China 2.0

OzAsia Festival: Made in China 2.0

Adelaide Festival Centre Adelaide, SA, Australia
Wang Chong (王翀) is recognised around the world as one of Beijing’s most significant theatre directors, celebrated for his visionary experiments with classic and contemporary plays. Wang returns to OzAsia Festival, for the first time since 2014’s acclaimed production Ibsen In One Take, in a collaboration with Melbourne co-director Emma Valente to…
Editor's Choice Event Series ACO Total Immersion

Australian Chamber Orchestra: ACO Total Immersion

The Neilson, Pier 2/3 13A Hickson Road, Dawes Point, NSW, Australia
Imagine getting up close and personal with the world’s finest musicians, hearing their intake of breath and feeling the bond they share. Thanks to ACO Total Immersion you can. Explore the orchestra’s state-of-the-art facilities at Pier 2/3, get in amongst the players and take your place on your very own cushion, before…

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