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May 2017
The Melbourne International Comedy Festival Roadshow 2017 (Brisbane)
Presented by Brisbane Powerhouse Buckle up Australia! The Melbourne International Comedy Festival Roadshow is back on the bus, hitting the road to home deliver the freshest and funniest from Australia’s largest comedy festival! With an all-killer, no-filler cast of Australian stars, talented newcomers and international performers we’ve got all your comedy bases covered. Featuring everything from stand-up to sketch, slapstick to song, each individual line-up presents the best of the Festival in one hilarious show. Every year our cast of intrepid entertainers board the bus and set their sights on over 80 destinations across this great Southern land. No road is left untraveled and no sides are left un-split, from Darwin to Devonport and everywhere in between! Don’t miss your chance to join the laughs at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival Roadshow. Get on board, grab your mates and get giggling as the ultimate comedy roadtrip rolls into town! Lineup:…
Find out more »July 2017
Salty
The Butterfly Club presents gooey Singaporean horror comedy.* Two-time Melbourne Fringe award-winner Shannan Lim and his spook buddies Jayde Harding and Tye Norman vomit three short, interconnected plays—contemporary slants on the lurid demons of Singaporean-Malay mythology. Accompanied by neat video projections, Salty features a curious stillborn fetus, a slippery oily man nobody can catch, and a smouldering sex vampire looking for somebody to impregnate her. Each story places a ghost of Singapore in a modern Australian context and deconstructs contrasting ideas about culture, masculinity and self that exist between Asia and Australia. Southeast Asian ghosts are frequently people who died in agonising circumstances, and whose motives are therefore recognisable as base human desires, only so pure and singular to the point of terror. In Singaporean folklore, salt is the currency of the afterlife. Salty—together with acclaimed Asian Ghost-ery Store and upcoming The Yonder—are part of a series that looks at cultural identity with absurdity and play. WINNER Melbourne Fringe 2016 —…
Find out more »August 2017
AUGUST COUPLET
Curated by Queensland Poetry Festival, COUPLET is a free poetry and performance event that presents two dynamic voices every month. Join us for August's COUPLET, which sees the start of Queensland Multicultural Month (who are a QPF2017 festival partner) Melbourne's Gayelene Carbis is in town to launch her first collection of poetry Anecdotal Evidence (Five Islands Press) at COUPLET. Gayelene is a poet/performance poet, playwright, and prose writer of Chinese/Irish/Cornish heritage whose work has been published and performed in Australia and overseas. Gayelene has been recently shortlisted for various poetry prizes, including: the Montreal International Poetry Prize; Fish International Poetry Prize (Ireland); and the Adrien Abbott; Martha Richardson Memorial; and Melbourne Poets Union International Poetry Prizes. Gayelene was awarded a Writing Studio (Poetry) Scholarship to the Banff Arts Centre in Canada in 2012 and read her work in Canada and New York. Gayelene’s most recent one-woman show won Best Premiere Production at the…
Find out more »QPF2017 POETS IN RESIDENCE WORKSHOPS + KEY EVENTS
QPF2017 has three incredible Poets in Residence this year: the Arts Queensland Poet in Residence role is being shared by two artists (Joy Harjo from the US and Courtney Sina Meredith from NZ), and our Indigenous Poet in Residence is Ali Cobby Eckermann. These three accomplished poets and performers are doing a range of events and workshops as part of QPF this year, and many fall outside the four-day festival itself, so check out the line-up on our website—you'll find Arts Queensland Poet in Residence details here and Indigenous Poet in Residence details here. QPF2017 Poets in Residence Workshops and key events Poets in Residence QPF2017 Workshops and key events
Find out more »21st Queensland Poetry Festival
The 21st Queensland Poetry Festival (QPF) turns up the volume on the finest local and international poetic voices from 24‒27 August at the Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts and a host of other exciting satellite venues. Featuring 120+ artists in 80+ sessions over four dynamic days and nights, 75% of sessions are free. Building upon over 6000 attendees last year, QPF2017 is the festival’s biggest and most ambitious venture yet. Redefining the poetic artform, the packed line-up includes slam poets, live music, panels, workshops, visual art installations, spoken word, film screenings, performance art, comedy and an inaugural poetry Publishers and Zine Fair. Some QPF2017 features include: Two Poets in Residence: QPF is proud to announce that the 2017 Arts Queensland Poet in Residence will be shared between one of the world’s greatest poets and one of its most exciting new voices: Joy Harjo (USA) and Courtney Sina Meredith (NZ). You can catch both Poets in Residence performing across a number of shows…
Find out more »Kwality Chai – by Sapna Chandu
Sapna Chandu stages an uncanny performance revolving around the making and serving of tea, in an alternate reality, where India has taken over Australia. Kwality Chai is an immersive Live Art performance and video installation showing at Blak Dot Gallery, Brunswick from 24/8-10/9. Artist Talk : 2-3pm – SEP 2nd Chai Making workshop: 2-3pm – SEP 9th Live performance on opening night, Thursday 24/8, 6.30pm -8.30pm
Find out more »LIVING ARTEFACT: LUKA LESSON + KAHL WALLIS IN CONCERT
As part of QPF2017 Distant Voices, Australia’s bestselling spoken-word/hip-hop artist, Luka Lesson, joins creative forces with multi-award-winning Indigenous artist Kahl Wallis (The Medics) for the Brisbane leg of their joint 'Living Artefact' single and national tour. Living Artefact is a strong, defiant world hip-hop track, and its performers are determined to continue their contemporary cultural songlines. Lesson will also be in special three-piece band mode for the first time in Queensland. Don't miss this epic event! Saturday 26 August, 7.30 pm Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts Tickets: $25
Find out more »September 2017
Asia What? Melbourne Writers Festival 17
This FREE EVENT, with no bookings required, asks the questions, what are the 'authentic' stories of Asians and 'Asian-ness'? How are Asian narratives crafted, and as settlers, what are their relationships with Indigenous peoples? Explore these provacations through a day of free discussion, performances, workshops and reflections featuring Bruce Pascoe, Eugenia Flynn, Melanie Cheng, Ra Chapman, Sangeetha Thanapal, Steven Winduo, Shinen Wong and more. Presented in partnership with the Asian Australian Democracy Caucus - AADC. Friday, September 1st 2017 @ ACMI Cube (at Federation Square) 10am to 4pm Indigenous Connections: What is the relationship to indigeneity within the diverse identities of Asian and Pacific communities? As settlers, what role do Asian Australians play in the ongoing colonial project? Eugenia Flynn, Bruce Pascoe and Steven Winduo investigate and perform readings of their work. http://mwf.com.au/session/asia-what-indigenous-connections-2/ Genealogies of the Body What makes bodies ‘Asian’? How do the histories that we carry and the…
Find out more »Assembly Operation Speak Percussion @ Arts House
Three percussionists dutifully form an assembly line to extract music from everyday objects. Drawing on the visual, sonic and conceptual qualities of the one Yuan note, using paper, packaging, electronic toys and traditional objects, Speak Percussion delivers a loaded sonic odyssey. In this major new collaboration between Eugene Ughetti, performance maker Clare Britton and visual artists Cyrus Tang and Jia Jia Chen, dark video sequences and minimalistic set design conjure surreal reflections on mass-production. Assembly Operation manufactures high quality sound by crunching and grinding low worth goods. Composer/Director: Eugene Ughetti Designer/Dramaturge: Clare Britton Video Artist: Cyrus Tang Sound Designer: Nick Roux Lighting Designer/Production Manager: Richard Dinnen (Megafun) Ceramicist/Visual Artist: Jia Jia Chen Performers: Kaylie Melville, Matthias Schack-Arnott, Eugene Ughetti Producer: Michaela Coventry Image: Damian Stephens @ DDT World Premiere Presented by Arts House 7.30pm, Tue 5 Sep 7.30pm, Wed 6 Sep 7.30pm, Thu 7 Sep 7.30pm, Fri 8 Sep 7.30pm, Sat 9 Sep 45…
Find out more »Channels Festival 2017
Channels Festival 2017 officially launches this Friday 1st September! You're invited to join them at The SUBSTATION from 6pm to celebrate the festival launch and official opening of the group exhibition Future Tense and Australian premiere of A Mountain Close Up is Only Rock by UK artists Kihlberg & Henry. Exploring the concept ‘futures of’, Channels 2017 showcases new and exciting contemporary moving image by over 90 Australian and international artists across multiple venues around Melbourne. Channels is the only Australian biennial dedicated to presenting video art and culture in a dynamic and inclusive festival of free exhibitions, screenings, workshops and public programs. FESTIVAL LAUNCH + OPENING NIGHT Date: Friday 1 Sept, from 6pm Location: The SUBSTATION FREE /// no bookings required SCREENING Video Visions Date: Friday 8 Sept, 7pm Location: ACMI, Cinema 2 Tickets: $15 Full, $12 Concession, $10 ACMI Members BUY NOW Selected from over 470 submissions from around the world, Video Visions draws on contemporary positions in video art to present…
Find out more »Chef: Come Dine with Us! (Atobiz Co & Persona Inc)
The perfect satisfaction for all theatre-loving foodies! Two rival sous chefs compete in the ultimate cooking show to determine who stays in the kitchen to carry on the legacy of the popular Korean dish bibimbap. Combining jaw-dropping beatboxing and breakdancing, astounding acrobatic displays and pure visual delights, this culinary cornucopia of entertainment will please every palette. Purchase tickets at brisbanefestival.com.au Sat 9 & Sat 10 Sept @ 7:30PM Sun 10 Sept @2PM (Post show Q&A) Tue 12- Sat 16 Sept @7:30PM Sat 16 Sept @2PM Venue: Brisbane Powerhouse - Powerhouse Theatre 119 Lamington Street NEW FARM QLD 4005 Cost: Adult - $38 Concession - $32 Child - $19 Group (6+) - $32
Find out more »TRANSTRAVAGANZA
TRANSTRAVAGANZA: the Performance offers a sample platter of new work by five of Melbourne’s most talented trans and gender diverse artists. First, whet your appetite with Elija Montgomery's participatory photographic work exploring monstrosity and humanity. Then, sink your teeth into Raina Peterson's contemporary Indian dance performance that traverses liminal genders in Hindu art and culture. Get your fill of absurdist theatre with Dove Quinn and Leon Andon's physical theatre adaptation of Eugene Ionesco's The Chairs. Finally, cleanse your palate with Luca Lovejoy's thoughtful and charming cabaret performance, before finishing off with Yelris' multi-sensory buffet of non-binary electro-poetica beats, words, and Asian gender bending visuals. TRANSTRAVAGANZA: the Exhibition is a collection of works from Melbourne/Narrm-based trans and gender diverse (TGD) artists that shines a spotlight on the beauty and diversity of TGD experience. The exhibition features works by Tama tk Sharman La hole, Dawn Iris Dangkomen, Erin Swift, and Elija Montgomery.…
Find out more »Charlie Lim and the Mothership (Charlie Lim)
Stretched between acoustic melancholia, neo-soul, post-rock, and electronic-pop – the extremities that mark Charlie’s music – there’s a cinematic gravitas that takes you on a sonic journey set against the rich narratives of life’s tales. Purchase tickets at brisbanefestival.com.au Dates: Sun 17 Sept @ 7PM Cost: Adult - $36 Concession - $30 Group (6+) - $30 each Venue: The Courier-Mail Magic Mirrors Spiegeltent Cultural Forecourt SOUTH BANK QLD 4101
Find out more »Estrella Wing, Showgirl at Melbourne Fringe Festival
Estrella Wing, Showgirl: A zany and poignant musical tale of the saddest showgirl in Chinatown San Francisco’s Forbidden City nightclub. 1942. Estrella Wing is on the brink and she needs time to think. How do you blend in and stand out? How do you tell your best friend you love her? When will you stop feeling so alone? In a dazzling Fringe debut, writer/performer Margot Tanjutco springs into a kaleidoscopic haze of eras with an eclectic mix of jazz, pop, and soul. Doses of magical realism are combined with true stories from this forgotten gem of history as the show follows the young showgirl’s attempts to conquer a city and understand her place in it. Whilst creating the show, Margot found lasting inspiration from Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s ‘Amélie’, Julie Koh’s short stories, David Bowie, Ella Fitzgerald - and her desire to contribute to the tapestry of diverse stories being told on…
Find out more »Where’s David? (Melbourne Fringe Festival)
"I burnt my toast this morning. I also killed my best friend." With a dark confession, an unnamed performer arrives on stage, unraveling the murder of a best friend, sentiments on sentimentality and the grief of burning your toast. A darkly playful, one-woman show, Where's David? is an attempt to understand and reconcile the death and murder of the ones you love. Presented as part of Melbourne Fringe Festival, WHERE'S DAVID? returns, reworked and revived after its intial season in La Mama's Explorations 2016. DATES + TIMES Wed 20, Thurs 21/ 6.30pm Fri 22, Sat 23/ 8.00pm Sun 24/ 6.30pm Created and Performed by Sandra Chui Co-produced by Adrian Del-Re Image by Cassandra Eli Yiannacou Special thanks to the team of Small and Loud, The Kiln (Arts Centre) and friends for the generous support and love during the development of Where's David? This performance has been developed on the land…
Find out more »BITCH: The Origin of the Species (Edith Potesta) – Sinagapore
This is a visually rich theatrical reclamation of one of the most complex insults in the English language. A reflection of the animal in nature and the animal in our nature.Created by theatre veteran Edith Podesta and featuring Helmut Bakaitisand Brisbane’s very own Merlynn Tong with stellar multimedia, BITCH unleashes our primordial instincts from domesticity. Purchase tickets at brisbanefestival.com.au Dates: Wed 20 – Sat 23 Sept @ 7PM Cost: Adult - $29 Concession - $19.90 Venue: Theatre Republic - The Loft The Loft (Building Z2), QUT Creative Industries Musk Avenue KELVIN GROVE QLD 4059
Find out more »Queensland Symphony Orchestra Plays The Romantics (Darrell Ang, Conductor)
Singapore’s Darrell Ang is one of the world’s most lively up-and-coming conductors. Now he leads the Queensland Symphony Orchestra in a double bill of great nineteenth century romantic works based on the journeys of two of Byron’s wandering heroes, Harold and Manfred. Purchase tickets at brisbanefestival.com.au Dates: Wed 20 – Sat 23 Sept @ 7PM Cost: A-Reserve Adult $117 Concession^ $96.50 Student^^ $50 Family^^^ $284 B-Reserve Adult $97 Concession^ $85.50 Student^^ $50 Family^^^ $244 Venue: QPAC - Concert Hall Corner Grey and Melbourne Streets Queensland Performing Arts Centre South Bank QLD 4101
Find out more »In Between Two
Celebrated Asian-Australian Hip Hop artists, Joel Ma and James Mangohig share their stories growing up in Howard's Australia: underscored with humour and rap beats that resonate with Asian Australian youth today. Produced by CAAP (Contemporary Asian Australian Performance). On Tour NOW - 15 OCT.
Find out more »Stir Fry – Fringe Festival Satellites
A two-part performance that connects audiences with characters in unexpected ways, Free Theatre’s Stir Fry, is set at a Multicultural Day event where circumstances lead to a clash of beliefs, identities and prejudices between six characters. WHEN: Monday 25 September and Tuesday 26 September, 7.00 pm. VENUE: FCAC Performance Space COST: Full $18.00 / Concession $15.00 / Group +6 $15.00 each BOOK NOW: www.melbournefringe.com.au/event/stir-fry Presented as part of Melbourne Fringe Festival. Performed by Free Theatre.
Find out more »Hawa (Hatch Theatrics) – Singapore – Australian Premiere
Siti, a recent convert to Islam, is suddenly tasked with overseeing the funeral arrangements of her close friend and companion. While preparations are being made for the last rites a charming stranger arrives unexpectedly. Even as Siti grieves, she has to contend with the societal forces that threaten to deny her of her own existence. Performed in English and Malay with English surtitles. Purchase tickets at brisbanefestival.com.au Dates: Wed 27 – Fri 29 Sept @ 7PM & Sat 30 Sept @ 3PM Cost: Adult - $29 Concession - $19.90 Venue: Theatre Republic - The Loft The Loft (Building Z2), QUT Creative Industries Musk Avenue KELVIN GROVE QLD 4059
Find out more »Under Siege (Yang Liping Contemporary Dance) (China)
Dates: Wed 27- Fri 29 Sept @ 7:30PM Thu 28 Sept @ 9:20PM (post show Q&A) A climatic battle between the Chu and Han armies – an encounter that changed the course of Chinese history. A love story between a besieged warlord Xiang Yu and his self-sacrificing concubine that would transcend death. Ambition. Loyalty. Treachery. The might of empires. The power of sacrifice. Purchase tickets at brisbanefestival.com.au Sat 30 Sept @ 8PM Cost: Premium Adult $65 A-Reserve Adult $55 Concession $49 Groups 6 to 10 $49 B-Reserve Adult $49 Concession $45 Venue: QPAC - Playhouse Corner Grey and Melbourne Streets Queensland Performing Arts Centre SOUTH BANK QLD 4101
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