Event Series Bright

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 The Purple Shall Govern

PICA: The Purple Shall Govern

Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts 51 James Street, Perth, WA, Australia
Artist Roberta Joy Rich delves into South Africa and Australia’s histories of segregation, oppression and resilience. Featuring archival material, Roberta asks, "How does power define public space?"

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…

Grande Experiences: Monet in Paris – The French Impressionists Alive

Crown Perth Great Eastern Hwy, Burswood, WA, Australia
Monet in Paris at Le Grand Palais welcomes you on a spellbinding journey through the vibrant world of French Impressionism. Daring, intriguing and uplifting, like the works of the Impressionists themselves, Monet in Paris invites you to leave the world behind as you step inside this fascinating period of modern…
Event Series Noongar Storytime

City of Melville: Noongar Storytime

AH Bracks Library Cnr Stock Rd and Canning Hwy, Melville, WA, Australia
Join Rickeeta Walley for Noongar Storytime every Thursday. For ages 2-5, this free weekly program introduces simple Noongar language, engaging children's imaginations by using traditional storytelling and creative play. No bookings required.
Event Series Beguiling

Dr Lisa Anderson: Beguiling

Victorian Pride Centre 79/81 Fitzroy St, St Kilda, VIC, Australia
Beguiling is a multimedia exhibition, including both images and videos, by internationally renowned Australian artist Dr Lisa Anderson which explores the parallel elements of beauty and destruction through the Anthropocene. The photographs, captured over many years including from visits to the Artic and Antarctic, have been altered through scarring with…
Event Series Hannaford and Big hART

Big hART: Hannaford and Big hART

Royal SA Society of Arts Gallery Level 1, Institute Building, CRN North Terrace and Kintore Avenue, Adelaide, SA, Australia
Welcome to the art exhibition, 'Hannaford and Big hART.' 2023 is Big hART’s 30th year. Across that time, artist Robert Hannaford has been painting portraits of our participants, from all walks of life, and places around Australia. This new exhibition features 30 Hannaford portraits created during his time working on…
Editor's Choice Event Series The Master & Margarita

Belvoir St Theatre: The Master & Margarita

Belvoir St Theatre 25 Belvoir St, Sydney, NSW, Australia
An actor enters with a battered copy of Mikhail Bulgakov’s novel The Master and Margarita and begins to read aloud from the opening chapter . . . Written in secret in the Soviet Union between 1928 and 1940, during Stalin’s regime, Bulgakov’s manuscript wasn’t published as a book until 1967 in Paris. Now regarded…
Event Series York Botanic Art Prize

Gallery 152: York Botanic Art Prize

Gallery 152 152 Avon Terrace, York, WA, Australia
The York Botanic Art Prize is Australia’s only contemporary botanic art prize, inviting artists Australia-wide, to push the concept of botanic art beyond pure representation. Now in its third year, 47 finalists working across all media have been selected for the exhibition which feature Western Australian native flora. The York…
Event Series Lionheart

Omega Ensemble: Lionheart

Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
Turning the tide of contemporary musical aesthetics away from academic modernism, American composer John Adams’ music has played a decisive role and toward a more expansive, expressive contemporary musical language. Though misleading, Adams’ First Quartet is in fact his second for string quartet, although his first for the pure medium…
Editor's Choice Event Series The Ring Cycle I

Opera Australia: Götterdämmerung

QPAC Corner Melbourne St and Grey St, South Bank, QLD, Australia
Opera Australia’s new staging of Wagner’s epic tetralogy was one of the highest-profile victims of the global pandemic, but at last it’s here. Chen Shi-Zheng’s 2016 Turandot on Sydney Harbour proved that the Chinese director has plenty of visual resource, and this time he promises a tale of gods and monsters explored…
Editor's Choice

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra: Maria Callas: A Concert in Hologram

Arts Centre Melbourne Melbourne, VIC, Australia
See Maria Callas live! Well, almost. Celebrating the 100th anniversary of her birth (as well as EU-Australian cultural relations), the European Union presents the world’s greatest diva in Melbourne for one night only. Combining historical recordings, live music and the holographic wizardry of BASE Xperiential, Callas joins the MSO and maestro Daniel Schlosberg on stage to…

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