28 events found.
All Day
There is something hauntingly beautiful happening at Sir James McCusker Park – 52 crystalline human figures rising from the water, swaying with every breath of wind, changing with every shift of light, brought to life by Joondalup Festival. Crystal People is a meditation on community, transformation and our connection to…
Australian National Academy of Music: ANAM Recital – Stephanie Sheridan
Abbotsford Convent 1 St Heliers St, Abbotsford
As a musician’s instrumental proficiency develops, so too does their artistic taste and temperament. Each ANAM musician’s recital is a snapshot in time – simultaneously summarising their year of training and revealing glimpses of their future selves. What music excites them? What do they want to communicate? How does their…
melody: I’m Gay But I Know Jesus
Dom Polski Centre 232 Angas St, Adelaide
Hey, I’m Melody. Gay, Christian, and somehow still on speaking terms with Jesus. I came out at 15, and the church totally freaked out. Then I slept with a woman, had a chat with God, and it turns out He’s totally cool with it. Part stand-up, part confession, part chaotic…
Opera Queensland: Solo Vocal Workshop – Opera & Classical
Opera Queensland Studio South Bank
Are you ready to take your vocal skills to the next level? This workshop is for singers aged over 18 with solo experience. Collaborate with Opera Queensland’s leading principal performers and seasoned pianists during a group session where you present and polish a solo operatic or classical vocal piece of your…
Phoenix Central Park: Hand to Earth Ŋurru Wäŋa
Phoenix Central Park 37-49 O'Connor St,, Chippendale
In Hand to Earth, Yolŋu song keepers Daniel and David Wilfred recontextualise their 40,000 year old song tradition in a resolutely contemporary setting with Korean-born vocalist Sunny Kim, trumpet and electronics maestro Peter Knight, and woodwind virtuoso Aviva Endean. Hand to Earth, has quickly developed an international reputation as one…
Emma Knights: H.M.S. Pinafore
Piccadilly Cinemas 181 O'Connell St, North Adelaide
The rulers of the Queen's Navee are back for a 2nd year! H.M.S. Pinafore; or, The Lass That Loved a Sailor, is a comic opera in two acts (we perform it in one!), with music by Arthur Sullivan and a libretto by W. S. Gilbert. Directed by Andy Turner, a…
Collective Disorder: Undertow
21 Shepherd 21 Shepherd St, Marrickville
A performance by Collective Disorder (previously Chronology Arts Collective). With Elizabeth Jigalin, Gideon Payten-Griffiths, Nikki Heywood, Ryuichi Fujimura and Stephen Adams. Experience the latest improvised performance from Collective Disorder: Undertow quietly traces increments of change__erupting currents__underscoring an inertia of rolling waves__we invite you to witness Live Composition__at play with elements…
Live At Yours: Sergej Krylov x Konstantin Shamray
The Great Synagogue 187 Elizabeth St, Sydney
Live at Yours opens its 2026 season in luminous style — within the mood-lit splendour of Toorak Synagogue, where golden arches and soft shadows create an atmosphere of quiet wonder. Italian-based violinist Sergej Krylov, hailed by Mstislav Rostropovich as one of the five greatest violinists in the world, joins Konstantin Shamray, a Live at Yours…
Australian Haydn Ensemble: Mozart’s Spring
Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank
★★★★1/2 "...elegance, invention and emotional depth.” Limelight, 2025 The Australian Haydn Ensemble opens the 2026 season with Haydn’s chirpy and charming quartet Op. 33 No. 3, known as the "Bird". Named after an unidentified avian, it features a spirited finale and a second movement that’s wild even by Haydn’s standards!…
Darebin Arts Speakeasy: Mature Skin
Northcote Town Hall Arts Centre 189 High Street, Northcote, Melbourne
A disgustingly sexy rom-vom Breakout trans playwright Gabrielle Fallen and acclaimed queer indie theatre director Justin Nott have teamed up for the premiere production of a salacious new comedy that's as funny as it is dark, and as sick as it is sensual. Two strangers meet in a nightclub bathroom.…
The Street Theatre: Ganavya
The Street Theatre 15 Childers St, Canberra
One of modern music’s most compelling performers, New York-born, Tamil Nadu-raised singer and trans disciplinarian Ganavya blends spiritual jazz, Indian devotional traditions and ambient textures for a sound that transcends time and space, at once capable of lifting audiences to a higher state and moving them to tears. After enchanting…
Phoenix Central Park: Hand to Earth Ŋurru Wäŋa
Phoenix Central Park 37-49 O'Connor St,, Chippendale
In Hand to Earth, Yolŋu song keepers Daniel and David Wilfred recontextualise their 40,000 year old song tradition in a resolutely contemporary setting with Korean-born vocalist Sunny Kim, trumpet and electronics maestro Peter Knight, and woodwind virtuoso Aviva Endean. Hand to Earth, has quickly developed an international reputation as one…
melody: I’m Gay But I Know Jesus
Dom Polski Centre 232 Angas St, Adelaide
Hey, I’m Melody. Gay, Christian, and somehow still on speaking terms with Jesus. I came out at 15, and the church totally freaked out. Then I slept with a woman, had a chat with God, and it turns out He’s totally cool with it. Part stand-up, part confession, part chaotic…
Collective Disorder: Undertow
21 Shepherd 21 Shepherd St, Marrickville
A performance by Collective Disorder (previously Chronology Arts Collective). With Elizabeth Jigalin, Gideon Payten-Griffiths, Nikki Heywood, Ryuichi Fujimura and Stephen Adams. Experience the latest improvised performance from Collective Disorder: Undertow quietly traces increments of change__erupting currents__underscoring an inertia of rolling waves__we invite you to witness Live Composition__at play with elements…
Live At Yours: Sergej Krylov x Konstantin Shamray
The Great Synagogue 187 Elizabeth St, Sydney
Live at Yours opens its 2026 season in luminous style — within the mood-lit splendour of Toorak Synagogue, where golden arches and soft shadows create an atmosphere of quiet wonder. Italian-based violinist Sergej Krylov, hailed by Mstislav Rostropovich as one of the five greatest violinists in the world, joins Konstantin Shamray, a Live at Yours…
Darebin Arts Speakeasy: Mature Skin
Northcote Town Hall Arts Centre 189 High Street, Northcote, Melbourne
A disgustingly sexy rom-vom Breakout trans playwright Gabrielle Fallen and acclaimed queer indie theatre director Justin Nott have teamed up for the premiere production of a salacious new comedy that's as funny as it is dark, and as sick as it is sensual. Two strangers meet in a nightclub bathroom.…
melody: I’m Gay But I Know Jesus
Dom Polski Centre 232 Angas St, Adelaide
Hey, I’m Melody. Gay, Christian, and somehow still on speaking terms with Jesus. I came out at 15, and the church totally freaked out. Then I slept with a woman, had a chat with God, and it turns out He’s totally cool with it. Part stand-up, part confession, part chaotic…
Darebin Arts Speakeasy: Mature Skin
Northcote Town Hall Arts Centre 189 High Street, Northcote, Melbourne
A disgustingly sexy rom-vom Breakout trans playwright Gabrielle Fallen and acclaimed queer indie theatre director Justin Nott have teamed up for the premiere production of a salacious new comedy that's as funny as it is dark, and as sick as it is sensual. Two strangers meet in a nightclub bathroom.…
melody: I’m Gay But I Know Jesus
Dom Polski Centre 232 Angas St, Adelaide
Hey, I’m Melody. Gay, Christian, and somehow still on speaking terms with Jesus. I came out at 15, and the church totally freaked out. Then I slept with a woman, had a chat with God, and it turns out He’s totally cool with it. Part stand-up, part confession, part chaotic…
Darebin Arts Speakeasy: Mature Skin
Northcote Town Hall Arts Centre 189 High Street, Northcote, Melbourne
A disgustingly sexy rom-vom Breakout trans playwright Gabrielle Fallen and acclaimed queer indie theatre director Justin Nott have teamed up for the premiere production of a salacious new comedy that's as funny as it is dark, and as sick as it is sensual. Two strangers meet in a nightclub bathroom.…
Darebin Arts Speakeasy: Mature Skin
Northcote Town Hall Arts Centre 189 High Street, Northcote, Melbourne
A disgustingly sexy rom-vom Breakout trans playwright Gabrielle Fallen and acclaimed queer indie theatre director Justin Nott have teamed up for the premiere production of a salacious new comedy that's as funny as it is dark, and as sick as it is sensual. Two strangers meet in a nightclub bathroom.…
melody: I’m Gay But I Know Jesus
Dom Polski Centre 232 Angas St, Adelaide
Hey, I’m Melody. Gay, Christian, and somehow still on speaking terms with Jesus. I came out at 15, and the church totally freaked out. Then I slept with a woman, had a chat with God, and it turns out He’s totally cool with it. Part stand-up, part confession, part chaotic…
Darebin Arts Speakeasy: Mature Skin
Northcote Town Hall Arts Centre 189 High Street, Northcote, Melbourne
A disgustingly sexy rom-vom Breakout trans playwright Gabrielle Fallen and acclaimed queer indie theatre director Justin Nott have teamed up for the premiere production of a salacious new comedy that's as funny as it is dark, and as sick as it is sensual. Two strangers meet in a nightclub bathroom.…
Darebin Arts Speakeasy: Mature Skin
Northcote Town Hall Arts Centre 189 High Street, Northcote, Melbourne
A disgustingly sexy rom-vom Breakout trans playwright Gabrielle Fallen and acclaimed queer indie theatre director Justin Nott have teamed up for the premiere production of a salacious new comedy that's as funny as it is dark, and as sick as it is sensual. Two strangers meet in a nightclub bathroom.…
Darebin Arts Speakeasy: Mature Skin
Northcote Town Hall Arts Centre 189 High Street, Northcote, Melbourne
A disgustingly sexy rom-vom Breakout trans playwright Gabrielle Fallen and acclaimed queer indie theatre director Justin Nott have teamed up for the premiere production of a salacious new comedy that's as funny as it is dark, and as sick as it is sensual. Two strangers meet in a nightclub bathroom.…
Darebin Arts Speakeasy: Mature Skin
Northcote Town Hall Arts Centre 189 High Street, Northcote, Melbourne
A disgustingly sexy rom-vom Breakout trans playwright Gabrielle Fallen and acclaimed queer indie theatre director Justin Nott have teamed up for the premiere production of a salacious new comedy that's as funny as it is dark, and as sick as it is sensual. Two strangers meet in a nightclub bathroom.…
Darebin Arts Speakeasy: Mature Skin
Northcote Town Hall Arts Centre 189 High Street, Northcote, Melbourne
A disgustingly sexy rom-vom Breakout trans playwright Gabrielle Fallen and acclaimed queer indie theatre director Justin Nott have teamed up for the premiere production of a salacious new comedy that's as funny as it is dark, and as sick as it is sensual. Two strangers meet in a nightclub bathroom.…
Opera Queensland: Solo Vocal Workshop – Opera & Classical
Opera Queensland Studio South Bank
Are you ready to take your vocal skills to the next level? This workshop is for singers aged over 18 with solo experience. Collaborate with Opera Queensland’s leading principal performers and seasoned pianists during a group session where you present and polish a solo operatic or classical vocal piece of your…
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