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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…
Spare Parts Puppet Theatre: The Whale at Joondalup Festival 2026
Tom Simpson Park 5 Oceanside Promenade, Mullaloo
Imagine standing beneath a magnificent giant whale floating through the air, its huge body moving gracefully above you as you help bring it to life with your own hands. That’s the wonder waiting for you at Tom Simpson Park with this larger-than-life puppet experience at Joondalup Festival! Created by Spare…
Manly Writers’ Festival: Manly Writers’ Festival 2026
Manly Kangaroo Street, Manly NSW, Australia, Sydney
Featuring leading, local, and emerging authors across fiction, non-fiction, politics, history, memoir, and poetry, the Festival offers a wide range of sessions designed to inform, challenge, and entertain. There is also a dedicated Schools Program. Program highlights include the inaugural Thomas Keneally Oration, Beyond the Hot Flush: Rewriting Midlife with…
Editor's Choice
María Dueñas
Sydney Symphony Orchestra: Saint-Saëns’ Organ Symphony
Sydney Opera House Sydney
Celebrated young Spanish violinist María Dueñas makes her Australian debut in two major orchestral appearances with the Melbourne and Sydney Symphony Orchestras. She first joins the MSO under Chief Conductor Jaime Martín in Beethoven’s Violin Concerto, paired with the Australian premiere of Melody Eötvös’s The Deciding Machine and Strauss’s Also sprach Zarathustra.…
Australasian Dance Collective: Code of Conduct
Level 20, 300 George Street
Work like a dog. A darkly comic critique on ambition, exhaustion and replaceability, Code of Conduct invites audiences into a world where canine obedience and human productivity is measured against the impossible efficiency of technology. Following the sold out success of Relic, Australasian Dance Collective's latest site-specific work takes over Level…
Sydney Symphony Orchestra: Saint-Saëns’ Organ Symphony
Sydney Opera House Sydney
Celebrated young Spanish violinist María Dueñas makes her Australian debut in two major orchestral appearances with the Melbourne and Sydney Symphony Orchestras. She first joins the MSO under Chief Conductor Jaime Martín in Beethoven’s Violin Concerto, paired with the Australian premiere of Melody Eötvös’s The Deciding Machine and Strauss’s Also…
Dancenorth Australia: Lighting the Dark
Geelong Arts Centre 81 Ryrie Street, Geelong
Lighting the Dark is a bold new work by Chris Dyke, a Kaurna (Adelaide) based dancer and choreographer living with Down syndrome. With the mesmerising Dancenorth Ensemble by his side, Chris leads the way, transforming the stage into a portal where love and light illuminate the darkness. A masterpiece of…
Theatre Works: Beyond The Neck
Theatre Works St Kilda
Based on real accounts from people affected by the Port Arthur massacre, Beyond The Neck is a profoundly moving portrait of a community learning to live beyond trauma. Humour flickers through the darkness. Kindness sits beside pain. Creating a space for stillness, breath and hope, and a reminder that healing…
Editor's Choice
RBG – Of Many, One
Black Swan State Theatre Company: RBG: Of Many, One
Heath Ledger Theatre 174 William St, Perth
After a triumphant premiere at Sydney Theatre Company in 2022, and a sold-out national tour in 2024, legendary Australian actor Heather Mitchell returns to the smash-hit play RBG: Of Many, One. Written by Suzie Miller (Prima Facie), it traces the life and trailblazing career of the indomitable Ruth Bader Ginsburg,…
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra: Stravinsky & Chindamo
Hamer Hall 100 St Kilda Rd, Southbank
Prepare to use your imagination in weird and wonderful ways. When French composer Maurice Ravel wrote his ethereal Pavane pour une infante défunte, he’d been dreaming of the long-lost melodies that may once have inspired a young Spanish princess to dance. Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring shares a French connection as it premiered…
Woodfordia Inc: Festival of Small Halls
Bungowannah Hall Chambers Rd, Bungowannah
Irish/Canadian powerhouse Irish Mythen is joined by South Australian troubadour Kaurna Cronin on the Festival of Small Halls Victorian Summer/Autumn Tour – and we’re headed to Foster for one night only.
Adelaide Symphony Orchestra: Water Music
St Peter's Cathedral 27 King William Road, North Adelaide
Under the majestic arches of St Peter’s Cathedral, Baroque music comes alive with clarity and charm. Handel’s Water Music sparkles with lively rhythms and regal fanfares, while Pisendel’s Imitation of the Characters of the Dance blends graceful dance themes with folk-like energy, painting a colourful portrait of 18th-century music under the expert direction of…
Adelaide Fringe: James Barr – Sorry I Hurt Your Son (Said My Ex To My Mum)
Gluttony, Rymill Park Rymill Park, Adelaide
Domestic abuse isn't funny, but this show is. Trailblazing gay UK comedian James Barr returns to Adelaide with a bold, 'genre-defying' (ArtsHub.com.au) stand-up hour about the things his ex-boyfriend did to him, including a pushy-wushy down the stairsy-wairsy. Nominee: ISH Edinburgh Comedy Awards Best Show, NextUp Biggest Award in Comedy…
Spare Parts Puppet Theatre: The Whale at Joondalup Festival 2026
Tom Simpson Park 5 Oceanside Promenade, Mullaloo
Imagine standing beneath a magnificent giant whale floating through the air, its huge body moving gracefully above you as you help bring it to life with your own hands. That’s the wonder waiting for you at Tom Simpson Park with this larger-than-life puppet experience at Joondalup Festival! Created by Spare…
Australasian Dance Collective: Code of Conduct
Level 20, 300 George Street
Work like a dog. A darkly comic critique on ambition, exhaustion and replaceability, Code of Conduct invites audiences into a world where canine obedience and human productivity is measured against the impossible efficiency of technology. Following the sold out success of Relic, Australasian Dance Collective's latest site-specific work takes over Level…
Manly Writers’ Festival: Manly Writers’ Festival 2026
Manly Kangaroo Street, Manly NSW, Australia, Sydney
Featuring leading, local, and emerging authors across fiction, non-fiction, politics, history, memoir, and poetry, the Festival offers a wide range of sessions designed to inform, challenge, and entertain. There is also a dedicated Schools Program. Program highlights include the inaugural Thomas Keneally Oration, Beyond the Hot Flush: Rewriting Midlife with…
Editor's Choice
María Dueñas
Sydney Symphony Orchestra: Saint-Saëns’ Organ Symphony
Sydney Opera House Sydney
Celebrated young Spanish violinist María Dueñas makes her Australian debut in two major orchestral appearances with the Melbourne and Sydney Symphony Orchestras. She first joins the MSO under Chief Conductor Jaime Martín in Beethoven’s Violin Concerto, paired with the Australian premiere of Melody Eötvös’s The Deciding Machine and Strauss’s Also sprach Zarathustra.…
Sydney Symphony Orchestra: Saint-Saëns’ Organ Symphony
Sydney Opera House Sydney
Celebrated young Spanish violinist María Dueñas makes her Australian debut in two major orchestral appearances with the Melbourne and Sydney Symphony Orchestras. She first joins the MSO under Chief Conductor Jaime Martín in Beethoven’s Violin Concerto, paired with the Australian premiere of Melody Eötvös’s The Deciding Machine and Strauss’s Also…
Dancenorth Australia: Lighting the Dark
Geelong Arts Centre 81 Ryrie Street, Geelong
Lighting the Dark is a bold new work by Chris Dyke, a Kaurna (Adelaide) based dancer and choreographer living with Down syndrome. With the mesmerising Dancenorth Ensemble by his side, Chris leads the way, transforming the stage into a portal where love and light illuminate the darkness. A masterpiece of…
Theatre Works: Beyond The Neck
Theatre Works St Kilda
Based on real accounts from people affected by the Port Arthur massacre, Beyond The Neck is a profoundly moving portrait of a community learning to live beyond trauma. Humour flickers through the darkness. Kindness sits beside pain. Creating a space for stillness, breath and hope, and a reminder that healing…
Editor's Choice
RBG – Of Many, One
Black Swan State Theatre Company: RBG: Of Many, One
Heath Ledger Theatre 174 William St, Perth
After a triumphant premiere at Sydney Theatre Company in 2022, and a sold-out national tour in 2024, legendary Australian actor Heather Mitchell returns to the smash-hit play RBG: Of Many, One. Written by Suzie Miller (Prima Facie), it traces the life and trailblazing career of the indomitable Ruth Bader Ginsburg,…
Adelaide Symphony Orchestra: Water Music
St Peter's Cathedral 27 King William Road, North Adelaide
Under the majestic arches of St Peter’s Cathedral, Baroque music comes alive with clarity and charm. Handel’s Water Music sparkles with lively rhythms and regal fanfares, while Pisendel’s Imitation of the Characters of the Dance blends graceful dance themes with folk-like energy, painting a colourful portrait of 18th-century music under the expert direction of…
Australasian Dance Collective: Code of Conduct
Level 20, 300 George Street
Work like a dog. A darkly comic critique on ambition, exhaustion and replaceability, Code of Conduct invites audiences into a world where canine obedience and human productivity is measured against the impossible efficiency of technology. Following the sold out success of Relic, Australasian Dance Collective's latest site-specific work takes over Level…
Adelaide Fringe: James Barr – Sorry I Hurt Your Son (Said My Ex To My Mum)
Gluttony, Rymill Park Rymill Park, Adelaide
Domestic abuse isn't funny, but this show is. Trailblazing gay UK comedian James Barr returns to Adelaide with a bold, 'genre-defying' (ArtsHub.com.au) stand-up hour about the things his ex-boyfriend did to him, including a pushy-wushy down the stairsy-wairsy. Nominee: ISH Edinburgh Comedy Awards Best Show, NextUp Biggest Award in Comedy…
Spare Parts Puppet Theatre: The Whale at Joondalup Festival 2026
Tom Simpson Park 5 Oceanside Promenade, Mullaloo
Imagine standing beneath a magnificent giant whale floating through the air, its huge body moving gracefully above you as you help bring it to life with your own hands. That’s the wonder waiting for you at Tom Simpson Park with this larger-than-life puppet experience at Joondalup Festival! Created by Spare…
Editor's Choice
María Dueñas
Sydney Symphony Orchestra: Saint-Saëns’ Organ Symphony
Sydney Opera House Sydney
Celebrated young Spanish violinist María Dueñas makes her Australian debut in two major orchestral appearances with the Melbourne and Sydney Symphony Orchestras. She first joins the MSO under Chief Conductor Jaime Martín in Beethoven’s Violin Concerto, paired with the Australian premiere of Melody Eötvös’s The Deciding Machine and Strauss’s Also sprach Zarathustra.…
Sydney Symphony Orchestra: Saint-Saëns’ Organ Symphony
Sydney Opera House Sydney
Celebrated young Spanish violinist María Dueñas makes her Australian debut in two major orchestral appearances with the Melbourne and Sydney Symphony Orchestras. She first joins the MSO under Chief Conductor Jaime Martín in Beethoven’s Violin Concerto, paired with the Australian premiere of Melody Eötvös’s The Deciding Machine and Strauss’s Also…
Australasian Dance Collective: Code of Conduct
Level 20, 300 George Street
Work like a dog. A darkly comic critique on ambition, exhaustion and replaceability, Code of Conduct invites audiences into a world where canine obedience and human productivity is measured against the impossible efficiency of technology. Following the sold out success of Relic, Australasian Dance Collective's latest site-specific work takes over Level…
Manly Writers’ Festival: Manly Writers’ Festival 2026
Manly Kangaroo Street, Manly NSW, Australia, Sydney
Featuring leading, local, and emerging authors across fiction, non-fiction, politics, history, memoir, and poetry, the Festival offers a wide range of sessions designed to inform, challenge, and entertain. There is also a dedicated Schools Program. Program highlights include the inaugural Thomas Keneally Oration, Beyond the Hot Flush: Rewriting Midlife with…
Theatre Works: Beyond The Neck
Theatre Works St Kilda
Based on real accounts from people affected by the Port Arthur massacre, Beyond The Neck is a profoundly moving portrait of a community learning to live beyond trauma. Humour flickers through the darkness. Kindness sits beside pain. Creating a space for stillness, breath and hope, and a reminder that healing…
Editor's Choice
RBG – Of Many, One
Black Swan State Theatre Company: RBG: Of Many, One
Heath Ledger Theatre 174 William St, Perth
After a triumphant premiere at Sydney Theatre Company in 2022, and a sold-out national tour in 2024, legendary Australian actor Heather Mitchell returns to the smash-hit play RBG: Of Many, One. Written by Suzie Miller (Prima Facie), it traces the life and trailblazing career of the indomitable Ruth Bader Ginsburg,…
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra: Stravinsky & Chindamo
Hamer Hall 100 St Kilda Rd, Southbank
Prepare to use your imagination in weird and wonderful ways. When French composer Maurice Ravel wrote his ethereal Pavane pour une infante défunte, he’d been dreaming of the long-lost melodies that may once have inspired a young Spanish princess to dance. Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring shares a French connection as it premiered…
Australasian Dance Collective: Code of Conduct
Level 20, 300 George Street
Work like a dog. A darkly comic critique on ambition, exhaustion and replaceability, Code of Conduct invites audiences into a world where canine obedience and human productivity is measured against the impossible efficiency of technology. Following the sold out success of Relic, Australasian Dance Collective's latest site-specific work takes over Level…
Adelaide Fringe: James Barr – Sorry I Hurt Your Son (Said My Ex To My Mum)
Gluttony, Rymill Park Rymill Park, Adelaide
Domestic abuse isn't funny, but this show is. Trailblazing gay UK comedian James Barr returns to Adelaide with a bold, 'genre-defying' (ArtsHub.com.au) stand-up hour about the things his ex-boyfriend did to him, including a pushy-wushy down the stairsy-wairsy. Nominee: ISH Edinburgh Comedy Awards Best Show, NextUp Biggest Award in Comedy…
Spare Parts Puppet Theatre: The Whale at Joondalup Festival 2026
Tom Simpson Park 5 Oceanside Promenade, Mullaloo
Imagine standing beneath a magnificent giant whale floating through the air, its huge body moving gracefully above you as you help bring it to life with your own hands. That’s the wonder waiting for you at Tom Simpson Park with this larger-than-life puppet experience at Joondalup Festival! Created by Spare…
Manly Writers’ Festival: Manly Writers’ Festival 2026
Manly Kangaroo Street, Manly NSW, Australia, Sydney
Featuring leading, local, and emerging authors across fiction, non-fiction, politics, history, memoir, and poetry, the Festival offers a wide range of sessions designed to inform, challenge, and entertain. There is also a dedicated Schools Program. Program highlights include the inaugural Thomas Keneally Oration, Beyond the Hot Flush: Rewriting Midlife with…
Theatre Works: Beyond The Neck
Theatre Works St Kilda
Based on real accounts from people affected by the Port Arthur massacre, Beyond The Neck is a profoundly moving portrait of a community learning to live beyond trauma. Humour flickers through the darkness. Kindness sits beside pain. Creating a space for stillness, breath and hope, and a reminder that healing…
Theatre Works: Beyond The Neck
Theatre Works St Kilda
Based on real accounts from people affected by the Port Arthur massacre, Beyond The Neck is a profoundly moving portrait of a community learning to live beyond trauma. Humour flickers through the darkness. Kindness sits beside pain. Creating a space for stillness, breath and hope, and a reminder that healing…
Australasian Dance Collective: Code of Conduct
Level 20, 300 George Street
Work like a dog. A darkly comic critique on ambition, exhaustion and replaceability, Code of Conduct invites audiences into a world where canine obedience and human productivity is measured against the impossible efficiency of technology. Following the sold out success of Relic, Australasian Dance Collective's latest site-specific work takes over Level…
Theatre Works: Beyond The Neck
Theatre Works St Kilda
Based on real accounts from people affected by the Port Arthur massacre, Beyond The Neck is a profoundly moving portrait of a community learning to live beyond trauma. Humour flickers through the darkness. Kindness sits beside pain. Creating a space for stillness, breath and hope, and a reminder that healing…
Editor's Choice
RBG – Of Many, One
Black Swan State Theatre Company: RBG: Of Many, One
Heath Ledger Theatre 174 William St, Perth
After a triumphant premiere at Sydney Theatre Company in 2022, and a sold-out national tour in 2024, legendary Australian actor Heather Mitchell returns to the smash-hit play RBG: Of Many, One. Written by Suzie Miller (Prima Facie), it traces the life and trailblazing career of the indomitable Ruth Bader Ginsburg,…
Australasian Dance Collective: Code of Conduct
Level 20, 300 George Street
Work like a dog. A darkly comic critique on ambition, exhaustion and replaceability, Code of Conduct invites audiences into a world where canine obedience and human productivity is measured against the impossible efficiency of technology. Following the sold out success of Relic, Australasian Dance Collective's latest site-specific work takes over Level…
Theatre Works: Beyond The Neck
Theatre Works St Kilda
Based on real accounts from people affected by the Port Arthur massacre, Beyond The Neck is a profoundly moving portrait of a community learning to live beyond trauma. Humour flickers through the darkness. Kindness sits beside pain. Creating a space for stillness, breath and hope, and a reminder that healing…
Editor's Choice
RBG – Of Many, One
Black Swan State Theatre Company: RBG: Of Many, One
Heath Ledger Theatre 174 William St, Perth
After a triumphant premiere at Sydney Theatre Company in 2022, and a sold-out national tour in 2024, legendary Australian actor Heather Mitchell returns to the smash-hit play RBG: Of Many, One. Written by Suzie Miller (Prima Facie), it traces the life and trailblazing career of the indomitable Ruth Bader Ginsburg,…
Australasian Dance Collective: Code of Conduct
Level 20, 300 George Street
Work like a dog. A darkly comic critique on ambition, exhaustion and replaceability, Code of Conduct invites audiences into a world where canine obedience and human productivity is measured against the impossible efficiency of technology. Following the sold out success of Relic, Australasian Dance Collective's latest site-specific work takes over Level…
Australasian Dance Collective: Code of Conduct
Level 20, 300 George Street
Work like a dog. A darkly comic critique on ambition, exhaustion and replaceability, Code of Conduct invites audiences into a world where canine obedience and human productivity is measured against the impossible efficiency of technology. Following the sold out success of Relic, Australasian Dance Collective's latest site-specific work takes over Level…
Theatre Works: Beyond The Neck
Theatre Works St Kilda
Based on real accounts from people affected by the Port Arthur massacre, Beyond The Neck is a profoundly moving portrait of a community learning to live beyond trauma. Humour flickers through the darkness. Kindness sits beside pain. Creating a space for stillness, breath and hope, and a reminder that healing…
Editor's Choice
RBG – Of Many, One
Black Swan State Theatre Company: RBG: Of Many, One
Heath Ledger Theatre 174 William St, Perth
After a triumphant premiere at Sydney Theatre Company in 2022, and a sold-out national tour in 2024, legendary Australian actor Heather Mitchell returns to the smash-hit play RBG: Of Many, One. Written by Suzie Miller (Prima Facie), it traces the life and trailblazing career of the indomitable Ruth Bader Ginsburg,…
Australasian Dance Collective: Code of Conduct
Level 20, 300 George Street
Work like a dog. A darkly comic critique on ambition, exhaustion and replaceability, Code of Conduct invites audiences into a world where canine obedience and human productivity is measured against the impossible efficiency of technology. Following the sold out success of Relic, Australasian Dance Collective's latest site-specific work takes over Level…
Theatre Works: Beyond The Neck
Theatre Works St Kilda
Based on real accounts from people affected by the Port Arthur massacre, Beyond The Neck is a profoundly moving portrait of a community learning to live beyond trauma. Humour flickers through the darkness. Kindness sits beside pain. Creating a space for stillness, breath and hope, and a reminder that healing…
Theatre Works: Beyond The Neck
Theatre Works St Kilda
Based on real accounts from people affected by the Port Arthur massacre, Beyond The Neck is a profoundly moving portrait of a community learning to live beyond trauma. Humour flickers through the darkness. Kindness sits beside pain. Creating a space for stillness, breath and hope, and a reminder that healing…
Theatre Works: Beyond The Neck
Theatre Works St Kilda
Based on real accounts from people affected by the Port Arthur massacre, Beyond The Neck is a profoundly moving portrait of a community learning to live beyond trauma. Humour flickers through the darkness. Kindness sits beside pain. Creating a space for stillness, breath and hope, and a reminder that healing…
Editor's Choice
RBG – Of Many, One
Black Swan State Theatre Company: RBG: Of Many, One
Heath Ledger Theatre 174 William St, Perth
After a triumphant premiere at Sydney Theatre Company in 2022, and a sold-out national tour in 2024, legendary Australian actor Heather Mitchell returns to the smash-hit play RBG: Of Many, One. Written by Suzie Miller (Prima Facie), it traces the life and trailblazing career of the indomitable Ruth Bader Ginsburg,…
Theatre Works: Beyond The Neck
Theatre Works St Kilda
Based on real accounts from people affected by the Port Arthur massacre, Beyond The Neck is a profoundly moving portrait of a community learning to live beyond trauma. Humour flickers through the darkness. Kindness sits beside pain. Creating a space for stillness, breath and hope, and a reminder that healing…
Theatre Works: Beyond The Neck
Theatre Works St Kilda
Based on real accounts from people affected by the Port Arthur massacre, Beyond The Neck is a profoundly moving portrait of a community learning to live beyond trauma. Humour flickers through the darkness. Kindness sits beside pain. Creating a space for stillness, breath and hope, and a reminder that healing…
Editor's Choice
RBG – Of Many, One
Black Swan State Theatre Company: RBG: Of Many, One
Heath Ledger Theatre 174 William St, Perth
After a triumphant premiere at Sydney Theatre Company in 2022, and a sold-out national tour in 2024, legendary Australian actor Heather Mitchell returns to the smash-hit play RBG: Of Many, One. Written by Suzie Miller (Prima Facie), it traces the life and trailblazing career of the indomitable Ruth Bader Ginsburg,…
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