• There Is Nothing Like A Game!

    Adelaide Cabaret Festival: There Is Nothing Like A Game!

    Adelaide Festival Centre Adelaide, SA, Australia
    Beloved cabaret star and musical comedian Gillian Cosgriff (Thank God You’re Here, Spicks and Specks) brings you a late-night show like no other. Sure, there’ll be killer music and special guests, but finally you, the audience, will have a chance to be part of the late night chaos. Quizzes, games,…
    La Danse Macabre

    Dark Mofo: La Danse Macabre

    Dark Park 41 Evans St, Hobart, TAS
    A blistering allegory of capitalist apathy: Comte’s video work depicts two pianists performing Saint-Saëns’ symphonic meditation on death, while a wooden sculpture is consumed by flames and a motocross rider jumps through the inferno.

    Dark Mofo: Alabaster DePlume

    Odeon Theatre, Hobart 167 Liverpool Street, Hobart, TAS, Australia
    The Mancunian saxophonist and poet transmits sonorous gems in warm waves.

    Dark Mofo: Berlin Atonal – Nox Omnia II

    The Playhouse Theatre 106 Bathurst Street, Hobart, TAS, Australia
    A sit-down journey of hypnagogic, experimental soundscapes curated by the German capital’s venerated music festival.

    Adelaide Cabaret Festival: Jessica Mauboy

    Adelaide Festival Centre Adelaide, SA, Australia
    Get ready for an intimate night with Jessica Mauboy in The Story of Me. From Darwin girl to Australian icon, Jessica shares her extraordinary journey through music and stories, spanning her rise to fame, career challenges, and personal triumphs. Experience heartfelt ballads, reimagined classics, and powerhouse anthems as she opens…
    The Selkie Project

    Liminal Theatre: The Selkie Project

    Theatre Works St Kilda, VIC, Australia
    The Selkie: creature of myth; a seal who removes her sealskin to enjoy the pleasures of the human body for a night. But when the man she meets steals her sealskin, she is imprisoned on land. Grotesquely animal, bewildered by the human world, she is trapped in the wrong skins…

    UKARIA: Mama Kin with Iain Grandage

    Ukaria Cultural Centre 119 Williams Rd, Mt Barker Summit, SA, Australia
    ‘Mama Kin is one of Australia’s most charismatic and compelling performers. Revered for her richly evocative voice, she creates music that is imbued with a wonderfully organic rhythmic momentum. Hers are songs that connect worlds and conjure deep human emotion, centred around her profound storytelling gifts. Her music has taken…
    Editor's Choice To The Silent Earth, I Flow

    Dark Mofo: To The Silent Earth, I Flow

    Odeon Theatre, Hobart 167 Liverpool Street, Hobart, TAS, Australia
    Robert Ames, Co-Artistic Director and conductor of the London Contemporary Orchestra, curates this symphony of abstract waterscapes, prefaced by the final stanza of Rainer Maria Rilke’s Let This Darkness Be a Bell Tower: “And if the world has ceased to hear you, / say to the silent earth: I flow. /…

    Dark Mofo: Machine Girl

    Odeon Theatre, Hobart 167 Liverpool Street, Hobart, TAS, Australia
    Furious digital hardcore for the collapse of civilisation.

    Dark Mofo: Forest Swords

    Altar Bar 112 Murray St, Hobart, TAS, Australia
    Immersive electronic landscapes from the post-industrial guts of Liverpool.
    There Is Nothing Like A Game!

    Adelaide Cabaret Festival: There Is Nothing Like A Game!

    Adelaide Festival Centre Adelaide, SA, Australia
    Beloved cabaret star and musical comedian Gillian Cosgriff (Thank God You’re Here, Spicks and Specks) brings you a late-night show like no other. Sure, there’ll be killer music and special guests, but finally you, the audience, will have a chance to be part of the late night chaos. Quizzes, games,…

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