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.

National Celtic Folk Festival: National Celtic Folk Festival

Portarlington Newcomb Street, Portarlington, VIC, Australia
Get ready for a “Craicing” weekend packed with unforgettable moments at the National Celtic Folk Festival 2025, celebrating its 21st year of bringing the best of Celtic & Folk culture to Portarlington, Victoria. Set against the breathtaking backdrop of the Bellarine Peninsula in Victoria, the festival is more than just…

Dark Mofo: Rival Consoles – Landscape From Memory

Odeon Theatre, Hobart 167 Liverpool Street, Hobart, TAS, Australia
Waves of euphoric synth and deep ambience. The Australian premiere of a new audiovisual creation, performed live by the British electronic musician.

Dark Mofo: Keanu Nelson

The Playhouse Theatre 106 Bathurst Street, Hobart, TAS, Australia
Furious digital hardcore for the collapse of civilisation.Hailing from the remote community of Papunya, northwest of Alice Springs, the Luritja singer-songwriter spins revelatory audio portraits of place.
Editor's Choice Fat Pig

Forest Collective: Fat Pig

fortyfivedownstairs 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
How many insults must you endure before you stand up for the woman you love? American composer Matt Boehler and Australian librettist Miriam Gordon-Stewart’s adaptation turns Neil LaBute’s 2004 play from workplace rom-com into a black comedy of operatic proportions. When Tom falls for Helen, an intelligent and attractive woman…

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra: Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone™ in Concert

Arts Centre Melbourne Forecourt, 100 St Kilda Road, Southbank, VIC, Australia
Relive the magic of the film in high-definition while hearing the MSO perform John Williams’ unforgettable score live. In Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, Harry Potter learns on his 11th birthday that he is the orphaned son of two wizards and possesses magical powers of his own. At Hogwarts School of Witchcraft…
Jessica Pratt

Melbourne Recital Centre: Jessica Pratt

Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
Gorgeous folk music, beamed in from the dark side of the Californian dream. Beautiful and mysterious, Jessica Pratt only needs her nylon-stringed guitar and a mic to envelop you in a dream. Over the last 12 years, the Los Angeles artist has carved out a reputation as a singular voice…

Dark Mofo: Mong Tong

Altar Bar 112 Murray St, Hobart, TAS, Australia
Southeast Asian folklore meets dreamy psychedelia.

Dark Mofo: Clown Core

Odeon Theatre, Hobart 167 Liverpool Street, Hobart, TAS, Australia
A breakneck fusion of jazz, extreme metal and absurdist mayhem.

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra: Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone™ in Concert

Arts Centre Melbourne Forecourt, 100 St Kilda Road, Southbank, VIC, Australia
Relive the magic of the film in high-definition while hearing the MSO perform John Williams’ unforgettable score live. In Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, Harry Potter learns on his 11th birthday that he is the orphaned son of two wizards and possesses magical powers of his own. At Hogwarts School of Witchcraft…
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: Jessica Pratt

Odeon Theatre, Hobart 167 Liverpool Street, Hobart, TAS, Australia
Dream-spun folk reveries. The LA songstress and her ensemble summon sonic apparitions from the shadows of California's psychedelic past.

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