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Event Series RISING 2024

RISING Festival: Good Morning

Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
Stalwarts of the indie underground, worldwide. The high school friends-turned-band-mates Stefan Blair and Liam Parsons now live in Los Angeles and London, respectively. But they’re playing a rare hometown show at the Melbourne Recital Centre for RISING. It’s an acoustically deluxe venue befitting the orchestral sounds and crackles on Seven,…
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Festival of Voices: Dream a Little Dream

St David's Cathedral 120 Macquarie Street, Hobart, TAS, Australia
The Tasmanian celebration of all things vocal features hundreds of performers from Australia and overseas. Traditional and contemporary works rub shoulders with cabaret and educational workshops, while headline acts include Sydney’s The Song Company and the Canberra-based Luminescence Chamber Singers. Choral highlights include a program of women’s song hosted at…
Event Series RISING 2024

RISING Festival: Library Up Late x Rennie Ellis

State Library Victoria 328 Swanston Street, Melbourne, VIC
Spend your Friday night under the famous SLV dome when Library up Late turns up the volume in one of Victoria’s most iconic buildings. Curated by MzRizk and inspired by SLV’s latest exhibition Melbourne Out Loud: Life through the lens of Rennie Ellis, Library up Late promises a night of…
Event Series Sunshine Coast Chamber Music Festival

Sunshine Coast Chamber Music Festival: Welcome Ceremony

Buderim Village Park 5 Church St,, Buderim, QLD, Australia
Join us in Buderim Village Park at dusk to pay our respects to the Traditional Custodians of the waterways, coastal plains and hinterlands of the Sunshine Coast - the Kabi Kabi and Jinibara peoples. Led by our Festival Elder, Aunty Helena Gulash, and an outstanding line-up of performers, this special…
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Adelaide Cabaret Festival: The 2024 Variety Gala

Adelaide Festival Centre Adelaide, SA, Australia
The first program under new Artistic Director Virginia Gay opens with the traditional Variety Gala, and with 79 performances over 12 nights, there’s plenty to choose from. Headline artist Patti LuPone performs her new show A Life in Notes, which she will then tour. (Read our feature on page 24.) In an…
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Adelaide Cabaret Festival: Mahalia Barnes & The Soul Mates

Adelaide Festival Centre Adelaide, SA, Australia
The first program under new Artistic Director Virginia Gay opens with the traditional Variety Gala, and with 79 performances over 12 nights, there’s plenty to choose from. Headline artist Patti LuPone performs her new show A Life in Notes, which she will then tour. (Read our feature on page 24.) In an…
Event Series MULTIPLE BAD THINGS

Back to Back Theatre: MULTIPLE BAD THINGS

Malthouse Theatre 113 Sturt St, Southbank, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
At a time like this, in a placeless warehouse, three employees approach a possibly pointless task. Struggling to work together, they grapple with questions of inclusion, identity and intersectionality. They are forced to test the limits of their bodies, their cooperation and their capacity to care. Civility slips, bad behaviour…

HIP Company: With Darkness Deep

St Andrew's Anglican Church, Subiaco 259 Barker Road, Subiaco, WA, Australia
Come in from the cold as HIP Company returns to the serene surrounds of St Andrew's Church to present a programme of Baroque delights by Handel, Matthew Locke, Lully, Charpentier, and master of English song, Henry Purcell. This reverie on dreams, rest and the magic of night-time will be sure…

Grigoryan Brothers: Amistad

Geelong West Town Hall 153 Pakington St,, Geelong West, VIC
With a repertoire spanning centuries, continents, and genres, displaying amazing telepathy and the ability to evoke emotion from every note, Slava & Leonard Grigoryan are justifiably regarded as Australia’s finest classical guitarists. Throughout their musical journey spanning over two decades, Slava and Leonard have forged connections with like-minded souls worldwide.…
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Adelaide Cabaret Festival: Jekyll & Hyde

Adelaide Festival Centre Adelaide, SA, Australia
The first program under new Artistic Director Virginia Gay opens with the traditional Variety Gala, and with 79 performances over 12 nights, there’s plenty to choose from. Headline artist Patti LuPone performs her new show A Life in Notes, which she will then tour. (Read our feature on page 24.) In an…
Event Series RISING 2024

RISING Festival: Tinariwen

Forum Melbourne 154 Flinders Street, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
In 1963 Tinariwen’s founder Ibrahim Ag Alhabib saw his father, a Turang rebel, executed by the Azawad government. Growing up between deserts and refugee camps of Algeria, Ibrahim was regarded as a wanderer. One day—inspired by a western at a makeshift cinema—he built his own guitar out of an oil…
Editor's Choice Event Series Libby O’Donovan

Adelaide Cabaret Festival: Libby O’Donovan

Adelaide Festival Centre Adelaide, SA, Australia
The first program under new Artistic Director Virginia Gay opens with the traditional Variety Gala, and with 79 performances over 12 nights, there’s plenty to choose from. Headline artist Patti LuPone performs her new show A Life in Notes, which she will then tour. (Read our feature on page 24.) In an…

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