Begin your festival weekend with an intimate morning of storytelling, culture, and connection at Festival Conversations. This special event brings together three remarkable literary voices whose work explores music, resilience, and the power of language to shape understanding. Dr (Aunty) Hope O’Chin, a Kabi-Kabi, Wakka-Wakka, Koa, and Gugu-Yalanji Elder, shares…

Close your festival weekend with an inspiring morning of words, music, and storytelling. Festival Conversations brings together three distinctive literary voices whose work spans memoir, culture, resilience, and creativity. Ed Le Brocq, musician, broadcaster, and author of five acclaimed books including Cadence and Danger Music, shares stories from a remarkable…

Australian Women in Music Awards (AWMA) celebrates and recognises the vast achievements and contribution of female and gender diverse artists and music practitioners across all genres of music and all areas of the Australian music industry. Featuring performances from some of Australia’s top female artists and musicians, a dynamic thought…

In modern Chinese history, composers were dislocated by war, exile, studies abroad, competing ideologies, and the Cultural Revolution, and expressed their cultural and ideological constructions of home, isolation, and war resistance, while being caught in intersecting webs of forces that compelled them through both coercion and affiliation. “Heaviness,” in this…

Acclaimed pianist Quang Hong Luu presents a special masterclass. This is a unique opportunity to gain invaluable insights into the artistry behind a captivating performance. Beyond the concert stage, Quang will work with young pianists, sharing his philosophy on musical mastery and professional artistry. "His level of pianistic professionalism is…