Event Series Bright

Footscray Community Arts: Bright

Footscray Community Arts 45 Moreland Street, Footscray, VIC, Australia
Footscray Community Arts presents Bright – a joyful art exhibition that ignites the senses, inviting audiences to touch, explore and connect from 10 October to 12 December 2023. The exhibition’s radical curatorial process brings together five installations without a defined beginning or end, each beckoning the artlover to interact with…
Event Series Possum Magic

Monkey Baa Theatre Company: Possum Magic

Wagga Wagga Civic Theatre Tarcutta Street, Wagga Wagga, NSW, Australia
Mem Fox and Julie Vivas’ beloved picture book ‘Possum Magic’has enchanted children for decades and Monkey Baa Theatre Company brings the paper and ink to life on stage once again! Using a clever, nuanced palette of live action, stage magic, an original soundscape, elements of puppetry and projected animation, Monkey…
Event Series Why Us

Treehouse Theatre: Why Us

Seymour Centre Chippendale, NSW, Australia
War rips your world apart, shredding your life in a flash of violence and leaving your family adrift without any place to call home. You have a new name now—refugee—and a new life to construct. Treehouse Theatre presents Why Us?, the real-life stories of teenage refugees who are learning to call…

Maningrida Arts and Culture: mane djang karirra: the place where the dreaming changed shape

Flinders University Museum of Art Flinders University, Sturt Road, Bedford Park, SA, Australia
An exquisite collection of 48 works spotlighting contemporary painting practice in central and western Arnhem Land and the recent rise and recognition of women in this realm. It comprises paintings on bark and on carved and woven objects, featuring imagery that has its roots in ancient rock art and ceremonial…

City of Melville: Noongar Storytime

AH Bracks Library Cnr Stock Rd and Canning Hwy, Melville, WA, Australia
Join Rickeeta Walley for Noongar Storytime every Thursday. For ages 2-5, this free weekly program introduces simple Noongar language, engaging children's imaginations by using traditional storytelling and creative play. No bookings required.

Ensemble Theatre: The Memory of Water

Ensemble Theatre Sydney, NSW, Australia
Winner of the Olivier Award for Best Comedy, Shelagh Stephenson’s poignant and painfully funny comedy is about conflicting memories, life and loss. Mary, Catherine and Teresa are sisters who share a common past. A world of disputed bicycles, midnight ice-cream sodas, cocktail dresses and their Mum’s perfumed advice. A seaside…

West Australian Symphony Orchestra: Beethoven’s Second Symphony – Morning

Perth Concert Hall 5 St Georges Terrace, Perth, WA, Australia
Following his outstanding debut in 2022, Umberto Clerici returns to WASO with a program of brilliant classics. With his Second Symphony, Beethoven put aside his inner turmoil to write music brimming with optimism and joy. From its boldly dramatic opening to its mischievous scherzo and boisterous conclusion, Beethoven’s breathtaking musical…
Event Series Why Us

Treehouse Theatre: Why Us

Seymour Centre Chippendale, NSW, Australia
War rips your world apart, shredding your life in a flash of violence and leaving your family adrift without any place to call home. You have a new name now—refugee—and a new life to construct. Treehouse Theatre presents Why Us?, the real-life stories of teenage refugees who are learning to call…
Event Series Possum Magic

Monkey Baa Theatre Company: Possum Magic

Wagga Wagga Civic Theatre Tarcutta Street, Wagga Wagga, NSW, Australia
Mem Fox and Julie Vivas’ beloved picture book ‘Possum Magic’has enchanted children for decades and Monkey Baa Theatre Company brings the paper and ink to life on stage once again! Using a clever, nuanced palette of live action, stage magic, an original soundscape, elements of puppetry and projected animation, Monkey…
Event Series A Little Night Music

Hayes Theatre Co: A Little Night Music

Hayes Theatre Co 19 Greenknowe Avenue, Elizabeth Bay, NSW, Australia
Winner of the Tony Award for Best Musical, Sondheim’s A Little Night Music  is a wonderfully witty and deeply moving romance, exploring desire, passion and regret. Be swept away by classic songs like “A Weekend in the Country”, “The Miller’s Son” and the iconic and pensive “Send in the Clowns”. Just…
Event Series Final Statements

Selby & Friends: Final Statements

Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
This extraordinary final program for the 2023 Season brings together two highly accomplished guest artists of the younger generation who are making great waves now they are back in Australia – the brilliant violinist Ike See, previously Assoc. Concertmaster of the Adelaide Symphony and now a core member of the…

New Theatre: Loot

New Theatre 542 King St, Newtown, NSW
“Euthanasia is against my religion so I decided to murder her.” Young thieves (and lovers) Hal and Dennis need a place to stash the cash from a bank robbery. The coffin of Hal’s recently-deceased mother, currently at home awaiting burial by her bereaved husband Mr McLeavy, is the perfect solution.…

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