• TILDE: TILDE: Trans and Gender Diverse Film Festival 2026

    Footscray Community Arts 45 Moreland Street, Footscray, VIC, Australia
    Trans-led international film festival Tilde celebrates turning 12. This year’s theme is “Young Blood,” because our blood carries our stories. In 2026, TILDE is getting out and about. We’re bringing TILDE closer to you, with screenings across Narrm, partnering with our favourite community spaces, venues and cinemas. 2 weekends of…

    Belvoir St Theatre: Belvoir Theatre: Drive Your Plough Over The Bones Of The Dead

    Belvoir St Theatre 25 Belvoir St, Sydney, NSW, Australia
      PAMELA RABE AND EAMON FLACK TAKE ON THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNERS’ WHODUNNIT This is Olga Tokarczuk’s masterpiece, now a theatrical tour-de-force led by the great Pamela Rabe. Janina Duszejko, a woman of retiring age, lives quietly in a remote village. But one winter, men start being murdered in her district,…
    Ken Ludwig’s MORIARTY

    Genesian Theatre: Ken Ludwig’s Moriarty

    Genesian Theatre 420 Kent St, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Brilliant detective Sherlock Holmes and his faithful companion Dr. Watson have a new case to solve! An investigation into the Bohemian King’s stolen letters suddenly cascades into an international mystery filled with spies, blackmail and intrigue. With world peace at stake, Holmes and Watson join forces with American actress Irene…

    The Harbour Agency: Mark Vincent Live – You Raise Me Up

    Riverside Theatres, Parramatta Parramatta, NSW, Australia
    Celebrate an extraordinary afternoon of music as Australia’s most beloved classical crossover tenor, Mark Vincent, returns to the stage. Since capturing the nation’s heart as the 15-year-old winner of Australia’s Got Talent, Mark has matured into a global sensation, captivating audiences worldwide with a voice of rare depth and soul. In…
    Cocktail Hour with Euan Harvey

    Sydney Symphony Orchestra: Cocktail Hour with Euan Harvey

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Composed as a birthday present to his wife and based on a German lullaby, Wagner’s Siegfried Idyll captures the composer in an intimate domestic setting a world away from the bombast of his famous operas. Written when he was just 18 but already demonstrating a clear and unique style, Benjamin Britten’s Sinfonietta…
    The Bookbinder

    Trick of the Light: The Bookbinder

    HOTA Home of the Arts 135 Bundall Road, Surfers Paradise, Queensland, Australia
    An old man sits down to read the tale of an erstwhile bookbinding apprentice. As he speaks the story spills from the pages and into the bindery. The Bookbinder weaves shadow play, paper art, puppetry, and music into an original dark fairytale in the vein of Coraline and Jonathon Strange and Mr…
    The Other Side of Me

    Gary Lang NT Dance Company: The Other Side of Me

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    An aching dance duet of a man’s struggle with identity, loss and otherness and the redemptive beauty of singing his spirit home One mother’s love, another’s loss. Between them the child that grows to a man who can never return home. The Other Side of Me by Gary Lang shares the tragedy…

    Australian National Academy of Music: ANAM at the Convent: Interstellar Call

    The Good Shepherd Chapel 1 St Heliers St,, Abbotsford, VIC, Australia
    Messiaen's Appel Interstellaire (Interstellar Call) sits at the heart of this program: a solo horn work that transforms breath and resonance into something vast and otherworldly. Alongside it, music by Dukas, Tomasi, Boulanger, and Bizet reveal how French composers reimagined the brass ensemble as ceremonial and spiritual — capable of…
    The Savages

    Voxalis Opera: The Savages

    Saint Andrew's Uniting Church 299 Ann St, Brisbane City QLD 4000, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
    A world shaped by division and violence, by mysticism and constant change. A world that feels both overwhelming and strangely familiar. What if opera and song could hold up a mirror to it? Benjamin Britten’s Les Illuminations does exactly that. At its heart, the song cycle is a portrait of…
    Lose To Win

    Belvoir St Theatre: Lose To Win

    Belvoir St Theatre 25 Belvoir St, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    One young man’s border-crossing, autobiographical odyssey, from South Sudan to the theatre’s stage. When war ravages everything you know, imagination becomes a tool of survival. Lose to Win is Mandela Mathia’s autobiographical telling of his journey as a refugee from the Sudanese civil war, through Egypt and onto Australia. Mathia’s voyage is…

    Australian National Academy of Music: Interstellar Call

    The Good Shepherd Chapel 1 St Heliers St,, Abbotsford, VIC, Australia
    Taking its title from Olivier Messiaen’s Appel Interstellaire (Interstellar Call), this program traces the evolution of the modern French brass sound — from the grandeur of early 20th-century fanfares to Messiaen’s cosmic lyricism. Written in 1971 as part of Des canyons aux étoiles..., Messiaen’s solo horn piece sits at the heart of the…