• Melbourne International Jazz Festival: Free Jazz at Fed Square

    Federation Square Swanston St & Flinders St, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    Get ready for a full-throttle celebration of swing, soul, and sizzling solos as three local big bands take over Fed Square for Big Band Saturday — a free, open-air concert on the opening weekend of the Melbourne International Jazz Festival. From the soaring brass of Australia’s premier Air Force Big…

    WA Portrait Artists: Pop-up Portraits

    WA Museum Boola Bardip Perth Cultural Centre, Perth, WA, Australia
    Discover the art of portraiture at Pop-up Portraits, an outdoor pencil and charcoal life drawing event hosted by WA Portrait Artists. In this unique session, Perth performers will sit as live models (not performing) while you learn to capture their likeness with guidance from some of WA’s finest portrait artists.…
    Grazeland Takeover

    Melbourne International Jazz Festival: Grazeland Takeover

    Grazeland 20 Booker St, Spotswood, VIC, Australia
    Jazz Fest is taking over Spotswood hotspot Grazeland with two huge days of free music. Enjoy a vibrant mix of local jazz, bossa nova, funk and West African grooves as you explore the West’s favourite playground for foodies.

    North Adelaide Baroque Hall: Golden Harp & Hoboy – Handel

    North Adelaide Baroque Hall 104 Tynte St, North Adelaide, SA, Australia
    Jane Downer, recorder & baroque oboe d'amore Lesley Lewis, harpsichord Music for recorder/baroque oboe and harpsichord Paul's Steeple Handel - "Hoboy" Sonata in G minor Op. 1 No. 6 Handel - "Rinaldo for a Flute" including "Lascia ch’io pianga" for harpsichord solo Geminiani & Barsanti - Scots Tunes

    Sydney Opera House: What the Ocean Said

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    What The Ocean Said is a relaxing storytelling experience for children and their grownups. You are invited to relax in a sea of pillows amidst a magical space of calm. Follow the journey of a humpback whale diving deep into the water, and expanding into the reaches of the ocean…
    Panjat Hujan

    The Unconformity: Panjat Hujan

    Scout Hall, Queenstown 15 Bowes Street, Queenstown, TAS, Australia
    Translating to 'Climbing the Rain', Panjat Hujan embodies the absence of the word 'impossible' from the language of indigenous Bugis people of South Sulawesi. Exploring symbolic rituals that refract time and space, this multicultural collaboration draws from the practice of a different era still relevant today, bridging shamanistic tradition and…
    Whitefella Yella Tree

    Griffin Theatre Company: Whitefella Yella Tree

    Wharf 1 Theatre Sydney, NSW, Australia
    First love: joyous, sweet and youthful. Two boys from neighbouring mobs, puffed up with teenage giddiness, poised on the edge of a world about to change. Their budding love taking root in Country that is about to be declared ‘Australia’. In the early years of colonisation, a young Aboriginal man,…
    Editor's Choice Calamity Jane

    One Eyed Man Productions: Calamity Jane

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Step inside the Golden Garter Saloon and enter the Wild West as Virginia Gay reprises the role of the legendary frontierswoman Calamity Jane (for which she won a Sydney Theatre Award). Adapted from the much-loved film starring Doris Day, this stripped-back, rough-and-ready reimagining of the classic musical, directed by Richard…
    The Other Side of Me

    NT Dance Company: The Other Side of Me

    Arts Centre Melbourne Forecourt, 100 St Kilda Road, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Choreographed by industry leader, Larrakia man, Gary Lang, this international, cross-cultural collaboration with Northumbria University (UK) communicates a story of the Stolen Generations. With care and compassion, it poses questions about relationships between country of origin, identity, adoption, the criminal justice system and psychological health.  The Other Side of Me translates…
    Dream Swamp

    Melanie Lane: Dream Swamp

    Arts Centre Melbourne Forecourt, 100 St Kilda Road, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Dreaming beyond the limits of our bodies, young audiences are transported into an absurd and uncanny universe of magic, adventure and transformation. The journey begins in an immersive swamp-like world, murky and unpredictable – like a bizarre dream. In a collision of sound, colour, texture and movement, two dancers shape-shift,…
    Playhouse Week 2

    : Playhouse Week 2

    Playhouse Theatre Bangarra Dance Theatre, Yuldea (Excerpts) The Australian Ballet and Tim Harbour, New Work by Tim Harbour West Australian Ballet, Extension to Boom Stephanie Lake Company, Auto Cannibal
    Manon

    The Australian Ballet: Manon

    Regent Theatre 191 Collins St, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    Sir Kenneth MacMillan’s adaptation of Abbé Prévost’s 1731 novel, Manon is a tragic romance unlike any other in ballet. From the echelons of high society 18th-century Paris to the gritty streets of New Orleans, Manon tells a story of a young girl desperate to rise above her lowly origins, seduced…