• Mind Games: Art Alive

    Baeu Medina: Mind Games: Art Alive

    154 Broadway 154-160 Broadway, Chippendale, NSW, Australia
    A new, woman-led, interactive, immersive and independent experiential playground has opened in Chippendale, in Sydney’s inner suburbs – at a scale and level of detail that has not been done in Australia. Comprising multisensory installations such as holographic moon rooms to upside-down trains, mirrored mazes, and perception puzzles, Mind Games:…
    ‘Margaret Olley: Australian Intimiste’

    National Art School: ‘Margaret Olley: Australian Intimiste’

    National Art School Corner of Forbes and Burton Streets, Darlinghurst, Sydney, NSW, Australia
    ‘Margaret Olley: Australian Intimiste’ celebrates the legacy and significant achievements of Margaret Olley AC – National Art School alum and one of Australia’s most beloved painters – through the lens of the European artistic tradition intimisme, which honours the quiet poetry of domestic life and the interior world. Drawing from significant public and private…

    Artsite Contemporary: Judy Trick – Full Circle

    Artsite Contemporary 165-167 Salisbury Road, Camperdown, NSW, Australia
    Full Circle, is the most personal show Judy’s to date. The title borrows from the Japanese concept of Sunyata and the meditative Enso circle — an emptying out, a return to origins. Over the past two years, Judy found herself moving through quiet contemplation and back out into renewed energy…
    10 Nights in Port 2026

    City of Fremantle: 10 Nights in Port 2026

    Fremantle Town Hall 8 William St, Fremantle, WA, Australia
    The much-loved winter arts festival 10 Nights in Port returns. This August, 10 Nights in Port returns to Walyalup | Fremantle, transforming the city with a diverse program of visual art, performance, storytelling and installation. Centred on the 2026 theme of huddle, the festival invites audiences to experience warmth, light…
    Elder Con Lunchtime Concerts

    Elder Conservatorium: Vignettes

    Elder Hall University of Adelaide, North Terrace, Adelaide, SA, Australia
    In his youth, Shostakovich was employed as a cinema pianist, improvising soundtracks for silent films. This theatrical flair and narrative sensibility can be found in his Five Pieces for Two Violins and Piano. A suite of vignettes, each piece tells its own story and unfolds like a reel of miniature…
    The Nightline

    Malthouse Theatre: The Nightline

    Malthouse Theatre 113 Sturt St, Southbank, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    Come share the small hours with sleepless parents, shift workers, the homesick, the restless, the grieving. Pick up your phone and use your personal switchboard to explore messages collected from local late-night callers. Listen to their serenades, secrets, confessions of love, strange memories, and perhaps a vent or two. We…
    Africubismo

    Melbourne Recital Centre: Africubismo

    Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    A reimagining of the shared musical lineage between West Africa and Cuba. Africubismo is an immersive musical journey across the Atlantic, mapping the shared rhythmic DNA between West Africa and Cuba through virtuosic performances and deep listening. Presented by Stani Goma (PBS' Flight 1067 to Africa), experience the intricate interplay…
    Velvet Inferno

    Sydney Opera House: Velvet Inferno

    Sydney Opera House Sydney, NSW, Australia
    Welcome to Velvet. A nightclub where disco reigns supreme and the allure of the dancefloor is inescapable. When a bright-eyed but lost young woman walks in, club owner Country Mike (Brendan Maclean) sees the future. With the help of The Diva (Marcia Hines), a groovy coming-of-age journey ignites. Velvet Inferno is…

    St Joseph’s Nudgee College: Arts Gala 2026

    St Joseph's Nudgee College 2199 Sandgate Rd, Boondall, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
    Discover one of Brisbane’s most distinctive community art events at the Nudgee College Arts Gala 2026. Presented in partnership with The Toowoomba Gallery, the Gala will showcase more than 300 artworks, including over 200 pieces of professional artwork, alongside exceptional student and Old Boys’ works. The Opening Night Event offers…
    The Nightline

    Malthouse Theatre: The Nightline

    Malthouse Theatre 113 Sturt St, Southbank, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
    Come share the small hours with sleepless parents, shift workers, the homesick, the restless, the grieving. Pick up your phone and use your personal switchboard to explore messages collected from local late-night callers. Listen to their serenades, secrets, confessions of love, strange memories, and perhaps a vent or two. We…
    Animal Farm

    Arts Centre Melbourne: Animal Farm

    Fairfax Studio
    This isn’t the farm you thought you knew. Orwell’s classic allegory is unleashed with a sharp Australian political twist – a story for an era of climate crisis, corporate greed, relentless media spin and a revolving door of leadership. Farmer Jones has lost control. The animals of Manor Farm rise…