• ‘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…

    Van Diemen’s Band: LAURA VAUGHAN & LIAM BYRNE

    Hobart Town Hall 50 Macquarie St, Hobart, TAS, Australia
    Blending historical instruments with contemporary textures, this atmospheric performance draws threads across centuries. Berlin-based viola da gambist Liam Byrne is renowned for his interpretations of both early music and cutting-edge contemporary music. He joins Australian gambist Laura Vaughan for a recital pairing Renaissance and Baroque works alongside the new music of today.
    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…
    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…
    Editor's Choice Do Not Go Gentle

    Queensland Theatre Company: Do Not Go Gentle

    Bille Brown Theatre 78 Montague Rd, South Brisbane, QLD
    Patricia Cornelius’s 2006 play, Do Not Go Gentle, which takes his title from Dylan Thomas’s poem, is a poetically powerful depiction of old age and dementia. Set in an aged care home, a group of residents imagine themselves taking part in Robert Falcon Scott’s doomed 1911 expedition to the South…
    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…

    Melbourne Recital Centre: Rubiks Collective and Jane Sheldon

    Melbourne Recital Centre 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    The nested problems of being human. Experience an evening of music that is intimate and unexpectedly moving. Praised for her ‘mesmerising emotional truth’ (The Australian), acclaimed vocalist Jane Sheldon and Rubiks Collective explore what it means to love, hope, and navigate an increasingly complex world. Featuring three bold works by…

    Rubiks Collective: the nested problems of being human

    Primrose Potter Salon 31 Sturt St, Southbank, VIC, Australia
    Experience an evening of music that is intimate and unexpectedly moving. Praised for her ‘mesmerising emotional truth’ (The Australian), acclaimed vocalist Jane Sheldon and Rubiks Collective explore what it means to love, hope, and navigate an increasingly complex world. Featuring three bold works by leading contemporary composers, Laura Bowler's award-winning…