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Brisbane's cultural magnetic pull is getting stronger every year. As a long-standing arts partner to many not-for-profit arts and cultural organisations, we've been onboard to see our city's art scene attract exclusive global artists, performances and exhibitions creating a don't-miss-this vibe that travellers from around Australia and the globe flock here for.
More importantly, we've watched our Brisbane-based art community elevate their practice to the world stage, marvelled at their increased commitment to connect Queensland's regions with their programs and deliver phenomenal cultural development to our city that our community loves.
Every year, our arts partners deliver a bigger and bolder season of thought-provoking, world-changing and deliciously fun events and we're proud to support their full theatres, teeming galleries and creative ideas.
We'll be in the audience showing our support, will you?
Brisbane Festival
Brisbane and surrounds
5 – 27 September 2025
Brisbane Festival is an incredibly diverse arts festival that includes a variety of events across spring every year. This year’s program includes theatre, dance, visual art, concerts, comedy, and so much more. With such a wide range of offerings, Brisbane Festival is unlike anything else you can experience in the world.
Brisbane Festival takes place annually in September. The 2025 Festival officially runs from 5 to 27 September, but some events have extended dates. Please check individual event pages for exact dates and all the juicy details. Across venues on both sides of the river, in the inner and outer city, Brisbane Festival’s locations are as diverse as its lineup. Enjoy performances at major cultural institutions like Queensland Performing Arts Centre and Brisbane Powerhouse and enjoy the spring weather with outdoor events from St Lucia to Manly!
GATSBY at The Green Light part of Brisbane Festival
Twelfth Night Theatre
2 - 28 September 2025
Experience a sparkling world inspired by Fitzgerald’s classic novel The Great Gatsby, where the parties of the 1920s meet with the 2020s. Celebrate Gatsby’s 100th anniversary and get ready to party like it’s 1925 as the curtains rise on a new age of old-world splendour. Sip on a delightfully infused gin martini as you find yourself captivated by extraordinary aerial displays, toe-tapping jazz melodies, awe-inspiring vocals, mesmerising choreography, and resplendent costumes. Immerse yourself in the ultimate summer soirée as Brisbane’s beloved Twelfth Night Theatre transforms into The Green Light, the hottest club in town – owned by none other than the great Gatsby himself.
Gems part of Brisbane Festival
QPAC
2 – 28 September 2025
Presented in full for the first time, Gems is a contemporary ballet trilogy by L.A. Dance Project’s Benjamin Millepied (Black Swan) in collaboration with Van Cleef & Arpels. It features a live score by Camerata – Queensland's Chamber Orchestra and pianist Yanfeng (Tony) Bai from the Colburn School, Los Angeles. Gems explores movement, art, and music through three distinct works, each a contemporary counterpoint to George Balanchine’s revolutionary ballet Jewels and inspired by its chapters' namesakes (Rubies, Diamonds, and Emeralds). After twelve years, Gems is unified in a historic Brisbane Festival Australian exclusive.
Afterglow part of Brisbane Festival
City Botanic Gardens
5 – 27 September 2025
Let the fire guide you this September as the City Botanic Gardens come alive with Afterglow – a breathtaking after-dark experience that invites you to follow the flame into a world of wonder. Journey through a dreamscape of fire sculptures, candlelit installations, and live performances, crafted by world-renowned fire artists and local creatives. Come for the magic. Stay for the stillness. Leave glowing long after the night ends.
Craig & Karl: Public Art Trail part of Brisbane Festival
Across Brisbane
5 – 27 September 2025
Craig & Karl will be popping up all over Brisbane, activating iconic city sites with their signature colours and inflatables. Along with taking over the walking bridges in larger-than-life installations for ANZ's Walk This Way, locations across Brisbane will transform into a citywide Public Art Trail.
In this iconic return to their hometown, the internationally recognised design duo are sharing a vibrant vision of our city. Cross the bridges, follow the trail, and experience Brisbane like never before!
The Public Art Trail includes major new artworks by Craig & Karl presented at Brisbane Airport, Brisbane Powerhouse, Brisbane Quarter, Fish Lane Arts Precinct, Griffith University Brisbane CBD Campus, Griffith University Queensland Conservatorium, South Bank Cultural Forecourt, Queensland Performing Arts Centre, Westfield Chermside and throughout Brisbane CBD as part of Brisbane City Council's Outdoor Gallery Exhibition Craig & Karl: Rear Vision.
Baleen Moondjan part of Brisbane Festival
Queen's Wharf
18 - 21 September 2025
Set amongst giant whale bones floating on the Brisbane River, Baleen Moondjan uses dramatic storytelling, striking choreography, and haunting live music to share the story of a proud Elder, a curious granddaughter, generational legacies, and the day a baleen whale passes by the shore. In his first major commission since Bangarra Dance Theatre, creative visionary Stephen Page brings his contemporary ceremony and the epic visual world of Jacob Nash to his hometown. A major spectacle awaits.
Brisbane Writers Festival
Brisbane Powerhouse
9 – 12 October 2025
Connecting communities, sparking ideas and starting conversations, Brisbane Writers Festival at the Brisbane Powerhouse is showcasing creativity and finding just the right words. With a diverse program of author panels, speeches, performances and more, Brisbane Writers Festival has a story for everyone.
An Evening with Bernadette Peters presented by Melt Festival
Brisbane Convention & Entertainment Centre
24 October 2025
After 10 long years, the Queen of Broadway and darling of the silver screen is returning to Australia for this one show only event, exclusive to Melt Festival. Performing a selection of her favourite songs. Don’t miss this once-in-a-lifetime event.
River Pride Parade presented by Melt Festival
Brisbane River / Maiwar
8 November 2025
Make the Brisbane River/Maiwar sparkle!
River Pride Parade returns Saturday 08 November 2025, celebrating our LGBTQIA+ communities and allies in true Brisbane style...by boat! From yachts to paddleboards, join the colourful flotilla cruising from West End to Brisbane Powerhouse.
Rally your crew or share with a boat-loving friend and let’s turn the river into a moving rainbow.
Register now to help make River Pride Parade 2025 even bigger, bolder and brighter!
1000 Voices presented by Melt Festival
Brisbane
9 November 2025
Calling all choirs, aspiring singers and allies! Melt is excited to reveal that the 2025 festival will feature an unforgettable moment of song, bringing together over a thousand singers in support and celebration of the LGBTQIA+ community at 1000 Voices.
Taking centre stage as the grand finale of Melt 2025, 1000 Voices will be a unforgettable choral event unlike anything Brisbane/Magandjin has seen before.
Be part of something unforgettable as 1000 voices come together in unity to celebrate the LGBTQIA+ community during the final weekend of Melt.
Open to all LGBTQIA+ choirs and individual singers from across the globe – allies welcome. The experience will culminate in a powerful concert performance on Sunday, 9 November.
Art Box for Kids: Mandy Quadrio presented by Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art
Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA)
31 May – 26 October 2025
This exciting ‘Art Box for Kids’ project invites children to discover the work of Trawlwoolway/Pairabeene and Laremairremenner (Tasmanian Aboriginal) artist Mandy Quadrio. Mandy’s people have been using Tasmanian bull kelp as a material for thousands of years.
The kelp is used in many ways, including to make carriers to hold water, food or seeds. In the activity 'Paper Treasure Carrier', children are invited to create their own unique paper carrier to hold their special objects and treasures.
Wonderstruck presented by Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art
Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA)
28 June – 6 October 2025
'Wonderstruck' explores the wonder that can be found in the ordinary and the extraordinary. Presented throughout the ground floor of the Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA), the exhibition invites visitors on a journey from spectacular large-scale artworks to captivating small treasures and immersive experiences.
World Press Photo Exhibition 2025 presented by Brisbane Powerhouse
Brisbane Powerhouse
19 July – 17 August 2025
Visit the World Press Photo Exhibition 2025 at Brisbane Powerhouse on its world-wide tour, showcasing the best and most important photojournalism and documentary photography of the last year.
Witness the power of visual storytelling as the exhibition showcases the winning works of the prestigious annual contest, celebrating its 70th anniversary this year.
Don't miss this opportunity to explore the diverse narratives that shape our understanding of the world as the exhibit visits Brisbane for a very limited time.
Image credit: Asia Pacific and Oceania Singles by Jerome Brouillet, Agence France Presse.
JULIA presented by Queensland Theatre
Playhouse, QPAC
15 – 30 August 2025
In 2012, Julia Gillard gave a speech that sent shockwaves around the world as our first female Prime Minister thundered across the Despatch Box: “I will not”.
Over a decade later, one of Australia’s most esteemed playwrights, Joanna Murray-Smith, tells the human story behind the extraordinary speech in a stirring and inspiring re-examination of that moment and a revelatory portrait of the woman who made it happen.
Directed by Helpmann Award-winner Sarah Goodes, Julia is a critical and box office triumph, dazzling audiences across the country with its profound, wry and intoxicating exploration of gender, privilege and power.
The phenomenal Justine Clarke delivers a “heroic performance” (The Sydney Morning Herald) that takes us through key moments in Prime Minister Gillard’s life – from her childhood through to her foray into and across the battlefield of Australian politics – culminating in an “electrifying” (The Guardian) verbatim performance of the ‘misogyny speech’.
As women around the world continue to fight against oppression, Julia is a provocative rallying cry that is not to be missed.
The People's Dancefloor presented by Museum of Brisbane
Fairfax Gallery – Level 3, City Hall (Museum of Brisbane)
30 August – 6 October 2025
Grab your leg warmers and slip into your sequins because the team from Common People Dance Project are set to turn Museum of Brisbane into a dance party right in the heart of the city!
In this immersive experience, Museum of Brisbane transforms into a glittering, high-energy dance party where community stories shine.
The People’s Dancefloor is all about community, belonging, and the sheer joy of movement, where the voices and lived experiences of everyday people come to life – sharing stories of connection, identity, and expression through dance.
Whether you’re here to bust a move, contribute your own dance memories, or simply soak up the energy, there’s a place for everyone in this celebration of rhythm and togetherness.
FREE | Exhibition open daily (from 30 Aug) | 10am–5pm
MoB’s Artist in Residence program is supported by Tim Fairfax AC.
Presented by Museum of Brisbane in association with Brisbane Festival.
Bad Nature presented by Australasian Dance Collective
Brisbane Powerhouse
3 – 7 September 2025
Australasian Dance Collective (ADC) and the Netherlands’ Club Guy & Roni (CGR) bring together an international team of celebrated creatives, including multidisciplinary artists Boris Acket, Maison the Faux and HIIIT, in this epic world premiere that looks unflinchingly at our relationship to our environment and to one another.
With transformative environments that blend sound, light, and kinetic sculptures to mimic the natural world, Bad Nature is a production of great scale and ambition, reflecting the best and worst of humanity. Confronting and tender, this unmissable work is rich with allegories of control, love, destruction and ultimately, hope.
Presented by Brisbane Festival in association with Brisbane Powerhouse.
Back to Bilo presented by Queensland Theatre
Bille Brown Theatre
3 –16 September 2025
A true-life testimony to people power and persistence.
Priya and Nades left war-torn Sri Lanka and found each other in regional Queensland. They married, had two daughters, worked hard and settled into a simple but happy country life.
The community welcomed them with open arms – but four years later came a knock at the door and they were ripped away in a dawn raid.
Their story could have ended there, but a brave band of Biloela women weren’t giving up on them so easily.
Fighting alongside the young refugee family, they launched a grassroots, people-powered campaign that galvanised hundreds of thousands of ordinary Australians to demand the family be brought back to Bilo. This is the remarkable true account of one family’s ordeal in the nightmare limbo of immigration detention, a story of how love is stronger than fear and of how persistence and togetherness can win against crushing odds.
Back to Bilo is a profoundly moving new play from celebrated local company Belloo Creative (Boy, Lost) and is made with – and from – the heart of regional Queensland.
"A must-see production about the triumph of the human spirit and the power of community."
– Cathy Hunt, WOW (Women of the World) Festival
La bohème presented by Opera Queensland
Lyric Theatre, QPAC
4 – 13 September 2025
Puccini’s romantic and heartbreaking tour de force.
One of the world’s most beloved and famous operas, La bohème, explores the lives of four struggling bohemians on the fringes of mainstream society.
La bohème explores the lives of a group of bohemians living on the fringes of Paris. A passionate romance between poet Rodolfo and seamstress Mimì is at the centre of this magical opera.
With a great love story comes a beautiful score, and Puccini’s powerful yet delicate music tugs at the heartstrings. Featuring some of the most well-known arias and duets ever written, this opera is a treasure trove of musical highlights.
For opera aficionados and first-timers alike, La bohème is a tender and heartbreaking opera that will sweep you off your feet.
Congratulations, Get Rich! presented by La Boite Theatre
La Boite Theatre
4 – 20 September 2025
It’s a big night for Mandy. Her heart and soul – her karaoke business – is failing. In a last-ditch attempt to save it, she’s hosting a mega-event: a reunion dinner special!
Congratulations, Get Rich! is a fresh Asian-Australian story exploring transformation, legacy, and hope. With humour and heart, it asks if we are all bound to our fate – or whether we can in fact escape the shadows of our past to create our own future.
Penned and performed by Merlynn Tong (Golden Blood), this explosive musical comedy celebrates the vibrancy of Singaporean culture, centering on three powerful women in a supernatural tale.
Your Eternal Memories presented by Camerata
Concert Hall, QPAC
13 September 2025
Music is the soundtrack to our lives, featuring in life’s most significant moments. Music triggers memories – but what if we turn that around? What memories spark what sort of music?
Camerata explores the relationship between memory and music in this nostalgic, moving, and humorous concert.
Exploring the theme “eternal memory”, inspired by John Tavener’s Eternal Memory for cello and strings, we have invited audiences to share their eternal or special memories to curate a concert of music inspired by personal recollections.
Camerata will also be joined by distinguished Australian actor and long term Camerata collaborator, Barbara Lowing, to narrate the concert.
For our Brisbane concert, as part of Brisbane Festival, we are also delighted to welcome award-winning Australian singer/songwriter Kate Miller-Heidke for a selection of songs.
Eternal memories, words, and music will seamlessly weave together in this special concert that is sure to be moving, nostalgic, and hopefully, a little bit funny.
As always, join Camerata in the foyer after the concert to meet the musicians and have a chat.
Presented by Camerata – Queensland’s Chamber Orchestra, QPAC & Brisbane Festival
Shostakovich Ten presented by Queensland Symphony Orchestra
QPAC Concert Hall
19 – 20 September 2025
Under the baton of Chief Conductor Umberto Clerici, Queensland Symphony Orchestra brings two iconic works to life. First Alexander Gavrylyuk will dazzle with Prokofiev’s witty Piano Concerto No.3, before Shostakovich’s Symphony No.10 surges from darkness to triumph, paired with William Kentridge’s evocative film Oh To Believe In Another World.
Fate presented by Brisbane Philharmonic Orchestra
Old Museum Concert Hall, Bowen Hills
20 September 2025
Tchaikovsky wrote of his Fourth Symphony:
“...This is Fate, the fatal power that hinders one in the pursuit of happiness from gaining the goal, which jealously provides that peace and comfort do not prevail, that the sky is not free from clouds—a might that swings, like the sword of Damocles, constantly over the head that poisons the soul.”
Night on Bald Mountain opens the concert with that same tumult of energy contained in the Fourth, with Mussorgsky’s depiction of a witches’ sabbath. Soloist Courtenay Cleary continues with the Queensland premiere of contemporary American composer Jennifer Higdon’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Violin Concerto, with its insistent, dexterous passages drawing the listener to the edge of their seat. The concert concludes with the immense Fourth Symphony, sonorous and demanding.
Conductor: Rachel Howley
Soloist: Courtenay Cleary (violin)
Lime Cordiale with Queensland Symphony Orchestra
The Fortitude Music Hall
27 September 2025
Get ready for a genre-bending spectacle as pop-rock duo Lime Cordiale teams up with Queensland Symphony Orchestra for an unforgettable concert! From soaring strings to thunderous brass, these symphonic reinventions will take your favourite tracks like Robbery, Temper Temper, Dirt Cheap, and more to new heights.
Dangerous Liaisons presented by Queensland Ballet
Talbot Theatre, Thomas Dixon Centre
2 – 18 October 2025
Delve into the scandalous world of the Paris elite in Liam Scarlett’s vivid interpretation of Pierre Choderlos de Laclos’ novel, Les Liaisons dangereuses. Set in 18th century France, the story follows the manipulative schemes of two aristocrats as they engage in a dangerous game of seduction and revenge in Queensland Ballet's new season. This is a provocative ballet for mature audiences.
Leanne Kenneally & Alex Raineri – Songs of Light and Sky presented by Opera Queensland
Opera Queensland Studio
10 – 11 October 2025
A radiant evening of soaring voices and timeless melodies, celebrating the elegance and emotional power of the world’s greatest lyric sopranos.
One of Australia’s and Brisbane’s very own great lyric soprano, Leanne Kenneally, explores the beauty of the human voice and the music of the skies, with unforgettable songs of hope, love, and light. With selections from various musical periods and languages, this recital showcases the versatility and emotional range of the lyric soprano voice.
Opera Queensland Studio Series is proudly presented by Kawai
Artist in Residence: Gerwyn Davies presented by Museum of Brisbane
Fairfax Gallery – Level 3, City Hall (Museum of Brisbane)
18 October 2025 – 8 March 2026
Leading contemporary artist Gerwyn Davies presents a series of striking photographic portraits developed in collaboration with trans and gender-diverse young people from Open Doors Youth Service.
Each vivid image features a handcrafted sculptural costume, allowing the wearer to represent themselves in spectacular ways while simultaneously retaining their anonymity. Together, the works celebrate self-expression, resilience, and the power of chosen visibility.
FREE | Exhibition open daily (from 18 Oct) | 10am–5pm
MoB’s Artist in Residence program is supported by Tim Fairfax AC.
Presented by Museum of Brisbane in partnership with MELT Festival, Brisbane Powerhouse.
Malacañang Made Us presented by Queensland Theatre
Bille Brown Theatre
18 October 2025 – 1 November 2026
The fall of a dictator and the reverberations on the generation he jeopardised.
1986, Manila, the Philippines. The world finally looks on as history is being made by a society tearing at the fabric of a regime and demanding change.
On the fateful evening of President Ferdinand Marcos’ exile, young men climb the walls of Malacañang Palace, storm the hallways, and seat themselves on his throne. Among them are brothers Martin and Ernie – heroes... if only for a night.
Nearly 40 years later, the siblings reunite in Brisbane, where Martin’s teenage son Leo is incensed that the dictator’s heir is being elected to the presidency of the Philippines. With a fresh revolution and some old family secrets in the air, the three men will reconnect over the conditions of love, the question of duty and the price of rebellion.
In a watershed moment for Australian Filipino theatre, Jordan Shea’s Queensland Premier’s Drama Award-winning play draws on his multicultural experiences in an ambitious and haunting theatrical epic that celebrates the power of ordinary people to (re)discover their bravery and help shape history.
"Epic in its theatricality… an unforgettable journey through a tantalising collision of languages, times and places."
– Judges Panel, Queensland Premier’s Drama Award
Whitefella Yella Tree presented by La Boite
La Boite Theatre
23 October – 8 November 2025
Once in a blue moon, in the middle of nowhere, two teenage boys meet under a lemon tree. When they look at each other, it’s tense, exciting, and strange.
If history would just unfurl a little differently, the boys might have a beautiful future ahead of them. But without knowing it, Ty and Neddy are poised on the brink of a world that is about to change forever.
Whitefella Yella Tree is the La Boite debut of award-winning Palawa playwright Dylan Van Den Berg, winner of the Griffin Award, the Rodney Seaborn Playwrights Award, the David Williamson Prize and two NSW Premier’s Literary Awards.
Cinematic: The Oscars presented by Queensland Symphony Orchestra
QPAC Concert Hall
24 – 25 October 2025
Queensland Symphony Orchestra brings movie magic to the stage with some of history’s greatest film scores at Cinematic. Conducted by Benjamin Northey, enjoy the sweeping sounds of 18 iconic films including West Side Story, Star Wars, My Neighbor Totoro, Wicked, and more.
Soirée presented by Queensland Ballet
Talbot Theatre, Thomas Dixon Centre
6 – 8 November 2025
Experience a fusion of art, dance, and live music as Queensland Ballet Academy presents Soirée – a dazzling performance season presented in collaboration with Philip Bacon Galleries and Camerata – Queensland’s Chamber Orchestra, featuring artwork by one of Australia’s most significant contemporary artists, Cressida Campbell.
Celestial Choral Baroque presented by Camerata & One Equal Music
Concert Hall, QPAC
20 November 2025
Strings and choir unite! In an otherworldly collaboration with one of Australia’s newest choirs, expect to be uplifted with this achingly beautiful music, both old and new.
This otherworldly collaboration sees strings and choir unite with one of Australia’s newest choirs, based right here in Brisbane!
One Equal Music joins Camerata for this ethereal, spine-tingling concert of music that is both thrilling and achingly beautiful.
Norwegian composer Ola Gjeilo’s ethereal The Spheres sets the tone for the emotional power of the music that follows. That music includes the majestic orchestral suite by Classical music’s greatest hero, Bach, and later in the program one of his own inspirations, Vivaldi, in the iconic Gloria.
What better way to make music than a plea for peace as you’ll hear in Peteris Vask’s Dona Nobis Pacem (Grant Us Peace), and a particularly striking moment will surely be in Erik Esenvalds’ Stars, that puts voices together with glass harmonics.
This beautiful concert will be very special and a wonderful way to round out Camerata’s 2025 season!
As always, join Camerata in the foyer after the concert to meet the musicians and have a chat.
Presented by Camerata – Queensland’s Chamber Orchestra & QPAC
Stories you Wear: Magpie Goose presented by Museum of Brisbane
Level 3, City Hall (Museum of Brisbane)
22 November 2025
Celebrating Country and Culture through the bold designs of Magpie Goose.
Museum of Brisbane is excited to collaborate with Magpie Goose, a proudly Aboriginal owned and led fashion and social enterprise, to celebrate extraordinary First Nations cultural stories and designs.
This exclusive to Brisbane exhibition, developed in close collaboration with Magpie Goose owners Amanda Hayman (Wakka Wakka and Kalkadoon) and Troy Casey (Kamilaroi), offers a deep dive into the work of some of the region’s most talented First Nations artists and designers. Using clothing as a canvas for storytelling, this exciting collaboration will connect audiences with the rich and diverse cultural expressions of First Nations communities in Queensland and beyond.
Discover the artists and stories behind the brand that’s making a difference, one garment at a time.
FREE | Exhibition open daily (from 22 Nov) | 10am–5pm
Stories You Wear: Magpie Goose is supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland.
A Few Good Men presented by Queensland Theatre
Playhouse, QPAC
22 November – 7 December 2025
Aaron Sorkin’s cinematic smash returns to the stage.
Long before Hollywood, this sizzling legal drama from the masterful Aaron Sorkin dominated Broadway, and now court is in session in the Playhouse for QPAC’s 40th Birthday celebrations. One misfit US Marine is dead, two others stand accused of killing him, and the whole corps is on trial as a team of young military lawyers uncover a sinister conspiracy in this gripping judicial thriller.
Inspired by actual events at Guantanamo Bay in 1986, this “brilliant, intelligent, cutting, shivering and even nasty script” (The Independent) sparkles with the signature quickfire repartee of Sorkin’s screen hits The West Wing, The Newsroom and The Social Network.
Turning a spotlight on the toxic internal culture of the United States military, A Few Good Men interrogates the idea that instilling unquestioning loyalty in a soldier has dark and terrible consequences, and that patriotism is the virtue of the vicious. Helmed by three-time Matilda Award-winning director Daniel Evans, a cast of rising stars go head-to-head with a swathe of stage legends in this courtroom tour-de-force.
Can you handle the truth?
"Enormously entertaining."
— New York Daily News
"Sorkin is the ratatat duke of dialogue, reigning king of the walk–and–talk."
— Entertainment Weekly
Mahler's Fifth presented by Brisbane Philharmonic Orchestra
Old Museum Concert Hall, Bowen Hills
23 November
Chris Williams opens BPO’s final concert of the year with the Concerto for Didgeridoo by Queensland composer Sean O’Boyle. The work makes use of the improvisational aspect of traditional didgeridoo playing, and was created in partnership with William Barton using the elements of Earth, Water, Wind and Fire as a foundation for each movement.
From the opening notes to the final coda, Mahler’s Fifth is a symphony that speaks directly to the soul. Experience “this primeval music, this foaming, roaring, raging sea of sound…” that Mahler despaired of, writing and rewriting it for a decade while desperately striving to portray something he saw as an inexorable part of his soul, laid bare to the world.
Conductor: Peter Luff
Soloist: Chris Williams (Didgeridoo)
Kinesis presented by Australasian Dance Collective
Judith Wright Arts Centre Performance Space
28 – 29 November 2025
The inaugural cohort of Australasian Dance Collective’s Pre-Professional Program set into motion.
Powerful, Playful, Poised. ADC’s PPP presents… Kinesis. Witness the graduating season of a new generation of dance artists in Kinesis, a triple bill featuring works by Amy Hollingsworth, Sam Coren and Alison Currie.
Mahler Nine presented by Queensland Symphony Orchestra
QPAC Concert Hall
28 – 29 November 2025
Mahler’s Symphony No.9 is a work of astonishing depth and humanity. In a quiet mountain cabin, Mahler wrestled with life’s biggest questions and transformed them into music that brims with warmth, turbulence, and grace. Under Umberto Clerici’s baton, experience a journey through joy, sorrow, and acceptance, ending in a farewell both fragile and profound.
Perspectives of Brisbane presented by Museum of Brisbane
Museum of Brisbane
Open daily
Perspectives of Brisbane offers a captivating insight into the people, events and changing landscape that is our city. The evolving life of Brisbane, its history and its culture, is revealed through stories, photographs and film. The place we now call Brisbane has a rich history going back 65,000 years and beyond. Situated on Traditional Lands, it remains home to some of the world’s oldest living cultures. Since European settlement began in the 1820s with the Moreton Bay penal colony, Brisbane has experienced conflict, growth, innovation and celebration.
Today, Greater Brisbane is home to more than 2.5 million people from diverse backgrounds. The city continues to transform, its cultural landscape shaped by the ongoing care of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, waves of migration and powerful social change. Museum of Brisbane respectfully acknowledges ‘Warunghu’, Aunty Raelene Baker, for her insight, conversation and participation in writing the text presented in this exhibition.
Clock Tower Tours presented by Museum of Brisbane
Museum of Brisbane
Open daily
Discover the hidden secrets of your heritage-listed City Hall building with a guided tour of Brisbane’s iconic Clock Tower. The Clock Tower Tour is a “must do” while in Brisbane.
For many years, City Hall’s Clock Tower elevated the building to Brisbane’s tallest, offering visitors a magnificent 360 degree view of the city around them. Whilst the view has changed significantly over the last 90 years, the time-honoured tradition of “taking a trip up the tower” happily continues at Museum of Brisbane.
The Clock Tower Tour includes a ride in one of Brisbane’s oldest working cage lifts, a look behind Australia’s largest analogue clock faces and time to explore the observation platform that shares a unique perspective of your city. See if you can catch a glimpse of the bells!
Make a booking online today to secure your spot! Spaces are limited and fill up quickly.
Micro Museum presented by Museum of Brisbane
Museum of Brisbane
Open daily
What will you collect?
Welcome to Micro Museum – a space for telling stories through objects. You are invited to explore the fascinating world of collecting, and uncover the memories that objects hold.
Inspired by major exhibition Precious in this space you are the curator. You can select, sort and arrange a wide array of items, many of which are second-hand or vintage. Each object holds memories, and now you can create your own.
Micro Museum is generously supported by Ian and Cass George, and Holly and John Livingstone.
Precious presented by Museum of Brisbane
Museum of Brisbane
Open daily
What makes a collection?
Museum of Brisbane is giving you the keys to some of the most awe-inspiring collections across our amazing city. An irresistible array of breathtaking curiosities, Precious brings together thousands of remarkable items from more than 20 public and private collections.
From textiles to tin-toys, micro-architectural marvels to marine treasures, this exhibition is a joyful celebration of the art of assemblage.
We invite you to immerse yourself into the incredible stories of some of the prolific collectors of Brisbane, and get to know what makes a keepsake and collectible truly Precious.
Artist in Residence: Sara Nejad presented by Museum of Brisbane
Museum of Brisbane
Open daily
Museum of Brisbane is excited to welcome Sara Nejad as the Artist in Residence from January 2025. Sara’s residency will harness the mandala as a motif to explore themes of identity and belonging. Mandalas have a rich history in Persian art and architecture. Sara is drawn to the significance of these symbols in her own life, but also their resonance across other cultures and spiritualities.
During her residency, she will engage with various Brisbane communities to create a series of collaborative mandalas. Over several months, these works will be added to the MoB entrance as an evolving installation.
Sara’s project celebrates the beauty of our multicultural city, encouraging us to stand together in our differences.
MoB’s Artist in Residence program is supported by Tim Fairfax AC. This residency has been produced by Museum of Brisbane as part of Brisbane City Council’s BrisAsia Festival 2025, produced by Sounds Across Oceans.
New Light: Photography Now + Then presented by Museum of Brisbane
Museum of Brisbane
Open daily
A mesmerising display of photography spanning 1890 to 2024. With the power to freeze and preserve time, photography has captured imaginations for centuries. This August, step into New Light: Photography Now + Then, an exhibition where past and present converge in a mesmerising display of photography spanning 1890 to 2024. Immerse yourself in the remarkable tale of amateur Brisbane photographer Alfred Henrie Elliott (1870-1954), whose extraordinary images lay dormant for decades until they were discovered in 1983, stored in cedar cigar boxes beneath a home in Red Hill. Initially thought to comprise 300 glass-plate negatives and a trusty tailboard camera, the collection’s narrative took an unexpected turn in 2014 with the discovery of an additional cigar box brimming with over 400 film negatives and 92 prints.
Drawing on this treasure trove of an archive, seven contemporary Brisbane photographers will debut exciting new commissions responding to different parts of the Elliott Collection. By layering their own perspectives, knowledge and experiences onto the collection, the artists will encourage new ways of looking at our past, our present and this place.
Contemporary artists: Marian Drew, Jo-Anne Driessens, Joachim Froese, Tammy Law, Carl Warner, Nina White and Keemon Williams.
Vertigo Brisbane presented by Brisbane Powerhouse
Brisbane Powerhouse, New Farm
Available Friday - Sunday
Step over the edge where gastronomic excellence meets heart pounding adrenaline.
Experience the first vertical restaurant as you dangle from the precipice of Brisbane Powerhouse. Push your limits. Dine on the edge.
Your exclusive locally sourced Vertigo menu includes a two-course meal from fine dining restaurant Bar Alto and a matching wine to be enjoyed while you’re suspended from the edge of Brisbane Powerhouse.