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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?
Under a Modern Sun: Art in Queensland 1930s–1950s presented by Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art
Queensland Art Gallery
16 August 2025 - 26 January 2026
'Under a Modern Sun' showcases the work of Queensland artists and those working in the state in the middle decades of the twentieth century. The display includes artworks by renowned Brisbane-based painters Vida Lahey and William Bustard and luminaries from the regions, including Kenneth Macqueen and Joe Rootsey. The exhibition explores connections between these artists and others — such as Sidney Nolan and Max Dupain — who travelled to Queensland to explore its histories and subject matter and, in doing so, contributed to the development of a modernist sensibility here. The exhibition foregrounds the important role that women artists such as Lahey and Daphne Mayo played in fostering artistic practice in the state. Their work features alongside artworks by their peers Gwendolyn Grant, Rose Simmonds and women ceramicists associated with the Harvey School. A later group of paintings by Margaret Olley, Margaret Cilento, and Jon Molvig points to the more expressive directions that art in Queensland followed in subsequent decades.
The God of Small Things: Faith and Popular Culture presented by Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art
Queensland Art Gallery
20 September 2025 - 5 October 2026
'The God of Small Things: Faith and Popular Culture' draws its title from Arundhati Roy's evocative novel to explore the omnipresence of faith in the mundane and extraordinary alike. Centred around a rare collection of embellished oleographs by Raja Ravi Varma (India, 1848-1906), the exhibition delves into the intersection between devotional imagery and popular culture, capturing the divine as a living part of everyday life.
Works from the QAGOMA contemporary Asian collection complement and extend this dialogue, through the juxtaposition of religious and vernacular iconographies with contemporary reflections on belief. QAGOMA has embarked on a landmark conservation and research exchange with colleagues in India to document and conserve a rare collection of Ravi Varma works. Specialists from
QAGOMA’s conservation team will collaborate with the Museum of Art and Photography (MAP), Bengaluru, to share expertise and deepen cultural ties. QAGOMA’s conservation and research exchange is supported by the Centre for Australia-India Relations. QAGOMA is proud to be a recipient of a Centre for Australia-India Relations Maitri grant.
Archie Moore: kith and kin presented by Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art
Gallery of Modern Art
27 September - 18 October 2026
First Nations Peoples of Australia are among the oldest continuous living cultures on earth; Archie Moore’s kith and kin affirms this by tracing the artist’s Kamilaroi and Bigambul relations over 65,000+ years. The artist’s extensive drawing captures the common ancestors of all humans alongside animals, plants, waterways and landforms in order to emphasise our kinship responsibilities to each other and our surroundings.
Vipoo Srivilasa: Express Yourself presented by Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art
Gallery of Modern Art
11 October 2025 - 13 September 2026
How do you feel on the first day of school? Or when you win a really hard game? What about when someone you love is upset? Artist Vipoo Srivilasa invites children to explore their emotions through drawing, dancing, and digital activities as part of his upcoming Children’s Art Centre exhibition. The project will feature a reprisal of Vipoo’s 2021 activity ‘Garden of Love’ along with fun new interactives, encouraging visitors to consider the spectrum of human emotion with curiosity and an open mind.
Art Box for Kids: Lincoln Austin presented by Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art
Gallery of Modern Art
8 November 2025 – 10 May 2026
This ‘Art Box for Kids’ project invites children to discover the work of Australian artist Lincoln Austin. In their work, Lincoln explores the concept of perception and how each person uniquely views and interacts with the world. They are known for creating sculptural pieces that often produce optical illusions or ripple effects. As part of ‘Art Box for Kids’, Lincoln’s ‘Al-foil drawing’ activity invites children to create a sculptural drawing using aluminium foil, card, string and glue. ‘Art Box for Kids’ prioritises sustainable exhibition design and the use of recycled or repurposed activity materials where possible.
Group Vocal Workshops – Christmas Edition presented by Opera Queensland
Opera Queensland Studio, South Bank
17 November – 1 December 2025
Celebrate Christmas through song with Opera Queensland. Returning by popular demand!
Join OQ artists for a special series of group vocal workshops, with a performance opportunity to showcase your Christmas repertoire on Saturday 13 December. Choose either the Monday evening or Saturday afternoon series of workshops.
Singers will rehearse a specially arranged selection of festive music in the company of fellow opera and choral enthusiasts, and hone vocal skills from breath management and music-reading to ensemble phrasing, language and pronunciation.
These sessions are for participants 18 years and over with intermediate musical or choral experience. Music reading is an advantage, but not a requirement.
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.
Olafur Eliasson: Presence presented by Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art
Gallery of Modern Art
6 December 2025 – 12 July 2026
Icelandic-Danish artist Olafur Eliasson invites us on an expansive multi-sensory journey to the edges of perception in the exhibition ‘Presence’. From the magical early work Beauty 1993, which suspends a rainbow in a veil of mist, to Pluriverse assembly 2021, a spatial installation that unfurls ever-changing reflections of light, Eliasson's creations come to life as they meet the viewer's senses and body. This is your moment to see, feel, and move through art in a whole new way.
Sing Sing Sing – Christmas Edition presented by Opera Queensland
Opera Queensland Studio, South Bank
13 December 2025
’Tis the holiday season once more, and with it comes the joyous return of Sing Sing Sing Christmas edition!
At this annual event, discover the joy of singing in a group as you are led through a program of popular Yuletide repertoire by host Jason Barry-Smith and favourite Opera Queensland guest artists with classic carols and favourite Christmas songs. From the soaring “O Holy Night” to the fun of “Jingle Bells”, Sing Sing Sing is a fun-filled night of music making and merriment for singers of all levels of experience.
Whether you sing in the shower or have choral experience, get ready to sing, smile, and share the magic at Sing Sing Sing Christmas hosted at Opera Queensland’s Studio.
To make the evening even merrier, your ticket includes a drink and canapés upon arrival with bar open throughout the event and for socialising afterwards, providing the perfect opportunity to mingle and share the joy of music.
Swingers - The Art of Mini Golf presented by Brisbane Powerhouse
Brisbane Powerhouse Precinct
10 January - 1 March 2026
A hole new world, Swingers — The Art of Mini Golf arrives at the Brisbane Powerhouse. An interactive exhibition of rebellion and play for the curious, the competitive and anyone bold enough to swing outside the lines. Play your way through nine adventurous mini golf holes, each designed by leading female artists, exploring the game’s subversion history and the untold obstacles along its path. Short event blurb (written in the third person, do not use I, we etc).
The Necks presented by Brisbane Powerhouse
Brisbane Powerhouse Precinct
30 January 2026
The Necks are one of the great cult bands of the world. Chris Abrahams (piano) Tony Buck (drums) and Lloyd Swanton (bass) conjure a chemistry together that defies description in orthodox terms. Formed in Sydney in 1987, they have operated with the same line-up for an extraordinary thirty five years straight They are often now considered one of Australia’s most significant musical exports Featuring lengthy pieces which slowly unravel in the most mesmerising fashion, sometimes underpinned by an insistent deep groove, the twenty-two albums by The Necks stand up to re-listening time and time again. The Necks are returning to Brisbane for one evening only! Don’t miss it.
Martin Hayes presented by Brisbane Powerhouse
Brisbane Powerhouse Precinct
26 February 2026
Virtuosic Irish fiddler Martin Hayes, one of the most significant talents in Irish traditional music, returns to Australia in 2026. Renowned for his soulful interpretations and exquisite musicality, Hayes brings an irresistible rhythm to every performance. Praised by The Irish Times as a musician with an “insatiable appetite for adventure,” he has collaborated with extraordinary artists across classical, folk, and contemporary music, including Bill Frisell, Ricky Skaggs, Jordi Savall, Brooklyn Rider, and the RTE Concert Orchestra.
Antigone presented by La Boite
La Boite Theatre
5 – 21 March 2026
Antigone explodes onto the La Boite Theatre Roundhouse stage with raw energy and unflinching relevance. A dynamic interpretation of Sophocles’ timeless tragedy, centred on a fearless young woman who refuses to stay silent.
This is no dusty myth. It’s a charged story of protest, conscience, and defiance, set against a backdrop of political turmoil that feels both ancient and alarmingly current.
Visceral, poetic and uncompromising, this energetic reimagining of Antigone—directed by La Boite’s Artistic Director Courtney Stewart (Macbeth, Congratulations, Get Rich!) and award-winning fight, movement and intimacy director Nigel Poulton (Closer, The Poison of Polygamy)—thrusts Sophocles’ classic into the heart of our fractured world.
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The Great Gatsby presented by Queensland Theatre
Playhouse, QPAC
12 February – 8 March 2026
Can you repeat the past? Of course you can, Old Sport.
Welcome to The Jazz Age: a fever dream of dizzying excess where love, lies and liquor are in hot supply. Late to this glittering party arrives Nick Carraway, a blow-in from the mid-West, who’s immediately drawn to the enigmatic playboy next door: Jay Gatsby.
Every Saturday night New York’s Flappers, Freeloaders and Pleasure Seekers swill from Gatsby’s generosity while rumours swirl about their mysterious host. Is he a racketeer? A mobster? A bootlegger? A saint? Nick soon discovers the forlorn Gatsby is a man who has everything he wants - except the only woman he’s ever loved … Daisy.
Considered one of the greatest novels ever written, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s literary masterpiece comes roaring to the stage in a stylish and scintillating adaptation where dreams shimmer then shatter, hearts beat achingly out of time and everyone’s chasing their own green light.
Queensland Theatre Company and our nationally-acclaimed homegrown heroes Shake & Stir Theatre Co spirit you away to that elusive gin-soaked Summer of 1922, where love and longing is served on the rocks. From the creative teams that brought you Pride & Prejudice, Frankenstein, A Christmas Carol and GRIMM, alongside a cast of rising stars, this Gatsby is shaken, not stirred.
Torch The Place presented by Queensland Theatre
Bille Brown Theatre
10 – 29 March 2026
It’s Mum’s 60th . Kids have brought cake, presents… and a skip bin.
From Queensland born-and-bred TV writer and author Benjamin Law (The Family Law), comes his breakout comedy Torch the Place - a hilarious and deeply moving exploration of family, legacy, and the things we hold onto — literally.
Teresa’s mum can’t let go of anything — from grudges to Princess Di's ash trays to late 90s Disney VHS. She sees her ordinary Gold Coast home as a museum of irreplaceable treasures. But she’s not a curator… she’s a hoarder.
When her children return to celebrate her 60th birthday, she’s thrilled to have them home. But this isn’t just a reunion — it’s an intervention. Armed with a skip bin and good intentions, the siblings attempt to help their mother confront decades of detritus, rusted-on emotions and long-buried memories.
Inspired by Law’s own family experience and Australia’s fast-growing problem with compulsive hoarding, Torch the Place balances sharp wit with a deeply emotional reckoning around trauma, identity, and the meaning of “stuff.”
Directed by Queensland’s own Ngọc Phan (Vietgone, Boy Swallows Universe) in her mainstage solo-directing debut and starring an ensemble you’re going to fall head-over-heels for, Torch the Place is a “poignant modern comedy” (Arts Review) about a modern family that “will make you laugh, cry, and call your mum” (ArtsHub).
“A poignant modern comedy”
— Arts Review
“Delightful”
— The Blurb
“Laugh out loud zingers… full of heart and humour”
— Limelight
Xenia Puskarz Thomas and David Belkovski presented by Opera Queensland
Opera Queensland Studio, South Bank
13 – 14 March 2026
Mezzo-soprano Xenia Puskarz Thomas, acclaimed at the 2024 Salzburger Festspiele, joins lutenist David Belkovski for a thrilling recital of Baroque, French repertoire, and Schumann’s Liederkreis. A night of passion, intimacy, and unforgettable artistry not to be missed.
The Big Hose presented by Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art
Gallery of Modern Art, GOMA Bistro lawn
Open daily
In a first for the Queensland Cultural Centre, the artist-designed play sculpture in the form of an oversized 119 metre-long garden hose — outside the Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA) — joins Australia’s list of iconic ‘big’ things. The artwork alludes to Queensland’s domestic architecture, inhabiting GOMA’s 'front yard', evoking breezy verandahs and subtropical gardens. The Big Hose 2022–25, a collaborative creation of contemporary Australian artists Tony Albert (Brisbane, Girramay/ Yidinyji/ Kuku Yalanji peoples) and Nell (Sydney), sits on the banks of the Brisbane River at Kurilpa Point, a traditional meeting and trading place for the region’s Turrbal and Yaggera peoples. This artistic collaboration reveals nuanced layers of meaning through local histories of First Peoples, migration and art.
Queen’s Wharf Brisbane Precinct Public Art Tour presented by Museum of Brisbane
Queen’s Wharf Brisbane Precinct
Wednesdays 3:00pm – 4:30pm and Saturdays 9:00am – 10:30am
Step into Brisbane’s ever-evolving story with this expertly guided walking tour through the Queen’s Wharf Precinct, one of the city’s most significant historical and cultural sites.
Led by an expert Museum of Brisbane tour guide, this 90-minute experience explores the intersection of art, history, landscape and identity. Beginning at Lindy Lee’s awe-inspiring Being Swallowed by the Milky Way, the tour winds through the precinct’s vibrant new Art Trail, showcasing works by First Nations, Queensland and international artists alongside historical buildings and landmarks.
From colourful alfresco murals to towering sculptures and floating botanical gardens, this tour reveals the many layers of the city’s past and present. A celebration of shared public space, creativity and transformation.
Queen’s Wharf Brisbane Precinct Public Art Tours are proudly supported by Major Partner The Star Brisbane.
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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.
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.