Comedian becomes a social media ‘Boom-fluencer’ during lockdown
Australian comedy stalwart Ross Daniels brings his most popular characters from stage and online together in an exciting new show.
A bumper season at La Mama this Winter!
Grab your diaries - La Mama Winter 2023 is a bumper season with more than 60 events! Between the sensational Primary Season, the wonder-full Melbourne Festival of Puppetry, and the famous La Mama Explorations, you will find plenty of theatre that you won’t want to miss.
Opening Night - Matthew Cheyne 'Keep Off the Grass'
Ipswich artist Matthew Cheyne is fascinated by space and time. In his latest exhibition at Mitchell Fine Art in Brisbane, Cheyne creates an otherworldly park to delve into our relationship with public space and its hidden power structures and absurdities. @mitchellfineartgallery
Black Void, emerging art and science group, writes new vocabulary for digital nature
The art and science creative group Black Void debuted at the Beijing Contemporary Art Expo Reunion and was featured in the short documentary “Retrieving Beauty” , produced by China Central Television. Black Void has released two art projects. Twin Cloud is a data-driven generative art collection that reveals atmosphere as the imprints of human ground activities. Biosphere 3 creates a new vocabulary of digital life on Mars that challenges the history of human space colonization. The two inaugural projects express the group’s vision in redefining the sustainable future, interspecies relationships and digital life through the use of new technology. Both artworks are supported by meticulous analysis of climate data and life generation. Black Void comprises a group of artists, architects, data scientists, developers and musicians from Tsinghua University (Future Laboratory) and Rhode Island School of Design. It contributes to the foundation for art and science collaboration.
LA MAMA REBUILD TO BE PRESENTED AT PRAGUE QUADRENNIAL 2023
From 8-18 June, La Mama design architect Meg White will make her debut at Prague Quadrennial, the renowned international festival of Performance Design and Space (PQ). The story of La Mama, the iconic little indie theatre in Carlton that burned down in 2018 and was rebuilt brick by brick with community love is one that captured the hearts and minds of arts lovers across the country - and now, with Meg's installation, Rebuild La Mama, is set to capture the imaginations of the international arts community as well.
Benefactors
Captivating production ‘Benefactors’ takes to the Ensemble stage.
WORLD-RENOWNED PIANIST, PIERS LANE AO, TO PEFORM POP-UP CONCERT IN SYDNEY’S ICONIC QUEEN VICTORIA BUILDING AHEAD OF THE SYDNEY INTERNATIONAL PIANO COMPETITION 2023
Piers Lane will perform three sets from 11:30am-2:30pm at the QVB on Monday 29 May
Before RENT there was tick, tick…BOOM! and now it’s coming to Adelaide!
Stop the clock and take time out, because tick, tick…BOOM!, the acclaimed off-Broadway smash hit musical that inspired the Andrew Garfield Netflix film is finally making its way to Adelaide for a strictly limited season, opening this June.
Valuing a young audience — development opportunity for Victorian artists!
Abbotsford Convent in association with Melbourne Fringe is proud to present this creative intensive this July, for artists or groups who are curious about the art of making contemporary performance for children. Led by the incredible Sue Giles AM, the three successful applicants will also present showings of work-in-progress for feedback from children and families in Melbourne Fringe 2023.
PORTUGUESE CURATOR BRINGS JAPANESE ALT GROUP EXHIBITION TO SHOREDITCH
Martim Barroso, London-based Curator and Director of TOKYO PARK, will exhibit never-before-seen Japanese Ultra-contemporary artworks from Tokyo, Osaka, Hiroshima, and Fukuoka Post-Superflat Artists at Spiral Galleries in Shoreditch, from June 16th to June 25th, 2023. @tokyoparkgallery #onnanoko #tokyopark #tokyoparkgallery #postsuperflat #japaneseexhibition #shoreditchpopup #spiralgalleries
Perpetual announces longlist for prestigious Miles Franklin Literary Award
Perpetual, the trustee of the Miles Franklin Literary Award, today announced eleven authors have been included on the 2023 Longlist. They will be competing for one of the most prominent literary prizes in Australia, with the winner also receiving $60,000. @_milesfranklin @milesfranklinliteraryaward
Willoughby Council Inspiring and Engaging Children’s Imaginations
Willoughby City Council is inspiring and engaging young people through music, puppetry, dance and theatre with three exciting live performances planned for The Concourse, Chatswood in June and July.
New art gallery brings internationally renowned artists to Puerto Banús
Opening on the 16th of June, Twisted Art Gallery is the first gallery in the country to bring internationally renowned artists including Banksy, Alec Monopoly, Mr Brainwash, The Connor Brothers, Opake, Pure Evil, Sara Pope, Cecile Plaisance, SN, David Kracov, Kunst Met Een R, Tim Fishlock and Gal Yosef to Spain. Located in Antonio Banderas Square in Puerto Banús, this gallery will offer a relaxed setting where art lovers can view and purchase cool urban art and unique works which have been created for the gallery.
Return of iconic Bondi Festival serves arts, comedy and culture feast this Winter
Waverley Council is thrilled to announce the return of the much-loved Bondi Festival, boasting an astonishing arts line-up that’s bolder and better than ever before, with world-class theatre, comedy, cabaret and interactive experiences, from Friday 30th June to Sunday 16th July 2023.
Exhibitions - Margaret McIntosh & Susie Choi
Mitchell Fine Art in Fortitude Valley presents two concurrent solo exhibitions by artists Margaret McIntosh and Susie Choi from 16th May 2023.
A' Design Awards & Competition , 2022-2023 Winners
A' Design Award and Competition, one the world’s largest and most diffused international design awards announced results of the 2022-2023 design competition.
The Pulse of the Entertainment Industry. It starts here.
What better way to hear the voice of the world than through content submitted from around the globe? Especially when you have 28 classic and technology categories that Honor Stories Worth Telling to experience content. In classic form - the docs, shorts, trailers, features, scripts, faith – family, music, music video, pilot, student, socially responsible, trailer, TV, web series, animation. In the technology form - artificial intelligence, augmented reality, metaverse, digital comic, gaming, mixed reality, mobile, new media, NFT, podcast, s.t.e.a.m., VR-360, art. New Media Film Festival® in its 14th year shares the pulse of the Industry through the eyes of submissions. https://www.newmediafilmfestival.com/events
Exciting Mixed Media Art part of 14th International Art Exhibit at New Media Film Festival
Spain, United Kingdom, USA & Canada are artists part of the 106 New Media Films & Content programmed at New Media Film Festival June 7 (online) and June 8th in Los Angeles. #Spain #UnitedKingdon #USA #Canada #Art #Exhibit #International #newmedia #festival
Outhouse Theatre Co and Seymour Centre present CONSENT
Known for her extraordinary 2010 play, Tribes, Raine’s Consent is rich with intelligence, wit and power and “elevates its writer into the major league of British playwrights" (Variety).
Scenes from the Climate Era
Belvoir is delighted to present the world premiere of Scenes from the Climate Era, which is unlike anything seen on the Belvoir stage before; a collective of more than 50 scenes written by the acclaimed, Climate Playwright David Finnigan, on from 27th May to 25th June.
Suddenly Last Summer
Tennessee Williams’ gothic melodrama brought to life, from 15th May to 10th June 2023.
Birrarung x Abbotsford Convent
Presented by NGV as part of Melbourne Design Week, come along to this exciting one-day event at Abbotsford Convent, celebrating and reflecting the relationship between the Birrarung, meaning ‘River of Mists and Shadows’ (Yarra River), and Abbotsford Convent, which sits on Wurundjeri land.
Fantastical new story about finding your voice and saving the world, Black Sun/Blood Moon comes to Riverside Theatres
Critical Stages Touring and Riverside Theatres present realist fantasy story Black Sun / Blood Moon at Riverside Theatres Parramatta on Wednesday 7 June.
"MUSE" is opened – unique collaboration of the best Estonian artists
MUSE — it is an ode to admiration for the Muses and recognition of their complicity in the art processes. A trio of dissimilar, but balanced Estonian best art soloists Eduard Zentsik, Tauno Kangro and Yury Khorev was presented in A-Art Gallery – a real gem on the border with Russia and certainly one of the most important cultural venues in the region of Estonia. @art @gallery @artgallery @estonia @eesti @artestonia @bestart @muse @artist @artistandmuse @museinart @inspirational @inspiringart
THE PRIVATE LIFE OF ALBERT EINSTEIN IS BROUGHT ON STAGE AT RIVERSIDE THEATRES
"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world." – Albert Einstein
'Ngapa' Water Dreaming | Aboriginal Art Exhibition
A group exhibition of Aboriginal paintings depicting water dreaming stories is showing at Mitchell Fine Art in Fortitude Valley until 13th May 2023. @mitchellfineartgallery
New Ghosts Theatre Company supported by National Theatre Of Parramatta present the World Premiere of Katy Warner’s Girl Band
“Universally, women with personalities are hated” – Billie Eilish
Celebrated Time/Life Photographer Ben Martin’s “Artists In Their New York Studios – Circa 1960” Featured in Upcoming Exhibition Photosynthetic From May 13 - June 9, 2023
Opening reception on Saturday, May 13 from 4 - 6 PM! Artist’s Portraits in Gelatin Silver Estate Prints of Roy Lichtenstein, Mark Rothko, Larry Rivers, Helen Frankenthaler, Marisol Escobar and Salvador Dali!
Quebec Spring - Canadian Bands To Feature At UK Festivals - The Great Escape / Focus Wales / Liverpool sound City / Edinburgh Wide Days
SODEC Quebec, a body which is funded by the Quebec government to promote Canadian acts from Quebec in the UK are bringing a host of fantastic Canadian acts over to the UK to play at Wide Days Festival Edinburgh - April 13-15, LSC - Liverpool 28-30 April, Focus Wales - Wrexham May 4-6, The Great Escape Brighton - May 11-13.
Australian Premiere Of Tony-Nominated Broadway Comedy ‘Clyde’s’ On Ensemble’s Menu This May
This May, Ensemble Theatre is thrilled to present the Australian premiere of the Tony Award-nominated Broadway comedy, Clyde’s; a fiery, sandwich-slinging social commentary by two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, Lynn Nottage (Ruined, Sweat).