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Boldly Brisbane
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NORTH STRADBROKE ISLAND, BRISBANE
First Nations Outdoor Installations
Jumoo (Smoking) 4 Messengers of Brisbane 6
SILENCE 19 Sunsuper Night Sky 8
Embassy 20
remake-regenerate-reclaim 21 Theatre & Dance
Q U E E N S L A N D, YO U ’ R E Future Ancestors
A Connective Reveal - Community
32
34
Leviathan
Throttle
10
18
Socially Distanced Dance Club 26
GOOD
Suburban Takeovers Arc 27
Street Serenades 12 One Bottle Later 28
All You Need is Love 22 (You Don’t Have To Put On Your) Red Light 29
Exercise Surprises 23 Avoidable Perils 30
Common People Dance Eisteddfod 2 31
Visual Art & Conversations Cowboy 32
Brainbow Magic & Rainbow Circles (Healing Circles) 16 How to Spell Love 33
Making Art Work 21 The Type 33
TO G O
Assembly Now 34 Coming Back Out Brisbane 36
The Art of Resilience 40 Snapshot 41
From Whispers to Revolutions 40
Museum of Brisbane Walking Tours 42 Music
DomestiCITY 42 Classic Brisbane 26
Jazz on Sundays 26
Family Friendly Fun The Sweetest Taboo 35
The Lost Lending Library 24 The IsoLate Late Show LIVE! 35
A Curious Arcade 25 Washington 36
Wishful Bedtime Stories 25 Custard 37
Finchy Fun Workshops 26 Andrew Tuttle & Cloud Tangle 37
The Creatures’ Place 31 Hot Mess Mama 38
Aerobatics Display 43 MZAZA - The Birth and Death of Stars 38
The Listening Études 39
Lord Mayor’s City Hall Concerts 43
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Acknowledgement of Country
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QUEENSLAND.COM Brisbane Festival expresses its respect for and acknowledgment of the Brisbane Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.
We pay our respects to the Traditional Owners of country, including the custodial neighbouring communities on whose land works are
created, performed and celebrated by Brisbane Festival. We acknowledge the continuing connection to land, waters and communities.
We also pay our respects to Elders, past and emerging.
We recognise the integral role Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples continue to play in the creative and artistic events
and celebration spaces. Brisbane Festival and the Indigenous Advisory Group will meaningfully engage, embrace culture and
commit to a progressive future together.
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Cover image by Morgan Roberts | Light installation by Michael Richardson | Brochure and visual design by Sean Dowling
Welcome to Brisbane Festival
PREMIER OF QUEENSLAND AND MINISTER FOR TRADE
The Honourable Annastacia Palaszczuk MP
MINISTER FOR ENVIRONMENT AND THE GREAT BARRIER REEF,
MINISTER FOR SCIENCE AND MINISTER FOR THE ARTS
In March 2020, Rome Mayor Virginia Raggi extended an unusual invitation to Romans.
She encouraged them to open their windows or step out onto their balconies and sing. Italy was The Honourable Leeanne Enoch MP
in complete lockdown with 60 million people forced to stay in their homes. Virginia’s invitation for
The Palaszczuk Government welcomes Queensland to a very special Brisbane Festival 2020.
spontaneous singalongs, musical performances and dancing became a source of inspiration and
comfort to me as the Brisbane Festival 2020 program was repeatedly recrafted under ever-evolving In a challenging year for the arts across Australia, Brisbane Festival has found a way for the show to go on,
restrictions. ‘Andrà tutto bene’, which means ‘Everything will be alright’, hung from her balcony reimagining its traditional program. Our plan to Unite and Recover for Queensland jobs recognises that events
overlooking the Roman Forum. A fitting mantra for this year’s Festival. such as this provide an important economic boost and promote all that Brisbane has to offer.
The reality of COVID-19 hit us like a tsunami back in March. For most of us, 2020 has been the The Festival includes 91 events across 190 suburbs over three weeks, with special-edition night-time laser shows
most tumultuous year of our lives. Drought, fires, floods, a global pandemic and a social unrest that lighting up the city skies. It features 490 performances, many of them free, including 28 newly commissioned
has brought to the forefront many injustices which have been swept under the carpet for too long. works. Importantly, Brisbane Festival will showcase our world-class Queensland talent and provide jobs for 700
It demanded we pause and reflect. local artists who have been badly impacted by the COVID-19 crisis. Brisbane Festival is also spearheading the
new Working Title initiative, supporting creative residencies for 10 companies to develop uniquely Queensland
So, the question begged: How do we make a festival for these times? March was seminal and
work and providing opportunities for local artists and arts workers.
a time I will never forget. As international borders closed, ‘social distancing’ was the most-used
phrase globally, along with ‘pivot’ and ‘isolation’. This created big challenges for my team and me. The Palaszczuk Government supports Brisbane Festival with funding through Arts Queensland and Tourism
However, one thing remained resolute – our commitment to Brisbane. For my inaugural Festival and Events Queensland. We congratulate Brisbane Festival on delivering an innovative, exciting program
as Artistic Director, Brisbane was always going to be the star. and encourage all Queenslanders to attend.
We are blessed with an abundance of incredible luminaries and homegrown artistic heroes.
The impact COVID-19 has had on this community has been devastating for both artists and venues.
Yet, instead of focusing on all the things we could no longer do, we chose to channel our energy into THE RIGHT HONOURABLE, THE LORD MAYOR OF BRISBANE
the things we could.
Councillor Adrian Schrinner
I am proud to say that this year we will employ more Brisbane artists than ever before. We will invite Brisbane Festival is one of our city’s most treasured events. Each year, Brisbane comes alive with colour,
audiences back into our beloved venues. We will give wings to 28 brand new works. We will create a entertainment and exhibitions, with some of the city’s most iconic landmarks setting the stage for Brisbane
city-wide cleansing led by our First People. We will welcome audiences to the grand opening of the Festival. I want Brisbane to be a city where talent can thrive and Brisbane Festival will provide an important
iconic Metro Arts at their new home in West End. And we will fill the city with music and be proudly lifeline for our creative community and talented local artists, as we recover from the pandemic. While we’ll be
Boldly Brisbane. celebrating Brisbane Festival a little differently this year, it fills me with pride that we are able to continue this
boldly Brisbane tradition, while casting a spotlight on local artists who are leading the way for the arts in Australia.
We are also delighted to welcome a playful and joyous work by Florentijn Hofman of The Netherlands.
Messengers of Brisbane will see six giant Gouldian Finches perched atop key Brisbane locations to
watch over us in September. These messengers of hope are our gift to you and an invitation to look
up and smile. CHAIR, BRISBANE FESTIVAL
Please enjoy our special, mostly-free springtime celebration made for these unusual times. I invite
Alison Smith
you to ‘do as the Romans do’ and sing and dance in the streets of Brisbane. It’s time to have some fun. On behalf of the Board, welcome to a reimagined Brisbane Festival. That we have an event to share with
you this year is testament to the extraordinary efforts of Charlie and Louise and their team. The Board backed
Thank you to our government shareholders, sponsors and donors for their generosity and their vision to support artists and arts workers and to give the city something to celebrate this Spring. We
commitment to the Festival this year. I extend my deepest gratitude to our Board for their faith were profoundly encouraged by the early commitment of some incredibly generous philanthropists, and with
in us to recreate a new Festival for these crazy times, and shout out to the unflappable Brisbane the continuing support of our shareholders Queensland Government and Brisbane City Council, along with
Festival team. our dedicated corporate partners Brisbane Festival has emerged to shine a light for Brisbane. I invite you to
celebrate with us this September.
A silver lining of the past six months is a renewed sense of camaraderie with our neighbours and
a greater yearning to connect with community. We have seen that the impact of kindness and
compassion can be as far-reaching as a pandemic. This September, let’s spread joy as we celebrate
the best city in the world. CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER, BRISBANE FESTIVAL
I wish you a safe and joyous Boldly Brisbane Festival this September.
Charlie Cush
Delivering a festival during a pandemic is a process that offers up wicked challenges and surprising delights.
Andrà tutto bene.
We are only able to successfully launch Louise’s inaugural festival thanks to the support of many. Our two
government shareholders were unwavering in their support from the outset. We were guided by our Board,
Louise Bezzina chaired by Alison Smith, and supported by a loyal and dedicated team of Brisbane Festival staff.
Brisbane Festival, Artistic Director
Our heartfelt thanks to our Giving Committee and the generous donors who rallied around us and our corporate
partners such as Channel 9, South Bank Corporation and City Parklands Services who have continued their
support. We are deeply indebted to all our sponsors, including Sunsuper who we have welcomed as Principal
Partner this year. It is an absolute pleasure to lead Brisbane Festival alongside Louise as we deliver her Boldly
Brisbane program in 2020.
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Jumoo
(Smoking)
‘Jumoo’ means ‘smoking’ Across Brisbane
in the Turrbal language.
M T W T F S S
To open this year’s Brisbane
1 2 3 4 5 6
Festival, we invite you to 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
be part of a very special, 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
city-wide smoking ceremony. 21 22 23 24 25 26 27
28 29 30 September
This event will honour
and pay respect to the 4 Sept
First People of Brisbane, Fri 6pm
who have occupied this See website for more details
country for more than
65,000 years.
Under the creative direction Image by Atmosphere Photography
and Custodianship of Tribal
Experiences Managing
Director and Yuggera and
Turrbal man Shannon Ruska,
these smoking ceremonies
will be a mass celebration and
connection to country to lead
us peacefully and respectfully
into September.
It’s time to reset, refocus
and cleanse.
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BRISBANE FESTIVAL AND
TOURISM AND EVENTS QUEENSLAND PRESENT
Messengers
of Brisbane
Florentijn Hofman (Netherlands)
Six giant Gouldian Finches
will fly into Brisbane to
Brisbane
spread messages of hope
Exclusive
this September.
Brisbane CBD,
Created by internationally Brisbane Powerhouse,
renowned artist Florentijn Goodwill Bridge,
Hofman and brought to life South Bank, QPAC,
by Brisbane’s Urban Art and Queensland Museum
Projects, these spectacularly
M T W T F S S
coloured birds invite us to 1 2 3 4 5 6
look up and smile. 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
14 15 16 17 18 19 20
Perched atop iconic Brisbane 21 22 23 24 25 26 27
locations in the inner-city river 28 29 30 September
area, Messengers of Brisbane
can be viewed on a leisurely 4 – 26 Sept
stroll, bike ride, or even from All-day event
a CityCat. See website for more details
This project is supported
Learn more about this through the Giving Program by
endangered species through Tim Fairfax AC and Gina Fairfax.
workshops and activities at
Queensland Museum and on
our website.
Party hats
are on!
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The night sky is our
canvas for a laser and
light installation.
BRISBANE FESTIVAL AND
BRISBANE CITY COUNCIL PRESENT
Sunsuper
Night Sky
Robin Fox
For millennia, people have
looked to the night sky for
World
solace, inspiration, meaning
Premiere
and guidance. Sunsuper Night
Sky heralds the beginning of Brisbane City
a new era, a time to come
back together and make M T W T F S S
1 2 3 4 5 6
a connection.
7 8 9 10 11 12 13
14 15 16 17 18 19 20
Every Friday and Saturday 21 22 23 24 25 26 27
night of the Festival, 28 29 30 September
buildings across Brisbane’s
skyline will play host to an 4 – 26 Sept
interconnecting and pulsing Every Fri & Sat, 7pm – 9pm
laser beam show set to an See website for more details
ethereal soundtrack.
Details
Created by Australia’s most To listen to Robin Fox’s composition
each night, visit our website.
renowned audio-visual artist,
Robin Fox, this exquisite light Tune into Triple M 104.5FM for
installation will be visible a live broadcast of the soundtrack
for miles from hundreds at 7pm on 26 Sept.
of vantage points across
Vantage points
Brisbane. View Sunsuper & Walking Circuits
Night Sky from the street, on Sunsuper Night Sky can be viewed
your evening walk or even by from hundreds of Brisbane
locations. For the best experience,
CityCat. Cast your eyes up,
download our Sunsuper Night Sky
contemplate life and wonder walking circuits map at
at the beauty of our world. brisbanefestival.com.au/walks
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BRISBANE FESTIVAL AND
QUEENSLAND PERFORMING ARTS CENTRE
PRESENT
Leviathan
Circa
Circa’s ensemble is joined by
a cast of Brisbane-based acrobats
Queensland
and dancers in a staggering work
Premiere
of scope, scale and ambition.
Playhouse, QPAC
Under the direction of Yaron
Lifschitz, 36 performers defy M T W T F S S
gravity as they propel themselves 1 2 3 4 5 6
across the stage, tumbling, 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
14 15 16 17 18 19 20
balancing and soaring together
21 22 23 24 25 26 27
as one. 28 29 30 September
Exploring the massive and 4 – 12 Sept
unpredictable energies that Tue – Sat, 7:30pm
are unleashed in a civilisation
careening toward an unknown $45 – $55 + Booking fee
fate, Leviathan offers hope in these See website for more details.
70 mins
complex times. Connecting the
local with the global, it celebrates This project is supported
what we can achieve when we through the Giving Program
work together. by Philip Bacon AM.
The dramatic power and
extreme skill of Circa’s trademark
acrobatics thrillingly expose the Image by Damien Bredberg
tension between the mass and the
individual in this deeply moving
and physically stunning show.
“Leviathan moves between
exquisitely precise choreography
and seeming chaos.”
The Conversation
This project has been assisted by the Australian Government’s Major Festivals
Initiative, managed by the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body,
10 in association with the Confederation of Australian International Arts Festivals 11
Inc, Brisbane Festival, Perth Festival, La Strada Graz Festival and Stanford Live.
BRISBANE FESTIVAL AND AAMI PRESENT
Street
Serenades
It’s the biggest music Across Brisbane
extravaganza in Brisbane’s
history with Brisbane Festival M T W T F S S
1 2 3 4 5 6
serenading 190 suburbs of
7 8 9 10 11 12 13
our glorious city. Over three 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
weeks of the Festival, pop-up 21 22 23 24 25 26 27
concerts will be delivered 28 29 30 September
direct to your neighbourhood.
4 – 26 Sept
Concerts in cul-de-sacs, See website for more details
symphonies for your suburb,
and performances in your
favourite park will arrive on
bespoke stages on wheels,
bringing music to the streets Image by Morgan Roberts
and reaching every suburb
in Brisbane.
This epic music program will
feature some of Brisbane’s
best contemporary musicians,
DJs, cabaret shows, circus
and general Festival frivolity,
intimate concerts with duos
and trios across folk, jazz and
world music and Brisbane’s
finest classical musicians.
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BRISBANE FESTIVAL AND AAMI PRESENT
Street Serenades
Busby Marou Queensland Symphony Classic Brisbane by Camerata – Melissa Western Pink Matter Sycco
Orchestra Queensland’s Chamber Orchestra
Jaguar Jonze Tom Thum Briefs Factory Laik QMusic Carol Lloyd Sahara Beck
Award Showcase
The Australian Voices Hope D Eliza & The Delusionals Lost and Found: Mack Ridge Order Sixty6
A Song Cycle by Sean Sennett
Oscar Production Company The Little Red Company Balairi Karl S. Williams Queensland Conservatorium The Mama’s Boys Collective
Griffith University
14 15
BRISBANE FESTIVAL, WEST VILLAGE
AND METRO ARTS PRESENT
Brainbow
Magic
Hiromi Tango
Artist Hiromi Tango seeks
to bring comfort and spark
World
joy through the magic of
Premiere
fluorescence in her new art
installation, Brainbow Magic. Window Gallery &
Gallery Two, Metro Arts,
This work continues West Village, West End
Hiromi’s exploration into the
therapeutic potential of light, M T W T F S S
1 2 3 4 5 6
colour and contour through
7 8 9 10 11 12 13
art. All these elements can 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
contribute to improved mental 21 22 23 24 25 26 27
wellbeing, easing anxiety and 28 29 30 September
feelings of isolation.
4 – 27 Sept
At a time when communities See website for more details
are processing the difficult
emotions and experiences of
the global pandemic, Hiromi’s
sensory work is both healing
and transformative – a Image by Hiromi Tango
rainbow after the storm.
Rainbow Circles
(Healing Circles)
Hiromi’s outdoor masterpiece,
Rainbow Circles (Healing
World
Circles), beckons people into
Premiere
a transformative space of joy
and wonder. The Common,
West Village, West End
Brightly coloured luminescent
rainbow arches dance and 4 – 27 Sept
glow in the garden at West See website for more details
Village, calling us to explore
what lies over the rainbow.
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Throttle Silence
The Farm Karul Projects
“A horror movie – but theatre!” SILENCE is about the space
in between. Conversations not
We’ve marched across
Country. We’ve had promises
World
Premiere
10 – 13 Sept
Thu – Sat 7:30pm
The Music being heard and responses made and broken. We’ve Sat 2pm + post-show Q&A
that are muted. A drum beats drafted our own treaty, and Sun 2pm
A B-grade thriller viewed Scream with delight, dive Brisbane Showgrounds 23 – 26 Sept
Gregory Tce, Bowen Hills and bodies thrash through still we’re the only sovereign Powerhouse Theatre, 55 mins
from within the safety of under the dashboard or Wed – Fri 7:15pm, $25 + Booking fee
frequencies to uncover what peoples without one. Brisbane Powerhouse
your own car. grip the hand of your fellow Sat 6.15pm & 8:45pm
M T W T F S S 75 mins
lies in the SILENCE. There is
passenger and ignite some Choreographed by M T W T F S S
Throttle is lit by your
1 2 3 4 5 6 $100 per car + Booking fee SILENCE between stars as
fun-fuelled passion. 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Bundjalung-Yugambeh, 1 2 3 4 5 6
headlights, heard through
Bookings essential, no door sales the emu travels across the
14 15 16 17 18 19 20 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Image by Kate Holmes
night sky, or the dancer’s Wiradjuri and Ni-Vanuatu man
your car radio and seen Buckle your seatbelts. 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
energy when they hit the cut Thomas E.S. Kelly, this new
through your windscreen. This You’re in for a ride. 28 29 30 September 21 22 23 24 25 26 27
between rhythms. It’s also the dance work pulls it from under 28 29 30 September
is a live-action drive-in with
Image by Art-Work Agency deafening silence under white the rug and slams it back
an exhilarating, 360-degree
noise. The same questions on the table. Because the
dance performance.
echoed through generations. conversation about a TREATY
will never be silenced.
18 19remake
regenerate
reclaim
Digi Youth Arts Bunyapa Park,
West End
Digi Youth Arts presents a collection
of performances across music M T W T F S S
1 2 3 4 5 6
and spoken word in response to
7 8 9 10 11 12 13
Uncle Richard Bell’s Embassy; a 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
public space for imagining and 21 22 23 24 25 26 27
articulating alternate futures and 28 29 30 September
reflecting on, or retelling, stories of
oppression and displacement. Sat 19 Sept
4pm – 6pm
See website for more details
These performances are also the
outcome of a creative development
program that nurture the next
generation of Indigenous young
people by providing space to
remake, regenerate and reclaim Image by LaVonne Bobongie
their culture through performance,
visual art and music.
Making Art Work
Institute of Modern Art
Brisbane Festival and the Across Brisbane and the
Institute of Modern Art (IMA) Judith Wright Arts Centre
have co-commissioned three
Embassy
M T W T F S S
Queensland artists to create
1 2 3 4 5 6
new works in the public realm 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
as part of Making Art Work, 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
an exciting new program for 21 22 23 24 25 26 27
Richard Bell the IMA. 28 29 30 September
This thought-provoking land rights and sovereignty. Bunyapa Park, Sat 12 Sept Hannah Brontë, Julian Day, 4 – 26 Sept
installation pays homage to Since 2013, it has appeared West End 11am – 4pm and Kinly Grey each use text- For more information
the Aboriginal Tent Embassy. throughout Australia, the UK’s See website for more details about Making Art Work,
M T W T F S S based artworks to explore
First assembled in 1972 by TATE Modern and the 1 2 3 4 5 6 our relationship with shared
visit makingart.work
activists on the lawn of Venice Biennale. 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 spaces and modes of creating
Parliament House, it’s the 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 connections at a distance in
world’s longest-running Embassy presents a program 21 22 23 24 25 26 27
this new reality of transformed
protest occupation. that explores the issues 28 29 30 September Image by Kiah Reading
Image courtesy Richard Bell social relations.
Aboriginal People face in and Milani Gallery
Artist Richard Bell’s Australia through a program
reimagined Embassy is a of talks, workshops and
travelling artistic space film screenings. Join artists,
that provides opportunities academics, and community
for discourse on Aboriginal representatives as they give
and Torres Strait Islander voice to the cause.
20 21All You Need is Love Exercise Surprises 5 – 26 Sept
Briefs Factory/Brisbane Excelsior Band The bikeways and walking cheer squads, and acrobats Across Brisbane
paths of a suburb near you flipping down paths, among See website for more details
4 – 6 Sept
It’s a love-filled, flash-mob fanfare! Across Brisbane
See website for more details
are about to be ambushed other delights. M T
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W T F S S
2 3 4 5 6
by some of Brisbane’s best
M T W T F S S 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
Drag artiste and dancer- With a twirl of Fez’s baton, the and brightest artists in a Brisbane’s best will take to the
1 2 3 4 5 6 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
prancer Fez Faanana from band will march steps in time 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 series of surprise encounters streets including Dead Puppet 21 22 23 24 25 26 27
hilarious boylesque drag across Brisbane to remind us 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 throughout September. Society, Elements Collective, 28 29 30 September Image by Stefan Cooper Fox,
crew Briefs Factory will lead that all you really need is love. 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 debase productions, courtesy of debase productions.
Brisbane Excelsior Band in a 28 29 30 September Be on the lookout for MANOEUVRE, The Mask
loud declaration of love from Love, love, love. It’s easy! prehistoric puppets, playful Family and Flipside Circus.
Brisbane Festival. lollipop ladies, flash-mob
22 23BRISBANE FESTIVAL AND
BRISBANE POWERHOUSE PRESENT
A Curious Arcade
Imaginary Theatre
Prepare to be intrigued by peculiar
storytelling machines in this century-old
World
arcade exhibit.
Premiere
These elaborate, gold coin-operated
Brisbane Powerhouse
machines are the creations of virtuosic
Australian inventor Celeste Mackellan, M T W T F S S
an obscure figure who disappeared 1 2 3 4 5 6
in 1929 along with the mechanical 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
curiosities she built. 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
21 22 23 24 25 26 27
28 29 30 September
Fascinated by Mackellan’s mysterious
disappearance, an international
15 – 26 Sept
consortium of collectors and creatives
9am – 5pm
from Imaginary Theatre are slowly See website for more details
working to locate, extract and
lovingly restore her machines to
their former glory.
Image by Morgan Roberts
At A Curious Arcade, you can experience
these mechanical wonders as they tell
timeless stories that surprise and delight.
Wishful
Bedtime Stories
Take the kids on an adventure
to the beach, a fabulous
World
birthday party, Grandma’s
Premiere
house, or to a faraway land
BRISBANE FESTIVAL AND BRISBANE POWERHOUSE PRESENT with Wishful Bedtime Stories. Brisbane Festival
The Lost Lending Library
website, at your leisure
Director Bridget Boyle,
writers David Burton and Clare M T W T F S S
McFadden, and Sound Designer 1 2 3 4 5 6
7 8 9 10 11 12 13
Kim Bowers (Busty Beatz)
Punchdrunk (United Kingdom)/Imaginary Theatre have together taken the
14 15 16 17 18 19 20
21 22 23 24 25 26 27
At 314 floors high and with experience for children aged Brisbane Powerhouse 19 – 26 Sept everyday and imagined places 28 29 30 September
72 spiral side departments, 4 to 12 years old and their 10am – 5pm, children longed for during
The Lost Lending Library is the caregivers. Enter the Library M T W T F S S sessions every hour lockdown and turned them into 8 – 23 Sept
largest collection of books in to discover a magical world,
1 2 3 4 5 6
See website for more details exquisite bedtime stories for One story released
7 8 9 10 11 12 13 3 to 12 year olds.
the world. The Library leaps a celebration of books and 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
$40 per group + Booking fee every week on
from place to place, seeking the journeys they take us on. 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 Tue & Wed at 6:30pm
Your children will be lulled See website for more details
out young creative minds 28 29 30 September
Do you have the right to sleep with tales of change
wherever it goes…
imagination to help fill the Image by Paul Cochrane and stories of wonder inspired
Inspire a lifetime of reading Library’s shelves and power by the experiences of children
and writing in this intimate it to the next destination? in 2020.
24 25Brisbane Festival at South Bank
Classic Brisbane
Camerata - Queensland’s Chamber Orchestra Rainforest Green,
South Bank
Experience a delightful program performed 5 & 12 Sept
outdoors by a quintet from Camerata – Queensland’s 3pm, 4pm & 5pm
Chamber Orchestra. Featuring well known classical 35 min
masterpieces alongside iconic songs from Brisbane’s
Savage Garden and the Go-Betweens.
Wild Energy
Annea Lockwood/Bob Bielecki Rainforest Walk,
South Bank
This multi-channel outdoor installation gives 4 – 26 Sept
audiences access to the vibrations in the ultra 9am – 10pm
and infra ranges emanating from sources which
affect us fundamentally, but which are beyond
our audio perception.
Jazz on Sundays
Featuring a cool line-up of Brisbane’s finest jazz Flowstate,
singers and musicians, including songstresses South Bank
Charlotte Mclean and Adelina Martinez, unwind 6 Sept & 20 Sept
on a Sunday afternoon in true Festival style. Sun 2pm
60 mins
Bookings essential, no door sales
Socially Distanced Dance Club
Common People Dance Project Flowstate,
South Bank
Solo dance in a four square metre space 4, 11, 18, 25 Sept
Arc
as you shimmy through dance crazes across See website for more details
the ages. Expect games and challenges
as you twist, twerk, hustle and shuffle
your worries away. Be ready to disco!
Australasian Dance Collective
Arc is a stunning work of scale Created by Australasian World 18 & 19 Sept
Finchy Fun Workshops that captures the odyssey of
the human spirit and how we
Dance Collective’s Artistic
Director, Amy Hollingsworth,
Premiere Fri & Sat 5pm
30 mins
Come to Flowstate for creative finchy fun Flowstate, strive for purpose and unity this immersive and deeply
This project is supported
with Messengers of Brisbane workshops. South Bank following a time of separation moving piece sees the River Quay, South Bank through the Giving Program
19 – 26 Sept and fear. company performing by Philip Bacon AM.
Collect a postcard, join the free craft activities Sat – Sat 10am – 1pm alongside its 30-strong youth M T W T F S S
under our giant Gouldian Finch and take your See website for more details A bespoke creation for ensemble and features an 1 2 3 4 5 6
art home to enjoy. Brisbane Festival, Arc reflects evocative new score from 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
14 15 16 17 18 19 20
us and our journey from award-winning composer, Image by David Kelly
21 22 23 24 25 26 27
isolation to reconnection. Wil Hughes. 28 29 30 September
26 27BRISBANE FESTIVAL AND BRISBANE POWERHOUSE PRESENT (You Don’t Have To Put On Your)
One Bottle Later Red Light
The Good Room The Good Room
You’re invited to join The Good
Room for a conversational
your choice and a glitter drop,
take a chance on a stranger
World 16 – 20 Sept
Preview Wed 7pm
Stay in. Stay sexy.
Keep your tracksuit on but
Performed by some of
Brisbane’s finest vocal artists,
World 9, 16 & 23 Sept
See website for more details
escapade, a few drinks and becoming your new fast friend.
Premiere Thu – Sat 7pm & 9pm get ready to feel a little hot these steamy, tongue-in-
Premiere $15 + Booking fee
30 mins
a good time. Sat 4:30pm & Sun 3pm under the elastic! The Good cheek stories will provide Strictly 18+
This one is for bold and Powerhouse Theatre, $35 – $45 + Booking fee Room has hopped into bed a little literary release on a Your phone, at home
Get to know a stranger in adventurous punters who Brisbane Powerhouse 70 mins
with Benjamin Law, Krissy Wednesday night.
Strictly 18+
this high-fun and low-risk like their hearts open and Kneen, and Mandy Beaumont M T W T F S S Image by Joel Devereux
M T W T F S S
intimacy experiment. With 36 glasses full. to deliver three intimate audio It’s The Good Room in your 1 2 3 4 5 6
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
random questions, a bottle of 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 experiences directly to bedroom – what’s not to love?
14 15 16 17 18 19 20
14 15 16 17 18 19 20 your phone. 21 22 23 24 25 26 27
21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 September
28 29 30 September
28 29Common People
Dance Eisteddfod 2
Common People Dance Project
Teams of suburban gladiators South Bank Piazza
will dance off once again to prove
which side of Brisbane is BEST! M T W T F S S
1 2 3 4 5 6
7 8 9 10 11 12 13
Over eight months, Common
14 15 16 17 18 19 20
People Dance Project has been 21 22 23 24 25 26 27
working with people of all ages 28 29 30 September
and abilities to shape a series of
over-the-top dance routines set Sat 19 Sept
to killer ‘80s and ‘90s tracks. Doors 5:30pm
Show 6:30pm
Come witness the continuation 60 mins
of this no-holds-barred dance $25 + Booking fee
Bookings essential, no door sales
extravaganza that added
sequinned sparkle to
Brisbane Festival in 2019.
Image by Raw Bones Photography
BRISBANE FESTIVAL AND
BRISBANE CITY COUNCIL PRESENT
The Creatures’
Place
Dead Puppet Society Main Auditorium,
Brisbane City Hall
BRISBANE FESTIVAL AND METRO ARTS PRESENT
Children will travel back to the
Avoidable Perils
Pleistocene era and come face M T W T F S S
1 2 3 4 5 6
to face with ancient Australian
7 8 9 10 11 12 13
giants under the glowing dome 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
of City Hall. 21 22 23 24 25 26 27
Counterpilot 28 29 30 September
Brought to life in puppet form
Bad things are happening,
and our heroes are at risk!
A game for the masses, this
work explores activism in
Queensland Premiere by the creative geniuses of Dead Mon 21 Sept
Puppet Society, these creatures 11am, 12:30pm & 2:30pm
the attention economy, and ask us to reflect on the effect 60 mins
From hungry sharks to the challenge of large-scale The Common, 4 – 19 Sept Bookings essential, no door sales
humans have on animals sharing
deadly laser beams, danger teamwork. West Village, West End Tues – Sat 6 – 9pm our island. Presented by Brisbane City
is imminent and the only Council as part of the Lord
person who can stop it is you! Watch this cartoon chaos M T W T F S S
1 2 3 4 5 6
After you encounter Dead Puppet Mayor’s Children’s Program.
unfold or use your smartphone Society’s enormous visitors from
7 8 9 10 11 12 13
Avoidable Perils is a dubious to be part of the greater good. 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 a forgotten time, work alongside
new social experiment for 21 22 23 24 25 26 27
Image by Sean Dowling the artists to bring your own
anyone who can be bothered 28 29 30 September creature to life. Image by Gasbag Studios
to help.
30 31Brisbane Festival at Metro Arts
BRISBANE FESTIVAL AND METRO ARTS PRESENT BRISBANE FESTIVAL AND METRO ARTS PRESENT
Cowboy How to Spell Love
Michael Smith/The Farm Anisa Nandaula
Yee-haw! Featuring a
mesmerising original score
New Benner Theatre,
Metro Arts
Acclaimed poet Anisa
Nandaula premieres a
World Premiere
composed by Ben Ely West Village, West End distinctive examination of
(Regurgitator) and set in the love, relationships and life New Benner Theatre,
M T W T F S S
imagined sweeping landscape 1 2 3 4 5 6 as a migrant woman in Metro Arts
of a classic old western, 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 contemporary Australia. West Village, West End
Cowboy is an interactive, solo 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
M T W T F S S
contemporary dance work. 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 With her signature critical
1 2 3 4 5 6
28 29 30 September style, Anisa shines a light 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
From surfing trains to taming on the experience of an 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
horses to wandering the desert, 4 – 6 Sept individual caught in the 21 22 23 24 25 26 27
this work unpacks your ability Fri – Sat 7:30pm, middle of intersecting political 28 29 30 September
to have a complete, genuine Sat & Sun 2pm and social structures.
45 mins 17 – 20 Sept
and meaningful experience as $15 + Booking fee
Blending evocative poetry, Thu – Sat 7:30pm,
an imagined self.
dance and a powerful live Sat & Sun 2pm
50 mins
Saddle up and enter the world percussive score, How to Spell $15 + Booking fee
of Cowboy for a poignantly Love is a passionate and
funny yet sensitive ride. Image by Anne Moffett triumphant act of personal
storytelling.
Image by Cynthia Lee
BRISBANE FESTIVAL AND METRO ARTS PRESENT BRISBANE FESTIVAL AND METRO ARTS PRESENT
Future Ancestors The Type
Voices of Colour/Digi Youth Arts/Conscious Mic Pink Matter
Future Ancestors depicts
the journeys of three spoken
Metro Arts,
West Village, West End
Uplifting and empowering,
The Type showcases a
World Premiere
word artists. diverse cast from your
M T W T F S S
favourite pro girl gang,
1 2 3 4 5 6 New Benner Theatre, Metro Arts
Traversing the multitude of Pink Matter.
7 8 9 10 11 12 13 West Village, West End
intricacies and intersectional 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
complexities within Aboriginal, 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 Through street dance M T W T F S S
Torres Strait Islander, Pasifika 28 29 30 September and hip-hop music, 1 2 3 4 5 6
7 8 9 10 11 12 13
and Indian communities, this these heavy-hitters take 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
moving spoken word piece Sun 6 Sept inspiration from their 21 22 23 24 25 26 27
See website for more details
forges a future of solidarity own experiences around 28 29 30 September
for all Indigenous people. representation, body
image and the cut-throat 10 – 13 Sept
Ethan Enoch-Barlow, nature of the dance Thu – Sat 7.30pm,
Meleika Gesa-Fatafehi Image by Darren Thomas Sat & Sun 2pm
industry.
and Naavikaran present 45 mins
$15 + Booking fee
this original short-form It’s funky girl power with
performance work, creating a whole lot of groove.
a space where all voices
can be heard.
Image by Ben Garcia
32 33Brisbane Festival at Metro Arts Brisbane Festival at The Tivoli
BRISBANE FESTIVAL, METRO ARTS AND BRISBANE FESTIVAL AND THE TIVOLI PRESENT
BRISBANE CITY COUNCIL PRESENT
A Connective The Sweetest
Reveal - Community Taboo
Katie Noonan World Premiere
Robert Andrew
Katie Noonan returns to
Brisbane-based artist
Robert Andrew explores the
World Premiere her beloved genre of jazz
and with her Quintet will
The Tivoli
interconnections, links and perform reinterpretations M T W T F S S
layering within local communities. Metro Arts of the classic ‘80s songs 1 2 3 4 5 6
West Village, West End 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
that shaped her life.
14 15 16 17 18 19 20
As a descendant of the Yawuru
M T W T F S S 21 22 23 24 25 26 27
people with European and Filipino New arrangements will 28 29 30 September
1 2 3 4 5 6
heritage, Robert’s artistic practice be brought to life in the
7 8 9 10 11 12 13
explores identity and history, often 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
jazz idiom by Katie and her Sat 19 Sept
combining natural materials and 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 exceptional band, recreating Doors 4pm, Show 5pm
contemporary technologies. 28 29 30 September songs from her early musical Doors 8pm, Show 9pm
heroes including Sting, $45 + Booking fee
This kinetic work reflects on the 3 – 27 Sept Icehouse, Terence Trent 70 mins
See website for more details Strictly 18+
exquisite complexities and details D’Arby, Crowded House,
inherent when bringing people Billy Joel, Vince Jones,
together in the deep sharing and Eurythmics and U2.
building of knowledge and culture.
Image by Cybele Malinowski
BRISBANE FESTIVAL AND METRO ARTS PRESENT BRISBANE FESTIVAL AND THE TIVOLI PRESENT
Assembly Now The IsoLate Late
Sally Golding
Assembly Now is a participatory
World
Show LIVE!
installation that transforms space The Little Red Company
into a light and sound-reactive Premiere
environment. Online smash The IsoLate Late Show The Tivoli
Gallery One, Metro Arts leaps off Facebook and onto The
West Village, West End M T W T F S S
Developed as a collaboration Tivoli stage in its first public outing
1 2 3 4 5 6
between artist Sally Golding M T W T F S S especially for Brisbane Festival.
7 8 9 10 11 12 13
and electronic musician and 1 2 3 4 5 6 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
creative technologist Spatial, 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Hosted by Queensland’s first lady 21 22 23 24 25 26 27
this immersive work uses the
14 15 16 17 18 19 20 of song, Naomi Price (Beautiful: The 28 29 30 September
21 22 23 24 25 26 27 Carole King Musical, Ladies in Black),
interface of the mirror to elaborate 28 29 30 September
and leading man of stage and screen Fri 4 Sept
the psychology and technology
3 – 27 Sept Luke Kennedy (The Voice Australia, Doors 5:30pm, Show 6:30pm
of emergent algorithmic software,
See website for more details Swing on This), The IsoLate Doors 8pm, Show 9pm
which functions as a contemporary
screen filtering our emotions. Late Show has got the band back $35 + Booking fee
together and assembled a stellar 60 mins
Strictly 18+
Visitors will be immersed in a line-up of special guests.
work that plays with perception,
interactivity and unexpected Pour yourself a quarantini and lock
Image by Andy Stagg in a night out with Australia’s biggest
encounters. (South London Gallery)
Image by Phillip Castleton
little cabaret powerhouse.
34 35Brisbane Festival at The Tivoli
BRISBANE FESTIVAL AND THE TIVOLI PRESENT BRISBANE FESTIVAL AND THE TIVOLI PRESENT
Washington Custard
Megan Washington – one of World Premiere with special guests The Stress of Leisure
Brisbane’s most celebrated
musicians – invites you to the
Much-loved Australian
power-pop outfit Custard
World Premiere
launch of her long-awaited The Tivoli
returns to earth with a new
album Batflowers, a musical
M T W T F S S album and live gig. The Tivoli
album and silent film. 1 2 3 4 5 6
7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Featuring front man M T W T F S S
The first single ‘Dark Parts’ 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 1 2 3 4 5 6
David McCormack, drummer
off her new 2020 album has 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
Glenn Thompson, bass player
been raucously received with 28 29 30 September 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
extraordinaire Paul Medew, 21 22 23 24 25 26 27
rave reviews from the likes of
12 & 13 Sept and guitarist Matthew Strong, 28 29 30 September
The Guardian, Junkee, and
Sat 12 Doors 7pm, Show 8pm their latest album Respect
Rolling Stone. Sat 5 Sept
Sun 13 Doors 6pm, Show 7pm All Lifeforms was recorded in
a single feverish day and is Doors 7pm, Show 8pm
This intimate experience, in $45 + Booking fee
$50 + Booking fee
the old-world setting of The 70 mins & 20 min interval classic Custard. Strictly 18+
Strictly 18+
Tivoli, will be a hell of a party.
These ‘90s superstars will rock
Dress code: you’re invited to out their new songs and some
observe the theme – fancy old favourites at this special
Image by Lyndal Irons
in black and white. Image by Meg Washington, Tivoli show.
Adam Dal Pozzo and She Is Aphrodite
BRISBANE FESTIVAL AND THE TIVOLI PRESENT BRISBANE FESTIVAL AND THE TIVOLI PRESENT
Coming Back Andrew Tuttle
Out Brisbane & Cloud Tangle
All The Queens Men This exclusive double-launch
event features Brisbane
World Premiere
Created by All The Queens Men, Coming Back Out
Brisbane is a joyous, social event celebrating Brisbane’s
Queensland multi-instrumentalists and
older lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and gender diverse, Premiere songwriters Andrew Tuttle and
Cloud Tangle (Amber Ramsay)
The Tivoli
intersex and queer communities. as they debut works from their M T W T F S S
1 2 3 4 5 6
Online and The Tivoli respective albums, Alexandra
Through online dance clubs held in the lead up 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
and Kinds Of Sadness. 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
to the Festival, LGBTIQ+ elders have come together M T W T F S S
21 22 23 24 25 26 27
to acknowledge their resilience and create a safe, 1 2 3 4 5 6 A mix of banjo and guitar, 28 29 30 September
social space. 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
Andrew’s live performance
14 15 16 17 18 19 20
21 22 23 24 25 26 27
will take you on a journey Wed 16 Sept
During the Festival, we warmly invite all to a live through the Australian Doors 7pm, Show 8pm
28 29 30 September
edition of LGBTIQ+ Elders Dance Club featuring local bushland, while Cloud Tangle $25 + Booking fee
artists and co-hosted by Brisbane choreographer 20 Sept evokes a mood equally 90 mins & 20 min interval
Brian Lucas and All The Queens Men. Strictly 18+
Sun 2pm devastating and beautiful
120 mins with many heart-opening
Visit our website for details on how to enjoy this Bookings essential
moments along the way.
social and dance experience for the whole rainbow
family and their allies. Image by Bryan Spencer
Image by Bryony Jackson
36 37Brisbane Festival at The Tivoli The Listening Études
Lawrence English (Room40)
BRISBANE FESTIVAL AND THE TIVOLI PRESENT
In a year of unprecedented quietening, it seems apt to focus our listening and reach out into the world through our ears. As the world
Hot Mess Mama slowed, and as the ambient noise of our city fell away, a new and expanded sense of the sonic in our everyday lives became available.
As the world reawakens, composer and artist Lawrence English curates a series of durational site- and situation-specific sound
happenings to celebrate this sense of deeper listening.
Emma Dean/Katherine Lyall-Watson
Emma Dean is Mama Earth, World
and she’s a hot mess.
Premiere Wild Energy Australian Premiere
It’s hardly surprising considering Annea Lockwood & Bob Bielecki
she’s survived meteors, floods,
The Tivoli Rainforest Walk, South Bank
fires and earthquakes. This multi-channel outdoor installation gives audiences
Her temperature’s rising and M T W T F S S access to the vibrations in the ultra and infra ranges 4 – 26 Sept
it’s time to face some facts; 1 2 3 4 5 6 emanating from sources which affect us fundamentally 9am – 10pm
she’s either going through early 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 but which are beyond our audio perception.
14 15 16 17 18 19 20
menopause or she’s spent too
21 22 23 24 25 26 27
long in the solarium! But before September
Percussion at Dusk
28 29 30
Mama Earth hits ‘Reset’, she’s World Premiere
decided to party like it’s 1999 Fri 18 Sept
with everyone in Brisbane. Doors 7pm, Show 8pm Vanessa Tomlinson Highgate Hill Park, Eildon Hill
$30 + Booking fee
Reserve, and South Bank River Quay
Featuring original music, 60 mins & 20 min interval Percussionist Vanessa Tomlinson unleashes the raw power
Strictly 18+ 5, 19, 26 Sept
a live band and plenty of musical of the tamtam, conjuring sonic drones and shimmering
Sat 5pm
mayhem, Hot Mess Mama will vibrations to unlock a secret universe of sound. 30 mins
have you singing like it’s your
last day on earth.
Image by KD Photography.
Artwork by D’mitri Cossar
MONO: Offsite
BRISBANE FESTIVAL AND THE TIVOLI PRESENT Chris Abrahams
The Old Museum
MZAZA - The Birth
Perhaps best recognised for his role in legendary trio 6 Sept | Sun 7pm
The Necks, Chris Abrahams will perform on The Old Museum 60 mins
$15 + Booking fee
organ, his first time performing an organ solo in Brisbane.
and Death of Stars
Bookings essential, no door sales
World music favourites
MZAZA bring you their third
World Premiere Wallpaper Music World Premiere
album The Birth and Death Erik Griswold
of Stars, a surreal voyage The Tivoli The Old Museum
exploring what links us to Featuring a new commission by Erik Griswold, Wallpaper 13 Sept | Sun 7pm
M T W T F S S Music part four, this performance for prepared piano uses the 2 hours
one another and the world
1 2 3 4 5 6 $15 + Booking fee
around us. instrument in a radically ‘retuned’ way, multiplying it into a Bookings essential, no door sales
7 8 9 10 11 12 13
14 15 16 17 18 19 20
variety of muted, percussive, buzzing and gong-like sounds.
Contemplate your place in 21 22 23 24 25 26 27
the universe as the sounds 28 29 30 September
of some of Australia’s most
diverse musicians and 10 & 11 Sept
Inner Cities Queensland Premiere
songwriters transport you Thu & Fri Doors 7pm, Show 8pm Alvin Curran & Gabriella Smart
to another time and place. $35 + Booking fee The Old Museum
Take a step away from the 70 mins One of Australia’s most accomplished advocates of new 20 Sept | Sun 2pm – 7pm
Strictly 18+ 5 hours
everyday with MZAZA! music, Gabriella Smart, performs Alvin Curran’s epic
$15 + Booking fee
five-hour solo piece, Inner Cities, in its entirety. Bookingse essential, no door sales
Image by Laura Matikainen and Pauline Maudy
38 39BRISBANE FESTIVAL AND
QUEENSLAND PERFORMING ARTS CENTRE PRESENT
The Art of
Resilience
Brisbane Festival 2020 has been Playhouse, QPAC
curated with a thread of hope
M T W T F S S
and joy; firstly, as solace to the
1 2 3 4 5 6
Brisbane community and secondly, 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
to acknowledge the contribution of 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
the arts industry so savagely affected 21 22 23 24 25 26 27
by COVID-19. 28 29 30 September
QPAC Scholar in Residence Professor Sat 5 Sept
Judith McLean will facilitate an 2pm – 4pm
$15 + Booking fee
important and in-depth conversation
about art and resilience with
Bundjalung woman, director,
broadcaster and producer Rhoda
Roberts AO, Founder and Director of
Ethical Intelligence Mark Crosweller
AFSM, Australian lawyer and human
rights advocate Nyadol Nyuan,
and multi-award winning millennial
entrepreneur and former Mental
Health Commissioner Nicole Gibson.
BRISBANE FESTIVAL AND LA BOITE PRESENT
From Whispers
to Revolutions:
The Future of our
Creative Industries BRISBANE FESTIVAL AND BRISBANE POWERHOUSE PRESENT
Post-pandemic, can the theatre
industry be rebuilt stronger than ever?
How do artists stay responsive?
Can the performing arts enact positive
Roundhouse Theatre,
La Boite
M T W T F S S
Snapshot
1 2 3 4 5 6 Polytoxic
and lasting change? 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
Join Brisbane Festival artists Alethea
14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Brisbane favourites, Polytoxic,
have collaborated with local
These stories, remixed
with breathtaking aerials,
World 10 – 12 Sept
Thu – Sat 6:30pm & 8:30pm
Beetson, Robin Fox, Gavin Webber,
21 22
28 29
23 24 25 26 27
30 September creative minds to bring you soundscape and large-scale
Premiere 30 mins
Lisa Fa’alafi, Leah Shelton and Natano a time capsule of ‘now’. visuals, will be projected
Fa’anana in a discussion on making Sat 19 Sept on the walls of Brisbane Brisbane Powerhouse
art for socially distanced times. 4pm – 5:30pm From visual artists, to dancers, Powerhouse.
90 mins
to writers, theatre makers M T W T F S S
Bookings essential
Facilitated by Brisbane Festival Artistic and musicians, more than 100 Snapshot is an homage 1 2 3 4 5 6
Director Louise Bezzina, this panel local artists contributed to this to the arts community 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
session sets out to ask the big questions 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
work, sending their reflections, and a gift to all.
21 22 23 24 25 26 27
as we emerge from the haze of celebrations and memories of 28 29 30 September
COVID-19 to create a better future. life under lockdown.
40 41DomestiCITY
BRISBANE FESTIVAL AND BRISBANE CITY COUNCIL
WOW (Women of the World) Australia Lord Mayor’s City
In the nineteenth century,
women were expected to be pious,
pure, submissive and domestic.
World
Premiere Hall Concerts
Home was their sole sphere of life. On with the Show – Queensland Main Auditorium,
Conservatorium Griffith University Brisbane City Hall
Various locations A lively and entertaining hour
In March 2020, after two centuries M T W T F S S
of struggle to change this, women M T W T F S S of selections from the most 1 2 3 4 5 6
all over the world were forced 1 2 3 4 5 6 evocative and treasured songs 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
back into their homes during 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 from the musical theatre repertoire. 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27
lockdown. For some, this meant
a new confinement to the
21 22 23 24 25 26 27 Camerata Live 28 29 30 September
28 29 30 September
domestic sphere with little Enjoy an afternoon of great
classics as a quintet from 8, 15, 22 Sept
help and a whole lot more 18 – 20 Sept
Camerata – Queensland’s Tue 12pm
responsibility. Fri 7pm, Sat 4pm, Sun 11am
Chamber Orchestra shares See website for details.
55 mins
In a series of performances, For more information the joy of live music. Bookings essential
about DomestiCITY, visit
exhibitions and chats around
wowaustralia.com.au Tilly Bébé: Women in Jazz
the table, WOW Australia invites The Lord Mayor’s City Hall
you to be part of the global As part of a project bringing Concerts are a Brisbane City
together female jazz players from Council initiative.
conversation on the impacts of
COVID-19 on women and girls, around Australia and beyond, this
right here in the homes Brisbane Festival edition showcases
of Brisbane women. a local line-up performing jazz
classics and original compositions. Image by Atmosphere Photography
Museum Aerobatics
of Brisbane Display
Walking Tours The breadth and
depth of Australian
Across Brisbane
Museum of Brisbane Defence Force airpower M T W T F S S
1 2 3 4 5 6
capabilities will be on
Lace up your sneakers and Museum of Brisbane 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
show for the public to 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
hit the streets to rediscover
M T W T F S S see first-hand the latest 21 22 23 24 25 26 27
Brisbane through a new
1 2 3 4 5 6 aviation technologies. 28 29 30 September
perspective. Perfect for a 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
family day out, a date on the 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Spectators can expect 26 Sept*
weekend or a fun afternoon 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 more than four hours See website for more details
with your friends, MoB Walking 28 29 30 September
of flying displays over
Tours offers themed tours to *Australian Defence Force
Brisbane with fast jets, activities, including RAAF
suit all interests. 4 – 26 Sept
transport and rotary Super Hornet and Army
Tours offered daily helicopter displays are
Bookings essential wing aircraft taking
Through historical facts, subject to availability.
part in this exhilarating,
much loved anecdotes and For more information about action-packed display.
fascinating trivia, MoB’s MoB Walking Tours, visit
walking tour guides bring museumofbrisbane.com.au/tours
Brisbane’s vibrant art,
culture and history to life.
Image courtesy Museum of Brisbane.
Photo by Dave Kan
42 43BRISBANE FESTIVAL, BRISBANE AIRPORT CORPORATION AND SCREEN QUEENSLAND PRESENT
Boldly Brisbane Artists
On Brisbane’s creative and artistic community While this year looks different, it’s the biggest ever for our local artists. This new initiative highlights the work and projects of
trailblazing creatives engaged with Brisbane Festival. We’re proud to present and back our Boldly Brisbane Artists for 2020.
“I find the Indigenous arts community here incredibly supportive, “This is an amazing place to make work and there’s a really
innovative and connected and I have been lucky to be supported by the strong sense of support and community in Brisbane that I
Aunties, Uncles, Brothers and Sisters of the community.” think is quite unique to other arts communities.”
ALETHEA BEETSON LEAH SHELTON AND LISA FA’ALAFI (POLYTOXIC)
FIRST NATIONS CURATOR – BRISBANE FESTIVAL SNAPSHOT
“Brisbane’s greatest strength is the supportive “Brisbane has such a unique independent arts culture with
industry professionals who want to see you succeed a strong and supportive community. There seems to be a
and will help you if you ask.” freedom in independent work in Brisbane that embraces a unique
combination of bold, bright, daggy, funny and joyful.”
ANISA NANDAULA
HOW TO SPELL LOVE NERIDAH WATERS
COMMON PEOPLE DANCE EISTEDDFOD AND SOCIALLY DISTANCED DANCE CLUB
“There’s a resilience to the arts community here, we keep “Brisbane is a place where entertainment is not
getting knocked down and keep getting back up!” a dirty word and can be used to create amazing art
BRIAN LUCAS
that audiences want to see.”
COMING BACK OUT BRISBANE DANIEL EVANS, AMY INGRAM, LAUREN CLELLAND, TARA HOBBS (THE GOOD ROOM)
ONE BOTTLE LATER AND (YOU DON’T HAVE TO PUT ON YOUR) RED LIGHT
“We’re renegades – we lead, we don’t follow. I think the fighting spirit “The thing Brisbane has the most going for it is the
of the artists of the ‘70s and ‘80s lives on in our creative DNA. We don’t extraordinary potential of its artists, who we’ve seen time
want to sound or look like other people; we want to be unique.” and time again, flourish under the right conditions.”
KATIE NOONAN THOM BROWNING
THE SWEETEST TABOO A CURIOUS ARCADE AND THE LOST LENDING LIBRARY
“The thing I’m constantly impressed by is the way Brisbane
“I think Brisbane has a lot of creative folk with amazing vision and
audiences time and time again turn out for the most
it’s up to us as cultural leaders to ensure that the city allows this next
ambitious, unconventional and off-the-wall artistic events,
generation the opportunity to blossom.”
particularly during Brisbane Festival.”
LAWRENCE ENGLISH
TRENT DALTON
THE LISTENING ÉTUDES
BOY SWALLOWS UNIVERSE (2021)
44 Visit brisbanefestival.com.au for interviews and discussions with these Boldly Brisbane Artists 45BRISBANE FESTIVAL, BRISBANE AIRPORT CORPORATION AND SCREEN QUEENSLAND PRESENT
Boldly Brisbane Artists
On being a Boldly Brisbane Artist
“I love the artistic energy that lives within this city, so I am honoured. “I’m just doing what I am meant to do: that is to make art and use it
I want to use this opportunity to continue lifting the profile of as a tool to be a storyteller, create opportunities for other artists of colour,
dance, as well as celebrating the broader arts.” represent my culture with Mana and reflect my family proudly.”
AMY HOLLINGSWORTH NATANO FA’ANANA
ARC COLLISION – WORKING TITLE AND FROM WHISPERS TO REVOLUTIONS
“In some ways, everyone here in Brisbane in the arts scene
“Sometimes we have to pinch ourselves that our little
is on that trailblazing wave, that path. I think the Brisbane spirit
Brisbane-born company has let us work all over the world.”
is one of less self-consciousness.”
NICK PAINE AND DAVID MORTON (DEAD PUPPET SOCIETY)
BRENDAN JOYCE
EXERCISE SURPRISES AND THE CREATURES’ PLACE
CLASSIC BRISBANE BY CAMERATA – QUEENSLAND’S CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
“I think lots of the structures that exist do need to be burnt down, so we can “It means the work we’re doing is making a difference and we’re
start again. I’m happy with the ‘Boldly Brisbane Artist’ title, it makes me feel achieving the mission of our business: to provide platforms for
like I’m a badass action hero with some kind of fiery weapon, taking names Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists to create, tell stories
and kicking ass, and I’m happy for my artistry to be seen like that.” and connect the wider community with our culture.”
CLAIRE CHRISTIAN AMANDA HAYMAN AND TROY CASEY (BLAKLASH)
THE MAMAS BOYS COLLECTIVE – STREET SERENADES FIRST NATIONS CURATORS – BRISBANE FESTIVAL
“In First Nations communities, trailblazers are recognized for their
“The best thing I can do is keep my head down and
contributions, innovation, vision, and calibre of their work. I am not a
make really great, authentic and compelling stage work
trailblazer in the way that we mean or understand it in First Nations
that hasn’t been seen before.”
Communities, I am too young. But hopefully one day I will be?”
YARON LIFSCHITZ
MERINDAH DONNELLY
LEVIATHAN
FIRST NATIONS CURATOR – BRISBANE FESTIVAL
“I am interested in carving out a path that has not yet been “Brisbane Festival has done such a brilliant job of keeping
trodden, but I also recognise that in order to do that, I’m relying on the Brisbane’s arts industries alive during this time and this initiative is
legacy of some incredible women who have come before me.” a great way to amplify individual creatives’ voices.”
NAOMI PRICE ELISHIA WHITCHURCH (URBAN ART PROJECTS)
THE ISOLATE LATE SHOW LIVE! MESSENGERS OF BRISBANE
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