Brisbane Festival 2008
CABARET / CIRCUS / COMEDY
Closing Night Party – Chukale; Musiki Manjaro; Diafrix
Feasting on Flesh – Strut & Fret Production House
Opening Night Party – Dubmarine; Deep Ends; Afro Dizzi Act
Racecourse Road Street Party – Pablo Discobar; Kafka; Afro Dizzi Act; Emma Dean; Chu ‘kale’; The Tonights; Tim Loydell & The Deckchairs; Kristy London & the Other Halves
The 7.00 Show – The Kansky Sisters; Deborah Conway; Willy Zygier; Mikelangelo and the Black Sea Gentlemen; Les Yeux Noirs; FourPlay; My Friend the Chocolate Cake; The Tiger Lillies
OPERA / CLASSICAL
Opera at Brookfield – Brisbane Philharmonic Orchestra; Roland Peelman
Symphony at the Shore – Brisbane Symphony Orchestra
The Red Tree – Australian Chamber Orchestra; Shaun Tan
MUSIC
Jazz on Sunday – Lisa & Jose McLaughlin Quintet; Catherine Lambert; Shannon Marshall; Rohan Somasekaran Quartet; East Coast Ensemble; Renae Suttie; The Con Artists Jazz Orchestra
Scheherazade – Raz Bin Sam & The I Lion Band; Camoon; Muziz; Transbakan Express; Pejvac
The Black Arm Band – Ursula Yovich; Bart Willoughby; Mark Atkins; Archie Roach; Stephen Pigram; Lou Bennett; Peter Rotumah; Dave Arden; Shellie Morris; Kutcha Edwards; Ruby Hunter; Emma Donovan; Shane Howard; Rachel Maza-Long; Joe Geia; Dan Sultan
DANCE
Battle City 7 – Sammie D; DJ Bacon; Fresh Elements
bODY_rEMIX/gOLDBERG_vARIATIONS – Compagnie Marie Chouinard
Electronique – Andrew Fee; Jack Chambers; David Murray; Jonathon Oxlade; Ginner Whitcombe; Lucy Chambers; Kristy Purtill; Kerene Guest; Gene Peterson; Chris Pearson; Matthew Smith
THEATRE
alice 21 – Stephen Rowan; Linda Hassall
BF08 Under the Radar – Metro Arts
The August Moon – Adam Grossetti; Jean-Marc Russ
The Fiveways – Eugene Gilfedder
The Grand Inquisitor – C.I.C.T; Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord
The Kingdom of Desire – The Contemporary Legend Theatre
Three Sisters – Chekhov International Theater; Cheek by Jowl
INSTALLATION / IMMERSIVE
Big Square Eye – Vivian Hogg; Kate Geck; Andrew Gibbs; Ross Manning; Archie Moore; Alan Nguyen
Contagion – Gina Czarnecki
Inhabit: Ideas for Better Living – Rodney Glick; Christopher Langton; Alexander Lotersztain; Nicole Voevodin-Cash
Shifting Intimacies – Keith Armstrong; Charlotte Vincent; Guy Webster
The Swell String – Beh Wattenberg; Joel Stern
COMMUNITY
Brisbane Backyards – Melissa Western; Tim Loydell; Zarabanda; The Goodbye Notes; Leah Cotterell; Bowjangles String Collective
Into Africa – Musiki Manjaro; Diafrix; Drums and Lions; Yani; Samoko; Sam Okath
Running with Kites – Wen-Fu Tsai; Shun Cheng-Hou; Hung-Nan Hsu
Q&A / TALK
The 2008 Griffith Lecture – Dr Oliver Sacks
World Dance Alliance Global Summit Brisbane – AUSDANCE
FOOD
Albert Street Lunch – Bowjangles; Stefano Manfredi; Ashala; The Brewhouse; Cafe Mondial; Gilhooley’s; Jeremy’s; Pane e Vino
Masterclass Weekend – Michel Richard; Hervé Augustin; Ayala Champagne; Brett Graham; Ledbury London; Xavier Pellicer; James Halliday; Iain Riggs; Bruno Loubet; Jason Peppler