All 2021 Festival Events

16 May, 13 Jun, 18 Jul, 15 Aug

LGBTIQ+ Elders Dance Club

The Newmarket Hall

Dance

Interactive

30 Aug – 3 Oct

Boy Swallows Universe

Playhouse, QPAC

Theatre

30 Aug – 11 Sept

Ishmael

Cremorne Theatre, QPAC

Theatre

3 - 25 Sept

Street Serenades

Music

Family

Circus

Cabaret

3 Sept

David Campbell: Back in the Swing

South Bank Piazza, BOQ Festival Garden

Music

3 - 7 Sept

Razzle Dazzle Riot

South Bank Piazza, BOQ Festival Garden

Cabaret

Circus

Music

3 - 24 Sept

Brisbane's Art Boat: Northshore Loop

Northshore, Hamilton

Installation

Visual Art

Music

3 - 12 Sept

Airship Orchestra

Installation

Visual Art

Interactive

3 Sept

COLLAR

The Princess Theatre

Music

3 - 25 Sept

Lost

West Village

Visual Art

Installation

3 - 25 Sept

Messengers of Brisbane

Visual Art

Family

3 - 25 Sept

The Mechanics of Adaption

Metro Arts

Visual Art

3 - 11 Sept

Weredingo

Metro Arts

Dance

Theatre

3 - 25 Sept

IMB Institute of Light

BOQ Festival Garden

Installation

Interactive

3 Sept

Sheppard

The Tivoli

Music

3 - 4 Sept

Queensland’s Finest

Concert Hall, QPAC

Music

4 - 11 Sept

DEMOLITION

Brisbane Powerhouse

Theatre

Cabaret

Circus

4 Sept

Women Who Dare (Momentum)

Adderton

Talks

4 - 11 Sept

Kurt Weill's Street Scene

Conservatorium Theatre

Music

5 Sept

First Nations Fashion: Walking In Two Worlds

South Bank Piazza, BOQ Festival Garden

Fashion

Sun 5 Sept

The Alexander Ball

The Tivoli

Music

Dance

Fashion

7 - 21 Sept

Lord Mayor's City Hall Concerts

Brisbane City Hall

Music

Dance

8 - 11 Sept

Auntie's Fiafia Night

South Bank Piazza, BOQ Festival Garden

Circus

Family

Dance

Music

8 - 11 Sept

Dirty Laundry

South Bank Piazza, BOQ Festival Garden

Cabaret

Circus

8 - 12 Sept

RED

Northshore, Hamilton

Dance

8 - 11 Sept

44 Sex Acts in One Week

Brisbane Powerhouse

Theatre

Comedy

8 Sept

Jarryd James

The Princess Theatre

Music

9 - 23 Sept

Brisbane's Art Boat: South Bank Loop

Cruises: BOQ Festival Garden

Visual Art

Installation

Music

9 - 23 Sept

Brisbane's Art Boat: South Bank to Northshore Cruise

Cruises: BOQ Festival Garden

Visual Art

Installation

Music

9 - 23 Sept

Brisbane's Art Boat: Northshore to South Bank Cruise

Northshore, Hamilton

Installation

Visual Art

Music

10 Sept

BLAK DAY OUT

The Tivoli

Music

10 - 15 Sept

La Boite HWY Parties

La Boite

Music

10 - 15 Sept

Considerable Sexual License

The Block (Z3), QUT Kelvin Grove

Dance

Interactive

Theatre

10 Sept

Piano Burning

Northshore, Hamilton

Music

Installation

Fri 10 Sept

The Conference of the Birds

Concert Hall, QPAC

Music

11 - 12 Sept

Housewarming

The Princess Theatre

Music

11 - 15 Sept

plenty serious TALK TALK

Roundhouse Theatre, La Boite

Dance

11 Sept

An Evening with Anthony Warlow

Concert Hall, QPAC

Music

11 Sept

Client Liaison

The Tivoli

Music

12 Sept

Love Stories

South Bank Piazza, BOQ Festival Garden

Music

Film

12 Sept

For Honeyman Street

South Bank Piazza, BOQ Festival Garden

Music

Cabaret

Sun 12 Sept

Songs That Made Me

The Tivoli

Music

14 - 18 Sept

Skyfall

South Bank Piazza

Music

Cabaret

14 - 16 Sept

AGAPI | ΑΓΑΠΗ & Other Kinds of Love

Metro Arts

Music

Theatre

15 - 18 Sept

Heart is a Wasteland

Cremorne Theatre, QPAC

Music

Theatre

15 - 25 Sept

Sky Castle

Installation

Visual Art

Interactive

15 - 17 Sept

Enemies of Grooviness Eat Sh!t

The Princess Theatre

Comedy

Theatre

15 - 18 Sept

Undercover Artist Festival

Queensland Theatre

Dance

Theatre

16 - 17 Sept

Boy & Bear

The Tivoli

Music

16 - 25 Sept

Let’s Be Friends Furever

Brisbane Powerhouse

Theatre

Comedy

16 - 25 Sept

Peter and the Wolf

Judith Wright Arts Centre

Dance

Family

Fri 16 Sept

First Nations First (Momentum)

Cremorne Theatre, QPAC

Talks

17 - 18 Sept

HUGHMAN

South Bank Piazza, BOQ Festival Garden

Music

Dance

17 -19 Sept

Timeless: A Brisbane State High School Centenary Celebration

Concert Hall, QPAC

Music

Theatre

Dance

17 Sept

As the Flow Cries

Conservatorium Theatre

Music

17 – 18 Sept

This Ain't No Pussy Show

Metro Arts

Dance

Theatre

18 Sept

The Coming Back Out Salon

The Tivoli

Dance

Music

Theatre

Cabaret

Sat 18 Sept

The Making of Men (Momentum)

Metro Arts

Talks

19 Sept

Common People Dance Eisteddfod

South Bank Piazza, BOQ Festival Garden

Family

Dance

19 Sept

Restless Dream

The Tivoli

Music

Theatre

Dance

Sun 19 Sept

Once Upon a Time in Australia (Momentum)

21 - 23 Sept

Summer Play Factor (SPF)

South Bank Piazza, BOQ Festival Garden

Circus

Family

21 Sept

Bright Sparks

South Bank Piazza, BOQ Festival Garden

Talks

21 - 22 Sept

An Evening with Marlon Williams

The Tivoli

Music

21 - 22 Sept

Cover Up

South Bank Piazza, BOQ Festival Garden

Cabaret

Music

22 Sept - 2 Oct

Forgery

Cremorne Theatre, QPAC

Dance

22 Sept

Babushka: Right to Party

Brisbane City Hall

Family

Music

Theatre

22 - 25 Sept

Wilbur the Optical Whale

Metro Arts

Family

Theatre

22 - 25 Sept

Funny Mummies Comedy Gala

Metro Arts

Comedy

23 Sept

What's Going On

South Bank Piazza, BOQ Festival Garden

Music

24 - 25 Sept

Bunggul

Concert Hall, QPAC

Music

18 - 24 Sept

Two Crews

24 Sept

Bowerytopia

The Tivoli

Visual Art

Cabaret

Music

Installation

24 Sept

FilmHarmonic

Conservatorium Theatre

Music

Film

24 Sept

Kate Miller-Heidke

South Bank Piazza

Music

25 Sept

Massaoke Oz

South Bank Piazza, BOQ Festival Garden

Music

Interactive

Dance

25 Sept

Sunsuper Riverfire

Family

3 - 25 Sept

Silver City

25 Sept

WAAX

The Tivoli

Music

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