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The Butterfly Club announces the 2017 Melbourne Cabaret Fringe Festiva...

June 6 - Cabaret, Festivals

The Butterfly Club and the Melbourne Cabaret Festival have announced the return of the Melbourne Cabaret Fringe Festival. Running 4 – 16 July and building on the success of the inaugural festival in 2016, this year...

QMF Hang with the QYO Manu Delago - photo by Mirko De Nicolo editorial

Queensland Music Festival 2017 set to unite the state in song

May 31 - Festivals, Latest News, Music

Katie Noonan has released her first program as Artistic Director of Queensland Music Festival (QMF), revealing a program that spans contemporary and classical music, large-scale community events and education programs, a...

Lighting of the Sails at Vivid Sydney by Audio Creatures - photo by James Horan

Vivid Sydney becomes a massive, creative canvas

May 27 - Festivals, Latest News

Vivid Sydney has bathed the New South Wales Capital in breathtaking colour and a dizzying array of special effects as the world’s largest festival of light, music, and ideas switches on for the next 23 nights. Featuring ...

Queer Screen appoints new Festival Director

May 22 - Creative Industries, Festivals

Former Queer Screen President, Lisa Rose has been appointed Festival Director of Queer Screen, overseeing the organisation’s 25th Mardi Gras Film Festival in 2018 and the 5th Queer Screen Film Fest in September this year...

Transitions Film Festival ADL Age of Consequences

Transitions Film Festival returns to Adelaide

May 18 - Festivals, Film

The Transitions Film Festival returns to Adelaide this May with a powerful line-up of cutting-edge documentaries about the existential challenges, mega-trends, game-changing technologies, and creative visions that are re...

AEFF Annette Bening stars in 20th Century Women

American Essentials Film Festival 2017

May 17 - Festivals, Film

Palace Cinemas once again are bringing the best of American independent film to Australian screens with American Essentials. Twenty films make their Australian premiere – many hot on the heels of their world premie...

WinterWild 2017 – a new after-dark festival in the Otways

May 16 - Festivals, Latest News

Embrace the elements of the southern Otways when a new after-dark festival sparks up in July: the first WinterWild will revel in the untamed side of Apollo Bay. Inspired by the elements of earth, water, air and fire – an...

Sydney Film Festival announces 2017 program

May 11 - Festivals, Film, Latest News

Featuring 288 films from 59 countries, the 64th Sydney Film Festival program has been officially announced by Festival Director Nashen Moodley, bringing together hundreds of international and local stories this June. “Th...