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What's Going On Brisbane and Surrounds

  • Independent Zine and Comic Convention Hits Brisbane

    Run by volunteers, the Zine and Independent Comic Symposium (ZICS) unites passions and engages community.


    In its second year, ZICS is independently organised and...
  • Jason Byrne Wants You... To Name His Australian Tour

    Irish comedian Jason Byrne returns to Australia in September after a two-year hiatus with his requisite quota of madness — and this time he wants you to name his

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  • Who Wants To Know What Love Is?

    What is love? For millennia this question has probed the human psyche.


    Earlier this year local performance based collective The Good Room (Daniel Evans and Amy...
  • Celebration Of Stories And Ideas At Writers Festival

    Brisbane Writers Festival (BWF) has been celebrating reading, writing and ideas with the people of Queensland and showcasing Queensland writers to the world for over fifty

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  • Don't Be Left Stranded Without Entertainment This Summer

    As we prepare for the slew of entertainment options for the summer, another option has moved to the neighbourhood.


    Stranded will be a series of boutique festivals...
  • Top 5 Nicolas Cage Movies

    Do we need a reason to run a story about Nicolas Cage’s best cinematic work? Didn’t think so.


    We asked Adelaide six-piece Jimmy And The Mirrors to select from Mr...
  • Is This Australia's Newest Supergroup?

    After almost a year of hard work and planning, Sydney hip hop collective One Day have released their debut album, 'Mainline', and are touring it next month.


    The...
  • 5 Dangerous Animals With Seekae

    With a third studio album set to arrive next month, ‘The Worry’, Sydney electronic specialists Seekae are currently touring the country.


    Rather than asking them...
  • S Club 7 Is Bringing It All Back

    If you grew up in the '90s then you're probably getting a little hot and flustered right now.


    British pop act S Club 7 are making a comeback – with the help of...
  • Charming Comedian Trevor Noah To Tour Australia

    The slick, intelligent and hilarious South African comedian is returning for his second national tour.


    Having achieved international stardom, Trevor will perform at...
  • Travel To Limboland With Bill Bailey

    Few comedic minds are as sharp as that of Englishman Bill Bailey, and he’s bringing it our way once again in a bid to help us contemplate the true nature of

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  • Top Five Childhood Songs

    Capturing audiences with her earthy vocals, Lily Budiasa paints a beautifully haunting soundscape.


    The indie acoustic folk singer-songwriter from the Gold Coast is...
  • Serpentine: Charting The Evolution Of The Corset

    Bertie Page Clinic presents ‘Serpentine’, a rock opera that charts the evolution of the world’s most notorious undergarment, the corset as part of the Brisbane Fringe

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  • Songwriters Circle: West End Girls

    A songwriter’s circle sounds like a forbidden zone — a creative space for artists and poets to interweave their magic.


    Chanel Lucas of Women In Docs fame has merged...
  • Spend An Evening With The Fanciful Fiction Auxiliary

    By day Jackie Ryan seems like an ordinary lady with a quirky, creative spirit.


    She writes and directs ‘Burger Force’, an Aurealis Award-winning independent comic...
  • Enter The Void And The Light

    Created collaboratively by the artists of Outcast for the Brisbane Fringe Festival, ‘The Void And The Light’ is a hybrid work that combines voice with contemporary dance and

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  • Ghostboy's Top Five Poems

    David Stavanger – aka Ghostboy – is the Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde of Australian poetry.


    He won the Thomas Shapcott Poetry Award in 2013, he's a Green Room nominated...
  • Missy Higgins To Tour Oz

    Beloved Aussie singer/ songwriter Missy Higgins has announced a one-off Australian tour called ‘OZ’.


    These September/ October dates will be Missy’s only shows for...
  • Magical Tempest In Roma Street Parklands

    Talking to up-and-coming director, Zoë Tuffin, you understand her passion for the arts burns at her core. She aims to take bold international elements in dance and fuse them

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  • The Japanese Film Festival Returns For 2014

    Experience the largest Japanese Film Festival (JFF) outside of Japan.


    Boasting the latest contemporary titles that attracted 25,000 people nationwide last year,...