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After a highly successful 10 day festival at Bondi, the 35th annual FLiCKERFEST International and Australian awards were announced this evening at a star-studded ceremony at Bondi Pavilion, Bondi Beach.
Eden is a lyrical coming-of-age story where land holds memory, desire awakens, and childhood quietly gives way to adulthood. Set among heat-soaked vines and fading farmland, Kit and Dan navigate first love, inherited dreams and the pull to become someone new. Written in a theatrical language that drifts between realism and poetic confession, Eden captures the beauty and danger of growing up — where love can bruise, hope persists, and transformation is inevitable. A moving, intimate new Australian work at The Courtyard of Curiosities as part of Adelaide Fringe. @AdelaideFringe @CourtyardOfCuriosities #EdenPlay #AdelaideFringe #NewAustralianTheatre #ComingOfAgeStory #IndieTheatre #LivePerformance #FringeSeason #AdelaideArts
PILGRIM is a bold, intimate solo work by performer Kate Walder, presented by award-winning company Steps & Holes at Adelaide Fringe. Blending storytelling, movement, music and ritual, the show follows an “accidental pilgrim” through belief, doubt, loss and return — tender, playful and quietly epic in scale. Trained with legendary French teacher Philippe Gaulier, Walder brings precision, humour and emotional openness to a performance that invites audiences into a shared act of reflection. PILGRIM continues Steps & Holes’ signature style of using the fool to explore life’s big questions with warmth and curiosity. @AdelaideFringe @StepsAndHoles #PILGRIM #AdelaideFringe #ContemporaryTheatre #Clowning #LivePerformance #AustralianTheatre
A woman finds it hard to find work as an actor, since she can’t speak the languages of her own land - India. Infamous colonial hangover creating chaos worldwide! Powerful yet light. ★★★★★ Binge Fringe @vibhinnaramdev
Griffin Theatre Company opens its stellar 2026 season with a 50th anniversary production of steve j. spears’s classic The Elocution of Benjamin Franklin, starring icon of stage and screen Simon Burke, from Saturday 21 February to Sunday 29 March 2026 at Belvoir’s Downstairs Theatre.
The French Australian Cultural Exchange Foundation (FACEF) is today thrilled to announce the recipients of five brand new grants, supporting some of Australia’s and France’s most respected visual arts institutions and artists with a total of $60,000.
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Queensland-based artist Carlos Barrios returns to Mitchell Fine Art with his solo exhibition, ‘Heart Songs’, showing 10 February - 7 March.
A wordless two-hander that shines a light on the humour and humanity of our lives. #DoubleTakeAdelaide
fast-paced, meta comedy using audience interaction to dissect the formula of the contemporary solo show
A fast-paced, meta comedy using audience interaction to dissect the formula of the contemporary solo show. #BABYFLEAREINDEERBAG @hannahmaxwellhere
A wordless two-hander that shines a light on the humour and humanity of our lives
Australian premiere of a fast-paced comedy using audience interaction to dissect the contemporary solo show formula and the return of award-winning show from Adelaide Fringe 2025
Qtopia Sydney, in association with the European Union (EU) Delegation to Australia, is thrilled to present LOVING, a photographic collection capturing intimate moments of male love between the 1850s and 1950s by American collectors and married couple, Hugh Nini and Neal Treadwell, open from February 5th, 2026.
City of Stonnington’s Classics Opera invites audiences to Victoria Gardens, Prahran on February 7, offering a free summer evening of classical music under the stars for opera newcomers and devoted audiences alike.
One performer, one light, no words, no set, no props, all within 1m². Kiwi solo performer Daniel Nodder brings their multi-award-winning physical theatre work to Adelaide Fringe for the very first time. “This is the type of show that you go to a Fringe Festival for.” ★★★★1⁄2 – Arts Hub, Melbourne 2023
Omega Ensemble presents an exhilarating opening fanfare to their stellar 2026 season with an explosive, three-city national tour Starburst, featuring special guest artist, Australian trumpet virtuoso David Elton, from Thursday 12th to Wednesday 18th February.
Australian Premiere: "Fair Play" by Ella Road is a gripping, high-energy two-hander set in the ruthless world of elite athletics. Following two young women on and off the track, the play interrogates ambition, friendship, gender, race, and who gets to decide what “fair” really means. Directed by Emma Whitehead and presented by Lost In Thought Theatre Company, this Australian Premiere fuses rapid-fire dialogue with physical storytelling to deliver an urgent, fiercely human work that speaks far beyond sport. @LostInThoughtTheatreCompany @EmmaWhitehead #FairPlay #AustralianPremiere #ContemporaryTheatre #WomenInSport #NewWriting #SydneyTheatre #IndependentTheatre
The Melbourne Welsh Male Voice Choir is again proud to present our annual St David’s Day Concert on Sunday 1st March at 2.30 pm in the Ian Woolf Auditorium, Carey Grammar School, 349 Barkers Rd Kew 3101
Merrigong Theatre Company transforms The University of Wollongong’s Kooloobong Oval into a spectacular open-air theatre this summer to present Sport for Jove’s The Comedy of Errors, a modern, razor-sharp take on Shakespeare’s classic comedy, from Wednesday 11th to Sunday 22nd February.
What happens when a fashion house is put under circus-level pressure? HAUS of YOLO doesn’t just ask the question — it stages the meltdown. This glitter-soaked cabaret from The Dust Palace fuses live costume-making with high-risk performance, turning creativity, time pressure and spectacle into a full-body experience. Known for pushing circus beyond the expected, the company leans into excess, humour and bravado, inviting audiences to witness artistry in motion and identity on display. With its pulse firmly on contemporary culture and its heart in collective celebration, HAUS of YOLO is more than a show, its a shared night out — loud, messy and electric. If you’re craving theatre that feels alive, unstable and joyfully out of control, this is a world worth stepping into.
Bunjil Place is gearing up to host our biggest FREE outdoor event ever! With live music, vibrant cultural performances and open-air cinema.
Merrigong Theatre Company in association with BlakDance are thrilled to present Garabari, an inclusive, immersive, multi-sensory theatre experience like no other by acclaimed choreographer and Wiradjuri artist Joel Bray, at the Wollongong Town Hall on Friday 6th and Saturday 7th February, and on Country at the Dapto Ribbonwood Centre on Saturday 14th February.
“One of Australia’s most successful and prolific playwrights” ~ The Sydney Morning Herald
For the first time in its 45-year history, Australia’s National Youth Circus, Flying Fruit Fly Circus will bring its world-renowned training program to Melbourne, with classes commencing at the newly opened Circus Centre Melbourne from January 2026.
Bankstown Arts Centre is proud to present two bold and captivating new works for Sydney Festival’s 50th anniversary in 2026, extending the reach of one of Australia’s most vibrant arts festivals to Western Sydney.
Mitchell Fine Art in Brisbane kicks off the 2026 exhibition calendar year with its annual show ‘Director's Choice’ from 13 Jan - 7 Feb.
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