Festivals
Swan song: Louise Bezzina’s love letter to Brisbane

Brisbane Festival’s artistic director Louise Bezzina is finishing her tenure with a flourish and the promise to deliver something for everyone in September.

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Film & TV
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Film & TV

It’s time to say hello again to Goodbye Paradise

Part political satire, part film noir, Aussie classic Goodbye Paradise was filmed on the Gold Coast in the early ’80s and is about to be re-released.

Film & TV
Free at last? Julian Assange is The Six Billion Dollar Man

A hotly awaited documentary about Julian Assange examines the WikiLeaks founder’s activism, his struggle with extradition as well as the greater issues of press freedom and the right to information.

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Visual Art
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Visual Art

My island home: Headlands Chalet revisited

Headlands Chalet on Straddie was once a haven for artists and its importance to creatives is being celebrated in a new exhibition at Redland Art Gallery.

Review
Power play poses moral dilemmas for us all

Lucy Kirkwood’s award-winning 2016 play The Children asks, ‘When do we take responsibility for the world we leave behind?’ – a question just as relevant today as debate over a nuclear future continues.

 

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Books & Poetry
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Books & Poetry

Shedding light on The Lady of the Lamp

The founder of modern-day nursing Florence Nightingale is reimagined in a compelling and daring new novel by Laura Elvery.

Visual Art
My island home: Headlands Chalet revisited

Headlands Chalet on Straddie was once a haven for artists and its importance to creatives is being celebrated in a new exhibition at Redland Art Gallery.

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Theatre
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Festivals

Swan song: Louise Bezzina’s love letter to Brisbane

Brisbane Festival’s artistic director Louise Bezzina is finishing her tenure with a flourish and the promise to deliver something for everyone in September.

Music
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Music

Russell Morris to draw the final curtain – it’s a real thing!

After a lifetime of touring, Aussie music legend Russell Morris is calling ‘time’ on touring, but not before one last lap around the country.