Arcadia at Brisbane Festival

Overview

Taking over the city during September, Brisbane Festival does many things. It gives everyone an excuse to devour entertaining cultural delights — and it serves up a new hangout.

Actually, make that hangouts. Yes, Brisbane Festival's central hub offers multiple spaces in one. Revamping South Bank's Cultural Forecourt, Arcadia boasts everything from the Little Creatures Treehouse to six pop-up food stops to a festival-first two-spiegeltent set-up.

The good news keeps on coming, because the bulk of Arcadia's bustling lineup of fun activities is free. Fancy harmonica and ukulele lessons? Eager to sink a few at a beer workshop or a robot and brew night? Want to watch a wood-carving demo or indulge in some life drawing? Keen to chill out to some live tunes from Tuesday to Sunday? Well, you'll find all that in the Little Creatures Treehouse. Plus, you can catch the fest's big cabaret, comedy and music shows such as Blanc de Blanc, Meow Meow's Little Mermaid and gigs by Custard, Mick Harvey, Jen Cloher and Kim Gordon.