• Event

    Six of One Half a Dozen of the Other

    Friday, June 17 - Sunday, July 10, 2011

    Love Love Studios, Teneriffe

    This month’s featured Love Love artists are Timothy Lovett, Tommy Cole and Juliet in Six Of One Half A Dozen Of The Other.

  • Event

    Fete de la Musique

    Tuesday, June 21, 2011

    All around Brisbane, Brisbane

    Fete de la Musique is the one event this year that you literally cannot miss - you won’t be able to.

  • Event

    Willow Pop-up Sale

    Thursday, June 16 - Saturday, June 18, 2011

    June Dally-Watkins Centre, Brisbane

    For three days only, Willow’s setting up shop in the city’s June Dally-Watkins building, faring end-of-season wares from past and recent collections at massively reduced prices.

  • Event

    Cut Off Your Hands

    Thursday, June 16, 2011

    Alhambra Lounge, Fortitude Valley

    After two years of hiding in self-determined obscurity, New Zealand’s Cut Off Your Hands are back, and they’ve aged well.

  • News

    Interview /// Concrete Playground meets Computers Want Me Dead

    One half of Computers Want Me Dead, Sam Harvey, chats to Kirstie Sequitin about Gary Numan, Nine Inch Nails and embracing their inner synth pop.

  • Event

    Surrealism: The Poetry of Dreams

    Saturday, June 11 - Sunday, October 2, 2011

    Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane

    Paris, oh Paris. What with your cobblestone streets, your heavenly, heavenly bakeries, your old men playing the accordion on the street, your ridiculously difficult but seductive language… you’re pretty good at, well, everything I guess.

  • Event

    Brisbane Women’s Club QLD Week Fashion Show

    Friday, June 10, 2011

    Portside Wharf Hamilton, Brisbane

    There are many celebrations during Queensland Week, but for the fashion-savvy, there’s only one that matters: The Brisbane Women’s Club Fashion Show.

  • Event

    Unconvention

    Saturday, June 11 - Sunday, June 12, 2011

    The Edge, South Bank

    Melbourne Schmelbourne! Sydney Schmydmey! We can do it all, and right here in Bristown.

  • Event

    When The Dead Heart Beats

    Thursday, June 9 - Sunday, June 19, 2011

    Nine Lives, Fortitude Valley

    Separately they’ve been hard at work for the past six-to-twelve months on their own projects, over 20 of which will be shown at Nine Lives. However, the crux of When The Dead Heart Beats is a collaborative piece titled When The Demon Knife Weeps, themed around Japanese demonology and the world of the Samurai.

  • Event

    World Press Photo ’11

    Saturday, June 4 - Sunday, June 26, 2011

    Brisbane Powerhouse, New Farm

    Is the art of photojournalism dead? Certainly not. Want proof? Find it at World Press Photo ’11.

  • Event

    Track and Field #1

    Saturday, June 4, 2011

    The Old Museum, Bowen Hills

    Lying somewhere in the void between music festival and club night, Track and Field will be held several times a year.

  • Event

    Phatchance and Coptic Soldier

    Sunday, June 5, 2011

    X & Y Bar, Fortitude Valley

    Following the success of their unique dual-disc acoustic hip-hop EP and an subsequent at-capacity residency at Sydney’s Oxford Art Factory, the two artists are taking to the road again - unplugged.

  • Event

    Ben Quilty Live Art

    Thursday, June 2, 2011

    James Lane, Fortitude Valley

    Watch Quilty work his magic on the blank canvas with aerosols – an interesting contrast to his usual thick impasto style

  • Event

    New Primitive

    Wednesday, June 1, 2011

    MAAP, Brisbane

    Making sounds that are much more soothing to the ear than ye olde plastic binne, MAAP Republic are hosting the first in a series of events for the New Primitive Festival (curated by SPEC).

  • Event

    Toy Balloon’s Throwback Cosmic Shakedown

    Saturday, May 28, 2011

    Lofly Hangar, Red Hill

    So, Toy Balloon are making a new album, right? But they need to raise some dosh to get them into the studio.

  • Event

    Lunch Tapes ‘Barefoot Daze’ Launch

    Saturday, May 28, 2011

    The Zoo, Fortitude Valley

    Lunch Tapes are playing The Zoo this Saturday, launching their new single ‘Barefoot Daze’. This is the first chance you’ll be able to hear the single live before they flit off for their national tour.

  • Event

    Heathers

    Friday, May 27, 2011

    Tribal Theatre, Brisbane

    There ain’t no burn book, but you can expect a tumultuous and bloody rollercoaster of high-school social politics.

  • Event

    Fringe Ideas: Future Sex

    Friday, May 20, 2011

    State Library of Queensland, South Brisbane

    The Edge is hosting a debate on this hot and heavy topic, where both teams will be armed with their best one-liners on one-nighters and the like.

  • Event

    Paniyiri Festival

    Saturday, May 21 - Sunday, May 22, 2011

    Musgrave Park, West End

    Paniyiri Festival turns the big three-five this year!

  • Event

    Express Media Journalist Talks

    Tuesday, May 17, 2011

    Metro Arts Gallery, Brisbane

    If you’re trying to “make it” as a journalist this talk will bring you some insight into the seemingly difficult and cruel industry.

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