Sarah Ward

Name: Brisbane Writers Festival 2023
Start: 2023-05-10
End: 2023-05-14
Location: Brisbane

Sarah Ward is Concrete Playground's Editor — and also Film and TV Editor, Film and TV Critic, Arts and Entertainment Editor, and Brisbane Editor. If it's on a screen big or small, happening in Brisbane and southeast Queensland, or news of national and international interest — particularly arts and entertainment — then Sarah is across it.

Sarah has also been a film critic for ABC radio for over a decade. Covering all things cinema and television, Sarah has written for Screen International since 2015, and contributed to SBS, ACMI, AACTA, Birth.Movies.Death, Flicks, Senses of Cinema, ScreenHub, ArtsHub, Junkee, FilmInk, Lumina, Metro Magazine, Screen Education and more. Sarah's background includes managing, writing for, mentoring at, being on judging panels at and hosting Q&As at Australian film festivals, such as the Brisbane International Film Festival, Melbourne International Film Festival, Sydney Film Festival, Queensland Film Festival, Sydney Underground Film Festival, Brisbane Asia Pacific Film Festival and Gold Coast Film Festival.

Favourite cinema in Brisbane: Angelika Film Centre, which is a glorious new place to see a movie.

Favourite cinema in Sydney: Golden Age Cinema & Bar, the one cinema everyone needs to go to in Sydney if they only go to one cinema.

Favourite cinema in Melbourne: The Astor Theatre, and not just because of its history with cinema cats.

News
Get Ready for Euro Holiday Cravings: Australia's Italian Film Festival Has Unveiled Its 2022 Lineup

Italian box office hits, Sophia Loren-starring classics, a Luca Guadagnino-helmed documentary about a shoemaker to the stars: they're all on the bill.

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Event
Crimes of the Future

Thu, 18 Aug - Wed, 7 Sep 2022
Select cinemas in Brisbane, Various locations

Starring Viggo Mortensen, Léa Seydoux and Kristen Stewart, David Cronenberg’s long-awaited new body-horror gem is as seductive as it is sinister — and enthralling.

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Event
Bosch & Rockit

Thu, 18 Aug - Wed, 7 Sep 2022
Select cinemas in Brisbane, Various locations

This tender Australian drama about a father and son on the run pairs Luke Hemsworth with one of the country's certain rising stars.

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News
Caribou, Yothu Yindi and Courtney Barnett Lead Meredith's Huge First Festival Since 2019

The Comet Is Coming, Dry Cleaning, Tkay Maidza and Sharon Van Etten are also headed to the Meredith Supernatural Amphitheatre this December.

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News
Be Our Guest: Disney's 'Beauty and the Beast' Musical Is Coming to Australia in 2023

The Tony- and Olivier Award-winning stage hit has been reimagined and redesigned, and will enjoy its Australian premiere at Sydney's Capitol Theatre.

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News
The New Movies You Can Watch at Australian Cinemas From August 18

Head to the flicks to see an Emma Thompson-starring sex comedy, David Cronenberg's thrilling return to body horror and a Byron Bay-shot father-and-son drama.

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News
Hartley High Is Back and As Chaotic As Ever in the Trailer for Netflix's 'Heartbreak High' Revival

The Sydney-set 90s favourite has been given a 2020s makeover, and will reach your streaming queue in September.

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Event
Ballistic Beer Yoga 2022

Multiple single dates
Ballistic Beer Co, Salisbury

Spend your Thursday nights stretching and sipping beer — in a brewery.

Buy Tickets

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News
Netflix Just Dropped the Trailer for Its Tim Burton-Directed 'Addams Family' Series 'Wednesday'

Starring Jenna Ortega, this creepy, kooky, mysterious and spooky series will follow Wednesday Addams in high school as she tries to stop a killing spree.

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Event
Good Luck to You, Leo Grande

Thu, 18 Aug - Wed, 7 Sep 2022
Various cinemas in Brisbane

Emma Thompson is magnificent in this wonderfully candid, intimate, generous and joyous sex comedy, which follows a fiftysomething woman finally trying to explore her desires with a charming sex worker.

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Event
Queen Street Mall 40th Birthday Street Party

Fri, 26 Aug, 2022
Queen Street Mall, Brisbane

The Queen Street Mall is hosting a big day-long street party to celebrate its 40th birthday.

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News
The Queen Street Mall Is Hosting a Big Day-Long Street Party to Celebrate Its 40th Birthday

Live tunes, a pop-up champagne bar, fashion workshops, colourful shopfront installations and a night market are all taking over the mall for one big party.

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News
Stan's Tense 'Last Light' Trailer Strands 'Lost' Star Matthew Fox in Another Fight for Survival

Based on the book of the same name, the five-part miniseries follows the fallout from a problem with the world’s oil supply.

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Event
Funlab Day of Fun 2022

Tue, 6 Sep, 2022
Various Brisbane venues, Brisbane

Get putting, go bowling or play games for a fiver — and help a great cause.

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Brisbane Good Food and Wine Show 2022

Fri, 21 Oct - Sun, 23 Oct 2022
Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre, South Brisbane

Prepare to sample all the food (and sip all the wine) at this weekend of food stalls, masterclasses and vino stations.

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TGI Fridays Is Opening Its Australasian Flagship and First-Ever Beachside Venue in Surfers Paradise

In a few months, you'll be able to pair the American chain's steaks, ribs, wings, burgers and cocktails with ocean views.

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Jack White, Groove Armada and The Avalanches Are Headlining Adelaide's New Harvest Rock Festival

The White Stripes frontman is doing his only Australian show at this new Adelaide festival, which hails from the Secret Sounds crew.

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Yamas Greek + Drink Is West Village's New Parkside Seafood and Souvla Restaurant From the Opa Crew

Oysters with ouzo, lobster from the tank, lamb and chicken souvla, and cotton candy-topped spritzes are all on the menu at this terracotta-hued new West End eatery.

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Soko Rooftop Is the 500-Person Peruvian and Japanese Bar That's Set to Tower Over St Paul's Terrace

Perched on the 14th floor above the Jubilee Hotel, this Fortitude Valley newcomer will serve up ceviche, yakitori, sashimi, wagyu and a 40-plus pisco sour menu.

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Agatha Christie's 'The Mousetrap' Is Bringing Its Onstage Murder-Mystery to Melbourne and Brisbane

It's the world’s longest-running play, running for 70 years in London's West End — and it's touring Australia's east coast.

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Jack White, Groove Armada and The Avalanches Are Headlining Adelaide's New Harvest Rock Festival

Yamas Greek + Drink Is West Village's New Parkside Seafood and Souvla Restaurant From the Opa Crew

Soko Rooftop Is the 500-Person Peruvian and Japanese Bar That's Set to Tower Over St Paul's Terrace

Agatha Christie's 'The Mousetrap' Is Bringing Its Onstage Murder-Mystery to Melbourne and Brisbane

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