Afterglow
Filled with fire sculptures and candlelit installations, this after-dark experience is making its world premiere in Brisbane.
Overview
When an arts festival gifts its chosen city with shows, it also brightens up the darkness whenever its program spills into venues and spaces around town after night falls. Many such fests like taking that idea literally. At Brisbane Festival, for example, after-dark light event Lightscape was on the lineup in 2023 and 2024, getting the Brisbane City Botanic Gardens glowing. The same fest is heading to the same place in 2025, but with something different: the fiery Afterglow.
Brisbane is hosting the world-premiere run of this luminous experience, which is part of the 2025 Brisbane Festival program. Across Friday, September 5–Saturday, September 27, Afterglow is filling one of the River City CBD's leafiest parts with fire sculptures and candlelit installations, and also live performances.
Markus Ravik
If you want to be among the first on the planet to enjoy it, you'll need to be in the Queensland capital. Brisbanites, there's some bragging rights for you.
At Afterglow, you'll wander. You'll follow the flame-lined 1.4-kilometre path through an inner-city patch of greenery. You'll soak in the work of fire artists, too, and you'll watch the evening blaze away in the process. The experience runs every 15 minutes each evening across its dates from 5.45pm. The trail is family friendly, and also accessible.
Images: Mellumae and Sean Dowling, Andrew Ogilvy, Sony Music Entertainment.
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