Arcadia at Brisbane Festival 2019

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, Treasury Brisbane Arcadia boasts everything from pop-up food stalls to the spiegeltent to everything in between.

Indeed, as well as offering a place to go when you need a wine, craft beer or food between shows, there's two places you'll want to check out. Stop by Divine for 20s, 30s and 40s-style revelry, vintage glamour and late-night DJs — or head to Voodoo for outdoor cocktails, jazz and piano music.

Running from Tuesday–Sunday during the festival, Arcadia is free to enter all day and night.

Other events in the vicinity include 1000 Doors and River of Light, plus the feast of performances at The Courier-Mail Spiegeltent. That's where you'll catch many of the fest's highlights, including Girlpool, Bruno Major, Mzaza and Blanc de Blanc Encore.