
Everything You Need to Put In Your Diary for January
A lot happens in this big, bustling city of ours, especially with COVID-19 restrictions easing. Think movie marathons one day, exhibitions another, and everything from booze-fuelled shindigs to excuses to get outdoors in between. And, of course, there's always more around the corner, with next month no different. That means that there's plenty to look forward to, and plenty of awesomeness to fill your diary to the brim. To help you plot out things out, make plans with the gang and make the most of every moment, we've rounded up Brisbane's best happenings for January. Don't say you don't have anything to do this month.
Everything You Need to Put In Your Diary for January
Putt your way around a Disney-themed mini golf course, treat yourself to a half-price feast and watch a movie while splashing around.
Everything You Need to Put In Your Diary for January
Putt your way around a Disney-themed mini golf course, treat yourself to a half-price feast and watch a movie while splashing around.
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Travel & Leisure
Suitcase Rummage 2021
Trawl through Brisbane's favourite luggage-based trash 'n' treasure.
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Arts & Entertainment
Ammonite
Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan are exceptional in this exquisite period romance from the director of 'God's Own Country'.
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Food & Drink
Champagne and Oyster Pop-Up
Cloudland is serving sparkling and seafood to cap off your Friday.
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Travel & Leisure
The Yot Club 2021
The next-level party boat has two bars, a stage and a dance floor — and it's sailing through Brisbane again.
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Food & Drink
Big Band Cabaret Dinner and Show 2021
Dinner, drinks and an evening of speakeasy-style entertainment.
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Food & Drink
Oyster Frenzy 2021
Six courses of oysters — battered in squid ink tempura, baked with three cheeses, and paired with limoncello and finger lime caviar.
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Food & Drink
Red Hot Chilli Festival
With chilli products to fill your cupboard, chilli dishes to feast on and chilli-eating competitions.
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Arts & Entertainment
Summerland
This primarily World War II-set drama is mostly a straightforward affair, but it boasts memorable work from Gemma Arterton and a quiet yet potent undercurrent of subversion.
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Arts & Entertainment
Promising Young Woman
Carey Mulligan is fierce and formidable in this brilliant, blistering and bubblegum-hued take on the rape-revenge genre.
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Arts & Entertainment
Green Jam: Monster Edition
Kick back with Friday and Saturday afternoon tunes and food.
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Arts & Entertainment
Celebrate Summer at The Pier
Featuring live tunes, installations, a swing and neon lights brightening up the pier by night.
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Arts & Entertainment
'Lazarus' Live-Stream
Celebrate David Bowie's birthday or mark the fifth anniversary of his death with a live-stream of one of his final projects.
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Food & Drink
All-You-Can-Eat Meat and Cheese Boards
Feast your way through unlimited German cheese, charcuterie and pretzels.
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Arts & Entertainment
Float In Cinema 2021
Splash around and sip cocktails while watching water-themed movies.
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Arts & Entertainment
Top Dog Film Festival at Moonlight Cinema
Brisbane's mini film festival dedicated to dogs is back for another bark — and you can take your pupper along.
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Arts & Entertainment
Eternal
This new Darkfield Radio production is inspired by Bram Stoker's 'Dracula', and is designed to be listened to alone, at home, while you're in bed.
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Arts & Entertainment
Wonder Woman 1984
Gal Gadot is once again charming and graceful as Diana Prince, but this meandering and muddled superhero sequel doesn't appreciate its true source of wonder.
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Food & Drink
Scoop!
Serving up ice cream, circus performances, live music, sideshow rides and a dip in the lake.
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Arts & Entertainment
Pieces of a Woman
'The Crown' star Vanessa Kirby plays a woman coping with trauma in this raw and resonant drama.
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Food & Drink
Wing Fest
Feast your way through a heap of chicken or cauliflower pieces — with 21 different rubs and sauces.
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Arts & Entertainment
Unfinished Business: The Art of Gordon Bennett
This QAGOMA exhibition features both familiar and unseen works by the famed Queensland artist.
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Arts & Entertainment
Motorcycles On Screen
Get revved up with these classic and recent motorbike flicks.
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Arts & Entertainment
The Motorcycle: Design, Art, Desire
The Brisbane-exclusive exhibition features interactive experiences — and the world's oldest motorbike.
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Arts & Entertainment
The Dry
The best-selling Aussie crime novel jumps to the big screen, and Eric Bana is superb as its conflicted central cop.
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Arts & Entertainment
Sea Monsters: Prehistoric Ocean Predators
Peer at ancient creatures from the deep — and their fossils — across more than 70 exhibits.
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Arts & Entertainment
Ottolenghi and the Cakes of Versailles
This culinary documentary serves up glossy, gleaming eye candy for those with a sweet tooth, but it never feels like a full meal.
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Arts & Entertainment
Moonlight Cinema 2020–21
Summer has arrived with the return of Brisbane's always-popular outdoor cinema.
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Arts & Entertainment
Sunny Side Up
This new outdoor exhibition splashes artworks about Brisbane across the city's public spaces.
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Arts & Entertainment
Nomadland
Featuring an exceptional performance by Frances McDormand, this deeply humanist road trip drama serves up a touching observational portrait of those that society happily overlooks.
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Food & Drink
Naughty or Nice Festive High Tea
W Hotel is serving up Christmas-themed cocktails over high tea.
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Travel & Leisure
The Enchanted Garden 2020–21
See one of Brisbane's most popular spaces in a completely new light.
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Food & Drink
Cherry Blossom Garden
Sit beneath lanterns, drink matcha sours and whiskey highballs, and eat gyoza.
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Arts & Entertainment
Bauhaus Now
Survey the work of an influential German art school — and the designs it inspired.
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Arts & Entertainment
Japanese Film Festival Classics Program
Watch weird, wonderful, surreal and subversive Japanese classics for free.
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Arts & Entertainment
Open Season
The Tivoli is hosting a three-month-long curated series of gigs and shows.
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Arts & Entertainment
Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards
Australia’s longest running and most prestigious art awards for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists is going digital — and it’s free to watch.
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Arts & Entertainment
Shrek the Musical
The production, which originally opened on Broadway in 2008, will bring its green-hued nostalgia to Brisbane in 2021.