The Best Things to Do in Brisbane This Weekend
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The Best Things to Do in Brisbane This Weekend
Weekends are precious. You want to make the most of those glorious days devoid of responsibility and overflowing with possibility. Luckily, Brisbane's got plenty happening to make sure you don't spend the days indoors binge-watching Netflix and instead discovering new bars, absorbing art and feasting your way through food markets. Here are our picks of the weekend's happenings.
Image: Anywhere Festival, Stuart Hirth
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Arts & EntertainmentJenn Nkiru: Rebirth Is Necessary
Brisbane's Institute of Modern Art is hosting the first-ever Australian solo exhibition by Grammy-winning artist, filmmaker and Beyoncé collaborator Jenn Nkiru.
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Arts & EntertainmentFirestarter
Bringing Stephen King's 1980 novel to the big screen for the second time, this dull remake only burns two things: its audience's time and patience.
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Arts & EntertainmentThis Much I Know to Be True
Celebrating the creative partnership between Nick Cave and Warren Ellis is a transcendent experience in this phenomenal music documentary.
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Arts & EntertainmentNorthshore Sculpture by the River
Don't just stare at Hamilton's waterside scenery — spend two months peering at sculptures big and small at this free art festival.
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Food & DrinkInternational Cake Show 2022
When you're not learning how to make sweet treats, you'll be eating them.
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Food & DrinkIn the Snow at Customs House
Spend winter sipping champagne and eating Moreton Bay bug croissants in igloos by the river.
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Travel & LeisureDog's Day Out
Spend an afternoon celebrating pooches over a few pints at Welcome to Bowen Hills.
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Food & DrinkBrisbane Gin Festival 2022
This boozy festival is bringing 27 craft gin distillers from around the country to Fortitude Valley for three days of masterclasses and tastings.
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Food & DrinkBrisbane Rum Revolution
More than 40 distilleries are headed to Albion's Craft'd Grounds for a huge rum-fuelled afternoon — with over 100 different varieties on offer.
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Arts & EntertainmentThe Drover's Wife The Legend of Molly Johnson
After reimagining Henry Lawson's short story for the stage and page, Leah Purcell brings her First Nations, feminist and anti-colonial take on the tale to cinemas.
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Arts & EntertainmentPetite Maman
'Portrait of a Lady on Fire' filmmaker Céline Sciamma returns with a magical and insightful tale about childhood — and it's one of her best movies yet.
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Arts & EntertainmentWheel of Fortune and Fantasy
'Drive My Car' may have won an Oscar, but Ryûsuke Hamaguchi's second powerful and poignant drama of the past year is equally as masterful.
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Arts & Entertainment'High School Musical' Party
Step back to the 00s and celebrate all of your favourite Disney hits.
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Arts & EntertainmentAnywhere Festival 2022
See theatre, comedy and cabaret performances in bars, laneways, churches, old paint factories, nurseries, sports centres and an underground reservoir.
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Travel & LeisureThe Handmade Market 2022
Forget machines — everything at this monthly market in Queensland Museum's Whale Mall made by hand.
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Arts & EntertainmentDoctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
Directed by 'Evil Dead' legend Sam Raimi, the latest MCU film about surgeon-turned-sorcerer Dr Stephen Strange is darker and trippier but still dispiritingly standard.
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Arts & EntertainmentMonster Fest Weekender 2022
Spend three days watching weird and wonderful flicks — including cult 80s hits, new horror gems and a documentary about the original 'It' TV miniseries
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Arts & EntertainmentAfter Yang
Colin Farrell is haunting in this exceptional sci-fi drama about androids, memory, family, the ties that bind and what it truly means to live.
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Arts & EntertainmentDownton Abbey: A New Era
Despite its title, the second 'Downton Abbey' movie serves up more of the same upstairs-downstairs dramas — but Maggie Smith still steals every scene she's in.
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Food & DrinkYarra Valley Rocky Road Festival At Home 2022
Get a box filled with 31 different flavours of rocky road delivered to your door.
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Food & DrinkThe Fork Festival 2022 at TGI Fridays Robina
TGI Fridays at Robina is doing 30-percent off set-menu lunches every weekday till the end of May.
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Travel & LeisureWhere Plants Meets Science: Virtual Laboratory
Visit this interactive digital space for beauty education and plant-powered skincare prizes.
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Food & DrinkUrban Wine Walk Brisbane Autumn 2022
Take your love of wine to the streets on this self-guided stroll between Brisbane bars.
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Food & DrinkDine BNE City 2022
Cheap lunches, ten-course Italian degustations, wine walks and oyster trails — this month-long food program has it all.
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Arts & EntertainmentBricktionary: The Interactive Lego Brick Exhibition
Check out the A-to-Z of Lego — including more than 150 impressive models, plus six interactive building zones.
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Arts & EntertainmentThe Art of the Heist
GOMA's Australian Cinémathèque is dedicating two months to movies about heists — from Hitchcock right through to 'Hustlers'.
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Food & DrinkAustralian Cocktail Month 2022
Twenty-five of Brisbane's favourite bars are whipping up exclusive cocktails during this month-long festival of booze.
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Arts & EntertainmentSpanish Film Festival 2022
Movies starring Penélope Cruz, Antonio Banderas and Javier Bardem feature prominently in this year's 34-film showcase of Spanish and Latin American cinema.
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Arts & EntertainmentBrisbane Street Art Festival 2022
Brisbane's annual celebration of street art is back with its largest festival yet — including 50 new large-scale murals popping up around town.
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Arts & EntertainmentMaking Place: 100 Views of Brisbane
With artwork dating back two centuries, this city-focused exhibition surveys pieces that've captured Brisbane and its changes.
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Arts & EntertainmentMuseum of Brisbane's Public Art Walking Tour 2022
Spend an afternoon exploring Brisbane's stunning outdoor art.
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Arts & Entertainment'Speed': The Movie, The Play
Revisit the movie 'Speed' from the backseat of a real bus.
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Food & DrinkBig Band Cabaret — Dinner and Show
Bright lights, glitz and a drag queen bubbling with charisma — lose yourself in a no-expense-spared fantasy.
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Arts & EntertainmentBlue Assembly: Oceanic Thinking
Take a dive into this ocean-focused exhibition, which showcases creative ways of thinking about earth's blue spaces.
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Travel & LeisureGasworks Markets 2022
Shop for fashion, art, homewares, plants and ceramics beneath Newstead's heritage-listed old gasometer.
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Arts & EntertainmentBrisbane Comedy Festival 2022
Brisbane's annual laughfest returns in April and May, with Nazeem Hussain, Ross Noble, Tom Ballard and Melanie Bracewell on the bill.
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Arts & EntertainmentImaginaria
A multi-sensory playground with light-filled mazes and inflatable bubbles is taking over South Bank.
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Arts & EntertainmentPotted Potter: The Unauthorised Harry Experience
Relive the wizarding franchise's seven magical books in 70 minutes.
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Food & DrinkRita's Bottomless Brunch
Margarita jugs and tacos are on the menu every Sunday in Teneriffe.
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Food & DrinkBottomless Gin Brunches 2022
Sip gin cocktails, sangria and Pimm's cups over a shareboard brunch.
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Travel & LeisureTides of Brisbane Boat Tour 2022
Hit the water from the City Botanic Gardens to spend three hours floating past historic landmarks.
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Arts & EntertainmentBrisbane Comedy Festival 2021 Take 2
Brisbane's 2021 laughfest was affected by lockdown, so the event has rescheduled some of its big names — and big giggles.
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Food & DrinkSundays at City Winery
Sip frosé slushies, hit up the oyster bar and listen to live tunes at Brisbane's inner-city winery.
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Food & DrinkBottomless Sunday Brunch at Three Blue Ducks
Start your Sunday with a boozy brunch, then hang out by the pool all day.
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Food & DrinkSky-High Sundays
Brisbane's latest rooftop bar is serving up soda cocktails, Mediterranean-inspired dishes and R&B tunes every Sunday.
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Food & DrinkBrisbane Distillery's True Spirit Bus
Stop by Riverside Markets every Sunday for tastings and cocktail flights.