
The Best Things to Do in Brisbane This Weekend
Weekends are precious. Two 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.
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The Best Things to Do in Brisbane This Weekend
Hang out in a cherry blossom garden, eat all the meat and cheese you can handle, or stream a David Bowie musical.
The Best Things to Do in Brisbane This Weekend
Hang out in a cherry blossom garden, eat all the meat and cheese you can handle, or stream a David Bowie musical.
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Arts & Entertainment
Cut Copy: Brisbane Music Posters 1977–87
Peer at artwork from Brisbane's live music history.
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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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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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Design & Style
Le Creuset Summer Sale
Snag some colourful French cookware that'll last you a lifetime at up to 25 percent off.
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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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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
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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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
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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Food & Drink
Scoop!
Serving up ice cream, circus performances, live music, sideshow rides and a dip in the lake.
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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
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
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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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
Japanese Film Festival Classics Program
Watch weird, wonderful, surreal and subversive Japanese classics for free.
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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.
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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
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.