The Best Things to Do in Brisbane This Weekend
Discover sea monsters at the Queensland Museum, hang out in a cherry blossom garden or eat all the meat and cheese you can handle.

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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Arts & Entertainment
Tammy Law: Fractured Dreams & Indefinite Scars
The Museum of Brisbane's latest exhibition explores forced migration and intergenerational trauma.
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Saturday Morning Cartoons
Start your weekend with cartoons, cereal, arcade games and beer.
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Food & Drink
Sunshine Coast Asian Food Festival 2021
Head to the hinterland to snack on Asian street food and wander through a rainforest.
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The Directors' Cuts
Catch everything from 'Midsommar' to 'Blade Runner' exactly as the filmmakers behind them intended.
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Motorcycles on the Green
GOMA is taking its huge motorbike-focused exhibition outdoors.
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The Truffle Hunters
Leisurely and engaging, this documentary about elderly men and their dogs searching for truffles in Northern Italy serves up a rich and substantial cinematic meal.
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Firestarter — The Story of Bangarra
Celebrating Australia's acclaimed Indigenous dance theatre, this excellent documentary also steps through the nation's past and paints a portrait of three siblings with dreams as big as their talents.
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The Little Things
Denzel Washington, Rami Malek and Jared Leto co-star in this 90s-style serial killer thriller — and none of them will add new Oscars to their mantles for their efforts.
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Minari
Vivid, honest and tender, this resonant and moving drama stars Steven Yeun as a Korean American father and farmer chasing a better life for his family.
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Travel & Leisure
Mardi Gras Celebrations at Toombul
Step into a room filled with mirror balls and play drag queen bingo.
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Another Round
Four teachers test a theory that humans actually need a constant supply of alcohol in their blood in this Oscar-shortlisted Danish drama.
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Assassins
Exploring a shocking 2017 assassination, this gripping true-crime documentary has to be seen to be believed.
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Synchronic
Starring Anthony Mackie and Jamie Dornan, this sci-fi thriller follows two paramedics dealing with a trippy new designer drug.
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Food & Drink
$20 Pork Knuckle Day
Feast on one of the German Club's legendary slabs of pork — all for a lobster.
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Food & Drink
Margarita Month 2021
Celebrate the salty-sour cocktail the right way — by drinking one (or a few).
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Transitions Film Festival 2021
Going virtual for the first time, this Australian film festival showcases documentaries about our changing world.
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Food & Drink
The Mason Baker's Cupcake ATM
The pink-hued jarcake vending machine will be dispensing baked treats three nights a week.
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Design & Style
Assembly Label Choose-What-You-Pay Sale 2021
Nab some new summer threads at up to 50 percent off.
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Food & Drink
Espresso Fesso — An Espresso Martini Festival
Try as many different espresso martinis as your heart can handle at this well-caffeinated festival.
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BrisAsia Festival 2021
Feast on Asian food, dance to K-pop or head to a colourful festival.
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Food & Drink
Dutch Courage Cocktail Masterclasses
Don't just knock back tasty tipples — learn to make them.
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Jewish International Film Festival 2021
After sitting out 2020, the cinema showcase is back.
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Cut Copy: Brisbane Music Posters 1977–87
Peer at artwork from Brisbane's live music history.
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Mardi Gras Film Festival 2021
This year's LGBTIQ+-focused festival will also screen online for the first time.
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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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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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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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Motorcycles On Screen
Get revved up with these classic and recent motorbike flicks.
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The Motorcycle: Design, Art, Desire
The Brisbane-exclusive exhibition features interactive experiences — and the world's oldest motorbike.
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Sea Monsters: Prehistoric Ocean Predators
Peer at ancient creatures from the deep — and their fossils — across more than 70 exhibits.
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Sunny Side Up
This new outdoor exhibition splashes artworks about Brisbane across the city's public spaces.
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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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Bauhaus Now
Survey the work of an influential German art school — and the designs it inspired.