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NewsWith The Horrors, Clown Core, a Car Crash and an Artist Inside an Hourglass on Its 2025 Lineup, Dark Mofo Is Definitely Back
After a year off, this Tasmanian winter arts festival is returning with a boundary-pushing feast of art, performances, music and more.
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NewsComing Soon: From 'The Sims' to 'World of Warcraft', You'll Be Able to Play Your Way Through ACMI's 'Game Worlds' Exhibition
Prepare to feel like you've stepped into 30 iconic video games, including via original concept art and rare objects, at this five-month-long showcase.
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NewsLiterature Lovers, Rejoice: Melbourne Writers Festival's Four-Day 2025 Lineup Is Filled with Highlights
Irish authors Marian Keyes and Colm Tóibín, Booker Prize-winner Samantha Harvey and 'The Ministry of Time' scribe Kaliane Bradley are among the names hitting up MWF this year.
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NewsWith 200-Plus Events and More Than 140 Guests, 2025's Sydney Writers' Festival Program Is Absolutely Packed
2024 Booker Prize-winner Samantha Harvey, 'Brooklyn' author Colm Tóibín, Australian 'Big Little Lies' wordsmith Liane Moriarty: they're all on the lineup.
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NewsNigella Lawson Is Curating Dinners in the Muru Giligu Pedestrian Tunnel — and That's Just the Start of Vivid Sydney's Huge 2025 Program
Other highlights include Tangerine Dream, Anohni and the Johnsons, and an immersive 'Stranger Things' experience — plus the entire Vivid Light Walk is free.
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NewsA Free Installation by a TeamLab Alum, Exclusive Suki Waterhouse Gigs, 'Hedwig and the Angry Inch': RISING's 2025 Program Is Here
This year's lineup includes 65 events featuring 327 artists — a field of red beams that respond to movement and Waterhouse's first-ever Aussie shows among them.
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NewsAfter a Year Off, Dark Mofo Is Still Keen to Challenge and Confront with Its First 2025 Lineup Announcement
Nathan Maynard's 'We threw them down the rocks where they had thrown the sheep' is the returning Tasmanian festival's first work for 2025.
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NewsThese Inner Sydney Bars are Hosting Mind-Expanding Talks by the University of Sydney on One Night Only
Raising the Bar sees 20 of the university's academics and alumni hosting provocative talks in ten bars across the city.
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NewsSXSW Sydney Is Making a Few Changes for Its 2025 Festival, Including Expanding Its Free Programming
For its third year Down Under, SXSW is also adding new ticketing options, such as single-day conference passes and single-session movie tix.
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NewsGetting the MacDonnell Ranges Glowing Is Just the Beginning of 2025's Packed 'Parrtjima — A Festival in Light' Program
This annual highlight at Alice Springs Desert Park is celebrating its tenth edition with works by 20-plus First Nations artists, and more than 100 performers and special guests.
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NewsThe Wickham's Big Gay Day Street Festival Is Turning 25 in 2025 with Peach PRC and The Presets Leading the Lineup
To match its big birthday, this year's day-long Fortitude Valley party on the Labour Day long weekend also has a fitting theme: Y2K.
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NewsGet Swinging: RISING 2025 Is Turning Melbourne's Flinders Street Station Ballroom Into an Art Exhibition That's Also a Mini-Golf Course
Filmmaker and writer Miranda July is among the female-identifying and gender-diverse artists who've designed mini-golf holes for this three-month-long pop-up.
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NewsSix Headline Events that You Can Book Now and Pay for Later
Don't let a good time put a good dent in your savings.
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NewsComing Soon: A Y2K-Inspired 'The Sims' Pop-Up Is Hitting Australia to Celebrate 25 Years of the Beloved Life Simulation Game
At Melbourne's Australian Centre for the Moving Image, you'll be able to step inside a 2000s-era pre-teen bedroom — and also play the game, of course.
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NewsChinatown's 2025 Lunar New Year Celebrations Will Include a Pop-Up Beer Garden, Street Food Stalls and a Dragon Parade
Ring in the Year of the Snake with this massive CBD block party.
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NewsThe Matildas, Discrimination in the Music Industry and the Impacts of Skincare Routines: All About Women's 2025 Program Is Here
Whether you're heading along in-person at Sydney Opera House or joining in online, this stacked two-day lineup features more than 50 speakers.
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NewsThe Highly Anticipated Chapel Street Festival Has Been Delayed Until Further Notice
The Chapel Street Precinct Association is still determined to bring this festival back to Melbourne — fingers crossed we won't have to wait too much longer.
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GuideThe Best Free Events to Catch During Sydney Festival 2025
Sydney Festival is saving your wallet this summer with a cost-of-living defying program of free events throughout January.
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NewsAunty Donna Are Unleashing Their Brand-New Live Sketch Show 'Drem' on a Huge 2025 Global Tour
This news will go down well with a little bit of Christmas pud, with Down Under shows locked in for both Australia and New Zealand.
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NewsThe Top Page-Turning Titles of 2024 and Who to Gift Them to This Christmas
We've distilled the most popular literary releases of 2024 with a little help from the experts.
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NewsSXSW Sydney Has Announced Its 2025 Dates — and After a Huge Event in 2024, It's Planning Another Big Fest
The second-ever SXSW Down Under featured 1400 conference sessions, 95 screenings, 315 performances and 150 games.
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All About Women Has Announced Its First 2025 Events, Including Comedian Kate Berlant on Her Debut Australian Tour
'Alone Australia' winner Gina Chick and the return of the Feminist Roast are also on the lineup, with full details to be announced in January.
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NewsShipping Container Installations Séance and Flight Are Bringing Their Thrills to the Arts Centre Melbourne Forecourt
These two eerie Darkfield favourites are returning to Melbourne for three months from mid-December 2024.
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NewsChapel Street Festival Is Finally Returning in February 2025 After a 25-Year Hiatus
Get around a chap laps car show, live bands and DJs, food and drink stalls, and wellness experiences.
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NewsRhys Darby Is Bringing His First Stand-Up Show in Almost a Decade to Australia's Stages in 2025
The 'Flight of the Conchords' and 'This Flag Means Death' favourite is heading back behind the mic, locking in a nine-stop Aussie tour.
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NewsAustralia's Asia-Pacific Triennial of Performing Arts Is Returning in 2025 with a Jam-Packed Performance Lineup
Asia TOPA's performance program includes 33 shows, 18 of which will make their world premiere, all in Melbourne in February and March 2025.
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NewsFair Day, Pool Parties, Honey Dijon, Romy, Trixie Mattel: Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras 2025 Has Them All
More than 80 LGBTQIA+ events will take over the Harbour City — including the return of WorldPride 2023's 'Blak & Deadly' First Nations gala concert.
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Dark Mofo Is Back: After Taking a Break in 2024, Tasmania's Winter Arts Festival Has Locked in Its Full Return for 2025
While the Winter Feast and Nude Solstice Swim still took place this year, next year they'll be joined by a complete festival lineup.
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NewsSydney Festival Is Celebrating Its 49th Year with a Wild West Takeover of Town Hall, True Crime and James Cameron
Boasting more than 130 shows and events on its lineup, 2025's fest is also doing $49 early-bird tickets across the entire program until early December.
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Your Essential Guide to SXSW Sydney 2024
Here's everything you need to know about SXSW Sydney 2024.
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NewsThe Six Best Ways to Celebrate Mid-Autumn Festival in Melbourne
Celebrate Mid-Autumn Festival (Moon Festival) in Melbourne by hitting up cultural performances, noshing on mooncakes, and gathering together a big group mates for a yum cha feed.
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NewsSXSW Sydney's Latest Round of 2024 Speakers Includes Lucy Lawless, Grace Tame and Tim Minchin
Sports stars Nick Kyrgios and Noémie Fox, playwright Suzie Miller and former Bangarra Dance Theatre Artistic Director Stephen Page have also joined the festival's lineup.
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NewsNude Photoshoots, Massive Parties and 120-Plus Events in Over 70 Venues: Melt 2024's Full Program Has Them All
Get snapped by Spencer Tunick in your birthday suit on the Story Bridge, hit up a 'Wicked'-themed Halloween shindig and watch queer cinema classics under the stars.
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NewsMaho Magic Bar, Séance and Flight Are Bringing Tricks, Drinks and Thrills to South Bank's Maritime Museum
The Tokyo-inspired pop-up and two of Darkfield's shipping containers are returning to Brisbane from early October.
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NewsTrent Dalton Wants You to Tell Him Your Love Stories Again for Museum of Brisbane's Next Residency
The 'Boy Swallows Universe' writer is returning to King George Square for an afternoon to capture Brisbane's romantic tales.
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NewsSave the Date: Vivid Sydney Will Return for Winter 2025 with a Program of Events Inspired by Dreams
The next time that this festival dazzles the Harbour City, marking its 15th year, it'll take its cues from nighttime slumbers.
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NewsSXSW Sydney's Festival Hub Is Returning to Tumbalong Park for 2024 with 60-Plus Hours of Free Entertainment
This year's lineup includes Silverchair's Ben Gillies, a 60th-anniversary screening of 'The Endless Summer', a day-long showcase of Indian creativity and more.
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NewsGet Ready to Spend 2024's Sydney Fringe Festival Hitting Up Four Precincts, 12 Hubs and 400-Plus Events
The Soweto Gospel Choir, a collaboration between Ngaiire and Anna Polyviou, the fest's first-ever Queer Hub and a 'Hunger Games' parody are among the highlights.
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NewsAce News If You Like Live Tunes and Parties: SXSW Sydney's 2024 Program Has Expanded Again
An extra 40-plus artists have joined the lineup, including Jorja Smith — and new talks will dive into international music tours and the streaming landscape.
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NewsNine of the Best Things to See at Now or Never 2024
This ambitious ten-day winter festival is celebrating the intersection of art, ideas, sound and technology at sites all over Melbourne.
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NewsComing Soon: Australian-Premiere VR Experience 'Horizon of Khufu' Will Get You Wandering Around Ancient Egypt
Who needs an overseas plane ticket, or a time machine, when you can journey 4500 years back into Egypt's history at this immersive virtual-reality experience?
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News'The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck' Author Mark Manson Is Returning Down Under to Give Brutally Honest Advice
You've read the bestselling book. You might've also seen the movie. Now, hear author Mark Manson share tips and stories live.