Culture
RISING 2024's most-exciting events include an absurdist dinner party, a massive festival within the festival and a heap of different one-off parties.
Night Trade
Night Trade at RISING is back with DJs, performances, psychic readings, food and drink stalls, art installations, and karaoke.
FOOD
This absurdist dinner party will have you questioning everything you know and believe about food.
Day Tripper
Across eight hours and multiple venues, this fest-within-a-fest at RISING 2024 is throwing a huge Yasiin Bey-led party.
Burnout Paradise
This is an absurdist show about burnout and our culture's struggle to set up boundaries both in life and work.
The Blak Infinite
For the entire two weeks of RISING 2024, Fed Square will host film screenings, talks and art installations by First Nations people.
ACMI Nights: Beings
Spend a night at Melbourne's screen museum partying amid interactive installations courtesy of UK-based art and design collective Universal Everything.
Hear My Eyes: 'Hellraiser'
RISING 2024 is raising big-screen hell with an 80s horror classic scoring an all-new soundtrack, plus a live laser performance.
Crip Rave Theory
It’s a club night and a political statement.
Counting and Cracking
This stage hit from S Shakthidharan is finally making its long-awaited Melbourne premiere at RISING 2024.
Communitas
RISING 2024 is getting SHOUSE to turn St Paul's Cathedral into a big music party — and you can take part.
24 Hour Rock Show
‘Stop Making Sense’, ‘ONEFOUR: Against All Odds’ and ‘Glastonbury the Movie’ are just some of the music documentaries screening at this movie marathon.
MSO's Secret Symphony
Will the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra be playing Bach in the park? Chopin at a city farm? Or Strauss in Hofbräuhaus?
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