CITY: BAD Neighbourhood Walking Trail

This free low-impact walking trail will take guests into local creative spaces to discover Brisbane’s art and design scene. The tour on Sunday 14 May will meet in King George Square before stopping at Heritage Lanes, QUT Art Museum, Brisbane’s Botanica Gardens for a stroll through Botanica: Contemporary Art Outside and finish back at City […]

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SOUTHSIDE: BAD Neighbourhood Walking Trail – Woolloongabba

This free low-impact walking trail will take guests into local creative spaces to discover Brisbane’s art and design scene. The tour on Saturday 27 May will begin outside Queensland College of Art (QCA), then join the tour guide as they visit Mater Hospital, Dead Puppet Society, Woolloongabba Art Gallery and Echo & Bounce. Visitors are […]

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SOUTHSIDE: BAD Neighbourhood Walking Trail – South Brisbane

This free low-impact walking trail will take guests into local creative spaces to discover Brisbane’s art and design scene. The tour on Saturday 27 May will begin at Fish Lane, Town Square, then join the tour guide as they visit Queensland College of Art, TAFE Queensland and back to the markets at Fish Lane. Make […]

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Open Studio: Dead Puppet Society

Known for creating visually compelling theatre experiences including Holding Achilles, Ishmael, Laser Beak Man, and The Wider Earth, off stage they create one-of-a-kind public artworks, bespoke sculptures and offer design-led experiences for artists and students.  Explore their workshop space, where the team design and make the creatures and objects for the worlds they dream up. […]

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Montague Road History Walk

Montague Road is located in the critical landscape of limited, highly desirable inner-city land in Brisbane, Australia, which will be hosting the 2032 Summer Olympics. This Vision 2035 has been created from the results of a community-initiated and led process held in the Montague Road precinct (2022). First Nations peoples walked along shaded tracks beside […]

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the churchie emerging art prize

the churchie emerging art prize has profiled the next generation of contemporary artists from across Australia since its inception in 1987 at Anglican Church Grammar School. Today, it is known as one of the country’s leading prizes for emerging artists, offering a $25,000 prize pool. Presented at the Institute of Modern Art since 2019, ‘the […]

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The making of The Little Mermaid costumes by Queensland Ballet

Ballet demands complete synchronicity between the costumes, hair and make-up, set and lighting design, choreography and of course the ballet artistry. From design to stage, you will hear how Zoe conceptualised the costumes for Queensland Ballet’s upcoming production The Little Mermaid – her thought process and the logistics of creating costumes that bring to life […]

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Open Studio: MAVA Pathfinders

The three artists in residence, James Barth, Caitlin Franzmann and Elizabeth Willing, have been working on 12 month projects that will support the growth of their careers. In the studio you will see diverse works in progress, and have a chance to hear from the artists. As a part of the open studio, Mutual Making […]

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Harvest

Waiting to be discovered throughout the West Village Precinct are small ceramic petals made by artist Minqi Gu. These petals refer to Ai Baud Tonar (Harvest Season Time), an ambitious new work by First Nations artist Brian Robinson, which is on display as part of Precision: The Art of Cutting in the Metro Arts galleries […]

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Chop Chop

Families are invited to drop-in to Metro Arts at lunchtime on Sunday 28 May 2023, to participate in a free workshop. Participants from four years of age and up can papercut delicious treats to fill their own China bowl using scissors. About the artist: Pamela See (Xue Mei-Ling) is an Australian artist born of Chinese […]

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