2021 Midsumma Festival Planner

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The Toff in Town 8pm 8pm 8pm 8pm 8pm 9pm 9pm 7pm + Performance #Really?! with Mel & Peppy Vau d'vile - House of Love 9pm Performance 4PLAY Pride of our Footscray Community Bar 9.30pm 7.30pm 9.30pm 7.30pm Music MP A Celebration of The Teaches of Peaches The Curtin 8pm Community A Festive Mass St Mark's Anglican Church Fitzroy 7pm Parties/Social A Gay On The Lawn St Kilda Sports Club 1pm Performance A Night With Tina Chasers 7pm 7pm 7pm Visual Arts MP A Strange Space Collingwood Yards 6pm 6pm 6pm 6pm Performance Absolutely FEMMEulous Digital Event 6pm Music Ace of Hearts - Songs Bluestone Church Arts Space 6.30pm 6.30pm 6.30pm 6.30pm Parties/Social ADAM + LUST Inflation 7pm 7pm Performance After Dark Chasers 3pm 7pm 7pm Performance All Out Of Pride Gasworks Arts Park - Gasworks Theatre 8.30pm Performance All The King's Hens Comedy Republic 7.30pm Film Alone Together Digital Event ●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●● 7pm 7pm 5pm+ Performance Ballads & Ballgowns Vau d'vile - Showroom 8pm Becoming Us talk with Nevo Zisin, Adolfo 3:15pm TT&W MP Immigration Museum Aranjuez, Frances Cannon + Jax Jacki Brown Visual Arts Becoming You: An Incomplete Guide exhibition Immigration Museum 10am 10am 10am 10am 10am 10am 10am 10am 10am 10am 10am 10am 10am 10am 10am 10am 10am Bending the Bars: 40 years since 5 Feb< 10am 10am 10am 10am 10am 10am 10am 10am 10am 10am 10am >16 May Visual Arts Old Melbourne Gaol decriminalisation Performance MP Bent Theatre Works 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 2.30pm + 2.30pm + 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 2.30pm + 7.30pm 7.30pm Performance Billy Loves Cha Cha Forever! Cracked Actors Theatre (CAT) 5.30pm 5.30pm 5.30pm Parties/Social Blankë Pop Mission to Seafarers - Main Hall 3pm Music Blue is the Colour of Love Hare Hole (Hares & Hyenas) 7.30pm Performance Bottom The Butterfly Club 8.30pm 8.30pm 8.30pm 8.30pm 8.30pm 8.30pm Community Castlemaine Pride 2021 Castlemaine Botanical Gardens 11am Visual Arts CLEAVE Bundoora Homestead Art Centre 3 Apr< 11am 11am 11am 11am 11am 11am 11am 11am 11am >26 Jun Performance Club Pistol Mission to Seafarers - Norla Dome 6pm 6pm 6pm 6pm 6pm Performance Comedy Republic's Midsumma Blowout Comedy Republic 7.30pm 7.30pm Visual Arts Contemporary AF Mission to Seafarers - Main Hall O: 6pm 5.30pm 5.30pm 5.30pm 5.30pm 5.30pm 5.30pm 5.30pm 5.30pm 5.30pm Visual Arts Creating Community in Melbourne's West Laverton Community Hub 9am 9am 9am 9am 9am 9am 9am 9am 9am 9am 9am 9am 9am >14 May Performance Date Night Mission to Seafarers - Celia Little Room 6pm 6pm 6pm 6pm 6pm Parties/Social Deviants TBA 2pm Visual Arts Dhamma Radio Mission to Seafarers - Norla Dome 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm Abbotsford Convent - North Magdalen 7pm 7pm 7pm Music MP Disco Instamatic Laundry Visual Arts Displays of Affection Temperance Hall 5pm 5pm 5pm 11am 11am 8pm 8pm 8pm 4pm + Performance Dolly Diamond's Star for a Night Chapel Off Chapel - Chapel 8pm Dragged to Brunch - Midsumma Festival noon Performance Saint Evie Edition ft Jacqui Meoff Dragged to Brunch - Pride March Edition ft 2.30pm Performance Saint Evie Sara Tonin Kids & Fam MP Drag Storytime - Online Series Digital Event ●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●● Duets with a Shapeshifter by James Welsby 10 Apr< 10am 10am 10am 10am E:8pm 10am 10am 10am 10am 10am 10am 10am 10am 10am 10am 10am 10am Visual Arts The Bowery Theatre (Valerie Hex) Performance Eat My Cake Mission to Seafarers - Celia Little Room 9pm 9pm 9pm 9pm 9pm Community MP Electric Fence - The Gathering Digital Event ●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●● Music MP Emo Phase: Dan Thorpe in Focus Abbotsford Convent - Sacred Heart 7.30pm 8pm 8pm TT&W MP Feral Queer Camp Mission to Seafarers - Celia Little Room ●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●● Visual Arts Fluid Wyndham Art Gallery 18 Mar< 11am 11am E: 6.30pm 11am 11am 11am 11am Performance Fortune Digital Event ● ● ● ● ● ● 8pm 8pm 8pm 8pm 4pm + 8pm 8pm 8pm 8pm 4pm + 5pm Performance F*ck Fabulous Arts Centre Melbourne - Fairfax Studio 8pm 8pm Community Gay Stuff Markets Hare Hole (Hares & Hyenas) 1pm Performance Get Bent Fest! Fringe Common Rooms 5pm Goddess Grooves @ Chapel presents Love 7.30pm Performance MP Chapel Off Chapel - Chapel Rewind 4pm + Performance MP Goddesses of Jazz @ Chapel off Chapel Chapel Off Chapel - Chapel 7pm Performance Grief Lightning: A Satire In 78 Slides Gasworks Arts Park - Gasworks Theatre 8pm 8pm >8 May 6pm 7.30pm 7.30pm noon + Performance Guerilla Sabbath La Mama Courthouse 4pm Performance Harry Wright - Smalltown Boy Digital Event 12 Apr< Music He's Every Woman Unlimited The MC Showroom 7pm 7pm 7pm Heirloom Room! Sculpture workshop with 11am + TT&W MP Immigration Museum Kenny Pittock 2pm TT&W HELLO TITTY Hare Hole (Hares & Hyenas) 6.30pm Performance Highway To The Twilight Zone Mission to Seafarers - Norla Dome 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm Parties/Social Homo Erotica Inflation 7pm 2pm+ 2pm+ Music Homophonic! La Mama Courthouse 7.30pm 7.30pm Performance I Have a Face by Jude Perl The Bowery Theatre 7.30pm Visual Arts In Essentia Gasworks Arts Park - Foyer Gallery 9.30am 9.30am 9.30am 9.30am 9.30am 9.30am 9.30am 9.30am 9.30am >11 May TT&W Intersections of discrimination Newport Community Hub 6.30pm Community MP Kerrie and Dolly - Midsumma Specials Digital Event 7.30pm 7.30pm Performance Kong's Drag Kings Mission to Seafarers - Celia Little Room 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7pm + 7pm + 7pm + 7pm + 2pm + Performance Laceship Temperance Hall 8.15pm 8.15pm 8.15pm 8.15pm 3.15pm Let Me Get Something Off My Chest by Sam 6.30pm Performance The Bowery Theatre Elkin Performance Like a Murders off a Duck's Back Mission to Seafarers - Celia Little Room 6pm 6pm 6pm 6pm 6pm Performance Line Up, Sign Up, Muck Up Hare Hole (Hares & Hyenas) 7pm Digital Lip Sync Roulette Digital Event 2pm+ 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm Performance MP Love You Bitch Theatre Works 7.30pm Visual Arts Low Brows and High Hopes Digital Event ●●●●●●●●●●●●●●● >16 May 8pm 8pm 8pm 3.30pm + Performance MATADOR Her Majestys Theatre 8pm Visual Arts MP Memory Lane Metro Tunnel Hoardings ●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●● Visual Arts MP Midsumma and Australia Post Art Award No Vacancy Gallery 10am 10am 10am 1pm 10am 10am >8 May Performance MP Midsumma Festival Live at the Bowl Sidney Myer Music Bowl 8pm 8pm Midsumma Festival Live at the Bowl - 8pm 8pm Performance MP Digital Event Broadcast Film Midsumma Flicks @ The MC The MC Showroom 8pm Community MP Midsumma Pride March - Livestream Fitzroy St and Catani Gardens 11am Performance MP Midsumma Sunday Session Malthouse Outdoor Stage 3pm 2021 Midsumma Festival Planner APRIL MAY Last updated: 16 March 2021 Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun Mon Tue Wed Sun Category MP Event Venue Pre 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 1 2 3 4 5 23 Post Performance MP Miss First Nation 2021 Malthouse Outdoor Stage ● ● 7 May Performance Moist Mission to Seafarers - Norla Dome 9pm 9pm 9pm 9pm 9pm 9pm 9pm 9pm 9pm 9pm Parties/Social Motafrenz Magical Mystery Tour Como Park North 9.45am Night at the Museum: Youth Midsumma 6.30pm Youth MP Immigration Museum Festival Party Sports Nomads Cycling Tour to Mount Waverley Birrarung Marr Bike Parking 10.30am Sports Nomads Salute to Love & Our Parklands Boroondara General Cemetery 10.30am Visual Arts O UT Brunswick Street Gallery 10am 10am 10am 10am 10am 10am 10am O: 6pm 10am 10am 10am 10am >9 May Visual Arts On Screen, In the Flesh Trocadero Art Space O: 6pm noon noon noon noon noon noon noon Performance Park Lounge Kelly Park 5pm Community Perversion Inflation Visual Arts PINK 2021 Tacit Art 14 Apr< 11am 11am 11am 11am 11am 11am 11am 11am Performance Priscilla Queen of the Desert - The Musical Cardinia Cultural Centre 8pm 2pm 8pm 8pm 8pm 8pm 2pm Performance Protein The MC Showroom 6.30pm 6.30pm 6.30pm 6.30pm Que Será, Será¡: A Life's Journey of Sexual ●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●● Performance Digital Event Orientation & Gender Queenie Bon Bon — The Body is its Own 7.30pm 7.30pm Performance Hare Hole (Hares & Hyenas) Language Performance MP Queer Playwriting Award Showcase Gasworks Arts Park - Gasworks Theatre 7.30pm Film MP Queerantine in the Flesh ACMI Swinburne Studio noon 11am 11am noon 4pm + Performance MP Queerantine Live Salon ACMI Gandel Digital Future Lab 1 5.30pm + 7pm

TT&W MP Queerantine Q&A ACMI Gandel Digital Future Lab 1 2pm 2pm Visual Arts Queers Draw This Exhibition NECCHi Newlands O: 3pm noon Queers in Science: Australia's response to the 6.30pm TT&W MP Melbourne Museum COVID-19 pandemic TT&W MP Queers in Science: Ecology now Melbourne Museum 6.30pm Community Rainbow Community Picnic Selandra Community Hub 18 Apr< 10am + Kids & Fam MP Rainbow Families Cabaret Sidney Myer Music Bowl 12.30pm Louis Joel Arts & Community Centre - Joel 10am Kids & Fam Rainbow Families in Frame Gallery Kids & Fam Rainbow Family Storytime Newport Community Hub 10.30am Music Rainbow Music on the Deck Newport Community Hub 3pm Louis Joel Arts & Community Centre - Joel 11am Kids & Fam Rainbow Pride in Altona Gallery Kids & Fam MP Rainbow Tree ArtPlay >4 Jul Performance Ready, Set, Brunch! Bottomless Drag Brunch Pride of our Footscray Community Bar 1pm 1pm 10am+ 10am+ 10am+ 10am+ 10am+ 10am+ 10am+ 10am+ 10am+ 10am+ 10am+ 10am+ 10am+ 10am+ 10am+ >16May Visual Arts Realness Bunjil Place 6pm 6pm 6pm 6pm 6pm 6pm 6pm 6pm 6pm 6pm 6pm 6pm 6pm 6pm 6pm Sports Richmond Lawn Bowls Richmond Union Bowling Club 9am Visual Arts Ross Watson Exhibition Ross Watson Gallery 11am 11am 11am 11am >9 May Performance Sam I Am La Mama Courthouse 8.30pm 6.30pm 8.30pm P: 8pm O: 9pm 2pm+ Performance Scoundrels: A Boylesque Musical Chapel Off Chapel - The Loft 9pm

TT&W MP Self-Portrait workshop with Frances Cannon Immigration Museum 1pm Sports Serve It, Smash It, Love It Melbourne Sports and Aquatic Centre 11am Performance Shopping and F*cking The MC Showroom 8.30pm 8.30pm 8.30pm 8.30pm 8.30pm 8.30pm TT&W MP SMUT Footscray Community Arts Centre 7.30pm 2pm+ 2pm+ Music Sound in the Head Workshops and Gigs Bluestone Church Arts Space 6pm 6pm Steven Kramer - Don't Make Me Play Piano 7pm 7pm 7pm Performance fortyfivedownstairs Man TT&W MP Story In Motion workshop with Adolfo Aranjuez Immigration Museum 10.30am Parties/Social Summer Roll: a rollerdisco RETROPOLIS 3pm Community MP Take It From Me: Archer Launch Edition Malthouse Outdoor Stage 6.30pm Music Tall Branches Bluestone Church Arts Space 7pm 7pm TT&W Telling Time Hare Hole (Hares & Hyenas) 7.30pm Performance Terms & Conditions Digital Event 8pm 8pm 8pm 8pm 6pm 6pm 6pm 8pm 8pm 8pm 8pm 6pm 6pm 6pm 8pm 8pm 8pm 7pm 7pm 7pm 2pm+ ?? Performance That Which Was Once Familiar Dancehouse - Upstairs Studio 7pm TT&W The Breathwork Sessions Mission to Seafarers - Norla Dome 6pm 6pm 6pm 6pm 6pm Kids & Fam MP The Dinosaur SQUAD - Live Fitzroy Town Hall 17 Apr< Kids & Fam MP The Dinosaur SQUAD - Video Digital Event The Gospel According to Jesus, Queen of 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 5pm 7.30pm 7.30pm >8May Performance MP Theatre Works Heaven The Kings Comedy Republic The Most Inclusive LGBTQI+ Wedding Planning Event You'll Ever Attend Performance MP The People of Cabaret: We Are Here Malthouse Outdoor Stage Music MP The Pier Festival Seaworks Performance The Will To Be La Mama Courthouse 6.30pm 6.30pm 8.30pm 6.30pm 8.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 2pm+ 7pm Performance This Genuine Moment La Mama Courthouse 5pm 7pm + 7pm + 7pm + 7pm + 7pm + Kids & Fam MP This is Grayson The Substation 9pm 9pm 9pm 9pm 9pm Performance To Sir with Glove Hare Hole (Hares & Hyenas) 6pm 9pm Performance Too Much Mission to Seafarers - Celia Little Room 9pm 9pm 9pm 9pm 9pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm Performance Trans and Gender Diverse Writers Showcase Bluestone Church Arts Space 8pm Performance Two Queers Walk Into A Bar Comedy Republic 7.30pm 10 Apr< 11am+ 11am+ Kids & Fam Unsorted Bluestone Church Arts Space 1pm 1pm Sports Yarra Leisure Pride Night 2021 Collingwood Leisure Centre 3pm Performance Yasemin Sabuncu: Sick Bitch Hare Hole (Hares & Hyenas) 7.30pm Performance You Can't Say That In Front Of Your Father! Pride of our Footscray Community Bar 7pm 5pm 7pm 5pm

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Film Circus Absolutely Alone Together FEMMEulous The award-winning virtual play It's time to fl ip FEMME into by Maxie Dara overdrive This virtual play plumbs the depths of Covid's scourge - ravaging body, Women's Circus presents an online soul, our very humanity, our ability extravaganza featuring Melbourne's to love others, even ourselves, to Digital Event darlings of circus and theatre: Mahla Digital Event fi nd the will to draw another breath Bird (aka Themme Fatale), Kerith 23 Apr 45m 19 Apr-5 May 1hr and then . . . kaboom! One human Manderson Galvin, and Winter Cyan, Fri 6pm Stream on demand spirit ponders true and in the words alongside fabulous performers from Free to book, donations suggested Free to book, donations suggested of 19 year old John Gillespie Magee Women's Circus. Come on a journey Jr. on December 11, 1940, during his Presented by Women's Circus of discovery and witness these Coarse language | Suicide references solo fl ight in an RAF Spitfi re over Image: by Jeska Stephens and Women's incredible performers playfully Presented by VirtualTheatre.Online England "slipped the surly bonds Circus celebrate and elevate all that is of Earth... and touched the face of FEMME. Limited screening - watch God." from your own home.

Community Interactive Performance Electric Fence - The Fortune Gathering Find your future with an The Electric Fence needs you! Untrustworthy Seer What do you want? What are you The 'Electric Fence' is an artwork willing to lose to get it? by UK contemporary queer artist, Annabel McCourt. The Fortune Teller has opened their Digital Event Digital Event den to any and all unfortunates Working closely with Midsumma willing to explore their intimate 19 Apr-5 May Festival and UK partners, McCourt 22-25 Apr, 1-2 May 20m darkness. Finding your future, Connect via midsumma.org.au will invite the people of Melbourne Noon, 12:40pm, 1:20pm, 2pm, 5pm, remembering your past, and FREE to contribute their own stories 5:40pm, 6:20pm, 7pm navigating the present is only a of overcoming personal barriers, $15 full | $12 conc Presented by Midsumma Festival and video call away. Annabel McCourt of hate and of hope. This is your Heavy audience participation chance to become part of the Image: by Annabel McCourt Presented by Ebony Macpherson The Fortune Teller awaits... artwork and make your LGBTQIA+ voices heard.

Comedy Community Harry Wright - Kerrie and Dolly - Smalltown Boy Midsumma Specials Gay boy with autism explores Tune in on Facebook! a lifetime of trying to ﬁ t in with Kerrie & Dolly are returning to the other men, with mixed results small screen this Midsumma and Harry Wright examines his autism they couldn't be happier. Digital Event Digital Event and his sexuality, and how these Kerrie Stanley & Dolly Diamond, 24-25 Apr 1hr intersect with his class identity, 19 Apr, 26 Apr 1hr were a huge part of helping the Sat, Sun 8pm growing up in a deprived area of Mon 7:30pm LGBTQIA+ community through the Yorkshire, England. Harry considers Choose your price $12, $15 or $20 FREE 2020 lockdown, with their weekly how sex, relationships and music Coarse language Presented by Midsumma Festival streaming show. have helped him become a better Image: by Victor Patrascan - 'Hide This man, in theory anyway. Plus For Me' numerous dick jokes.

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Circus Comedy Midsumma Festival Que Será, Será: A Live at the Bowl - Life's Journey of Livestream Sexual Orientation & A queer soirée from your own Gender home! A ruthlessly honest roller- Digital Event Live from the Sidney Myer Music Digital Event coaster life navigating non- Bowl Midsumma Festival and 30 Apr-1 May 2hrs 30m 19 Apr-5 May binary Queerness Arts Centre Melbourne present a Fri, Sat 8pm diverse line-up of LGBTQIA+ artists Stream on demand Chronicling the joys and challenges FREE and communities. So put on your Free to book, donations suggested of navigating non-binary Queerness from childhood in the 1950's to Presented by Midsumma Festival and Arts best outﬁ t, whether that be heels Violence | Coarse language | Reference Centre Melbourne or pajamas, and tune in for an to sexual violence | Suicide references adulthood. Zelda (aka Judith Z. Miller) developed this life-changing Image: by XRArtist, Marc-O-Matic unforgettable smorgasbord of the Image: Femme image of Zelda by Eva very best queer performances on Mueller, Drag image of Zelda by Gloria multi-media show. o er. Waslyn

Theatre Terms & Conditions Darcy is the hostess with the least-est!

Terms & Conditions is a solo show that indulges the absurd and the mundane. Darcy is the hostess with the least-est, anticipating the arrival Digital Event of Meaty Sue, Botanist Brianne and 19 Apr-5 May 50m THE Roberta Jones. Patricia The Mon-Thu 8pm | Fri-Sun 6pm Brain is not invited. Overhearing $15 full | $10 conc people's stories, advice and general Coarse language | References to drug blathering sends Darcy into a state use, anxiety and depression symptoms of stupefaction. They dissect what others have said, and attempt to Presented by Sunny Youngsmith shut up those who just keep on Image: by Echota Nadin and Jasmine talkinnnngggg. Goodrich Performance #midsumma

Comedy Variety #Really?! with Mel & .CHURCH. Peppy The stage is holy and this is Featuring Melissa David and how we pray Peppy Smears Queerly beloved, welcome to your favourite religion! We are back Journey inside the minds, the with our heavenly celebration of heels and the depraved souls of CANCELLED ground-breaking circus, burlesque, Vau d'vile - House of Love , Fitzroy the cabaret world's most exciting The To in Town , Melbourne CBD sideshow & cabaret, all backed by up-and-coming duo. They've been 23 Apr, 30 Apr, 2 May 1hr 22-26 Apr 1hr 30m our live choir that will leave you given their own weekly talk show, Fri 9pm | Sun 7pm & 9pm Mon, Thu-Sun 8pm | Auslan: Sat 24 Apr dripping with sin! Because let's face so expect frills, thrills, and lots 8pm $29 full | $25 conc | $49 show + tapas it, sin is in. of laughs! Featuring outrageous platter | $55 show + tapas platter + drink $30 full | $25 conc It is a great honour to welcome you opening monologues, scintillating all to worship with us. Coarse language | Smoke/Haze | musical performances and wild Nudity | Coarse language References to drug use guests, this #realness will be your Presented by Highway Robbery ".CHURCH. is the sane person's Presented by Brooklyn Runaways, a new obsession. No two shows are Productions alternative to Hillsong" wwwww - What division of Antipodes Theatre Company the same! Image: by Joel Devereux Did She Think

Cabaret Cabaret 4PLAY A Night With Tina Every memorable night starts A Tina Turner tribute show like with some 4PLAY no other!

4PLAY consists of some of Fabio Cattafi 's obsession with Tina Melbourne's most sensational drag Turner began at 14, when he put on entertainers. Encompassing various a show for his large Italian family aspects of drag performance from and sang Proud Mary into a mop Pride of our Footscray Community Bar, Chasers , South Yarra bust-a-gut hilarity to splits 'n' dips, and bucket. To this day performing Footscray 4PLAY is the warm up, the main 20-22 Apr 2hrs his idol's songs is what brings him 24-25 Apr, 1-2 May 2hrs course, and the climax you've been Tue-Thu 7pm joy and now he wants to share Sat 9:30pm | Sun 7:30pm longing for. $45 full that joy with you! Theatrical and $26 full fi lled with the power and emotion, "Name a better quad ... we'll wait" - Use of replica weapons | Strobe lights | including Proud Mary, Private Coarse language | Strobe lights Bourne To Drag Podcast Smoke/Haze | Latecomer lockout Dancer and Nutbush, this show will Presented by Max The Drag Queen, Image: by Kim Jane Photography Menorah Foxx, Lynnduh and Rubi Taboo have audiences on their feet from start to fi nish. Image: by Bettie Rosé

Cabaret Cabaret After Dark All Out Of Pride Drag cabaret extravaganza An evening of songs you're ashamed to love Brought to you by two of Melbourne's experienced drag show Join multi-award-winning rock producers, Cory McKinnon and cabaret artist Geraldine Quinn Trent Harlow, 'After Dark' is a high (Spicks & Specks, The Weekly) and energy drag cabaret experience not long-term Dolly Diamond enabler Chasers , South Yarra Gasworks Arts Park - Gasworks Theatre, too be missed. Featuring some of Cameron Thomas for a smooth Albert Park 1-3 May 4hrs Australia's top drag performers and hour of "shame songs": the soaring, Sat 4pm | Mon, Sun 7pm male dancers, 'After Dark' takes you 30 Apr 1hr slightly embarrassing songs you $55 balcony standing | $60 ﬂ oor seating on a journey through some of the Fri 8:30pm belt in the shower or at a karaoke | $65 VIP area world most famous cabaret venues $35 full | $30 conc | $25 group (min 6) bar after a pint of Tequila. Oh, you from the roaring 20s to the fabulous Nudity | Coarse language | Strobe Presented by Geraldine Quinn & Cameron know the words... lights | Smoke/Haze 50s with performances inspired by Thomas icons such as Velma Kelly, Dita Von "Hugely entertaining - you'll end this Presented by CM Entertainment Image: by Nicole Cleary show roaring for more" - Daily Review Teese, Carmen Miranda, Jessica wwwww Image: by Ben Seyer Rabbit and Marilyn Monroe! Performance midsumma.org.au

Cabaret Cabaret All The King's Hens Ballads & Ballgowns Bring your queer Magic Mike Feelings dressed up in couture fantasy to life! Witness the sheer glamour of a lone All the King's Hens navigate drag queen. Hiding in the spotlight, the questionable world of hens encrusted in all the rhinestones and parties to plan the biggest event sequin her beer bottle budget can of the year. What is the ﬁ nal a ord. Pining to the cardboard cut Comedy Republic , Melbourne Vau d'vile - Showroom , Fitzroy ﬂ ing before the ring and how out moon. One question remains, do 29 Apr 1hr 30m is it rooted in traditions around 3-5 May 1hr you wanna see another numbah?! Thu 7:30pm marriage and dated gender roles? Mon, Tue 7pm | Wed 5pm & 8pm | The Midsumma premiere and debut Featuring original music and a drag Meet and Greet experience following each $25 full of Miss Isis Avis Loren spectacular. show including photo opportunity. Presented by Laura Hart $25 full | $18 conc Instagram: @isisavisloren Featuring Sydney-based Drag Kings Strobe lights | Smoke/Haze Big Rod, Papi Chulo and King Chad Love. Presented by Isis Avis Loren Image: by Daniel Sutton

Dance Theatre Bent Billy Loves Cha Cha Forever! In this contemporary work, Variation Presented with pride by Three's ensemble of six queer Cracked Actors Theatre (CAT) artists take us on their journey, and explore how their joy, their pain, and Kings Cross, Australia - New Year's their love, have all been infl uenced Eve, 1968. On the fl oor lies the Theatre Works , St Kilda by the voices around them. Through Cracked Actors Theatre (CAT) , Albert dead body of a street hustler shot Park 19-22 Apr 50m their interlocking of moving bodies, straight through the heart. A man Mon-Thu 7:30pm the stories of queer Australians are 22-25 Apr, 28 Apr-1 May, 4-5 May 1hr 30m stands over him whistling Auld Lang Syne. Love like murder ain't easy! small booth (fi ts 2-3) $135 full, $90 conc shared with audiences, pushing Tue-Fri 7:30pm | Sat, Sun 2:30pm & A bittersweet story you'll adore by large booth (fi ts 4-6) $270 full, $180 conc for refl ection, and a change in 5:30pm perception. Created by Reuben Noel Anderson at the CAT. Adult Themes $39 full | $29 conc James, 'Bent' is a unique fusion of Violence | Coarse language | Strobe "Cracked Actors Theatre is the fi rst Presented by Midsumma Festival and circus, dance, and visual art. to break the ice after the pandemic Variation Three lights | References to drug use shutdown...and it's such a relief" - Image: by Sarah Yeung Image: by Variation Three Cameron Woodhead, The Age

Theatre Theatre Bottom Club Pistol Bums, Beyoncé and burnt ﬁ sh It's where we express & ﬁ ngers. undress!

Locked in his bathroom during a Step inside this delicious club kid tragic third date, Willy asks: are you fusion of art, burlesque and drag as a top or a bottom? our dear hostess, Pistolina, contorts all facets into a never-before-seen The Butterﬂ y Club - Upstairs , Melbourne Mission to Seafarers - Norla Dome, Join Willy for a queer coming- show encompassing all that is queer CBD Docklands of-age remix, as he questions if expression. This is one non-stop 19-24 Apr 1hr 'bottom' in the bedroom means 27 Apr- 1 May | Tue-Sat | 1hr groovy party-train that's heading Mon-Sat 8:30pm 'bottom' in life. 6pm | Auslan: To book interpretation directly to the world of weird! $35 full | $31 conc | $28 group (min 6) email [email protected] This is for anyone who hates making Coarse language | Reference to sexual the ﬁ rst move. Anyone who thinks $30 full | $25 conc violence | References to drug use they are unlovable. Anyone that's Nudity | Coarse language Presented by Gavin Roach ever tried to be someone they're Presented by Scratch Arts Image: by Ali Choudhry not. Image: by Rachel Mia Performance #midsumma

Cabaret Comedy Comedy Republic's Date Night Big City Blowout Love never felt so strange The butterﬂ ies and wide eyes of that ﬁ rst meeting... will this be From the producers of the raucous, the one? Are we compatible for titillating, wildly successful long walks on the beach? All of Christmas Pageant comes the Big the romantic fantasies explode City Blowout! A celebration of Comedy Republic , Melbourne Mission to Seafarers - Celia Little Room, in a comedic, theatrical event queer comedy, cabaret and song - Docklands 23-24 Apr 2hrs showcasing the real life drama that this show's blindingly-bright sequins Fri, Sat 7:30pm 27 Apr-1 May | Tue-Sat | 1 hr is dating. Pushed beyond the limits and ravishingly over-the-top 6pm | Auslan: To book interpretation for a pretty crazy, wild thing we like $34 full | $31 conc characters will leave your hearts full email [email protected] to call love. Bon appétit! Coarse language and your cheeks sore (from smiling $30 full | $25 conc | $20 group (min 6) Presented by Comedy Republic - get your mind out of the gutter). Relax, breathe in and BLOW OUT! Coarse language Presented by Scratch Arts

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Comedy Interactive Performance Dolly Diamond's Star Dragged to Brunch for a Night ft Jacqui Meoff Making dreams come true this Brunch doesn't have to be a Midsumma Festival! drag!

Music icons will be brought to Strap in for a wild ride with your life in Dolly Diamond's Star for hostess Donna DuTchme and her Chapel O Chapel - Chapel , Prahran a Night! Dolly will be rescuing Saint Evie , St Kilda special guest Jacqui Meo ! 21-24 Apr 1hr 30m contestants from their mundane 24 Apr 2hrs 30m The ladies will dazzle you with Wed-Sat 8pm | Sat 4pm lives, transforming them into their Sat Midday idols and making them stars for a fabulous shows, cheeky banter and $37.90 full | $32.90 conc $75 full night! Which idols will be unveiled fun - all while you sit back, relax, Presented by Adam Lowe Group and who will win? Coarse language and enjoy two hours of bottomless Image: by Elliot Moody Presented by Australian Entertainment Co beverages and - of course - brunch!

X Dragged to Brunch A Good Brunch Is A Brunch Shared! Image: Graphics by James Hooper

Interactive Performance Theatre Dragged to Brunch Eat My Cake - Pride March Edition Femininity never tasted so ft Sara Tonin good! Brunch doesn't have to be a Welcome to Marie Antoinette's lavish feast! drag! It's one powerful woman with an Strap in for a wild ride with your Saint Evie , St Kilda Mission to Seafarers - Celia Little Room, hour of non-stop debauchery. hostess Donna DuTchme and her 23 May 2hrs 30m Docklands special guest Sara Tonin! 27 Apr-1 May | Tue-Sat | 1hr 'Let them eat cake'... That's old Sat 2:30pm news, we're beyond that, it's time to The ladies will dazzle you with 9pm | Auslan: To book interpretation $75 full treat ourselves and get messy. fabulous shows, cheeky banter and email [email protected] Coarse language fun - all while you sit back, relax, $30 full | $25 conc | $20 group (min 6) So join us on this feast of tantalising Presented by Australian Entertainment Co and enjoy two hours of bottomless gossip, intimate secrets and raucous X Dragged to Brunch Nudity | Coarse language beverages and - of course - brunch! desires. Image: Graphics by James Hooper Presented by Scratch Arts Image: by Shelley Horan Performance midsumma.org.au

Variety Variety F*ck Fabulous Get Bent Fest! This is a Protest Party! A one-night-only mini-fest hosted by multi-award winning Serving post-punk, anti-glamour realness, F*ck Fabulous is a radical comedian Lou Wall variety show hosted by Yana Alana. Join host Lou Wall for this 8 hour This epic ensemble is where drag, gala extravaganza bringing together visual art, trash-fashion, dance, the best performances from the Arts Centre Melbourne - Fairfax Studio, Fringe Common Rooms , Carlton circus and live music collide. Midsumma Festival program, our Melbourne 24 Apr Bringing together ﬁ erce queers, city's grandest drag royals, and 20-24 Apr, 27 Apr-2 May 2hrs femmes and rebels in a show that Sat 5pm-1am DJs from across the rainbow road Tue-Sat 8pm | Sat 4pm | Sun 5pm celebrates female-masculinity, $25 full | $35 give a little | $50 give a lot together in one screamingly over- rejoices in gender-queer visibility $30, $45, $50 full | $35, $40 conc Nudity | Coarse language | Strobe the-top festivalette. and celebrates femme identities in Nudity | Strobe lights | Smoke/Haze lights | Non-traditional sitting | References diverse bodies. to drug use Get Bent Fest is raising funds to Presented by Arts Centre Melbourne in directly support the development association with Fat Fruit "Larger-than-life" - The Age (of Yana Presented by Justin Nott of new theatre work by emerging Alana) Image: Alexis Desaulniers-Lea Image: by Alexis Desaulniers-Lea queer artists in Melbourne.

Theatre Theatre Grief Lightning: A Guerilla Sabbath Satire In 78 Slides Written by William Hinz One lecturer desperately tries A coven of transcendent, time- to prove a popular 'Grease' travelling witches wage war to conspiracy: that the whole fi lm restore forgotten queer histories. But having recently lost two of is Sandy's coma fantasy. their own, and in dire need of Gasworks Arts Park - Gasworks Theatre, Part-theatre, part-standup, part- La Mama Courthouse , Carlton replacements, questions begin to Albert Park PowerPoint Presentation. One 27 Apr, 29 Apr, 1-2 May 2hrs rise about the privilege of their 4-8 May 1hr enigmatic lecturer gets lost in a Tue 6pm | Thu, Sat 7:30pm | Sun Midday power, and the power of their Tue-Sat 8pm storm of 'Grease' fan theories. Over | Sun 4pm history. the course of 13 scenes, 78 slides, $32 full | $28 conc | $25 group (min 6) $30 full | $20 conc '[Hinz' words] break like a wave over Discussion of sexual assault and a fl ood of custom animations, Latecomer lockout | Strong coarse the audience, leaving them sitting in the lecture warps... dragging the language and reference to violence refl ective, grieving, silence' -TheatreHaus Presented by Paper Mouth Theatre & audience down into a world of wigs, Wickedly Good Productions, Gasworks against LGBTQIA+ individuals Arts Park jackets, and surreal projection. Presented by La Mama Theatre

Cabaret Comedy Highway To The I Have a Face by Twilight Zone Jude Perl The campest alternate reality

Part drag show, part theatre In her award-winning show, Jude production, Randy Roy and his Perl embarks on an adventure to trusty entourage have one hour solve all of our collective inner Mission to Seafarers - Norla Dome, to wow you with Queens, Kings Bowery Theatre , St Albans angst... With lots of bright colours! Docklands and Things serving up glittering 30 Apr 1hr Dazzling sounds! And prizes!* fantasies and sci ﬁ realness... and 22-24 Apr 1hr Fri 7:30pm one hour to ﬁ gure out which cast Are you feeling overwhelmed? Thu-Sat 7:30pm | Auslan: 23 Apr 7:30pm member is not quite who they say $28 full | $22 conc Are you perpetually confused $30 full | $25 conc they are. With a rotating cast of Mild course language, sexual about everything? Well, look no Coarse language | Drug use references drag performers, no two evenings references, mental health themes further, because when it comes to confusion, Jude Perl has all the Presented by Randy Roy will be the same! Come take the Presented by Regional Arts Victoria and answers. Image: by Ben Grimshaw journey through the unknown, on the Bowery Theatre the highway to the Twilight Zone. Image: by Nick Manuell *Metaphorical prizes. Performance #midsumma

Variety Dance Kong's Drag Kings Laceship "Melbourne's greatest expressions of genderf*ckery." Temperance Hall presents Laceship, - The Loose Moose an immersive installation and Time to swipe right on the muscles, performance for an intimate moustaches and utter madness of audience. Created by BalletLab Melbourne drag. Kong's Kings is Artistic Director Phillip Adam, Mission to Seafarers - Celia Little Room, Temperance Hall , South Melbourne bringing you fi ve glorious nights Laceship takes the iconic horror Docklands 28 Apr-2 May 45m of one night stands with some cult fi lm The Exorcist (1973) as a 20-24 Apr 1hr of Melbourne's most diverse and Wed-Sat 7pm & 8:15pm | Sun 2pm & point of departure. Audiences are Tue-Sat 7:30pm | Auslan: 24 Apr 7:30pm eccentric drag talent. Featuring 3:15pm positioned amongst the interior of $35 full | $22 conc performances by Randy Roy, Jesse $25 full | $20 conc a large-scale scenography of lace, as if on a fi lm set. Through a queer Nudity | Coarse language Dean, Dazza & Keif, Justin Teliqure Sex scenes | Smoke/Haze and a f*cktonne more. lens, Laceship explores themes of Presented by Kong's Kings Presented by Temperance Hall religious unorthodoxy, embodied Image: by Bae L'amour, Brig Bee & Keely Image: by Phillip Adams and William exorcisms, Catholic ceremony and Windred McBride by Gregory Lorenzutti. demonic ritual.

Spoken Word Comedy Let Me Get Like a Murders off a Something Off My Duck's Back Chest by Sam Elkin An afternoon of absurd murder Rants from out West mystery The most shocking and hilarious A storytelling night of polemical absurdist thriller ever penned rants and righteous queer rage. Bowery Theatre , St Albans Mission to Seafarers - Celia Little Room, for the stage! In the seediest of Join an array of activists, artists Docklands dive bars, four strangers are just 19 Apr 2hrs and wordsmiths as they take to the 20-24 Apr | Tue-Sat | 1hr trying to enjoy a damn drink Mon 6:30pm stage to let the world know what's when tragedy strikes! Our band of $18 full | $14 conc been making them angry, bemused 6pm | Auslan: To book interpretation violent vagabonds are thrust into a or confused this year. Featuring Roj email [email protected] Coarse language | References to drug magniﬁ cent mystery that threatens Amedi, Joshua Badge, Tony Bri a, $30 full | $25 conc | $20 group (min 6) use, sexual violence and suicide everything they hold close. Who David Mejia-Canales, Kitty, Dean Violence | Coarse language Presented by Sam Elkin will live? Who will die? Who gets to & Sasja from 3CR's Behind Closed Presented by Scratch Arts decide? Image: by Todd Cravens Doors + many more.

Spoken Word Theatre Line Up, Sign Up, Love You Bitch Muck Up Some people are friends. Some A double serving of DJ sets people deserve each other. and spoken word Jem, Ella and Harry are best friends. Whip-smart underachievers First, a curated line-up of spoken side-eyeing their late twenties, work extraordinaires warm up their friendship is fuelled by pop Hare Hole (Hares & Hyenas) , Fitzroy the intimate open mic. Later is Theatre Works , St Kilda music, memes and cynicism about an unpredictable spectacle of 23 Apr 3hrs 24-28 Apr 1hr 30m everyone else around them. Fri 7pm improvised sonic-phonic wonder Sat 2pm | Mon-Wed, Sat, Sun 7:30pm featuring collaboration in words From award-winning company $25 full | $12.50 conc | $10 live stream full small booth (ﬁ ts 2-3) $135 full, $90 conc and beats -- the three sets carried Stage Mom comes this hilarious | $5 live stream conc large booth (ﬁ ts 4-6) $270 full, $180 conc through by the magic of DJ Kiarcher and deeply relatable play about Smoke/Haze | Open content venue and DJ Hip Hop Hoe. Live streaming Coarse language | References to drug friendship, insecurity and the use | Sexual References Presented by Hares & Hyenas in and chill-out space. secret meaning of Kylie Minogue's association with Midsumma Festival Presented by Midsumma Festival, Theatre 'Spinning Around.'

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Theatre Variety MATADOR Midsumma Festival A ﬁ ery fusion of dance, Live at the Bowl burlesque & circus. A soirée of FREE queer live After a sold out national tour in entertainment 2019, a pandemic, a sold out 2021 Midsumma Festival Live at the Bowl Brisbane season and an award will bring together a diverse line-up winning Adelaide Fringe debut, Her Majesty's Theatre , Melbourne Sidney Myer Music Bowl , Melbourne of LGBTQIA+ artists, performers, MATADOR returns to its home town, communities, and audiences, to 29 Apr-2 May 2hrs bigger than ever in a brand new 30 Apr-1 May 2hrs 30m premiere at Sidney Myer Music Thu-Sun 8pm | Sun 3:30pm venue; Her Majesty's Theatre. Fri, Sat 8pm Bowl for the ﬁ rst time ever. This $150 VIP box | $130 premium | $110 A FREE A tale of forbidden love, carnal FREE two-night extravaganza will reserve | $89 B reserve | $69 C reserve | Presented by Midsumma Festival and Arts $59 restricted view desires, passion and pain, a tale showcase a joyous smorgasbord, of a love torn bull & the seductive Centre Melbourne under the stars, of the very best Sex scenes | Coarse language | Strobe Matador! Image: by XRArtist, Marc-O-Matic queer performances on o er. lights | Smoke/Haze | Partial Nudity Presented by Bass Fam Creative

Variety Cabaret Midsumma Sunday Miss First Nation 2021 Sessions Australia's only national A soothing piano bar competition for First Nations drag entertainers Winter is coming, so ease out of the warmer months with this chance Our fi ercest entertainers will set to sit outside and be serenaded. the stage on fi re (that's FI-YA) over two heats, showing the audience Malthouse Outdoor Stage , Southbank Midsumma Festival can have you Malthouse Outdoor Stage , Southbank what being fabulous is all about. 2 May 1hr exhausted with so many things to 4-5 May, 7 May 1hr 10m do, so relax and let us take the reins It all comes down to 8 fi nalists. Sun 3pm | Sun 5pm Tue, Wed, Fri 7pm | Heat 1: Tue 4 May, as we near the last week of the They've got the talent, the sparkle Heat 2: Wed 5 May, Grand Final: Fri 7 May FREE booking required festival. and the sass, but who will take the $10 full | $6 blaktix Presented by Midsumma Festival prize (and the glory) in the most With keyboard stylings by Joshie glamorous grand fi nal in Australia? Image: Joshie Belle by Thais Barreto Coarse language | Strobe lights Belle, non-binary cabaret-star and Presented by Midsumma Festival, Party It's a glitzy celebration of pride special guests from throughout the Passport and YIRRAMBOI Festival and togetherness, and a hilariously festival. Image: by Jalaru Photography colourful show for everyone.

Variety Variety Moist Park Lounge Adults only circus OUT in the Park, a celebration for all This racy and hilarious physical theatre spectacle is sopping wet Join us in the park for a luminous as it takes you deep into a disco evening performance of music, fuelled distopia. Join us on our hunt theatre and dance to delight and for a glass of water in a world where entertain you with all the colours Mission to Seafarers - Norla Dome, Kelly Park , Werribee the billionaires splash about and the of the rainbow! Presented by Docklands working class toil in the soil. It's all 1 May Wyndham City, Park Lounge is a 20-24 Apr, 27 Apr-1 May | Tue-Sat 1hr dribbling, all squelching, all moist Sat 5-9pm free event open to everyone to 9pm | Auslan: To book interpretation performance art from a diverse FREE celebrate the wonderful world of email [email protected] range of thirst traps. Presented by Wyndham City Council queer culture with our LGBTQIA+ $35 full | $30 conc | $20 group (min 6) community and friends. Presented by Scratch Arts and Nudity | You may get wet! Express Move Me Image: by The Mighty Caesar

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Musical Comedy Priscilla Queen of Protein the Desert - The The musical musings of a Musical queer vegan Flirty, fun and fabulous! Follow soy boy Alex, the musical misﬁ t through stories of food, sex In an age of the glossy, beautiful and sarcasm in this fast-paced drag popularised on RuPaul's Drag comedy. Cardinia Cultural Centre , Pakenham The MC Showroom , Prahran Race, Priscilla still stands apart with 24-25 Apr, 28 Apr-2 May 2hrs 20m 29 Apr-2 May 1hr "Ridefelt is an amazing lyricist." - its homemade spectacle. Sydney WhatDidSheThink.com Wed-Sat 8pm | Sun 2pm drag queens, Tick, Felicia and Thu-Sun 6:30pm "His complex, quick-witted, and thought- $48 full | $43 conc transgender performer, Bernadette $32.50 full | $27.50 conc provokingly relevant lyrics increase his Violence | Coarse language | Strobe travel in a ramshackle bus to Alice Coarse language | Sexual References work's wow factor." - TheatrePeople.com lights | Smoke/Haze Springs, where they've been booked Presented by Autonomous Inventions for a show. It's a typical ﬁ sh-out-of- Presented by CPAC - Musical Theatre water tale as the trio encounter the outback and its inhabitants.

Spoken Word Interactive Performance Queenie Bon Bon Queer Playwriting -- The Body is its Own Award Showcase Language Witness staged readings of New works about bodies, brand new queer theatre works bonds and beginnings Experience fresh excerpts of four new works pre-selected from our Writer, performance artist, sex Hare Hole (Hares & Hyenas) , Fitzroy Gasworks Arts Park - Gasworks Theatre, top eight ﬁ nalists: Recollection worker Queenie's Bon Bon's four 29-30 Apr Albert Park by Georgia Ketels, Every Lovely full-length touring shows focus on 27 Apr 1hr 30m Terrible Thing by Adam Fawcett, Thu, Fri 7:30-8:40pm labour and the body. A member of Coming Out by Lucy Holz, and $28 full | $15 conc | $12 live stream full | the sex worker art collective Debby Tue 7pm Mummy's Boy by Patrick Livesey. $6 live stream conc Doesn't Do It For Free, in 2020 they $22 full | $18 conc | Includes a free drink See queer issues and voices won the Firstdraft's Writers award Strong language | Sexual acts Adult themes represented on stage, engage described and was runner up for Whore of the Presented by Midsumma Festival and with new playwriting talent and Year for sex work activism. Presented by Queenie Bon Bon in Gasworks Arts Park have your say in the 2021 Award association with Midsumma Festival Image: by Suzanne Balding (QPAS 2020) selection.

Spoken Word Comedy Queerantine Live Ready, Set, Brunch! Salon Bottomless Drag A special live salon of Brunch performances by artists of It's camp, it's drag, it's brunch! the Queerantine in the Flesh exhibition. Enjoy interactive drag comedy and shows with drag stars Joslyn ACMI Gandel Digital Future Lab 1, Pride of our Footscray Community Bar, Join artists of the Queerantine Bosoms & Aurora Arsenic as they Melbourne Footscray in the Flesh exhibition for live take you through everything from 24 Apr 45m performances of their spoken word 25 Apr, 2 May 2hrs 30m show-stopping drag duets to Sat 4pm, 5:30pm & 7pm and musical works in an intimate Sun 1pm science experiments to dad jokes. FREE booking required salon setting. $69 full | $65 conc All whilst you enjoy bottomless mimosas (or sparkling) and a super Sexual references | Adult themes Presented by Pride of our Footscray Drag Bar cute brunch, including the world Presented by Midsumma Festival and ACMI Image: by Adrian Prosen famous Cavallaro Cannolis as well as sushi, wraps & more. Image: Still from 'Queery' Glynn Urquhart Performance midsumma.org.au

Theatre Cabaret Sam I Am Scoundrels: A Written and performed Boylesque Musical by Sam Martin Evil never looked so good Set on the eve of his big move to In a cabaret courtroom, the Melbourne, this deeply personal beautiful Ziegfeld Boys stand story recounts pivotal events of trial for the various sins they have Sam's life, including his journey with La Mama Courthouse , Carlton Chapel O Chapel - The Loft , Prahran committed, delving deep into hearing aids and speech pathology, a world of love, jealousy, lust, 20-22 Apr 1hr learning Auslan, and choosing 29 Apr-1 May 1hr inﬁ delity and murder. A brilliant Tue, Thu 8:30pm | Wed 6:30pm to come out following the 2017 Thu 8pm | Fri, Sat 9pm | Sat 6pm blend of old-world burlesque, marriage equality plebiscite. Sam $30 full | $20 conc $39 full | $36 conc musical theatre and clever comedy. Coarse language I Am explores the experiences, Sex scenes | Use of replica weapons memories, and unknowns that "Glorious high camp! 5/5" - Glam Presented by La Mama Theatre and Presented by Smoke & Mirrors Sam must learn to embrace as he Adelaide Antipodes Theatre Company Production accepts and deﬁ nes his identity. Image: by Daniel Spellman Image: by Brandon Pape

Theatre Cabaret Shopping and Steven Kramer - Fucking Don't Make Me Play Mark Ravenhill's bold tragi- Piano Man comedy A love letter to the piano and Drugs, sex and microwave meals. those who play it Mark is a recovering junkie; Lulu is He'll happily play Elton John, Carole The MC Showroom , Prahran asked to sell ecstasy after a topless fortyﬁ vedownstairs , Melbourne CBD King or Peter Allen but please don't 20-25 Apr 2hrs audition; Gary is a rentboy looking 30 Apr-2 May 1hr make him play THAT Billy Joel for someone to fulﬁ ll his violent Tue-Sun 8:30pm Fri, Sat 7pm | Sun 5pm song. Journeying through all the fantasies; Robbie sets up a phone $40 full | $35 conc $40 full | $35 conc | $35 group (min 6) great piano hits, Steven's cheeky, sex line with Lulu to try and pay the irreverent style and experience at Nudity | Sex scenes | Violence | Coarse bills. With black humour and bleak Image: by Chloe Snaith piano bars and sing-along nights language | References to drug use, suicide philosophy, the play shows the lives & sexual violence will make you feel right at home. of disconnected youth reduced Just don't leave your drink on the Presented by Tyrone Cross to transactions by a dysfunctional piano without a coaster! Image: By Jesse Donaldson-Jarrett consumerist society.

Dance Theatre That Which Was The Gospel Once Familiar According to Jesus, Queen of Heaven That Which Was Once Familiar (TWWOF) investigates how culture Join Queen Jesus for a inscribes gender and sexuality onto revolutionary queer ritual in which Dancehouse - Upstairs Studio , Carlton the fl eshy sacks we walk around Theatre Works , St Kilda bread is shared, wine is drunk and North in... our bodies. Borrowing methods 29 Apr-2 May, 4-8 May 50m familiar stories are reimagined by a from sculpture; dancers explore 28 Apr-1 May 1hr Tue-Sat 7:30pm | Sun 5pm transgender Jesus. the abstract, object-like parts of Wed, Thu, Fri 7pm | Sat 2pm & 7pm | small booth (fi ts 2-3) $135 full, $90 conc themselves. Deviating from the Jo Cli ord's legendary play makes Relaxed: 1 May 2pm large booth (fi ts 4-6) $270 full, $180 conc ways they are expected to perform its Australasian debut with Kristen $20 full | $10 conc Smoke/Haze to fi nd new ways to become bodies Smyth in the iconic role. Dancehouse and Bus Presented by that are less familiar. Presented by Midsumma Festival, Theatre Projects Works and Ben Anderson "One of the most remarkable journeys in recent theatre history" - The Scotsman Image: by Zoe Bastin Image: by Sarah Walker Performance #midsumma

Cabaret Cabaret The Kings The People of A Melbourne premiere Cabaret: We Are A night of boy-banding, joke- Here landing and good times that you'll only ﬁ nd right here. A kaleidoscopic explosion of diversity, beauty and joy Expect lip-syncing goodness, music, Comedy Republic , Melbourne a mix of dance/gyration and a dash Malthouse Outdoor Stage , Southbank Curated by this new initiative, who formed in 2020 to support, uplift, 30 Apr 1hr 30m of comedy for equal measure. 23 Apr 1hr 20m amplify and advocate for artists Fri 8:30pm Hosted by Laura Hart as Big Rod Fri 8pm who identify as Indigenous, Bla(c) $25 full (Queerstories, Story Club, Improv $45 full k and/or people of colour, their Nudity Theatre Sydney) Presented by Midsumma Festival and The debut Midsumma Festival season People of Cabaret is a vibrant expression of identity, Presented by Laura Hart "The Kings show caused me to be phenomenally entertained and queerness, culture and all that can sexually bewildered" - Bec Shaw (aka be both powerful and soft. Brocklesnitch)

Theatre Theatre The Will To Be This Genuine An award-winning solo show Moment exploring homosexuality in Following a sold out season 1960s Australia, laced with the from The Old 505 Theatre in words of Shakespeare. Sydney. A University O ce, 1962: As 'R' and 'L' piece together their homosexuality is illegal. A lecturer is La Mama Courthouse , Carlton La Mama Courthouse , Carlton one night stand, they cross topics of dismissed. His secret is out. Will he 19-23 Apr 55m 28 Apr, 30 Apr-2 May 1hr 15m sexuality, social media, and a touch choose legacy or the law? Mon, Tue, Thu 6:30pm | Wed, Fri 8:30pm Wed, Fri 7:30pm | Sat 2pm & 5pm | of chlamydia. A new queer play that asks how much easier is it to $30 full | $20 conc The Will To Be is an exploration of Sun 7pm Australia's queer history, societal be honest with someone we don't Latecomer lockout | Sexual references | $30 full | $20 conc know, than ourselves? Not suitable for persons under 15 shame, and a deﬁ ant cry to speak Coarse language | Latecomer lockout | truth to power. References to STIs & mental health Presented by La Mama Theatre 'This was one of the most human moments I've ever experienced in a Image: Sare Clarke Photography 'a spell-binding solo performance.' wwww Presented by La Mama Theatre theatre' -Theatre Travels - The Barefoot Review Image: by Clare Hawley

Cabaret Comedy To Sir with Glove Too Much This times, the gloves are o ! Deep into the essence of Angela Faith Melbourne's favourite cabaret kinkster Dean Arcuri, is polishing his Too silly, too sexual, too loud and chaps and bringing his smash hit too authentic - but the perfect cabaret 'To Sir with Glove' back to amount of courageous and funny. the spotlight. Angela Faith is as profound as she Hare Hole (Hares & Hyenas) , Fitzroy Mission to Seafarers - Celia Little Room, is ridiculous. Prepare yourself for It's a 'second coming' for a new Docklands 27 Apr, 4 May 1hr deep insights and cringe-worthy decade. Where you'll discover Tue 6pm | Tue 9pm 20-24 Apr 9pm, 27 Apr-1 May 7:30pm 1hr stories that she probably should songs you know and love taken to Tue-Sat | Auslan: To book interpretation have kept to herself. Joyful, deep, $30 full | $20 conc | choose your price for a whole new level with a modern digital live stream of 9pm sessions email [email protected] saucy and provocative. kinky twist. $30 full | $25 conc | $20 preview or group Presented by Dean Arcuri in association Presented by Scratch Arts with Midsumma Festival Come and enjoy these twisted tunes Nudity | Coarse language Image: Andrew Erikson in an evening ﬁ lled with laughter Image: Telepathic - Photo Video Design and fun. Performance midsumma.org.au

Spoken Word Comedy Trans and Gender Two Queers Walk Diverse Writers Into A Bar Showcase Jenna Su ern & Brendan An anthology fundraiser Hancock Join the Two Queers and their Join us for a night of memoir, (very funny) friends, for the ﬁ rst ﬁ ction and poetry readings by Bluestone Church Arts Space , Footscray Comedy Republic , Melbourne ever Two Queers Walk Into A Bar in upcoming trans and gender diverse Melbourne! Since starting TQWIAB 30 Apr 2hrs writers from across Australia and 22 Apr 1hr 20m (catchy, we know) in 2019, these Fri 8pm help us fundraise to print our Thu 7:30pm Sydney-based queers have fostered $16 full | $12 conc debut anthology. This event takes $20 full an all-inclusive community of place on the unceded lands of the Coarse language | References to drug Presented by Comedy Republic some of the best (and absolutely Wurundjeri people of the Kulin use, sexual violence and suicide hilarious) acts of theLGBTQIA+ nation. Presented by Spilling the T Collective comedy scene including Zoë Image: by Rishi on Unsplash Coombs Marr, Jordan Raskopoulos & Nina Oyama.

Comedy Comedy Yasemin Sabuncu: You Can't Say That In Sick Bitch Front Of Your Father! When Yasemin felt 'the illest' Queer Comedy Realness! and doctors o ered no Pride of our Footscray Community answers, she left no stone Bar turns into a Comedy Bar and unturned. comes alive with the sound of laughs as some of our funniest Hare Hole (Hares & Hyenas) , Fitzroy This heart-warming, hard-hitting, Pride of our Footscray Community Bar, Footscray queer friends tell us how it is. 24 Apr 1hr glitter-ﬁ lled comedy presents a 24-25 Apr, 1-2 May 1hr 30m Sat 7:30pm | Auslan: 24 Apr 7.30pm painfully poignant look at illness We're here, we're queer, we're $20 full | $15 conc and unexpected hurdles. From Sat 7pm | Sun 5pm fabulous, we're funny! Hear from questionable medicine and Coarse language | Sexual references, $23 full | $16 conc comedians from all shades of the references to chronic illness and counterculture to ﬁ nally reaching Coarse language | Adult themes rainbow tell it like it is. Queer life is alternative medicine. diagnoses of endometriosis & never dull! Presented by Pride of our Footscray Bar ADHD, this is Yasemin's story of lust Presented by Yasemin Sabuncu in association with Midsumma Festival for life and learning to thrive. Music #midsumma

Popular Music A Celebration of The Ace of Hearts - Teaches of Peaches Songs Celebrating an era deﬁ ning From the Ace of Hearts Musical album by iconic feminist Songs from queer musical Ace of musician, producer, director, Hearts performed by co-writers and performance artist, Hayden Dun and Natasha Pearson. The Curtin , Carlton Peaches Bluestone Church Arts Space , Footscray Presented on keys/vocals, the 23 Apr 23-24 Apr, 29-30 Apr 1hr performance celebrates di erence V, Hearts & Rockets, Double Vanity, with a central message of inclusion Fri 8pm-12am Thu-Sat 6:30pm | Relaxed: 29 Apr Zig Zag, Hunny Machete and more and belonging. Ace of Hearts is 6:30pm $25 full | $22 conc party hard at The Curtin in honour a musical comedy that follows a Language Warning | Sexual References of Peaches. Performing original $24 full | $18 conc young woman's discovery that she material + songs from The Teaches Coarse language Presented by Midsumma Festival, is Asexual and the implications it blaberunner and Psychic Hysteria of Peaches album, celebrating this Presented by Natasha Pearson & Hayden has on her friendships, family and lusty high art, low brow masterpiece Dun dating life. in one sweaty night. Image: by Sharon McCutcheon

Popular Music Blue is the Colour of Disco Instamatic Love Music video reimagined Blues with a classical touch You're invited to step inside an innovative, glittering and glamorous This programme will dive into the reimagining of the traditional music sea of blues and jazz love songs, video. Created in collaboration with wringing out the lows and rejoicing queer screen culture magazine Sissy in the highs of this evocative music. Hare Hole (Hares & Hyenas) , Fitzroy Abbotsford Convent - North Magdalen Screens, Disco Instamatic is a large- With hot keys and a powerful Laundry , Abbotsford 1 May 1hr 30m scale, hyper-colour projection work, voice, Pamela Christie and Piera 29 Apr-1 May Sat 7:30pm underscored by the Butch Le Butch Dennerstein will present some of Thu-Sat 7-10pm | Auslan: Thu 29 Apr 7pm remix of Tanzer's new single Deep $35 full the greats of this genre, approached FREE booking required Fried Disco. Featuring 20 superstars Presented by Blues Sisters in association afresh through their extensive of Melbourne's queer arts scene, with Midsumma Festival background in classical music. Presented by Midsumma Festival and Abbotsford Convent for Convent Live including Tanzer, The Huxleys, Image: by Graeme Dennerstein and Grazia "Piera Dennerstein's vocal capacity... is Karen From Finance, Atong Atem Marin Image: by WILK extraordinary" - Stage Whispers and Aysha Bu et, this immersive experience is not to be missed.

Classical Blues & Roots Emo Phase: Dan Goddess Grooves Thorpe in Focus @ Chapel presents Lots of people have an emo Love Rewind phase, Dan Thorpe's just lasted Melbourne's premier women's a bit longer. music event It's his thirtieth birthday, he's a Goddess Grooves has been wowing Abbotsford Convent - Industrial School, concert pianist, but he still just Chapel O Chapel - Chapel , Prahran , Abbotsford audiences for well over a decade Sacred Heart building wants to shred sad, queer bangers. 29 Apr 1hr 25m as it showcases local queer female 23-25 Apr 2hrs 30m Join Forest Collective and piano Thu 7:30pm musicians. This year it features Fri 7:30pm | Sat, Sun 8pm maverick Dan for a night of high $30 full | $25 conc the amazing talents of Michelle $42 full | $32 conc | $35 seniors | $25 energy, genre defying music for Presented by Midsumma Festival and Chandler, Jo Jo Smith, Michelle preview piano and ensemble, revisiting RiViD Media Parsons and guests, and also repertoire from the last ten years Presented by Midsumma Festival and provides a sneak peak into a locally of his career, plus world premiere Image: by Michelle Chandler Forest Collective and Abbotsford Convent made feature ﬁ lm currently in post concerti by Cat Hope and Dan as part of Convent Live production, Love Rewind. himself. Music midsumma.org.au

Jazz Popular Music Goddesses of Jazz He's Every Woman @ Chapel off Chapel Unlimited Maude Davey and Ruth "Exceptional... A ﬁ rst-class Katerelos in cabaret together duo" - The Advertiser (Fringe again! World Winner)

Talented performers Maude Davey Justin Clausen (The Voice) and Chapel O Chapel - Chapel , Prahran and Ruth Katerelos, accompanied The MC Showroom , Prahran Jamie Burgess (Fortiﬁ ed, Highway 2 May 1hr 10m by the amazing Graham Clarke, 22-24 Apr 1hr Superstar) want you to strap in for Sun 4pm | Sun 7pm present a scintillating night of Thu-Sat 7pm a night of big songs, big laughs songs made famous by some of the and big... hair. Bolder and sassier $35 full | $30 conc $39 full | $30 conc unforgettable Goddesses of Jazz. than ever, the boys are ready to Midsumma Festival Justin & Jamie Presented by Nina Simone, Judy Garland, Billie Presented by forget about the breaks, and drive Image: by Vicki Jones Holiday, Piaf, Dusty Springﬁ eld and headlong into a show stu ed full more. A night of songs; of stories; of of hits from the '80's to now... but life and laughter. You don't want to mostly Celine. miss this.

Classical Homophonic! Rainbow Music on Bringing the disco ball to the the Deck concert hall! Kick back to the sounds of Homophonic! celebrates 10 years young, local music talent of mind bending queer classical Hobsons Bay UP invite the whole music. Featuring Homosexual community to a family friendly Harmonies, Sapphic Symphonists, a La Mama Courthouse , Carlton Newport Community Hub , Newport afternoon featuring an amazing double belled bass trombone, and a line up of young, local music talent 24-25 Apr 2hrs harpsichord. Come and experience 24 Apr and queer entertainment. Enjoy Sat-Sun 2pm & 7:30pm | Relaxed: 24 & the soundworld of LGBTQIA+ Sat 3-5pm a sausage sizzle, fairy ﬂ oss, face 25 Apr 2pm composers. FREE painting, community information $30 full | $20 conc Produced by 3 Shades Black. Presented by Hobsons Bay UP stalls and great prizes. Rainbow Latecomer lockout attire very welcome. Alcohol and 'Homophonic! is a magically unique Presented by La Mama Theatre drug free event. experience which produces nothing less Image: by Miranda Hill than musical utopia' Stage Whispers, 2020.

Music Classical Sound in the Head Tall Branches Workshops and A new spectral music experiment by avant-composer Gigs Diimpa Improvised outsider art music workshop and performance Diimpa, avant-composer and multi-instrumentalist, is joined by a chamber ensemble for a sonic Bluestone Church Arts Space , Footscray An opportunity to tell a story Bluestone Church Arts Space , Footscray through music, sound, song in a voyage through confrontation and 1-2 May 1-2 May 1hr safe space to peers. healing. From his experience as Sat, Sun | Workshop: 2-4pm | Sat, Sun 7pm a queer autistic person, Diimpa Gig: 6-6:30pm Two hour workshops and thirty $20 full | $15 conc traverses his conﬂ icting family minute live performances Door sales only | $50 full, workshop | Images/recordings of Aboriginal history of Aboriginal First Nations will prepare participants for $25 conc, workshop | $25 full, gig | $15 people who have passed away connection lost through the Stolen conc, gig the opportunity to explore Image: by Jack Shiels Generation, to white colonial sugar Presented by Jessica at Birth improvisation, outsider art music. plantations and the blackbird trade. Image: by Hanna Jenkin

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The Pier Festival Queer Woman's Music Festival

We are pulling out all stops to reconnect our community and bring you the ultimate Queer Woman's Music Festival. Featuring Casey Donovan, Hart & Harlow, MZ Ritz, Seaworks , Williamstown Tom Boy DJ set plus more. Immerse 24 Apr 6hrs yourself in the festival vibes and Sat 4pm enjoy market stalls, drinks and food $27 full trucks, community groups, roving entertainment and more. Held at Coarse language | Strobe lights | Long the iconic Seaworks Williamstown periods of standing and hosted by Bobby Macumber, Presented by Midsumma Festival, Girls at this event is not to be missed. Join Sea and AH Entertainment us and reconnect with other queer women and their friends. MusicVisual Arts midsumma.org.au

Public Art Exhibition A Strange Space Becoming You: An Incomplete Guide A Strange Space is an open-air exhibition exhibition of site-responsive projection art, performance, music, dance and online interactive works Immigration Museum's new by LGBTQIA+ artists and allies. exhibition Becoming You: An Collingwood Yards , Collingwood Immigration Museum , Melbourne CBD Incomplete Guide celebrates The projection artworks and 22-25 Apr 19 Apr-5 May pivotal coming-of-age moments performances featured in this multi- Thu-Sun 6pm-12am | Auslan: 22 Apr Mon-Sun 10am-5pm through the real-life stories from arts program explore the theme of 6pm-7pm 72 contributors, including Adolfo "a strange space" and the various $15 full | $10 conc FREE Aranjuez, Andreja Pejic, Frances forms, ideas and experiences that Presented by Immigration Museum Cannon, Jax Jacki Brown, Karen Presented by Midsumma Festival and this concept evokes. Image: by Tiny Empire Collective Centre for Projection Art from Finance, Noel Tovey and Nevo Image: by Jane Crappsley, 'A Change in Co-Curated by Jacob Tolo and Zisin. Condition', 2020 Edwina Bartlem.

Exhibition Exhibition Bending the Bars: CLEAVE 40 years since Winner of the Bundoora Homestead Art Centre Award decriminalisation at the 2020 Midsumma and An exhibition commemorating Australia Post Art Award a historic reform EO Gill's work interrogates gender, Old Melbourne Gaol City Watch House Bending the Bars shares the stories Bundoora Homestead Art Centre, class politics and intimacy using a of the community who created self-reﬂ exive documentary style. 5 Feb-16 May (closed Mon & Tue) Bundoora legislative change in 1981. It tells a 3 Apr-26 Jun This video artwork adopts the Wed-Sun 10am-6pm powerful and life a rming history cinematic languages of erotic Wed-Sat 11am-4pm (closed Sun-Tue) $30 full | $25 conc | $17 child | using an engaging combination of narrative but shifts the subject $70 family (2 adults + 2 children) text, images and art. FREE matter; aiming to question issues of Presented by National Trust of Australia Nudity | Violence agency, pleasure and autonomy. (Victoria) This exhibition requires a General Presented by Bundoora Homestead Art Admission ticket to Old Melbourne Image: Gay Pride Picnic 1973, Rennie Ellis Centre and Midsumma Festival Gaol. Image: EO Gill, CLEAVE (still), 2020.

Exhibition Exhibition Contemporary AF Creating Community Queer dreams and desires in Melbourne's West Your everyday life has been LGBTIQA+ exhibition abstracted, documented and From Gay-Skate in Footscray to the celebrated through the works of infamous Sunshine 'Gay' Girl article, these diverse artists. this exhibition tells the story of the Mission to Seafarers - Main Hall, They've delved deep into the spaces Laverton Community Hub , Laverton journey of LGBTIQA+ communities Docklands where we feel most comfortable 19-23 Apr, 26-30 Apr, 3-7 May, 10-14 May in Melbourne's west towards to truly express our identities - The recognition and understanding from 20-24 Apr, 27 Apr-1 May Mon-Fri 9am-5pm the 1970s until today. Tue-Sat 5:30-10pm | Opening: 20 Apr nightclubs, our bedrooms, our kitchens and our love-lives. FREE 6-10pm Presented by Hobsons Bay City Council FREE This group exhibition presents the Image: Gayskate, Footscray c.1982. Nudity artists making waves in the queer Courtesy AQuA Presented by Scratch Arts contemporary arts scene. Image: by Marce King MusicVisual Arts #midsumma

Public Art Exhibition Dhamma Radio Displays of Affection An experimental audio visual Kink meets Couture experience presented by Club Obsessed with rope as a medium to Trish explore tensions and connectivity, CLUB TRISH presents Dhamma artist Luke George has designed Radio, an immersive audiovisual and and handcrafted a rope-bondage performative experience under the gown worthy of any Met Gala Mission to Seafarers - Norla Dome, Temperance Hall , South Melbourne red carpet. A hybrid exhibition of Docklands Norla Dome. 28 Apr-2 May photography and installation, this 27 Apr-1 May Wed 5-7pm | Thu, Fri 5-9pm | Sat 11am- stunning garment binds itself to a Tue-Sat 7:30-8:30pm 9pm | Sun 11am-5pm | Auslan: Wed 28 person, and people to each other. $30 full | $20 conc Apr 5pm (online) Join the Opening Night party via FREE Presented by Club Trish our online event! Image: Chris Nichols Gallery is accessed by stairs Winner of the Project Claude Visual Art Presented by Luke George and Award (Company of Men Exhibition, Temperance Hall Midsumma 2018)

Exhibition Exhibition Duets with a Fluid Shapeshifter by Versatile identities in the 21st James Welsby Century The gender binary is up for (Valerie Hex) discussion, no longer ﬁ xed, A drag fusion project asking us to inspect how binaries of all types inform the way we Bowery Theatre , St Albans Wyndham Art Gallery , Werribee Lush landscapes, breath-taking experience the world. LGBTQIA+ 10 Apr-5 May costumes, intricate choreography, 18 Mar-25 Apr people have long led the way in Mon-Sun 10am-5pm | Special Film and striking digital e ects create Mon-Sun 11am-4pm | Opening: 18 Mar these conversations and continue Premiere: Fri 23 Apr 8-9pm a virtual reality where a human 6:30-8:30pm | Artists Talk: 31 Mar 6:30- to investigate how perceived body duets with a surreal world in a FREE 8pm | Workshop: 8 Apr 6-7:30pm social norms shape our identities. 10-minute video project. Separated FREE 'Fluid' expands on these ideas to Strobe lights | Adult themes into four sections, the seasonal Presented by Wyndham City entice new ways of seeing, feeling, Presented by James Welsby (Valerie Hex) theme charts life cycles and and the Bowery Theatre Image: by Ophelia Bakowski "May All Acts engaging and moving through the enduring transformation. world. Image: by Rachel Main Of Love And Pleasure Be My Rituals"

Exhibition Art Online In Essentia Low Brows and High Donor conception, identity and Hopes rainbow families. An online exhibition and zine While once exclusive to hetero by Queer in Kingston couples, donor conception is Artist, Willow Franklin, and poet, Australia has become inclusive of Zoe Kingsley, in collaboration single parents, same-sex couples, Gasworks Arts Park - Foyer Gallery, Kingston Arts, Moorabbin | Digital Event with Queer in Kingston present an trans couples and other queer Albert Park online exhibition, zine and outdoor people to create thousands of 21 Apr-16 May 27 Apr-11 May projection for Midsumma Festival, rainbow families. 'In Essentia' is a Daily 24 hrs exploring the theme of 'lowbrow Mon-Sun 9:30am-5pm world-ﬁ rst exploration of the ways FREE art' through collage, video, craft, FREE in which identity is shaped through Presented by Kingston Arts text and poetry. donor conception, while providing Image: 2019, group collage by Queer in space to empower donor conceived Kingston with Yandell Walton and Willow adults to be active participants in Franklin. their own stories. MusicVisual Arts midsumma.org.au

Public Art Exhibition Memory Lane O UT Ten artists share their A Queer Takeover at Brunswick memories Street Gallery

The Metro Tunnel Creative Program Celebrate the launch of our and Midsumma Festival 2021 are Midsumma Festival exhibitions, collaborating to showcase the featuring some of Australia's most strength and adaptability of our exciting emerging and mid-career Metro Tunnel Hoardings , Melbourne CBD Brunswick Street Gallery , Fitzroy artists and culture makers. The LGBTQIA+ artists. Showcasing work 19 Apr-5 May art that came before us is what 22-25 Apr, 27 Apr-2 May, 4-9 May from multiple artists - each with Mon-Sun gave so much strength to our Tue-Sun 10am-6pm | Opening: 30 Apr a unique curatorial voice - O UT FREE communities to be where we are 6-9pm represents the diverse experiences today. The last year has been tough FREE of our community for an all- Presented by Midsumma Festival and Metro Tunnel Creative Program for our 'Arts World' and we need to Presented by Brunswick Street Gallery welcoming a air. remind ourselves of our roots. To Image: Poolside Café artwork on a Metro Tunnel acoustic shed - photographed by commemorate our history, we want James Henry to take a trip down Memory Lane.

Exhibition Exhibition On Screen, In the PINK 2021 Flesh Tacit presents PINK - a group exhibition celebrating bodies, In an era of digitisation and social objects and urges (plus a little media, many queers of today more). The best in contemporary art discovered and announced their that is sexy, suave and oh so queer. Trocadero Art Space , Footscray queer identities on the internet. Tacit Art , Collingwood 21-24 Apr, 28 Apr-1 May Some played and developed 14-18 Apr, 21-25 Apr, 28-30 Apr Artists featured: TJ Bateson, Tim themselves online whilst unable Craker, Andrew Foster, Brad Gunn, Wed-Sat 12-5pm | Opening: 21 Apr 6-8pm Wed-Sun 11am-5pm | Opening: 14 Apr to in their non-digital lives. On 6:30-8pm Sam Hardy, Carl de Jager, Ayman FREE Screen, In the Flesh uncovers these Kaake, KyleKM, Damon Kowarsky, FREE Nudity | Long periods of standing experiences, of the queers of today Mon Image: Created by Jamie Harrop aka who once upon a time, uncovered Nudity "One of the best galleries in Melbourne TrashyClub their queer identities online. Presented by Tacit Art and my go-to Midsumma event when Please note: There is a staircase to I travel down from Sydney." - previous enter the gallery. attendee

Exhibition Exhibition Queerantine in the Queers Draw This Flesh Exhibition Works from the online "Living Queer Art Exhibition with fun in the Queerantine" series drawing activities and models presented in the ﬂ esh. Queers Draw This is a fun, safe Many LGBTQIA+ people have come and accessible space for queers ACMI Swinburne Studio , Melbourne from isolation, and combatted it NECCHi Newlands , Coburg North to meet online or face to face and 23-26 Apr with community and creativity. 1-2 May enjoy drawing other queers (human Fri 12-7pm | Sat 11am-7pm | Sun 11am-6pm During COVID-19 lockdowns Sat 3-6pm | Sun 12-4pm | Auslan: Sat 1 and non-human). Join us for an | Mon 12-5pm where we found ourselves once May | Audio Described: Sat 1 May exhibition of the drawings, cartoons and zines that participants have FREE booking required again isolated, Midsumma Festival FREE booking required commissioned ten artists to created over the past 12 months. Presented by Midsumma Festival and Presented by Queers Draw This There will also be mini drawing ACMI creatively respond online to living in an era of quarantine - now, with Image: Brunswick East Entertanment workshops with Auslan interpreted Image: Still from 'Queery' Glynn Urquhart Festival sketch by Margaret Mayhew 2020 ACMI, we're taking those artworks and audio-described blind-drawing live. exercises. All ages welcome. VisualMusic Arts #midsumma

Exhibition,Public Art Exhibition Realness Ross Watson Exhibition A new work by new media artist See why the New York Times Wesley Dowling with sound design included Ross Watson in their by Liam Power on the Bunjil Place WorldPride NYC top picks outdoor screen. This unmissable exhibition features Bunjil Place , Narre Warren Realness is an interactive, Ross Watson Gallery , Carlton North new artworks by Ross Watson 21 Apr-16 May participatory web browser-based 24-25 Apr, 1-2 May, 8-9 May and the artist signing copies of his artwork that transforms sampled Daily 10am-noon & 6-8pm Sat, Sun 11am-5pm highly anticipated second volume pixels and recorded audio from art book Untitled II. FREE the webcams of user's devices FREE Presented by Bunjil Place and City of into an ever-changing generative Presented by Ross Watson Gallery "Watson has become one of the world's foremost painters of the male ﬁ gure Casey audiovisual experience. Image: by Ross Watson behind some of the most sunning erotic Image: by Wesley Dowling art" - Gay Star News, London

Exhibition Midsumma and Australia Post Art Award Australia's leading queer visual arts award

No Vacancy Gallery , Melbourne CBD In its sixth year, this selection of queer artists from across the 28 Apr-1 May, 4-8 May country showcase their personal Tue, Wed 10am-4pm | Thu, Fri 10am-6pm and political perspectives. Open | Sat 1-4pm to early career and established FREE artists working in any medium, the Adult themes ﬁ nalists' artwork are available to the Presented by Midsumma Festival and public for viewing and voting during Australia Post Midsumma Festival for the People's Image: by Eugene Howard Choice award. Talks, Tours and Workshops midsumma.org.au

Talks Workshops Becoming Us talk Feral Queer Camp with Nevo Zisin, Explore Midsumma with a gaggle of queer thinkers and Adolfo Aranjuez, makers Frances Cannon + Be part of a new feral cohort who Jax Jacki Brown will see performance together and consider: how we learn about what Immigration Museum , Melbourne CBD Becoming Us series Various Midsumma Venues makes performance queer; how 24 Apr 1hr 15m 19 Apr-5 May Join Nevo, Adolfo, Frances and Jax we talk about queer performance; Sat 3:15pm in conversation on growing up and Various dates and times, how we make performance; how $5 full | free to stream at home coming-of-age moments in their see midsumma.org.au for details and to we might queer reviewing and apply. Applications close COB 29 Mar. Best for ages 16+ lives and the LGBTQIA+ community. funding; and, above all, how we $20 full | pay what you can might develop a network of queer Presented by Midsumma Festival and Discover the experiences that Immigration Musem shaped them and their arts and Presented by Midsumma Festival and thinkers who can talk amongst activist practices, plus advice on wreckedAllprods ourselves and to others about queer Image: by Tiny Empire Collective celebrating yourself on the journey. Image: by Ezra Lurie performance.

Workshops Talks Heirloom Room! HELLO TITTY Sculpture workshop The o cial launch of a new with Kenny Pittock poetic volume Becoming Us series 'BREATHING ON SKIN. GOOSEBUMPS. BACK BONES'. - Objects play a huge role in HELLO TITTY moulding and holding our daily Immigration Museum , Melbourne CBD Hare Hole (Hares & Hyenas) , Fitzroy Poetry celebrating the female gaze. lives and identities. In this workshop No longer will this be ignored. Our 25 Apr 2hrs devised by SIGNAL Curators, 21 Apr 2hrs desires, strength, and power is ours Sun 11am | Sun 2pm artist Kenny Pittock will impart Wed 6:30pm to own. A new publication by artist $5 full the sculpting skills to re-create FREE Martha Ackroyd Curtis, her poetic sentimental objects from your Open to ages 16-25 years Nudity license is ready to slay. memories. Learn the essentials of Presented by Midsumma Festival, Presented by Martha Ackroyd Curtis in hand-building with air-dry clay, and Immigration Museum and Signal association with Midsumma Festival Please arrive at 6.30pm for a 7pm explore how feelings imprint on start. Image: Social bubbles and social perceptions of treasured objects. Bubble'O's, by Kenny Pittock, 2020

Talks Talks Intersections of Queerantine Q&A discrimination Panel discussions with the artists of the Queerantine in the Flesh exhibition Author Claire Coleman joins Yamiko Marama, writer, therapist Join artists of the Queerantine in and food truck owner to explore the Flesh exhibition for two special Q&A panel discussion events where Newport Community Hub , Newport intersectionality between queer ACMI Gandel Digital Future Lab 1, they discuss their works and how 22 Apr 1hr and racism, sharing their own Melbourne they operate as queer artists living, experiences and concerns. 24-25 Apr 1hr Thu 6:30pm working, playing and creating FREE booking required Sat, Sun 2pm during COVID-19. Hobsons Bay Libraries FREE booking required Presented by Sexual references | Adult themes Presented by Midsumma Festival and ACMI Image: Still from 'Queery' Glynn Urquhart Talks, Tours and Workshops #midsumma

Talks Talks Queers in Science : Queers in Science : Australia's response Ecology now to the COVID-19 Queer scientists talking about pandemic areas of imminent interest Queer scientists talking about During Midsumma Festival, Queers in Science present a lecture series areas of imminent interest Melbourne Museum , Carlton Melbourne Museum , Carlton displaying the amazing work of 21 Apr 1hr During Midsumma Festival, Queers 5 May 1hr queer scientists in Victoria. This Wed 6:30pm in Science is present a lecture series Wed 6:30pm year's lecture series will talk about timely topics such as Australia's $12 full | $10 conc | $5 live stream displaying the amazing work of $12 full | $10 conc | $5 live stream queer scientists in Victoria. This response to the COVID-19 pandemic Presented by Midsumma Festival, Queers Presented by Midsumma Festival, Queers year's lecture series will talk about and the e ects of environmental in Science, RSV and Melbourne Museum in Science, RSV and Melbourne Museum timely topics such as Australia's pollution. Image: Adam Nieścioruk Image: Guillaume de Germain response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the e ects of environmental pollution.

Workshops Talks Self-Portrait SMUT workshop with Queer Erotic Fan Fiction Salon Frances Cannon Join queer screen culture magazine, Sissy Screens, for a night of smutty Becoming Us series storytelling. A line-up of LGBTQIA+ Join artist and illustrator Frances fi lthmongers, funny people and Cannon to learn how to draw a self- writers will put a queer and erotic Immigration Museum , Melbourne CBD Footscray Community Arts Centre - portrait in a safe and body positive spin on fan fi ction inspired by the Performance Space , Footscray 24 Apr 1hr environment! You'll learn simple best of iconic fi lms and literature. 30 Apr 1hr Sat 1pm self-portrait drawing techniques, The evening will feature sultry refl ect on your own coming-of-age Fri 7:30pm $5 full readings, salacious performances moments and address yourself with $15 full Open to ages 16-18 and sensual DJ beats. love in a letter. Adult content Presented by Midsumma Festival and

Immigration Museum Presented by Midsumma Festival, Footscray Community Arts Centre and Image: Bold Strong Healthy by Frances Sissy Screens Cannon

Workshops Talks Story In Motion Telling Time workshop with A conversation with friends a Adolfo Aranjuez year later Becoming Us series Last year authors Dennis Altman, Neal Drinnan, Quinn Eades, Andrea There's writing a story and there's Goldsmith and Luke Williams moving your body to music - but gathered on stage without a Digital Event Hare Hole (Hares & Hyenas) , Fitzroy what if you could combine the facilitator. It was an example of 24 Apr 1hr two? Join writer and dancer Adolfo 22 Apr 2hrs respectful dialogue that dared to go Sat 10:30am Aranjuez for an online workshop Thu 7:30pm | Simultaneous live streaming deeper than it may have tethered to FREE booking required on telling your own stories using $25 full | $15 conc | $12 live stream full | $6 a host. They gather unbound again Best for ages 16-25. No experience both words and movement. Explore live stream conc to reﬂ ect on the past year. How has necessary. the creative process from concept Open content venue it shaped them? Are they the same to choreography and putting it all writers? What will they do with this Presented by Midsumma Festival and Presented by Hares & Hyenas in Immigration Museum together. association with Midsumma Festival fantastical material? Live streamed with additional features. Image: by Alexis Desaulniers-Lea Image: by Crusader Hills Talks, Tours and Workshops midsumma.org.au

Workshops The Breathwork Sessions A musical journey through concious connected breath

Passionate Alchemy of Breath facilitator, River Moore, is in town to Mission to Seafarers - Norla Dome, guide you through a transformative Docklands journey using music, conscious- 20-24 Apr 1hr connected breath and intuitive Tue-Sat 6pm | Auslan: To book movement. This lively session, interpretation email timothyryan@ designed for all experience levels, scratcharts.com will clear both physical tension $35 full | $25 conc and emotional blocks held in the subconscious - bringing you back Presented by Scratch Arts home to yourself. Image: by Timothy Christopher Ryan Kids and Families #midsumma

Kids and Families Kids and Families Drag Storytime - Rainbow Families Online Series Cabaret Not your average storytime! Celebrating families made, chosen and found PO PO MO CO's resident drag blokes are online! They are ready Join your hosts, The Listies, to to share warm and fuzzy rainbow celebrate our collective di erences Digital Event books they picked up from their Sidney Myer Music Bowl , Melbourne in the grandeur of the Bowl. 19 Apr-5 May favourite bookshop of all time Hares 1 May 1hr 15m & Hyenas. It's the queer playschool Curated by Circus Oz, Rainbow Stream on demand Sat 10am | Sat 12:30pm | Auslan: 1 May of your dreams and inﬂ uenced by Families Cabaret showcases circus, 10am FREE early nineties Play School, Lift O , singing and dancing from the best $26 full | children under two free Presented by Midsumma Festival, PO PO Sesame Street and with a healthy queer and allied performers for MO CO and Yarra City Council and as part glitter sprinkle of RuPaul's Drag Presented by Midsumma Festival, Arts families of all makes and models! of PRISM Centre Melbourne and Circus Oz Race.

Kids and Families Kids and Families Rainbow Families in Rainbow Family Frame Storytime Rainbow family portraits - in Celebrating all families! frame Join drag performers Rex Spandex Have your family portrait taken at and Walter Melon for a very special the Joel Gallery in the Rainbow storytime celebrating diverse Louis Joel Arts & Community Centre - Frame or download the frame for Newport Community Hub , Newport families, celebrating identity, and , Altona Joel Gallery your photos. 1 May embracing who you are. We'll 24 Apr be sharing our favourite rainbow Sat 10:30-11:15am Rainbow families, rainbow family books, singing songs, and having a Sat 11am-2pm friends and rainbow fur babies are FREE booking required fabulous time! All families welcome. FREE all welcome to come into the frame. Presented by Hobsons Bay Libraries Presented by Matto Lucas, Louis Joel Arts Image: by Damjan Janevski & Community Centre and Hobsons Bay City Council Image: by Matto Lucas

Kids and Families Kids and Families Rainbow Pride in The Rainbow Tree Altona Where everyone is welcome and anything is possible What happens when you invite Rainbow Pride in Altona is an event seven children from Rainbow for Rainbow families and friends. Families to create a show? You end Rainbow activities, food and fun to up with a disco koala, wilderbeast, Louis Joel Arts & Community Centre - celebrate families and love. ArtPlay , Melbourne farting unicorn and a fairy that Joel Gallery , Altona The best rainbow fun in town! 1-4 Jul 1hr can freeze tickle monsters, all 24 Apr Thu-Sun 11am | Thu-Sun 2pm co-habiting in a very tall, yet tiny Sat 11am-2pm $15 full Rainbow Tree. This is what it's like FREE living in a Rainbow Family. Everyone Presented by Midsumma Festival and ArtPlay is welcome and anything is possible. Image: by Alexis Desaulniers-Lea Kids and Families midsumma.org.au

Kids and Families Kids and Families The Dinosaur SQUAD The Dinosaur SQUAD - Live - Video A story about Dinosaurs, Pride and the power of allies! This event kicks o with a prideful fairy tale about Dinosaurs, read This video is a reading of an by the authors. The story's ending intergenerational pride fairy tale Fitzroy Town Hall Reading Room , Fitzroy was co-authored by a group Digital Event called The Roar! The story was 17 Apr 1hr 30m of Storytelling Queers Against 19 Apr-5 May written by a 12-year-old trans boy Discrimination (SQUAD) to give the Sat 3pm Stream on demand and a 69-year-old trans woman. story a happy ending. Members of It explores their real-life journeys FREE booking required FREE the Dinosaur SQUAD will share their to fi nding pride in their gender Presented by Midsumma Festival, Alice's refl ections on the power of family, Presented by Midsumma Festival and identity and themselves. The story Garage and Yarra Libraries friends and community. Alice's Garage metaphor focuses on a herd of Image: by Ferne Millen dinosaurs who were forbidden from making noise - only to rebel and fi nd their Roar.

Kids and Families Kids and Families This is Grayson Unsorted An immersive performance for A fantastical theatre show for kids and their adults. children and families about expressing yourself and feeling Grayson has been in this carpark for ten thousand two hundred and connected with others sixty-one years. She's been waiting In the playful, Mixety world of the for you. So she can show you the The Substation , Newport Bluestone Church Arts Space , Footscray Clothings, Jacket is in charge and gaps. Between her world and yours. thinks everyone should be sorted 20-24 Apr 1hr 10-11 Apr, 17-18 Apr, 24-25 Apr 1hr Not just for kids and not just for into distinctly deﬁ ned groups. The Tue-Sat 7pm & 9pm adults, This is Grayson is for both to Sat, Sun 11am & 1pm | Post-show meet the problem is, no one knows where cast & crew after 1pm shows $30 full | $25 child | $49 one adult + child experience together. You will meet to start. Skirt, Stove-Pipe, Sweater, Audience will get in & out of a minibus | a woman. She will take you to a $19 full | $15 conc Slacks and Swimsuit are are all Face masks mandatory bus and you will go on an intimate, Image: by Kal Brazil friends who want to play together, surreal and immersive journey Presented by Midsumma Festival, Gold but if they don't sort themselves out Satino and The Substation through Newport's forgotten lands. and separate according to Jacket's Image: by Pier Carthew rules, they'll all be banished. Youth #midsumma

Youth Night at the Museum: Youth Midsumma Festival Party

At long last, it is ﬁ nally time for us to come together in person. Immigration Museum , Melbourne CBD It's Minus18's glorious return to 24 Apr 3hrs IRL dance parties celebrating our Sat 6:30pm LGBTQIA+ youth community. FREE booking required LGBTQIA+ performers, Event for youth aged 12-19 only competitions, snacks, glitter, pride Presented by Midsumma Festival and vibes - and exclusive access to Minus18 view the Immigration Museum's Image: by Alan Weedon Ft. Sui Zhen Becoming You exhibition after dark. Community and Culture midsumma.org.au

Faith Mini-festival A Festive Mass Castlemaine Pride Celebrating LGBTQIA+ people 2021 of faith Picnic in the Park All are welcome to this annual Come and join us for a picnic in the celebration of the lives of park for a whole of community, all LGBTQIA+ people of faith in the ages, family friendly celebration of context of a beautiful and uplifting St Mark's Anglican Church Fitzroy , Fitzroy Castlemaine Botanical Gardens, diversity, inclusion and equality. Sung Mass with our talented choir Castlemaine 23 Apr 2hrs and a thoughtful, stimulating and Entertainment throughout the day, 24 Apr Fri 7pm encouraging reﬂ ection. Celebrating a Dog Show, market stalls, kids FREE our unique humanity as a gift of Sat 11am-5pm activities, jumping castle and a God. FREE Presented by Saint Mark's Anglican Youth Space. Food, beer and wine available or you can BYO picnic. Church Fitzroy Presented by Castlemaine Community House Fabulous costumes and rainbow paraphernalia are strongly encouraged.

Market Mini-festival Gay Stuff Markets Midsumma Pride March - Live Stream Gay Stu Markets are a collection Midsumma Pride March 2021 of the ﬁ nest creators, artisans will return to St Kilda and style makers from the queer community. Convening at Hares Once again marchers will colour & Hyenas, Melbourne's proud Fitzroy St in a parade of solidarity. Hare Hole (Hares & Hyenas) , Fitzroy queer bookshop and venue, come Digital Event Watch the parade at home from 2 May experience this fun community- 23 May 4hrs 10am as Midsumma Festival live- spirited event. O ering everything Sun 1-5pm Sat 10am streams Midsumma Pride March for from fashion, art, plants, FREE FREE the very ﬁ rst time. homewares, accessories, pleasure Presented by Steven Trosti in association Presented by Midsumma Festival products, vintage and recycled Or book into a Fitzroy St with Midsumma Festival pieces, books, bar, cafe, tunes & participating venue to watch the Image: by Steven Trosti more! Who doesn't love Gay Stu ! parade from 11am, and stay all day in iconic St Kilda.

Day Out Arts Rainbow Take It From Me: Community Picnic Archer Launch Midsumma in the Southeast Edition Come connect with your LGBTQIA+ community & allies! Nevo Zisin The much-loved sex and opens our pack your own picnic relationships advice series, Take Selandra Community Hub, Clyde North event with a warm welcoming Malthouse Outdoor Stage , Southbank It From Me, is back. Join us to conversation followed by co ee 18 Apr 24 Apr 1hr 30m celebrate queerness and launch the and free sausages, performers, drag Sun 11am-3pm Sat 6:30pm new edition of Archer Magazine: story time, learn to dance, face the Friendship Issue. Hosted by the FREE booking required painting, art exhibit, art making, $15.50 full | $12.50 conc dashing Jess McGuire, there'll be a Presented by Casey Rainbow Community, library binge bags of rainbow Coarse language | Sexual Content City of Casey, Casey-Cardinia Libraries stellar lineup of queer agony aunts books, community stalls & our local Presented by Midsumma Festival, Archer including Nayuka Gorrie, Vanessa and Selandra Community Hub pride ﬂ ag relay launch. Magazine and the Wheeler Centre Image: Dae Knight Muradian, and Alistair Baldwin. Image: by Spyros Rennt

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Social The Most Inclusive LGBTQIA+ Wedding Planning Event You'll Ever Attend Dinner with a mix of wedding

The Prince Hotel , St Kilda planning, what more could you 29 Apr 3hrs want? Thu 6:30pm Uncover the secrets to planning $120 full your perfect wedding, allow Mr Theodore (Australia's leading Presented by Mr Theodore and The Prince Hotel LGBTQIA+ Wedding Guide) to help you on your journey. Image: by Lover Of Mine Photography

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Party Party A Gay On The Lawn ADAM + LUST Snags, drags, DJs and lawn Melbourne's famous nude bar bowls - the place to be after for guys! Pride March 2021! Every Thursday night in Melbourne POOF DOOF's annual Pride March a bunch of remarkable guys meet to After Party is back in 2021 serving socialise, dig on tunes, and dance - up a free afternoon of lawn bowls, all in the bu ! St Kilda Sports Club , St Kilda Inﬂ ation , Melbourne CBD gourmet BBQ and tunes to wrap 23 May 22 Apr, 29 Apr 5hrs up Midsumma! Whether you're Sun 1-9pm bowling, dancing or hitting the Thu 7pm ADAM is recognised internationally FREE gourmet snags the soundtrack of $15 full Door sales only as one of the most enjoyable and Presented by POOF DOOF summer will come from our POOF Nudity | Sex scenes | Strobe lights | friendly queer bars on the planet. DOOF resident DJs and high energy Image: by Niklas Baauer Smoke/Haze | Latecomer lockout | Long And with the move to our CBD digs, drag performers. This is an 18+ periods of standing | No mobile phones or we now have a separate ﬂ oor for inclusive event for the entire queer cameras | This is a men only event socialising plus an entire basement community. Presented by ADAM for dancing and fooling around!

Social Mini-festival Blankë Pop Deviants A neon caba-rave A recovery party for kinksters

Join us for a day party at the iconic The Perversion recovery party Mission to Seafarers Melbourne. We presented by Folsom Down Under have a massive indoor stage with - the o cial Australian partner of a d&b audiotechnik sound system Folsom Street Events San Francisco. and a cute outdoor chill space, so Mission to Seafarers - Main Hall, come fall down the rabbit hole into Secret Location to be announced Deviants is a social afternoon for Docklands our black-lit fantasy-land. We're 24 Apr adults of all identities across the spectrum of queer subculture. 2 May bringing along our cutest friends for Sat 2-8pm Sun 3-10pm a day of wild AF performances and $30 full | $20 conc Come enjoy a sausage and beer house music. $30 full Nudity in gear, or in your own particular Coarse language ﬂ avour of kink! For the freaks, the geeks, the misﬁ ts Presented by Folsom Down Under Presented by Scratch Arts and the queers. Image: Studio Starseed Image: by Telepathic - Photo Video

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Party Day Out Homo Erotica Motafrenz Magical We're all homos // humans Mystery Tour Midsumma's most audacious dance party returns for 2021 with A great Midsumma annual event gala performances and a stellar and always with a great community DJ lineup including Claire Morgan, turnout. Come along for this Hyper Binary & Simona Castricum. Inﬂ ation , Melbourne CBD Como Park North , South Yarra mystery drive with your friends 25 Apr 7hrs For this edition we invite you to 24 Apr 5hrs and pet to test your navigation release your beast and EXPOSE skills with the specially prepared Sun 7pm Sat 9:45am | Door sales only your wildest, most provocative look and cooked up clues. You use $50 full through leather & gear, drag, glam, $20 car | $5 additional passenger your problem solving skills and wit Nudity | Coarse language | Strobe club kid, fetish, high fashion, or au Presented by Motafrenz Car Club before ending up at a wonderful lights | Smoke/Haze | Long periods of naturel; whatever it is, let it run wild. picnic spot where prizes for highest standing | References to drug use scores, wooden spooners, best "Pushing boundaries and challenging you Presented by BUFF Events bribes, best dressed and best to release your inner self through all your senses" - Beat Magazine dressed vehicle are awarded. Parties and Social Events #midsumma

Mini-festival Party Perversion Summer Roll: a A dance party by Folsom rollerdisco Perversion. The ultimate sub-culture a Retropolis Roller Disco for dance event presented by Folsom Midsumma Festival Down Under - the o cial Australian partner of Folsom Street Events San We're over the rainbow excited to Francisco. let you know we're comin' out like Chasers , South Yarra RETROPOLIS , Preston Donna for the Summer Roll. We'll 23 Apr 6hrs Perversion. The headline event of 24 Apr have the friendliest rainbow family the Folsom Down Under festival. Fri 10pm Sat 3-11:30pm vibes, shining out across the fl oor as we shimmy and shake to many $50 full Transmundane; provocative; $20 spectators/own skates | $25 skater/ of our dancefl oor favourites. DJs inclusive. A party that celebrates hire skates | $64 family (up to 5 skaters) Nudity | Sex scenes | Strobe lights | Fierce Brosnan, Pixelton, DJ Skittz sexually adventurous queer Smoke/Haze | Long periods of standing | Coarse language | Strobe lights | and more... playing a wicked mix of References to drug use subculture through dress code, Smoke/Haze | Consider pre-existing block party sounds. See our socials exhibitionism, and dirty, fi lthy dance conditions and injuries before skating Presented by Folsom Down Under @MaltShopRollers for updates and music. Image: by Studio Starseed Presented by Malt Shop Rollers set times. Sports midsumma.org.au

Sport Sport Nomads Cycling Nomads Salute Tour to Mount to Love & Our Waverley Parklands Cycle scenic riverside trails to Enjoyment, friendship, leafy Mount Waverley knowledge and exercise

Birrarung Marr Bike Parking , Melbourne This relatively easy ride will Boroondara General Cemetery , Kew This garden cemetery has many take us from Federation Square memorials of love - both gay and CBD 25 Apr 5hrs 30m along the Yarra, Gardiners Creek straight. Assemble by 10:30am at 2 May 5hrs and Scotchmans Creek Trails to Sun 10:30am the Kew Cemetery gates. After Sun 10:30am beautiful Valley Reserve for a picnic FREE booking required inspecting a selection of memorials, FREE booking required lunch in Mt Waverley. Total distance Latecomer lockout | Medium ﬁ tness the 6km walk will traverse a series Latecomer lockout | Non-traditional to lunch is approximately 23 km. level required of connected parklands en route to sitting | Medium ﬁ tness level required After lunch you can return by train, Presented by The Nomads Outdoors Alphington Railway Station. BYO Presented by The Nomads Outdoors or cycle back to Fed Square. Group water and lunch for a break on the Group banks of the Yarra.

Sport Sport Richmond Lawn Serve It, Smash It, Bowls Love It Celebrating Pride in Sport Free introduction session to social badminton for the The Richmond Union Bowling Club (RUBC) is home to many players LGBTQIA+ Community and supporters identifying as part Have you ever wanted to meet new Richmond Union Bowling Club , Richmond of the LGBTQIA+ community. We Melbourne Sports and Aquatic Centre, people in a fun and social sporting 2 May want to showcase our members Albert Park environment? Thought about of all orientations by hosting a Sun 9am-5pm 2 May playing badminton, or have not Pride Cup event to celebrate the Sun 11am-2pm played for a long time? FREE contributions of our LGBTQIA+ FREE booking required Presented by Richmond Union Bowling members and athletes everywhere. Come and give badminton a go, Club RUBC is partnering with Pride Cup Presented by Melbourne Smashers free of charge. No experience is Image: by Stephanie Seeger plus several competing lawn bowls Badminton Club with the support of necessary. Come along and ... Serve Badminton Victoria clubs to put together a day of It! Smash It! Love It! bowls, food, and fun!

Sport Yarra Leisure Pride Night 2021 An inclusive gym and swim night for the LGBTQIA+ community and their allies

Our Pride Night is a night of Collingwood Leisure Centre , Clifton Hill fun, ﬁ tness, and community 1 May engagement - aiming to o er Sat 3-9pm people in the LGBTQIA+ community a safe and welcoming space to learn FREE booking required to swim, relax, and participate in Yarra Leisure - Yarra City Presented by aquatic and gym activities, as well Council as engage with the community.