TAKE THE PLUNGE 4-15 APRIL BRISBANE PROGRAM GUIDE WELCOME TO Festival 2018 celebrates the spirit of the Commonwealth; showcasing our state’s creativity and capturing the unique lifestyle and culture of Queensland and its communities. Enjoy the very best that Brisbane has to offer during Festival 2018. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF COUNTRY We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of Brisbane, the Turrbal and Yuggera Peoples. We wish to pay respect to their Elders – past, present and emerging – and acknowledge the important role Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and their stories continue to play within Brisbane City. CONTENTS Welcome 4 Event Program 6 Getting There 35 Map 36 Event Schedule 37 Brisbane has a rich history and a wealth of culturally diverse people with stories to tell. Festival 2018 celebrates the stories of Brisbane through the eyes and ears of emerging and established artists, and our community. We invite you to encounter something different that will leave you with an experience that will last a lifetime. Come and join us at Festival 2018 for 12 days of world-class arts and culture to celebrate. We’d like to thank Leanne de Souza, Contemporary Music Curator, Alethea Beetson, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Program Curator, Leah Cotterell, Songs from Our Suburbs Project Facilitator, Bernd Neumann, Technical and Production Manager, and Amy McKenzie, Festival Site Designer, for their efforts to bring Festival 2018 Brisbane to life. CONNECT WITH US: www.brisbane.qld.gov.au/gc2018 www.gc2018.com/festival2018 facebook.com/BrisbaneCityCouncil @Festival 2018 @brisbanecityqld #festival2018 instagram.com/brisbanecitycouncil 3 WELCOME HON. ANNASTACIA PALASZCZUK HON. KATE JONES MP MP MINISTER FOR INNOVATION, PREMIER TOURISM INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT AND THE I am proud that the Queensland COMMONWEALTH GAMES Government is a major supporter of Festival 2018. We have invested Festival 2018 offers something for in our creative industries sector everyone and will be an exceptional to develop a high quality Festival arts and cultural experience. program that offers the best local and international cultural experience. We know the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games is more An event of this scale is a defining than just world-class sport, and this moment. For years to come we program will showcase our state’s will look back at Festival 2018 creativity to visitors from around as the moment Queensland the world. It’s family friendly with cemented its reputation as a hundreds of free events. global arts destination. Festival 2018 ensures that locals and visitors alike can enjoy Queensland’s wonderful lifestyle, community and culture. 4 FESTIVAL 2018 PETER BEATTIE AC GRAHAM QUIRK CHAIRMAN, GOLDOC LORD MAYOR I am thrilled to welcome you As Lord Mayor of Queensland’s to Festival 2018 Brisbane – capital city, I am delighted to an inspiring cultural program welcome you to the Festival that truly captures the spirit 2018 events in Brisbane. of the Commonwealth. Brisbane City Council is proud With over 150 events featuring to work with our community, 900 artists from 20 countries, sponsors and partners to produce this is set to be one of the most a cultural extravaganza as part memorable arts festivals ever of our commitment to developing staged in Brisbane. Brisbane’s creative identity and creating new lifestyle and leisure Festival 2018 is the perfect way opportunities. to celebrate the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games, where The festival will feature a range of we witness extraordinary, diverse world-class entertainment and take talent and we revel in the best in some iconic Brisbane sights, so of humanity. whether you’re a local or visiting for the first time, I hope you enjoy everything we have to offer. 5 FESTIVAL 2018 EVENT PROGRAM THE STAR DECK Head down to The Star Deck, Brisbane’s latest multi-storey pop-up FESTIVAL venue located at the Festival Hub, Cultural Forecourt, South Bank. Be FIRST NIGHT front and centre with live music, performances, big screens and more. Join us at the Festival Hub, and enjoy Bask in the autumn sun with friends live music and more under the night and family, enjoy great food and sky on The Star Deck overlooking the check out the cavalcade of events - Brisbane River. there is something for everyone! WEDNESDAY 4 APRIL THURSDAY 5-SUNDAY 15 APRIL › 6-10.30pm › 10am-10pm › Cultural Forecourt, South Bank › Cultural Forecourt, South Bank PRESENTED BY 6 FESTIVAL 2018 Please note: all events are free and no bookings required, unless specified. Image: Laurie Nilsen, The 10 Gullburri’s, 2008 Visual Arts | Family | Talks and Workshops Visual Arts | Family | Film MAIWAR SKYLORE Brisbane City Council Festival 2018 presents Skylore, a Gold Coast Maiwar (traditional name for 2018 Commonwealth Games legacy project funded by the Queensland Government and Brisbane River) is a contemporary proudly delivered by Brisbane City Council. art program of First Nations artists Visit the Sir Thomas Brisbane celebrated through a series of outdoor Planetarium to see the new permanent exhibitions, panel discussions and exhibition, Skylore: Aboriginal and Torres guided tours. Located throughout Strait Islander Astronomy. Then, in the the Brisbane CBD, Maiwar offers rich Cosmic Skydome show Stories in the and diverse responses to the artists’ Stars, meet teenagers Erica and Daniel, connection to Maiwar and two Aboriginal Australian city-slickers the surrounding Country. who travel home to Country and hear stories about the constellations and SUNDAY 1-MONDAY 30 APRIL how they relate to their culture. › Exhibition: 24/7 Panel discussions and tours: Stories in the Stars show times various times TUESDAY 3, THURSDAY 5, TUESDAY 10 › Brisbane’s outdoor gallery AND THURSDAY 12 APRIL including Hutton Lane, Eagle › 3pm Lane, Fish Lane, King George Square Car Park, Giffin Lane, Irish FRIDAY 6 AND FRIDAY 13 APRIL Lane, Edison Lane, Edward Street › 7.30pm vitrines as well as the Museum of Brisbane and William Jolly SATURDAY 7 AND SATURDAY 14 APRIL Bridge › 4.15pm › Take a self-guided tour at your › Sir Thomas Brisbane Planetarium, own leisure, bookings required Brisbane Botanic Gardens Mt Coot-tha for guided tours and panel › Bookings required for the Cosmic Skydome show, visit www.brisbane. discussions, visit qld.gov.au/planetarium www.brisbane.qld.gov.au/maiwar 7 Visual Arts | Family | Talks and Workshops BOTANICA CONTEMPORARY ART OUTSIDE Brisbane City Council Immerse yourself in the beauty of art Visual Arts | Family and nature simultaneously at Botanica – a major contemporary art exhibition. ONE MILLION STARS New and significant artworks from INSTALLATION local and national artists will transform Experience the spectacular One Million Brisbane’s City Botanic Gardens into Stars temporary public-art installation. a temporary outdoor gallery. Enjoy Museum of Brisbane brings artist 10 days of free workshops, artist talks, Maryann Talia Pau’s vision to life children’s activities and live events. in a large-scale artwork featuring one million stars contributed by star FRIDAY 6-SUNDAY 15 APRIL weavers from around the world to › 12 noon-8pm daily inspire light, hope and peace. › City Botanic Gardens, Brisbane City › Bookings may be required for THURSDAY 29 MARCH- some workshops, visit SUNDAY 15 APRIL www.brisbane.qld.gov.au/botanica › 24/7 › King George Square, Brisbane City Image: Kerrie Poliness, Field Drawing #1 Please note: all events are free and no bookings required, unless specified. Visual Arts | Family | Talks and Workshops Visual Arts | Family | Markets MOVING WORDS Talks and Workshops QAGOMA | Queensland Poetry Festival BNE DESIGN Gather with Sonja Carmichael, Museum of Brisbane a Ngugi woman belonging to the Commissioned by Festival 2018 Quandamooka People of Moreton BNE DESIGN presents Brisbane’s Bay, for a morning of weaving and leading designers and creatives yarning. Workshop participants can in an open-air market. Take home join the weaving circle, learn basic bespoke jewellery, homewares, techniques and share stories. fashion, ceramics, stationery and accessories, or get creative in hands- Following the workshop, take part in on workshops with some of our best a live poetry walk to discover a fresh local artists. perspective on the Queensland Art Gallery’s Australian Collection. In FRIDAY 13 APRIL this special event, Brisbane poets will › 4-9pm perform poetry created in response to selected artworks. SATURDAY 14-SUNDAY 15 APRIL › 10am-4pm SATURDAY 14 APRIL › King George Square, › Weaving workshop: 10.30am- Brisbane City 12.30pm › Bookings essential for › Poetry and art tour: 2.30-3.30pm workshops, visit › Auslan interpreted www.museumofbrisbane.com.au › Galleries 10-13, Queensland Art Gallery, Stanley Place, Cultural Precinct, South Bank 9 FESTIVAL 2018 HIGHLIGHTS HOMEGROWN Listen to the stories and songs that informed local history, with music performances by some of Brisbane icons including Ed Kuepper, Heart Music and Regurgitator. SATURDAY 7 APRIL GUITAR HERO Festival 2018’s Guitar Hero features some of the country’s finest musicians. From the irreverent riffs of Perth’sAbbe May, to the blusey-rock of Dave Orr, and the driving passion of Sabrina Lawrie and The Hunting Party, festival- goers will be able to witness national BLAK FRIDAY and local guitar heroes in their element. ‘Blak Out’ is a term that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people WEDNESDAY 11 APRIL use to describe large groups of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people gathered in one place. Performance Brisbane will experience a Blak Out like never before. The program will TALES AND ALES showcase Aboriginal and Torres Queensland Poetry Festival Strait Islander artists’ connection Come along to Tales and Ales to take to Country through contemporary in some of Queensland’s finest spoken performance and storytelling. Blak word and hip hop. Drop in to hear Friday features iconic and emerging Scott Wings, Anisa Nandaula, artists from the youngest generation Hope One (Hot Brown Honey), of one of the world’s oldest surviving The Architects of Sound, Borrowed (and thriving) cultures.