Pack a picnic rug and head to Ruffey Lake Park to celebrate the festive season with traditional carols and musical entertainment, a free family festival, and a spectacular evening fireworks display.

Celebrating Solace by Selwyn Hoffmann (presented in partnership with Midsumma) and the Darebin Art Prize 2021, this special event includes the announcement of this year’s winner!

The City of Greater Dandenong invites the community to the Greater Dandenong Carols – Bringing Christmas Home. This online concert will be presented online as a Zoom session where you can see and be seen!

We’re thrilled to be launching Archer Magazine Issue #16: The DISABILITIES issue!

A cabaret-comedy aboard a luxury cruise liner

Get into the Christmas spirit and enjoy Banyule’s very own Carols by Candlelight

Returning to Australia in 2020 for The Hits! tour, a 50 year celebration of his stellar career…and this time, with Auslan access.

Following two sold-out tours of The Beatles’ Abbey Road live in 2019/20, ARC is returning in 2021 to present the final Beatles album in all its glory – Let It Be.

This summer Mr Fox and his family, friends and foes are getting set to once again leap off the page (and all around the stage).

NEW DATE – Alanis Morissette is bringing her 2020 World Tour celebrating 25 years of “Jagged Little Pill”

SOLD OUT – Alanis Morissette is bringing her 2020 World Tour celebrating 25 years of “Jagged Little Pill”

Auslan interpreted exhibition launch

Enjoy a feast of local creative talent including a film from Ramas McRae and a special premiere screening of ‘Intimacy in Isolation’ a pandemic collaboration from Bronwyn Blaiklock, Erin M McCuskey and Lily Paskas.

Lead by special guest Ailsa Wild, author of the magical Naughtiest pixie series and the adventure-packed Squishy Taylor books.

Lead by special guest Ailsa Wild, author of the magical Naughtiest pixie series and the adventure-packed Squishy Taylor books.

A live recording of Just A Spoonful, the podcast that is young and fully sick!

ARCHIMEDES WAR is a dark comedy exploring the frightening depersonalisation of modern warfare, where waging war can look like a video game and playing video games has real-life consequences.

Aphids have invited artist Catherine Ryan to deliver a performance lecture looking at notions of time and productivity in pop music.

The Australian Film Television & Radio School (AFTRS) has opened submissions for Talent Camp 2022. 

Grab a picnic rug and help us promote awareness, understanding and acceptance of people with a disability

With songs about the Opportunity Mars Rover, giant butterflies, dogs, dead owls and deep space, Andrew Strano & Loclan Mackenzie-Spencer take their trademark quirky, honest, and heartfelt look at grief, isolation, and how we can survive it together. 

This 1-day festival will raise funds used to help young Australians with disabilities fulfil their potential through their grant program.

Join us to usher in the unbelievably fabulous FAKE edition, Going Down Swinging’s 42nd annual edition.

Join us at this special livestream event to raise funds for impact for Women who assist Women and Children fleeing extreme violence at home.

An exciting moment to see work from Australia and Aotearoa that celebrates creativity and disability.

Hear from a panel of First Nations critics, reviewers and essayists

Celebrating 30 years of the inclusive art studio Art Day South (ADS) and the marvellous work of the past and current ADS studio artists

Short stories from creatives who have found alternative ways to be inspired and earn some money while live music is off the table.

Join Rose Hiscock as she delivers the 2021 Stephen Murray-Smith Memorial Lecture, ‘Why we need to tear down the borders between science, design and art in a post-COVID world.’

Regional Arts Victoria is proud to be working with Creative Victoria and industry partners to deliver the Victorian Government’s Sustaining Creative Workers initiative.

Short stories from creatives who have found alternative ways to be inspired and earn some money while live music is off the table.

How does the flexible form of poetry make it uniquely placed to vivify Indigenous storylines, languages and connections to Country while grappling with the ongoing legacy of Australia’s brutal colonisation?

A meeting to share information, solidarity and opportunities to act.

A panel discussion around healthy ageing; staying well and connected beyond COVID.

A spoken word artist from Somalia shares stories about his homeland and the world.

We’re excited to bring this online event to the safety and comfort of your own home.

Our Southern Brown Bandicoots are important to our environment and they are in trouble, here’s how you can help!

Featuring more than 20 hit Queen songs, We Will Rock You follows two revolutionaries as they try to save Rock in a dystopian world.

New date TBA

Wyndham Learning Festival 2021 is proud to invite Mina Guli to lead the Signature event.

The Impressionists emerged from a time of enormous social upheaval including what architectural historian Antony Sutcliffe referred to as the ‘biggest urban renewal project the world has ever seen’.

Climate change and the infectious disease Chytrid Fungus have devastated species like the Baw Baw Frog across Victoria and around the world. Hear from experts working in the field in a race against the clock to prevent the extinction of local frog species.

Come along to our online information nights to find out more about the program

Celebrate National Science Week with authors from the exciting new book series Aussie STEM stars.

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Would you like to know how you rate with your current access and inclusion measures for Deaf and Disabled people?

Online info session

This August, we’re all about powerful poetry. In honour of Red Room Poetry’s inaugural Poetry Month, we’re celebrating with a showcase highlighting some of Australia’s – and the world’s – finest wordsmiths.

From multi-award winning duo Double Water Sign; the makers of GROUND CONTROL and MORAL PANIC, this searing new work of science-fiction is the story of an angry young man and the woman whose job it is to kill him.

See new date on THURSDAY 30 SEPT

New date – TBA

POSTPONED – more info will be shared soon

New date TBA

They say, ‘Don’t get mad. Get even.’ But can rage itself be fuel for change?

Something is unfolding here in Elsinore. For weeks the strikes have been intensifying—but there’s a new mood tonight as Carnival approaches. There’s a vivid sense of an era ending—a new age opening up

Australians love our sport: playing it, watching it, discussing it, and analysing it in passionate, exhaustive detail.

Combining moments of vulnerability and humour, GLASS is highly physical, sculptural, unexpected and tender.

Join us as actors perform dramatic readings of the emerging playwrights’ new works.

Join us at Eureka Centre on Wadawurrung land for these NAIDOC week performances of ‘Facing Up’

Windmill Theatre’s trademark design, music and puppetry, tells the story of Beep and what happens when someone new comes to town.

See Bluey, Bingo, Mum and Dad as you’ve never seen them before

In an international exclusive, the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) presents a major exhibition of more than 100 masterworks of French Impressionism in partnership with the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), an institution renowned world-wide for its rich holdings of Impressionist paintings.

Break out the butterfly clips, trucker caps and jelly bracelets, because it’s time to party like it’s 2003.

So you love games and you love storytelling – how about levelling up and putting the two together?

Children and families are invited to create a beautiful world inside a forest of tall cardboard trees, using only paper, tape and their imaginations

Celebrating the opening of Goya: Drawings from the Prado Museum, NGV curators introduce various aspects of Goya’s work

From tender to tantalising, funny to forthright, sweaty to sweet, sex writing runs a gamut of style, genre, voice and purpose.

Queer. Autistic. Veteran. So many stereotypes. Late to the party. Late bloomer. Late diagnosed. Jacci Pillar was born to be late, but better later than never

After a wonderful online event in the depths of 2020’s lockdown months, Queerstories returns for an exciting live event, presented in partnership with Glen Eira City Council’s Youth Services and Glen Eira City Council’s Storytelling Festival.

The ??t N??c Library is a community-curated collection of stories with a focus on Vietnam and its diaspora.

A somewhat accurate, sort of factual, non-fiction story, this comic Broadway hit makes its Australian premiere in a production directed by Petra Kalive (Hungry Ghosts).

“The power of storytelling is to share the lives of people who change the world.” – Nakkiah Lui

Australians love our sport: playing it, watching it, discussing it, and analysing it in passionate, exhaustive detail.

Recognising the sophisticated appreciation of weather systems within Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural knowledge, the works on display in Big Weather showcase how artists from diverse Indigenous communities hold this knowledge in art.

Meg and Tim. Jen and Bill. All they want is a child. No sugar, no alcohol, no dignity. A rollercoaster of IVF, fertility gods and dancing sperm. They’re good people, they deserve this, it’ll happen for them. Right?

On the brink of artistic discovery, Michel’s plans for the future are interrupted by a diagnosis of schizophrenia – he must rely on his sister – yet Karen has dreams of her own, how long can she push them aside to care for him?

Auslan interpreted sessions TBA

Once again marchers will colour Fitzroy St in a parade of solidarity. Midsumma is encouraging audiences to attend/view the march in ONLY TWO ways: at a venue, or watch from home

South African-New Zealander URZILA CARLSON is a Token African. She’s also a multi award-winning comedian, the 2019 Melbourne International Comedy Festival’s highest ticket-seller, and a household name across two continents.

This deaf led industry event exploring the inclusive production process behind powerful new Australian short film – Dry Fire which is included in this year’s Top 100 (Presented in Auslan and translated into English)

The show centers on a fictional spelling bee set in a Putnam Valley Middle School. Six awkward spelling champions learn that winning (and losing) isn’t everything.

Charles Latrobe College presents The Great Australian Rock Musical 2021!

Charles Latrobe College presents The Great Australian Rock Musical 2021!

Coconut Woman is a comedy-drama with music. A fish out of water story, raw, funny, poignant, with just the right amount of musical punctuation.

Discover an ethereal garden, a-flutter with Fae in a performance work capturing the similarities between the origins of fairies and early colonial writings on Blak peoples.

(Dance) Join, proud Wiradjuri man Joel Bray and a talented team of collaborators including Carly Sheppard, Dan Newell  and Niharika Senepati for a flirty, occasionally filthy and deeply passionate look at the true history of sensuality ‘down under’.

What are the books that shaped you? Come and celebrate the texts that have influenced our lives literally and literarily, alongside the reveal of the jam-packed 2021 Emerging Writers’ Festival program.

Vulnerable and powerful, hilarious and heartbreaking, Queerstories celebrates the culture and creativity of the LGBTQI+ community one true story at a time. A national storytelling project directed by Maeve Marsden.

Amplify is a one-night showcase accompanied by a weeklong art exhibition, highlighting the experience of being Deaf and Disabled in the Victorian music industry.

Opening:  Saturday 8th May, from 2 – 4pm, at The Walker Street Gallery and Arts Centre.

How can art and design influence change and contribute to a positive future?

FANGIRLS follows the uproarious story of Edna, a plucky misfit scholarship girl who believes that she alone can win the heart of the world’s biggest pop star; Harry.

Between school, court, family dramas and stints in The Bighouse, will Chris ever make it as a rapper?

With keyboard stylings by Joshie Belle, non-binary cabaret-star, music-theatre-composing sensation, and special guests.

With keyboard stylings by Joshie Belle, non-binary cabaret-star, music-theatre-composing sensation, and special guests.

The concert comprises stunning performances by young performing artists.

Australia’s LGBTQIA+ arts and cultural experience, Midsumma Festival, in partnership with Arts Centre Melbourne are excited to introduce the inaugural Midsumma Festival Live at the Bowl.

Join us in the park for a luminous evening performance of music, theatre and dance to delight and entertain you with all the colours of the rainbow!

Come and celebrate the first year of Queers Draw This!

Laugh along with your hosts, The Listies. Celebrate our collective differences in an open-air cabaret for kids at the iconic Sidney Myer Music Bowl, as part of Live at the Bowl series.

Laugh along with your hosts, The Listies. Celebrate our collective differences in an open-air cabaret for kids at the iconic Sidney Myer Music Bowl, as part of Live at the Bowl series.

A radical, multi-artform, variety show with it’s tongue firmly planted in it’s cheeks.

Australia’s LGBTQIA+ arts and cultural experience, Midsumma Festival, in partnership with Arts Centre Melbourne are excited to introduce the inaugural Midsumma Festival Live at the Bowl.

Bring your queer Magic Mike fantasy to life!

Nine young folk wade through the wasteland of the internet to find themselves.

Australia’s leading queer visual arts award

The annual Queer Playwriting Award (previously Playtime Staged Readings), is a collaboration between Gasworks Arts Park and Midsumma Festival, and part of the Midsumma Presents Program. 

Join artists of the Queerantine in the Flesh exhibition for two special Q&A panel discussion events where they discuss their works and how they operate as queer artists living, working, playing and creating during COVID-19.

The much-loved sex and relationships advice series, Take It From Me, is back – and badder than ever, gleefully tossing up handfuls of laughter, love and stardust.

(3 session times) A special live salon of performances by artists of the Queerantine in the Flesh exhibition.