In an unnamed city at war, five young people count down the days before a boat leaves for Europe. Who will leave, who will stay, and what will their choices cost them?

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.

In a world where objective and rational answers are more and more impossible to find, THE RABBLE seeks to disrupt our obsession the notion of absolute and singular truths, to disempower the makers of meaning and create a more communal process of searching.

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.

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”

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

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.

Join Nevo, Adolfo, Frances and Jax in conversation on coming-of-age moments in their lives and the LGBTIQA+ community.

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 People of Cabaret present a loud and proud lineup of outstanding artists and performers from the cabaret, burlesque, drag and circus scene

REFERENCE MATERIAL is a new dance work from choreographer, Alisdair Macindoe, exploring the process and history of dance making in the age of narcissism and digital interdependence.

A Strange Space is an open-air exhibition of site-responsive projection art, performance, music, dance and online interactive works

How can we make sure that young LGBTIQA+ people are safe, respected and supported at home? What role do parents, siblings and other family members have to play in preventing family violence? And what needs to shift in our communities and society?

Charlie and the War Against the Grannies bursts on to the stage in a rampaging musical comedy for children aged 5 and up!

‘One of the most achingly funny and uplifting evenings I can remember.’ The Telegraph (UK)

‘Incredibly funny, incredibly smart, and most of all, incredibly, incredibly good at what she does. The good gear.’ Pedestrian.tv

A fantastical theatre show for children and families about expressing yourself and feeling connected with others

Slide your best sequins on, babes – those chinos ain’t gonna cut it when The People of Cabaret take over the Melbourne International Comedy Festival’s Festival Club for one night only!

Charlie and the War Against the Grannies bursts on to the stage in a rampaging musical comedy for children aged 5 and up!

Health professionals are with us when we’re born, and they’re with us when we die. They devote their lives to caring for us, but how do we care for them?

A sure fire, killer stand-up at the top of his game.

‘This book will change history. It’s the first of its kind in Australia. And I hope it won’t be the last. We deserve better representation in literature.’

Return season of Wil’s smash-hit, critically acclaimed opus.

Anarchy, conspiracy, drugs, racism, ableism, disability sex whores, Anti-Vax Karens, cover-up culture, is Peter Dutton an actual potato? Whatever the topic, it’s in our wheelhouse. ?The Wheelhouse: It’s current affairs in high-speed chairs.

Anarchy, conspiracy, drugs, racism, ableism, disability sex whores, Anti-Vax Karens, cover-up culture, is Peter Dutton an actual potato? Whatever the topic, it’s in our wheelhouse. ?The Wheelhouse: It’s current affairs in high-speed chairs.

‘One of the most achingly funny and uplifting evenings I can remember.’ The Telegraph (UK)

Described as an ‘engaging presence’ (Chortle, UK), three-time Deadly Funny National Finalist Cy Fahey has a weirdness and confronting sense of identity to his humour.

Black Lives Matter Rally

A compelling performance celebrating the passion and talent of our Indigenous youth with Spinifex Gum.

Geraldine is proving to everyone, including herself, that life begins at 40.

‘Authentic, hilarious, and uplifting.’ WeekendNotes

Nothing is off limits at a Tommy Little live show – his real-life antics and setbacks are foolish, funny as hell and definitely his own fault.

‘Will have you laughing til it hurts. 4½ stars’ The Age

‘Absurdist stand-up at its subversive best. 4 stars’ Evening Standard (UK)

Due to the worldwide pandemic and awaiting the results of a partnership visa, Welsh comedian Lloyd Langford is stuck in Australia. But don’t worry, he is absolutely jazzed to be here.

Television appearances, awards, world tours – Randy Feltface has led a charmed life.

Taking an in-depth look at recent acquisitions to the NGV Collection.

Chasing her eggs, camino chasing, chasing Keanu Reeves in no particular order, and her Mum’s opinion on the topic of her and men, Diana Nguyen is ready for the chase.

The Installation is textured and approachable, and activates experiences that are both sensory seeking and sensory avoiding.

Australian Impressionism is underlaid by a tapestry of complex personal relationships between the artists and those close to them.

A handy little genre-defying sketch-clown-stand-up-drag multitool, Scout Boxall brings their unique brand of low-fi, prop-heavy absurdity to the stage in their raw first solo hour – Good Egg. And it’s a bloody a cracking time.

Last year everyone told me they needed a laugh, and guess what? I need an audience so this really could work out well for all of us.

Yep, the world is loopy. We should talk about it.

The Di Gribble Argument honours the contribution of an extraordinary powerhouse of Australian public life, providing an indelible addition to the national debate.

Time has been updted to 12.30pm – Join the fun of new discoveries, delightful games to play, songs to sing and stories to enjoy. 

Join us online as we celebrate Ballarat’s wonderful, diverse communities as part of Harmony Fest 2021.