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WHAT’S ON . SEPTEMBER 2019 QUEENSLAND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA UNVEILS 2020 SEASON
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25 SEP – 16 OCT
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CONTENTS
REASONS TO BE PRETTY 4
“I always know
FROM DARKNESS 5 I’m in for a
GREEN HEART FAIR 6 spectacular
PRACTICALLY PERFECT: THE MUSIC OF JULIE ANDREWS 7 evening
THREE: TAP INTO TOPOLOGY 7 QUEENSLAND SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA SUBSCRIBER
BRISBANE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 8
HIGH ROTATION 10
NEW WOMAN 10
NEW SCIENCENTRE 11
BUSH MECHANICS: THE EXHIBITION 11
BRISBANE OPEN HOUSE 12
MARGARET OLLEY: A GENEROUS LIFE 13
QUEENSLAND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 14
COVER IMAGE:
Queensland Symphony Orchestra –
Natalie Low, violin
SEPTEMBER 2019 . 3
theatre
REASONS TO BE PRETTY
24 August – 24 September
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Brisbane Arts Theatre
210 Petrie Tce, Brisbane
A fresh and illuminating insight into how we value female beauty in modern society.
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4 . SEPTEMBER 2019
theatre
FROM DARKNESS
A La Boite and Brisbane Festival
Co-Production By Steven Oliver
7 – 28 September
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La Boite Theatre Company
& Roundhouse Theatre
6 Musk Ave, Kelvin Grove
A gripping, darkly funny drama about a spiritual force and a family’s need to connect with it.
It’s the anniversary of Vinnie’s death. His There’s no denying that Preston’s on the Steven Oliver’s (Black Comedy, Black
brother, 17-year old Preston is being cusp of something otherworldly. The Queen Black King) deeply moving new
visited by spirits— seemingly tormenting family’s disconnect from each other and play deep-dives into contemporary family
him while he sleeps. His sister, Akira the world has gone on long enough. It’s politics and the connection between
buries her pain in her phone. Their father, time to purge the past to embrace the culture, grief and our humanity, with
Eric, is in denial and their mother, Abigail, present, if they’re to have a future, and an Oliver’s signature aplomb. In his debut
is numbing her pain with drink, while Nan encounter with spirits might just be the at La Boite, Isaac Drandic directs this
is coping with it all by talking… a lot. catalyst they all need. incredible new Australian work with a
stellar Indigenous cast.
SEPTEMBER 2019 . 5
festival
GREEN HEART FAIR
8 September
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Carindale Recreation Reserve
Bedivere Street, Carindale
Brisbane’s biggest sustainable living festival turns ten!
Brisbane City Council’s Green Heart Fair alongside Brisbane’s best eco-exhibitors Bring your whole family to the fair for the
is celebrating ten years of helping to and entertainers. Learn how to Love day and enjoy Brisbane’s best food trucks,
create a clean and green Brisbane. The Food Hate Waste with celebrity chefs with plenty of options to suit all kinds of
all-day event includes free sustainability Dominique Rizzo and Georgia Barnes foodies. There will be plenty of activities
workshops and displays, artisan markets, providing demonstrations on wasting less to keep your little ones entertained, with
kids’ entertainment, 3,000 free native when cooking. PJ Masks performances and nature play.
plants for Brisbane residents and the
Brisbane Billycart Championships. If you prefer getting out into the garden, There’s more to see and do at Brisbane
expert talks will teach you everything City Council’s Green Heart Fair. Bus, bike
Join in the tenth birthday celebrations from keeping bees in your backyard to or walk to Carindale Recreation Reserve
with returning crowd favourites, how to grow your own food. on Sunday 8 September from 8am to 2pm.
6 . SEPTEMBER 2019
music and dance
THREE
TAP INTO TOPOLOGY
Saturday 21 September, 7.30pm
rpac.com.au
Redland Performing Arts Centre,
Cleveland
An impressive fusion of tap, percussion and instrumental musicianship not to be missed.
Topology works with rhythmic genius/ while Bill dances on the precipice, energetic performance that brings
drum-kit soloist, Grant Collins and tap- creating new space with his body and together ideas and inventions from three
dance wizard, Bill Simpson to create bold resounding shoes. distinct genres to generate something both
new territory in both music and dance. unfamiliar and intoxicating. After sell-out
Grant pushes all the artists to the edge Three features new compositions for performances at Brisbane Powerhouse,
of rhythmic possibility with his never drums and tap, plus Topology’s saxophone, don’t miss the chance to see Three set the
compromising groove on the drums, strings and piano. It’s a fearsomely RPAC stage on fire!
music
PRACTICALLY PERFECT
THE MUSIC OF JULIE ANDREWS
Wednesday 16 October, 11am & 2pm
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Redland Performing Arts Centre,
Cleveland
An exquisite musical tribute to a living legend, Julie Andrews.
For generations, she has graced the stage This all-singing, all-dancing show will you follow Andrews’ journey from the
and screen, and is fondly remembered as feature some of her best-known songs West End to Broadway and onto Hollywood.
Maria in The Sound of Music as well as, from Mary Poppins, My Fair Lady, The Sound With beautiful costumes, extraordinary
the iconic nanny Mary Poppins. Now, in of Music, Victor/Victoria and many more. dancing, and some of the most memorable
one glorious stage production, Practically Between the hits, stories of her life both on music ever written and sung, this show is
Perfect celebrates the life and music of the ‘practically perfect’ in every way.
and off the stage will engage and intrigue as
legendary Dame Julie Andrews.
SEPTEMBER 2019 . 7
film
BRISBANE INTERNATIONAL BIFF returns for 2019 with the largest celebration
FILM FESTIVAL of film in Queensland.
A strikingly dark comedy that wrestles Joining the team in 2019 are Academy
3–13 OCTOBER, 2019 with mob rule; a kindergarten teacher Award-nominated writer, director
who’s as handy with a zombie- and producer Baz Luhrmann and his
biff.com.au
dispatching shovel as she is a ukulele, collaborator of over 30 years, Academy
cinema classics to make your heart Award-winning costume and production
Gallery of Modern Art
swell, premieres, award-winners, designer Catherine Martin.
& other venues
headliners, tear-jerkers, spine-
chillers and more. BIFF is back for 11 The new BIFF Patrons will bring their
spectacular days and nights of cinema. own style to the festival with a suite of
hand-selected favourite films, as well
Save the date – BIFF 2019 opens on as five of their extraordinary cinematic
Thursday 3 October at GOMA with a red works including the new 4K definitive
carpet screening of the Queensland cut of Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse
premiere of Judy & Punch (2019), the Now (1979 & 2019), Federico Fellini’s
acclaimed debut feature from Australian classic 8½ (1963) and the ravishing
director and actor Mirrah Foulkes. musical numbers of Bob Fosse’s Palme
d’Or-winning All That Jazz (1979).
This year’s Festival boasts world-
class films, documentaries, shorts, All this and more ground-breaking
cultural events, panels and industry cinema from across the globe makes
engagements, presented city-wide; BIFF the must-do event in your
exploring everything from a special calendar this October.
film-lovers screening of the Sergei
Bondarchuk’s recently restored seven- Tickets to BIFF are now on sale. View the
hour epic War and Peace (1966), through full program and book now at biff.com.au
to a curated collection celebrating the
new golden age of ‘Zombie Cinema’ from
ACMI Director of Film Kristy Matheson.
Don’t miss the Cannes award-winning
Pedro Almodóvar’s Pain and Glory (2019);
The Souvenir (2019), Joanna Hogg’s
reflective relationship drama starring
mother and daughter Honor Swinton
Byrne and Tilda Swinton; and the
Queensland premiere of Jim Jarmusch’s
star-studded zombie outing The Dead
Don’t Die (2019).
Firecrackers (2018) Dir: Jasmin Mozaffari. Rights: Seville International
8 . SEPTEMBER 2019
festival
Supa Modo (2018). Dir. Likarion Wainaina. Rights: The Festival Agency
BIFF is bringing
more award-winners,
headliners, heart-
warmers, tear-jerkers
and spine-chillers you
won’t want to miss.
Pain and Glory (2019) Dir. Pedro Almodóvar. Rights: Universal Pictures Australia
SEPTEMBER 2019 . 9
music
HIGH ROTATION
30 August 2019 – 19 April 2020
museumofbrisbane.com.au
Museum of Brisbane, Level 3, City Hall
Adult $12 | Concession/Student $9
Family pass $30 | Children under 12 free
Presenting Partner Technology Partner Exhibition Partners
Media Partners
Powderfinger at Riverstage, 2010. Photo: Stephen Booth.
See, hear, feel – 30 years of Brisbane music
Turn up the volume as Museum of souvenirs from 1989 to present-day, from industry highlights from artists, producers,
Brisbane’s High Rotation exhibition takes the likes of Powderfinger, Regurgitator, venue managers and record label reps.
you backstage through three epic decades Keith Urban, Thelma Plum, Violent Soho, High Rotation is set to take music lovers
of Brisbane’s incredible music scene. Sheppard, Savage Garden, Emma Louise, down memory lane, while introducing
Discover and revisit the iconic songs, music The Grates and more. The exhibition also a new generation to this seminal
videos, photographs, instruments, and reveals the extraordinary stories and musical period.
art
NEW WOMAN
13 September 2019 – 15 March 2020
museumofbrisbane.com.au
Museum of Brisbane, Level 3, City Hall
Free
Presenting Partner
Media Partners
Caroline Barker, Untitled (life class model) (detail), c1925, oil on canvas, gift of the artist,
1982, City of Brisbane Collection, Museum of Brisbane. Photo: Carl Warner.
A century of women in Brisbane art
New Woman recognises the lives of Brisbane legacies of Brisbane’s most significant artistic styles, subject matter and ways of
women artists over the past 100 years from and ground-breaking artists between seeing the world. Discover more about the
the independent and adventurous to the 1920-2019 reflected in artworks, sculpture, women in Brisbane art with our extensive
often overlooked, exploring the trailblazing performance and installation works on a range of related events, including talks,
women who have continued to take the lead scale never seen. Featuring more than tours, performances and workshops.
in Brisbane art. The exhibition is a snapshot 80 artists and 110 works, New Woman Visit museumofbrisbane.com.au
of the art, personal stories and enduring traces vast changes in ideas of gender, for more information.
10 . SEPTEMBER 2019science
NEW SCIENCENTRE
Now open
cobbandco.qm.qld.gov.au
Cobb+Co Museum
27 Lindsay Street, Toowoomba
Unleash your inner scientist
Follow your curiosity, ask questions, test Explore the world of science through play Floating Ball – why does the ball stay in the
your ideas and use your imagination in this with 15 interactive stations including: stream of air?
fun and experience-rich environment.
Find out more about the science of energy Flight test – make your own flying machine Entry to Sciencentre is free with
– what it is and how it’s converted to things and test it out Newton’s Cradle – how Museum admission.
like bubbles, waves and electricity. many balls will bounce? Gravity Run –
use your energy to start the ball rolling Be curious. Be a scientist at Sciencentre.
museum
BUSH MECHANICS:
THE EXHIBITION
Now on until 2 February 2020
theworkshops.qm.qld.gov.au
The Workshops Rail Museum
North Street, North Ipswich
The nationally touring exhibition comes to Ipswich
Based on the popular ABC television and See a range of items from the series, assembling the discarded parts that make
told through the show’s distinctive brand including two original cars, clay figurines, up the exhibition’s ‘bush driving simulator’
of humour, this exhibition showcases the specially commissioned artwork and and operating it.
ingenuity of outback mechanics whose interactive displays, it also provides broader
clever resourcefulness can turn branches, insights into Aboriginal life and culture.
Try Exhibition admission is included with
spinifex and sand into tools and spare parts your hand at some of the ingenious and general Museum entry.
to get cars back on the road. resourceful ‘nyurulypa’, or tricks, by
SEPTEMBER 2019 . 11architecture
BRISBANE OPEN HOUSE
12 & 13 October 2019
brisbaneopenhouse.com.au
FREE
Oxley + Stirling Residences L&T’s Workers Cottage
Architect: Elenberg Fraser Architect: NIELSEN JENKINS
Photographer: Peter Sexty Photographer: Andy Macpherson
Brisbane behind the scenes will once again be revealed, as Brisbane Open House takes
centre stage across the city.
BOH offers an opportunity to access This year 119 buildings will open BOH will present a full program of events
and explore some of our most treasured including new comers – 25 King Street, including the Speakers Series and BOH
landmarks and rich architecture. Ryan Street Library and the After Dark events where you are invited to
Wickham Terrace Carpark. join architects, designers, planners and
A free community event – unlock award professionals in conversation - exploring
winning architectural gems, undertake Returning are many popular and what influences the shape, experiences
a pilgrimage of heritage places or select much-loved buildings including and growth of our city and its buildings.
from several precincts in which to marvel Fort Lytton Historic Military Precinct, Plus, guided walking tours, concerts,
built offerings. Brisbane city: unlocked. Masonic Memorial Centre, Brisbane City workshops and photography competition.
Hall and The Old Windmill Tower,
plus many more! View the full program at
www.brisbaneopenhouse.com.au
12 . SEPTEMBER 2019MARGARET
MARGARETOLLEY
OLLEY
MAIN
MAIN
art SPONSOR
SPONSORBLOCK
BLOCK
MARGARET OLLEY:
PRINCIPAL
PRINCIPAL
BENEFACTOR
BENEFACTOR MAJOR
MAJOR
BENEFACTOR
BENEFACTOR
Margaret
MargaretOlley
Olley
Art
A GENEROUS LIFE
Art
Trust
Trust
TOURISM
TOURISM
& MEDIA
& MEDIA
PARTNERS
PARTNERS WINE
WINE
PARTNER
PARTNER
15 June – 13 October 2019
qagoma.qld.gov.au/olley
Gallery of Modern Art
Free entry, all ages
PRINCIPAL
PRINCIPAL
BENEFACTOR
BENEFACTOR MAJOR
MAJOR
BENEFACTOR
BENEFACTOR
Margaret
MargaretOlley
Olley
Art
Art
Trust
Trust
Celebrate the enduring legacy of much-loved Australian artist Margaret Olley.
A charismatic character, Margaret Olley This major exhibition profiles a life that For those who prefer to experience GOMA
(1923–2011) is a widely recognised still-life was vigorously immersed in art — her at night, the popular Up Late series returns
and interior painter who drew inspiration own and that of those she supported. in August. Visit the website for full details.
from her home, and the beauty of everyday
objects. She was a significant benefactor to Discover more about the artist through Images (right to left): Margaret Olley / Pomegranates
public institutions, and the subject of two an extensive range of related events; in a basket 1967 / Private collection | Interior IV 1970
Archibald Prize-winning portraits including from talks and tours, to performances / Gift of the Margaret Olley Art Trust through the
one painted by Ben Quilty in 2011. and hand-on workshops, there’s QAG Foundation 2002 / Collection: QAGOMA
something for everyone.
SEPTEMBER 2019 . 13music
QUEENSLAND SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA
2020 Season Now On Sale!
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Josh DeMarchi, percussion Nick Harmsen, bass clarinet
May music inspire and delight you in 2020.
Queensland Symphony Orchestra believes much that tops being in the room with the Season packages are now on sale!
the sound of 80+ musicians performing majestic sounds of a symphony orchestra
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ought to experience it. So whether you Box Office on (07) 3833 5044
have been attending concerts for years, Do you have a favourite style of music? (Mon – Fri, 9am – 5pm)
or are contemplating coming along for Or prefer music by certain composers?
Or just have a busy schedule? Whatever Find out more at qso.com.au
the first time, there is something to excite
everyone. There is music for all ages and your reason, a Choose-Your-Own package
tastes – music so legendary it has earned allows you to curate your own series with
the label ‘classic’, side by side with new concerts and dates that suit you. Select
sounds and musical experiments. From three or more concerts from our 2020
classical favourites to film scores, big season to enjoy discounted tickets and
symphonies to ballet music, there isn’t subscriber benefits.
14 . SEPTEMBER 2019Q U E E N S L A N D M U S E U M
LAST DAYS ENDS 9 OCTOBER
Buy tickets at
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