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Brisbane Comedy Festival - 2024 Opening Gala

April 26th 2024

Event Info
Running Times:
Doors - 6:30pm
Start - 7:30pm
Finish - 9:30pm
*Please note, all times are approximate and subject to change.

Get set for a night you won't forget at the 2024 Brisbane Comedy Festival Opening Gala!

Kick start the Festival at the glamourous Fortitude Music Hall featuring an all-star line-up of international and Australian comedians.

Snag your tickets now to kick off your festival experience with a bang. Whether you're a comedy buff or just want a great night out, the Opening Gala always delivers the goods.

This event is Auslan Interpreted

The Fortitude Music Hall, Fortitude Valley

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6lack

April 27th 2024

"Pronounced ""Black"", the three-time GRAMMY-nominated and multi-platinum selling artist 6LACK has brilliantly captured a voice of a generation through his dynamic art for years now. 6LACK exploded onto the scene with his breakout debut FREE 6LACK album in 2016, and is now coming to Brisbane in 2024 for his 'Since I Have a Lover' tour!"

The Fortitude Music Hall, Fortitude Valley

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Creative Generation 2024 Excellence Awards in Visual Art

April 27th - August 25th 2024

Each year, the 'Creative Generation Excellence Awards in Visual Art' recognises and celebrates the artistic achievements and creative talents of senior high school students from across Queensland.

Across a diverse range of media, materials, and techniques these young artists use art to give voice to the thoughts, feelings, and concerns of their generation.

The 'Creative Generation Excellence Awards in Visual Art' is an initiative of the Queensland Department of Education, supported by QAGOMA.

Gallery of Modern Art & Gallery 2.1 (QAGOMA)

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Marlon Williams - LIVE

June 12th & 13th 2024

Marlon Williams possesses one of the greatest voices of his generation. His effortlessly distinctive tone and heartstring-plucking vibrato have garnered widespread love around the world. This is his first Australian solo tour in nearly 10 years, and it captures his most loved songs, new material, and both original and traditional Māori Waiata. A once-in-a-generation talent with a voice that crosses continents.

The Tivoli, Fortitude Valley

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Iris van Herpen: Sculpting the Senses

June 29th - October 7th 2024

Fashion, art, design, science and technology collide in the world of endlessly innovative and internationally acclaimed Dutch fashion designer Iris van Herpen

Exhibition co-organized by the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris and QAGOMA, Brisbane, based on an original exhibition designed by the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris.

QAGOMA, Southbank

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The Australian - Brisbane Women's Leadership Symposium

July 19th 2024

Thrilled to announce the full agenda for our Brisbane Symposium featuring inspiring thought leaders, leadership development opportunities, and networking.

• Panel Discussion: Allyship in the Workplace: Building Collaborative Networks for Impact
• Development Session: Build your Personal Board: Cultivating Strategic Relationships
• Australian Awards for Excellence in Women's Leadership award presentation to the QLD winner - The Hon Susan Kiefel AC KC, Former Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia

Industry Attendance Grants Available

To support women from diverse industries to attend, we offer a limited number of subsidised tickets for women in select industries.

We invite you to take advantage of this discount, enter the code BRISVIP24 at checkout to save up to $700 off a full-price ticket.

Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre, Brisbane - Meeanjin

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mudunama kundana wandaraba jarribirri

March 23rd - August 11th 2024

For more than four decades, Judy Watson has fashioned powerful, ethereal works of art channelling the stories of her family’s Waanyi Country in northern Queensland. ‘mudunama kundana wandaraba jarribirri: Judy Watson’ is a comprehensive survey of the renowned Queensland artist’s incisive meditations on colonial, social and ecological concerns.

The exhibition includes 130 works, across painting, prints, sculpture, installation, and video, from an artistic practice centered on truth-telling around the environment, historical government policy affecting Indigenous Australians, and institutions that collect First Nations cultural material and remains.

The title ‘mudunama kundana wandaraba jarribirri’, translated as ‘tomorrow the tree grows stronger’, is taken from a poem in Waanyi language by the artist’s son Otis Carmichael.

Queensland Art Gallery, Gallery 4 & Watermall (QAGOMA)

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Thirty Seconds To Mars

September 17th 2024

Thirty Seconds to Mars return to Australia on their monumental Seasons 2024 World Tour.

Multi-platinum selling artist Thirty Seconds to Mars, comprised of brothers Jared and Shannon Leto, makes a triumphant return with their sixth studio album. The album heralds a new era for the band, one that not only explores the darker sides of the human experience but the hope as well

Riverstage, Brisbane City Botanical Gardens

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2025 AUSCYCLING STATE BMX RACING CHAMPIONSHIPS - QUEENSLAND

September 19th - 22nd 2024

The Queensland BMX Championships are the largest State Championships of any state. Thousands of participants from around Australia come to the host club with hopes of becoming the State Champion

Nerang BMX Track, Nerang

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MRO Australasia - Aviation Week

November 13th & 14th 2024

MRO Australasia next takes place on November 13-14, 2024, at the Sofitel Brisbane Central, once again supported by the Queensland Government as Host Sponsor.
The two-day conference gathers over 360 attendees to networking with the regional aftermarket and learn about the crucial issues that impact the MRO business in this region. Interested in joining as a sponsor, speaker or delegate?

Event Overview
- 2-day conference designed for airlines, MROs, suppliers, OEMs, regulators, lessors and industry experts to explore the aviation maintenance industry in Australasia
- Dedicated networking functions including 2 evening receptions
- Source the latest technologies, tools and resources through the showcase exhibition
- Speed networking session between buyers and suppliers during Meet the Buyers

Brisbane CBD

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James Blunt

November 21st 2024

James Blunt makes a most welcome return to world touring next year as he announces a national Australian tour in support of his brilliant new album Who We Used To Be.
Don’t miss the return of chart-topping superstar James Blunt on his first Australian headline tour in over six years, performing all his hits from his stellar discography as well as new material.

Riverstage, Brisbane Botanic Gardens CBD

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Baptist World Congress 2025

July 9th - 12th 2025

The Baptist World Congress  Brisbane 2025 is a one-of-a-kind opportunity for Baptists worldwide to stand together across borders, languages, and ethnicities.  Featuring worship, preaching, and teaching from Baptist leaders around the world.

Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre

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2026 UCI BMX World Championships

2026 - Dates TBA

Brisbane has been awarded hosting rights for the 2026 BMX World Championships by the International Cycling Union (UCI), which has also awarded four new titles of "Bike City."

The 2026 World Championships is the second major BMX event the city on the east coast of Australia has been given in recent months, following last September’s awarding of this year’s Nitro World Games, where BMX will be a major part of the programme.

Brisbane is also at the centre of Queensland’s innovative region-wide bid for the 2032 Olympics.

The new recipients of the UCI Bike City designations, meanwhile, are the Flanders region of Belgium, Val di Sole in Italy, the city of Fayetteville in North Carolina, US, and Wollongong, Australia.

 

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Brisbane, Australia

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