Always a stunning celebration of our river city, Brisbane Festival is scheduled to return in September with performances, installations and unmissable parties happening all over the city.
The fun even starts before September does, with Lightscape hitting the Brisbane City Botanic Gardens on Thursday 31 August. This stunning botanical light show is returning for its second year, bringing an immersive 2km trail of light, sound and colour to Brisbane. It’s an unmissable experience and you can snap up tickets here.
The first weekend will also see the return of Riverfire, which will light up our skies on Saturday 31 August. And throughout the festival, the Festival Garden in South Bank will be the place to be, with pop-up bars, food stalls and free performances. While you’re there, check out ChronoHarp, prism of light created by Amigo & Amigo that you can interact with as it reacts to movement with colour and sound. If you love a light show, you should also head to Portside Wharf, where you'll find the Spectrum of Happiness, a glowing row of multi-coloured swings.
Following the success of last year's drone show, this year's festival will close with Skylore—The Rainbow Serpent, a spectacular three-dimensional multicolour drone show over the city skyline that will will celebrate culture and place. Over 400 drones will tell a First Nations story through stunning visuals on 19, 20 and 21 September, with the best views from South Bank.
With hundreds of performances on the calendar we can hardly tell you about all of them, but a few we’ll be snapping up tickets for include Jean Paul Gaultier's Fashion Freak Show, a collission of fashion, music, pop culutre, cabaret and art making its Australian debut, Volcano, a production that combines theatre and dance with a television sci-fi thriller and Cirque Bon Bon's brand new gravity-defying show, Le Retour.
Brisbane Festival 2024 will run 30 August to 21 September, with tickets for paid events on sale now.
Can’t wait? Check out more of Brisbane’s packed events calendar here.
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