This darkly comic story mixes puppetry & YTT dance sequences to tell the story of broken–down Ebony Starling; dealing with her fall down the rabbit hole...
Adopting the idea of installation as ‘spatial collage’, Erika Scott makes work that transforms domestic and quotidian materials in order to displace value...
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Metro Arts is a creative hub for independent artists. A place where practitioners at all career stages are supported to create, progress and present new work, gain skills and build their practices.Venues and facilities such as theatres, galleries, artist studios and rehearsal spaces combine with a popular restaurant and espresso bar to create a vibrant space for artists, audiences and the wider city population to interact and connect. This unique cross pollination fuels a continuous conversation at Metro Arts, which inspires work which continually surprises, enlightens and expands the culture of Brisbane.
Working predominantly in sculpture and installation Anastasia Booth’s practice explores sexual fetish as a mode for investigating different theoretical...
Esteemed performer Caroline Dunphy collaborates with Shane Thompson Architects in this rumination on a modern Noh play, Hanako, experimenting with...
The Good Room is collecting your regrets and stringing them out to spangle in all their cringeworthy glory. One–hand–over–your–eye awkward and deliciously...
It’s time for Hedonism, an all male rock band, to grow up – when they’re given a license to never have to. This new work turns a lens on bravado and...
Timothy Kendall Edser’s performance based installations use the gallery space as a site to test the physical limits of his body and investigate ideas that...
Mythology. Isolation. Exploration. A wily trickster cursed by the gods to roam the seas; a man in his room who has forsaken the outside world. Two nights...
Through practical activities, discover the fundamental skills required for acting! Identify how to create character and how to respond effectively to...
Get skilled, get ready, and act fearlessly in this acting to camera challenge! Develop skills in characterisation; perform film and television scripts....
Develop a presentation persona! Practice on camera technique; build vocal and physical presence. Explore interview technique and present lifestyle pieces...
Discover your individual screen presence! Rehearse and perform scenes from contemporary film and television and gain confidence in acting boldly but...
Identify and experience the essentials of screen acting as you work on scripts from the Doctor Who series, exclusive to NIDA! Develop skills in...
Understand how to create a Director’s concept, which unifies the elements of a production and makes it unique! Explore the interplay of story, design and...
A two day intensive for acting recruits: build skills in improvisation, character and scene work! Keen actors will learn a lot from this fun workshop.
Develop screen presence, and acting skills for rehearsing and performing scenes to camera! Be filmed in short scenes from the best in television and film...
Explore character development, improvisation and scene work. Suits 9-11yrs.
A comprehensive week for committed young people! Develop performance skills including improvisation, voice and movement, devising, acting and rehearsing...
Identify and experience NIDA acting techniques! Develop skills in voice, movement, improvisation and characterisation. Respond to scripts, relate to...
Focuses on voice and movement, improvisation and devising, acting and rehearsing scenes. Suits 9-11yrs.
Join us for an evening of long-form improvised comedy featuring some of Brisbane's sharpest improvisors.Tis the season to be jolly all we want for...
The Sherbet Underground present an evening of long-form improvised comedy featuring some of Brisbane's brightest comic talent. This month The Sherbet...
In 2012, the Galleries Program yields up its bare walls as a blank canvas for ten fresh exhibitions from contemporary artists and art collectives. Alfredo...
In 2012, the Galleries Program yields up its bare walls as a blank canvas for ten fresh exhibitions from contemporary artists and art collectives....
In 2012, the Galleries Program yields up its bare walls as a blank canvas for ten fresh exhibitions from contemporary artists and art collectives. Stride...
Evil Returns With The Next Installment In A Series Of Demotivational Seminars That Mash Up To The Minute Current Affairs And Political Satire Into A...
Spend A Riotous Evening With Mitch Jones Aka Captain Ruin, Your Friendly Neighborhood Anarchist, As He Takes You Through Politics, Punch Lines And Prisons...
Audience members will lead a blind-folded artist by the hand to help him pay homage to his family home in The Reparation of the Heart. Combining...
Electronic Free-Jazz Trio Feet Teeth Collaborate With Dance Artists Lizzie And Zaimon Vilmanis In This Premiere Exploration Of Textures And Gestures.
The Things Id Say To You by Fixate Productions, humbly investigates the process of grieving and loss through movement, text, symbol and story. This work...
Love Never Dies, It Just Gets Harder To Digest. Outlaw Performance Cannibal Ghostboy And His Cross-Dressing Multi-Instrumentalist Sir Lady Grantham...
The Music Of Brisbane’S ‘70S And ‘80S Returns This September. Tina Havelock Stevens And John Willsteed Will Steal Sounds From The Saints, Xero, The...
The devastating Brisbane floods are retrospectively explored in Flood Plains, an avant-garde film with live musical accompaniment by Quadratic Contingency.
Feeling Lost And Lonely? In A World Where Everyone Is Connected But No-One’S Engaged You’Re Invited To Drop The Act And Let It All Hang Out In This...
Dark Matters, by artist Katie Sfetkidis, is an entertaining live art party that explores the notion of darkness, light and engulfing sounds.
New Brisbane dance group, MakeShift Dance Collective, will ask you to get your hands dirty and explore the small ruins of yesterday in The Present Past.
Adelaide Fringe Award-Winning Company Isthisyours? Presents A Hilarious Theatrical Insight Into Forgetfulness And Our Desire Not To Be Forgotten. This...
In A Thrilling And Witty New Performance, Brisbane Hip-Hop Mc And Interdisciplinary Artist M. O’Neill Performs Stark Naked In Immersive Surround Sound...
Rising Sydney artist ELIZABETH ROSE returns with 'Again (ft. Sinden)', the killer follow-up to her debut track 'Ready'. It will be released locally...
Heaven::himmel explores the joy and tragedy of (mis)communication through screen-based installation and live performance by Henriette Kassay-Schuster &...
Sydney’s undeniably powerful cinematic four-piece Charge Group, are back in Brisbane after their excellent self-titled LP release earlier this year....
With a decade’s worth of triumphs under its belt, The Independents puts the spotlight on five diverse co-presented new performance works; history shows...
The Other Production Company presentsThe Velveteen RabbitA new musicalBook, lyrics and music by Simon ChanBased on the book by Margery WilliamsThe Other...
He’s Seeing Other People NowCo-presented by Metro Arts, Anna McGahan Melanie Wild5 – 21 July, 2012In a place you know. In a time not far away. You are...
This project exists along the precipice of possibility and apathy, taking the form of an investigation into dying façades, illusion and joy; an...
2012, the Galleries Program yields up its bare walls as a blank canvas for ten fresh exhibitions from contemporary artists and art collectives. Davies’...
In 2012, the Galleries Program yields up its bare walls as a blank canvas for ten fresh exhibitions from contemporary artists and art collectives. This...
Co-presented with the nest ensembleBrisbane theatre luminary, Margi Brown Ash, crawls beneath the skin of Australia’s Virginia Woolf: the enigmatic Eve...
CABARET COMEDY MAGER & SMYTHE triumphantly return to their Queensland roots by popular demand, fresh from the Melbourne International Comedy Festival and...
X is your ticket into the whimsical world of Caitlin, Jamie, Naked and Fancy - two best friends and two puppets searching for an escape from reality. Stop...
Promise Program 2012 is a survey of the considerable talent of artists and arts writers emerging out of Queensland’s leading arts institutions. It heralds...
In 2012, the Galleries Program yields up its bare walls as a blank canvas for ten fresh exhibitions from contemporary artists and art collectives. Promise...
EddyDanielle Clej, Channon Goodwin, Christopher Handran, Majena Mafe, Erika Scott and Mark WebbCurated by Brooke FergusonSound art and music, as specific...
Critical BoundaryTransparency CollectiveCritical Boundary is an art laboratory, experimenting with manifestations of the fight or flight instinct. Across...
This October, EDGE Improv is offering not one, but two fantastic shows on the same night.Double Feature is a comedy show that’s a cross between...
Apathy and Wonder Exhibition by Melody Woodnutt Inspired by her recent travels to Iceland, Melody Woodnutt has created an immersive installation using...
Who are you really? Amongst your 140 character tweets and quickfire status updates, where do ‘you’ stop and your creation begins? Are you Frankenstein’s...
The Independents 2011 Empire Burning Co-presented by Metro Arts and Eugene Gilfedder Eugene Gilfedder unleashes a searing script of myth and madness,...
In-demand fight director and movement specialist Nigel Poulton (The Metropolitan Opera, New York City Ballet) teams up with Tim Dashwood (FAME: The...
Black Light presents as part of Metro Arts Allies Program Everybody knows Trolley boys have a use-by date. For Todd and Dirk it won’t be long until...
A one-man tour de force set within the confines of a decaying 1930s mental asylum, Furious Angels is a piercing new work from rising Queensland playwright...
Brisbane-born poet Michael Thwaites, winner of the prestigious Newdigate Prize and Kings Medal for poetry (putting him in the company of Judith Wright and...
Puppetry! Physical performance! Stand-up! Illustration! This is the story of Thom and Alethea. Two neighbours in a West End apartment block, trying...