What’s On Wednesday #32 | DIARY

Posted on August 22, 2012 by Refinery

Queensland Poetry Festival | Friday August 24 – Sunday August 26 | Judith Wright Centre, Fortitude Valley

Queensland Poetry Festival (QPF) supports and promotes a poetry culture in Queensland and has been established as Australia’s finest annual literary event, with a reputation for excellence amongst audiences and artists worldwide. With an annual three-day festival, spoken in one strange word, QPF also manages the Arts Queensland Val Vallis and Thomas Shapcott poetry prizes as well as the Arts Queensland Poet-in-Residence program and partners on programs such as the annual Riverbend Poetry Series. Visit their website for the full program: queenslandpoetryfestival.com

Bespoke | Friday August 24 – Monday September 24 | Queensland Museum Collector’s Café, South Bank

The Queensland Museum’s Collectors Café will transform into a 60s haven featuring 60s inspired furniture and salvaged signs, projections, music and vintage fashion models at the bespoke launch. Created by Brisbane’s iconic hive of salvaged materials, Reverse Garbage, this unique furniture showcase highlights that one person’s trash really is another’s treasure and it can look great! The bespoke designer space will also feature the bold work of artist Al James, who produces poetic textual assemblages composed from salvaged scrap road signs. southbank.qm.qld.gov.au

Kate Miller-Heidke | Saturday August 25 | The Hi-Fi, West End

Fans will be given the chance to see Kate perform tracks from her new album when she brings her full band to Brisbane this month on the Nightflight tour with special support act, The Beards. Following double-platinum sales from her last album (2008′s Curiouser), Nightflight is made up of 11 songs that see Kate meditate on homesickness, mortality, love and surrender, in an album that is both sonically lush and emotionally stark, deeply personal and yet utterly panoramic. thehifi.com.au

Mercedes-Benz Fashion Festival Brisbane | Saturday August 25 – Friday August 31 | Treasury Casino & Hotel, Brisbane City

Mercedes-Benz Fashion Festival Brisbane continues to be the style leader in launching Spring/Summer collections to the country. Since 2006, the very best local, national and international designers and retailers have been showcased, positioning the Fashion Festival as Queensland’s premier fashion event and cementing Brisbane as a fashion force to be reckoned with. This year, the festival is fresher than ever in its new home at Treasury Casino & Hotel, and as always, the focus will be on promoting and supporting local fashion talent. mbff.com.au

Fabric-a-brac & Conversation: Fashion and Cultural Identity | Saturday August 25 | State Library of Queensland, South Bank

A fabric sale from lovers of projects! If you have piles of fabric in your wardrobe, in a cupboard, and you KNOW you’ll never get around to using it. Or you’re looking for some great bargains and funky old fabric – fabric-a-brac is for you. Spend a Saturday with coffee, tea, sweet treats and good girlfriends, all to raise money for your local hospice. Come and pick up some bargains, then stay for the Deepen the Conversation: Fashion and Cultural Identity conversation by Nadia Buick, along with a panel of experts as they share personal stories and explore fashion as a cultural identity and how it influences what we consider to be fashion in Australia and globally. fabricabracworld.wordpress.com/brisbane

Home Festival | Saturday August 25 | Raymond Park, Kangaroo Point

Join in a celebration of everything that makes home what it is – whatever that may be! Home Festival aims to share with the community a sense of belonging, inclusivity, learning, expression and most importantly, fun. It is a free, all-ages event aiming to embrace and connect the local community; provide a strong platform for up-and-coming performers of all genres to showcase their work; allow everyone – from children to seniors – to share the joy of creativity through free workshops and activities; enliven Brisbane’s precious open spaces, focusing on the vitality and importance of inner-city festivals; and to treat the environment with the utmost respect. home-festival.com

The Hamburg Ballet – Nijinsky| Sunday August 26 – Tuesday August 28 | Playhouse, QPAC, South Bank

In its Australian debut performance, the internationally acclaimed Hamburg Ballet will present Nijinsky – a powerful tribute to one of the most gifted male dancers in history, Vaslav Nijinsky. Russian dancer and choreographer Vaslav Nijinsky is considered one of the most gifted male dancers in history with a legendary ability to perform seemingly gravity defying leaps. As a choreographer Nijinsky established provocative new directions and a dance vision that pointed the way towards modern choreography. qpac.com.au

Bulimba Festival | Sunday August 26 | Oxford Street, Bulimba

The Bulimba Festival is a free event, suitable for the whole family. There will be live performances from Mark Seymour, Wendy Matthews, the Navy Band Queensland and local Brisbane act, The Trouble with Templeton, plus colourful market stalls, fashion parades, arts and crafts and delicious gourmet food. The Bulimba Festival is a key fundraising activity of RSL (Queensland Branch) and all profits raised on the day assist RSL Queensland in continuing its vital support of the current and ex-service defence community in Queensland. bulimbafestival.com.au

Roy Lichtenstein: Pop Remix | Ends Sunday August 26 | QUT Art Museum, Brisbane City

This exhibition features newly restored and digitised, rare, candid photography and film components that reveal a fascinating insight into Roy Lichtenstein’s collaborative working methods in the creation of a number of his best known printed series. Catch it before it ends this weekend! artmuseum.qut.edu.au

Return to Sender | Ends Sunday August 26 | UQ Art Museum, St Lucia

Return to Sender is an exhibition of works by artists who left Queensland in the late 1970s and early 1980s, largely in reaction to the political and cultural milieu of the Joh Bjelke-Petersen era. While this exodus inspires the exhibition, it also invites a focus on ideas that were then circulating in Australian art, especially in Sydney where many of the artists were based. The exhibition comprises works made during the 1980s and early 1990s that employed photomedia in still or moving images, some linked to performance-based practice. artmuseum.uq.edu.au