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<\/p>\nBrisbane Festival is back for 2026, with a stacked program announced today (June 9th).\u00a0<\/p>\n
Marking the first edition curated by newly appointed Artistic Director Ebony Bott, the 2026 edition will be a three-week celebration of arts, music, theatre and community across the Queensland capital.<\/p>\n
Running from September 4th-26th, the festival will operate under the theme \u2018Switch On, Light Up, Come Alive\u2019, with more than 700 performances involving over 2,000 artists and arts workers across the city.<\/p>\n
Bott\u2019s debut program places a strong emphasis on activating Brisbane from sunrise through to late night, with events spanning theatres, parks, riverbanks, and public spaces.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis year, Brisbane Festival is tuned to the frequency of this city \u2013 from first light through to after dark,\u201d Bott said. \u201cIt is a festival shaped by Brisbane\u2019s energy, outdoor life and sense of momentum and possibility, bringing extraordinary artists from Queensland, across Australia and around the world into theatres, parks, riverbanks and the Festival Village, South Bank.\u201d<\/p>\n
Among the major drawcards is the return of Riverfire by Australian Retirement Trust on September 5th, with the annual fireworks spectacular once again set to light up Brisbane\u2019s skyline.<\/p>\n
At the heart of the festival sits the newly expanded Festival Village at South Bank, which will host a mix of free and ticketed programming. The much-loved Magic Mirrors Spiegeltent returns for the first time in several years, hosting productions including The Choir of Man, This Show is a Joke and Are You Lonesome Tonight.<\/p>\n
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Music will play a major role throughout the program, with Roma Street Parkland once again transformed into an open-air concert venue for Night at the Parkland<\/a>.<\/p>\n This year\u2019s concert series will feature performances from Aloe Blacc, Human Nature, Icehouse, The Temper Trap, The Cruel Sea, Magic Dirt, Missy Higgins, PNAU, and Katie Noonan, who will perform Jeff Buckley\u2019s Grace in full.<\/p>\n Elsewhere, the festival will host the world premiere of acclaimed playwright Suzie Miller\u2019s Strong is the New Pretty, which tells the story behind the creation of the AFLW, alongside international productions including DIAVOLO\u2019s ESCAPE and Luke Murphy\u2019s Scorched Earth.<\/p>\n The program also features a number of interactive and community-focused events, including the return of Brisbane Serenades, the Common People Dance Eisteddfod, Community Choir: The Musical, and the Quandamooka Festival.<\/p>\n Queensland Minister for Education and the Arts John-Paul Langbroek said the festival would once again showcase the state\u2019s creative sector on a major stage.<\/p>\n \u201cBrisbane Festival 2026 will see the city come alive with an exciting program that showcases the extraordinary talent of Queensland artists alongside national and international creatives,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Tickets for Brisbane Festival 2026 are on sale now here<\/a>. For the full program, see here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brisbane Festival is back for 2026, with a stacked program announced today (June 9th).\u00a0 Marking the first edition…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27657,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[99,18591,25451,25452,25453,18597,25454],"class_list":["post-27656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brisbane","tag-brisbane","tag-brisbane-festival","tag-brisbane-festival-2026","tag-brisbane-festival-program","tag-ebony-bott","tag-night-at-the-parkland","tag-night-at-the-parkland-2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}