Following is a list of festivals that take place in

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By type

General

* 4MBS Festival of Classics *

Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art The Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA) is an art museum located within the Queensland Cultural Centre in the South Bank precinct of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. The gallery is part of QAGOMA. GOMA, which opened on 2 December 2006, is the largest ...

Brisbane Festival Brisbane Festival is one of Australia's leading international arts festivals, and is held each September in Brisbane, Australia. Its presence dominates the city for three weeks in September and its line-up of classical and contemporary music, ...

Brisbane International Boat Show The Brisbane International Boat Show, the largest indoor only boat show in the Southern Hemisphere, is the flagship event of Marine Queensland. The first show was held in 1961. The show was last held at Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre, ...

*Parklife * Redlands Spring Festival *

St Jerome's Laneway Festival The St. Jerome's Laneway Festival, commonly referred to as Laneway, began in Caledonian Lane, Melbourne, Australia, in 2005. Beginning as predominantly an indie music event, the festival grew in popularity and expanded to five Australian citie ...

* Straight Out of Brisbane * Valley Fiesta

Comedy

Bris Funny Fest Bris Funny Fest is a fringe comedy festival held for the first time in September 2016 in Brisbane, Australia. The festival was started by Kath Marvelley in 2016 as an alternative once the annual Brisbane Fringe Festival was not going to be p ...

* Brisbane Street Art Festival * Brisbane Comedy Festival

Film

Brisbane International Film Festival The Brisbane International Film Festival (BIFF) is an annual film festival held in Brisbane, Australia. Organised by the Screen Culture unit at Screen Queensland, the festival has taken place since 1992, with the program including features, doc ...

*Queensland Film Festival

LGBT

Brisbane Pride Festival Brisbane Pride Festival started in 1990 as a means of organising and promoting public events and activities that contribute to queer culture. The first event was held as a rally and gay pride march through the streets of Brisbane, ending with ...

* Northern Exposure - an event for

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and their admirers

Theater and poetry

Queensland Poetry Festival Queensland Poetry Festival is the flagship program of Queensland Poetry one of Australia's premier organisations for all things poetry. It exists to support and promote a poetry culture in Queensland and Australia, embracing the wide possibility o ...

* Brisbane Shakespeare Festival *

Anywhere Theatre Festival Anywhere Festival is an annual Brisbane based festival for performance anywhere but traditional theatre spaces. The first anywhere-but-in-a-traditional-theatre concept was brought to Brisbane in 2011 by creative director Paul Osuch and his part ...

Food

* Caxton Street Seafood and Wine Festival * Centenary Rocks! Festival *Le Festival

Cultural and folk

*FAST (Festival of Australian Student Theatre) *

MOSAIC Multicultural Festival The MOSAIC Multicultural Festival is an annual festival held in the Roma Street Parkland, coordinated by Multicultural Australia, with assistance from the Queensland Government, Brisbane City Council, and local sponsors. The festival includes pe ...

Paniyiri Greek Festival The Paniyiri Greek Festival is usually held in May each year in Musgrave Park, Brisbane, Australia. In 2022 the May dates have been changed to October 15-16 due to the wet weather. The festival was started in 1976, and is the longest running cul ...

Music

* Stereosonic *

Future Music Festival Future Music Festival was an annual music festival featuring Australian and international artists held in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth in Australia and as of 2012 also Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia. The festival was usually held in ...

* Soundwave

References

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