Tag: Melt Festival
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Zac Callaghan on turning life’s highs and lows into empowering theatre for Queer as Flux
To start, we’d love to delve into the origins of your creative practice! Were there any formative experiences or influences that propelled you into a career in the arts? I remember going to the circus when I was about 8 years old and being completely mesmerised by the flying trapeze because the performers seemed like…
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How sweet it is! Get your Sugar hit at this year’s Melt
When Tomas Kantor took his solo show Sugar to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this year, he hit the streets of the Scottish capital – as spruiking was the way to promote it. Described as “theatrical, outrageous, silly and sexy”, the Melbourne performer’s award-winning show is about Sugar – a gender-queer twink who discovers there’s money…
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Broadway queens to colourful river parades – five must-see events at Melt Festival
An Evening with Bernadette Peters Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre, Friday October 24 A true Broadway goddess is gracing Brisbane for one night only. Bernadette Peters, the dazzling icon of stage and screen, will perform her only Australian show exclusively at Melt Festival. Making her first Australian appearance in more than a decade, this cultural…
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MELT Festival unleashes its first wave of wild, witty and wonderfully queer programming
The curtain rises with cabaret superstar Reuben Kaye, who will bring the jaw-dropping, orchestra-fuelled spectacular enGORGEd to QPAC for its Queensland premiere. Making its MELT debut, the Miss First Nation drag pageant will also strut into Brisbane in dazzling style, with the country’s top First Nations queens battling it out in a grand finale packed…
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Summer sun drifting away to summer nights … and cinema under the stars
Brisbane’s mild nights present the perfect setting to watch a movie outdoors at Dendy Outdoor Cinema at Brisbane Powerhouse. The cinema has been operating for a year now, but it’s still a well-kept secret to many. Head of marketing for Dendy Cinemas Eloi Mota says it’s not only the first permanent outdoor cinema for Dendy…
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Melt Festival returns with an electric line-up of genre-bending art, provocative performances and fruity fun
Melt Festival has been teasing us with its 2024 line-up for weeks now, whetting appetites with the likes of Hans, Confidence Man, Take That and a bunch more artists. But after much anticipation, the full program is here – and it’s queer. The fringe-style festival returns for 2024 with an unmissable line-up of LGBTQIA+ artists and allies from across Brisbane,…