A festival of German culture spread across venues citywide, with events on film, fashion, food, business, science and tradition, and a focus on Brisbane's ties with Germany.
Learn a traditional English folk dance where a team, joined to one another by swords, weaves patterns in close formation to live music. The swords end up interlocked as a star and raised overhead.
A book-club style group for music lovers that listens to a classic album together, then talks through the music, the era it came from and the mark it left.
Artist Bill Platz teaches trace monotype, a drawing method that uses an inked tracing-paper plate to transfer a portrait onto paper. Materials are supplied, beginners are welcome, and the life model is partly nude.
Four songwriters share the stage in the Nashville style, taking turns to play original songs with one instrument and a voice and explaining how each song came about. There's also audience Q&A and time to mingle.
A dance workout to club hits spanning the 90s to today, under disco lights, with fluoro outfits welcome. Moves are kept simple, you go at your own pace, and no dance experience is needed.
More than 250 works by artists who live with mental ill-health, or who care for someone who does, fill a large marquee. The art is for sale, and artists keep most of the money from each sale.
A huge chalk-on-blackboard family tree tracing Archie Moore's Kamilaroi and Bigambul kin across 65,000 years, set around a still pool remembering First Nations deaths in custody. It won the Golden Lion in Venice.
Children learn about First Nations designer Shannon Brett, whose label LORE makes clothes for the runway, then use coloured pencils and card to design a model and outfits in patterns that mean something to them.
An exhibition of paintings, video and sculpture about city life, from towering skylines and cramped flats to dreary offices, long commutes and the small odd moments people notice on the street.
Speed dating for singles in this age bracket: you fill in a short profile, then an app pairs you for six to eight brief dates. Two drinks are included, and mutual matches can message each other afterwards.
A gentle yoga class for older people that helps you stay active as you age. It covers stretching, breathing, strength and balance, with poses done seated or standing.
A gallery display about native animals in First Nations culture: as food, as totems, in creation stories that tie people to land, and in relationships with Country.
Paintings and other works from the gallery's collection about recording a life and the passing of time, from forceful brushwork to slow, repetitive making. Some honour people who have died; others look out to the vast age of the universe.
A survey of 20 years of Justene Williams's video, sound, sculpture and installation work, with many new pieces. Built from everyday materials, the art looks at beauty pressures, consumerism, life online and rituals around death.
A big exhibition on 70 years of Jim Henson's puppet makers, from the Muppets and Sesame Street to Labyrinth and The Dark Crystal. Hundreds of puppets, animatronic creatures, costumes, props and sketches, plus a full Fraggle Rock film set.
Work by Brisbane artists who live with disability, shown outdoors in accessible public spaces around the city. The exhibition grows out of inclusive arts practice and pushes for a more inclusive city.
Thousands of objects gathered from over 30 Brisbane collections, both public and private, from textiles and tin toys to tiny architectural models and sea treasures. It's about collecting itself and the local people behind it.
A small display of work by a Brisbane artist inspired by rainforests, bushwalks and coastal hikes. It's part of a community art wall featuring local art on environmental themes.
Artworks by older Brisbane artists from an over-50s art class, including Terry Hadnutt's Slim Dusty portrait, which won Grand Champion at the Ekka. The works are for sale.
A small exhibition of the gallery team's favourite finds from collection storage, many unseen for decades. Expect odd, playful and cute works turned up while photographing the collection for online viewing.
Fifteen early Picasso etchings and drypoints of travelling circus folk, the acrobats, jugglers and clowns he sketched after moving to Paris. They mark the start of his long run of printmaking.
Ensemble Q's chamber music series in a university auditorium whose huge windows look out over a lake. The programs run from Mendelssohn and Mozart to Brahms and the Schubert Octet.
An exhibition of German Expressionist prints and other paper works from the early 1900s, when artists used bold woodcuts to respond to political and social upheaval and push for change.
