Brisbane Festival

Brisbane Festival

Brisbane is often referred to as the most live able city in Australia. Brisbane is the capital city of Queensland and brims with style. The city is famous for world-class theatre, great shopping, vibrant markets, sophisticated art galleries, and gourmet restaurants. The city celebrates a number of festivals and the Brisbane Festival is one such important event in the Brisbane Calendar.

Brisbane Festival is a biennial event and is Brisbane's most prestigious multi arts festival. This festival offers the people of Brisbane and tourists coming from all over the world to experience and outstanding theater, dance, music, and opera performances staged across various locations across the city of Brisbane. There are free community events for the residents of Brisbane and its visitors during this biennial event. The main purpose of this festival is to include the entire community in its program of activities by having intellectual rigour, international artistic credibility and an extremely broad grass-roots support base.

The main purpose of this festival is not just putting across shows but aims at engagement and participation from each and every person in the community in Brisbane, across the country and the globe.

The excitement of the Brisbane Festival can be felt every two years. There are more than 500 free and ticketed performances that are held during the festival across various venues in Brisbane. Programs are conducted mainly for greater emphasis on the creation of new work, increased accessibility and facilitating exchanges between local, national and international artists, companies and communities.

The festival offers visitors a great opportunity to enjoy an array of music, dance, theater, and opera performances. Catch some of the talented performers across the fields of cinema, theater and music performing at the Brisbane Festival. Some of the world's most popular and exciting movies are staged during the festival. Also enjoy some of the noted theatrical and dance performances staged by renowned artists at the festival.

A highlight of the Brisbane festival in 2006 was the Works of William Shakespeare show, the musical performance by the band Deep Blue, Moon Spirit Feasting among others. The Brisbane festival is an initiative of the Queensland Government and Brisbane City Council.

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