Brisbane Anywhere Festival

From strip clubs to electricity substations, warehouses to houses, libraries to galleries, wine cellars to laneways, botanic gardens to the planetarium, anywhere in Brisbane becomes the stage in the 16th annual Anywhere Festival from Friday 1st May to Sunday 31 May. 

Anywhere Festival is Brisbane's annual chance to discover nooks and crannies of Brisbane and experience the joy of live music, theatre, comedy, dance with just under 300 performances.

"Anywhere Festival is Brisbane's unique homegrown festival where you can see a show without breaking your budget," said Paul Osuch, Artistic Director of Anywhere Festivals. "It's the festival where you can explore Brisbane, see new, funny, bold ideas put onto stage and experience something to talk about."

Some highlights of this year's festival include:

Back from an epic 92 performance run at Edinburgh Fringe Festival, KMak and Angel Strings return to the planetarium Mt Coot-tha for a spectacular feast of music as you sit back and explore the universe.

Topics of today are explored in The Agent, diving headfirst into the absurdity of Australia's property market, The Bloke Agenda doing the same for the manosphere, We Could Be Viral "Get views or die trying" and the music extravaganza What The Perimenopause? from Delilah Rose & The All Stars.

The Paint Factory site in Yeronga is taken over from May 21st to 24th to create an extraordinary once only festival hub of 35 performances in warehouses, under buildings, and spaces that used to be the working Taubman's Paint Factory.

May the 4th be with you. The Artful Dodgers return with the hilarious Shakespeare and Star Wars mash up, this time taking on Episode V, otherwise known as Bard Wars Chapter The Fifth: The Empire Striketh Back.

Music house concerts galore with the latest instalment of Anje West's last two Anywhere Festival shows sellouts with The Ladysinger's Record Parlour Vol. 3 in Fairfield, Ruth Aspelt's Homage to Janis Ian, Saturday Supper Club in a gorgeous West End Queenslander.

Adelaide and Perth Fringe 5-star shows show Smile: The Story of Charlie Chaplin, Mythical Creatures.

Then there's an extravagant immersive experience at Northshore, a drop-in Self Care Cafe, the story of Gilgamesh projected through smoke and Matilda Award winner Indiah Morris's immersive show about a Tupperware party in a house - Airtight - to Screech Arts The Bucket List ... and much, much more.

Anywhere Festival locations this year are:  Albion, Yeronga, Grange, Milton, Brisbane City, West End, Salisbury, Mt Coot-tha, The Gap, New Farm, Northshore, Kelvin Grove, Fortitude Valley, Wooloowin, Chelmer, South Brisbane, Bald Hills, Paddington, Newmarket, Fairfield, + bus stops across Brisbane.

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