Australian television favourite actor Hugh Sheridan will headline a free mini festival in the Brisbane CBD on Tuesday 3 July to launch Brisbane Festival’s 2018 program. The public launch party on Queen Street Mall will see Brisbane Festival unveil its full 2018 program, which boasts almost 600 performances – 100 of them free – across 17 venues in September.
Brisbane Festival is renowned and celebrated for connecting local and international artists and audiences through a captivating program of the fresh and the familiar. Under the artistic direction of David Berthold, Brisbane Festival 2018 boasts an altogether fabulous 2018 program, brimming with big-name acts, more world premieres than ever before, and a spectacular new light-and-laser river show. It is one Queensland’s largest cultural events, attracting an audience of around one million people each year, this year running from Saturday 8 to Saturday 29 September.
Joining Sheridan at the launch event is Opera Queensland leading lady Natalie Christie Peluso (The Merry Widow), Queensland’s acclaimed chamber orchestra Camerata, gender-busting drag ensemble YUMMY and the ACPA Gospel Choir, plus dazzling street troupe The Renegades. Award-winning drag superstar Valerie Hex will host the festivities.
The free mini-festival on the Queen Street Mall main stage will be presented in two parts including a lunchtime music extravaganza and the main event taking to the stage from 6pm.
The 22 day celebration crescendos on 29 September with the highly anticipated and much-loved festival favourite, Sunsuper Riverfire. Other events included are performances by San Cisco, Ball Park Music, the stage show HORROR, Peter Grimes and many more to be announced.
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