Things To Do This Weekend 31 Aug - 2 Sept
The epic new 5-day Valley fiesta, a champagne festival, a mind-blowing black Japanese bar/restaurant, authentic new Spanish tapas bar, Father's Day hotspots and spring garden walks are just a few of our top weekend picks:
What's On
The Valley Fiesta is back with an awesome new format - five days & nights of live music, theatre, food, workshops, performance and visual arts across three laneways and more than forty venues...more
Dress up in your flight attendant finery and pack your Gucci carry-on for the chance to be crowned the irrepressible Pam Ann's Flight Attendant Star: your dream job with no experience necessary!..more
From the Natural History Museum in London, this exhibition features 100 award-winning images capturing nature's rich diversity, from intimate animal portraits to spectacular wild landscapes...more
Australia's only champagne festival is a unique event for dedicated champagne enthusiasts and interested novices with over 60 champagne houses on hand for tastings & masterclasses with champagne experts...more
Six youth choirs including Voices of Birralee perform beautiful, moving music based on soul-stirring poetry written during World War 1 and thereafter, with themes of mateship, reflection and hope...more
BRC's Spring Series returns with the infamous Unicorn Bowl & a fab range of spring-inspired cocktails available for purchase along with 2 hours of free-flowing drinks & charcuterie station included...more
Father's Day
A fantastic Father's Day eve tailormade for Dads awaits at Brisbane Treasury with a 4 course colonial menu with small-batch whiskey and craft beers, live entertainment and fun man cave activities...more
Treat Dad to a memorable buffet lunch with a river view, featuring a hot and cold carvery, artisan bread and delicious desserts on the upstairs lace iron balcony of the iconic Regatta Hotel...more
The beautiful historic gardens of Brisbane's oldest residence Newstead House are the setting for this fun day out for the whole family, with food trucks, craft beer bar, jazz music and lawn games...more
Must Do Coming Up
A gripping 19th century true Australian crime story is played out 6m underground in the gothic intimate surrounds of Brisbane's heritage-listed first water reservoir (with its own wine bar)...more
Brisbane's biggest free bi-annual community & sustainability festival returns to Carindale bringing innovative green living in a fun, family-friendly environment for all residents to come and enjoy...more
This must-see illumination spectacle features dynamic jets and giant spirals of water, full-colour lighting & rainbow-coloured lasers - free to view, it runs 3 times nightly during the Brisbane Festival...more
On an empty stage, a house is conjured from nothing as audiences watch it fill room by room and generations of inhabitants move in, grow up, get old, argue, do laundry, fall in love, work and party...more
A gin-sodden show with tales of love and women, gin and secrets, through 18th-century London, colonial India, New York speakeasies & the jungles of Peru via sailors, barmaids & bootleggers...more
Get ready for an enticing evening of music and dance with explosions of confetti, bubbles, and bull whips as Aussie stage icon Rhonda Birchmore sashays, shimmies and sizzles with guest star Rob Mills...more
This funny, heart-warming and honest look behind a family's closed doors, written by one of Australia's most significant playwrights, Hannie Rayson is coming to QUT Gardens Theatre...more
Take the black tunnel entry to find Brisbane's mind-blowing new Japanese dining experience and bar...more
An 1860s apothecary is now a gorgeous prohibition-style bar and bistro with an upstairs lounge bar...more
This fab authentic Spanish tapas bar has recently opened and on Sat nights it has a pop-up paella bar...more
An unexpected find in Brisbane's inner north is this new casual bar & eatery serving top notch fare...more
Stumbled across this stunning industrial chic two storey Japanese dessert lounge and coffee bar...more
An up and coming family friendly suburb west of Brisbane has gone hipster with this cool new cafe...more
This tiny Japanese eatery specializing in bento is a great budget alternative to the inner city scene...more
An old World War II era shed is home to an absolute Aladdins cave of vintage treasures and wares...more
A unique terrace café serving coffee with a shot of Vitamin D and delectable butterbing cookies...more
A bayside seafood outlet has just opened a slick new fish and chippery in an inner Brisbane suburb...more
Spring Garden Walks
Take time out to enjoy a stroll around Brisbane's oldest public garden with its spring blooms...more
Mark the first weekend of spring with a visit to Roma Street's beautiful Spectacle Garden...more
There's plenty to fill a day here including the kitchen gardens, Japanese gardens & duck ponds...more
Kids
Hit 1980's movie Three Men and a Baby is being screened for free under the stars in a bayside park...more
Take a Sunday trip to the country where you can ride on a model steam train at an historic station...more
Here are ten fantastic kids parks that are worth a visit to Brisbane's southern neighbouring city...more
