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A portrait of Suki Waterhouse looking away from the camera, with soft purple clouds in the background.

Suki Waterhouse (PICA)

  • Music
  • RISING exclusive
A high-heeled foot squashes a golf ball into a putting green next to a putter inside Flinders Street Station ballroom

Swingers

  • Visual Arts
  • Exhibition
Two bearded hip hop stars are standing next to each other. Both wearing caps and sunglasses.

Black Star

  • Music
  • Standing
An actor wearing a crown stands on stage screaming.

Hamlet

  • Theatre
  • Performance

intangible #form

  • Art Installation
  • Visual Arts
Dozens of people seated on yoga mats 'zoning out'

Space-Out Competition

  • Art Installation
  • RISING exclusive
A silhouetted group of dancers leaping in angular shapes

BLKDOG

  • Dance
  • Australian exclusive
A rotating gif of artists DIIV, Mount Kimbie, Bktherula, Annie and the Caldwells, Ripple Effect, Guy Blackman, Fat Dog

Day Tripper

  • Music
  • RISING exclusive
Four people facing the right of the frame. All are nude except for knee high boots, and red shoulder-length wigs. They are all pointing guns out of frame.

Kill Me

  • Theatre
  • Dance
A portrait of Suki Waterhouse looking away from the camera, with soft purple clouds in the background.

An Evening with Suki Waterhouse

  • Music
  • RISING exclusive
Woman sits on a stool, looking away from the camera towards a field. Her legs rest on the dog sitting in front of her.

Beth Gibbons

  • Music
  • Sitting
A dancer in knee pads arching backward, her face attached to a long, flowing strands of fabric.

Last and First Men

  • Dance
  • Film
LEGENDS (Of the Golden Arches) Joe Paradise Lui and Merlynn Tong react in fear to a god

LEGENDS (of the Golden Arches)

  • Theatre
  • Performance
Japanese Breakfast lying down at a dinner table with a spread of food, flowers and a skull in front of her.

Japanese Breakfast

  • Music
A silhouetted body mid-dance in front of LED screens that read “One last pass”

Heartbreak Hotel

  • Theatre
  • Performance
Image description: Five women, with long or short dark hair and covered in purple paint gather very close together, holding onto each other. One of the women is gazing at the viewer. The backdrop is a dramatic sunset with clouds in orange, yellow and blue hues.

Monolith

  • Dance
  • Premiere
A young person holding a video camera films an adult man who is holding a script in his hand

POV

  • Theatre
  • Performance

Mount Kimbie

  • Music
  • Dancing
An underwater photo of a person floating backwards in a pool with their head submerged, holding onto a pool noodle.

Saturate

  • Art Installation
  • Participate
An actor sits at a wooden table with bottles, jars and sponges lined up on the left side. One singular bottle is being pushed to the right by the actor.

Complete Works : Table Top Shakespeare

  • Theatre
  • Performance
Marlon Williams stands in the foreground wearing a Pākē in front of a sweeping landscape of a bay and mountains

Marlon Williams

  • Music
  • Premiere
A still of a Moorina Bonini artwork featuring

Matha

  • Art Installation
  • Exhibition
Two dancers stretch outwards whilst keeping their inner hands and feet connected.

The Chronicles

  • Dance
  • Premiere
A gif featuring RONA. and DJ PGZ

First Frequency : Featuring RONA., DJ PGZ & more

  • Music
  • Dancing
A silhouetted trio of dancers leaning backwards.

The Butterfly Who Flew Into The Rave

  • Dance
  • RISING exclusive

Jessica Pratt

  • Music
  • Sitting

New Rampant Optimism Roadshow

  • Music
  • Sitting
A archival photograph of '70s-'80s band The Oroton Bags.

Little Bands

  • Music
Close-up of a dancer with wavy hair covering their face, obscuring their features, against a fabric backdrop.

Mickey

  • Dance
  • RISING exclusive
Two British geezers in 3-piece suits sitting on a bench outside a shop. One of them is making a finger gun sign

Pete & Bas

  • Music
  • Standing
Two performers, Tilly Lawless and Amrita Hepi, grasping each other’s arms, their hair flowing to the side as they gaze upwards and away.

The Act

  • Theatre
  • Dance
A mid shot of person with shoulder length hair looking into the camera. Behind them are flowering bushes.

Soccer Mommy

  • Music
  • Standing
A person in a hazmat suit rolls a large circular disc on its side.

Diagrammatica

  • Music
  • Performance
A crowd of people raise their arms in the air

SHOUSE Communitas

  • Music
  • Family Friendly
Two people, one standing and one kneeling in front of the other both wave feathered instruments around like wings.

Pigeons

  • Music
  • Performance
A performer wearing a flowy outfit posing dramatically on a dimly lit stage with their shadow cast from four different angles.

Ecstasy

  • Music
  • Premiere
A Sri-Lankan mother holds the arm of her daughter is looking up and into the distance

The Wrong Gods

  • Theatre
  • Performance
A performer in drag dances in front of a rock band

Hedwig and the Angry Inch

  • Music
  • Theatre
A woman in an orange suit, mid-singing performance, holding a mic and hair flying

Amplified : The Exquisite Rock and Rage of Chrissy Amphlett

  • Music
  • RISING exclusive
A monochrome painting of flowers and plants by Iluwanti Ken

TarraWarra Biennial 2025 : We Are Eagles

  • Visual Arts
  • Exhibition
A crowd gathers under lights in Fed Square

Blockbuster

  • Music
  • Art Installation
A wide view of a busy arcade at night. People are enjoying drinks and listening to a DJ

Night Trade

  • Music
  • Visual Arts
A view of Destiny Deacon's 2024 Melbourne Art Tram passing by Parliament House

First Peoples Melbourne Art Trams

  • Visual Arts
  • Exhibition

Library Up Late x Make Believe

  • Music
  • Exhibition