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SEDUCTIVE, SUBLIME, SUBVERSIVE & SEXY AS HELL

Be prepared to have your senses stripped bare and your humour hijacked as Finucane & Smith’s The Burlesque Hour brings you a Christmas show unlike any other, at Brisbane Powerhouse from Tuesday 21 to Thursday 23 December.

CREATIVE COLLABORATION & CULTURAL DIVERSITY

Some of Australia’s most acclaimed female Indigenous singer/songwriters join with their Indigenous sisters from New Zealand, the Pacific and Sudan for Singaot Sista, a powerful and symbolic collaboration in the Powerhouse Theatre at Brisbane Powerhouse from Saturday 2 October as part of the Brisbane Powerhouse Planet Series.

VOCALS, VIRTUOSOS AND IMPROVISATION

The 4th annual Brisbane Jazz Festival celebrates the voices of jazz in 2010 with some of the world’s most influential and acclaimed jazz vocalists, emerging artists and ensembles making their way to Brisbane Powerhouse from Thursday 21 to Sunday 24 October.

SURF FILMS RE-IMAGINED WITH KICKING LIVE SOUNDTRACK

Three amazing bands bring sixteen original short films to life in a night devoted to the freedom of the open water and the people who live in its spirit when Last Hope comes to Brisbane Powerhouse on Wednesday 25 August.

HARD HITTING BUT FULL OF HOPE

A one man performance that is politics and performance at its most personal, The Bougainville Photoplay Project is a must-see when it is brought to the Brisbane Powerhouse Visy Theatre by Mobile States from Wednesday 25 to Saturday 28 August.

FINDING BEAUTY IN THE STRANGEST OF PLACES

Is there beauty in the marks people make on the land? Renowned Canadian photographer, Edward Burtynsky seeks the answer when the Western Australian Museum brings his exhibition, Australian Minescapes to Brisbane Powerhouse from Friday 13 August to Sunday 19 September.

CONCEPTUAL, CAPTIVATING AND CONTEMPORARY

Mobile States has done it again! The acclaimed national touring initiative, known for touring groundbreaking performance works, is bringing two innovative, yet both intimate and engaging, shows to Brisbane Powerhouse; Fleur Elise Noble’s 2 Dimensional Life of Her and Rosie Dennis’s Fraudulent Behaviour from Fri 20 – Sun 22 August.

TRADITION MEETS INNOVATION IN DANCE TOUR DE FORCE

Forging a marriage between ancient tradition and modernism, two compelling and unique Indonesian choreographers bring Tarian Baru Dari Indonesia (New Dance from Indonesia) to Brisbane Powerhouse as part of this year’s Brisbane Festival from Tuesday 7 September to Sunday 12 September.

BLACK HUMOUR AT ITS BECKETTIAN BEST

The world’s leading interpreters of Samuel Beckett’s work, Gare St. Lazare Players, will visit Brisbane for the very first time from Tuesday 21 to Saturday 25 September, bringing their performance of Beckett’s early novella, First Love, to Brisbane Powerhouse.

THE THINGS WE DO FOR LOVE & THE THINGS WE DO DESPITE IT

A prison visit. A swamp of memory. Wretch, by Angus Cerini, digs deep into the relationship between a mother and a son when it comes to the Visy Theatre at Brisbane Powerhouse from Tuesday 14 to Saturday 18 September.