2024 Anywhere Festival Brisbane: Are you missing out?
All images: Geoff Lawrence, Creative Futures Photography
Anywhere Festival is always a highlight of my personal year. The opportunity to visit unusual nooks and crannies across the city, and to see the imaginative ways in which local and visiting creatives transform each space. Each year, there is a veritable cornucopia of very reasonably priced events, showcasing a range of unique talents and different performance styles.
Over the last two weeks, I have enjoyed seeing a variety of theatrical, cabaret, circus, drag, dance, improv comedy, and live music shows. Favourite memories so far are Marcel Cole’s performance as George Formby in The Ukelele Man, the entertaining Improv Queensland comedy, A Lust of Elves and Magic, built from the audience suggestion of a heroine with a lisp who was called Elspeth, the Euphoric Flow aerial duet and fire balance, the Excursions tetra/guitar duet, the Somnium cat tunnel catwalk, the direction and design of a As Told by The Boys Who fed Me Apples (a theatrical event held in a church hall), and almost every glamorous moment in That Drag Show!
All images: Geoff Lawrence, Creative Futures Photography
Sadly, there is just the final weekend to go. Equally sadly, every show I have seen so far has already finished its limited Anywhere Festival 2024 run. Which means that, if you haven’t had the chance to catch some of the many fabulous shows taking place in nooks and crannies across Brisbane, I suggest a speedy visit to the Anywhere Festival website, to see what might still be available. Not every show has sold out… yet.
Looking at shows that may still have the odd ticket available, my top tips for this final weekend of the 2024 festival are Ikea Wars (comics and flat pack furniture… there has to be more than a few laughs ahead in this one), the Abba Girls Tribute Show (which promises disco, nostalgia and endless fun), The Dire Theatre Company Radio Hour (sounds intriguing), the 2004 Slumber Party (‘a throwback celebration of girlhood through circus’), The Missing Beats’ musical celebration, and Blow The Men Down (‘cross-dressing pirates and comedic capers - what more could you ask for?’).
In summary, check out the website. There are some great local acts, so you just have time to see what’s new and happening in and around Brisbane, to check out The Paint Factory and other Anywhere Festival spaces, and to have fun. See you there.
All images: Geoff Lawrence, Creative Futures Photography
This article was developed in collaboration with Catherine Lawrence’s other reviewing platform, Creative Futures.
