2026 BRISBANE ANYWHERE FESTIVAL PROGRAM IS LIVE
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Anywhere in Brisbane becomes the stage this May with the 2026 Brisbane Anywhere Festival
From electricity substations , warehouses to houses, libraries to galleries, wine cellars to laneways, botanic gardens to the planetarium, anywhere in Brisbane becomes the stage this May in the 16th annual Anywhere Festival.
Anywhere Festival is Brisbane’s annual chance to discover nooks and crannies of Brisbane and experience the joy of live music, theatre, comedy, dance with just under 300 performances from Friday 1 May to Sunday 31 May.
“Anywhere Festival is Brisbane’s unique home grown festival where you can see exciting, fun intimate shows, explore Brisbane and all without breaking your budget,” said Paul Osuch, Artistic Director of Anywhere Festivals.
Festival Highlights
Back from an epic 92 performance run at Edinburgh Fringe Festival, KMak and Angel Strings return to the planetarium Mt Coot-tha for a spectacular feast of music as you sit back and explore the universe.
Topics of today are explored in THE AGENT, diving headfirst into the absurdity of Australia’s property market, THE BLOKE AGENDA doing the same for the manosphere, WE COULD BE VIRAL “Get views or die trying” and the music extravaganza WHAT THE PERIMENOPAUSE? from Delilah Rose & The All Stars
The Paint Factory site in Yeronga is taken over 21 – 24 May to create an extraordinary and unusual festival hub of 35 performances in warehouses, under buildings, and spaces that used to be the working Taubman’s Paint Factory.
May the 4th be with you. The Artful Dodgers return with the hilarious Shakespeare and Star Wars mash up, this time taking on Episode V, otherwise known as BARD WARS CHAPTER THE FIFTH: THE EMPIRE STRIKETH BACK
Music house concerts galore with the latest instalment of Anje West’s last two Anywhere Festival shows sell outs with THE LADYSINGER’S RECORD PARLOUR VOL. 3 in Fairfield, Ruth Aspelt’s HOMAGE TO JANIS IAN, SATURDAY SUPPER CLUB in a gorgeous West End Queenslander.
100 million streams and you can catch them in a Wooloowin gallery with 40 other people. THREE STORYTELLERS ONE PIANO
Adelaide and Perth Fringe 5 star shows show SMILE: THE STORY OF CHARLIE CHAPLIN, MYTHICAL CREATURES
Then there’s an extravagant immersive experience at Northshore, a drop in SELF CARE CAFE, the story of GILGAMESH projected through smoke and Matilda Award winner Indiah Morris’s immersive show about a Tupperware party in a house – AIRTIGHT – to Screech Arts THE BUCKET LIST… and much much more.
Suburbs: Albion, Yeronga, Grange, Milton, Brisbane City, The Gap, West End, Mitchelton, Salisbury, Mt Coot-tha, The Gap, New Farm, Northshore, Kelvin Grove, Fortitude Valley, Wooloowin, Chelmer, South Brisbane, Bald Hills, Paddington, Newmarket, Fairfield, + bus stops across Brisbane.
Locations: Superordinary. Riverside Centre, Reload Espresso Bar, Warehouse 25, Grange Library, Queen Street Mall Stage, Private residences, New Tricks Wine & Gin Distillery, New Farm Library, Mirrorball Ministries, Kelvin Grove Exchange, KKlub StripClub, Impress Gallery, Food Connect Shed, Brew Moon Coffee, Bamboo Grove, Mt Coot-tha Botanic Gardens, Bald Hills uniting Church Hall, Town Square – Fish Lane, Reload Espresso Bar, Topology Creative Hub, The Woods BarBus Stops, Paddington Hall, Newmarket Hall, The Raven Hotel West End Cellar, The Paint Factory, The Parlour, Woolloongabba Electricity Substation, Sir Thomas Brisbane Planetarium.
Core Festival Details
🎭 2026 Brisbane Anywhere Festival
🍸 Over 50 locations around Brisbane
📅 1 – 31 May 2026
⏰From free to $60
🎟️ anywhere.is
Instagram and Facebook – @anywherefestbrisbane
For queries, contact Paul Osuch, paul@anywherefestivals.com.au – 0452 635 488
SHOW MEDIA RELEASES
- I Don’t Want To: Why Should I – Indy Clark at The Raven (LINK)
- The Bloke Agenda at the Paint Factory (LINK)
- The Empire Striketh Back at Bald Hills Anglican Church (LINK)
- Angel Strings at the Planetarium (LINK)
- Call Me Grandma (and I will frun for the hills) by Joanne Tindale (LINK)
- Costars a show for kids by The Drama Merchant (LINK)
- KMak at The Planetarium (LINK)
- Flow at the Riverside Centre (LINK)
- Master of Delusions, comic magic at The Raven (LINK)
- Oldi Moldie at The Paint Factory (LINK)
- Three Storytellers One Piano at Wooloowin (LINK)
- The Agent in Milton (LINK)
- The Ladysinger’s Record Parlour Vol. 3 (LINK)
- Wine Mum Anthems in Albion and West End (LINK)
- The Shadow Behind and Ahead of Me (LINK)
What the Perimenopause? (LINK)
