Register your home, business, nook or cranny
Register to host a performance at Anywhere Festival. We are a festival of performances where the world becomes the stage. That means we aren't looking for regular performance spaces. We are looking for everything else: bar, cafe, office, underground car park, class room, lounge room, rooftop, park, heritage home, front or back yard, driveway, warehouse... we think you get the idea. 😉
Anywhere Festival for venues
Anywhere Festival is a festival of performances anywhere but a theatre in it's fifteen year and running 17 July to 3 August 2025.
Independent performers and producers of music, comedy, cabaret, dance, theatre, live art, circus, spoken word, and anywhere - theatres, black boxes, as well as nooks and crannies.
This one's gonna' be huge. It is Brisbane's feature event for July/August supported by Brisbane City Council and the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland.
We can find acts that fit, let them find you or you can look through the list and see who you like.
Connect with your local community as a residential home or businesses can extend your marketing reach in a program with 400,000+ unique web site views and 2.3m socials reach and a print program distribution
We're looking for...
Any kind of venue or location be part of the festival.
Be a festival Hub
Anywhere Festival will have a select number of festival hub venues running a number of productions over part of the festival or the entire festival.
Nook or crannies
Offer your backyard, hours, business, or nook and cranny of any type just as Anywhere Festival has been doing for the last fifteen years.
2 February 2025
Register your location now
Location registrations open.
9 February
Venue registration deadline
To be part of 2024 Anywhere Fringe, you must have registered with all your details.
15 April
Programming deadline!
Deadline to lock in all details with shows (dates, times, ticket prices, show descriptions) for print program and online box office.
Late April
Early Release Tickets
Each week feature events ready for early release ticket sales will go on sale
Mid May
Full program launched
The 2025 Anywhere Festival program will be launched.
17 July
Opening night
2025 Anywhere Festival begins
3 August
Closing night
Closing night of 2025 Anywhere Festival
Frequently Asked Questions
Do we have to be available for the entire festival?
No. You can do one day, a weekend or the length of the festival.
Do we curate the shows or can Anywhere Festival do it?
We can either leave it all to you and you can find artists registered with us on Eventotron or your own sources, we can provide advice while you curate or we can program it with you and manage it all for a fee.
In the past, the most popular approach is that you curate in coordination and with advice with us. You know your venue best and we know the acts and the shape of the overall festival.
Can we find our own acts separate to the Anywhere Festival?
To be part of the festival, acts will need to register with us by the registration deadline (NB. This has now passed).
Can we use our details from 2024 Anywhere Festival?
Yep, this year we are using our own system but we have copied all the details from the Eventotron system used in 2024 for locations who were with us last year.
What do you mean by "hosting a performance"?
Anywhere uses non traditional spaces - people who do not normally hold performances. By hosting you are making your space available as is and the artists or show make the most of the space. Some spaces may have equipment or seating but the intention is that the space is used as is instead of being converted into a theatre space.
We are a venue that hosts performances? Can we be part of 2025 Anywhere Festival?
You can, but we are not interested in your regular space. Maybe you have a car park, an alleyway or something else. We are not interested in spaces that currently operate as venues as Anywhere Festival audiences are looking to explore unusual locations and not go to a venue they could go to any other time of the year.
Can we use our own box office?
All shows are ticketed through the Anywhere Festival box office system
What about show clashes in a big festival?
There no doubt will be clashes, but we will be working with you and acts to create a program where every venue has space. We will be operating first in best dressed so for example, if you have already programmed a big cabaret event on one night, we would be advising other cabaret acts of this and advising against clashing.
What conditions are there?
There is no cost to register as a location but to guarantee quality, all interested venues will be vetted before being made available for artists to search and all acts will have an agreement with each location to ensure roles and responsibilities are clear.
Acknowledgement of Traditional Custodians
We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the lands on which we present Anywhere Festival, the Kabi Kabi/Gubbi Gubbi, Jinibara, Turrbal and Yuggera Peoples. We wish to pay respect to their Elders - past, present and emerging - and acknowledge the important role Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and their stories continue to play.
