Brisbane Blog

Brisbane’s cult cinema The Globe is showing The Rocky Horror Picture Show this Friday night, January 23rd 2009, at 7pm. Tickets are $15 + booking fee, and you can order here. You’ll need to be 18+ and show photo ID to get in, as there is a licenced bar in the theatre.

The night includes the Cards 4 Sorrow floorshow: this YouTube vid gives you a quick taste of what it’s like:

The Globe Theatre is at 220 Brunswick St in Fortitude Valley – if you catch a train to the Valley and walk out the mall where the train station is, turn right and walk about 100 metres up the road, towards the Valley Fiveways and away from the Valley Mall. Click here for a Google Map.

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Edge Improv, a Brisbane improvised theatre group, is on 4ZZZ-FM‘s show The Frog and Peach every Friday from about 5pm. So if you’d like to tune in, 4ZZZ-FM is on 102.1 FM.

Brisbane community radio station Switch 1197, which focuses on club and urban music, is holding a radiothon at the moment, to raise funds so they can switch to digital broadcasting later this year.

IF you want to support Switch 1197, you can buy Digital Pixels on this page – you buy an ad for your business, or personal web page, and the money goes to Switch. Roll your mouse over the images on the page to get full-size versions.

Are you an artist looking for somewhere to show your work? Urban Grind coffee shop, at 530 Brunswick St, New Farm (click here for a Google Map), is looking for artists.

Urban Grind offers a free AND commission-free hanging space for two weeks. If you’re interested, email art@urbangrind.com.au and include a description of what you’d like to show, and please include some examples in the email.

The Lunar New Year (or “Chinese New Year”) begins on Monday January 26th 2009 (the same day as Australia Day). There will be celebrations in Fortitude Valley’s Chinatown Mall, Duncan St (click here for a Google Map). The first day of celebrations will be on Monday January 26, but if you’re going to be at other Australia Day celebrations, don’t worry, because there will also be stuff happening in Chinatown from Friday January 30th to Sunday February 1 2009.

On Monday January 26th there will be lion dances, classical and folk music, firecrackers, kung fu demonstrations, 3 god dances, fireworks, and Cai Shen will hand out red packets and lanterns.

On Friday January 30th, Saturday January 31st and Sunday February 1st, there will be more displays and performances.

Each day during the festivities there will be children’s activities from 12pm to 3pm, including face painting, art and craft workshops, and calligraphy.

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“Prognosis: Death!” is the latest show from Brisbane improv theatre troupe Impromafia. According to their website:

Set in the fictional town of St Love, the action centres around the local hospital, home to a variety of familiar characters – the heroic doctor, the gruff hospital administrator, the nurse with a past, the creepy pathologist. Each night, something strange – something ‘supernatural’ – will start affecting the good residents of St Love, and it will be up to the hospital’s finest to work out how to battle the infections, plagues and outbreaks that threaten the town’s existence.

What’s the horror? Well that’s for the audience to decide! Each night the audience will choose what strange misfortune should befall St Love. Will it be Zombies? Werewolves? Ghosts? The Black Death? Teenagers? It means every night a different story will unfold – come to one show, come to several, come to all – it’ll never be the same twice!

Cross ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ and ‘Scrubs’ with ‘The X-Files’ and ‘Supernatural’, and throw in a dash of 1950s schlock horror, and you’ll get an idea of what you can expect in Prognosis: Death!… plus blood.. lots of blood!

Prognosis: Death! runs for two weeks at the Arts Theatre, 210 Petrie Terrace, Brisbane (click here for a Google Map). It’s on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights, starting Thursday 22nd of January and running to Saturday 31st January 2009. Tickets are $15 for adults and $10 for concessions, and you can book by calling 07 3369 2344.

As usual, the biggest Australia Day celebrations in Brisbane will be at Southbank.

At 9am a spiritual ceremony at the Suncorp Piazza will unite leaders of Queensland’s different religions.

From 10am to 5pm there will be all sorts of free entertainment throughout South Bank Parklands: acrobats, magic, circus workshops, weird musical instruments, dance and song, and much more.

From 11am to midday, in the Cultural Forecourt near Grey Street, Australia’s armed forces will be on display at the 2009 Australia Day Flag Raising Ceremony. A hundred-strong honour guard, and the Band of the Royal Regiment of Australian Artillery will be on display, and at midday an RAAF F-111 will perform a fly over.

And from 7.30pm to 10.30pm there’s the concert in the Suncorp Piazza, featuring three Brisbane artists:

Clare Bowditch

The Gin Club

Gentle Ben and his Sensitive Side

There’s plenty happening that’s not at Southbank, too. At 7.45am at the Rotunda in the City Botanic Gardens, there’s the 10 000 Steps Walk, where thousands of people will practice staying fit by walking 10 000 steps each day. There’s also a citizenship ceremony at Hamilton, a Family Fun Day and a Barefoot Ball, both at Moorooka, a breakfast at Northgate, an open Day at Government House, Paddington, a Twilight Hot Rod show at Souths Leagues Club in West End, a concert at Woollongabba, and a family day at Wynnum.

And of course, the famous Australia Day cockroach races are on at the Story Bridge Hotel, Kangaroo Point.

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