One of the very first events to be staged successfully under COVD-19 restrictions last year, Brisbane Festival will return (3-25 September) for three weeks of music, arts, culture and unbridled joy.
The 2021 programme will be unveiled in early July, but Brisbane residents have the opportunity (for a limited time) to nominate their suburb for a unique, one-off live music performance with the return of Street Serenades in 2021.After debuting last year, delighting a residents across the city, Street Serenades will be bigger and bolder in 2021, with a $350,000 funding injection from the Palaszczuk Government and featuring 4,000-plus community members.
With performances from a host of better-known artists as well as emerging talent across all of Brisbane's 190 suburbs, Street Serenades will be staged as a mix of cul-de-sac concerts, street parties, park performances, and entertainment in community spaces such as open-air car parks, sporting fields and public piazzas.
"The programme will engage more than 4,000 community members through workshops and performances, and employ hundreds of artists who will use their expertise to connect communities and individuals through the joy of music and movement," Minister for the Arts, Leeanne Enoch says.
"The arts are key to delivering our plan for economic recovery, each year contributing $8.5 billion to the state's economy and supporting more than 92,000 jobs for Queenslanders.
"The arts and culture sector has felt the impacts of the pandemic, and that is why events such as Street Serenades and Brisbane Festival are so important for the industry, and for Queensland."
Applications to nominate your Brisbane City Council suburb to host a Street Serenades event close 30 April. More information.
"Street Serenades brings its distinctive travelling stages and pop-up performance venues to fill Brisbane suburbs with music, joy and – at long last – dancing in the streets," Brisbane Festival Artistic Director Louise Bezzina says.
"Brisbane fell in love with Street Serenades as a highlight of the Festival in 2020 and I am thrilled to announce it will return in 2021, becoming an iconic part of the Brisbane Festival programme."
