BrisAsia Festival

Discover BrisAsia Festival 2024 - Connection through culture

Festival highlights

An exciting new addition to this year’s festival is Lush the inaugural Asian street festival in the heart of Fish Lane Arts Precinct. Explore captivating street art, dance and performance and savour cuisine with a fusion of flavours from local Asian establishments Chu the Phat and Southside Restaurant. Featuring artwork by local Asian artists Lisa Tran Kelly and Vanghoua Anthony Vue, a breakdance battle, roving street performances and live music, experience the heat and excitement reminiscent of the streets of Southeast Asia at this family friendly event.

Other new festival experiences this year include the Southside Dumpling Festival, children’s program ImaginAsia and Awakening an immersive live experience at the Sir Thomas Brisbane Planetarium.

Returning once again is the ever-popular hip hop, luxury car and Asian food truck event Southside by Night, the dedicated tea festival, BrisAsia ParTEA and Asian pop-culture celebration Summer Party at the new location of the Thomas Dixon Centre.

Most events are free, but some require tickets, so check out the full program of events for further information.

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Festival producers

Sounds Across Oceans (SAO) are a not-for-profit arts organisation dedicated to promoting community harmony and wellbeing through innovative cultural programming across styles, genres and artforms. Inspired both by ancient and contemporary values, SAO works to generate creative platforms where people from all walks of life can reach their creative potential. Through workshops, residencies, concerts, education programs and discussion forums, SAO builds bridges between cultures and communities, supports cultural knowledge sharing and uplifts and connects people from diverse cultural and creative backgrounds.

The SAO team of producers for BrisAsia 2024 include Gemma Truong (Utopia Entertainment), Menaka Thomas Minh Nguyen, Lani Gibbins and Loic Robillot. BrisAsia Festival 2024 program partners include the Museum of Brisbane, Brisbane Powerhouse, Fish Lane Arts Precinct, Big Fork Theatre and Shoku.

BrisAsia Live Fellowship 2024

The BrisAsia Live Fellowship provides a platform for young and emerging artists to build skills in intercultural collaboration, creative experimentation, and live performance. Through an expression of interest (EOI) processes artists from the disciplines of music, dance and visual art will be selected to participate in the BrisAsia Live Creative Residency, where they will work alongside a creative collective of professional artists to create a new show, Shape of Us, that will be presented at Brisbane Powerhouse during the festival.

About BrisAsia Live

BrisAsia Live, Brisbane’s premier intercultural creative residency, explores dynamic perspectives on interdisciplinary artmaking, intercultural collaboration, and cultural knowledge sharing. This year’s residency, titled The Shape of Us, explores themes of synergy and transcendence.

The residency will explore the mediums of live improvised music, movement, and visual art. The creative collective will include renowned Indian Classical Mohiniattam Dancer Bindu Rajendran, versatile Violinist and artist lead Chi Lui Flora Wong, Vietnamese-Australian harpist and visual artist Lake Kelly, talented Henna artist Sarala, brilliant percussionist Tsoof Baras and breath-taking Chinese folk and classical soprano Zi Wang.

Supported by the Brisbane Powerhouse.

More information

For more information about BrisAsia Festival, email Council's Creative Communities team.