25 things to do over the Labour Day long weekend in Brisbane

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As good arsenic a solemnisation of hard-won workers’ rights, Labour Day is Brisbane’s past nationalist vacation for 3 months. So you’d amended marque the astir of it.

Three days disconnected are cleanable for a abbreviated getaway to Straddie, Stanthorpe, Toowoomba oregon Brunswick Heads (to sanction a few), but determination is plentifulness to beryllium getting connected with if you’re staying successful town.

We’ve grouped the database into the 4 days (including Friday night), but we’ve indicated wherever events are happening crossed aggregate dates.

Friday, May 3

Broncos players observe a effort during the circular 8 NRL lucifer against Wests Tigers successful Sydney.

Sport: Broncos v Roosters
Start your agelong play with this highly anticipated Round 9 clash betwixt the Broncos and the Sydney Roosters, minus the suspended Spencer Leniu – the section heroes are itching to avenge their decision astatine Allegiant Stadium successful Vegas.
Suncorp Stadium, Thu May 3, 8pm, $32-$299. Buy tickets.

Movies: Fremont
Looking for a bully day movie? This wry black-and-white gem from manager Babak Jalali concerns an Afghan exile (Anaita Wali Zada) starring a monotonous beingness successful California, toiling successful a luck cooky mill and hopeless for quality connection. The Bear’s Jeremy Allen White besides appears.
Dendy Cinemas, from May 2. Buy tickets.

John Waters successful The Woman successful Black.

Theatre: The Woman successful Black
John Waters and Daniel MacPherson prima successful this section accumulation of the play, based connected Susan Hill’s novel, that precocious closed successful London’s West End aft 33 years of scaring the surviving daylights retired of theatregoers.
Playhouse, QPAC, until May 11, Fri May 3 7.30.pm, Sat May 4 2pm & 7.30, $55-$145. Buy tickets.

Musicals: I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change
Famous arsenic the second-longest moving off-Broadway philharmonic (it ran for 12 years), this revue-style amusement has been updated to bespeak the realities of dating successful the 21st century. Queensland Academy of Excellence successful Musical Theatre is staging the amusement for a constricted tally implicit the weekend.
Cremorne Theatre, QPAC, May 2-4, $45. Buy tickets.

Saturday, May 4

The Valley Pride unit astatine Towri Growers Market.

Markets: Towri Growers Market
The shaper assemblage of the Scenic Rim has weathered fire, floods, drought, COVID and adjacent a tornado. Support their endeavours with a sojourn to Allenview (70 minutes from the Brisbane CBD) to bargain caller dairy, meat, fruit, veg, baked goods and preserves. Book up connected the website.
206 Saville Road, Allenview. First Sat of the month, 9am-2pm, $5. Buy tickets.

Movies: Watch the Star Wars saga
Some radical would sooner buss a Wookiee than ticker 3 Star Wars movies successful a row, but erstwhile the movies are the archetypal trilogy (A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi), past that’s a travel to a postulation far, acold distant worthy taking.
Event Cinemas, assorted times. Buy tickets.

Circus Fun House - The Show astatine Pink Flamingo Spiegeland is the company’s archetypal amusement for kids.

Kids: Circus Fun House – The Show
The Pink Flamingo squad has launched a play kids’ show. Every Saturday greeting the planetary circus performers are performing an extravaganza filled with music, comedy, jaw-dropping stunts and dazzling costumes.
The Pink Flamingo Spiegeland, 98 Bincote Street, Northshore, Hamilton, Sat 11.30am, $25-$70. Buy tickets.

Talks: Alvin Rostant Book Launch
Rostant is simply a world-renowned steelpan subordinate from Trinidad who made his location successful Australia pursuing appearances astatine Expo 88. He is launching a memoir, Carnival Is Me, and he’ll besides execute the instrumentality live.
Logan Art Gallery, Sat May 4, 2pm, free.

Dig It astatine Thunderbird Park, Mount Tamborine enables kids to run dense machinery (under due supervision).

Kids: Dig It Excavator Park
Kids tin beryllium successful the driver’s spot of a existent CAT 1.7 tonne mini-excavator, with hard hats and precocious vis cogwheel required onsite. Try digging up the dirt, utilizing a claw to stack and determination tyres, oregon utilizing a hook to drawback “crocs”.
Thunderbird Park, Tamborine Mountain, 8.30am-4.30pm, closed nationalist holidays, $55-$59. Buy tickets.

Theatre: The Norman Mailer Anecdote
A lawyer is rocked by accusations of historical intersexual battle against her hubby successful this debut play from experienced section screenwriter Anthony Mullins. It’s the archetypal presumption of Queensland Theatre’s Door 3 program, supporting visionary enactment from autarkic theatre companies.
Diane Cilento Studio, Wed-Sat May 3-18, 6pm, $35. Buy tickets.

Sunday, May 5

Brisbane Comedy Festival performer Urvi Majumdar.

Comedy: Brisbane Comedy Festival
Performing this play are TV sensation Josh Thomas, Captain Jack Sparrow impersonator Cameron James, rising UK prima Helen Bauer, tracksuit wearer Daniel Muggleton, adust Aussie wit Ting Lim, queer contrarian Lou Wall, all-girls’ schoolhouse alumna Urvi Majumdar, and galore more.
Until May 26, assorted venues, times and prices. Buy tickets.

Music: Chelsea Cutler
This folk-pop vocalist from Westport, Connecticut, has wowed audiences astatine large festivals and connected the apical US speech shows. She arrives successful Australia to play songs from her 3 albums, How to Be Human, When I Close My Eyes and Stellaria.
Princess Theatre, Sun May 5, $74.90-$156.46. Buy tickets.

Nundah Farmers Markets takes spot adjacent to Nundah bid station.

Markets: Nundah Farmers Markets
One of life’s large pleasures is to get up early, get a barista java and a meal rotation astatine an open-air market, and drawback up with friends for a chinwag and a browse. Nundah Village has a large small marketplace hugging the bid presumption that is cleanable for conscionable that.
Station Street, Nundah. Every Sunday 6am-12pm, free.

Exhibitions: Seen connected the Screen astatine Brisbane Motor Museum
The museum’s existent amusement features blistery rods specified arsenic the metallic 1976 Datsun 260z utilized successful Netflix bid Boys Swallows Universe, a ed 1966 Sunbeam Tiger made celebrated by spy sitcom Get Smart! arsenic good arsenic a replica of Doctor Who’s jalopy Bessie.
Brisbane Motor Museum, 959 Nudgee Road, Banyo, Wed-Sun 8am-3pm, until Jun 2, $12.50-$25. Buy tickets.

An emu prowls the grounds astatine Walkabout Creek.

Outdoors: Walkabout Creek Discovery Centre
This quality reserve overlooking the Enoggera Reservoir has snakes, lizards, Mary River turtles, an echidna, Queensland lungfish, Spinifex hopping mice, emus, wallabies and more. The open-air cafe up connected the platform makes tasty lunches and a creditable coffee, and you tin locomotion the abbreviated way astir the centre and adjacent aquatics oregon canoe in the reservoir.
60 Mount Nebo Road, Enoggera Reservoir, Mon-Sun 9am-4pm, $4.25-$8.90 (family $22.90); with Wildlife Discovery Show $11.45-$17.30 (Sat-Sun).

Musicals: Beauty and the Beast
This lavish, four-star theatrical extravaganza combines technological signifier magic with finely tuned vocal and dancing prowess, not to notation 300 costumes. Disney’s classical signifier philharmonic is simply a beast of a show, and it’s hard not to autumn successful emotion with it.
Lyric Theatre, QPAC, May 3 7.30, May 4 2pm & 7.30pm, May 5 1pm & 6.30pm, until Jun 9, $80-$250. Buy tickets.

Conventions: Brisbane Model Train Show
The Australian Model Railway Association of Queensland is holding its 46th yearly amusement with trackwork from clubs astir the state, hobby shops and backstage enthusiasts. Kids nether 16 bask escaped entry.
Brisbane Showgrounds, May 4 9am-5pm, May 5 9am-4pm, $0-$18. Tickets astatine the door.

Monday, May 6

Frew Park successful Milton is an elaborate kids’ playground inspired by the tennis stadium that formerly stood there.

Kids: Frew Park, Milton
The playground that adjoins the Roy Emerson Tennis Centre successful Milton invites kids to ascent their mode up implicit scramble nets and crawl done passages to scope the entranceway to a steep metallic conduit slide. If they support going they’ll get into the 3 storey-high “Commentary Box”, a cage that overlooks the parkland from connected high.
Frew Street, Milton, free. Discover much spectacular escaped playgrounds.

Kids: Jurassic World by Brickman astatine Queensland Museum
Ryan “Brickman” McNaught reimagines Jurassic World successful an accumulation of large-scale dinosaurs, props, scenes and activities made from much than 6 cardinal Lego bricks. Don’t miss the escaped Dinosaurs Unearthed exhibition downstairs.
Queensland Museum Kurilpa, 9.40am-5pm, until Jul 14, $19.90-$29.90. Buy tickets.

A portion by Brisbane-born creator Russell Fenn, amended known arsenic Sofles.

Festivals: Brisbane Street Art Festival
Launching May 4, the festival volition diagnostic section and planetary artists revitalising nationalist spaces with caller murals. Events to cheque retired see the Within These Walls accumulation and the No Expectations First Nations exhibition, some astatine Superordinary, Northshore and besides unfastened Labour Day 8am-2pm.
Various locations, May 4-19. More information.

Exhibitions: mudunama kundana wandaraba jarribirri Judy Watson astatine QAG
Four decades of beauteous enactment by this large Queensland creator are comprehensively surveyed successful this escaped amusement whose rubric translates arsenic “tomorrow the histrion grows stronger”.
Queensland Art Gallery, until Aug 11, regular 10am-5pm, free.

HOTA’s amusement is an immersive integer acquisition bringing unneurotic the top masterpieces of the Renaissance successful Italy.

Exhibitions: Italian Renaissance Alive at HOTA
The makers of Van Gogh Alive present a multisensory acquisition featuring projections of works by Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Botticelli, Raphael, Caravaggio, Titian, Veronese and more, with an operatic people featuring euphony by Puccini and Verdi.
Home of the Arts (HOTA) Gallery, Surfers Paradise, regular until Aug 4, 10am-4pm, $0-$39. Buy tickets.

Food & Drink: Margs and Tacos astatine the Boundary
Hola – West End’s historical pub serves 2 tacos positive a margarita for $20 astatine luncheon and meal each Monday and Labour Day is nary exception. Bookings recommended.
137 Boundary Street, West End, 11.30am-3pm & 5-9pm, $20. Make a reservation.

Escape Hunt is 1 of the longest-running escape-room businesses successful Brisbane.

Amusements: Beat the timepiece astatine Escape Hunt flight rooms
One of the oldest and champion flight rooms successful Brisbane is unfastened connected Labour Day. Bomb successful Parliament House is simply a bully country to commencement with: the thought is to find an incendiary instrumentality concealed determination wrong the governor’s stately residence. Look astir astatine the photos, paintings, wallpaper, furnishings and crockery, and find the hidden codes needed to exposure the menace and diffuse it.
77 Russell Street, West End. Mon-Sun, $40-$46pp. Book a room.

Parades: Brisbane Labour Day March
Proud national members and their families whitethorn see joining the authoritative march, which leaves from Cathedral Square and ends astatine the Brisbane Showgrounds wherever determination is food, drink, amusement and kids’ rides until 2pm.
Corner Wharf and Turbot streets, Brisbane, 10am, free.