CHROMATIC CIRCLE is a year-long, queer-led creative program offering monthly, arts-based sessions on Saturday afternoons. The program is designed to build community connection, visibility, and a sense of belonging for LGBTQIA+ people living in South Canberra. Each month, participants are invited to explore a different art form, facilitated by LGBTQIA+ artists, musicians, filmmakers, and creative producers.
Programmed by emerging artist Isaac Kozlovskis, each session is intentionally low-pressure, welcoming, and accessible to people of all ages, abilities, and levels of creative experience…
The NFSA presents a series of irreverent, Friday night filmic feasts, curated and hosted by drag artist and culture warrior Venus Mantrap. Cult Classics with Venus Mantrap dives into the world of sharp, edgy films and beloved fan favourites. Each event features a pre-screening live performance by Venus in our beautiful art deco Arc Cinema.
In a Canberra first, Free-Rain Theatre Company is presenting the internationally celebrated musical & Juliet in 2026. The production boldly asks: What if Juliet’s story didn’t end with Romeo?
Equality Australia has updated its US travel advice for LGBTIQ+ Australians as the Trump administration rolls out new anti-trans policies in visa and border processes. The warning says some travellers face serious risks, especially people with an X gender marker, updated gender documents or a visible history of activism.
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Equality Australia has updated its US travel advice for LGBTIQ+ Australians.
The warning responds to new anti-trans visa and border rules in the United States.
Transgender travellers face the most serious risk.
People with visible LGBTIQ+…
Over the past two years, viral clips, news headlines and TV series such as Adolescence have ensured much of the public has encountered the heterosexual “manosphere” – an online ecosystem that repackages misogyny, anti-feminism and straight male grievance as self-improvement and hustle.
Zanele Muholi cements their global influence. South African visual activist Zanele Muholi’s celebrated work centres the lives and experiences of Black lesbians and trans people. For more than two decades Muholi has used photography to courageously open space for queer representation within and outside of art galleries in South Africa and across the world.
Muholi uses the non-binary pronouns they/them/their and prefers the term “visual activist” over “artist” or “photographer”. This makes it clear that their work is explicitly political and is intended to bring about change through transformi…
BIG Live proudly presents the world premiere of The Great Gatsby: A Jazz Ballet Odyssey, coming to Canberra Theatre Centre.
This dazzling world premiere reimagines F. Scott Fitzgerald’s timeless classic with full theatrical spectacle. Directed and choreographed by Joel Burke, with narration arranged by James Millar, Gatsby’s story is brought to life like never before.
The score blends masterpieces such as Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, Summertime, James P Johnson’s The Charleston alongside bold new compositions by Toby Alexander and Carrick Sugden.
On stage, some of the world’s greatest dan…
Following her sold out tour-de-force performances in 2023 and at Adelaide Cabaret Festival in 2024, the highly anticipated return of Dame Lisa Simone to Australia is coming in 2026, to reprise the iconic classics of her mother, Dr Nina Simone, as only she can.
Lisa Simone’s voice and stage prowess has not only earned her worldwide recognition, but practically every accolade, including Oscar-nominations, Emmy and Peabody Awards, two-time Grammy nominations, starring roles on Broadway, and chart-topping albums.
She premiered the Disney roles of Aida (Aida) and Nala (The Lion King) and won the…
I must say I was a bit excited when I was asked to test the new Bumzzy Butt Shaver 2.0 for FUSE Magazine. As a gay man who likes to be smooth where it counts, shaving my body has always been a bit of a complicated chore that is often fraught with danger. I had seen the Bumzzy Butt Shaver pop up on my socials, and I was keen to see if it would live up to all the hype.
