The Venue Zone Blog

With Spring just around the corner, Brisbane conference centres are enthusiastic about this opportunity to get out and about in their beautiful city.

Redland Spring Festival or Redfest as it is also known, is an annual music and cultural festival held in Cleveland, just 25 minutes east of Brisbane on beautiful Moreton Bay. Boasting musicians and artists from across the globe, it is Redland City’s premier event.

On the weekend of September the 7^th, 8^th and 9^th, Redlands Showground will be transformed with a symphony of beautiful sounds and a magical blaze of colour, as we celebrate with this amazing community.

Hundreds of singers, dancers, poets and artists from around the world are making their way to Redlands to both entertain and share their skills in a jammed packed program that runs across 6 venues.

Redfest is the absolute favourite place to bring children with a program designed just for them.  Get amongst the fun with the famous Strawberry Eating Competition, sideshow alley, spectacular fireworks and the illuminating Lantern Parade.

RedFest entertainment program for 2012 is their best yet, with a wonderful array of entertainers, performers, artists and exhibits – follow the cue of Conference centres in Brisbane and don’t miss the opportunity to celebrate the arrival of Spring with this fun event.

DATE: 7 Sep 2012 – 9 Sep 2012

EVENT TIMES – Friday 5pm – 9pm; Saturday 9am – 9pm; Sunday 9am – 4pm

VENUE: Cleveland Showgrounds, Long Street, CLEVELAND.

For program details, go to http://www.redfest.com.au/

Here is one not to be missed according to those in the know at conference centres in Sydney.

The first Test of the Castrol EDGE Rugby Championship and Bledisloe Cup series will be played at ANZ Stadium, Homebush, on Saturday August 18 with kick off at 8pm. Be there for the face-off between arch rivals the Qantas Wallabies and All Blacks.  The Qantas Wallabies were the victors in the last match on Australian soil between the two Rugby heavyweights taking out the Castrol EDGE Tri Nations title last year, so expect a desperation-fuelled tussle from the trophy hungry All Blacks.

From Friday 10 August sports fans can enjoy a series of events that will build the tension and flame the passion set to explode on the night of August 18 when these two super powers of World Rugby re-ignite the rivalry.

The Bledisloe Cup Festival will give fans the opportunity to meet and greet some of the game’s iconic legends and learn more about the history of the Cup.  You will also have the opportunity to get up close and personal with the 9kg piece of silverware that symbolises this fiercely fought battle for Rugby supremacy.

The celebration of  trans-Tasman Rugby domination continues at the The Museum of Sydney with the “ Rivals in Rugby, Brothers in War”  exhibition featuring Bledisloe Cup memorabilia highlighting the intense rivalry between the Wallabies and All Blacks and the contribution Rugby players from both countries made during World War II. Admission to the exhibition is free. So take the advice of Sydney conference venues and book your ticket through www.ticketek.com.au today!

An extraordinary tale of achieving against the odds is explored in the exhibition ‘Desert Psychedelic: Jimmy Pike’  The work of this wonderful indigenous artist is on display at Fremantle Prison until the 19^th August 2012 and Perth conference venues would encourage you to get along to this special event.

Jimmy Pike was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1981 and began serving time in Fremantle Prison where he began taking the art classes on offer.  It was not long before the prison’s art teachers recognised his extraordinary eye for colour and design. No one could have guessed that a global design icon would result, but it was from this unorthodox beginning that the Desert Designs brand was born.

Pike was born in the Great Sandy Desert around 1940, living a traditional Walmajarri life for most of his childhood . As an adult, his work captured the explosive beauty of the harsh desert landscape with bold forms and psychedelic colours.  His collaboration with Desert Designs realised a beautiful union of Indigenous art, craft and commercial design.

Jimmy Pike passed away in 2002 but left a lasting legacy of vivid paintings and prints, brilliant textile designs and dynamic stories and illustrations. This significant exhibition follows his journey and offers an opportunity to celebrate his groundbreaking achievements.  The focus on textiles acknowledges Jimmy Pike as one of the great Australian textile designers of the 20th Century.

Conference centres in Perth can assist you with additional information on this not -to -be –missed event, but you will need to be quick as the exhibition finishes soon.

When: Until Sunday, August 19

Where: Fremantle Prison, 1 The Terrace, Fremantle, W A.

Exhibition will feature in the front and main Gallery and access is free.

Conference centres in Sydney encourage you to get out and about and enjoy their city in the cooler months. Why not warm the cockles of your heart with a winter visit to the Sydney Opera House.  With every Premium-C reserve ticket purchased online, you will receive a free pre-concert drink.  Choose from the following  3 exceptional concerts  set to delight audiences throughout August.

Wagner Under the Sails

The 1973 Sydney Opera House Opening Gala Revisited – Heat things up with this all-Wagner extravaganza, conducted by leading Australian conductor Simone Young.

When: Thu 9 Aug 1.30pm, Fri 10 Aug 8pm, Sat 11 Aug 2pm

Russian Passions

Rachmaninoff & Tchaikovsky

The irresistible melodies of Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No.2. is sure to take the chill off the air at the Sydney Opera House.

When: Wed 15 Aug 6.30pm, Thu 16 Aug 6.30pm, Fri 17 Aug 11am

Brahms 2

A Romantic Symphony

When: Wed 22 Aug, Fri 24 Aug, Sat 25 Aug 8pm

Take the time to immerse yourself in the lyrical mood , warming colours and delightful romantic impulse of Brahms’s Second Symphony.

Ask the helpful staff at a conference venue in Sydney for details or go to http://www.sydneysymphony.com and follow the prompts.

Come celebrate the SALA festival and fall in love with art.

August 3-26

South Australia Living Artists Festival is the country’s largest visual arts festival. It boasts an impressive program of visual arts around the state of South Australia and involves 3,453 artists and 520 venues.  Conference centres in Adelaide and across the state are well acquainted with the excitement that surrounds the prestigious SALA festival.  The annual celebration aspires to be Australia’s most innovative; community based visual arts festival as it celebrates diversity, experience and a rich and thriving culture of the arts in S.A.

The 500 plus unique and creative spaces that will host these works, span the heart and breadth of the state.  Combine this with the lengthy 24 days duration of the festival and there is absolutely no excuse to miss this inspirational opportunity to view and perhaps even purchase some of SA’s brilliant artwork.

More details are available through the website salafestival.com or of course through a conference venue in Adelaide.