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I've Been Working on the Railway
Date	Tue 8th May 2012 to Sun 19th Aug 2012
Location	North Street North Ipswich
The camp life, the realities of the work, the hardships, the separation from their land, islands and family and the opportunities and challenges of working on the railway. Little know railway...

Down South
Date	Wed 9th May 2012 to Tue 29th May 2012
Location	119 Lamington Street New Farm
For over 60 years, Australian tradespeople have been drawn to the Antarctic by the prospect of great adventure and mateship. Plumbers, electricians, carpenters, diesel mechanics, cooks, radio operators and weather observers were the mainstay of the Antarctic home base.

Anywhere Theatre Festival
Date	Thu 10th May 2012 to Sat 19th May 2012
Location	Queen Street Brisbane
The Anywhere Theatre Festival is a brand spanking new Brisbane festival you'll find anywhere but traditional theatre. Parks, garages, houses, public toilets, vacant blocks and Skype and Twitter. Anywhere but a traditional theatre. Circus, drama, comedy, music, opera, ballet, dance.

Craft Extravaganza
Date	Thu 10th May 2012 to Sun 13th May 2012
Location	Main Street North Tamborine
The Craft Extravaganza is a four day event with the first day being always very popular with their regular visitors who snap up the best bargains. The show will feature all handmade craft by 50 local and South East Queensland craft persons.

Brisbane Racing Carnival
Date	Sat 12th May 2012 to Sat 9th Jun 2012
Location	Brisbane Racing Club Ascot
A highlight on both the racing and social calendars, the 2012 Channel Seven Brisbane Racing Carnival returns to the track bringing with it some of the biggest names in Australasian...

Emu Gully Air and Land Spectacular
Date	Sat 19th May 2012 to Sun 20th May 2012
Location	142 Twidales Road Helidon
The Emu Gully Air and Land Spectacular is the largest and most accurate re-enactment of ANZAC history in Australia. The event is not about glorifying war, but about educating younger generations about Australia's military history.

Pine Rivers Festival
Date	Sat 19th May 2012 to Sun 27th May 2012
Location	Gympie Road Strathpine
The Moreton Bay region will be full of free family fun with two jam packed weekends.

New Kids On The Block and Backstreet Boys
Date	Wed 23rd May 2012
Location	Melaleuca Drive Moreton Bay And Islands
With the continued and insatiable fan demand, the unstoppable phenomenon that is NKOTBSB will officially bring their show down under! In May, New Kids on the Block and Backstreet Boys...

A World Apart
Date	Sat 26th May 2012 to Sun 27th May 2012
Location	Mt Barney Lodge Rathdowney
"A World Apart" is held in the Scenic Rim in May every year. This event showcases unique local food and wine in five spectacular mountain settings. Your free ticket allows you to experience taste sensations such as local wine, bushtucker, English High Tea, and traditional Italian gelato.

Opera Australia - The Magic Flute
Date	Sat 26th May 2012 to Fri 8th Jun 2012
Location	Queensland Performing Arts Centre South Brisbane
Welcome to a world where animals dance and children fly, where princes battle dragons and hope battles despair. To a world where ideas matter, and music saves the day.

Hays Inlet Festival
Date	Fri 1st Jun 2012 to Thu 7th Jun 2012
Location	Various locations in and around Hays Inlet Clontarf
The Hays Inlet Festival celebrates the people, places and environment of the Hays Inlet catchment and its waterways through a series of environmental, recreational and cultural activities The Hays Inlet Festival offers exciting opportunities for community groups, businesses, government, schools and individuals to celebrate and look after the valuable environment we...

Opera Australia - A Midsummer Night's Dream
Date	Fri 1st Jun 2012 to Sat 9th Jun 2012
Location	Queensland Performing Arts Centre South Brisbane
Deep in the forest the fairies are stirring.

Open Day Government House
Date	Sun 3rd Jun 2012
Location	Government House Paddington
Her Excellency Ms Penelope Wensley AC, Governor of Queensland, and Mr Stuart McCosker invite you to Government House in celebration of the Diamond Jubilee of Her Majesty The Queen. A community...

Live Stand Up Comedy At Albion
Date	Fri 8th Jun 2012
Location	Sandgate Road Albion
See a fresh line up every week of the best local, national, and international comedians at the Albion Comedy Club and Restaurant. They have two bars and a menu that they're famous for.

QPAC's Out of the Box Festival for Children
Date	Tue 12th Jun 2012 to Sun 17th Jun 2012
Location	Corner Grey and Melbourne Streets South Brisbane
QPAC's Out of the Box Festival for Children is a week of cultural activity crafted to celebrate and support children's learning and foster a love of the performing arts through curiosity, discovery and serious play.

Build it!
Date	Sat 16th Jun 2012 to Sun 15th Jul 2012
Location	North Street North Ipswich
If it can be made, it can be made at The Workshops at Build It! Since 1865, the Ipswich Railway Workshops have been the workplace of thousands of skilled tradesmen who have built and maintained the locomotives, wagons, carriages and machinery needed to create and run the railway in Queensland....

Fete de la Musique
Date	Thu 21st Jun 2012
Location	Brisbane Brisbane
Make music everywhere! Brisbane joins the chorus of the largest international live music event.

MS Brissie to the Bay Bike Ride
Date	Sun 24th Jun 2012
Location	121 Cordelia Street South Brisbane
Brisbane's biggest charity bike ride is back and promising to be bigger and better than ever before.

Australian Chamber Orchestra - Danielle de Niese
Date	Mon 25th Jun 2012
Location	Grey Street Brisbane
Internationally acclaimed soprano Danielle de Niese makes her Australian professional debut with the Australian Chamber Orchestra performing Mozart's Exsultate Jubilate, Schubert's Death and the Maiden and more.

Build it! Steam Train
Date	Wed 4th Jul 2012
Location	Roma Street Brisbane
Put yourself in the boots of past workers of the Ipswich Railway Workshops and journey aboard the steam train as it travels from Roma Street to The Workshops Rail Museum, before enjoying all the hands-on fun of the Build it! event.

Abbey Medieval Festival
Date	Sat 7th Jul 2012 to Sun 8th Jul 2012
Location	1 - 63 The Abbey Place Caboolture
The Abbey Medieval Festival is an annual event held by the Abbey Museum of Art and Archaeology.

Great Endeavour Rally
Date	Mon 9th Jul 2012 to Thu 19th Jul 2012
Location	201 Ramsay Street Cannon Hill
Join them for their 25th anniversary and travel from Toowoomba to Yeppoon via The Gulf on the Great Endeavour Rally or Cruise! It is one thing to head into the Outback and remote locations on a holiday, but to do it with 300 family and friends travelling in rally cars,...

Australian Chamber Orchestra - Trout Quintet and Quartet for the End of Time
Date	Wed 11th Jul 2012
Location	Grey Street Brisbane
Small in scale but exceptionally musically and emotionally ambitious is the Australian Chamber Orchestra's concert combining Schubert's Trout Quintet and Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time, with brilliant young...

Jersey Boys
Date	Fri 13th Jul 2012 to Sun 14th Oct 2012
Location	Grey Street South Brisbane
This is the story of how four boys became one of the greatest successes in pop music history.

Cirque du Soleil OVO
Date	Sat 14th Jul 2012 to Sun 2nd Sep 2012
Location	Macarthur Avenue Hamilton
Cirque du Soleil returns to Brisbane with a spectacular production for the whole family, presented under the blue and yellow Big Top at Northshore Hamilton.

Brisbane French Festival
Date	Sat 14th Jul 2012
Location	Cultural Forecourt Brisbane
Be in France for a day.

Portrait of Spain: Masterpieces from the Prado
Date	Sat 21st Jul 2012 to Sun 4th Nov 2012
Location	Stanley Place South Brisbane
'Portrait of Spain: Masterpieces from the Prado' will be a magnificent survey of the development of painting in Spain over the course of three centuries, and the first ever collection of work from Madrid's esteemed the Museo Nacional del Prado to visit Australia. Curated by Javier Portús Pérez, Head of the...

Lockyer Valley Duathlon
Date	Sat 28th Jul 2012 to Sun 29th Jul 2012
Location	Lake Apex Gatton
The Lockyer Valley Duathlon is an annual event that athletes from across Queensland, compete as part of Triathlon Queensland State Duathlon Championships.

Brisbane to Keppel Tropical Yacht Race
Date	Fri 3rd Aug 2012 to Tue 7th Aug 2012
Location	578 Royal Esplanade Manly
The Brisbane to Keppel Tropical Yacht Race is hosted by Royal Queensland Yacht Squadron (RQYS) and is the clubs signature offshore event. The race was launched in 2007 and the inaugural event finished at Great Keppel Island.

Australian Chamber Orchestra - Beethoven 9, Ode to Joy
Date	Mon 6th Aug 2012
Location	Grey Street Brisbane
An expanded Australian Chamber Orchestra teams up with one of the finest British choirs and an exceptional line-up of soloists in Beethoven's epic Symphony No.9, Ode to Joy.

Annual Workers Reunion and Ipswich Heritage Faire
Date	Sun 19th Aug 2012
Location	North Street North Ipswich
At Annual Workers Reunion and Ipswich Heritage Faire, catch up with some familiar faces or meet some new ones as they celebrate the hard work of their state's railway workers at the birthplace of rail in Queensland.

QPAC International Series: Hamburg
Date	Thu 23rd Aug 2012 to Wed 5th Sep 2012
Location	Grey Street South Brisbane
In 2012, QPAC's International Series takes on a new dimension showcasing the creative legacy of Germany's historic port city of Hamburg.

Ipswich Home and Lifestyle Show
Date	Sat 8th Sep 2012 to Sun 9th Sep 2012
Location	219 Brisbane Road Bundamba
The Ipswich Home and Lifestyle Show is taking a step back to the old fashioned home shows where you come along with your trailer and grab some bargains to take home with you that day! They have a Green Zone, a Home Zone, a Life Zone, a Food Zone and...

Circus Train
Date	Sat 15th Sep 2012 to Sun 14th Oct 2012
Location	North Street North Ipswich
It's magic and wonder at Circus Train as their Ringmaster and Clown bring the circus to life with amazing tricks and stories! Discover the history of how trains brought the exciting entertainment of the circus to cities and towns across the state.

Ancient Arts Revival
Date	Thu 27th Sep 2012 to Sat 29th Sep 2012
Location	3268 Kerry Road Darlington
There's a sense of mystery around the ancient arts of blacksmithing, wool dyeing and horning, so it's fitting to experience these intriguing old disciplines in a rich historical setting. Garden Hill's Ancient Arts Revival will be housed in the gallery and museum's spectacular collection of traditional rural sheds, nestled in the...

Circus Steam Train
Date	Wed 3rd Oct 2012
Location	Roma Street Brisbane
Imagine being one of the circus folk travelling to the next destination as you ride aboard a heritage steam train from Roma Street station to The Workshops Rail Museum, to enjoy the Circus Train event. Tickets include return transport to Roma Street station by bus and entry to the Museum.

Brisbane Fitness and Health Expo
Date	Sat 20th Oct 2012 to Sun 21st Oct 2012
Location	Merivale Street South Brisbane
The Brisbane Fitness and Health Expo is a one-stop-shop for anyone looking to improve their health, fitness and general well-being.

Queensland Model Railway Show
Date	Sat 27th Oct 2012 to Sun 28th Oct 2012
Location	North Street North Ipswich
At the Queensland Model Railway Show, delve into the intricate world of tiny landscapes and elaborate replicas at this friendly show of all things miniature. Browse the layouts and learn how to get started in model railways with tutorials of some of Queensland's most passionate modellers.

Queensland Model Railway Show Steam Train
Date	Sat 27th Oct 2012
Location	North Street North Ipswich
You've seen how tiny they can be, now ride on the real thing! Board a full-scale beautifully restored heritage steam train at The Workshops Rail Museum platform for a one and a half hour journey through the scenic South East Queensland countryside. Extra charges do apply and bookings are essential.

Halloween Funday Trick Or Treat Tour
Date	Sun 28th Oct 2012
Location	231 Brisbane Street Ipswich City
The Flour Mill in Ipswich has a proud haunted history and is an icon of The Top End Of Town.

Mud Bulls and Music
Date	Thu 1st Nov 2012 to Sun 4th Nov 2012
Location	669 Diaper Road Jimna
Mud Bulls and Music is a unique four-day event blending traditional and contemporary competitions.

Australian Chamber Orchestra - Russian Visions
Date	Mon 19th Nov 2012
Location	Grey Street South Brisbane
Steven Osborne is guest pianist with the Australian Chamber Orchestra in an entirely Russian program featuring Prokofiev, Shostakovich and Tchaikovsky's Souvenir de Florence. The program consists of Prokofiev (arranged by Barshai...

BrisStyle indie Twilight Markets
Date	Fri 14th Dec 2012
Location	Ann Street Brisbane
"Brisbane's Hottest destination for everything Handmade under the stars" - The BrisStyle indie Twilight Markets in the heart of King George Square offer a distinctive home-grown experience unique to Brisbane.

Brisbane International
Date	Fri 28th Dec 2012 to Sun 6th Jan 2013
Location	190 King Arthur Terrace Tennyson
The Brisbane International promises to again bring world class tennis to Brisbane in the first week of January, as the greatest players in the world prepare for the Australian Open.

Aussie Nash Hash
Date	Fri 3rd May 2013 to Sun 5th May 2013
Location	Brisbane City Hall Brisbane
The Aussie Nash Hash Brisbane 2013 will be held in the Brisbane city area.