Metro Arts Opening Highlights
Premiere performances, provocative productions, intriguing installations and exhibitions.
See highlights of the opening of our brand new location in West End.
Welcome to the new Metro Arts at West Village, West End
We may have changed locations but we are still the home for independent artists and outstanding contemporary art.
Take a look around and find out more about the development of our new Metro Arts precinct.
GENERAL NEWS
METRO ARTS NOW OPEN IN WEST END
Bringing West End its first live theatre in 25 years, Metro Arts is now officially open in West Village.
Kicking off with a bang, the remaining 2020 season features premiere performances, provocative productions, installations and exhibitions.
The new purpose-built precinct features an underground theatre, two galleries, two rehearsal rooms and the Factory Lane outdoor precinct which encompasses the foyer, box office, café and bar.
Specialising in the development of new work, Metro Arts champions artists taking risks, creating, developing, experimenting, and presenting ambitious contemporary work.
This new hub in West End’s diverse community will be THE place in Brisbane to experience the work of contemporary artists with a year-round program of innovative theatre, cabaret, comedy, music and visual art.
NOW SHOWING
SWEATY SCALES
14 OCT – 1 NOV | Sweaty Scales tells the story of two Asian American women as they navigate their individual sexuality and interracial dating.
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INDEFINITE TERRAINS
14 OCT – 1 NOV | An audio-visual essay that interprets the site of a forest plantation as a dynamic assemblage of colonialism, capitalism and country.
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DIRTY LAUNDRY
21 OCT– 1 NOV | Dirty Laundry is a large-scale cotton-based installation of anonymous sexual confessions, fantasies and desires hoisted and hung for public witness.
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