No images? Click here Hi friend, The Midsumma Festival Live at the Bowl line-up is HERE!Celebrating diverse journeys and communities, Midsumma Festival Live at the Bowl will host a soirée of FREE queer live entertainment and a spectacular line-up of live performance, comedy and music at the iconic Sidney Myer Music Bowl on Fri 30 April and Sat 1 May. Just take a look at our incredible line-up!HOSTS FEATURED ARTISTS Midsumma Festival gems to check outThat Which Was Once FamiliarTWOFF investigates how culture inscribes gender and sexuality onto us. It engages choreography and sculpture to ascribe agency to performing bodies by rebelling against the way society often objectifies women. 28 April - 1 May, Dancehouse - Sylvia Staehli Theatre The Breathwork SessionsA musical journey through conscious connected breath. Come and discover this natural remedy for disconnection and imbalance, while expanding to experience a renewed sense of clarity, connection and wellbeing. 20 -24 April, Mission to Seafarers Take It From Me: Archer Launch EditionThe much-loved sex and relationships advice series, Take It From Me, is back – and badder than ever, gleefully tossing up handfuls of laughter, love and stardust. Join us to celebrate queerness and launch the new edition of Archer Magazine: the Friendship Issue. 24 April, Malthouse Outdoor Stage Midsumma Festival Hub: Chapel Off ChapelFor over 21 years Chapel Off Chapel has established itself as an iconic Australian live theatre and music venue. Consisting of three performance spaces and Melbourne’s most welcoming foyer. Come and experience Midsumma Festival in all its glory – live, intimate and iconic. DOLLY DIAMOND'S STAR FOR A NIGHT GODDESS GROOVES @ CHAPEL PRESENTS LOVE REWIND GODDESSES OF JAZZ @ CHAPEL OFF CHAPEL SCOUNDRELS: A BOYLESQUE MUSICAL Come to the Cabaret!This year's program is jam-packed with brilliant cabaret. If you're looking for an evening of intimacy with LGBTIQA+ icons, we've got All out of Pride, the kinky To Sir With Glove and People of Cabaret, a kaleidoscopic explosion of diversity. Photo: After Dark, 1-3 May, Chasers Sporty social eventsFor all the sporty folks in our communities, we've got a few events at Midsumma Festival just for you! We've got two events from The Nomads Outdoor Group, an all-ages day at Richmond Lawn Bowls and Serve It, Smash It, Love It, a free Badminton intro course! Visual Art Exhibitions at Midsumma FestivalIf you're hoping to see some visual art this Midsumma Festival, you're in luck! We have plenty of exciting art exhibitions happening over the course of the festival. So grab a wine or a tea, put on your best arty outfit and get ready to view some seriously great, seriously queer art. Check out PINK 2021 - a group exhibition celebrating bodies, objects and urges at Tacit Art Gallery. There's Realness, which will be queering the digital photographic medium at Bunjil Place. You could see Cleave, a video artwork that question issues of agency, pleasure and autonomy at Bundoora Homestead Art Centre. Or even Contemporary AF, exploring queer dreams and desires at Mission to Seafarers. The best thing is that most of these exhibitions are completely free! Check them out here. Photo: Clitopatra, O UT Group Exhibition, 22 April - 9 May, Brunswick Street Gallery. More program highlightsSam I AmSam is your typical deaf gay millennial. Sam I Am explores the experiences, memories, and unknowns that a boy from the inner Western suburbs of Sydney must learn to embrace as he accepts and defines his identity. Written and performed by Sam Martin, one of our wonderful Midsumma Pathways participants. 20 - 22 April, La Mama Courthouse F*ck FabulousThis is a Protest Party! Serving post-punk, anti-glamour realness, F*ck Fabulous is a radical, multi-artform, variety show with it’s tongue firmly planted in it’s cheeks. Bringing together fierce queers, femmes and rebels in a show that celebrates female-masculinity, rejoices in gender-queer visibility and celebrates femme identities in diverse bodies. 20 April - 2 May, Arts Centre Melbourne |