Join us on Sunday 5 May for the Brisbane Street Art Festival Launch Party, a night celebrating public art and the culture surrounding it. Generously hosted by our sponsors Howard Smith Wharves and Felons Brewing Co, the launch will feature a smorgasbord of sensory delights throughout the vibrant riverside setting.  
Engage your ears with music from Felivand, DRMNGNOW and legendary jam band CHURCH, or take a seat and watch a selection of artists from our program transform on site canvases. Also on offer will be performances from Theatre of Thunder and the opportunity to rub shoulders with artists from around the world.  
In celebration of a two week program of street art throughout the city, as well as exhibitions and workshops, the launch party will be an immersive night of creativity and community. People of all genders, sexual orientations, ethnicities, cultural backgrounds, abilities and artistic interests are invited to attend this celebration of our city’s arts and culture.

To celebrate another successful BSAF, we present you with the perfect closing party, set to take place at the Toombul Centre rooftop carpark! Toombul will not only be the location of BSAF’s Pop-up Studio, activating numerous street art workshops across the festival’s duration, but it will also be home to a number of significant new murals. So of course, it’s the perfect place to watch the sun go down on the festival that was. Come along and enjoy an evening of entertainment, including live music, live painting and more, to celebrate with organisers and artists alike. This event will feature live performances from Salmon and the Peaches, Desmond Cheese and Feelsclub along with roving performance and the live street art battle; Scribble Slam.

An event run by women, for women. ‘Female Frontline’ is designed solely for females to engage and network with other female artists, producers, directors, performers, and all around creatives. All women working within the creative industries are invited to gather, have a couple of beers, and get to know each other before the official ‘Within These Walls’ exhibition opening at West Village.
This event is inclusive to all who identify as female.

This one night only exhibition held at ‘Artists Alike’ in Albion, will showcase the work of local photographer, Toks Ojo, alongside a variety of other Brisbane artists. With artwork available for purchase, this event will also celebrate the launch of Toks’ official crowdfunding campaign to release his upcoming photography book, documenting Street Art in Brisbane. Come have a drink, support local artists, and celebrate the launch of Toks’ campaign!

On Thursday May 9th, Howard Smith Wharves will transform into a hub for all artists involved in the festival program to take a break, put down the spray cans and pick up a beer. With everyone welcome, it’s the perfect opportunity to put a face behind the freshest murals across the city. Celebrate the people that give life to BSAF 2019, with a killer view of Brisbane Story Bridge to boot.

BSAF is making it easy to see some of the latest and greatest murals of Brisbane with Street Art Cycling Tours! Led by self-proclaimed “your Nan’s favourite artist”, Tervo, you’ll be taken on a guided ride along Brisbane’s beautiful bike paths – exploring new works from BSAF 2021 and the iconic murals of past years. Journeying through the CBD, West End, Fortitude Valley and wider, Tervo will give you the rundown of the artists and inspirations behind these great works.

Leave the lycra at home for this leisurely afternoon – despite the aerodynamic look of his mullet, until beer drinking enters the Olympics, Tervo is no athlete.

*Bring your own bike

A group exhibition encapsulating the viewer through paintings of grand scale. Showcasing Brisbane artist’s, the exhibition reflects experiences learnt whilst creating artwork in public spaces and large outdoor paintings. Symbiotic bridges these two worlds together with the purpose of delivering high impact work in a contained environment. Held at Mayne Line with its high walls and ceilings, the aim is to create artworks that upon arrival, the sheer impact and scale of the works is overwhelmingly impressive.

From the ashes of a COVID-19 impacted arts scene, came Superlate: an arts and music late show filmed in the heart of the inner-city arts space, Superordinary. After a successful season of live-streamed episodes in 2020, Superlate is opening the studio to a live audience. 

Join the Superlate team and a range of the artists from this year’s BSAF program for in-depth interviews, visual art, live performance, music and all the shenanigans you could expect from a late show run completely by artists.

This episode of Superlate will also feature the return of scribble slam: a live art battle in which two artists go head-to-head to create a themed mural artwork in just 90 minutes! Keep an eye out on the event page for the full episode line-up.

Tune in via Twitch (www.twitch.tv/supord) to watch and interact with guests and artists, or grab your tickets to hang out at Superordinary and be part of the action in the studio audience! 

Bad Olive source local talent to create eclectic shows, gigs, festivals and exhibitions across Brisbane. In 2021, Bad Olive have already activated a number of events including their very own ‘Bad Olive Beginnings Festival’, which took place at BackDock Arts in Fortitude Valley and showcased over seventy artists across five dates in February. 

For one night only during BSAF 2021, Bad Olive will be activating all three levels of the Superordinary building to give you an exclusive look into what the current Brisbane Street Art, Music and Fashion scenes have to offer. Bringing together more diverse elements than ever before, Bad Olive will electrify audiences with an exciting display of fashion, light, sound and performance. Each level of the three-story building will showcase something unique; so if you are keen to experience something that is both intimate and out-of-the-ordinary, this event is the one for you. 

Welcome to The Princess Theatre, Brisbane’s newest, oldest music and arts space situated in the heart of Woolloongabba. In 2021, Queensland’s oldest-standing theatre is about to get a facelift and be gifted back to the community under the managerial hands of the team at The Tivoli. In partnership with BSAF and the team at QUIVR, along with artists Muchos, Camille Manley, Birrunga Wiradyuri, Kane Brunjes and Stevie O’Chin, The Princess Theatre laneway will come to life with live art and amazing music to celebrate the beginning of a new era for the building and for the local community. Showcasing some of Brisbane’s best DJ’s curated by the QUIVR team, this free, licenced event will be an opportunity for the great folk of Brisbane to get the first glimpse of the new plans for the building whilst brilliant art is being created on the walls of the neighbouring laneway.