VENTspace, 23 Glenelg Street, South, Brisbane (2025)

27/03/2025

This Friday, welcomes you to Abundance Jam! 🎸🥁🎷

6pm-11pm 28/03/25

Open live music jam & pot luck dinner, musicians, poets, dancers and observers all welcome! 💙

Celebrating grass-roots creativity, community, freedom of expression and awesome improvised love music.

Drinks and home made Chai (vegan, caffeine free) for sale, and you're welcome to bring home cooked food to share.

No BYO alcohol.

19/03/2025

CREATIVE CONVERGENCE - THURSDAY 20TH MARCH

ARTIST PANEL HOSTED BY

Join us for “Creative Convergence: Five Questions, Infinite Perspectives”, an enlightening panel discussion that brings together artists from various disciplines to delve into the shared experiences that unite all creators. 🎥🎨📸💃🗣

PANEL GUESTS:
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Through a series of five thought-provoking questions, our diverse panel will uncover common threads and unique insights, offering a rich tapestry of perspectives on the creative journey.

Don’t miss this opportunity to gain a deeper understanding of the universal elements that inspire and connect us as artists.

Event run-time: 6pm - 9pm
Gold coin entry

At VENTspace 23 Glenelg Street South Brisbane QLD

08/03/2025

LOVELY 💙 LIVE 💙 & LOCAL music line up for THIS THURSDAY!

Join us in celebrating the OPENING NIGHT of the VENTspace Resident SHOWCASE 2025 on Thursday the 13th of March (6pm - 11pm). 🎉 Along with the 35+ Resident Artists featured in the multi-disciplinary art exhibition, you'll also be able to catch a selection of emerging singer/songwriters performing throughout the evening.

🎸: (of ) ALT-ROCK solo set
🎸: NEOSOUL/RNB/SHOEGAZE solo set
🎤: INDIE-FOLK solo set
🎛: POST-ROCK/SHOEGAZE 3-piece band
🎧: BANGING DANCE FLOOR DJ set

🏷 Tickets available via link in bio!

The VENTspace Resident SHOWCASE 2025 is proudly sponsored by PROGRAMspace. 🚀

Poster art by .inc

04/03/2025

NEW DATES!

CREATE 💙 COLLABORATE 💙 CELEBRATE

Featuring works from over 35 artists across 10 consecutive days, VENTspace is proud to present our biggest art exhibition to date!

Exploring the depth and diversity of creative expression, the Showcase Exhibition will feature paintings, photography, digital art, sculpture, music and films created by VENTspace Residents over the last 3+ years.
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By presenting our community's emerging and established talents, we wish to invite the wider public to engage, reflect on, and appreciate their own creative spirit.

Join us in celebrating the Opening Night of the VENTspace Resident Showcase 2025 on the 13th of March (6pm-11pm). Along with unveiling the exhibition for the first time, the Opening Night will also feature live music performances and the launch of our new bar menu, and will be a great opportunity to meet our eclectic VENTspace Resident Artists.
🏷 Tickets available via link in bio!

Understanding that not all creative practices fit within the context of a traditional art exhibition, we've also made sure to organise a variety of individually curated, resident-run activation events across the Showcase dates. Visit the link in bio for more info on the 'Activation Events'.

Whether you're into 🌏experimental performance art, 🗣creative industry discourse, 💘 drag & contemporary dance performances, 💃or getting sweaty of the dance floor - we're sure there will be something that tickles your fancy.

This event is proudly sponsored by PROGRAMspace

Poster art by .inc

Exhibition featuring:

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brigid

@ laluzmirainc

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art

& more!

VENTspace acknowledges that we operate on stolen Yeggera and Turrbal lands, and we pay our respects to elders past and present. Sovereignty was never ceded. 🖤💛❤️

27/01/2025

Banners hung by artists & during the invasion day protest march this year.

These banners are part of an ongoing collaborative series since 2022 ‘First Nations Affirmations’ by Butchulla man Aidan Rowlingson and Wodi Wodi woman Daphne Rat.

15/01/2025

VENTspace acknowledges that we gather and operate on stolen Yaggera and Turrbal and. We recognise the Turrbal and Yaggera peoples as the traditional and rightful custodians of these lands and waters. We pay our respects to elders past and present, and to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. We acknowledge the over 65,000 years of ongoing care and custodianship for these lands and waters by the Turrbal and Yaggera peoples.
We recognise the past atrocities against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and acknowledge that so-called “Australia” as founded on the genocide and dispossession of First Nations people. We pledge our alliship in the ongoing resistance against colonization.
Their sovereignty has never been ceded, nor have we seen a treaty.
This always was and always will be Aboriginal Land.

Acknowledging country is an important part of allyship, but more so is commitment to growth, learning and listening to and uplifting First Nations voices.

Artwork:

02/01/2025

✨ ARTIST HIGHLIGHT ✨

Capi ( ) is a q***r multidisciplinary artist who predominantly uses impressionism, ceramics and print.
Their art explores themes of grief, ecology, dispossession, processing self and is informed by the experience of being a trans, biracial, settler living on stolen lands.
Their work was recently selected for local exhibition, Q***r Here.

Mordre la main (bite the hand) asks the viewer to question who is feeding them and where the food is coming from. Depicted is a microbat, a keystone species with over 60 different types located across the continent.
The colony will fall was inspired by this years iconic removal of the Capt. Cook statue by activists on the eve of Invasion Day.
While producing these prints I envisioned them covering a public space, a repeating sentiment, a grassroots advertisement.

We are honoured to have had Capi’s work on display in our front gallery window at VENTspace for the past month, this can be viewed 24/7 for the next few weeks at VENTspace, 23 Glenelg Street, South Brisbane. So come through and have a look while you still can!

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28/11/2024

NEXT SATURDAY @ VENTspace

SWMAN VOL.3

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Saturday December 7th, 5-11pm

Who:
xiv

life rap

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With and on Media & Production

+ an open Mic from 5-6pm for all those up and comers that want a spot on the next SWMAN - this is your time slot 🙌

16+
NO BYO. NO TICKET, NO ENTRY. NO FURTHER DISCOUNTS.

23/11/2024

One day left to vote for our dear friends at in the Best Cafe awards 2024!

Christina’s has been supplying us with espresso for our cocktail bar for over two years now 🩵

Not to mention Christina’s coffee fuelled our team building VENTspace 2.0. The countless trips down to Christina’s for a cheeky coffee, toastie & and yarn.

You can vote for in their bio
And may be lucky enough to win $1000??

17/11/2024

What makes you tick? What makes you, YOU? Self-expression? Creativity? Honesty? Vulnerability? Happiness? Anger?

It’s time to… Spill Your GUTS 🫀🫀

TONIGHT at , will be hosting “Spill Your GUTS”, a 2024 arts showcase. Join us for a variety of art, performance, food, drink, freebies, opportunities to purchase work and more!

📍VENTspace, 23 Glenelg Street South Brisbane
🗓️ Sunday 17th November
⏰ 5pm - 9pm

TICKETS ON SALE NOW - $5 for paid 2024 GUTS members, $10 for non-GUTS members

🎟️ LINK IN BIO 🎟️

diary

florist
finster

make.cool.stuff

(poster design)

cchen

Poster design by

31/10/2024

PRESENTS:

What makes you tick? What makes you, YOU? Self-expression? Creativity? Honesty? Vulnerability? Happiness? Anger?

It’s time to… Spill Your GUTS 🫀🫀
Griffith University Theatrical Society will be hosting “Spill Your Guts”, a 2024 arts showcase. Join us for a variety of art, performance, food, drink, freebies, opportunities to purchase work and more!

📍VENTspace, 23 Glenelg Street South Brisbane
📆 Sunday 17th November
⏰ 5pm-9pm

TICKETS ON SALE NOW - $5 for paid 2024 GUTS members, $10 for non-GUTS members

Link in Bio

Poster design by and

25/10/2024

Thirsty??? 💖🫧💦

Tomorrow night at VENTspace .bne presents Sexy Gay Art partnered with .fest

Tomorrow nights special will be the Sexy Gay Sip! this is a gin based cocktail with bubble gum and grape flavours 💫

And for a limited time our bar king and queen Jacob and Daphne will be serving Daphne’s fav; a strawberry mojito and Jacob’s fav; junglebird

So come grab something sexy from the bar, doors are at 6pm 💖

15/10/2024

._.pals presents ‘Split Between’, their end of year show for 2024.
This is an exhibition of local emerging artists experimenting with and exploring both bodily and immaterial relationships to space. Fragmented across broad realms of dreams and waking, the domestic everyday, bodily labour, dysfunction, memory and virtuality; featured artists skip through portals and crash into walls hoping to understand their place place in specificity and in relation to all else.

📍VENTspace
Saturday November 23rd

Featuring artists:
Sam Hope .hope.art
Louella Michael .art
Ruby Stevens
Khalea
Kalissa .atharsis
Joshy Bloom .art
Miranda Westaway

Tickets on sale in ._.pals bio!

12/09/2024

OPEN MIC & JAM NIGHT
📍VENTspace
Saturday the 21st Sept
6pm - 11pm

🎤 Come through for an evening of music, performances, jamming and freestyles.

🍹 Grab a cocktail from the bar and mingle with other creatives in a supportive and encouraging space. This is a great opportunity for to network with other emerging artists in a relaxed space.

Anyone is welcome to perform on stage, just write your name on the clipboard at the sound desk upon arrival.
Use the house guitars, keyboard, drum machine and mics, or bring your own instruments/back tracks and the VENTspace staff will get you set up.

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10/08/2024

Friday the 16th of August at VENTspace
🌪️ Welcome to the VOiiiD - WASTELAND 🌪️
Prepare for the Apocalypse.

Embrace the Filth.

Succumb to the Greed.

VOiiiD Collectives annual art party is back, and this time, it’s bigger, bolder, and more bizzare than ever before…

Get ready for a night that will shatter your reality and transport you to a dystopian world of artistic chaos. Experience some of Magandjins best live performances, visual art, DJ’s, art films, many characters from the VOiiiD + more

📅 Date: 16th August
🕢 Time: 7:30 PM
📍 Location: Ventspace

Performer Lineup:
Bizzi Lavelle
Micah Rustichelli
Fae Bae
Lucinda Shaw
Bcharre
Kristian Santic
Jack Wallace
Georgia Pierce
Adam Plant
Nerida Matthaei
Calum Johnston
Jade Brider

Tickets: $35
Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander peoples no charge
Companion cards accepted
Head over to to secure your tickets

💥 Costume Competition 💥
Don your most outrageous apocalypse looks and take to the runway. Peculiar post apocalypse characters welcome,there will be prizes.
Accessibility: This event is wheelchair accessible, with an accessible toilet on site.
👁 See you in the VOiiiD! 👁

Photo Credit: Human Scaffolds Marvellous Creations, part of Dead Puppet Society’s THE DPS LAB 2024, image Dean Hanson

12/07/2024

We are all best friends in this crazy skate park we call life 🌈😛🫶

Best Friends (the variety talk show) is back for a last minute mega smash hit night of love, fun, magic and mayhem at 💙💙

Jam packer-ed with stunning guests, incredible performers, raffle-affle prizies, cutie cutie craft activities and some karaoke! Raising money for 2 local artists, Gogo Bumhole and Small Paul , who are off on a tour of Europe where they are gonna perform some shows and do some learning and growing at some Euro Clown Workshops. To send them off we’re gonna party hard at this pay-what-you-feel donor extravaganza sleepover party ⚜️⚜️⚜️ WITH ALL YOUR BEST FRIENDS !

Joining us for a chat will be :

Brigid Holt
Painter, sign writer   Gogo Bumhole
Drag queen, theatre maker

with more to be announced 😱

Performing:  🤯 Mayu Muto
🥺 D**k .demos
🥵 Suzanne Kollex
😩 Gogo Bumhole
😳 DJ TK

with more to be announced 😭

Plus a raffle, craft activities, and karaoke

🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

Small Paul’s Best Friends
Wednesday July 17
6pm doors
Tickets are pay-what-you-feel

26/06/2024

TONIGHT at VENTspace! presents 's work 'Alethic'.

The works takes the audience into deep immersion, physical and psychosensory. The work is variably formatted but at its’ highest delivery mode uses ambisonic sound to put the audience inside the 3D sound. Similarly up to 12 thousand pixel width visual content can fully surround the audience with the requisite technical production values and staging. All of this interactively controlled by my performance in real time. Video camera sources linear and realtime are also used and integrated at times. Much of the visual content is mathematically generated using a range of algorithmic styles and approaches including AI and machine learning.

24/06/2024

is in town! And with it - a wave of international & local electronic artists are activating spaces across Meanjin//Brisbane. 🌊💙🌊.

VENTspace is proud to host an array of works and performances - open to the public Tuesday, Wednesday Thursday nights this week.

Dont miss out on 'Machine Movement Lab: Alloyed Bodies [BNE-3-3-1'] by Petra Gemeinboeck and Rob Saunders at 7pm each night.

25 – 26 - 27 June ’24, 7 – 8pm

Alloyed Bodies [BNE-3-3-1] entangles dancers, cube artefacts and a cube-shaped robot performer to reimagine our relationship with machines and other nonhuman allies.

Composer: Adam Nash; choreographic facilitator: Audrey Rochette ; dance performers and co-choreographers: Audrey Rochette, Siobhan McKenna, and Felix Palmerson; choreographic consultant: Steph Hutchison

VENTspace

23 Glenelg St, South Brisbane, QLD 4101

Image credits: Machine Movement Lab: Dancing with the Nonhuman [VIE-2-2-1] by Petra Gemeinboeck and Rob Saunders, with dance performers Felix Palmerson and Audrey Rochette, dieAngewandte, Vienna, November 2023. Photos: Nathan Murrell.

With support from the Australian Research Council (ARC), the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), and Creative Victoria

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