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We pay our respects to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ancestors of this land, their spirits and their legacy. The foundations laid by these ancestors give strength, inspiration and courage to current and future generations, both First Nations and non-First Nations peoples, towards creating a better Queensland.

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  • 2025
  • QPAC 40 Birthday Celebration
QPAC 40 Birthday Celebration on the Melbourne Street Green
  • Popular Music
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qpac-40-birthday-celebration QPAC 40 Birthday Celebration QPAC Popular Music, Free QPAC 40 Birthday Celebration

12 Apr 2025, From 9am
Melbourne Street Green
Free Event
Free
6 hours
From 9am, subject to change without notice

Overview

Join us as we officially kick-start our 40th anniversary with a day of celebrations!

Since opening in April 1985, QPAC has welcomed more than 30 million people and has played host to more than 33,500 performances on its stages. This Saturday we’re inviting the community to mark this very special milestone with us. Featuring free live performances on the Melbourne Street Green, free QPAC Discovery Tours and exclusive giveaways, this is an event you don’t want to miss.

Birthday Celebration Program

9am: Welcome to Country and Smoking Ceremony
9:30am: Formalities 
10am: Performance by QMusic featuring Georgie Taylor
11:10am: Performance by BEMAC featuring Menaka Thomas
11:30am: Free QPAC Discovery Tour (x2)
12pm: Free QPAC Discovery Tour (x2)
12:50pm: Performance by Omiya featuring EJ Wood
2pm: Performance by Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University featuring Shelby Johnson Quintet

Don’t forget to pick up your free coffee and cake from 9:00am to 11:00am!

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QPAC Discovery Tour

What to Expect

QPAC Discovery Tours are the perfect way to immerse yourself in the rich performing arts culture of Queensland. 

Please note that no pre-bookings are required for tours taking place Saturday, 12 April as part of the QPAC 40 celebrations. Limited spaces available. Tour duration is 30 minutes.

Meet the Birthday Celebration Performers

QMusic

QMusic is the peak body for Queensland’s music sector, the state-wide representative voice for Queensland’s musicians, music workers, live music venues and fans.

QMusic resources and empower the businesses big and small who will create the soundtrack of Queensland’s future. From Cairns to Coolangatta, and Mackay to Mount Isa, they create artistic, social and economic outcomes for a successful contemporary music industry, with programs that include Australia’s largest music industry event, BIGSOUND; the Queensland Music Awards; Valley Fiesta; and industry development programs, scholarships and awards that assist music businesses across our state.

Brisbane Multicultural Arts Centre (BEMAC)

Brisbane Multicultural Arts Centre (BEMAC) is Queensland’s leading multicultural arts organisation. Recognising that culture is constantly evolving, BEMAC’s programming examines discourses and perceptions on multiculturalism, migration, and identity, leveraging the arts as a platform in which to pose difficult questions, challenge entrenched ideas, and enable change. Through public performances, exhibitions, and creative collaborations, BEMAC showcases artists who might otherwise remain outside institutional recognition, including Australian-born artists from diverse backgrounds who explore hybrid cultural influences and question national identity.

Omiya

Omiya is a DIY artist-management, record-label and booking company, with a focus on championing Asian diaspora in the Australian music scene.

Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University

Queensland Conservatorium is one of Australia’s leading music and performing arts schools, offering a wide variety of degree options, from classical music, jazz, opera, and popular music to musical theatre, acting, music technology and music education. Learning at the Queensland Conservatorium involves intense creative immersion, fosters a critical and inquisitive mindset and nurtures distinctive and inclusive artists, innovators, performers, producers, researchers, cultural leaders and global citizens, well-prepared to navigate and shape the 21st century.

From the Newsroom

QPAC 40 Birthday Celebration on the Melbourne Street Green

Free community event at QPAC kicked-off celebration of 40 years

Joy, inclusion, gathering and stories are the hero themes for 2025 at the Queensland Performing Arts Centre (QPAC) as it celebrates its 40th anniversary this year.

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