Over the course of 18 days, there were a total of 318 performances spanning various genres such as dance, music, visual arts, cabaret, circus, and comedy, celebrating community and culture. Read about some of the 2024 show highlights below.
LOOKING FORWARD LOOKING BACK
This free community concert at Jezzine Barracks was a celebration of home-grown First Nations talent showcasing powerful stories, culture and creativity from regional communities.
SYMPHONY UNDER THE STARS
Making their debut appearance at the festival, Queensland Symphony Orchestra (QSO) performed a free outdoor concert at Jezzine Barracks featuring Dvorák’s “Symphony No. 8”, a new work by Queensland’s acclaimed composer Paul Dean, and Nigel Westlake’s “Flying Dream Suite” from the Original Motion Picture Paper Planes, plus more.
YOUARENOWHERE
All the way from New York’s downtown theatre world, this rapid-fire, high-tech existential meditation teleports from physics lecture to pop culture and personal revelation while dissecting quantum mechanics, parallel universes, missed connections, and AA recovery steps.
NIGHTWALKS WITH TEENAGERS
Nightwalks with Teenagers is a social concept from Canadian company Mammalian Diving Reflex where local youths plan, design and lead public walks through the city at night, exploring the neighbourhood with members of the community. Nightwalks focused on the power of walking together, bringing together teens and adults to have a unique social experience in a shared place and time, where everyone can let loose, and silences offered moments for contemplation.
TRENT DALTON'S LOVE STORIES
Straight from its debut at Brisbane Festival, NAFA welcomed Trent Dalton’s Love Stories at the Townsville Civic Theatre for an exclusive season in Townsville.
Bestselling author Trent Dalton and the creative team behind the smash-hit page-to-stage adaptation of Boy Swallows Universe (director Sam Strong and writer Tim McGarry) reunited to bring to life Dalton’s latest warm, wise, poignant, funny and moving story about love, in all its guises.