Dolly Diamond launches her new eight week Friday Night Late Show season on Friday 3 May and the show will be filmed live for broadcast on Channel 31. Dolly has assembled some of Australia's best names as guests, but some interview spots still remain. Are you interested in being on TV? More >>

The Midsumma Annual General Meeting, which was originally scheduled for 1 May, has been moved to 5 June, 2013 at The Leveson, 46 Leveson St, North Melbourne. Midsumma are calling for Board Nominations and/or Agenda items by 5 May. All welcome but only current members may vote. More >>

The Midsumma Visual Arts Working Group (VAWG) are responsible for the curation of a number of Visual Arts exhibitions throughout Midsumma Festival. They meet monthly from July to discuss progress of projects, and for communicative decision making. Interested? Now's the time to sign up! More >>

Midsumma is calling for expressions of interest from people who would like to join a specialised and representative committee to assist with the selection of the Premier Events for Midsumma 2014. The committee will meet twice in August and once in September.

In 2014, all Premier Event submissions will be assessed by three panels of people:

1. Midsumma Premier Event Selection Committee
2. Midsumma Management Staff
3. Midsumma Board of Directors

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The 26th Midsumma Festival will run from Sunday 12 January to Sunday 2 February, 2014.

Melbourne's annual festival celebrating queer culture will again bring queer life to the city in 2014, opening with the Midsumma Carnival on the banks of the Yarra at Birrarung Marr on 12 January 2014.

If you have ever wanted to put on an event through Midsumma, but are just not sure how to get your concept off the ground, now is the time to propose your ideas for collaboration projects! Midsumma wishes to hear from artists, producers, performers, community groups and other organisations looking to host an event collaboratively with Midsumma.

We're delighted to announce that the turf that was laid in front of the main stage at Carnival has been replanted in a wetland area in Sunshine. We had originally been told that the turf would not be able to be recycled, as it would become too damaged. However, the Carnival patrons took great care of it, and the turf is now enhancing the entry area to the new estate. Midsumma received no payment for the recycled turf, however it's of great benefit to the council who received it, and we're delighted that it hasn't been wasted. The experience this year should enable the cost of laying turf in similar situations in future to be reduced, now that the Midsumma experience has shown that recycling of the turf is possible.

The Festival Late Night Hub at Chapel Off Chapel is worth crossing the river for - seriously! And it's free! 24, 25 & 31 Jan and 1 Feb only. Performers include: Goddess Grooves: Michelle Parsons, acoustic rock, Ruth Katerelos & Monique Kenny, acoustic contemporary rock/blues/pop; Greg Walsh - singer/songwriter, piano, blues/rock + funk, pop, soul and jazz; Gobsmacked: Showbiz and Dating: Nikki Aitken - cabaret singer/songwriter and character comedian and Jamie Burgess - musical theatre; The Cost Of Love: Justin Clausen - musical theatre; Perrin Date (aka "Collector" - listen to her on soundcloud) - singer/songwriter; Noah Earp - alternative / folk / jazz: see his YouTube clip; DEANlicious - Dean Arcuri; Amanda Micallef, solo acoustic guitarist; and open mic on 1 Feb.

On 31 Jan and 1 Feb catch Claude & Roxy's erotic puppet show from 9 - 9:45pm: your last chance to catch the current episode from this well-travelled duo.

Midsumma's excellent coverage in mainstream media continues this evening (Wednesday 16 January).

Magda Szubanski will be appearing on The Project at 6:30pm on Network Ten and there will be a package about Gaybies at 7:30pm on the 7:30 Report on ABC1.

Based on the audience size, reaction and standing ovation at the first preview performance last night, the short season of this brand new, world premiere production written by Dean Bryant is going to sell out. And that's despite being in MTC's rather large Southbank Sumner Theatre! So get your tickets NOW or you will miss out!

Midsumma is now the world's first queer festival to have an iPad App. The Midsumma App has been redeveloped from the ground up this year and now rolls over into future Festivals. Available for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. Download Now.

The complete 2013 Midsumma program is available on the Midsumma website, and is fully compatible with all major phone platforms, including Android, Windows Phone, Blackberry and iPhone - for browsing or buying tickets. 

Midsumma's box office is now open in Bourke St, just half a block from the Bourke St Mall right in the heart of town!

The Midsumma Box Office is open from 3 January to 3 February 2013 and is located on the Ground Floor, 225 Bourke Street, Melbourne (that's midway between Swanston & Russell Sts). Opening hours are 10am to 5pm weekdays.

You can also purchase tickets online - just browse the program and click on Buy Tickets in any ticketed event, or you can book over the phone on 03 9415 9819 between 10am and 5pm weekdays.

Wimdu: www.wimdu.com.au/melbourne

Wimdu is an online platform offering alternative private holiday accommodation all around the world and now they are teaming up with Midsumma to offer you a perfect place to stay and experience Midsumma and Melbourne 'like a local'.

Go into the draw to win a $US200 holiday voucher and 2 tickets to T Dance thanks to Wimdu!

The line-up for The Gold Party, Midsumma Carnival's official after party, has been announced:
Stereogamous, Clairy Browne, Romy, MzRizk, Sveta, Rocco D'Amore, Whiskey Houston and Leather Locklear.

Everybody's talking about it! Read all about it on Same Same or on Gay News Network, or for full details check out The Gold Party event.

Up and coming Melbourne DJ Emilio Capparella, known as DJ Emili Oh, will kick off Midsumma's biggest party after winning the Midsumma National DJ Search for the 2013 T Dance party. He initially took out the local competition in September against 11 other Victorian DJs.

The competition was then opened to the public for an online vote with candidates from Brisbane, Adelaide, Hobart and Sydney. The winners were announced on today's JOY 94.9 Midsumma Show. For more details check out the Star Observer or MCV / Gay News Network articles.

New iPhone App 
We are proud to launch our new iPhone App, completely redeveloped in-house! This new app rolls over year to year so get it now and use it for Midsumma 2013 and beyond! Get it for free on the App Store.

Our iPad App will be available later this month.

4 December, 2012
Have you spotted a tram yet with Midsumma blazoned across the front and rear? There will be quite a lot of them out there, thanks to our wonderful Yarra Trams partners. Watch out for the Midsumma Premier Event guides and onboard posters on trams from January. Oh, and take their advice: "Tram it to Midsumma"!

Have you also heard? You can now get TramTracker on Androids! More >>

Midsumma is excited to announce that we'll have a box office in Bourke St, just half a block from the Bourke St Mall!

Where: Ground Floor, 225 Bourke Street, Melbourne (that's midway between Swanston & Russell Sts)
When: 3 January to 3 February 2013, 10am to 5pm weekdays

You can also purchase tickets online - just browse the program and click on Buy Tickets in any ticketed event, or you can book over the phone on 03 9415 9819 between 10am and 5pm weekdays.

The 2013 Midsumma Program is being launched on Thursday 22 November, after which you'll be able to find the 48 page printed 2013 Midsumma Program Guide at your favourite venues around town.

You can of course also browse the program online - the entire website is mobile-friendly this year. And we'll be launching our brand new iPhone app on 7 December 2012.

What people said about our launch:

• Australian Stage, 23 Nov - Midsumma announces 2013 program.
• Same Same, 23 Nov, Deanus - Midsumma 2013 festival launched.
• Theatre People, 26 Nov - Midsumma celebrates 25 years - 2013 Festival Launched.