Midsumma Festival - Midsumma Festival

Thank you, all of you! The final results are in...

We want to take this time to say a massive THANK YOU to everyone who shared their art, their stories, their venues, and their hearts, to celebrate 22 days of queer arts and culture for Midsumma Festival 2020.

Next Midsumma: 17 Jan- 7 Feb 2021

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What's Still On

A small number of Midsumma Festival events are still running.

Catch them while you still can.

Midsumma Festival 2020 Photo Galleries

Check out our photo galleries from some of the fabulous 2020 Midsumma Festival events.

Midsumma Festival 2020

Midsumma and Australia Post Art Award Recipients

Australia's leading queer visual arts award featuring early career and established artists.

Recipients Announced 11 Feb

Queer Playwriting Award Recipients

Midsumma congratulates all of the 2020 finalists who presented their work as part of Midsumma Festival 2020, including the 2020 winner Maeve Marsden for Home Fires Burning.

Recipients Announced

Consultation for Melbourne Pride 2021

We have an opportunity for your voice to be heard and to shape Melbourne Pride 2021 into an event that is truly owned by our communities. We are holding community consultations and here is how to be involved >>

25 Feb + 3, 11, 19, 23, 24, 31 March 2020

What's Still On

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Performance Theatre

The Feather in the Web

29 Jan-1 Mar

Two men in eighties style clothing, smiling together in front of a sign reading 'Gay Skate'. Roller skates in foreground and 'Skate at your own risk'

Visual Arts Community & Culture

Creating Community in Melbourne's West

8 Jan-24 Feb

Visual Arts Community & Culture

Future Histories

30 Jan-29 Feb

A black-and-white rural landscape with the blurred figure of a person standing in the foreground.

Visual Arts Youth

Queer in Kingston

7 Feb-7 Mar

Painting of a rainbow and a collage of an emu, using pictures of Aboriginal people. The painting brushstrokes are visible.

Visual Arts Community & Culture

Out Is Out

6 Feb-8 Mar

Midsumma Presents Visual Arts Talks

Dark Sepia

21 Jan-22 Mar

Street documentary photo, one half is of nine marching feet, all with different shoes and styles, the top half has a large rainbow flag flowing

Visual Arts Workshops

Let's Eat Cake

14 Dec-23 Feb

Midsumma Presents Visual Arts Film

The Sky After Rain at the Centre for Contemporary Photography

17 Jan-15 Mar

The Feather in the Web

All bets are off in an exploration of Eros, the fluidity of sexual identities, and the vulnerability non-conformists face in the constant manipulation and identity curation that governs all romantic perceptions in real life.

The Feather in the Web

The Sky After Rain

The Sky After Rain tells the stories of three queer Iranian diasporas, Payam, Shyla and Shaya through a number of multi-disciplinary moving-image installations.

The Sky After Rain at the Centre for Contemporary Photography

2020 NEWS AND REVIEWS

Midsumma Festival is very proud of its open access artists and producers. Here's the scoop on many events from some of the great publications that supported Midsumma in 2020.

2020 News and Reviews

A day in the life of Midsumma Festival

Our friends at AGL followed our Production & Operations Manager, Mack Ebelt, and our Midsumma team for a few weeks over our 2020 Festival launch to get an inside view on the energy in Midsumma Festival, what it takes to put on a 22-day festival and the fierce team behind making it happen.

Watch the full video

Midsumma 2020 Telstra Citizen Reporters

The Telstra Citizen Reporters share and cover their favourite Midsumma Festival experiences. Follow their stories by searching #telstrareporter or visit their pages via their handle.

Find them here