Midsumma Festival - Midsumma Festival

Nocturnal bounds back this summer with a special evening event in partnership with Midsumma

Headlined by Melbourne’s own ARIA Award winning, neo soul singer, Kaiit, you can expect it to be a night at the museum like no other.

10 Feb @ Melbourne Museum

Midsumma Festival 2023 Program

Discover a spectacular variety of diverse art forms and genres, including visual arts, live music, theatre, spoken word, cabaret, film, parties, sport, social events, and public forums. 200+ events, across 23 days, in over 120 venues.

21 Jan - 12 Feb 2023

Line-up announced for Victoria's Pride

We can't wait for these artists! Keiynan Lonsdale (aka Rainbow Boy), Casey Donovan, Jawbreakers and Alter Boy. Banoffee, Chela, Jaguar Jonze, Cry Club, and The Lost Girls, an sooooo many more to come!

Street Party 12 Feb

Midsumma X Ignite Melbourne

Midsumma X Ignite Melbourne is a wave of FREE interactive public artworks and installations combined with music, performance, and culture across iconic locations in Melbourne's CBD, in summer '23.

11 Jan - 11 Feb, various outdoor venues

Accessible Events

At Midsumma, we recognise our responsibility to provide genuine access to our events and services wherever possible. For this reason, we have several ways for everyone to access information about our events.

Image: Crystal Nguyen; Production: From Here, Together (2022); Photographer: Shotweiler Photography

Victoria's Pride Regional Events

We’re thrilled to share that 14 exciting events have been commissioned for Victoria’s Pride Regional Activation Program, to run across Victoria’s rural and regional areas leading up to the one-day street party in Melbs inner north. As part of Victoria’s Pride, these unique events will connect, celebrate and showcase the diversity of our vibrant LGBTIQ+ communities across the state, so that more Victorians can enjoy the festivities.

A female-presenting person wearing night attire, sitting in a chair with an unmade bed in the background

Stranger Than Usual | 2-4 Feb | Abbotsford Convent

Sign singing, music and vibrations! A bilingual show presented in Auslan and English, designed for Deaf people, about Asphyxia’s experience of being Deaf, queer, chronically ill and needing to use a wheelchair.

Stranger Than Usual

Max Lawrence dressed in a stylish woollen singlet, with a gold necklace and glittery lighting

Fountain | 3-5 Feb | Abbotsford Convent

An orchestrated performance about approaching the world and the self with fluidity, and how such a shift can be revolutionary. An orchestral arrangement of Max Lawrence’s music as performed with Forest Collective.

Fountain

New playwriting supported and developed by CAT: Cracked Actors Theatre

Set in Prahran, developed from the winning entry in Midsumma 2022's "50 Years: Queers & Pioneers", which celebrated the anniversary of decriminalisation of homosexuality.

In The Ghetto | 26 Jan-12 Feb | Wed-Sun