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  • Flinders Street Station at night with blue lights illuminating it and a large RISING sign above the clocks at the front.
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Until 15 Jun

RISING

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  • Dance

RISING, Melbourne’s winter festival of new art, music and performance features 65 events, 327 artists, 15 new commissions, 9 world premieres, 5 Australian and 10 Victorian, returning to showcase the city in all its moon-lit glory over two epic weekends.

Over 12 nights, RISING transforms the city centre into a pulsating playground of music, theatre and dance, and public performances.

Continuing RISING’s legacy of unlocking hidden corners of the city, the expansive 2025 program will spill into laneways, arcades, underground basements and grand theatres showcasing an unmissable lineup of world-class international and local artists, in a city-wide celebration of Naarm.

Be absorbed by art that bends the mind, shakes the body and uplifts the soul. Slide into the rhythm of the dancefloor at huge raves, and a lineup of shoegaze, rap geezers and indie crowd pleasers.

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Date Times
Sun 15 Jun
  • 11am - 11pm 11:00am - 11:00pm

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Melbourne
Victoria 3000

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From free to $169

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Contact details

  • telephone number: 03 9662 4242
  • email address: ticketing@rising.melbourne
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Part of RISING

RISING: Monolith
Until 15 Jun

RISING: Monolith

Colonised bodies become sites of silent protest in the premiere of Joel Bray’s latest major work.

  • Dance
  • Art
RISING: Matha
Until 15 Jun

RISING: Matha

Connect to Matha, an audio/visual conversation between the Dhungala and Birrarung river systems.

  • Free
  • Art
RISING: Swingers — The Art of Mini Golf
Until 31 Aug

RISING: Swingers — The Art of Mini Golf

The art of mini-golf, for anyone who swings outside the lines.

  • Art
  • Exhibition
RISING: Hedwig and The Angry Inch
Until 26 Jun

RISING: Hedwig and The Angry Inch

It’s the Broadway smash that took the ‘rock musical’ on a glam-punk bender.

  • Theatre
  • Music
RISING: The Chronicles
Until 15 Jun

RISING: The Chronicles

Stephanie Lake Company’s latest creation sees twelve dancers in a new epic that chronicles a life.

  • Music
  • Dance
RISING: Saturate
Until 15 Jun

RISING: Saturate

A new ritual of sensory exploration. Go underwater to immerse in omnipresent sound.

  • Art
  • Exhibition
RISING: Night Trade
Until 15 Jun

RISING: Night Trade

Music, art, food and reality-rifting lasers – sample the RISING festival for free.

  • Free
  • Art
RISING: Complete Works – Table Top Shakespeare
Until 15 Jun

RISING: Complete Works – Table Top Shakespeare

Shakespeare’s complete works re-told with relish (marmalade, dish soap and other bits and bobs).

  • Theatre
  • Entertainment
RISING: Heartbreak Hotel
Until 22 Jun

RISING: Heartbreak Hotel

Check into this comedy out of Aotearoa New Zealand – a weird, fun place to confront your heartbreak.

  • Theatre
  • Entertainment
RISING: intangible #form
Until 15 Jun

RISING: intangible #form

Lasers bounce off The Capitol’s ceiling, turning the auditorium into a kinetic light sculpture.

  • Free
  • Art

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