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• From: Tuesday, 6 September 2022

  Women's Adventure Film Tour 2022 (Exempt)

  The Women’s Adventure Film Tour is a celebration of the inspiring women around us who are doing extraordinary things in the name of adventure. This is Australia’s original women’s adventure film tour, created by Adventure Entertainment in partnership with She Went Wild. In a global first it was launched to a sell-out crowd in Sydney in May 2017 and has grown to become a success throughout the world.

• From: Wednesday, 7 September 2022

  Biophilic Design - Free Community Talk (Exempt)

  The Living Future Insitute of Australia would like to invite interested community members to a free public talk on Biophilic Design. The talk is presented as part of the Oceania Biophilia Summit (OBS) 2022 which will be held at Hotel Etico in Mount Victoria.

• From: Friday, 21 October 2022

  Blue Space Film Festival: Videodrome (R18+)

  David Cronenberg's nightmare vision from 1983 of virtual reality out of control takes the form of a television show that seduces and takes over its viewers. Featuring Deborah Harry in her first major film, what Videodrome has to say about the expanding influence of media and technology is every bit as relevant today.

• From: Friday, 21 October 2022

  Blue Space Film Festival: The Andromeda Strain (M)

  A pandemic movie decades ahead of its time (1971) and based on Michael Crichton’s best-selling novel, this time the bug comes from outer space. After an errant satellite crashes to Earth, scientists hunker down in a state-of-the-art laboratory buried deep underground in a race against time to save humanity.

• From: Friday, 21 October 2022

  Blue Space Film Festival: The Thing (M)

  The master of horror John Carpenter (Halloween, Escape from New York) combines a superb performance from Kurt Russell’s with incredible visuals to create this chilling version of the classic movie The Thing. In 1982, polar researchers discover an alien spacecraft containing a shape-shifting other-worldly being. In the Antarctic, no one can hear you scream.

• From: Friday, 21 October 2022

  Blue Space Film Festival: Lucy (MA 15+)

  Lucy is a non-stop action thriller starring Scarlett Johansson and Morgan Freeman about a girl whose accidental exposure to a new drug radically changes her mental capacity. So transformed, Lucy morphs into a merciless warrior evolved beyond human logic.

• From: Saturday, 22 October 2022

  Blue Space Film Festival: Silent Running & Talk (G)

  Strap yourselves in and prepare for the jump to party speed with a futuristic night of intergalactic good times at the Saturday Gala Screening. We will be running a sci-fi dress up competition with prizes for the best outfits. Movie screening will be the 1972 enviro sci-fi classic Silent Running starting Bruce Dern. Pre-screening talk with guest speaker before the event. If that wasn't enough, free glass of bubbly on arrival. May the fun be with you!

• From: Saturday, 22 October 2022

  Blue Space Film Festival: Ex Machina (MA 15+)

  Meet the robot of your dreams. In the mountain retreat of an internet billionaire, a young man takes part in a strange experiment: testing an artificial intelligence, housed in the body of a beautiful robot girl (Alicia Vikander). But the experiment twists into a dark psychological battle, where loyalties are torn between man and machine.

• From: Saturday, 22 October 2022

  Blue Space Film Festival: The Creature from the Black Lagoon (PG)

  One of the most iconic science fiction movies, Creature from the Black Lagoon is a ground-breaking 1950s classic. When scientists exploring the Amazon River stumble upon a *missing link* connecting humans and fish, they plan to capture it for later study. The creature has plans of his own.