Liveworks

Liveworks Festival is Performance Space’s flagship festival of live art and performance, spanning dance, music, theatre, installation, experimentation and celebration.

This year’s program will again take over Carriageworks in October 2025, with a festival of art from across Australia and the Asia Pacific.

This year’s artists explore how we practise care and intimacy, hold each other in collapse, find release and joy in unexpected places, and the power of small actions to make big changes.

They offer us spaces to reflect, come together surprisingly, and imagine new and alternative worlds. Performance Space invites you to join them on a journey of imagination, joy, rage, and contemplation of our most fundamental human experiences – love, life, death, and dancing.

Far from the formulaic, our digital commissions and programs explore new possibilities for liveness and expand our sense of what live performance can mean in the digital realm.

This festival brings contemporary art alive. Whether the performing or the visual arts take your fancy, you’ll find plenty to enjoy. Liveworks allows you to discuss featured exhibits with the artists who created them.

There are many events during the festival where we can’t fit all the information on one page. Please check out the official website for full event details, dates, times, and ticket options.

Getting There

Eveleigh is an inner-city suburb located about 3 kilometres south of the CBD. You can also get there via public transport (bus or train services). If you catch a train, it’s a short walk from Macdonaldtown Station on the Main Suburban Line.