Create your best La Catrina makeup and follow the marigolds to NightQuarter for Día de los Muertos! As the boundary between our world and the spirit world dissolves, welcome the souls of the dead back for a night of food, drink and music. With a firebrand live show from mad mariachis Kallidad, roving Fridas and traditional food and drink.

USC and NightQuarter will be hosting Reconnect Festival 2021. As well as reconnecting the community to the arts with a range of works on display from third year Creative Industries students, Reconnect will join Australia’s Mexican andFirst Nations peoples to celebrate intercultural understanding of life, death and rebirth. Along with a traditional Day of the Dead offering and ceremony by Jazmine Productions, local Gubbi Gubbi representative Lyndon Davis will do a smoking ceremony and a Welcome to Country. Patrons will also be able to participate in planting rituals, fire ceremonies, artwork activations and workshops. Throughout the evening there will be a range of music, performances, panel discussions, readings and artworks to enjoy.

LIVE STAGE 

5.30pm – 5.50pm  Welcome to Country with Lyndon Davis and Gubbi Gubbi Dance 

5.50pm – 6.45pm  Day of the Dead Ceremony with Latin Jazmine 

7.00pm – 7.45pm  Leadership Panel “Rebirth and Regeneration” – Hosted by Rosanna Natoli with USC Vice Chancellor and President Helen Bartlett, Aunty Helena Goulash, Andrea Kirwin, and Elise Jione

8pm – 8.45pm Jamison 

9.00pm – 9.45pm  Jackson Family Band  

  

ENCHANTED GARDEN LIBRARY 

4pm – 5.30pm  Busking  

6.30pm – 7.00pm  Anthology Launch – Madness In Bloom

7.10pm – 7.40pm  Lightning Talk – “Fire, Rebirth, Sustainability”

7.50pm – 8.45pm  Spoken Word Poetry 

9pm – 9.45pm. Busking 

VIBES STAGE 

4pm – 5.30pm  Busking 

6.30pm – 6.45pm  Fire Performer 

7:30pm – 9:30pm  Kallidad 

  

OTHER ACTIVATIONS 

4pm – 5.30pm  Flower Workshop outside Repair Lab 

4pm – 5.30pm 6.30pm – 8.30pm. Until We Meet Again in the Repair Lab

4pm – 5.30pm | 6.30pm – 8.30pm. Live art mural painting

4pm – 5.30pm | 6.30pm – 9.30pm. Planting Ritual 

6.30pm – 9.30pm. Fire Ritual (with NQ staff and Theatre Students)

 
 
 Wonder Amusements
 
 A vintage carnival with dodgem cars, teacup ride, dodgem cars, photobooths for the perfect Instagram photo and jumping castle. Grab an Unlimited Wonder pass for unlimited rides throughout the night. 

 
 EVENT INFO

- This is a themed event in NightQuarter night markets. All that is required to attend is a night market entry pass. You can arrive at any time between 4pm-10pm and stay as long as you like!

- Children under 12 years must be accompanied by a guardian. Children over the 12 can attend without a guardian but must remain 3 metres away from bars. Concerts in NightQuarter Live have event-specific age requirements- please check event classification.

- Concerts regularly run alongside the night markets. A ticket to the NightQuarter Live arena is required for access into our main stage precinct to see the act (the concert tickets include night market entry passes). The night markets run every Fri and Sat from 4pm-10pm regardless of concerts.

- If you cannot attend, online entry passes can be exchanged for alternate dates. Contact Moshtix Tix support or NightQuarter support to claim.

- We welcome all people-friendly dogs (one pet per adult in certain areas only on a leash... clean up all accidents!)

- We accept companion cards. Please contact Moshtix Tix support or NightQuarter support to claim.

- Bags are checked on entry. Sealed water bottles and children’s bottles can be brought in, all other bottles will be emptied and can be refilled at the bars.

- Entry passes are available here or at our front gate on arrival.

Covid Safe Venue

A condition of taking part in this event is that attendees must check in via the Check In Qld app. The safety and wellbeing of all attendees and workers is our highest priority.

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