Calendar Celebrations Sorted
GO BIG OR GO HOME (not literally please guys)! We just want you to bring your best when it comes to massive calendar celebrations we put on for free. Quality shindigs like Christmas carols, Easter shows, New Year's Eve fireworks, cool kids' concerts and community fun days. NOTE: we tend to peak in peak season.
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22 Jun 2024 - 15 Jun 2024
Elvis: A Musical Revolution
A brand-new musical about the rock ‘n’ roll superstarGet your blue suede shoes ready! The brand new Elvis musical authorised by Elvis Presley Enterprises is coming to the Gold Coast! Celebrating the life and music of award-winning, cultural icon and rock ‘n’ roll superstar, Elvis Presley, this bio-musical explores pivotal moments in Elvis' life. From his childhood in Mississippi to his triumphant 68 Comeback Special, and ascent to become ‘The King of Rock ‘n’ Roll’. You’ll be singing along to all your favourite hits including Jailhouse Rock, Hound Dog, That’s All Right, All Shook Up, Suspicious Minds, Heartbreak Hotel, Burning Love, Blue Suede Shoes, Good Rockin’ Tonight, Can’t Help Falling In Love, Don’t Be Cruel, Are You Lonesome, Return To Sender, See See Rider, A Little Less Conversation and more. With an all-star Australian cast, dazzling choreography, and hit after hit, you simply can’t help falling in love. Don’t miss your only chance to see this musical spectacular in Queensland - it’s not going to Brisbane! Get all shook up and grab your tickets now!
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21 Jun 2024 (Monthly)
Big City Lights* Festival
Big City Lights* is a new festival of urban and digital design, digital culture, music and light taking place in the heart of Southport CBD. Following an extremely successful pilot program in 2022, Big City Lights* is back in winter 2024 in Southport over three weeks. The cutting-edge self-guided program will feature immersive audio-visual experiences, large-scale digital works, 3D-mapping and unexpected projection sites that will transform the Gold Coast’s everyday urban spaces. Big City Lights* will also feature live music and performances in venues and at outdoor sites across the Southport CBD, adding to the appeal of the free, family- friendly festival to a wide demographic of locals and drive-market visitors. Building facades and laneways in the city’s CBD will be transformed into hypnotic and technicolour displays by leading local and national artists working in the fields of light, installation, architecture, and digital design, complimented with live performances.
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23 Jun 2024
Urzila Carlson
ABOUT Australia’s favourite South African-New Zealander Urzila Carlson is bringing their new show - Just Jokes to The Star Gold Coast in 2024! According to Carlson, the show premise is simple. “Just Jokes is as it says on the label! Just jokes! Come for a show and leave with a sore face from laughing! Switch off and relax”, she said. An undoubted comedy workhorse, Urzila is currently at the top of her touring game. Urzila has sold out two tours of the United Kingdom and a European tour in the last twelve months. Urzila also managed to squeeze in a season at the prestigious invitation-only Just For Laughs comedy festival in Montreal. In November, she will also host The Just For Laughs All-Star Gala alongside Dara O Briain, Joanne McNally and Russell Kane at the Sydney Opera House. A deadset fan favourite (quite literally), Urzila is now a three-time winner of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival's People's Choice Award for most tickets sold at the Festival. She is also a household name in Australia, not least of all as a regular member of the panel of Network Ten's Have You Been Paying Attention? She was a contestant in season 2 of Taskmaster NZ in New Zealand, now airing on BINGE in Australia and Channel 4 in the United Kingdom. Urzila made her UK TV debut in 2023, appearing on QI during her September overseas tour. She also appears on Celebrity Gogglebox Australia alongside her mates, Julia Morris and Nazeem Hussain. Don’t miss out on Urzila’s all-new show ‘Just Jokes’ at The Star Gold Coast on Sunday, June 23, 2024! “Effortlessly likeable... stream of belly-laughs.” - The Age “Carlson is a gifted and accomplished comedian - an absolute must-see.” - Appetite for the Arts “Belly laughs and guffaws aplenty.” ★★★★★ - The Music COST:From $71.30* *For any ticketing enquiries please email the thestargcbo@ticketek.com.au Important information: Subject to availability, change and cancellation. All guests under the age of 18 must be accompanied by an adult or guardian at all times. *A $7.30 service/delivery fee applies to all internet and telephone bookings through Ticketek.
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From now until 25 Sep 2024
Little Farmer Humpty Day - Kids Event
Come along to the camel farm for the school holidays, Little Farmer Humpty Day, and don't forget to dress like a farmer! Your children won’t forget this informative experience at Summer Land Camels as they are taken on a farm tour and introduced to the friendly camels. The 30 minute Kids farm tour includes patting and cuddling the camels, kids' activities and miniature goats. Make sure you bring your camera to get the perfect shot with your favourite camel! Please wear closed in shoes and a smile! While you are here, you can feed the friendly camels, shop around in the Skincare and Souvenir Shop, visit the Homestead Cafe for a delicious breakfast, brunch or lunch and try their famous Camelcino. All their dairy products are also available for purchase straight from the farm, so bring an esky or a cooler bag.
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29 Jun 2024
Scenic Rim's Winter Harvest Festival
Winter Harvest Festival is a fabulous, relaxed day out for families and food lovers alike. As the signature event of Eat Local Month, this authentic food festival proudly showcases the best of the Scenic Rim's culinary offerings. It's an invitation to literally eat and drink your way around the region, connect with local producers and watch cooking demonstrations led by world-renowned chefs all in one flavour-filled day! So prepare to delight your palate with an endless selection of tasting plates, discover new wines, and stock up on fresh produce while immersing yourself in the excitement of the Tractor Pulling Competition, where teams compete against a 12-tonne tractor. Which team will clock the fastest time and win the prize? For the first time in over a decade, the Winter Harvest Festival is moving to the charming country town of Kalbar, promising a picturesque setting for a day of festivities. Pack your empty eskies, round up the kids, and gather your friends for the ultimate family-friendly farm gate event and an absolute overload of country hospitality! Visit the website for tickets and further information.
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06 Jul 2024 - 07 Jul 2024
Laneway Kids at Cavill Lane
Stop into Cavill Lane on the 6th and or 7th of July for free family friendly activities and entertainment between 12 and 2pm. They invite you to have some school holiday fun, right in the heart of the Gold Coast. Look out for free live music, roving juggler and more. Extend your stay by dining at one of the many restaurants, further the fun by visiting one of the new attractions and enjoy your time at the place where food, people and entertainment meet. Visit the website for details. Event schedule may be subjected to change.
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12 Jul 2024
From Campfire to Stage Light
From Campfire to Stage LightFrom Campfire to Stage Light is an epic journey toward self-determination and Indigenous pride, as told through the life experience of David Bindi Hudson, well-known and loved cultural leader and global ambassador for Indigenous Australia. David is the ultimate storyteller, singer-songwriter, dancer, visual artist and actor. The performance is brought to life through storytelling, songs, and extraordinary visual design. The stories take us from David’s traditional lands to the international mega stages as David traversed the world musically, educating people about his culture. He co-founded the award-winning dance troupe ‘Tjapukai’, whose achievements include being Australia’s longest-running theatrical production. David has emerged as a strong cultural leader with a significant arts practice. This play, directed by nationally recognised First Nations Director, Isaac Drandic, with music and lyrics by Nereace, Nigel Pegrum and David Bindi Hudson, will take the audience on a culturally rich journey of Far North Queensland and the world. ‘A captivating Indigenous life story told through words and music.’ ArtsHub Recommended ages 6+
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13 Jul 2024
Joel Creasey: Boom!
Joel Creasey: Boom!After several years break from the festival circuit riding the radio airwaves as part of the countries #1 drive time show, Australia's 'Crown Prince of Comedy' returns to his natural habitat. The stage. Join Joel as he does what he does best, shares behind-the-scenes anecdotes from his ridiculous, rollercoaster of a life. From family, friends and fame. Nobody is safe. Unless of course you've got a ticket to the show... Joel prefers to talk behind people's back. It's more polite. And funnier. ★★★★1/2 'a genuine master of the art.' Herald Sun 'regular fits of laughter.' NZ Herald ‘Creasey is an unstoppable force and the crown prince of Aussie comedy.’ The Daily Telegraph ★★★★★' He's a rapid-fire storyteller with energy that captivates the audience and leaves no dull moment in his wake.' Beat Presented by Live Nation & Jubilee Street
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26 Jul 2024
Wayfinder
Prepare to be swept off your feet when one of Australia’s leading performing arts companies, Dancenorth, brings its explosive and transcendent production, Wayfinder, to the Gold Coast. Dubbed ‘a tonic of the times’, Wayfinder combines physical exuberance, sonic resonance, and collective exhilaration to create an explosive, kaleidoscopic fusion of dance, music, and visual art. Directed by Amber Haines and Kyle Page, Wayfinder sees Dancenorth Australia join forces with three-time Grammy nominated Australian band Hiatus Kaiyote and sound artist Byron J. Scullin to create a soaring composition, evoking pleasure and possibility. An undulating sound sculpture condenses and expands this scintillating score, immersing audiences in a new sonic dimension. Japanese-Australian visual artist Hiromi Tango offers her joyful, heart-expanding artwork to both the stage design and costumes for this sublime new performance, featuring lighting design by Niklas Pajanti. Navigating bigger and more ancient reference points, Wayfinder recognises connection as the central axis of the universe. By the stars, the waves, and the sun, we find our way.
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From now until 11 Aug 2024
BLEACH* Festival
BLEACH* is one of Australia’s leading and most exciting site-specific contemporary arts programs. Presented by Experience Gold Coast, the festival celebrates the city’s most dynamic and adventurous artists, welcomes renowned Australian and international collaborators and engages a broad audience through a range of events. Utilising the Gold Coast’s world-famous natural landscape as unconventional venues, Bleach* aims to deliver incredible arts and cultural experiences that challenge expectations, change perceptions and provide a unique and authentic sense of place, inspiring both locals and visitors alike. The full re-imagined program with a full line-up of artists and events for the program coming soon!
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02 Aug 2024
FOURTEEN
FOURTEENFollowing a mega sold-out season in 2022, Fourteen is a heart-wrenching and hilarious theatre production set to a 90s soundtrack, with hits from Shania Twain to The Spice Girls! The year is 1999 and Shannon has a secret. Shannon Molloy is a year 9 student at an all-boys rugby-mad Catholic school in regional Queensland, with a secret that no one can ever find out. Shannon is gay. Based on the best-selling memoir by award-winning journalist Shannon Molloy, Fourteen is the inspirational true story of growing up gay in central Queensland, transformed into a powerful must-see theatre production by nationally acclaimed Shake & Stir Theatre Co. Set to a nostalgic mixtape of 90s bangers from all your faves, from Shania Twain to The Spice Girls, Fourteen addresses the trials and tribulations of growing up with honesty, humour, and heart. Equal parts uplifting and heart wrenching, we follow Shannon in a year of self-discovery set amidst a backdrop of torment, bullying and betrayal – not just at the hands of his peers, but by the adults who were meant to protect him. This moving coming-of-age memoir about adversity and tragedy is also a story of resilience, hope and hilarity – thanks to the love of a group of close-knit friends, a fiercely protective family, an extraordinary mother and... S Club 7. So press play on your discman, lose yourself in a pumping 90s pop remix and take a technicoloured trip back to your teens. This is Fourteen.. ★ ★★★★ ‘The perfect night at the theatre.’ Broadway World ‘Funny, sad and true, this is a play that will foster conversation, and save lives.’ The Australian AUSLAN INTERPRETATION: The performance at 7.30pm will be Auslan Interpreted, select the Auslan reserved seats when purchasing your tickets. If you require assistant, please contact Box Office on (07) 5588 4000 or email boxoffice@hota.com.au. Photo by David Fell
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11 Aug 2024
Celeste Barber at The Star
Australia’s queen of comedy, Celeste Barber, has announced a 2024 tour of her new show Backup Dancer. Thrilled to be touring her new show, Celeste said, “I’m excited to tell some jokes, relive some awkward memories and high kick my way across the stage with my new show Backup Dancer.” Since humble beginnings in Australia’s largest open mic competition RAW Comedy in 2015, Celeste has gone on to be internationally praised by likes of Variety; scored legions of fans including Reese Witherspoon, Amy Schumer, Chelsea Handler, Cindy Crawford and Tom Ford; and had her own special Fine, Thanks filmed at the Sydney Opera House released on Netflix. Not to mention 100s of sold-out shows in Australia, Canada, USA, New Zealand and across Europe. Her memoir Challenge Accepted! was released to critical acclaim in Australia, USA, France, Germany, Russia and Poland. In early 2020, she used her monumental platform to raise $52 million for the NSW RFS during Australia’s most devastating bushfire season. Last year she starred in the number one Netflix series Wellmania and previously in the award-winning ABC series The Letdown; She will soon be seen in the Australian feature film Runt alongside Jai Courtney and Deb Mailman. Don’t miss your chance to spend an evening with one of the country’s sharpest comedic minds as she premieres her new unmissable show.
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06 Sep 2024 - 08 Sep 2024
SPRINGTIME
Keen for some live music with the golden sands beneath your feet and the ocean breeze in your hair? SPRINGTIME will be back in 2024. Open to all ages, the three-day non-ticketed festival is held throughout the streets, venues and beach of Surfers Paradise. The 2023 lineup was led by electronic duo Bag Raiders (DJ Set), New Zealand alt-pop artist BENEE, indie-pop icon Matt Corby and heaps more local artists like BOO SEEKA, Babe Rainbow, Eliza & The Delusionals, as well as grentperez, Sycco and more. More than just the music, SPRINGTIME 2023 also featured a massive arts program that included live murals and Quest of Chaos, a brand-new participatory performance installation that’s one part obstacle course, one part live action video game, and one part retro art installation. The Vans Skate Plaza was another festival highlight, where experienced skaters can shred it down the Surfers Paradise Esplanade or witness the talent of skaters from the Vans Skate Team in professional demos. Follow SPRINGTIME on Instagram, TikTok and Facebook to stay up to date on all the latest announcements for 2024!
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07 Sep 2024
The Best of Arj Barker
The Best of Arj BarkerBack by popular demand: The Best of Arj Barker: Power Hour. What do you get when you take your very best jokes from over the last 30 years, lovingly restore, refine and remaster each one, jam them all into a single hour, and finally, sprinkle in some brand-new material with a hint of improv? You get the best of Arj Barker. Also known as Power Hour. Having spent more time in our country than his own, Australia’s funniest adopted Californian has come to understand our culture perhaps even better than we do ourselves. He bloody well better, mate! This funny bugger has appeared all over Aussie TV, including the original Hey Hey It’s Saturday (yep, he’s been coming here for a while). Presented by Mary Tobin Presents
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10 Sep 2024
Whalebone
WhaleboneNominated for the Green Room Awards, Best Set and Costume Design Welcome to the ‘Depository’, a mysterious bureau that’s seen better days. The last, rather whimsical worker continues with a wondrous task. With the help of some odd and amazing machinery, he extracts the stories that live in old, discarded objects and safeguards these memories in the magical ‘mother of stories’, the place where all stories are kept. This strange and vulnerable world starts to fall apart when the place is under attack by a rogue A.I. who tries to install malware…. and only two unlikely buddies can save the ‘Depository’ and its stories. Storytelling versus data-management, human versus machine: a gripping and humorous clash between the analog and the digital, told through dazzling video and computer animations, quirky contraptions, robotics, clunky inventions and flying objects. Physical reality turns virtual and back in this family show about what makes us human, the stories we tell, and the artificial intelligence knocking at our doors. Telling a tale full of magic and action, WHALEBONE is funny, intriguing and touching. It opens the door to a fantastical world where the future of humanity is under scrutiny. Performed by the imaginative mind of clown, tinkerer, inventor and comedian Jens Altheimer, winner of the Adelaide Fringe Award for Best Production for Children with Squaring the Wheel and nominated for the same award with Loose Ends. ’This is the kind of show your kids will love. It is full of junk, fantastical objects, artificial intelligence, drama, thrills and puzzle solving.’ Samsara Dunston ★ ★ ★ ★ Links to Curriculum: Design and Technologies 3-4:Examine design and technologies occupations and factors including sustainability that impact on the design of products, services and environments to meet community need.Use materials, components, tools, equipment and techniques to safely make designed solutions Science 1-6:Describe how people use science in their daily lives, including using patterns to make scientific predictions. Digital Technology 1-6:Explain how people in design and technologies occupations consider competing factors including sustainability in the design of products, services and environments.Define problems with given or co-developed design criteria and by creating user stories. Media 1-6:Develop media production skills to communicate ideas, perspectives and/or meaning through manipulation of media languages, including images, sounds, texts and/or interactive elements, and media technologies. Visual Art 1-6:Explore ways that visual conventions, visual arts processes and materials are combined to communicate ideas, perspectives and/or meaning in visual arts across cultures, times, places and/or other contexts. General Capabilities: Critical and Creative Thinking, Digital Literacy, Literacy, Numeracy, Cross-Curriculum Priorities: Sustainability. Recommended for ages 6+.
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From now until 15 Sep 2024
Crafted Beer Festival
Crafted Beer Festival is the Gold Coast's premier craft beer festival, held annually beachside in Broadbeach. Get up close and personal with brewers and try some of the 400 plus new and exciting brews on offer, including festival exclusives that have been batched specifically for the festival and many of the seasonal small-batch releases. Beer won’t be the only thing cracking at Crafted. It'll be Happy Hour all weekend long as some of Australia's most renowned acts hit the stage. Unleash your inner foodie as you chomp your way through the huge selection of gourmet delights from South East Queensland's tastiest food trucks. From low and slow barbeque to gooey arancini, saucy hot wings and charcuterie tasting plates - you'll be drooling from beer to beer with the delectable delights on offer at Crafted! Still in pursuit of hoppy-ness? There'll be a slew of sippin' good activties like beer yoga, a ping pong competition and hot wing eating competition. Stay tuned for the announcement of all of the details, and head to craftedfestival.com.au for more info.
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