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Find Your Perspective
There's a rumour that we're not a very "artsy" place. Good thing it's just a rumour. Galleries, theatre groups, nostalgia museums, sculpture festivals and indigenous performances just brush the surface of a cultural canvas that goes far deeper. As they say - art is purely a matter of perspective after all. Looking for more inspiration? Check out the cultural highlights of the Gold Coast hinterland.
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22 Nov 2025 - 16 Jan 2026 (Annual)
Candlelight: Tribute to Ed Sheeran
⭐ Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations like never seen before in Gold Coast. Get your tickets now to discover the music of Ed Sheeran at The Imperial Hotel Gold Coast under the gentle glow of candlelight. General Info 📍 Venue: The Imperial Hotel Gold Coast 📅 Dates and times: select your dates/times directly in the ticket selector ⏳ Duration: 60 minutes. Doors open 30 minutes before the show and close 5 minutes prior to the start. Late arrivals will not be permitted 👤 Age requirement: 8 years old or older. Anyone under the age of 16 must be accompanied by an adult ♿ Accessibility: this venue is wheelchair accessible. Please see our FAQs linked below regarding wheelchair seating. ❓ View the FAQs for this event here 🪑 Seating is assigned on a first come first served basis in each zone 🕯️ If you would like to book a private concert or buy regular tickets for a large group (+30 people), click here 🎻 Check out all the Candlelight concerts in Gold Coast 🎁 To treat your friends and family to a Candlelight gift card, click here Programme Shape of You Perfect Bad Habits Lego House Galway Girl Thinking Out Loud Happier The A Team Beautiful People Afterglow Photograph Shivers Castle on the Hill Program subject to change Performers String quartet - Paradiso Strings Seating Map
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22 Nov 2025 - 23 Nov 2025
Fire 5 Netball Tournament
Fire5 – Netball Reimagined. Fast. Fierce. Unforgettable. Fire5 is a Fast5 Netball Tournament taking place on the Gold Coast. It features some of the world's greatest netballers taking on some of our brightest grassroots talent in what's set to be an epic show down with AUD44,000 in prize money up for grabs.
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23 Nov 2025
Pho3nix Queensland Triathlon Series - Round 2 - Robina
Join in the fun at Australia’s largest triathlon series, the Pho3nix Queensland Triathlon Series. Welcoming athletes of all ages and abilities, they are lucky enough to host the events at some of Queensland’s most iconic and picturesque locations. What are you waiting for? There has never been a better time to tri!
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25 Nov 2025
Movie Mornings at Currumbin RSL - November
Join us for our FREE Monthly Movie Mornings at Currumbin RSL. Each month a new movie is selected and screened upstairs in our Waterside Function space. Limited spots are available and registration is required for this event via the website or contact reception - 55347999November movie: The Bishop's Wife
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26 Nov 2025
Drag Queen Bingo | 26 November
This ain't no nanna bingo! Grab your friends and get ready for an exciting evening of Drag Queen Bingo, games and fun hosted by Ivyy Monroe & Lulu Lemans! You won't want to the epic tunes from DJ VICES! Enjoy dinner & drinks from the yummy food vendors at Miami Marketta, and get ready for an unforgettable evening! This is a MA15+ event and a safe and accepting space! No children or babies - no exceptions.
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27 Nov 2025
2025 Gold Coast Music Awards
2025 Gold Coast Music AwardsThe Gold Coast’s premier music industry event, the Gold Coast Music Awards is back in 2025, ready to shine a spotlight on the Gold Coast’s best and brightest music talent! Join us on Thursday 27 November at HOTA for the biggest night in Gold Coast music. Celebrate alongside friends, finalists and the local and national music industry with red carpet arrivals from 5pm, followed by an electrifying Awards Ceremony in Theatre 1 with unforgettable live performances from some of the Gold Coast’s biggest music names, and an epic after-party to keep the celebration going Get in early and purchase your tickets now to save 20% off with early bird pricing before October 9. This year’s Gold Coast Music Awards is an event not to be missed!Ages: All Ages however under 18s must be accompanied by an adultGold Coast Music Awards is produced by Gold Coast Music Network and proudly supported by City of Gold Coast and HOTA, Home of the Arts.
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28 Nov 2025
Tamborine's BIGGEST Christmas Twilight Market
Tamborine's BIGGEST Christmas Twilight Market is back in business, we'll see you on Friday, 28th November 2025, from 5pm to 9pmTamborine's BIGGEST Christmas Twilight Market is back in business, we'll see you on Friday, 28th November 2025, from 5pm to 9pm at the Bearded Dragon Hotel Tamborine!STALL HOLDERS & MORE INFO www.beardeddragon.com.au/mammothmarkets/Why not kick off your Christmas shopping in true Tamborine style?Expect over 100 vibrant market stalls, live entertainment, amazing food, and a magical festive atmosphere! Knock over your Christmas list early, while enjoying fun for the whole family.WHAT TO EXPECT?!Free Entry & Parking100+ Market Stalls – unique gifts, local makers, Christmas treasuresCocktails & Cold BeersMeet & Greet our donkeys, alpacas & goatsLive Music & Kids ActivitiesSnake Show, Pony Rides & GamesStay & Play Accommodation SpecialsFestive Surprises & CompetitionsPLUS+++ there’s ALWAYS more surprises around the corner!Follow us on Facebook & Instagram (@beardeddragonhotel) to stay in the loop on stallholder announcements and entertainment updates!Event DetailsFriday, 28th November 20255:00pm – 9:00pmBearded Dragon Hotel, TamborineMake this Christmas season extra special – we can’t wait to see you there!www.beardeddragon.com.au/mammothmarkets/COST: Free
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28 Nov 2025
Teardrops on My Dildo
Teardrops on My DildoFabulous, filthy and downright hilarious! Brace yourselves for a wild ride of side-splitting hilarity with the modern-day Queen of Sass, as she takes you on a laugh-out-loud adventure of her trials and tribulations of parenting, dating and all things female. Winner: 'Best Comedy' Newcastle Fringe 2022. ★★★★1/2 'Vanessa Larry Mitchell is as far from demure as you could possibly imagine, but wow, will she make you laugh.... beyond naughty and will have tears of laughter rolling down your face' - Fringefeed ★★★★ "You will literally laugh for an hour. And that is a rare thing. Vanessa is more relaxed and direct behind a comedy mic than anyone I have seen" - The Scotsman ★★★★ "You know when you go out to a club with a group of girlfriends and the handbags are thrown down, and you're dancing all night completely carefree as if the rest of the world don't exist, and you only stop to rest over a few drinks with teeny umbrellas, and there's always that one friend that is side-splittingly funny and holds court all evening? Yep, that's exactly what Vanessa Larry Mitchell's one-woman show feels like" - Mindshar ★★★★ "You will literally laugh for an hour. And that is a rare thing. Vanessa is more relaxed and direct behind a comedy mic than anyone I have seen" - The Scotsman ★★★★ "You know when you go out to a club with a group of girlfriends and the handbags are thrown down, and you're dancing all night completely carefree as if the rest of the world don't exist, and you only stop to rest over a few drinks with teeny umbrellas, and there's always that one friend that is side-splittingly funny and holds court all evening? Yep, that's exactly what Vanessa Larry Mitchell's one-woman show feels like" - Mindshare
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From now until 07 Dec 2025
Festival of Touch
The Festival of Touch is a 10 day celebration of all things Touch Football. The event aims to invigorate, inspire and connect the touch football community in Queensland. The 10-day Festival encompasses two flagship touch football events on the Queensland Touch Football (QTF) calendar, including the Queensland State Cup and Queensland All Nations, which are held on consecutive weekends on the Gold Coast. The weeklong festival includes professional development opportunities for administrators and sport enthusiasts through the QTF Conferences, the Queensland Touch Football Awards Night, which celebrates the Queensland touch footballs inspiring community and a South East Queensland Schools Gala Day to engage and excite local schools in touch football. If that is not enough, based on the picturesque Gold Coast, participants can take the opportunity to enjoy a holiday shared with family and friends.
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29 Nov 2025
Aladdin theatre play
Aladdin is an adaptation of the Disney movie performed by Starlettes Drama Theatre TeensCOST: On Sale Oct 1 at 12:00 AM
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29 Nov 2025
St Andrews Day Pipe Celebration Dinner
Remember the tunes of Amazing Grace or The Bluebells of Scotland? Some of these amazing classics and more will be featured during the evening. On arrival be welcomed by the entire Brisbane Pipe Band. As the evening progresses so does the entertainment with fantastic not to be forgotten performances right up close and personal. If you're a passionate Scot or just love the pipes then this is an event not to be missed. There will be a three course dinner served with optional Haggis or not as a main course. Entree: Peppercorn pate. Main: Haggis or, Vegetarian nut roast, Roast Beef or Pork, Chicken Leek and Bacon Pie, lemon pepper cod Dessert: Apple & Cinnamon Bread Pudding.
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30 Nov 2025
ADORN- Save the date
About SAVE THE DATE for our next Adorn gathering. Enjoy markets for your pre-christmas gifts throughout the afternoon with dinner and dessert options available then a lovely evening planned filled with encouragement, guest speaker, worship and ministry time, a chance to lean in and look up. Any ladies are welcome, you will be notified with proper booking details and information closer to date. Date Sunday 30 November 2025 4:00 PM - 9:00 PM (UTC+10) Life Development Centre67 Warrener Street, Nerang QLD 4211 Cost: Free
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30 Nov 2025
GOLD: The Ultimate ABBA Show - Mudgeeraba
You can dance! You can jive! Gold – The Ultimate ABBA Show are back to celebrate 50 years of Mamma Mia! ABBA first burst onto the scene with their triumphant 1974 Eurovision hit "Waterloo" and haven't left the charts since! With two Greatest Hits albums, A smash hit musical and record breaking live shows, the ABBA lives on! Celebrating 50 years since ABBA's self-titled masterpiece which birthed smash hits "Mamma Mia" "SOS" and "I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do", this brand new concert features all of ABBA chart topping hits from "Waterloo", and "Dancing Queen" right through to iconic fan favourites like "Does Your Mother Know" and "Gimme Gimme Gimme (A Man After Midnight)", Gold – The Ultimate ABBA show recreate "ABBA" in their prime! GOLD - The Ultimate ABBA Show first landed in Australia for their "New Arrival Tour" in 2014 and since then, have performed to over 30,000 people across 80 shows, playing to all four corners of the country including packed houses at Sydney's State Theatre and Melbourne's famed Palms at Crown, earning a reputation as a band "that's an inspiration to Abba itself" (Review – WeekendNotes.com). Unleash your inner dancing queen in this special two-hour concert production with Gold - The Ultimate ABBA Show!
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03 Dec 2025
The Nutcracker: Hinterland Dance Academy
The Nutcracker: Hinterland Dance AcademyStep into a world of magic and wonder with Hinterland Dance Academy’s enchanting production of The Nutcracker. Featuring a talented cast of young dancers from across the Gold Coast, this timeless holiday ballet follows Clara on a dreamy Christmas Eve adventure filled with toy soldiers, snowflakes, and the dazzling Sugar Plum Fairy. Set to Tchaikovsky’s beloved score, The Nutcracker is a festive celebration of music, movement, and imagination. With beautiful costumes, captivating choreography, and a touch of holiday sparkle, this family-friendly performance promises to delight audiences of all ages.
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05 Dec 2025
Majelen and JC and the Tree - Mt Nimmel Hall
This December, two of Australia's most exciting independent acts—Majelen and JC and the Tree—join forces for an unforgettable East Coast tour. Fresh off the release of her debut album Stuck With You, recorded at the iconic Abbey Road Studios, Majelen is quickly becoming one of Australia's most captivating new voices. Known for her percussive guitar style, raw vocal energy, and genre-bending acoustic sound, Majelen has spent 2025 touring with the Acoustic Guitar Spectacular and Mitch King, while living full-time on the road in her converted bus. Entirely self-managed and fiercely independent, she continues to carve her own path with honest storytelling and a DIY spirit that resonates deeply with audiences. Sharing the stage is folk-rock fusion duo JC and the Tree, whose soaring violin melodies, earthy guitar tones, and heartfelt harmonies have inspired fans across Australia and beyond. Drawing from their Sunshine Coast roots, they create soundscapes that capture the beauty of nature and the connection between people and place. With performances at major festivals including Glastonbury, Splendour in the Grass, Bluesfest, and WOMAD, JC and the Tree bring a wealth of experience, passion, and authenticity to every show. Together, Majelen and JC and the Tree promise an evening of powerful music, uplifting storytelling, and a celebration of artistry that is both intimate and unforgettable.
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05 Dec 2025
The Imperfects
The ImperfectsWe’re all imperfect. On this podcast, founder of The Resilience Project Hugh van Cuylenburg, his good friend Ryan Shelton, and only one of their brothers, Josh van Cuylenburg, talk to a variety of interesting people who vulnerably share their own struggles and imperfections, or expertly pass on their wisdom on the subject of imperfection. Whether it’s in The Vulnerabilitea House, The Academy of Imperfection, or with our very own psychologist, Dr Emily, The Imperfects are here to find some valuable takeaways we can all apply to our own imperfect lives.
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