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01 Jun 2025
Ben Knight - The Parent Teacher interview
Ben Knight - The Parent Teacher interviewEver wondered what teachers really think about you, your kids and the education system? Come along to The Parent Teacher Night and enjoy an hour of brutally honest comedy, hosted by teacher Ben Knight, to find out!
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04 Jun 2025 - 08 Jun 2025
Cooly Rocks On
Come celebrate the motors, music and lifestyle of yesteryear! Cooly Rocks On will be back at Coolangatta on the Gold Coast! Featuring one of Australia’s best Show ‘N’ Shine displays, the festival showcases an impressive collection of hot rods, kustom vehicles, lowbrow art and more, with more than 900 vehicles lining the streets of Coolangatta. As for the music, some of the best rock ‘n’ roll, swing, rockabilly and tribute artists from around the world will take to the stage throughout the festival. Cooly Rocks On is also one of two festivals held in Australia to host an official preliminary round of the Ultimate Elvis Tribute Artist Contest, with the winner heading straight to Elvis Week in Memphis, USA. The annual Cooly Rocks On Pin-up Pageant is another festival favourite and for those in need of some retro goods and memorabilia, make sure to check out the Nostalgia Markets on the Coolangatta beachfront. With many free and ticketed entertainment options across the action-packed five-day festival, they can’t wait to turn back the clock on Coolangatta!
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07 Jun 2025 - 14 Jun 2025
Solento Surf Festival
The Solento Surf Festival will be an all-ages, week long festival hosted at multiple locations throughout the Gold Coast, Burleigh Heads, HOTA and the Mondrian Gold Coast. The community will enjoy film screenings, live music, panel conversations, art shows and surf contests with world-class surfers and top-tier creatives.
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13 Jun 2025
Nurse Georgie Carroll: Infectious
Nurse Georgie Carroll: InfectiousGeorgie Carroll is back with her brand-new show, INFECTIOUS An undeniable live comedy powerhouse and a natural storyteller, she’s razor sharp and riotous. Nurse turned comedian, Georgie Carroll is not only brilliantly funny, she is unstoppable on the comedy circuit having performed her smash hit award winning show Sista Flo 2.0 for three solid years of sold out seasons (UK, NZ, AU) . Don’t miss her brand new show! “Really Funny… Just Brilliant’’ Simon Cowell ★★★★★ “Exceptional” Mervyn Stutters Pick of The Fringe ★★★★★ "Nurse Georgie Carroll proves that laughter is the best medicine & you cannot miss your dose!" Lost in Theatre Land UK ★★★★★ ''Sublime comedy'' Glam Adelaide ★★★★★ "Rollicking, riotous comedy'' The Age For more Georgie visit georgiecarroll.com
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27 Jun 2025
Mr Red Light
Mr Red LightWild slapstick, the meaning of life, falling in love – suddenly the pie shop is a place where anything can happen.Mr Red Light is a man who attracts bad luck. So naturally, when he tries to rob a bank he fails miserably – and ends up in a pie shop dealing with three very uncooperative hostages and the world’s worst police negotiator.As time ticks by, Mr Red Light and his captives play a game of getting to know you. With nowhere to run and nothing to lose, they form an unlikely bond. And mysteriously, Mr Red Light seems to know more about his hostages’ lives than is possible.Created by the award winning Nightsong team (Te Pō, Spirit House, 360) “who make the impossible work” (Stuff), Mr Red Light is one of the funniest and most outrageously original NZ plays to hit the stage in years. Mr Red Light is a fool or a prophet. But either way he’ll will remind you how wonderful life can be.
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28 Jun 2025
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? 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! Tickets go on sale April 2025. Visit our website for more information.
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04 Jul 2025 - 20 Jul 2025
The Lord of the Rings – A Musical Tale
The Lord of the Rings– A Musical TaleEmbark on a new journey, as this timeless tale unfolds in a breathtaking, critically acclaimed theatrical production. The production will star some of Australia’s most acclaimed musical theatre performers and actor-musicians including Jemma Rix as Galadriel, Ian Stenlake as Saruman, Rob Mallett as Strider and Rarmian Newton as Frodo Baggins. Take your seat, in the company of Hobbits, and join us for a once-in-a-lifetime theatrical event that will enchant both lifelong fans and new generations alike. Hailed “The greatest show on Middle-earth” by The Guardian, U.K, the legend returns to capture our imaginations and hearts, like never before. Adventure awaits…
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25 Jul 2025
Macbeth
Macbeth“What's Done Cannot Be Undone” Experience the premiere of a fresh, captivating production of Shakespeare’s classic, Macbeth. This dynamic new adaptation brings a fresh perspective to one of literature's greatest plays. An unexpected prophecy at the close of a devastating war sends a national hero and his brilliant wife on a feverish and murderous quest for absolute power. With startlingly beautiful language, Shakespeare’s revered tragedy tears open the thin fabric between the temporal and magical worlds. This muscular, contemporary production looks at today’s world through Macbeth’s eyes – an epoch where double speak is rife, where violence is a modern ecstasy and true loyalty is our most valuable commodity. Shakespeare combines Scottish and English history with Greek myth to one simple end – to capture what it is to be human. What happens to us when we sacrifice our humanity to get ahead? We live in such a time, an unprecedented era that idolises fame and celebrity above leadership and morality. In such a time and place, perhaps even nature begins to fight back. A boldly imaginative, fully contemporary and brand new production of Shakespeare’s Macbeth from Sport for Jove that is true to the text and full of engaging revelations, a wonderful experience for students and teachers.
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26 Jul 2025
Summer Land Bush Festival
Join the Summer Land Bush Festival for an unforgettable country experience while supporting regional and rural businesses, families, producers and makers from across Queensland! Eat, shop, have a great time with friends, enjoy the stunning views from our property, and relax to the sounds of a local entertainer while you browse through the stalls. Enjoy authentic "Bush Entertainment" and a country market featuring over 100 stalls! Pat and Feed the Camels, take a camel ride and enjoy food and beverages while enjoying the entertainment. With plenty of on-site parking available, it's easy to spend the day at the Summer Land Bush Festival. Sorry, no pets allowed.
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26 Jul 2025
Guy Montgomery
I’ve Noticed So Many Things, It’d Be Unfair To Keep Them To MyselfAward-winning Kiwi comedian, podcaster and improviser Guy Montgomery brings his new stand-up show ‘I’ve Noticed So Many Things, It’d Be Unfair To Keep Them To Myself’ to Australia in 2025. He’s well known to Australian audiences through TV shows like Guy Montgomery’s Guy Mont-Spelling Bee, Have You Been Paying Attention and Thank God You’re Here. The national tour will include dates at the Adelaide Fringe Festival, the iconic Atheneum Theatre in Melbourne – where Montgomery will play his biggest Melbourne International Comedy Festival shows to date, the Perth Comedy Festival and the Sydney Comedy Festival, before shows in Brisbane, Newcastle, Wollongong, the Gold Coast and wrapping in Geelong. Montgomery said, “People often wonder what I get up to when I'm not relaying my observations about the world to them and I'm finally ready to talk. The truth is whenever I'm not relaying my observations, I am out in the community, harvesting a fresh crop of bespoke observations. That's what this show is about.” The shows follow Montgomery’s sold out 2024 tour ‘Over 50,000,000 Guy Fans Can’t Be Wrong’ that saw him perform in Australia, New Zealand and the UK. In addition this year, Montgomery’s growing popularity in Australia led to him hosting the Opening Night Comedy Allstars Supershow at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival and saw his TV series Guy Montgomery’s Mont-Spelling Bee premiere on ABC TV. Join Guy for a chance to think "I've also noticed that" or "I had not noticed that but now I think about it, that is a bit what it is like." "One of Oceania's premier observational comedians" - The Age “This was like a masterclass in stand-up comedy.” - NZ Herald
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31 Jul 2025 - 10 Aug 2025
BLEACH 2025
BLEACH* 2025 is coming back!Join us for 11 days of live music, visual art, spectacle, opera, storytelling and feasting. Sign up to stay in the know.
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06 Aug 2025 - 10 Aug 2025
The Play That Goes Wrong
The Play That Goes WrongThe longest running comedy in London, the smash-hit Olivier and Tony-Award-winning, The Play That Goes Wrong, is coming to the Gold Coast! A hilarious hybrid of Monty Python and Sherlock Holmes, things go from bad to utterly disastrous when The Cornley Drama Society performs a classic murder mystery. Complete with an unconscious leading lady, a corpse that can’t play dead, and actors who trip over everything (including their lines), it’s “A RIOTOUS EXPLOSION OF COMEDY!” (The Daily Beast) and “TONS OF FUN FOR ALL AGES!” (HuffPost). The New York Times calls The Play That Goes Wrong “A GUT-BUSTING HIT”, and the New York Post has just one word for you: “GO!” Celebrating its 10th Anniversary Tour, experience total mayhem and comic hijinks at The Play That Goes Wrong, guaranteed to leave you aching with laughter. Book tickets now – it would be WRONG to wait!
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14 Aug 2025
Laboratory of Light
Laboratory of LightTHE PERFORMANCE Part theatre and part interactive research project, Laboratory of Light provides a theatrical lens through which teachers and students can engage with the Science syllabus. Welcome to the curious and wonder-filled world of Luminous, a backyard scientist who is fascinated by light. Where does light come from? How does it travel? What is it made of? Luminous spends all night conducting experiments in their garden shed - the Laboratory of Light, in the hope that one day this will lead to recognition and fame. Darkness is lonely and needs a friend but Luminous is afraid of the dark! One full moon, as an electromagnetic wave travels through the Milky Way, Luminous’ most ambitious invention traps the smallest unit of light, a photon! This unites an unlikely trio of friends, who embark on a night of discovery together and through live experiments and music, learn about the wonders of light along the way. THE EXPERIENCE The adventure begins with the arrival of education resources via Google Classroom, prior to attending the performance, and will spark students’ interest in the topic of light through creative in-class activities. On the day of the performance your class will spend time with Luminous in the Laboratory of Light.
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29 Aug 2025 - 31 Aug 2025
Gold Coast Show
Experience the vibrant and unforgettable Gold Coast Show, a celebration of fun and excitement at Broadwater Parklands. This annual extravaganza promises an exhilarating long weekend filled with entertainment and activities for all.
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From now until 06 Sep 2025
Ritchies Boonah Arts Festival
An eight day arts festival including awards for art, writing and fashion. The Festival includes events such as the Comedy Night, Sip and Paint, Youth Showcase, Art Workshops and Fashion and Festival Awards. Free entry to the Art Awards on display throughout the week.
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04 Sep 2025
IMAGINE LIVE
IMAGINE LIVEMagical and meaningful, IMAGINE LIVE is a celebration of creativity, friendship and our precious natural world. With the help of the audience, performers play and sing their way through the pages of Alison Lester’s iconic best-selling book, and quickly discover there is WAY more to these pages than they first thought. Spot a leopard, dive with a dolphin or dig up a dinosaur as this iconic book springs into life before your eyes. IMAGINE LIVE combines live action and animation with digital puppetry in a large-scale, multi-screen performance. Underscored by original music, characters and objects travel between real and animated worlds, responding in real time to audience input. Beautiful and meaningful, IMAGINE LIVE is a celebration of the transformative power of creativity. Created by the multi-award-winning team from Robot Song, IMAGINE LIVE is a 55 min interactive musical performance for families...Nana’s are especially welcome!
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Experience Gold Coast acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we are situated, the Kombumerri families of the Yugambeh Language Region.
We pay our respects to their Elders past, present and emerging, and recognise their continuing connections to the lands, waters and their extended communities throughout Southeast Queensland.