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02 May 2025 - 04 May 2025
Kalbar Sunflower Festival
An opportunity for tourists to visit a sunflower farm based at Kalbar in the picturesque Scenic Rim Region, walk among a million sunflowers and totally immerse themselves in the beauty and happiness they provide. Excellent photography opportunities, a great event for the whole family. As well as the excitement of being up close and personal with acres of sunflowers there is free live entertainment by local musicians, free children's activities such as bubble blowing, art activations, animal petting, sensory garden and mini children's maze. Sunflower merchandise as well as food and beverages on sale. For the adults add on's such as sunflower art classes, mini family photography shoots, flower crowns and our four acre sunflower maze. Enjoy a long table lunch prepared by Chef Richard Ousby in the sunflowers and perhaps a sunflower cocktail by Brasshound Distillery. Their very popular Devonshire tea supports The Mater Foundation so enjoy a sunflower scone and cup of tea or coffee knowing you are helping raise funds for cancer care. The sunflower festival is full of happiness and joy bringing together the local community and visitors from around Queensland and beyond. You can bring your own secateurs or borrow theirs and you can pick your own sunflowers to take home for AUD2.00 a stem.
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04 May 2025
May the fourth be with you - Star Wars Event
Come dressed as your favourite star wars character, truth or lie, bingo and lightsaber pinata, drinks on arrival followed by a roast bantha and root veg dinner and dessert. Plenty of fun to be had, best dressed award and other prizes.
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05 May 2025
Ciderfest with Morris Dancing
Witness the last apple of the crop to drop! With a musket shot, then the real party begins and the cider begins to flow. Morris dancers celebrating and a feast for all to enjoy Join them on a day of dance and music as they celebrate old traditions of historic England. Morris Dancers will be performing on May Day long weekend holiday Monday from 1pm.
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06 May 2025
I Wanna Be a Musician
I Wanna Be a MusicianJoin multi-award-winning multi-instrumentalist Adam Page on a wild musical ride that will explain just how awesome it is to be a musician, proving there’s a musician in all of us – whether you know it or not! Using everything from pots and pans to soulful saxophone, Page weaves the honks and bashes of a gazillion different things into a tapestry of sounds using looping pedals to create musical mayhem for the whole family!
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15 May 2025 - 18 May 2025
Blues on Broadbeach
Set to transform the Gold Coast into a rhythm and blues mecca for four days, Blues on Broadbeach will be back in 2025! Featuring an electrifying non-ticketed lineup each year, Blues on Broadbeach 2024 welcomed over 65 international and homegrown artists for four jam-packed days of live entertainment. From Grammy award-winner Melissa Etheridge to Samantha Fish & Jesse Dayton, Ana Popovic, Eric Bibb and Lloyd Spiegel, the 2024 festival was also joined by legendary piano player Jon Cleary & The Absolute Monster Gentlemen, Dallas Frasca, Chase The Sun, Memphis’ legendary Hi Rhythm Section with Boo Mitchell, and many more! Plus, for the first time ever, Blues on Broadbeach 2024 was proud to present the Kurrawa Park Sunday Ticket, which saw New Zealand electronic-reggae-soul pioneers Fat Freddy’s Drop perform their only Australian show of the year, alongside Tijuana Cartel, and BOOMCHILD for an exclusive ticketed lineup. Returning to Broadbeach for the 24th year in 2025, experience live rhythm and blues like never before at Blues on Broadbeach!
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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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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
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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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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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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05 Sep 2025 - 21 Nov 2025
Fridays on the Lawn – Student Edition
Fridays on the Lawn – Student EditionWe’re thrilled to relaunch the reimagined Fridays on the Lawn – Student Edition! This exciting event highlights the talents of local student solo acts, bands, and DJs, offering a dynamic platform for young musicians to shine.Set in a lively and supportive environment, the event nurtures creativity, collaboration, and community connection. It’s an incredible opportunity for budding artists to gain real-world performance experience, guided by HOTA’s professional staff, while showcasing their skills in a premier arts industry space.Don’t miss this vibrant celebration of young talent, bringing the community together and inspiring the next generation of musicians.
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10 Sep 2025 - 13 Sep 2025
Wonderbox
WonderboxSensorium Theatre, Australia’s leading theatre company creating work specifically for young audiences with disability and their friends, invites children to roll the dice and embark on an exciting journey into the unknown. Inside a giant puzzle-box of illusions, quirky carnival friends with magic in their pockets guide audiences through an immersive, multi-sensory wonderland. Here, they’ll encounter fantastic large-scale projections, intriguing tiny delights, and lively, infectious music. Every child’s curiosity is celebrated and rewarded with delightful surprises. The adventure unfolds as boxes reveal more boxes, giving each child a chance to discover a magical version of themselves. In Wonderbox, tiny moments of whole worlds in a matchbox lead to vast universes where everyone, reflected in the stars of the Milky Way, is shown to be wonderful. After more than 13 years of engaging and captivating thousands of young audiences with disability nationally and internationally through their magical, multi-sensory immersive shows, Perth-based Sensorium Theatre continues to break down barriers to truly inclusive arts experiences with their most ambitious show yet. Wonderbox is designed to be accessible to all children, inviting every child (and the child within us all) to look inside and find their rightful place.
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12 Sep 2025 - 21 Sep 2025
SWELL Sculpture Festival
10 days of sculpture on the beach! SWELL Sculpture Festival is for everyone! Come and see for yourself! Over 60 large-scale sculptures along beautiful Currumbin Beach which is transformed into an outdoor sculpture park. Connecting people, art and place, SWELL transforms public spaces into family-friendly outdoor sculpture galleries! The annual SWELL Sculpture Festival is celebrating its 22nd year as a free and all-inclusive 10-day outdoor sculpture exhibition by the people for the people. A celebration of narratives and stories spoken through the artworks produced by local, national and international artists. You are invited to immerse at your own level and pace with the sculptures set amongst the natural landscape. Delve deeper into the unique artistic elements programmed each year by attending artist talks, twilight walks, sculptural workshops and masterclasses. SWELL connects with younger artists through the SWELL Kids Elements program. SWELL Fringe Festival includes morning beach meditations, to live music, DJs, workshops, artist panels and more - there’s always something happening. Visit Pop-Up Exhibitions that complete the SWELL compass. There is something for everyone at SWELL!
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