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27 Sep 2025
Kids Take Over | Into Space
Kids Take Over | Into SpaceInto Space is a classic hero’s journey. We follow Val, an astronaut and his crew on a high-stakes mission into deep space. Along the way, they face an asteroid field, separation from their team, encounters with alien life, and the terrifying possibility of never making it home. As the mission unfolds, Val and his mission squad must navigate not only the unknown universe but their own inner world. What truths will they uncover about connection, courage, and our place in the cosmos? Into Space is a high-energy, emotionally resonant experience, blending awe-inspiring physical performance with universal themes of adventure, resilience, and discovery. Fusing world-class acrobatics, aerials, juggling, and striking design, Into Space is where Interstellar, Star Wars, and Cirque du Soleil collide.Recommended ages 7+.
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27 Sep 2025
Comedy Underground | Dan Rath
Tropical DepressionI can’t focus. I don’t know if it’s microplastics, long covid or because I pay $500 a week to live in a mould experiment. This year I went to a rally dressed as Boba Fett and was bashed by both police and protestors. I formed a parasocial relationship with a doordash chatbot I lost all my crpyto trying to buy a mermaid skeleton "His mind works like no other” ★★★★★ – Chortle (UK) “Genius and insanity… a truly brilliant writer” ★★★★ – The Scotsman (UK) "Book yesterday” ★★★★ – The Age Winner – Best of the Fest – Sydney Comedy Festival 2025 Winner – Director’s Choice Award – Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2025 Winner – Piece of Wood Award – Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2023 alist.com.au
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27 Sep 2025
Into the Unknown
Into the UnknownDiscover the Hidden Language of the Universe! Get ready for an electrifying journey beyond the limits of what we can see! Street Science’s brand-new stage show, ‘Into the Unknown’, is designed to ignite curiosity and thrill audiences while bringing to life the 2025 National Science Week theme: Decoding the Universe – Exploring the Unknown with Nature’s Hidden Language. This thought-provoking, high-energy production will unveil the unseen forces that shape our world through spectacular never-before-seen science demonstrations and mind-blowing experiments.
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27 Sep 2025
Into Space by ARC Circus
Into Space by ARC CircusInto Space is a classic hero’s journey. We follow Val, an astronaut and his crew on a high-stakes mission into deep space. Along the way, they face an asteroid field, separation from their team, encounters with alien life, and the terrifying possibility of never making it home. As the mission unfolds, Val and his mission squad must navigate not only the unknown universe but their own inner world. What truths will they uncover about connection, courage, and our place in the cosmos? Into Space is a high-energy, emotionally resonant experience, blending awe-inspiring physical performance with universal themes of adventure, resilience, and discovery. Fusing world-class acrobatics, aerials, juggling, and striking design, Into Space is where Interstellar, Star Wars, and Cirque du Soleil collide.Recommended ages 7+.
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From now until 28 Sep 2025 (Annual)
Kids Take Over | Mini Marketeers
Kids Take Over | Mini MarketeersHOTA’s Mini Marketeers is back!! Mini Marketeers provides a fantastic platform for young entrepreneurs to showcase their creativity and business skills. Running your own market stall can be a rewarding experience, allowing you to explore your passions and talents while learning valuable lessons about entrepreneurship. Register by 10 August. Limited spots available. Market date: Sun 28 Sept, 9am-12pm
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02 Oct 2025
Waltzing the Wilarra
Waltzing the Wilarra“...a highly evocative musical tale of love, jealousy, friendship and family. It is a beautiful, heartfelt production about love and loss.” Australian StageWritten and composed by David Milroy and directed by Brittanie Shipway.Produced by the producers of national tours of ‘The Sapphires’ and ‘The Sunshine Club’ comes a very special and entertaining night in the theatre.Performed by a stellar cast including Lorinda May Merrypor (Juliet in ‘& Juliet’), Shaka Cook (‘Hamilton’) and Lisa Maza (‘Stingers’) and backed by a live band.Against a backdrop of curfews, and the fear of arrest, white and black manage to form their own club where they can forget their worries and experience rare happy times, and with a little luck... romance. Forty years on, as the club faces demolition, our characters meet once again to stage a musical reunion and protest in an attempt to save their old stomping ground. Dark secrets and ghosts that have lingered for more than half a century are revealed, and we discover that reconciliation is more than saying sorry.
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02 Oct 2025 - 04 Oct 2025
Bin Chicken Universe
Bin Chicken UniverseThese school holidays, kids will have the opportunity to go on an immersive scavenger hunt around HOTA completing tasks to earn stamps and unlock mysteries. Find all the native Gold Coast animals hiding amongst the trash, fish out rubbish from the lake for clues, get crafty with clay and test your best bin knowledge to gain access to BIN CHICKEN UNIVERSE. A magical place made entirely out of cardboard. With special cardboard saws and screws kids can create houses, animal residents, clotheslines, toilets, you name it!Stay, create, play and enjoy the payoff of all your hard-earned stamps. Let’s make this universe the best it can be!Ages 3-11
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04 Oct 2025
Kids Take Over | Ballun Gawrehma
Kids Take Over | Ballun GawrehmaJoin local Kombumerri man Lann Levinge as he guides you through culturally significant sites, sharing local history passed down by elders. Begin your exploration at Wulabora, a dedicated space for sharing and gathering that celebrates Kombumerri heritage. On this exploration, stories will be shared about family stories, local history, Dreamtime tales and environmental wisdom. This sensory-rich experience includes hands-on interaction with authentic indigenous artefacts—such as clothing, weapons, and tools—alongside immersive soundscapes. As Lann expresses, "I’m passionate about discovering new ways to nurture and inspire a new generation of language and cultural warriors. My goal is to raise awareness and foster connections with indigenous culture, particularly the Kombumerri ways and the Yugambeh Language, through visual art, music, and dance."
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04 Oct 2025
Ballun Gawrehma
Ballun GawrehmaJoin local Kombumerri man Lann Levinge as he guides you through culturally significant sites, sharing local history passed down by elders. Begin your exploration at Wulabora, a dedicated space for sharing and gathering that celebrates Kombumerri heritage. On this exploration, stories will be shared about family stories, local history, Dreamtime tales and environmental wisdom. This sensory-rich experience includes hands-on interaction with authentic indigenous artefacts—such as clothing, weapons, and tools—alongside immersive soundscapes. As Lann expresses, "I’m passionate about discovering new ways to nurture and inspire a new generation of language and cultural warriors. My goal is to raise awareness and foster connections with indigenous culture, particularly the Kombumerri ways and the Yugambeh Language, through visual art, music, and dance."
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From now until 31 Oct 2025
Fright Nights at Warner Bros. Movie World
Terror Runs Deep with the return of Fright Nights at Warner Bros. Movie World this October. Step into five horrifying mazes, including two new mazes, Krypt of Kain and Eternal Dark. Roam through twisted precincts crawling with sinister creatures, scream on your favourite thrill rides after dark, and brace yourself for relentless scares that strike when you least expect. There's no escape. No mercy. Just pure, unfiltered terror.
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09 Oct 2025 - 11 Oct 2025
Trent Dalton’s Love Stories
Trent Dalton’s Love StoriesGet ready to fall in love all over again. This restless city has a story to tell. “I believe in touch. I believe in song. I believe she remembers him. I believe the perfect girl can always meet the perfect boy. I believe we are not alone in the universe” A father prepares himself for the day he lets go of his daughter’s hand. A young man breaks up with his girlfriend so they can both follow their dreams. A couple play nice in public to hide the fractures at home. A woman rebuilds herself along with a flood-devastated city. A working mum contemplates taking the photographs of her late husband down from the fridge. A grandmother dreams of seeing her grandson’s face. A renowned 100-year-old scientist ponders the one great earthly puzzle he was never able to solve: 'What is love?' Inspired by a personal moment of profound love and generosity, bestselling author – and one of Australia's finest journalists – Trent Dalton spent two months in 2021 gathering stories on his sky-blue 1960s Olivetti typewriter, on a prominent street corner in Brisbane’s CBD. Speaking to Australians from all walks of life, he asked them one simple thing: 'Can you please tell me a love story?' What followed was Dalton’s unashamedly joyous collection of Love Stories, and the creative team behind the smash-hit page-to-stage adaptation of Boy Swallows Universe (director Sam Strong and writer Tim McGarry) reuniting to bring to life Dalton’s latest warm, wise, poignant, funny and moving story about love, in all its guises. “It dives into the chaos of love – the joy, the pain, the laughter. The heartbreak...sending you back to the streets feeling just a little more alive” - The Guardian
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11 Oct 2025 - 31 Oct 2025
October is Murder Mystery Month
For anyone that loves a good story line and a murder look no further than October at Fox & Hounds. Experience four different themes as a couple or as a group, choice is yours. Each person will receive a unique character enabling them to become the actor that they never were, dressed in themed attire you will role play your character. Then horror as someone is Murdered! Can you solve the crime? $85pp included welcome drink, canapes, main course and dessert Saturday October 11 - 1920's Saturday October 18 - 1980's Saturday October 25 - Gravestone Wild West Friday October 31 - Halloween - witches
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22 Oct 2025
Rob Beckett
GiraffeComedian, presenter and panel-show superstar announces new tour Giraffe for 2025. Smashing the life out of the M25, M1, M5 and any other road that’s in my way. From Bromley to Brisbane, my new show Giraffe is going worldwide. Expectations on me: put on 3 stone from takeaways and post-show drinking. Expectations of you: leave the gig happier than when you arrived. My wife thinks it’s going to be tough for me to be away from the family, and don’t get me wrong, I do love my children/podcast content providers… but I also enjoy a lie-in and a hotel buffet breakfast. I think I’ll cope. What else is there to do? Sit next to your partner on the sofa, scrolling TikTok in silence again? You did that the last three nights. See you there! Host of Sky’s Rob Beckett’s Smart TV and Rob & Romesh Vs. He’s also the unmistakable voice of Channel 4’s Celebs Go Dating and the smash-hit podcast Parenting Hell. “Hilarious” – The Mirror “Naturally funny” – The Times “Hilariously observational comic… brings roars of laughter” – Arts Desk bohmpresents.com
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24 Oct 2025
Lawrence Mooney: Dead Set Country
Lawrence Mooney: Dead Set CountryMooney’s gone country. Deep country. Dead Set Country. He likes the word country because it’s got a rude word in it if you EMPHasise it properly. Dead Set Country is Lawrence’s brand new hit show that’s all about a city boy gone bush. Roughed up by locals, mourning dead wombats, talking with horses and having an abiding affair with a tractor - in short Mooney is Dead Set Country. Following on from the acclaim for his past three shows Beauty, Embracing Your Limitations and Pigeonhole he’s back with Dead Set Country. This time he’s covered in dust, speaking slower and line dancing. It’s Clarkson’s Farm meets Lawrence Mooney’s head on collision with country Australia. “You’re not from round here are ya mister?” Lawrence Mooney is an acclaimed stand-up comedian who across a thirty-year career has been regarded by critics and fans as properly hilarious whether appearing as himself, one of his many characters, live or on the tele. Lawrence has toured the country with his best mates in the hit show The Comedians and can be seen regularly on The Front Bar on Seven and The Back Page on Fox Sports. www.lawrencemooney.com... “Australia’s Greatest Comedian … a sheer comic genius!” Glam Adelaide ★★★★★ “A true master...Lawrence Mooney just continues to smash it” Scenestr “Mooney’s ability to transform ordinary rural life into laugh-out-loud brilliance” THE LIST UK
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29 Oct 2025
Pevan & Sarah in Concert
Pevan & Sarah in ConcertPevan & Sarah are back on the road and ready to light up stages across the country with their signature mix of music, laughter and learning! Join the dynamic duo for a 50-minute, action-packed performance full of all your favourite hits, as Pevan the tiger and his energetic sidekick Sarah bring the house down in a show that’s as entertaining as it is educational. Little ones (and big ones) will sing along, laugh out loud and soak up every moment of this unforgettable live experience. Created by teachers, this interactive spectacle blends curriculum-aligned literacy and numeracy with essential social-emotional skills, teamwork and of course, plenty of fun! It's the perfect outing for schools, families and anyone excited to see this iconic pair in action. Get those tiger ears ready, warm up your vocal cords and prepare for a stage show that promises to entertain, inspire and leave your little ones buzzing long after the final bow.Free tickets will be offered to educators/supervising adults of school groups on a 10:1 student ratio. Please contact the box office on (07) 5588 4000 to make a school booking.Please note that refunds and reductions in booking numbers are not available.
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31 Oct 2025
Halloween in the Laneway
Celebrate the spirit of Halloween at Cavill Lane Surfers Paradise Oct 31 4-9pmWe can’t wait to showcase a FREE mini-Halloween celebration in the heart of Surfers Paradise Friday, October 31, 4-9pm. SHOP UNTIL YOU DROP with The Witches Markets among their special market mix brewed up just for this event! Join the Witches, Wizards, Sorcerers, and Wise Ones for all those hard-to-get supplies, quirky gifts and more. PHOTO OPPS - Capture the fun, memories, characters and OR a fright by our roving actors* and keep a look out for our alluring entertainers! EAT, DRINK & BE SCARY - Indulge in your heart’s content at one of our many dining options and or bars.PLUS, we will be giving away two $50 Cavill Lane gift vouchers on the night for best costume! So, make sure you show us what you got for this awesome spot prize!All all-ages are welcome though some characters maybe be TOO SCARY for younger and or sensitive audiences, therefore please consider this before attending. So, for the fun lovers, entertainment seekers, Halloween lovers and or ones just looking for a good time, we’ve got you.*NOTE this event will have smoke effects, horror characters and minor scares so please enter at your own risk.COST: Free
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF COUNTRY
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.