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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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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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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19 Sep 2024 - 21 Sep 2024
James and the Giant Peach
James and the Giant PeachFrom the company that brought us the smash-hit, adored seasons of Fantastic Mr Fox, The Twits and George’s Marvellous Medicine comes this bold new theatrical adaption of one of the most loved children’s classic books. Join James and his collection of curious critters on an enchanting, great escape direct from his backyard, soaring high across the world, from Dover to New York and back again. Bursting with magic, mischief, and mayhem at every turn, James discovers that the best friendships arise from the most unexpected encounters and a little courage can take you a long way. You’ve read the book and seen the movie - now it’s time to experience this Dahlicious tale - from the wacky mind of the world’s No. 1 Storyteller - live on stage. AUSLAN INTERPRETATION: The performance at 10.30am on Sat 21 Sept 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. Presented by HOTA, Home of the Arts
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02 Nov 2024
Guy Fawkes Night
Remember, remember the fifth of November The gunpowder treason and plot I see no reason why gunpowder treason should ever be forgot Join Fox and Hound for dinner and a reenactment of the foiled plan in which Guy Fawkes tried to kill the King of England. Be welcomed by Morris Dancers before dining, then witness the burning of Guy Fawkes . Come dressed in period dress, or as Guy Fawkes! Be warned, there will be loud explosions. Bookings essential.
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