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Your Event Line Up
Some say we like to see ourselves as the main event, but really, we do it all for you! High-energy stage show sound good? How about beach cinema or symphony under the stars? If sport's more your thing, why not check out a NRL or AFL game? Or for lovers of low-key, get into one of the many grassroots arts and food festivals. Check out the latest events on Gold Coast below.
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26 Jul 2025
Dorothy the Dinosaur Spectacular Show!
This school holidays, hands will be clapping and toes tapping with Dorothy’s mega mix of dance hits! Get ready to Romp-Bomp-A-Stomp with everyone’s favourite Dinosaur in this extravaganza of show stopping songs, including all The Wiggles greatest hits like Rock-A-Bye Your Bear, Hot Potato & Do the Propeller! The fun doesn’t stop there! Joined on stage by all her Wiggly friends you’ll be ‘Shaking your Hips’ with Wags the Dog, ‘Move your Arms’ like Henry the Octopus and singing ‘Quack, Quack’ with Captain Feathersword! Be quick as tickets will sell like… Hot Potatoes!
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30 Jul 2025
Sneeky Mid-Weeky: Dough It Like a Pro
Sneeky Mid-Weeky: Dough It Like a ProJoin us for a pizza-making masterclass. Craft your own pizza with expert guidance and enjoy it on the terrace with a cocktail of your own design.
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31 Jul 2025
Jeff Koons - In Conversation with Alison Kubler
Jeff Koons - In Conversation with Alison KublerDive deep into the creative waters with Jeff Koons on the opening night of BLEACH* Festival. Join Vault Editor-in-Chief Alison Kubler, for an evening with one of the most prominent and polarising contemporary artists of our time. Renowned for his big, bold, provocative sculptures and unorthodox approach in the art world, Jeff has a lot to say when it comes to creativity and the power of art. Presented in partnership with the National Gallery of Australia and American Friends of the National Gallery.
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31 Jul 2025 - 30 Aug 2025
The City Speaks Softly
The City Speaks SoftlyThe City Speaks Softly is a collaboration between artists Melissa Spratt and Tal Fitzpatrick that uses the comforting nature of textiles to explore how art can soften our experience of public space. This socially engaged project seeks to shed light on how art might create moments of gentle sensorial reprieve. Utilising street pole banners as a broadly accessible site for a creative intervention with the potential to gently surprise audiences.Artworks will be installed on street poles around Broadbeach Cultural Precinct, Burleigh Esplanade, HOTA, Kurrawa Park and Broadbeach for the duration of the festival.
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31 Jul 2025 - 10 Aug 2025
The Complaints Department
The Complaints DepartmentThe Complaints Department is a companion piece to The Ladies Lounge. Think Severance meets a customer service centre - slightly surreal performance art that requires your participation. Participants may air frustrations with The Complaints Department (TCD), provided they have direct experience and knowledge of the issue they are complaining about. TCD will not accept complaints regarding generalised, or abstract issues that may impact but do not directly relate to the complainer. Once your complaint has been received, processed, and consoled - participants will leave with their documented formalized complaint– big or small. Please be prepared to be questioned provide details about specifics.
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31 Jul 2025
First Light | Skywhales Across Australia
First Light | Skywhales Across AustraliaIn partnership with National Gallery of Australia Skywhale and Skywhalepapa as the sun rises. Skywhalepapa is a monumental sculpture in the form of a hot-air balloon. Together with its companion piece Skywhale they form a skywhale family. As the skywhales float across the dawn skies, Piccinini calls on communities to engage with them creatively. Make a morning of it, prepare a picnic, watch in awe, and sing along in wonder as the skywhale family takes flight. Image credit: Patricia Piccinini, Skywhalepapa, 2020 and Skywhale, 2013, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra, © Patricia Piccinini. Photo by We Met in June ‘I imagine visitors assembling to watch these giant figures come to life. As the dawn breaks. They see Skywhalepapa and Skywhale take shape and ascend into the air together, connected by a bond of care. It is a simple story, but a beautiful and uplifting one. With a single skywhale figure we have a character, but with the two we have a relationship and a narrative.’ Patricia Piccinini
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31 Jul 2025 - 10 Aug 2025
David in the Studio
David in the StudioExperience a strikingly faithful replica of Michelangelo’s David – meticulously craved from the same Carrara marble as the original. By echoing both the material and scale of the Renaissance masterpiece, we blur the lines between homage and critique, questioning ideals of beauty, authorship and cultural permanence. In this uncanny recreation, past and presence collide, compelling audiences to consider what it means to replicate genius in an age of mass reproduction and digital reinvention.
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31 Jul 2025 - 10 Aug 2025
BLEACH 2025
BLEACH* 2025BLEACH* 2025 returns with 11 unforgettable days of art, music, visual spectacle, opera, drama, storytelling, and feasting — all set across three vibrant festival hubs: Kurrawa Park, Emerald Lakes, and HOTA. Under the creative direction of acclaimed artist Michael Zavros, this year’s program reflects his distinctive visual arts practice, bringing a bold, immersive vision to the festival. In 2025, BLEACH* celebrates the rich diversity of our international and multicultural city. The festival will feature landmark works by leading national and international artists, while proudly spotlighting the voices and talents of local creatives. Curated to engage a broad audience, BLEACH* 2025 is set to attract locals, as well as visitors from across Queensland, interstate, and around the world — making it a cultural experience not to be missed.
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01 Aug 2025 - 03 Aug 2025
Kirra Longboard Klassic
A fun longboard event designed to bring together like-minded amateur surfers in two fun-filled days of surfing. For 2025 the Kirra Longboard Klassic is supported with cultural, entertainment, lifestyle, and environmental activation's and high performance surfing with international competitors.
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01 Aug 2025
Gold Coast Mackay Yacht Race 2025
Australia's Newest Ocean Race, the inaugural 520 nautical mile GCCM Gold Coast Mackay Yacht Race, lets boats send it in spectacular fashion up the tropical Queensland coast to the Whitsundays, just in time for the northern race weeks. The race has proven to be a navigator's delight and is honoured with magnificent Perpetual Trophies named after true Australian sailing legends.
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01 Aug 2025
Breaking into Heaven: Selve with Australian Session Orchestra
Breaking into Heaven: Selve with Australian Session OrchestraRock meets strings as Gold Coast rock band premiere their Abbey Road recorded album live with the Australian Session Orchestra on HOTA’S Outdoor Stage Lasers! A huge rock band! A massive 33 orchestra! And an immersive visual work featuring performances from contemporary First Nations dance company: Karul Projects!This once in a lifetime event is not one to miss. Be one of the first people on the planet to hear Selve’s huge sophomore album Breaking Into Heaven in all its glory as they premiere it live with the Australian Session Orchestra at this exclusive pre-album release spectacular. The album was recorded in Studio 3 of Abbey Road (the same room as Dark Side of The Moon) following a 3 x stage residency series across Broome, France + London and promises to be one of the biggest Australian albums of the year. So grab a rug to kick back on the grass, or your dancing shoes to rock out up the front, because Selve will be taking over the Outdoor Stage at HOTA this August to send us all into the stratosphere with a mind-blowing show we’ll be talking about forever.
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02 Aug 2025
Gold Coast Titans V Panthers (Round 22)
*Times are subject to change TBC Gates Open 3:00pm Kick Off .
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02 Aug 2025
2025 NRL Telstra Premiership - Gold Coast Titans v Panthers (Rd 22)
*Times are subject to change 12.30pm Gates Open 12:35pm Future Titans 3:00pm Kick Off .
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02 Aug 2025
Three Food Memories
Three Food Memories“Stories about Nonna’s Bolognese segue into larger conversations about life and culture, peppered with warmth, wit and charm.” Good Weekend, Sydney Morning Herald Hosted by Savva Savas, Three Food Memories invites guests to share their food memories, with the promise they’ll reveal far more about themselves than what they’ve tasted! Leaning into Bleach* 2025 creative director Michael Zavros’ and Savva’s Greek-Cypriot heritage, the guest for the live audience recording of the podcast is internationally celebrated Australian fashion designer and media personality Alex Perry. Audio and visuals from the talk will be recorded for a future podcast episode.
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02 Aug 2025
OPA! A Night of Greek Delight
OPA! A Night of Greek DelightGather for a memorable night of fun, feasting and celebration with the Greek community on the Gold Coast. Dine on delicious Greek food cooked over the fire right before your eyes and enjoy traditional music and dancing before DJ Adriana plays a set that will have you dancing the night away. Feed your soul, fill your belly and shake your booty!
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02 Aug 2025
NRL Gold Coast Titans v Panthers (Round 22)
The Gold Coast Titans are set to take on the Penrith Panthers at Cbus Super Stadium for Round 22 of the 2025 NRL Telstra Premiership. Be there for all the action!
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