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On Friday 25 May, catch Tanks Unplugged at Tanks Arts Centre. A Tanks' series that showcases the best of live and local music. This month proudly presents Jordan De La Cruz, Handles and Maggie Slater. Local indie pop rockers Handles have evolved into an e...
Catch Flickerfest 2018 on Saturday 12 May at Tanks Arts Centre. FlickerFest remains a platform for celebrating the most entertaining and innovative short film making from Australia and around the world. FlickerFest, celebrating 27 years of bringing you th...
Catch Michael Franti Spearhead from Wednesday 28 March - Thursday 29 March at Tanks Arts Centre. Michael Franti Spearhead introduced a new sensibility to their potent hybrid of hip-hop, rock, folk and reggae in creating their ninth studio album SOULROCKER...
Catch The Vampires on Friday 23 March at Tanks Arts Centre. ARIA Award nominees, The Vampires, are touring the country and stopping in Cairns for a special night of risk-taking improvisation, sophisticated compositions and an uncanny sense of dialogue. Th...
Designed to mesmerise and enthrall, the Ocean Film Festival Australia showcases more than two hours of sublime footage taken above and below the water's surface. The films document the beauty and power of the ocean, and celebrate the divers, surfers, sail...
Audiences will experience incredible highs and agonising lows through the lenses of some of the most accomplished climbers, paddlers, skiers, snowboarders, mountaineers, mountain bikers, explorers and adventure filmmakers alive today. The 2017 Banff Mount...
Adrian Bohm presents JIMMY CARR: The Best Of, Ultimate, Gold, Greatest Hits World Tour. Jimmy Carr has been on the stand-up scene for a decade and a half. In that time, he's performed 9 sell-out tours, playing nearly 2,000 shows to over 2 million people a...
Learn about science in a new and exciting way. Don't miss Operation Ouch Live! at Cairns Convention Centre on January 17. TV's favourite identical twins have been hard at work - creating more incredible medical stunts and even crazier experiments and the...
Catch Sarah Jane Botham - Travelling Light from Friday 08 December - Tuesday 30 January at Tanks Arts Centre. Inspired by a lack of travel funds and an intense urge to avoid bus-loads of selfie stick wielding tourists, SJ decided to "virtually" travel to...
Catch John Eaton - Locus Pocus from Friday 08 December - Tuesday 30 January at Tanks Arts Centre. The publication described work achieved through the use of tach (stain) and chance. Coincidentally or not, these imagined landscapes were created at the time...
Catch Jeff Lang Alone in Bad Company Tour on Saturday 04 November. With a back catalogue of 16 studio albums and seven ARIA Award nominations, Jeff has earned worldwide acclaim for his live performances and featured at major festivals, pubs, clubs, arts c...
Great accommodation at On The Beach Holiday Apartments, 1bedroom, 2 bedroom and 3 bedroom beachfront and ocean view apartments at great prices in October and November. Only 20mins from Cairns city centre. Call 0740577555 or view at www.onthebeach.com.au...
Catch Tkay Maidza on Friday 10 November at Tanks Arts Centre. With her rapid-fire flow, frenetic beats, and fiercely inventive lyrics, the Zimbabwe-born 20-year-old is now set to shake up audiences worldwide with her unstoppably magnetic debut album 'TKAY...
Garrett Kato and Leanne Tennant Co-Headline for a special performance. Just a few years into her creative career already blessed with highlights, Leanne is an artist who manages to mix vulnerability with an unusual strength. Leanne Tennant is the recent w...
Ali's Wedding has won The Age - Critics Award for the best Australian feature film at the Melbourne International Film Festival. A panel of film writers and critics for The Age judged the award resulting in Ali's Wedding becoming a unanimous winner. The c...
Enjoy the Meg Mac - Low Blows Tour on Saturday 14 October. Fresh from the release of her keenly anticipated new single 'Low Blows' comes the announcement of the release of Meg Mac's debut album of the same name on July 14, along with key tour dates for Me...
Enjoy the Cairns Tropical Pride Fair Day on Sunday 08 October at Tanks Arts Centre. Cairns Tropical Pride's signature event. A fun family day for the LGBT+ community, friends and allies. Featuring events, music, food and community/business stalls and open...
Catch Butterfingers - Big Night Out Tour on Saturday 09 September at Tanks Arts Centre. With a new found vigour and a swag of new material, Butterfingers are officially back in the saddle and continuing to bend genres and the boundaries of good taste with...
Catch An Evening with Tex, Don and Charlie on Friday 15 September at Tanks Arts Centre. It's only ever happened on a few rare times, so when Tex Perkins (The Cruel Sea, Beasts of Bourbon), Don Walker (Cold Chisel) and Charlie Owen record music together, y...
Baby et Lulu Catch Baby et Lulu on Friday 25 August at Tanks Arts Centre. "Two lovesick songbirds in a melancholic pas de deux. Superb Australian Stage It is impossible not to be charmed by the hypnotic voices of Baby and Lulu Arts Hub It's easy to be swe...
Catch Doug Anthony Allstars: Near Death Experience from Friday 30 June - Saturday 01 July at Tanks Arts Centre. Monster Gods of comedy The Doug Anthony Allstars (DAAS) are coming back to Tanks. Voted in Chortles Top 10 comedy moments of 2016 and winner of...
Catch the Australian Poetry Slam 2017 - Cairns Heat on Wednesday 02 August at Tanks Arts Centre. Contestants have two minutes to own the stage, rock the mic and win over the crowd with their original spoken word poetry. Judged by the audience, two wordsmi...
A high velocity collection of adrenaline packed films from the Banff Mountain Film Festival. The 2017 Radical Reels Tour is making its sweaty, filthy way to the Seymour Centre for two night's only. A break-neck carousel of endorphin-injecting short films,...
Catch Diary of a Wombat from Wednesday 30 August - Friday 01 September at Tanks Arts Centre. Based on the book by Jackie French and Bruce Whatley. Meet Mothball, the naughtiest wombat in Australia. Bored with her daily routine, Mothball goes in search of...
May 25 28 2017 sees the Great Barrier Reef Masters Games head to Cairns, Tropical North Queensland.......
Moving into its fourth year, the Understory Film Festival is fast becoming a mainstay of the cultural landscape of Cairns. The festival focuses on locally produced short films and is gaining significant ground for the local industry by providing a develop...
More than 300 of the world's best mountain sport, culture, environment, adventure, and exploration films are shown during the week-long event. A selection of award winners and audience favourites then tours the globe, visiting 390 communities and 35 count...
A twisted tale of two hapless characters who dare to question. Suspended in a rotting dystopian landscape, forgotten by the world, these two are comforted by blissful ignorance, turning a blind eye to the impending Armageddon. Rising from the detritus com...
Enter a space of tangled imagination, where light and sound collide in a familiar yet distant world. Creatures from afar morph within th Dancenorth's Rainbow Vomit e shadows to navigate an ever-changing landscape of bewilderment and wonder. Synaesthesia e...
Infused with intense physical theatre, film and dance, Shaun Parker's Blue Love is a poetic and satirical take on the clich s of pop culture, romance, coupledom and suburbia. From a fantastic place where TV soap meets art-house film, Glenn and Rhonda Flun...
Our Trinity Beach Accommodation provides a luxurious place where you can relax and enjoy as you drink in the sights of Trinity Beach. Feel at home as you explore the fantastic Trinity Beach sights. We have a great selection of apartments that are perfect...
Heavyweight Australian band, Spiderbait, are activating their cult status with a tour in ode of their third and most celebrated album, the seminal 'Ivy and the Big Apples' throwing it back to 1996, and you'll want to be there when they do. Fans can expect...
Playing for a strictly limited time from 22nd June until 2nd July 2017 this one of a kind show is sure to amaze and enthral all who see it! The Greatest Show! 100% African! 100% Fun! Cirque Africa is coming to Cairns for the first time ever. A 100% Africa...
Build and expand your actors toolkit as we hone in on the essential ingredients that build you up to be a fearless performer, an innovative thinker and open-hearted human. Join the TYC Team this Summer as we mentor and lead students through a series of sk...
Cricket in far north Queensland has received a welcome boost with Cazalys to host a tour game between Pakistan and Australia A at Cairns' premier sports venue from December 8-10. The three-day tour match will be played under lights and is ideal preparatio...
Catch RÜFÜS Full Bloom from Thursday 23 Feb - Friday 24 Feb. This world class live show will be part of their last Australian shows before the band take time off to write new music so don't miss out as this will sell out fast! After impressing a...
Catch The Living End on Thursday 23 March at Tanks Arts Centre. Since forming at high school and busking the streets of Melbourne, The Living End has topped the singles charts, scored four platinum albums, been awarded APRA's Australian Song of the Year a...
With their unusual array of instruments from cheese grater to toilet brush, tuba to musical saw, settle in for what could be your kookiest Christmas party yet. Bust-a-gut, shed-a-tear, sputteringly funny Up there with Dame Edna Don't even think about miss...
Holidaymakers head over to Trinity Beach and book our Trinity Beach Accommodation. Our accommodation has everything you need to have an unforgettable holiday. Make the most of your Trinity Beach holiday and have a fantastic time with your loved ones. The...
Pack your bags and take a well-deserved break and enjoy a holiday in Trinity Beach. Discover Trinity Beach and book your stay at our Apartments Trinity Beach. Our resort is within minutes from the beach. Have a blast and spend a fun-filled day at the beac...
Head over to Trinity Beach and book our Trinity Beach Accommodation. Relax, unwind and take a break. Our resort has everything you need to have a relaxing holiday. Get lost in Trinity Beach and have a fantastic holiday with your loved ones. Enjoy the fant...
The Cairns and Northern Beaches region is surrounded by an abundance of natural colour, from our rainforest draped mountains to the beautiful Coral Sea. This beauty is complemented by our colourful community, our cultural heritage and the visitors we attr...
The race stages offer the biggest variety of mountain bike trails - eight days from the jungle in Cairns to the Atherton Tableland with bush singletracks into the unique Australian Outback. Finish on the breath-takingly beautiful Four Mile Beach in Port D...
Come see this brand new and thrilling nightly stage show at the Velvet Underground - located within the Reef Hotel Casino, Cairns - and witness the biggest nightly magic and illusion experience in Australia! This limited show will leave you both laughing...
The three-day food event showcases local produce at the hands of some of the region's most creative and imaginative chefs. Palm Cove Reef Feast is one of Tropical North Queensland's premier events, celebrating the unique region's fine cuisine, produce and...
From dance parties to dive trips, from fine dining and fashion shows to beaches and rainforests, culminating in our Fair Day at the superb Tanks Arts Centre. Every Year, Cairns Tropical Pride welcomes visitors from around the world to join us for ten days...
The Cairns Amateurs Racing Carnival is four days of fun, fashion, glamour, food and entertainment built around two days of horse racing in Cairns in early September each year. The beautiful mild September climate entices large crowds of locals as well as...
"Swim 2.4 miles, bike 112 miles, run 26.2 miles BRAG FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE" John Collins, IRONMAN co-founder, 1978 The 2016 Cairns IRONMAN took place on Sunday 12th June; the swimming component at the Northern Beaches, the bicycle component between Ca...
Grab your tickets and hang on to your seats as you watch the world's best action films on skiing, paragliding, climbing, biking, paddline and more all brought to life on the big screen. Faster, steeper, higher, deeper - the Banff Mountain Film Festival's...
Don't miss one of the most exciting events in Cairns. The Cairns Festival will be from August 26 September 4 in various venues in Cairns. The Cairns Festival seeks to deliver a vibrant, progressive and collaborative arts and cultural festival that speaks...
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