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01 October 2025
BLEACH* Festival Set to Spring Into 2026 With New Artistic Director
The Gold Coast’s annual flagship celebration of contemporary arts and culture, BLEACH* Festival, has revealed its highly anticipated 2026 dates and will welcome a new Artistic Director. For the first time, BLEACH* will take place in October, running from 1 – 11 October 2026 inclusive, moving from i...
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24 September 2025
Record Year For International Visitor Expenditure On The Gold Coast
The Gold Coast has set a new record for international visitor expenditure, welcoming $1.5 billion from 636,000 visitors for the year ending June 2025, according to new tourism research. International tourists are also staying longer and spending more than ever before, Tourism Research Australia’s la...
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18 September 2025
Locals Called to Have Their Say on City’s Top Student Innovators
The Gold Coast community is being invited to cast its vote on the next generation’s bold ideas for the city’s future, with public voting now open for the People’s Choice Award in the 2025 Mayor’s Technology & Innovation Awards. Vaping, flooding, ocean health and driver safety are among the main iss...
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16 September 2025
Laneway Festival Turns 21 And Moves South To The Gold Coast
One of Australia’s most influential contemporary music festivals is set to make waves on the Gold Coast. Laneway Festival will mark its 21st year by moving south to debut at Southport Sharks on Saturday 7 February 2026. In 2025 Laneway Festival celebrated a record-breaking, sold-out tour across six ...
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15 September 2025
250 On-the-spot Jobs Up for Grabs in Local Student Recruitment Drive
Gold Coast students will have the chance to land a job on-the-spot when the Student Jobs Recruitment Event brings more than 250 job opportunities to the employment frontline. Taking place on Tuesday 16 September at HOTA, Home of the Arts, the Experience Gold Coast event will give more than 200 stud...
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12 September 2025
From Reef Dreams To Private Paradise Ken Done: No Rules Opens At Hota
The Gold Coast is awash with colour as HOTA, Home of the Arts’s next major exhibition, Ken Done: No Rules opens tomorrow. The landmark exhibition celebrates one of Australia’s most iconic and beloved artists, spanning more than four decades of his practice and draws largely from Done’s personal coll...
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11 September 2025
Broadway Smash Hit In The Heights Arrives On The Gold Coast
HOTA, Home of the Arts is set to open its theatre doors for the Queensland exclusive season of the four-time Tony Award® winning musical sensation, In The Heights. Created by Lin-Manuel Miranda, the mastermind behind Hamilton and Moana and set in the dynamic neighbourhood of Washington Heights in Ne...
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04 September 2025
Applications Open For 2026 Arts Fund Following $1.5m Investment In Gold Coast Creatives
Building on the successful rollout of the inaugural Experience Gold Coast (EGC) Arts Fund in 2025, Expressions of Interest are now open for 2026. Gold Coast based artists, collectives, and organisations are invited to apply for support to bring their creative projects to life, with a total of $1.5 m...
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27 August 2025
New National Tourism Campaign Invites Australians To Get Up And Gold Coast
The Gold Coast is challenging the rest of the country to tap into the city’s energy and love of life, with an invitation to Get Up and Gold Coast. Unveiled today by Experience Gold Coast, the new destination attraction campaign is the first for the city in almost five years and invites visitors to e...
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12 August 2025
Second Wave of Artist Announcements for Groundwater Country Music Festival 2025
Casey Barnes, Nikki Lane, And Amy Sheppard lead second wave of artist announcements for Groundwater Country Music Festival 2025 From double sets and country evolutions to genre-defining international talent, the Gold Coast based festival is doubling down on its commitment to bring the best of countr...
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29 July 2025
Global Education Leaders Converge on the Gold Coast for The Pie Live Asia Pacific
More than 350 of the world’s leading education thought leaders, decision makers and policy makers will converge on the Gold Coast this week for one of the globe’s biggest education conferences – The PIE Live Asia Pacific (APAC) 2025. Hosted at HOTA, Home of the Arts for the first time, the program...
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16 June 2025
Queensland Ballet and HOTA Forge Bold New Partnership With Exclusive World Premiere of Elastic Hearts
In a powerful alignment of artistic ambition and cultural leadership, Queensland Ballet and HOTA, Home of the Arts have today announced a landmark three-year partnership that will see the creation of three music-led world premieres exclusive to the Gold Coast. The partnership launches with the debut...
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20 May 2025
Bleach* Festival Returns in 2025 With a Bold New Vision, National Talent and World Premieres
BLEACH* FESTIVAL RETURNS IN 2025 WITH A BOLD NEW VISION, NATIONAL TALENT AND WORLD PREMIERES One of Australia’s most unique contemporary arts and culture festivals BLEACH* is back on the Gold Coast for 2025 with a revitalised direction under a guest Artistic Director and a powerful lineup of 100+ e...
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14 May 2025
Gold Coast Careers Festival Returns with Bold New Twist
The Gold Coast's biggest and brightest career event is back and this year, it's breaking new ground. Returning to the Gold Coast Sports and Leisure Centre this Wednesday, the Gold Coast Careers Festival is set to ignite futures, spark ambition and deliver career-defining opportunities with an excit...
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01 May 2025
First Lineup Now Revealed For Groundwater Country Music Festival 2025
Chart-toppers, homegrown heroes and first-time internationals saddle up for Groundwater Country Music Festival 2025 Country’s biggest names — and brightest rising stars — are heading to the Gold Coast this October, with the first lineup now revealed for Groundwater Country Music Festival (CMF) 2025....
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24 April 2025
The Godfather of Modern Cooking Returns to Hota for a Three-day Takeover
THE GODFATHER OF MODERN COOKING RETURNS TO HOTA FOR A THREE-DAY TAKEOVER The world-renowned and original rockstar chef Marco Pierre White is set to return to the Gold Coast’s cultural precinct, HOTA, Home of the Arts, this winter for an exclusive three-day culinary residency. Following the overwhelm...
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.