What's on
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Ten - Crate 59 Ten Year Anniversary
Free
Please come and celebrate one of Cairns' longest running contemporary arts groups for a night of art and music.
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Elverina Johnson - Fisher Woman Dreaming
Free
Fisher Woman Dreaming is a pictorial memoir by Elverina Johnson, and a tribute to her grandmother, Hilda Murgha (ne Fourmile).
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Kerry Lowe - Oceanlife
Free
Kerry Lowe’s first solo exhibition, Oceanlife features a kaleidoscope of tropical fish in a vibrant blue ocean, swimming through life like we all do. And just like us, al...
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Trent Griffin - Colours of My World
Free
Colours of My World is an abundance of colour and brush strokes on canvas, capturing Trent’s imagination and observations of real life, transformed into cartoon and pop i...
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Cairns Minecraft - Digital Design Workshops
$50 (for both days) inc b/fee
These two day workshops have been developed for young people aged 10 plus who have an interest in design, gaming and having fun!
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Northlane - 4D Tour
$40 / $35 (CONC) inc b/fee
Off the back of a huge sold-out national headline tour, Australia’s elite metallers Northlane are playing at Tanks as part of their 4D regional tour.
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Luisa Manea - Sea of Faces
Free
Luisa Manea’s portraits, for a long time, have focused largely on fashion.
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Kahli Henderson-Powell - Flightless Birds
Free
While the world we live in today can be viewed as beautiful, and at times breath-taking, in reality, the world is also cruel and merciless.
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Alissa Tyrrell - Different Encounters
Free
During Alissa Tyrrell’s last years of high school, she spent most of her break time in the art room of Trinity Bay State School, exploring the techniques she’d learned in...
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Archie Towo, Veronica Tandea & Jack Bamab Yawa Gaga - Lae City Arts
Free
This is the first time the Tanks Arts Centre will host an artist’s residency, dedicated to Lae.
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The Beautiful Girls - Seaside Highlife: Greatest Hits Tour
$42 / $37 (CONC) inc b/fee
The Beautiful Girls are taking their new album to the people, playing it live, large as life and twice as much fun.
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True Vibenation
$40 / $35 (CONC) inc b/fee
Big bass. Big beats. Big Horns. True Vibenation do everything big.
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Lights, Camera Action! Workshops for 8-11 year olds
These speciality workshops have been designed with our future filmmakers, aged between 8-11 years old, in mind to assist them with their film entries into screenPLAY!
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Lights, Camera Action! Workshops for 12-15 year olds
These speciality workshops have been designed with our future filmmakers, aged between 12-15 years old, in mind to assist them with their film entries into screenPLAY!
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C.W. Stoneking
$35 / $30 (CONC) inc b/fee
For C.W. Stoneking, the road continues to call, and rumour has it he is on his way to Cairns for an intimate solo performance at Tanks.
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Flame 2020 | International Women's Day Exhibition
Free
FLAME is the exhibition outcome of a mentorship program to give young women experience in the professional arts industry.
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The Ironing Maidens - A Soap Opera
$15.75 / $10.50 (CONC) inc b/fee
Tune in for daytime drama with a live electro house soundtrack that is banging like an unbalanced washing machine.
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Bobby Alu
$30 / $25 (CONC) inc b/fee
With nothing but beats, rhythms and good vibes, Byron Bay ukulele strummer, drummer and singer is hitting the road in celebration of his third album 'Flow', and he’s stop...
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Mission Songs Project by Jessie Lloyd
$35 / $30 / $25 inc b/fee
Jessie Lloyd explores the day to day life on the missions, settlements and reserves through music.
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The Black Sorrows
$45 / $40 (CONC) inc b/fee
In the wake of Joe Camilleri's 49th album, Citizen John, The Black Sorrows extend their Lover I Surrender Tour to Cairns.
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The East Pointers - World Music
$35 / $30 (CONC) inc b/fee
Redefining the ever-evolving genre – modern folk – with Billboard-worthy pop hooks, deep acoustic groove, trance-like trad breakdowns and three-part harmonies, The East P...
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Boy & Bear 'Suck On Light Tour' With special guests
$49 / $44 (CONC) inc b/fee
After the most tumultuous period of their lives both personally and professionally, Boy & Bear are back with another national tour, and Cairns we made the bill.
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Buffy Sainte-Marie
All tickets one price $65 (inc b/fee)
No one could ever accuse Academy-Award winning Buffy Sainte-Marie of taking it easy.
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John Mayall
$57 / $52 (CONC) inc b/fee
For more than five decades, Blues Hall of Fame inductee John Mayall has served as a pioneer of blues music, earning him the title, "The Godfather of British Blues", and n...
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Ian Moss - Matchbook 30th Anniversary Tour
All tickets - $63.50 inc b/fee
Hot on the heels of the recent metro Matchbook 30th Anniversary Tour dates, Ian Moss is taking the iconic album on the road and he’s stopping in at Tanks for two special ...
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Kim Churchill: The Bright Night Sessions
$26.25 / $21 (CONC & Youth 15-17)
The Bright Night Sessions are all about connecting with phenomenal music communities throughout Australia.
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