What's on
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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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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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Flame.Music with Park Ridge, The Zephyrbees and Clara Satzke
$12.60 / $10.50 (CONC) inc b/fee
Homegrown legends, Park Ridge, (FKA Chester Brix), have flown the Cairns coop and now base themselves out of Melbs.
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Bamboo Connect - Building Bridges by Co-Lab
Free
Co-Lab returns to the Cairns Children’s Festival with a new challenge for you. Can you build a bridge out of bamboo?
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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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Let's Try Taiko by Yasukazu Kano
All tickets - $40 inc b/fee
This workshop is for beginners in Taiko drumming.
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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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Let's Try Shinobue by Yasukazu Kano
All tickets - $35 inc b/fee per workshop
What is Shinobue?
A SHINOBUE is a Japanese transverse flute or fue that has a deep and natural sound.
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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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Artists of the North 2020 - Cairns Art Society
Free
It's back again, a wonderful opportunity for all the Artists of the North to showcase their artwork and this year the theme is very on trend: "A Changing World".
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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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Jeff Martin
$35 / $30 (CONC) inc b/fee
Jeff Martin, renowned frontman for two iconic outfits in The Tea Party and Revelator, is hitting the road for his nationwide Set In Stone tour. .
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Regurgitator - Pogogo Show
One Price $15.75 Family ticket $47 (2 Adults+2 Children) ($11.75/ticket must buy 4) inc b/fee.
After performing shows specifically for children last year, the band have stretched this into something that resembles an audio kid’s programme, right down to in-between ...
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Hannah Parker and Jane Dennis - No Man's Land
Free
In the year that celebrates 250 years of resettlement in Australia, Jane Dennis and Hannah Parker find themselves in a no man’s land of self- conflict.
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Screamfeeder
Adult $25 | Concession $20 | Adult Ticket + Vinyl $57 | Concession Ticket + Vinyl $52
Screamfeeder are hands down the country's best rock band and Take You Apart is all the proof you need.
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Nautilus Scuba Club - Underwater Photography Exhibition
Free
This exhibition showcases underwater images from members of the Nautilus Scuba Club Cairns who have entered the club’s annual underwater photo competition.
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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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Grigoryan Brothers - Past, Present & Future - World Music
$40 / $35 (CONC) inc b/fee
With a repertoire spanning centuries, continents and genres, amazing telepathy and the ability to draw emotion from every note, Slava & Leonard Grigoryan are justifiably ...
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