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UPCOMING EVENT
The Killers
Smile like you mean it and join us on the Brightside. The Killers are coming to Townsville!
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Guardian of the Reef!
Immerse yourself in one of the world's most spectacular natural wonders and discover a pristine underwater wonderland.
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Road trips not to miss
Explore all that Townsville North Queensland has to offer - from the reef to the rainforest, Outback to the islands...let's hit the road!
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Upcoming Events
Yoga & Meditation on the Strand
Enjoy a gentle Yoga practice at Townsville's premier waterfront location on the Strand. Classes are very popular with locals and tourists alike who are seeking a unique North Queensland experience. Tuesday and Friday mornings, rise early, move the body and focus the mind while the sun rises over the ocean. Complement your relaxing yoga practice with traditional breathing and meditation on Thursday. Local Yogi, John has many years experience teaching yoga and meditation in Australia and overseas. He has designed the class to be suitable for everyone regardless of age, physical ability or previous yoga experience. Visitors to the City have expressed their complete enjoyment with starting the day practicing Yoga and afterwards having a Coffee, Tea or healthy breakfast at one of the Strand Cafes nearby....
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Tipsy Doodle Paint and Sip
Unleash your inner artist with Tipsy Doodle art parties! Join them for a 3-hour session where they walk you through how to create one of their masterpieces. You don't have to be an artist to walk our with a creation you can be proud of. You can byo drinks and nibbles and make a party of it....
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Recovery of the Great Barrier Reef Expedition
Travellers from around the world come to the Great Barrier Reef, an Australian World Heritage Area, to explore its extraordinary diversity of animal and plant life. Coral reefs face a growing number of threats, from climate change and storm damage, to sediment and nutrient run-off. Join them on an Earthwatch expedition in the water around Magnetic Island to help scientists develop best-practice methods for coral recovery. On this expedition, participants can get involved through scuba or snorkel activities. You will assist researchers in making baseline measurements of environmental conditions, actively removing algae, deploying coral recruitment (settlement) tiles and assessing fish and invertebrate diversity and abundance. By joining this expedition, you’ll be at the forefront of active reef restoration science. You will assist researchers in experiments that aim to develop best practice methods for removing this macroalgae and allowing coral to regrow. You will be directly involved in filling in the gaps that will enable reef managers to make evidence-based decisions about active interventions that support the recovery of the Great Barrier Reef, and reefs all over the world. All accommodation, meals, transfers and research activities included....
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Echoes of Pink Floyd: Signs of Life Tour - Townsville
In 1988, Australia witnessed a rock concert event unprecedented in its scale, scope, and impact. English powerhouse rockers Pink Floyd, sparkling with fresh energy after enduring significant upheaval in the early 1980s, came to our shores in support of their smash hit A Momentary Lapse of Reason album. Stunning in its audio and visual impact, this tour set a benchmark still considered the gold standard for touring acts the world over. This tour was filmed and recorded for subsequent release as a live album, appropriately titled “The Delicate Sound of Thunder”. Now, 35 years later, Australia’s own Echoes of Pink Floyd bring you their painstakingly crafted homage to this amazing concert experience, Signs of Life. Signs of Life will take the listener on a voyage bringing back those heady years of 1988, with the best songs from the Delicate Sound of Thunder tour lovingly reproduced for Pink Floyd fans of all ages and backgrounds. Audiences will be able to thrill to tracks that have not been performed live in this country for decades, as well as enjoy all the smash hits and stadium anthems they know and love....
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Paluma Ultra
The Paluma Ultra is a 52km ultramarathon trail run race, that will challenge your physical and mental abilities as well as awaken your sense of adventure and indulge your inner child as you traverse a fun, technical and diverse course. Having spent countless amount of hours and days in the World Heritage listed Wet Tropics region of Paluma Range National Park it has instilled an immense appreciation for the beauty of this place. One of our other events, The Paluma Village Trail Run has been around for over 10 years and we thought it is time to share even more parts of this special place with the avid trail runners. The 50km Ultra Trail Run course takes you through pristine wet tropics rainforest, past waterfalls and through refreshing creek crossings. It then descents into dry eucalypt forest and cattle country and wide open spaces before climbing back into the dense rainforest parts of Paluma. This time of the year, Paluma Range is a great escape from the heat in Townsville. Situated at almost 1000m, the Paluma Range is cooler than the coastal region and it makes for great trail running conditions in October....
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Paluma Village Trail Run
The sixth and final event in the Outer Limits Trail Run Series, the Paluma Village Trail Run is a favourite event in the series and they have kept the best for last. It features amazing trails, taking you through the World Heritage listed rainforest in the most southern part of the Wet Tropics. This time of the year, Paluma Village is a great escape from the heat in Townsville. Situated at over 900m, the Paluma Range is cooler than the coastal region and it makes for great trail running in October....
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2024 PBR Monster Energy Tour Australia Grand Finals
Welcome to the roller coaster world of the adrenalin cowboy as they take on the nation’s most extreme bucking bulls in a three-hour action packed event that will keep you on the edge of your seat from the first bull of the night through to the last. This is the final and deciding chapter of the PBR year-long race for National Titles. It’s a showdown like no other – 22 riders all eager for glory as they strive to overcome the power of the most extreme bucking bulls in a head to head battle of power, agility and the fight of the fittest eight seconds at a time over the course of two nights of competition. Choreographed with pyrotechnics, lasers, concert sound system and mega screen replays, with multiple camera angles that will take you behind the scenes and inside the bucking chutes as riders prepare for the ride of their life whilst delivering you the ultimate live event bull riding experience inside the Townsville Entertainment and Convention Centre. This is an event not to be missed. This is the one and only PBR Australia Grand Finals....
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Travelling Film Festival Townsville
Experience extraordinary cinema when the Travelling Film Festival comes to Warrina Cineplex Townsville this November for the 50th anniversary! This year's program is packed with brilliant feature films including the 2024 winner of the Sydney FIlm Festival Official Competition There's Still Tomorrow and India's Cannes Grand Prix 2024 winner All We Imagine as Light! Check out other incredible films including A24's meta dramedy A Different Man starring the astounding Sebastian Stan, New Zealand's We Were Dangerous executive produced by Taika Waititi, and Oscar nominee Bhutan Pawo Choyning Dorji's slyly satirical film that takes place in Bhutan during the lead-up to the country's first ever election, The Monk and The Gun. Tickets are on sale now!...
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Ashes To Ashes: David Bowie Experience - Townsville
The spirit of the legendary, the iconic, the revolutionary, David Bowie lives on with ‘Ashes To Ashes: The David Bowie Experience’ who has earnt a reputation as Australia’s premier Bowie tribute. They perform faithful versions of the songs that span Bowie’s stellar 5-decade, 27 studio album career in a stunning two-hour concert production. With an invitation to headline at Let’s Dance Carinda in New South Wales, an annual festival where Bowie’s iconic Let’s Dance video was filmed in the mid-80’s, Ashes to Ashes prides itself on capturing the quintessential essence of his live performance and delivering it with pure rock gusto. The Adelaide band, all huge fans of Bowie in their own right, is fronted by the vividly artistic Paul Matthews who has been described to have “a beautiful voice that is so similar to Bowie himself, it's eerie.” Backed by an equally as impressive band to boot that features Marco Giardini (keys etc.), Guy Hunt (guitar), Dan Irizzary (bass), Mark Hudson (saxophone, percussion, and more), and Matt Carter (drums), Ashes To Ashes brings to the stage a seasoned professionalism that has been described as “fabulous”, “brilliant” and “unbelievable”. Performing all of Bowie’s illustrious hits such as Heroes, Let’s Dance, Rebel Rebel, Space Oddity, Ziggy Stardust, Life On Mars, Young Americans, Modern Love, and more....
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