When: Wednesday 4th to Sunday 15th April, 2018
Where: Venues across the Gold Coast
Come and celebrate Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games at Festival 2018! This action packed 12 day program boasts a wide array of FREE and ticketed cultural events including music, theatre, dance, circus, film and visual arts by performers from the Gold Coast, Australia and afar! Festival 2018 will run for the duration of GC2018, Wednesday 4th to Sunday 15th of April, with events happening at the two festival sites; Surfers Paradise and Broadbeach, as well as at venues across the Gold Coast from Coomera to Coolangatta.
Some of the ‘across the Gold Coast’ festival venues include:
~Palm Beach Parklands
~Winders Park and Currumbin Estuary
~Greenmount Headlands
~Mick Schamburg Park, Miami
Here’s just a sneak peek at the FREE and low coast activities on the Festival 2018 program:
Weds 4th April
7pm to 8pm
Yothu Yindi and The Treaty Project (Music)
Main Stage, Surfers Paradise
FREE
Weds 4th to Sun 8th April
RITE | Circa (Circus)
Roundabout Stage, Broadbeach
FREE
Thurs 5th to Sun 8th April
Quite by Nature | Alicia Min Harview (Theatre)
Winders Park and Currumbin Estuary
$10 ticket
Thurs 5th to Sun 15th April
Holoscenes | Lars Jan / Early Morning Opera (Theatre)
Surfers Paradise Beach
FREE
Thurs 5th to Sun 15th April
Aboria | Architects of Air (Luminarium walk in sculpture) (Visual Arts)
Kurrawa Park
FREE
Friday 6th to Sun 8th April
Yargeh Wadjeleh – The Language of the Wind | Kyle Slabb (Sound Installation)
Greenmount Headland
FREE
Sat 7th to Sun 8th April
Song to the Earth | Dr Corrina Banshek (Music)
Palm Beach Parklands
FREE
Sat 7th to Sun 8th April
VOU (Dance)
Winders Park and Currumbin Estuary
FREE
Sun 8th to Tues 10th April
Tide | The Farm (Dance/Theatre)
Palm Beach Parklands
FREE
See the full program and performance times at Festival 2018 on the official Gold Coast Commonwealth Games website.
Book accommodation staying in a fully self-contained 1 or 2 bedroom holiday apartment at Pelican Sands Absolute Beachfront Apartments in Tugun on the Southern Gold Coast. Close enough to enjoy the action-packed excitement and events of the Commonwealth Games but also far enough away to include some relaxation time.
Pelican Sands Gold Coast guest facilities include an outdoor lap pool, heated spa and sauna, Beachside BBQ area and we are located a convenient 5 minute drive to the Gold Coast Airport.
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