From fun outdoor cinemas to New Year's Eve extravaganzas, we've curated must-attend celebrations that will make your stay in Cairns unforgettable....
You'll find the holiday experience you've dreamed of in lively and tropical Cairns, from sumptuous shopping and dining to outdoor adventures. And if you book a room at Tropic Towers, you'll have access to a plethora of things to see and do in Cairns. Trop...
Cairns Festival, the most important and fastest-growing community event in regional Queensland, has gone a long way since the Cairns Regional Council established it on May 26, 1962. Back then, the headline event is the grand opening of a new jetty on Gree...
The most extensive regional agricultural exhibition in Australia has returned. Prepare for the 2023 Cairns Show, held at the Cairns Showgrounds from July 19 to 21. The first Cairns Agricultural, Pastoral, and Mining Association show was in 1891. The Hall...
Are you an art enthusiast? If you intend to travel, pick Cairns. In this relaxed city, which is the location of the well-known Great Barrier Reef, you can unwind. It is home to stunning natural attractions and the Cairns Performing Arts Centre. The Cairns...
This May, Cairns is jam-packed with activities. If you intend to attend the Great Barrier Reef Masters Games, Cairns Expo, Crankworx, or Cairns Children's Festival, you should start making travel arrangements and reservations for accommodations in Cairns....
Why not have a wonderful family summer holiday in Tropical North Queensland, a stunningly beautiful area where the rainforest and reef converge? And because of its convenient location, Tropic Towers Cairns accommodation can give you easy access. You can e...
So you want to relax in a beautiful setting close to the excitement? We've got your back. Spend your holiday at Tropic Towers, your gateway to a tropical holiday in Far North Queensland. Tropic Towers is on Sheridan Street, which connects the airport to t...
Trucking Australia 2020 In the trucking industry and hoping to network and learn from the best? Trucking Australia by Australian Trucking Association comes to Cairns this April - Australia's number-one conference for truckers, businesses and stakeholders...
Book a Cairns Holiday During Chinese New Year Festival! If you're looking to experience Cairns like no other time in the year, book your Cairns holiday during Great Barrier Reef Chinese New Year Festival 2020 - a 15-day celebration that takes over Cairns...
Don't Miss This Explosive Music Festival Weekend in Cairns! If you're on the hunt for the perfect excuse to head to Cairns, set your sights on spring for The Grass is Greener and Scene Heard Festival 2019. Set to take over the Cairns city centre for one m...
Discover Cairns This Spring with Tropic Towers Apartments Visit Cairns this spring with Tropic Towers Cairns Holiday Apartments. As spring makes its way around the corner this 2019, there isn't a better reason to head to Cairns to discover Far North Queen...
Catch the Flame.Music - The Ironing Maidens Tegan Koster Project on Friday 08 March at Tanks Arts Centre. Electronic duo, The Ironing Maidens, innovatively adapt real irons and ironing boards into electronic instruments to make techno bangers that pay tri...
Catch Brian Cadd on Friday 22 March at Tanks Arts Centre. Award-winning singer, songwriter, and talented producer Brian Cadd is a music icon. This legendary singer and piano player still has it even when compared to today's retro-pumped music business. He...
Catch Wicked at CPAC Theatre on January 18. CPAC Theatre is located at Sheridan Florence Streets. The story of Wicked focus on the events that happened in Oz before Dorothy arrived. Elphaba is the headstrong, feisty and misunderstood emerald-green coloure...
Catch The Bamboos on Friday 17 May at Tanks Arts Centre. The Bamboos continue to reinvent Australian Soul music and solidify their place as purveyors of musical evolution. Founded in Melbourne in 2000 by Lance Ferguson, The Bamboos have been honoured with...
Catch the exhibition Lynette Shaw - Scenes From My Youth from Friday 14 December - Sunday 20 January at Tanks Arts Centre. Lynette Shaw's debut solo exhibition of works on paper and paintings features her familial heritage. Generations of her family have...
Catch Calexico at Tanks Arts Centre on Saturday 19 January at Tanks Arts Centre. If you're traveling to Cairns this January, don't miss Calexico live in concert. Calexico finally makes their way to Cairns. Don't miss this opportunity to experience the pan...
Enjoy the music of 'Keb 'Mo on Saturday 13 April at Tanks Arts Centre. Keb' Mo' is a modern master of American roots music. His stellar live and studio performances have gained him fans from all over. His career breakthrough was in 1994 when he came out w...
Enjoy Tanks Round Cinema Her Sound, Her Story on Wednesday, November 28 at Tanks Arts Centre. Film buffs will enjoy Tanks Round Cinema. Tanks Arts Centre and End Credits Film Club present a bold cinema series on the edge in the cool comfort of climate-con...
Catch the Sydney Comedy Festival Showcase on Friday 26 October at Tanks Arts Centre. The Sydney Comedy Festival Showcase Tour is back to delight crowds and dazzle audiences. For the sixth year in a row, the Sydney Comedy Festival Showcase will bring the f...
Catch The Superjesus - 20 Years of Sumo on Saturday 17 November at Tanks Arts Centre. Following the re-release of their platinum selling album Sumo (1998), The Superjesus are itching to celebrate, hitting the road with a massive national tour and the expe...
Get rid of stress and go on a well-deserved break. Head over to Cairns and experience the sun-drenched beaches, lush natural surroundings, rainforest, World-Heritage sites and so much more. Pack your bags and enjoy a holiday to remember. Our accommodation...
If you were lucky enough to catch this juggernaut ensemble as part of Cairns Festival in 2016 then you already know this is an orchestra with a difference. Formed in 2003 and touring with over 20 members, Melbourne Ska Orchestra (MSO) contains some of Aus...
Join Kasey Chambers by the "Campfire" for a musical journey through the stories of places, people, cultures and sounds that have inspired one of Australia's most revered performers. Be part of this intimate acoustic experience enjoying songs new and old t...
Catch The Very Hungry Caterpillar Show on Tuesday 31 July at Tanks Arts Centre. One of the most-read and famous children's books of all time, 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar' emerges off the page in a masterful theatrical experience for the whole family. Jou...
Yemen Blues' original sound and world-renowned live performances have invented a new language in contemporary music, provoking joy wherever they play. Catch Yemen Blues on June 9 at Tanks Arts Centre. With musicians hailing from New York City, Uruguay and...
Catch Cosmic Psychos on Friday 01 June at Tanks Arts Centre. Formed in Victoria 1983, the Psychos had the likes of Seattle grunge legends Pearl Jam, Mudhoney and The Melvins all singing their praises in the 2013 documentary about the band, Blokes You Can...
Don't miss the Dan Sultan Killer Solo Tour on Saturday 02 June at Tanks Arts Centre. Leaving his incredible band at home, the Killer Solo Tour will see the Melbourne musician strip things back to basics just Dan Sultan, his piano and guitar. This intimate...
The GBROC (Great Barrier Reef Ocean Challenge) is Australia's longest distance outrigger race (45 km), starting at Yorkeys Knob and ending at Port Douglas. In 2018, the National OC6 (6 person outrigger canoe) Changeover Titles will run in conjunction with...
Catch Flickerfest 2018 on Saturday 12 May. FlickerFest, celebrating 27 years of bringing you the Best of Australian shorts! 'Now That's a Short Film'. Flickerfest is considered in international circles as the leading Australian competitive short film fest...
As part of Tanks' 17th annual International Women's Day series Clairy Browne, Rochelle Pitt and Sue Ray will help us celebrate the achievements of women through music and song. In 2018 we welcome the divine and whip-smart Clairy Browne. With a deep affect...
Catch The Vampires on Friday 23 March at Tanks Arts Centre. The Sydney based world-roots-jazz quartet have developed a style all their own that effortlessly combines influences from all corners of the world. They will be joined by bassist Alex Boneham for...
Andy and Terry's treehouse just keeps on growing. With yet another 13 levels, it's now got a Scribbletorium, a high-security potato chip storage facility (guarded by one very angry duck!) and even an open-air movie theatre. Speaking of movies, our friends...
Designed to mesmerise and enthrall, the Ocean Film Festival Australia showcases more than two hours of sublime footage taken above and below the water's surface. The films document the beauty and power of the ocean, and celebrate the divers, surfers, sail...
Bring your family along and enjoy Operation Ouch Live! Learn about science in a fun way. Don't miss Operation Ouch Live! coming this January 17 at Cairns Convention Centre. Following their sold out Australian tour in January 2017, Dr Chris and Dr Xand, th...
A man who has devoted his life to crafting perfect jokes and has left a trail of laughter in his wake, Jimmy Carr's new tour will distill everything we love to laugh at and be shocked by, into one incredible, unparalleled night of entertainment. Jimmy Car...
BY POPULAR DEMAND ANH RETURNS WITH HIS SMASH HIT SHOW!! Comedian Anh Do brings his best-selling memoir, The Happiest Refugee, to life in a ground-breaking stand-up show. Anh Do travelled to Australia in 1980 on an eight metre fishing boat with 47 other Vi...
Catch Jimmy Barnes Working Class Man Tour at Tanks Arts Centre from Tuesday 22 May - Wednesday 23 May. This spellbinding and searingly honest theatrical production sees Jimmy using his yarns and his music to reveal the truth behind Australia's greatest ro...
Enjoy John Eaton - Locus Pocus from Friday 08 December - Tuesday 30 January at Tanks Arts Centre. The publication described work achieved through the use of tach (stain) and chance. Coincidentally or not, these imagined landscapes were created at the time...
Enjoy No Stone Unturned - Cairns Mineral and Lapidary Club Inc. Exhibition Demonstration from Tuesday 05 December - Monday 22 January at Botanic Gardens Visitor Centre. Lapidary is the craft of collecting, cutting, and polishing of precious, semi-precious...
The comedy is based on the true stories of Osamah Sami, an Iraqi-Australian Muslim who deceives his parents into thinking he is studying medicine while struggling with the choice between an arranged marriage and a love match. Sami, who stars as himself, c...
Garrett Kato and Leanne Tennant Co-Headline for a special performance. Leanne Tennant is the recent winner and multiple nominee of a Qld Music Award for her track Gentle Annie. Her live performances are receiving praise from the Courier Mail, themusic.com...
Enjoy Josh Pyke 10 Years of Memories and Dust Regional Tour 2017 on Saturday 02 December at Tanks Arts Centre. Throughout his career Josh has received four ARIA Awards and has had nine songs in triple j's Hottest 100. Known for selling out tours, Josh's a...
Catch Kasey Chambers Dragonfly Tour on Friday 03 November at Tanks Arts Centre. The Dragonfly tour and her 5th No.1 album have been widely heralded by fans and music critics in Australian and the USA, as her "best ever". Next up the Dragonfly Tour heads t...
Catch We're Going on a Bear Hunt from Tuesday 12 September - Wednesday 13 September at Tanks Arts Centre. WE'RE GOING ON A BEAR HUNT is the wonderful story of a family out for walk and on the lookout for a growling bear - they have to march through long s...
A high velocity collection of adrenaline packed films from the Banff Mountain Film Festival. Raging river descents, never-before-broken snow spines, trippy mountain-bike missions, and mind-melting wingsuit stunts are packed into a 110-minute program. High...
Enjoy An Evening with Tex, Don and Charlie on Friday 15 September at Tanks Arts Centre. Stopping in at the Tanks for an intimate night of story-telling, the band will play songs from their rare, special recordings, including the trio's spectacular 1993 de...
Catch A Night of Stars on Thursday 06 July at Tanks Arts Centre. The feature work of the evening will be the Australian premiere for the Seagull Nebula by award winning composer Michael Csanyi-Wlls. The work depicts an imaginary journey through space to t...
From Friday 21 July - Saturday 22 July, catch Dracula by Bram Stoker at Tanks Arts Centre. The Gothic horror story swoops the country in a gripping, critically-acclaimed production created by shake stir. Another bloody classic. When young Lawyer Jonathan...
Blue Love is inspired by famous works of art, theatre, music, and film, all of which deal with the concept of love. Award-winning Australian choreographer Shaun Parker presents BLUE LOVE. From a fantastic place where TV soap meets art-house film, Glenn an...
Enjoy An Evening with Amanda Palmer on Saturday 11 March at Tanks Arts Centre. Following a tumultuous period of change including the birth of her son, the tragic deaths of close friends, a record-breaking Kickstarter campaign and the release of her memoir...
Rightly recognised as one of the world's most creative yet modest artists, Montreal based Mercan Dede continues to impress audiences with the explosive energy he perpetuates on stage. When Dede takes the stage as part of the Secret Trio, he hovers at the...
Presented by World Expeditions, the Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour will be screening at the Centre of Contemporary Arts for a limited time only. The 2017 Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour showcases over 2 1/2 hours of the most enthralling m...
This carefully curated selection of short films document the beauty and power of the ocean, and celebrate the divers, surfers, swimmers and oceanographers who live for the sea's salt spray; who chase the crests of waves; and who marvel at the mysteries of...
Playing for a strictly limited time from 22nd June until 2nd July 2017 this one of a kind show is sure to amaze and enthral all who see it! The Greatest Show! 100% African! 100% Fun! Cirque Africa is coming to Cairns for the first time ever. Produced and...
Catch The Living End on Thursday 23 March at Tanks Arts Centre. 2016 will be a year to remember for these longstanding rock kings. Headlining festivals around the country and scoring nominations for Best Rock Album and Best Australian Live Act at the ARIA...
On Thursday 13 April, catch Rickie Lee Jones at Tanks Arts Centre. With 15 critically acclaimed albums to her name, Jones continues to fearlessly experiment with her sound in what can only be described as a mixed bag, recording in musical styles including...
Catch RUFUS Full Bloom Tour from Thursday 23 February - Friday 24 February at Tanks Arts Centre. This world class live show will be part of their last Australian shows before the band take time off to write new music so don't miss out as this will sell ou...
Kelly and Owen decided on the album collaboration while traveling to a friend's funeral last year and discussing the songs they had played at other such occasions. ARIA Hall of Fame inductee, Paul Kelly is a name synonymous with Australia. Luminary giants...
On Saturday the 3rd of December, the Women of Austranesia take the stage and show their heritage in the most beautiful way. Save the date and enjoy the music of Women of Austranesia at Tanks Arts Centre. These passionate vocalists and musicians have unite...
With his solo career now tipping the 10-year mark, Bernard Fanning has firmly cemented his position as one of Australia's finest songwriters and lyricists. Fanning will be showcasing new songs from 'Civil Dusk' for the first time in a live arena, alongsid...
Catch Nattali Rize in Cairns headlining their first show in the region at The Tanks! Nattali is known for her high energy, thought provoking and uplifting live performances. Her new international band is a Jamaican / Global Mash up of raw energy and vibe...
".. the funniest show since they were last in town." The Laughing Samoans comedy duo of Eteuati Ete and Tofiga Fepulea'i has been touring the world for more than a decade now performing their unique and hilarious brand of humour. Don't miss the latest off...
Faster, steeper, higher, deeper - the Banff Mountain Film Festival's RADICAL REELS Tour is coming back to Australia! Lovers of heights are in for a treat this year with a Canadian duo pushing the boundaries of paraglider distance travel in the film Rocky...
On September 17, catch Emma Louise at Tanks Arts Centre. A stunning debut EP, Full Hearts and Empty Rooms (2011), announced Emma Louise on the national stage as a rare kind of talent, one who creates songs with a resonance far beyond the instant sugar hit...
On Sunday the 16th of October, laugh out loud and enjoy Sydney Comedy Festival. See the most hilarious up and coming and established comedians. Boasting a line-up of the best local and international comics and showcasing some of the freshest emerging tale...
The Cairns Amateurs Racing Carnival is four days of fun, fashion, glamour, food and entertainment built around two days of horse racing in Cairns in early September each year. The 2016 Carnival features: Cairns Central Ladies Fashion High Tea Reef Hotel C...
A reworking of the successful Latitudes commissioned to celebrate JUTE's 10th anniversary, three interlaced stories about Cairns which have been described as a "kaleidoscopic fusion of laughter and tears, frustration and celebration". This play brings to...
Christie (Noni Hazlehurst) has found herself at the fringe of the world. Homeless, aging, living on the outskirts of suburbia, she attracts the curiosity of the locals with the story of her colourful, troubled life. Mother, a one-woman play written for ac...
After a woman is attacked in a remote Australian town, the racist underbelly rears its head as the community targets a young Indian Doctor who has recently relocated to the area. Only one local man possesses the strength to uncover the truth and defend th...
Presented by Triple J the Music, catch The Cat Empire from June 1 3 at Tanks Arts Centre. For over a decade, The Cat Empire has been known far and wide as one of the world's greatest party bands. Their colourful, genre-bending music, shipped across the gl...
Set in one of the world's most iconic tropical locations, the 2016 Cairns Airport Adventure Festival will take place in June 2016. The festival features an event for everyone, including; Flight Centre Active Travel Ironman 70.3 Cairns, Coral Coast 5150 Tr...
Want to experience a different kind of Chinese New Year? Head to Cairns this February and take part of the festivities. Chinese New Year is also an important cultural holiday in Cairns. In fact, the Cairns Chinese community which is supported by Cairns Re...
Have you heard the news? If you are going on a holiday at Cairns, make sure to take some time to visit and watch the last ever show at Cairns Civic Theatre. After more than 40 years of hosting performance arts, the Cairns Civic Theatre is set to close its...
Violet wants everything and she wants it all now! Watch what happens when her greed takes over, and she gets her own way! What if you could have everything your heart desired? A pet Unicorn, endless beauty, or a trip to the Moon! But what if the greed of...
Feel the excitement as Cairns light up with entertainment, glitz, and fashion in this year's Cairns Amateurs Racing Carnival. The first carnival was held in 1959. Back then, the Committee which consisted of 10 people from outback station properties as wel...
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