Surfers Paradise Festival
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Date/Time
Date(s) - 03/04/2015 - 18/04/2015
10:30 am - 8:00 pm
Location
Surfers Paradise
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Here to entertain, intrigue, dazzle and delight, the Surfers Paradise Festival returns in 2015 with some of your old favourite events, plus some awesome newbies!
It our favourite time of the year when we celebrate the fun-loving, care-free buzz of Surfers Paradise with loads of FREE family fun! This year’s festival features food, art, music, and entertainment in the precinct, with an action-packed program guaranteed to suit the whole family.
Check out this year’s major Festival events:
- Australian Street Entertainment Championships (April 3-6)It’s the ultimate busk-off in Surfers Paradise, and it kick-starts this year’s festival over the Easter long weekend. Come down and vote for your favourite entertainer in the People’s Choice Award and make sure you stick around to check out the feature show daily in Cavill Mall – The Wheel of Danger!
- Festival Pavilion (April 9-18)The Surfers Paradise Festival‘s newest addition, Festival Pavilion, is set to be a non-stop entertainment hub! From unbelievable feats of acrobatics and illusions, workshops in music, photography and dance, the Festival Pavilion will be filled with entertainment all day long. And best of all, it’s all FREE! Feature performances include Cirque Va-Voom, Michael Boyd the illusionist, and the return of the much loved sustainable fashion show Undress Gold Coast.
- SIPFest (April 12)The Gold Coast’s biggest short film festival is back as part of the Gold Coast Film Festival (GCFF) and Surfers Paradise Festival, with SIPFest (Shorts in Paradise)! With most professional filmmakers beginning their career on the set of a short film, SIPFest provides an opportunity to identify and reward talented emerging filmmakers both locally and from around Australia. This year SIPFest will move from Neal Shannon Park to the iconic Surfers Paradise Beach, which will deliver a unique outdoor film experience like no other on the Gold Coast.
- Seafire (April 18)Surfers Paradise Festival celebrates our passion for pyrotechnics with Seafire, a night of hypnotic performance and thrilling fireworks above Surfers Paradise Beach.Watch two teams of Australia’s greatest pyros go head-to-head in the skies above the foreshore, lighting up Surfers Paradise with cutting-edge fireworks timed to a thumping musical beat.
