Sand Safari Arts Festival transforms Surfers Paradise into a captivating beach side exhibition of life-sized and even larger than life art pieces. See 10 tonne sand sculpts, multicolour tentacles bursting out of the sand, and a sculptural sand crab migration.

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In what will be a modern tribal showcase of First Nations players proudly representing their cultures, the Australian Indigenous All-Stars are set to take on the New Zealand Maori Kiwis at Cbus Super Stadium on Saturday 22 February 2020.

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12 Towers Ocean Paddle Race -Stand Up Paddle Board event – embraces an ocean course that tracks across 12 Gold Coast Lifeguard Towers out to sea from Snapper Rocks Coolangatta to Burleigh Heads.

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BOWLZILLA Gold Coast is getting everyone together for the largest gathering by skaters for skaters in Australia for a fifth awesome year.

BOWLZILLA Gold Coast grows each year building a platform for the future of Australian skating, keeping it fun and owned by skaters. Creating opportunities for local skaters to celebrate all that makes skateboarding great with art, music and the competitions is the goal.

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Join the world’s best male and female surfers as they battle it out at the Gold Coast Pro at Snapper Rocks.
As the season opener for the WSL Championship Tour, it sets the tone for the year. The event is based at Coolangatta’s iconic Snapper Rocks.

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Supanova Gold Coast is a massive pop culture expo, often lauded as Australia’s answer to ‘Comic-Con’. Supanova has grown exponentially since its inception in 2000, with heaps of celebrities, toys, costumes, movies, gaming and books all together under one roof.

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Walk the red carpet on opening night alongside actors, filmmakers and film crew. Learn from Australia’s leading producers, writers and directors in intimate seminars and workshops. Be captivated by internationally acclaimed dramas, comedies and genre films, local indie gems, engaging documentaries, family features, and the scariest horror films.

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The Gold Coast Tri – Luke Harrop Memorial has long been known as the triathlon for triathletes – if there is one race on the calendar not to miss, this is it. Join all the action on Sunday 5 April. They’d love you to join them for some fast and flat racing at the beautiful Broadwater Parklands at the northern end of the Gold Coast. With Sprint, Enticer and Kool Kids options available, there is something for everyone.

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It’s Always On in Surfers Paradise and the Easter long weekend is no exception! The Australian Street Entertainment Carnival (ASEC) is a rumble of the region’s best professional street entertainers, taking to the streets daily, around the Surfers Paradise precinct.

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The Australian Surf Life Saving Championships is an annual event where members from Australia’s 314 Surf Clubs come together to compete in more than 400 beach and ocean events. It is the largest event of its kind, only comparing the likes of the Commonwealth Games.

In 2020, we will be heading back to the Gold Coast, QLD. Our champion title holders will be defending their titles and our members and families will again be coming together to celebrate the community that is Surf Life Saving Australia.

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Join swimmers from all over Australia for the Gold Coast’s premier ocean swim. The Cooly Classic is a rare opportunity to swim a course with some of Australia’s most revered surf breaks as your backdrop – Snapper Rocks, Coolangatta and Kirra. In 2019, the introduction of a new 5 kilometre marathon distance course was a hit. If you’re a seasoned ocean swimmer, the Cooly 5.0 is a great opportunity to test yourself beyond the typical open water distances.

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The five day Gold Coast Open Surf Festival sees some of the world’s best surfers from all corners of the globe battle it out against the local talent for valuable Qualifying Series points.

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Enjoy some wonderful blues music at the popular Blues on Broadbeach Music Festival on the Gold Coast. This popular music festival is a must-see for visitors and local residents. This fabulous event offers a wonderful opportunity for all music lovers to enjoy an array of excellent music shows and live performances. The best part of all, this is a FREE event.

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Queensland’s Gold Coast continues to entrench itself as the home of Bowls in Australia, with the 2020 World Championships to be held at three Gold Coast clubs. Broadbeach Bowls Club, Musgrave Hill Bowls Club and Club Helensvale will host the two-week long tournament, with over 240 bowlers expected to take part in one of the pinnacle international events in the sport.

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Music, dancing, cars, nostalgia and good old-fashioned family fun are all coming back to Cooly from 3-7 June, 2020, right here in one of the best destinations in the world.

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Surfers Paradise becomes a playground of light, music and entertainment over two huge nights at SeaFire. SeaFire is a celebration of multi-culturalism in what is still Australia’s only international fireworks competition. Nations compete to take home the 2020 SeaFire Championship title, so expect to see dramatic, pioneering pyrotechnic displays fired off ocean barges and choreographed to musical soundtracks, lighting up ‘sea to sky’ over Surfers Paradise beach.

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Celebrate the 42nd edition of the Village Roadshow Theme Parks Gold Coast Marathon and run for the good times on Saturday 4 – Sunday 5 July 2020 on the beautiful Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia.

The world class international marathon will attract 28,000 participants of all ages and abilities from over 50 countries across eight races including the Village Roadshow Theme Parks Gold Coast Marathon, Wheelchair Marathon, ASICS Half Marathon, Wheelchair 15km, Southern Cross University 10km Run, Gold Coast Airport Fun Run, Garmin 4km Junior Dash and Garmin 2km Junior Dash.

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Groundwater Country Music Festival is Australia’s fastest growing country music festival. With over 50 artists across 15 stages and 3 whole days of rocking country music, it’s no surprise. Free to attend, Groundwater flows through the streets and venues of Broadbeach right alongside our beautiful sandy beach.

There is just no other country music event like it, so come and stay for a long weekend of country music that will shake the earth and swell the spirit.

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Welcome to the 25th celebration of the annual Gold Coast World Masters hosted on Queensland’s most famous stretch of coastline – the Gold Coast. This event has earned a reputation as Australia’s best tournament for club golfers.

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The Coolangatta Gold is a course designed for the endurance surf sport competitor who is up for the Ultimate Challenge.

Over the weekend individuals and teams will compete in both a Short Course that stretches 21 kilometres and a Long Course which is a gruelling 41.8 kilometres along the breathtaking Gold Coast strip from Coolangatta to Broadbeach.

Come down and support these athletes as they are pushed to their limits in one of the most challenging endurance races in surf sports.

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The Virgin Australia Supercars Championship returns for Round 12 at the Vodafone Gold Coast 600, 30 October to 1 November 2020.

Get ready to party at their pace on the streets of Surfers Paradise, where the drivers are set to do battle in the final event of the PIRTEK Enduro Cup with three days of intense racing.

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The Pan Pacific Masters Games is a massive sporting event that invites many national and international participants to compete. Regarded as one of the most well-renowned sporting festivals in the country, the Pan Pacific Masters Games is a biennial sporting festival that experiences huge participation levels each time it is held.

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The AVSC is the largest school-based sporting event in Australia and is the marquee junior participation event within Volleyball Australia’s national events portfolio. The annual event, held in December, brings together more than 5,000 students representing over 500 secondary schools teams.

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