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Location: Rockhampton, QLD   |   Type: Arts & Performance, Exhibitions and Shows, Free Stuff

A Rockhampton Art Gallery exhibition - In 2012 Rockhampton Art Gallery turns 45! This exhibition celebrates the significant yet diverse permanent collection through works that relate to the number...

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A Sense of Occasion: 50 Years of Party Dresses

A Sense of Occasion: 50 Years of Party Dresses

Location: Rockhampton, QLD   |   Type: Arts & Performance, Exhibitions and Shows, Free Stuff, Rockhampton Art Gallery

The Rockhampton Art Gallery plays host to a touring exhibition drawn from the Darnell Collection, New South Wales. “A sense of occasion: Fifty years of party dresses” is an exhibition of ball...

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A Sense of Occassion
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A Sense of Occassion - Cupcakes and Couture

Location: Rockhampton, QLD   |   Type: Arts & Performance, Exhibitions and Shows, Rockhampton Art Gallery

Enjoy a guided tour of the exhibition with the Gallery Director this Mothers Day. Afternoon Tea by Lickety Fingers. The Rockhampton Art Gallery plays host to a touring exhibition drawn from the...

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A Sense of Occassion
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A Sense of Occassion - Vintage and Contemporary Fashion at Stockland

Location: Rockhampton, QLD   |   Type: Arts & Performance, Exhibitions and Shows, Free Stuff, Rockhampton Art Gallery

Fashion event from the Darnell Collection and Stockland retailers. Includes book signing with Charlotte Smith. The Rockhampton Art Gallery plays host to a touring exhibition drawn from the...

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Adam Harvey

Adam Harvey

Location: Rockhampton, QLD   |   Type: Arts & Performance, Nightlife, Performances

Adam Harvey live at the Glenmore Tavern! Adam Harvey is regarded as one of the best singers in the Country Music industry. After five albums and over 200,000 CD'S sold, it would seem that country...

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Archer Park Bush Poets

Archer Park Bush Poets

Location: Rockhampton, QLD   |   Type: Arts & Performance, Performances

If you enjoy bush poetry and song don’t miss this year’s series of Bush Poetry and Song Barbecue Evenings at Archer Park Rail Museum. This event will be held at the Archer Park Rail Museum. If...

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Australian Song Book
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Australian Song Book

Location: Capella, QLD   |   Type: Arts & Performance, Performances

Australian Songbook is a superb tribute to Australian songs made famous by The Seekers, Peter Dawson, Johnny O’Keefe, Lucky Starr, Chad Morgan, Slim Dusty, Anne Kirkpatick, and The Beggars. You...

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Kasey Chambers
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Beef Australia Finale Concert

Location: Rockhampton, QLD   |   Type: Arts & Performance, Family Fun, Nightlife, Performances

Australian country music legend, Kasey Chambers, and Rockhampton's own chart successes, Busby Marou, will headline the Beef Australia 2012 Country Collaboration Concert. The multi-ARIA awarding...

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Biddies

Biddies

Location: Rockhampton, QLD   |   Type: Arts & Performance, Performances, See It Live

Biddies finds five ordinarily marvellous women back in their infants school classroom plying their needles in a good old-fashioned session of "stitch and bitch". Their confessions are frank, their...

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Caravan Burlesque

Caravan Burlesque

Location: Rockhampton, QLD   |   Type: Arts & Performance, Performances, See It Live

Caravan Burlesque is created and directed by Moira Finucane and Jackie Smith The globally acclaimed salon of seductive, subversive, and electrifying acts is here! From multi-award winning...

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Central Highlands Multicultural Festival
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Central Highlands Multicultural Festival

Location: Emerald, QLD   |   Type: Arts & Performance, Exhibitions and Shows, Family Fun, Festivals and Celebrations, Free Stuff

Central Highlands Multicultural Festival is an entertaining event that celebrates and showcases the cultural diversity in the local and regional community through enjoyable world music, dance and...

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Cloudland
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Cloudland

Location: Rockhampton, QLD   |   Type: Arts & Performance, Performances, See It Live

The lights dim, the music swells, and wrapped in the magical embrace of Cloudland, the dance begins. An iconic Brisbane building for decades, the Cloudland ballroom was the focus of the city's...

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Open Circuit (detail) 1997
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Collection in Focus

Location: Rockhampton, QLD   |   Type: Arts & Performance, Exhibitions and Shows, Free Stuff, Rockhampton Art Gallery

A Rockhampton Art Gallery initiative, the Collection In Focus series explores the unique and diverse art collections of the Central Queensland region. The CQUniversity Art Collection currently...

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CQUni Lunchtime Concert
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CQUni Lunchtime Concert Series

Location: Rockhampton, QLD   |   Type: Arts & Performance, CQUniversity Performance Series, Free Stuff, Performances

Already a regular and feature on the CQUniversity Rockhampton campus, you can liven up your lunch break while enjoying the great sounds of jazz and popular music presented by staff, students and...

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CQUni Music
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CQUniversity Schools Jazz Festival: The Program

Location: Rockhampton, QLD   |   Type: Arts & Performance, CQUniversity Performance Series, Performances

CQUniversity's CQ Conservatorium of Music is proud to present the CQUniversity Schools Jazz Festival. The CQUniversity Schools Jazz Festival provides an opportunity for high school students to...

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Rockhampton Art Gallery
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Creative Generation Excellence Awards in Visual Art and Design

Location: Rockhampton, QLD   |   Type: Arts & Performance, Exhibitions and Shows, Free Stuff, Rockhampton Art Gallery

A Rockhampton Art Gallery exhibition. The Creative Generation Excellence Awards in Visual Art and Design recognise and promote excellence in senior visual arts education throughout Queensland...

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Moncrieff Theatre Presents David Campbell

David Campbells Lets Go Tour

Location: Rockhampton, QLD   |   Type: Arts & Performance, Performances

David Campbell releases this summer's party album and announces an upcoming national tour. On the back of four top albums featuring tracks from Broadway through to 60s pop, David Campbell is...

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Love Like Poison
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French Film Festival - Love Like Poison

Location: Rockhampton, QLD   |   Type: Arts & Performance, Festivals and Celebrations

Love Like Poison (Un Poison Violent) MA 15+ Young teenager Anna (Clara Augarde) returns home from her Catholic boarding school in time for her impending confirmation. But this holiday will become...

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Nothing to Declare
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French Film Festival - Nothing To Declare

Location: Rockhampton, QLD   |   Type: Arts & Performance, Festivals and Celebrations

Rien A Declarer (M). Writer, director, actor Dany Boon is a past master at making audiences howl with laughter. His 'Welcome To The Sticks' broke box office records. Boon hilariously interweaves...

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La Guerre des Boutons
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French Film Festival - War of the Buttons

Location: Rockhampton, QLD   |   Type: Arts & Performance, Festivals and Celebrations

War of the Buttons (La Guerre des Boutons) PG This huge success at the French box office is the fifth movie version of a 1912 novel by Louis Pergaud that's been reprinted over 30 times. Two rival...

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Zero Hour
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French Film Festival - Zero Hour

Location: Rockhampton, QLD   |   Type: Arts & Performance, Festivals and Celebrations

Zero Hour (L'Heure Zéro) - Check classification closer to date. Agatha Christie's 'Towards Zero', published in 1944, has a plot that mixes all her classic ingredients. There's a family reunion...

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RMU
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Hairspray

Location: Rockhampton, QLD   |   Type: Arts & Performance, Family Fun, Performances

Rockhampton Musical Union Choir presents the multi award winning feel-good musical Hairspray. Set in the early 1960s in Baltimore, the story centres around Tracy Turnblad, a plump girl whose dream...

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I Bunyip

I Bunyip

Location: Rockhampton, QLD   |   Type: Arts & Performance, Family Fun, Performances

Do you know what a Bunyip is? What about a Yawk Yawk or the other fascinating creatures that live in Australia? Would you like to meet them? Created by Erth Visual and Physical Inc and developed...

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CQUniversity Jazz
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Jazz at the Frenchville

Location: Rockhampton, QLD   |   Type: Arts & Performance, Free Stuff, Nightlife, Performances

CQUniversity's CQ Conservatorium of Music is proud to present Jazz at the Frenchville. These great evenings of soulful live jazz are presented by the students of CQUniversity's Bachelor of...

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CQUniversity Jazz
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JazzMania

Location: Rockhampton, QLD   |   Type: Arts & Performance, CQUniversity Performance Series, Performances

CQUniversity's CQ Conservatorium of Music is proud to present JazzMania. This event brings together three of Australia's premier jazz musician's, Glen Hodges, Nathaniel Andrew and Hayley Cox....

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Jon English
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Jon English in Rock Revolution

Location: Rockhampton, QLD   |   Type: Arts & Performance, Performances

The Harbour Agency and the producers of the phenomenally successful ‘Rock Show’ – Sound One – proudly present Jon English, back bigger and better in 2012! Jon English has been working tirelessly...

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Eduardo Paolozzi I Turing Collection - Alan Turing - the enigma 2000
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Kagi Gift

Location: Rockhampton, QLD   |   Type: Arts & Performance, Exhibitions and Shows, Free Stuff, Rockhampton Art Gallery

A Rockhampton Art Gallery Exhibition. In 2008, the Melbourne scientist and art collector Dr Kagi donated 157 modern British prints, a gift which enabled Rockhampton Art Gallery to present regular...

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Dave Brown, the Bradman of League
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League of Legends: 100 Years of Rugby League in Australia

Location: Rockhampton, QLD   |   Type: Arts & Performance, Exhibitions and Shows, Rockhampton Art Gallery

League of Legends: 100 Years of Rugby League in Australia celebrates the history of this great game. Starting as a breakaway football competition established in defiance of the New South Wales...

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Les Ballets Eloelle - Men In Pink Tights

Les Ballets Eloelle - Men In Pink Tights

Location: Rockhampton, QLD   |   Type: Arts & Performance, Performances

Making their World Premiere season in Australia, Les Ballets Eloelle are bringing their new production "Men In Pink Tights" - the most talented and hilarious all-male comedy ballet ever. From the...

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Literature and Music

Location: Rockhampton, QLD   |   Type: Arts & Performance, Classes, Lessons and Workshops, Family Fun, Rockhampton Art Gallery

Rockhampton Art Gallery’s Literature and Music program for 2012 is scheduled for the last Sunday of each month from February to November. This popular Sunday afternoon activity highlights...

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Little Ripper - Footlights Musical Restaurant

Little Ripper - Footlights Musical Restaurant

Location: Yeppoon, QLD   |   Type: Arts & Performance, Nightlife, Performances

Little Ripper, the latest show at Footlights really is an Australian treasure. It's a two hour show packed full of laughter, ideal for everyone. With all original material and very different from...

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Man from Snowy River
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Man From Snowy River Arena Spectacular

Location: Rockhampton, QLD   |   Type: Arts & Performance, Campdrafts & Rodeos, Family Fun, Performances

This classic Australian tale by Banjo Paterson will come to life at Beef Australia 2012 with the help of local actors, singers, dancers, musicians and stage hands. The Man From Snowy River is a...

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Melbourne Comedy Festival Roadshow

Melbourne Comedy Festival Roadshow

Location: Rockhampton, QLD   |   Type: Arts & Performance, Nightlife, Performances

Stuffing one of the world’s largest comedy festivals into the one show is no easy feat, but the Melbourne International Comedy Festival has done just that with Roadshow. Local and overseas...

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Comedy Roadshow
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Melbourne International Comedy Festival Roadshow - Capella

Location: Capella, QLD   |   Type: Arts & Performance, Performances

Stuffing one of the world's largest comedy festivals into the one show is no easy feat, but the Melbourne International Comedy Festival has done just that with Roadshow. Offering a selection of...

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Morning Melodies

Morning Melodies

Location: Rockhampton, QLD   |   Type: Arts & Performance, Performances

Morning Melodies presents a concert every month this year by some of Australia's finest and most loved performers. The Morning Melodies programme provides great entertainment at affordable...

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Motherhood The Musical

Motherhood The Musical

Location: Rockhampton, QLD   |   Type: Arts & Performance, Performances, See It Live

Motherhood The Musical: The good, the bad and the laundry. From the Australian Producer of Menopause The Musical® comes an equally hilarious, musical journey about the lives and friendships of...

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Mrs Prime Minister: Public Image

Mrs Prime Minister: Public Image, Private Lives

Location: Rockhampton, QLD   |   Type: Arts & Performance, Exhibitions and Shows, Rockhampton Art Gallery

A Museum of Australian Democracy travelling exhibition, Mrs Prime Minister: Public Image, Private Lives, will be on show. Old Parliament House’s travelling exhibition introduces visitors to the 25...

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Namatjira

Namatjira

Location: Rockhampton, QLD   |   Type: Arts & Performance, Performances, See It Live

Namatjira is a Big Hart production, created with the Namatjira Family The rich watercolours of Albert Namatjira's story are transformed into a momentous theatrical event in Namatjira, a...

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Opera in the Caves
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Opera in the Caves

Location: The Caves, QLD   |   Type: Arts & Performance, Performances

Opera Underground! Literally! The Underground Opera Company is pleased to announce their latest concerts at The Capricorn Caves, Rockhampton. The Cathedral is the show-piece of the Capricorn Caves...

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Rockhampton Eisteddfod

Rockhampton Eisteddfod

Location: Rockhampton, QLD   |   Type: Arts & Performance, Exhibitions and Shows, Family Fun, Performances

The Rockhampton Eisteddfod held annually includes a packed program of speech, dance, vocal, piano and instrumental sections. Official programs will be on sale from the Pilbeam Theatre Box Office...

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Rocky Fringe
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Rocky Fringe Film Festival

Location: Rockhampton, QLD   |   Type: Arts & Performance, Festivals and Celebrations

See the entries in this year's Rocky Fringe Short Film Festival on the big screen at the Walter Reid Cultural Centre on Friday 31 August at 8pm. Filmmakers have two opportunities to create their...

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woman and child
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Sam Jinks : Body in Time

Location: Rockhampton, QLD   |   Type: Arts & Performance, Exhibitions and Shows, Free Stuff, Rockhampton Art Gallery

Sam Jinks: Body in Time is the first retrospective exhibition of one of Australia's most talented young artists. This survey will showcase a selection of artworks that fit within an aesthetic of...

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CQU Music
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Sarah Court and Matthew Marshall

Location: Rockhampton, QLD   |   Type: Arts & Performance, Performances

CQUniversity's CQ Conservatorium of Music is proud to present Sarah Court and Matthew Marshall. Internationally acclaimed New Zealand musicians Sarah Court and Matthew Marshall come together to...

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Shifting Sand

Shifting Sand

Location: Rockhampton, QLD   |   Type: Arts & Performance, Performances, See It Live

Shifting Sand is a new work composed by TaikOz member Graham Hilgendorf. Inspired by the beach and ocean, this is a powerful evocation of the ocean’s many faces. TaikOz’s ethereal sounds,...

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Short & Sweet

Location: Rockhampton, QLD   |   Type: Arts & Performance, Performances

Now entering its tenth year, Short+Sweet Theatre is the biggest festival of ten minute theatre in the world! Held annually at the Newtown Theatre and NIDA Parade Theatres in Sydney, Chapel Off...

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Sporting Heroes
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Sporting Heroes

Location: Rockhampton, QLD   |   Type: Arts & Performance, Exhibitions and Shows

A Rockhampton Art Gallery exhibition The central Queensland region has a rich and proud legacy of producing some of Australia's most notable and successful sporting personalities whose careers...

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Mt Morgan Mine
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Tales of the Underground - Mount Morgan

Location: Mount Morgan, QLD   |   Type: Arts & Performance, Performances

Three short plays about mining by Angela Betzien, Victoria Carless and Rod Ainsworth. Tales of the Underground explores the social impacts of mining through the experiences of three...

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Mt Morgan Mine
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Tales of the Underground - Rockhampton

Location: Rockhampton, QLD   |   Type: Arts & Performance, Performances

Three short plays about mining by Angela Betzien, Victoria Carless and Rod Ainsworth. Tales of the Underground explores the social impacts of mining through the experiences of three...

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The Delltones - Better Than Ever

The Delltones - Better Than Ever

Location: Rockhampton, QLD   |   Type: Arts & Performance, Performances

It only seems like yesterday but more than 50 years on The Delltones are still enchanting and energizing audiences with their highly exciting and colourful performances. The Delltones with...

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Rockhampton Art Gallery
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The Gold Award

Location: Rockhampton, QLD   |   Type: Arts & Performance, Exhibitions and Shows

A Rockhampton Art Gallery exhibition A national invitation painting prize valued at $50,000. The Gold Award for contemporary artists will be a premier biennial art event of national significance...

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The Imperial Russing Ballets Sleeping Beauty

The Imperial Russing Ballets Sleeping Beauty

Location: Rockhampton, QLD   |   Type: Arts & Performance, Family Fun, Performances

Following their 2011 sell out performance of A Festival of Russian Ballet, the Imperial Russian Ballet company return to Australia with their presentation of the classic masterpiece “Sleeping...

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The Mikado

The Mikado

Location: Rockhampton, QLD   |   Type: Arts & Performance, Performances, See It Live

The Mikado shows a world of forbidden love and delightful satire! A true romantic comedy, Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado is fresh, fun, and cheeky. Set in a Japan that never actually existed,...

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Peter Purves Smith | Lucile 1937
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The Moderns: Highlights from the Queensland Art Gallery Collection

Location: Rockhampton, QLD   |   Type: Arts & Performance, Exhibitions and Shows, Free Stuff, Rockhampton Art Gallery

Australian Modernists will focus on the Queensland Art Gallery's treasured modern masterpieces of Australian art, telling the story of artists' responses to the experience of modernisation in the...

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The Oxford Street Party

The Oxford Street Party

Location: Rockhampton, QLD   |   Type: Arts & Performance, Festivals and Celebrations, Nightlife, Performances

For the seventh consecutive year, The Oxford Street Party held in Rockhampton will host some of Australia's hottest acts. After sold-out crowds for the last five years organisers are pleased to...

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The Village Festival
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The Village Festival

Location: Yeppoon, QLD   |   Type: Arts & Performance, Family Fun, Festivals and Celebrations, Nightlife

The Village Festival of Arts and Music is Central Queensland's largest music and arts celebration staged annually by the Keppel Coast Arts Council with their tenth birthday in 2012. The Festival...

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The Winner of the Sydney International Piano Competition

The Winner of the Sydney International Piano Competition

Location: Rockhampton, QLD   |   Type: Arts & Performance, Performances, See It Live

The Sydney International Piano Competition of Australia is internationally recognised as one of the world’s great piano competitions for up and coming pianists both individually and as soloists...

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Troy Cassar-Daley and Band

Troy Cassar-Daley and Band

Location: Rockhampton, QLD   |   Type: Arts & Performance, Nightlife, Performances

If you love country music don't miss the iconic Troy Cassar-Daly. Troy is the true spirit of country music and his love of the art and all things Australian comes through in his songs. He has won...

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Whats A Man Gotta Do
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Whats A Man Gotta Do

Location: Capella, QLD   |   Type: Arts & Performance, Performances

Andrew Horabin is a state and national award-winning singer/songwriter with a one man comedy musical that asks, What's A Man Gotta Do To Be A Man In Your Town? In his hilarious show, Andrew uses...

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Wrapt in Rocky
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Wrapt in Rocky

Location: Rockhampton, QLD   |   Type: Arts & Performance, Classes, Lessons and Workshops, Exhibitions and Shows

Get Wrapped in Rocky for an absolutely fabulous week long 'winter' event in all things fibre art and more. Wrapt in Rocky runs over seven days with five days of tutoring and an Open Day. Sellers,...

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