The Gold Coast is blessed with great weather nearly all year round and there are a number of arts festivals that take advantage of the perfect conditions. Bleach Festival, usually held in April, which in our opinion is the most perfect time of the year to be on the Gold Coast, is a city wide festival that included live music, beach performances, theatre, film and fun. The 2019 Bleach Festival included comedy from the hilarious Lano & Woodley, Dave Hughes and Peter Hellier. There were stand out dance performances from Dancers Erak Mith from Phnom Penh and Aaron Lim from Darwin use the rituals, movement styles and language of their shared hip hop culture to explore both the dramatically different worlds that surround them and the choreographic links that unite them. In the past Circa! Have performed too.
The other fabulous festival to attend is Swell Sculpture festival. For 10 days in September each year Currumbin Beach becomes an open air gallery. The festival now in its 17th years brings together works by nationally and internationally renowned artists to a free public exhibition on beautiful Currumbin beach. The festival is complemented by live music, public arts talks and community projects.