Festivals in Tropical Australia promote the arts of the region!
Many of an area’s cultural, creative and sporting attractions are showcased in a kaleidoscope of frenzied activity by tropical artists. To become involved in a brand new arts festival, check out Go Troppo Arts Festival, Port Douglas to see how you can help to build it! However, most people visit festivals just to have a great time, not to actually shape them. Maybe you like the pace to be fast and furious?
Great Choice!If you would prefer to proceed at a more leisurely pace, or if you have a particular interest, it’s easy to just choose components from what is on offer.Take your pick from street parties, sporting events, circus, multi-cultural community activities, food and wine celebrations, art exhibitions, cabaret or fashion parades. August sees the cosmopolitan city of Darwin come alive with song, dance, stories and art for the Darwin Festival, a melting pot of Asian, Indigenous and Pacific cultures. So exciting; I would like to go every year!
Cairns, Port Douglas, Cooktown, the TablelandsFestival Cairns showcases the region and its multi-cultural diversity with a week long event-filled celebration, funded and promoted by the Cairns Regional Council.Yungaburra's Folk Festival, true to its name, offers a plethora of concerts, body painting, lantern making, fire dancing, writing, belly dancing and storytelling workshops. Government grants for artists help to meet the some of the huge costs of running these cultural events.
The artist with the Cook expedition, Joseph Banks, spent his time ashore drawing the many strange botanical specimens that he had collected and naming some (eg banksia).
People just like you travel from afar to be involved in it, so we hope to see you at the street party, the beach day... or unrecognisable in your mask at the elegant
art exhibition
or food and wine evening! Following on the success of the Low Isles Exhibition in November, 2007, it was decided to extend the celebrations centred around this season of abundance and renewal that heralds the Wet season, to include a number of art related events under the banner of
Go Troppo Arts Festival,
Port Douglas.
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