Cairns Festival 50th Season Overview by Eric Holowacz

2011 SEASON INFORMATION 50 Years Under a Tropical Sun

HISTORIC OVERVIEW: The Cairns Festival The Festival Soul: Thoughts on the 50th Season by Producer Eric Holowacz With the opening of a new Green Island jetty on 26 May, 1962, the Far North had something to celebrate—another reason for people to seek out our community, venture to the reef, and play under the tropical sun. As the civic leaders and tourism industry staff planned this new venture fifty years ago, it was clear that a creative celebration was in order. And so began the annual event that would become the Cairns Festival. Established in 1962 as the Cairns Tourist Festival, the gathering was renamed "Fun in the Sun" the following year—and soon began drawing families, creative people, and tourists to celebrate our Far North sense of place. As the decades rolled on, it grew into our community's most significant annual celebration. It became a Festival about who we are, the historic and multicultural connections we have at our roots, and the international mix of people who come to Cairns to learn about life between reef and rainforest. For many who grew up with Fun in the Sun, the Festival was simply about having a good time with friends and neighbours—unbridled, tropical, home-town fun. And as the annual event matured, it gained a following far and wide as Far North Queensland's annual celebration of identity—our culture, a unique tropical lifestyle, lush and rich landscapes, an incredible creative community, and a special fusion of Indigenous, Asian, European, and South Pacific cultures. As the decades wore on, the Festival developed platforms for music, dance, theatre, film, literary arts, and new collaborations. It became a destination—a reason for people in Melbourne or Perth to join us under this warm winter sun. By the early nineties, the event was ready to evolve further. It was renamed the "Reef Festival," and in 2002 was rebranded as "Festival Cairns." Finally, with last year's season, what started as a small town community gathering was renamed Cairns Festival. It was now one of Australia's recognized creative programs, nearly 100 unique events over 17 days, with a vibrant mix of performing, visual, Indigenous, hometown and international artistry.

No matter what you call it, the Festival is about community identity, shared experiences, and creative expression. Over one hundred thousand people experienced last year's program, and they came form all over the world—as well as our own back yard. And they all celebrated in the spirit of our very first season, back in 1962—when the people of Cairns decided that creativity and festival-making was important to the town. Today, the Festival is funded and managed by Cairns Regional Council, with a small seasonal team lead by the amazing Nina Bryony Adwick as administrator. Significant partnerships have been forged with hometown cultural stalwarts like Cairns Indigenous Art Fair, Tanks Arts Centre, JUTE Theatre, Umi Arts, Cairns Regional Gallery—and new inter-state relationships are coming to fruition with La Mama Theatre, Woodford Festival, and other cultural production houses. There are dozens of annual festivals all over Australia, and many of them depend on the same formula: present a range of performers, invite audiences to experience them, sell tickets, and hope there is applause at the end. Cairns Regional Council and our small Festival team are after something more. There's nothing wrong with the tried and true event-based approach, which we too proceed from. But Cairns Festival wants to do better for our creative identity, and we have set out to build a different kind of arts festival. We truly want to give something meaningful back to the community with outreach and cultural connections. It's the Cairns Festival's mission—as the 50th season approaches—to find new ways to engage local creative people, to support and liberate the creative process, and to attempt bold and visionary projects. Based in a small headquarters in City Place, the team is now working hard to develop projects and ideas that go beneath the surface and reveal rich and inspiring stories. Projects continuing from last year—like Posters to the People, Far North Art-o-mat and Opening Notes—are the start of a new form of Festival that does more than charge you for a ticket and hope you will find the experience worthwhile. For the 2011 season, the bold initiatives continue: a diverse free music series at the main stage in Fogarty Park, six free film evenings on the Esplanade, the Man vs Fascinator socio-photographic exhibition, Opening Notes package for every newborn, Gremlin street theatre, and an extraordinary new Muddy's Art Village for parents and children. If we do it right, Cairns Festival will provide a bit of innovation to the standard event-based model. Cairns Regional Council has asked us to surprise and delight, and keep the spirit of Fun in the Sun alive. If we get it really right, our Festival will give added meaning to people's lives and a sense of wonder to what goes on around us, and that should carry us for another 50 years. As preparations for its milestone season are being made, Cairns Festival is gathering thousands of creative people—from the parade participants and locally produced events to the international musicians and visiting artists in residence. Without them, there would be no events, no program, no creative spark for our community's main cultural celebration. Each and every person involved in the past fifty years has given something special to our stages, streets, and lives. They have contributed their human spirit and an unlimited sense of creativity to ensure that our annual rituals are bold, meaningful, and relevant. They have proved that we are not Sydney, Melbourne, or Brisbane—and that this fact is a very good, very Far North thing. Their ongoing presence—in the shade of a towering fig tree, along the expanse of the Esplanade, and under a tropical sun—is what has given the Cairns Festival its soul. And that too is what sets our community's gathering apart form all the other festivals around the globe.

FESTIVAL PICKS: A Dozen Highlights of the Season 2011 Cairns Festival: August 19 to September 4

From August 19 to September 4, the streets, parks, and venues of Cairns will be filled with creativity and Festival activities. Our milestone season, 50 Years Under a Tropical Sun, will offer hundreds of great events over 17-days, including a healthy offering of free events and experiences. The main stage in Fogarty Park comes alive on Friday 19 August when the new Cairns Gondwana Indigenous Children's Choir takes the stage, joined by Will Kepa and friends, and then the legendary Torres Strait Islander, Seaman Dan. The free concert series continues on Saturday 20 August when UMI Arts presents its Big Talk One Fire program, as Zennith and Black Image take the stage for a double bill or pure local talent.Â Deadly Award-winners, The Medics return home to the Far North to headline the Sunday 21 August concert, following the Festival's Grand Parade and Fireworks Show. Hundreds of cultural events will follow over the 17 day season, which includes a world premiere of a multi-media environmental work by Melbourne's La Mama Theatre, a friendly invasion and street theatre environment by Woodford Festival's Gremlins, a five-day season of Circus Oz at the Civic Theatre, an expanded free outdoor film series, Jake Nowakowski's stunning Man vs Fascinator exhibition, and so much more...

1.Free Music on the Fogarty Park Festival Stage Various Dates Sit back and relax, and welcome the 50th festival with a concert by Gondwana Indigenous Children's Choir, Will Kepa and Friends, and the legendary Seaman Dan to open the season on Friday 19 August. Soak up the sounds of the Far North, the Torres Strait Islands, and our living culture. Local favourite Zennith and Black Image band take the stage on 20 August, with The Medics coming home and following the Grand Parade and fireworks on 21 August. Public Opinion Afro Orchestra, Tijuana Cartel, a Big Band Extravaganza, and others will follow.

2.Overflow FNQ Grand Parade, Fireworks, The Medics Sunday 21 August at 5pm Join about twenty thousand friends and neighbors as the streets of Cairns fill with excitement for the Grand Parade and 50th Anniversary Fireworks Show, followed by the return of hometown music-makers, The Medics, live on the Fogarty Park stage. A Gremlin procession, fresh off the boat from Woodford, will lead people from the Esplanade to the stage. And local percussion powerhouse, Drum Up Big, will herald in the musical program on the Festival stage in Fogarty Park.Â

3.Muddy's Art Village After School and Weekends New this year is a special Kids Village, in partnership with KickArts Contemporary Arts. Set next to Muddy's Playground, the Festival will offer free art activities, special performances, and fun for families wanting to get creative during the Festival season. Free fun for families and creative kids!

4.Far North Gremlin Camp Throughout the Festival: 19 August to 4 September Cairns Festival has partnered with Woodford Folk Festival, to bring a curious cast of street performers to the Far North. They are called Gremlins, and they love to explore physics, gravity, and other friendly cultures. After a long ocean voyage aboard to the Coral Sea, the Gremlins will make land and set up a tropical camp at The Esplanade. Meet them, and learn more about their culture and inter-planetary mission there (and at other roving locations around Cairns).

5.Circus Oz Steampowered August 26 to 31 at the Civic Theatre Circus Oz goes trope and explodes onto the stage of the Cairns Civic Theatre with a 6-day season of absurd acrobatics, graceful aerial performance, fast-paced knockabout comedy, and a delightful time for kids and grown ups too. Don't miss Steampowered, when it rolls through the Far North!

6. The Grimstones: Mortimer Revealed 26, 27, 28 August at the Centre of Contemporary Arts Don't miss master puppetry artist, Asphyxia, and this one of a kind puppet theatre performance at the Cairns Centre of Contemporary Arts. Young Martha Grimstone reads dreams and longs for the truth: what really happened to her dear, departed father, Mortimer? Audiences at the Centre of Contemporary Arts will enter Martha’s fantastical world in this inspiring tale about family, love and loss using magic, tenderness and humour.

7. Slowdive Attic 18, 19, 20 August at The Attic Brisbane choreographer and leading creative force, Claire Marshall, sets her latest work at a popular nightclub in Cairns. Patrons of The Attic will have a few not-so-late night opportunities to watch her dance theatre work unfold, as seven contemporary dancers turn the entire club into a performance space. Audiences, the lucky ones who attend this purpose-built Cairns Festival production, will become part of the narrative, the dance space, the environment.

8.Theatre of the Environment Double Bill La Mama Theatre’s Schism & The Salvage Company’s Whales & Souls 26, 27, 28 August at the Centre of Contemporary Arts As part of an ongoing investigation into new theatre works, Cairns Festival is proud to present a double bill of short plays that specifically address environmental change and concerns. This double bill of short works, which we are calling Theatre of the Environment, begins with a world premiere by Melbourne's La Mama Theatre, Schism, a psychological thriller that explores identity, consumption, and human impact. That will be followed by another one-act, Whales & Souls, by the Festival's 2011 Playwright-in-residence, Andrew Kramer.

9.Free Film Nights in Fogarty Park 22, 23, 24 August and 29, 30, 31 August One of last year's favorite reasons to have a picnic, the Festival's free film nights return with six screenings under a starry canopy and the accommodating lawn at the heart of the City. Free, fun, and a perfect excuse to linger in the Festival environment and its magical outdoor cinema.

10.(Un)seen Sculptures North Augmented Reality Installations After invading hipster enclaves in Sydney, taking over large swathes of inner city Melbourne, and spreading colonies of psychedelic virtual toads throughout Victoria and New South Wales, (Un)seen Sculptures is heading North for the 2011 Cairns Festival. The 21st century digital project, curated by Warren Armstrong, is based on an exhibition of mobile 3D augmented reality art situated in locations along the Esplanade and Cairns CBD. These will be virtual digital works – hidden from the naked eye but visible to anyone with an iPhone, Android or the latest Nokia smartphone.

11.Art-o-mat Machine KickArts Gift Shop, Centre of Contemporary Arts It's a little known secret, but Cairns is now home to the only Art-o-mat machine in the Southern Hemisphere. Visit the KickArts gift shop, bring $5, and obtain original art from this most unique repurposed vending machines. 20 artists are represented, including a few Far North creative people who are now part of the world-wide Art-o-mat network. Pull a knob and wait for your new affordable art collection to begin!

12. Carnival on Collins Sunday 4 September at Cairns Botanic Gardens and Tanks Arts Centre The Festival's 50th season comes to a close on Father's Day, when Collins Avenue fills with music, food, busking, and a creative wonderland for families to explore, relax, and celebrate the lush tropical surroundings (and a truly Far North vibe).

2011 Program Features Things You Might Want to Know About

50th Anniversary Golden Ticket Made Possible by Paronella Park A 50th Anniversary Special made possible by Cairns Regional Council in partnership with Paronella Park. Purchase your own Cairns Festival Golden Ticket, and make it easy to attend great dance, music, and theatre events during our 50th season. Your Festival Golden Ticket may only be purchased in person at the TicketLink Box Office in the Cairns Civic Theatre. The card will entitle you to one free admission to select 2011 Cairns Festival Golden Ticket Performances—all throughout the 50th Festival season. Advance booking is suggested for the shows you really want to see with your Golden Ticket, as admission at each event is subject to seat availability. Simply use your Golden Ticket to secure advance tickets at the TicketLink counter, and a reserved seat will be provided for your desired Cairns Festival events. What a deal! The Cairns Festival Golden Ticket is made possible through a partnership with Paronella Park, and Golden Ticket holders will also gain 2 for 1 admission to Paronella Park in August and September. Another great deal! Get your Golden Ticket now at the TicketLink desk in Cairns Civic Theatre: $50 before 18 August / $100 from 18 August

Cairns Festival Grand Parade 50th Anniversary Celebration Made Possible by Overflow FNQ The 2011 Overflow FNQ Grand Parade will fill The Esplanade from 5:00pm on Sunday 21 August, and will again include 50+ floats from throughout the community, an amazing fireworks show, and a massive free concert by The Medics on the Fogarty Park Festival Stage. Join us as part of the Cairns Festival Golden Anniversary opening weekend, and help the Far North and Honourary Parade Queen Kay Hilder celebrate 50 Years under a Tropical Sun. Our Grand Parade—generously sponsored by Overflow FNQ—will explore the past, present, and future with the theme "The Far North Time Machine." Following the fireworks show over Trinity Inlet, look for a curious fire procession led by our visiting Gremlin characters. From the waterfront, they will call together the people of Cairns and begin a fun-loving procession to the Fogarty Park stage. There, local members of Drum Up Big will beat a rhythmic welcome ceremony for friends, neighbours, Gremlins, and all—before The Medics take the stage for their homecoming appearance. Be there as 20,000 people come together to celebrate our tropical festival heritage!

Cairns Festival Free Concert Series Made Possible by James Cook University For our Golden Anniversary season, the Festival is going all out with over a half dozen free outdoor concerts on the main stage at Fogarty Park. Meet there, and bring a picnic, chair, and assortment of friends for music-making by The Medics, Tijuana Cartel, Melbourne’s Public Opinion Afro Orchestra, Cairns Bands, Zennith, Black Image, the Mr Pinstrip Suit Big Band, and more! It all starts on Friday 19 August with the legendary Seaman Dan, joined by Will Kepa and Friends and the enchanting Gondwana Indigenous Children’s Choir. This mighty series has been put together by the Festival’s music program coordinator, Roz Pappalardo, herself a guiding light on the creative landscape. Special thanks to Anniversary partner, James Cook University, for helping the Festival expand these great free music events for our community.

Cairns Festival Contemporary Performance Series Made Possible by BDO In partnership with the Cairns Centre of Contemporary Arts, the Festival will present an ambitious season of bold and innovative contemporary performances. Throughout the 17-day program, audiences can discover the captivating multi-media story-telling of Fleur Elise Noble’s The 2 Dimensional Life of Her, new theatre works about the environment from Melbourne’s La Mama Theatre and New York’s The Salvage Company, enchanting puppet theatre by Asphyxia and The Grimstones in Mortimer Revealed, and a gripping investigative theatre work developed by Brooklyn-based The Civilians called Crime USA. The series also includes two extraordinary musical programs, the collaborative project, Murder Ballads, and the Tasmanian creative force, Dean Stevenson and Arco Set. Local forum theatre project, Crossroads: When the Wheels fall off the World II will appear at various locations and fill the Festival season with a collaborative play-making ethic, and Brisbane choreographer Claire Marshall brings her club-culture dance work to The Attic at Gilligan’s Backpacker Resort, for new dance like you’ve never seen. It’s all made possible by series sponsor BDO, Arts Queensland, and these exciting contemporary creative people.

Cairns Festival Muddy’s Art Village A creative partnership with KickArts Contemporary Arts Made Possible by Michael Aw The Good Guys Weekends : 10:am to 6:00pm / Weekdays 2:00pm to 6:00pm / Free The Festival—in partnership with KickArts—has planned the perfect place for creative kids and families: Muddy’s Art Village. Stop by to explore casual activities, workshops, and artmaking, guided by artists and educators from around the region. Look for the giant yellow inflatable building, headquarters of the Festival’s Muddy’s Art Village, and explore a kidfriendly installation, Shadow Land, make piles of pop-up puppets, invent new devices in the Gremlin Rokit Workshop, construct craft objects using recycled and reclaimed materials, and participate in collaborative public art sculptures for the lawn. Then explore the ongoing wonderland that is Muddy’s Playground or take a break for a family afternoon tea at the café. There will even be a Festival Muddy’s Homestead, a unique kid-designed cardboard town popping up around the open spaces. Open every day of the Festival, and free for everybody, Muddy’s Art Village will ignite the creative spark in every kid. Our thanks to Michael Aw The Good Guys for helping the 2011 Cairns Festival build a wondrous place for kids and families!

Earthed: Tanks Festival Club A creative environment for before and after events 19 to 26 August in Tanks 4 Experience the atmosphere of a nightclub while enjoying amazing new-media, visual and performance art, set in Tanks’ contemporary surrounds An eclectic group of James Cook University students with specialties in a variety of creative industry skills, will transform Tank 4 into a spectacular visual experience. Their treatment of the space with lighting and projections, stage and bar, will create a groovy environment for the presentation of works by local emerging artists, and a fantastic space in which to enjoy the program of entertainment. Earthed is open to the public weekdays, and on all nights Tanks Arts Centre has concerts and events during the eight day installation, including PechaKucha Night and an Artist Talk with Jim Woodring. Join local creative people for the official launch of Earthed:Tasks Festival Club on Friday 19 August from 6:00pm! Open daily and from 6:30pm to late on event nights.

Far North Mobile Ukulele Unit A music-making partnership with Cairns Ukulele Festival As part of its milestone 50th season, Cairns Festival has acquired 100 ukuleles and has announced the establishment of the Far North Mobile Ukulele Unit. The instruments will be made available to schools, community groups, and other festivals throughout the Cairns Region, as a way to share the joy of music and the creative spark with people throughout the Far North. The idea began with a conversation between Cairns Festival producer, Eric Holowacz, and Ukulele Festival founder, Gaby Thomasz. The two were brainstorming about how to extend music-making across the region, and came up with the notion of a mobile unit, ready to dispatch with everything needed to make music: ukuleles, an instructor, and an assortment of great songs. Other great ideas soon followed, like a marching ukulele brigade for parades, a spontaneous 100-member ukulele flash mob, and even a mass ukulele welcome for visitors and dignitaries arriving at the Cairns Airport or cruise ship terminal. The Far North Mobile Ukulele Unit made its debut at the 2011 Cairns Ukulele Festival, where it helped the community nearly break the Guinness World Record for largest ukulele ensemble. The Festival’s new Ukulele Unit is now available for community projects, libraries, schools, Indigenous groups, to request a music workshop over the coming year. Look for ukes, musical marching brigades, and spontaneous music-making throughout our 50th Festival season—and join in the four-string revolution!

Cairns Festival Free Film Series Made Possible by McDonald’s Family Restaurants Every Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday of the Festival the Fogarty Park stage will be transformed into the Far North’s favourite outdoor movie cinema. Free family films are planned, with Wednesday evenings reserved for a slightly older crowd. The Festival is also planning a few free music opportunities and performances for your picnic time before the feature films begin. Gather up your friends and family, bring a blanket and your picnic hamper, and enjoy six free movie nights with Cairns Festival—made possible by generous 50th season sponsor McDonald’s Cairns Family Restaurants.

Cairns Festival Underwater Worlds Made Possible by Mike Ball Dive Expeditions Fogarty Park Festival Stage (before and after the Free Film Series) Imagine an amazing world of underwater creatures, corals, manta rays, whales and giant cod. Imagine pristine waters glistening in the tropical sun, and the wonders of a dive below. For many people in Cairns, these images are a reality that awaits just offshore and all along the Great Barrier Reef. Let’s have a look. Following each of our free feature films, we’ll look at the modern marine environment. Thanks to Mike Ball Dive Expeditions, the 2011 Cairns Festival will present a look at some otherworldly marine videography as part of our Underwater Worlds series: short, silent film loops to screen immediately after the feature movies in our free film series. Linger in Fogarty Park, immerse yourself in another unique aspect of life in the Far North, and dive into underwater worlds when they hit the Festival’s big screen.

Far North Gremlin Holiday Made possible by the Woodfordian Institute of Street Performance, Cairns Regional Council Creative Partnerships, Kylie Burke, and local performers Cairns Festival is planning a peaceful invasion of curious characters originating in the South. Woodford Folk Festival, that legendary creative force in Australian culture, begins a new partnership with the Far North when its resident street theatre population, the Gremlins, washes ashore during the 2011 Festival season. While here, Woodfordia's Gremlins will explore our shops and neighbourhoods, intrigue pedestrians, learn more about the laws of gravity, and become part of the fabric of our North Queensland community. Their community will establish a camp on The Esplanade, constructed with help from local artist Kylie Burke. A Gremlin Rokit Workshop will appear at the Festival’s Muddy’s Art Village, offering kids the opportunity to help construct space-going machinery. And thanks to local artist Hayley Gillespie, young and old folks will be able to read about the Gremlin history, culture, and odyssey to the Far North in the Gremlin Storybook Walk—a series of illustrated signs that recount their journey from Woodford to Cairns. Then, after a 17-day tropical holiday, the Gremlin population will attempt to blast off into the sky as the 2011 Cairns Festival season comes to a close. A main presence at the 2010/11 Woodford Festival, the Gremlin characters and culture were developed last year by the aptly-named Woodfordian Institute of Street Performance, under the guidance of producers Alex Podger and Jenna Koda, and legendary theatre figure Hayden Spencer. Their team will come to Cairns in early August to begin acting, clowning, and street performance workshops for local performers—and help train a local population of Gremlins for Cairns Festival. Far North theatre worker Sarah Boulle is serving as Chief Gremlin Wrangler for our local population of street theatre participants. It’s innovative and curious street theatre, new cross-Queensland collaboration, and creativity run amuck! It’s the Gremlins Far North Holiday!

Posters to the People Made Possible by James Cook University, BDO, and Auxiliary Design Posters to the People started with the 2010 Cairns Festival, when we invited four great artists in our region to supply an image that speaks to their own visual language and graphical identity. This quartet was intentionally diverse in style, influence, and approach: Dominic Johns, Arone Meeks, Caroline Mudge, and Sam Tupou. Cairns Festival, with the help of Joel Goodman at Auxiliary Central, then produced a limited edition of 500 posters of each artist's work—as a way to honor and acknowledge these talents and unique visual communicators resident in our own backyard. When the new Festival Headquarters opened in City Place, we piled the posters in the foyer and invited the community to come in, have a look, and go home with whichever images they want. It was an instant art collection, free of charge, and the Festival's new gift to those who support and advance culture makers in the Cairns Region. This year, our Posters to the People project expands to 8 local artists, and more free and eye-catching images for Far North art lovers to obtain and enjoy ever after. Thanks to all the artists, James Cook University, BDO, and Joel Goodman of Auxiliary for helping us give posters to the people!

Opening Notes Made possible by Cairns Penny Savings, Cairns Base and Cairns Private Hospitals, Roz Pappalardo, Ray Clark/Still-Life Design, and Nigel Pegrum/Pegasus Studio. Cairns Regional Council is pleased to announce the second year of the Cairns Festival's Opening Notes project, which will be launched on Friday, 19 August, to coincide with the start of 50th Cairns Festival season. Opening Notes was begun in 2010 as a goodwill effort and creative welcome, involving the production and gifting of a cultural identity package to every baby born in the Far North—on their day of birth and at their place of delivery. The Opening Notes package takes the form of a carefully compiled CD of home-grown music from Far North Queensland and a booklet of images revealing the region's sense of place: Thanks to the Festival’s partnerships and everybody involved, the Opening Notes package is presented to every baby born from Cape York to Tully upon arrival at their place of birth. It's a welcome gesture from Cairns Regional Council and everybody involved. The 2011 Opening Notes project—coordinated by Roz Pappalardo of the Council's Creative Partnerships Team—will include new music from The Medics, Gondwana Indigenous Children's Choir, Sian Evans, Jun Jun Jarra, Ray-Lee Russell, The McMenamins and nearly twenty other Far North musicians. The first 2011/2012 Opening Notes package will be gifted to the first baby born during the 50th Festival season: a purely home-made statement of the culture around us and an indication of the creative legacy inherited by every newborn baby in our region. More than 4000 children are born annually in Far North Queensland, with over half arriving at Cairns Base hospital. Thanks to essential partnerships with Queensland Health and Cairns Private Hospital leaders, and their birthing staff and maternity services teams, Opening Notes is our community’s unique welcome for every delivery in Cairns and the greater region.

Lush: Festival Late Night Supper Club at Havana Cafe Havana Music Café, 113 Lake Street Saturdays during Festival from 10:00pm to Midnight Saturday nights are wild for Festival-goers, as Havana Café comes alive with Lush, a late night supper club for festival artists and audiences! Lush presents a tasty selection of burlesque and cabaret performances, accompanied by Havana style cocktails, canapes and other delicious pleasures. Queen Fanny Wood will meet you at the door, and issue you with your Lush golden ticket, whereupon our hostess Carmen Geddit will show you to your seat, and offer you a festive treat or two! Relax, imbibe and be bamboozled by The Uncredible Si Mann's card, rope and sleight of hand amazements, before your toes start tapping to the saucy tunes and thrilling melodies of The Hot N Wet Swing Set. The Saturday night hangout will feature not one but two fabulous burlesque artistes: the feathered antics of Mz Panty Rebellion, the contortions of Lu Lu La Bent, the extraordinary circus feats of Monsieur Pepe, the hot pole manouvres of The Boy Eros, the utterly edgy Balloon Boy and Grinder Grrl! And that's not all folks! Festival artists are invited to showcase their own cabaret stylings in an improvised, interactive and totally explicit fashion, with the last half hour of the show dedicated to spontaneous, collaborative mayhem. Lush is the place to unwind, let your hair down, cosy up and get your groove on. So eat, drink and be festive, in a space where desire and imagination run wild — the Cairns Festival Supper Club is the place to be on Saturday nights.

The Arthouse Roadshow Ultra-contemporary gatherings on the fringe of the City It cannot be denied: the Arthouse is a hotbed of new creative production, community arts efforts, and avant garde tendencies in Cairns. The former Hrvatski Club and accommodating back yard environment have become a place for events, films, concerts, and thoughtprovoking visual arts. Special for the Cairns Festival’s 50th season, the creative people of Arthouse will serve up four diverse opportunities to discover and become part of the underground creative scene. So take a ride South down Mulgrave Avenue, turn left onto McCoombe Street, drive slowly into the quiet industrial part of town, and look for an odd bit of Scott Street on your left. Arthouse awaits just past that turn. And the creative atmosphere cannot be denied!

Cairns Festival Fogarty Park Lounge Licensed Food and Beverage Area In partnership with Cairns Courthouse Hotel For our Golden Anniversary season, Cairns Festival has teamed up with Cairns Courthouse Hotel to offer a special food and beverage tent on the side lawn of Fogarty Park. There our audiences can take a break from all the great free music, films, Gremlin adventures, and event-going, and enjoy a light meal, and a respite at the heart of it all. While there, enjoy the official 50th Anniversary Festival beer from Great Northern Brewing Company (and celebrate its hometown roots). The Festival season can be exhausting, so plan to make your pit stops inside our special hospitality tent at the Cairns Courthouse Hotel Fogarty Park Lounge.

Far North Art-o-mat Machine Coin-operating art collecting comes to the Southern Hemisphere Twelve yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ago, North Carolina artist Clark Whittington found a rusty old cigarette vending machine in a shed. He gradually restored it, redesigned the facade, and asked his artist friends if they would want to make small original art objects to sell out of the machine. Everyone said yes, and the Art-o-mat was born. Now Whittington manages a network of almost 100 repurposed art vending machines from Vienna to Los Angelesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and he has over 300 contributing artists stocking the machines from all over the world. Thanks to Cairns Festival, North Queensland become home to the first Art-o-mat in the SouthernArthouse Roadshow Hemisphere. It arrived in time for our 2010 season, and was recently relaunched as a new fixture in the KickArts gift shop There people from throughout Australia can visit the Aussie Art-o-mat, hand over a $5 note, get a token, and pull one of twenty knobs on the singular art-dispensing machineâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the first one in the Southern Hemisphere. After a brief pause, and then a kerplunk, an original handmade work of art or neatly packaged craft object will appear in the Art-o-mat's bottom tray. There's no easier way to collect original art from around the world, and this year a handful of Cairns-based artists are getting involved. Be sure to bring a few gold coins on your next visit to KickArts Contemproary Arts, and walk away with an Art-o-mat treasure.

Salt House Festival Groove Live music, fine dining, iconic location Salt House Restaurant, a favourite Festival partner, will be once again providing an array of live musicians performing on stage at the newly licensed grassy lawn. Come along any Friday, Saturday or Sunday during the Festival and soak up the sounds of rock, pop, chill, funk and groove. Linger late on Wednesday nights for the Salt House late movie, on a big screen in the grassy lawn. Wear your Cairns Festival Badge and enjoy 2 for 1 bar meals Monday to Friday!

Soul Song Spontaneous Choir Suddenly, without notice, beautiful voices fill the air Festival in Song! No festival is complete without music, and this year the Cairns Festival is taking music to the streets in a spontaneous style.Look out for the Soul Song Jubilee Choir who will be making a few surprise appearances throughout the Festival programme as we celebrate 50 years of living under a tropical sun in song! Soul Song is a Cairns based fun, informal choir that brings together non-singers, shower singers, car singers, air-guitar singers and even real singers to sing pop, Motown, soul and gospel classics. In honour of our 50th season, Soul Song have formed a special Jubilee choir for the Cairns Festival, and it has a mission of sharing the joy of music with others to inspire, surprise and entertain. So watch out for them all over Cairns, as you never know when, where or who might suddenly start singing!

Cairns Heritage iPhone Tours History Revealed on your handheld Device Dig beneath the shiny surface of modern day Cairns with this self-guided iPhone tour of 20 heritage sites around the city, including images, spoken-word stories and fascinating information on historical sites and influential people, dating back to 1896. Listen to stories recounted by Cairns locals, recounting fascinating people and places in Far North history. Sites along the iPhone tour include the old dance halls, the ‘Golden Block’, the Indigenous Hospital Camp, Floating Sea Baths, Lovers’ Bower, Russian Guns, Chinatown, the Lit Sung Goong Temple, Red Light District, Rusty's Market, Barbary Coast and the Marlin Marina, among others. This digital heritage project has been prepared by the Creative Partnerships team at Cairns Regional Council, in collaboration with the Cairns Historical Society.

Festival Preservation Society A partnership between Cairns Historical Society, Cairns Festival and Cairns Libraries We want your memories of Cairns Festival, Festival Cairns, Reef Festival and Fun in the Sun preserved forever! Do you have old photos, video footage, programs, posters or other memorabilia from Fun in the Sun and the Reef Festival? Do you have stories of past festivals that you could write down for posterity? Cairns Festival and Cairns Historical Society are looking for missing pieces of Far North Festival history. We want to ensure that the history of this unique Cairns event – warts and all – is properly captured in the Cairns Historical Society Collection. If you have something that might be of interest, the Historical Society are placing collection points in local libraries throughout the Cairns region—a Far North Time Machine collection point! Simply take your items into the library, fill out the collection form and your material will be assessed by the Historical Society for inclusion in the Cairns Festival Collection. Collection Points can be found at Cairns Museum in City Place, Smithfield Library, Edmonton Library, Raintrees Library, Earlville Library, Stratford Library, and City Library. If you don’t want to part with your treasured photos, films or programs, simply fill in the form and let us know what you have, and someone from the Historical Society will get in contact and discuss the option of scanning important items. And if you have any questions, simply call Cairns Historical Society on 4051 5582 to contact Museum Manager, Suzanne Gibson. If you have a written story to share about Fun in the Sun or our local Festival heritage, please share it by email to histsoc@cairnsmuseum.com.au or post to the Cairns Museum at PO Box 319 Cairns.

Cairns Birding Walks The Enchantment of birdsongs and our tropical widllife This popular guided walk is all about the birds, and will again provide ample opportunities to explore local fauna during Cairns Festival. August-September is an exciting time for Far North bird watchers. This is when migrants begin coming back from the north. Some, such as shorebirds after breeding in the northern hemisphere, and some, such as the Pied Pigeon, the

Metallic Starling and other songbird migrants, to nest in Australia after spending the winter in New Guinea. The new action usually starts with the shorebirds' arrival, sometimes en masse, near the end of the second week of August. The arrival of the Pied Fruit Pigeon, usually in the last week of August or the first week of September, is keenly anticipated by local bird lovers. Join them under a tropical sun, and explore the wonderful range of birdlife in our parks, gardens, and own backyard. Check the Cairns Festival website for a complete listing of times, locations, and bird watching activities offered during the 50th season.

Orange Bean Bag Invasion Unmistakable, comfortable, ubiquitous, orange! Look there on the horizon at the Tanks, in Fogarty Park, by the Gremlin Camp at The Esplande, next to the Festival’s Muddy’s Art Village: two dozen bright orange bean bags dotting the landscape! People are sitting on them. Some are staring at them. Kids throw them. The Orange Bean Bag Invasion is a social networking project for the real space, developed by artist and creative person Selina Kudo. This moveable installation involves setting up bean bags with coffee tables, lamps and other accessories at various locations during Cairns Festival. The idea is to alter the outdoor space in a fun and useful way, get people to relax, and see if they can become one with comfortable orange things! Let the invasion begin!

Festival Badge Partners Pick up your free Festival badge, wear it always, and enjoy some fantastic deals and discounts in town! Support wonderful local businesses during Festival Time! Last year, Cairns Festival found an innovative way to connect our community and audiences to local businesses. We created 1,000 Festival badges, the kind you pin on your shirt or handbag, and gave them away to our supporters and audiences. We worked with over two dozen restaurants, shops, and tour companies to offer something special to anyone wearing the colourful badge during the season. And for the 50th Festival, we’re doing it again! Pick up your official badge at the Festival Headquarters in City Place, the lobby of the Civic Theatre, Cairns Regional Council reception in Spence Street, or the KickArts Gift Shop. Wear it and support our local shops, restaurants, and businesses as you plan your Cairns Festival experiences. Once the 1,000 official badges are all taken, they are gone. So secure your badge today and affix it to your person ever after!

Cairns Historical Society Nostalgiafone The Past is Calling you at City Place Cairns Museum, in partnership with artist Annaliese Ciel Walker, present Nostalgiafone—the atmospherically historical telephone of Cairns recollections. This audio installation within a vintage red payphone will be positioned in City Place, in front of the Cairns Festival HQ and will encourage interaction by the curious. Passers-by are invited to pick up the telephone handset and listen to the stories and reminiscences of life in post-war Cairns. Recorded oral histories have been pieced together from interviews to create an evocative aural experience that explores these forgotten and transformative years in Cairns and Far North history. Look for Nostalgiaphone in Lake Street by the City Place band stage. Pick it up and see who’s calling!

2011 CAIRNS FESTIVAL EVENTS Our Detailed Season Schedule

AUGUST 16 UMI Arts Small Brother / Small Sister Program Cairns Civic Theatre 9:00am to 5:00pm Big Talk One Fire Indigenous Cultural Festival is UMI Arts' signature event during Cairns Festival. Held annually, The Big Talk One Fire showcases and celebrates the diverse Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures of Far North Queensland, right here in Cairns! Small Brother Small Sister is 1 full day of performances by Indigenous students from Primary and Secondary schools in Cairns and communities in Far North Queensland. Each performance has been developed with the support of a cultural mentor or Elder and the day includes discussions about “What my culture means to me.”

AUGUST 17 Cairns Creative Crawl: Festival Edition Cairns CBD 5:30pm to 8:00pm Arts organizations and creative businesses in town will again band together to offer a special Festival Creative Crawl on Wednesday night—just in time to kick off the season. Hit the town for a series of self-guided after-work excursions, featuring free live music, dining deals, new exhibitions, street performers, talks, tapas, and more. Stops will include Circa 1907 Gallery, Cell Art Space, Orchid Plaza's new Beautiful Arts Spaces, and Festival HQ in City Place. Special Creative Crawl deals will also be on offer at Havana Music Cafe, 12 Bar Cafe, and other creative businesses in the CBD. Get in the Festival mood and meander through the Cairns Creative Crawl!

AUGUST 18 Cairns Indigenous Art Fair Opening Celebration Cairns Cruise Liner Terminal Experience the beauty and diversity of Indigenous culture at the Cairns Indigenous Art Fair, Australia's premier Indigenous art fair. CIAF celebrates Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art, music, dance and theatre. Commercial galleries and Indigenous art centres come together during Cairns Festival to feature art by Queensland Indigenous artists. It's an exciting blend of emerging and established creative people.

The CIAF 2011 program, happening over the Festival’s opening weekend, includes a wide range of events and activities for art lovers, families, tourists and adventure travellers. Encounter traditional and contemporary Indigenous artworks, see live performances by traditional dancers and up-and-coming musicians, participate in children's art workshops, engage in artist talks and demonstrations, and see the latest in Indigenous film. It all begins on Thursday evening, with the ultimate celebration of art in the tropics! The CIAF Opening Party is an exclusive chance to view and buy art work before the Art Fair opens to the public on Friday. The gala evening entertainment line up features the world famous Mornington Island Dancers, the Arpaka Dancers from Moa Island in the Torres Strait and a very special performance by internationally renowned singer Wilma Reading. The Opening Party blends music, dance, fine wine and fusion cuisine under a starry sky on the Cairns waterfront in a tropical celebration to kick off the Cairns Festival season!

SlowDive Attic Choreographed by Claire Marshall in collaboration with Seven Dancers 9:00pm 18, 19, 20 August The Attic / $15 Brisbane choreographer and leading creative force, Claire Marshall, comes to Cairns as the Festival’s first choreographer-in-residence. Here she’ll set her latest work inside a popular nightclub and blur the lines between dance event and club-going. SlowDive is a look at the good, the bad, and the ugly side of club culture, human behaviour and the shenanigans that occur in a night club environment. Set in the early 1990's in an underground scene reminiscent of Indie clubs of bygone days, SlowDive shifts between the strangely compelling and the somewhat disturbing as it explores the agendas of the DJ, bar staff, club owner, and punters. Marshall, stemming form her years as a DJ, was inspired by the self-destruction witnessed on the dance floor. But SlowDive Attic is not all just decadence, decay and debauchery. It’s an immersive, engaging experience of new choreography! Patrons of The Attic will have a few not-so-late night opportunities to watch her dance theatre work unfold, as seven contemporary dancers turn the entire Attic into a performance space. Audiences, the lucky ones who attend this purpose-built Cairns Festival production, will become part of the narrative, the dance space, the environment. Claire Marshall’s Festival residency and the development of Slowdive Attic have been made possible through a generous partnership with Gilligan's Backpacker Hotel and the ongoing support of the Cairns Centre of Contemporary Arts.

AUGUST 19 Cairns Indigenous Art Fair Symposium Centre of Contemporary Arts 8:30am to 5:00pm / $25-50

Two contemporary issues lead the CIAF2011 Symposium: what it means to create new art as an Indigenous artist in Queensland and the ethical curatorship of contemporary indigenous art. This all-day event offers a unique opportunity for Cairns residents and visitors to discuss these two key issues related to Indigenous art with leading authorities and keynote speakers: Vernon Ah Khee, one of Australia's representatives at the 2009 Venice Biennale and finalist in the 2010 Basil Sellers Art prize, speaks about his current work in an international context. Dr Peter Sutton, anthropologist, author and winner of the 2011 John Button Prize for political writing, presents new research on the contemporary era in the history of the Wik speaking peoples of Western Cape York, using the journals and pictorial essay of Ursula McConnell (1889-1957) Dr Maura Reilly, the founding curator of the Elizabeth A Sackler Centre for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum, USA and recent appointee to Professor of Art Theory at the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, presents dialogues in contemporary art and ethical curatorship. Dr Sachiko Kubota, professor in Cultural Anthropology, Graduate School of Intercultural Studies, Kobe University, Japan. Bruce McLean, Associate Curator Indigenous Australian Art, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane.

Two Sides of the Same Story Site-based theatre by Cairns High School Students Esplanade Lagoon / Late Afternoon As Cairns Festival began its partnership with La Mama Theatre, a few unexpected ideas emerged. After a developmental workshop for La Mama’s Schism earlier this year, Cairns High School students were inspired to address climate change in their own way. What they developed is a work of site-based interventionist theatre for the opening of the Festival. If environmental issues, the next generation and equality amongst society interest you, come down to the Esplanade to see Two Sides of the Same Story. Developed by Cairns State High School‘s Year 11 and 12 International Baccalaureate Theatre Class the work is based around the issues important to the students involved. It is a tale of two extremists who take their say on the global-warming debate into the public realm, and then too far. Blending perfectly into the Esplanade and Lagoon area, a story unfolds that shows how each side’s followers realise that they need to act now—before it’s too late. In essence, this new theatre work by Cairns young people is a message for you.

Festival Opening Concert Cairns Gondwana Indigenous Children’s Choir, Seaman Dan, Will Kepa and Friends Fogarty Park Festival Stage / 7:00pm / Free Our 50th season is something special, and we wanted to open the Festival in a special way. So we asked Lyn Williams, founder of Gondwana Indigenous Children’s Choir to create a program with her young, talented singers. Then we asked Seaman Dan to join them and celebrate the songs, music, and ethos of the Far North together. And finally, we invited local music leader Will Kepa to gather his most exciting fellow musicians for an evening like no other. They’ll be joined by Troy and Trevelyn, Ben Hakalitz and Tribe of Jubal unplugged, for a Cairns Festival opening music event and Golden Jubilee concert.

When the Wheels Fall off the World – Part II, Crossroads Performance Presentation for the Cairns Indigenous Art Fair Symposium Centre of Contemporary Arts / 4:40pm A unique, interactive Creative Development process bringing the epic story from When the Wheels fall off the World back to Cairns Festival. As a Work-in-progress, this open workshop at CoCA brings the imagined world directly to audiences who will explore the story along with the project team. Set in a cyclone, in the future, in a new beginning, Crossroads delves into Australian archetypes, myths, cultures and histories and explores our national psyche. Excerpts from the play bring the characters to life. The presentations stop at controversial points to discuss unresolved issues. Audiences will be able to hypothesize community relations in the future, after cataclysmic events have brought about a new world paradigm. Two families, one Indigenous and one non-Indigenous intertwine in a future which must recognise the past. Local theatre makers Avril Duck and Warren Clements are co-writing this new page in the saga. International Theatreman, Guillaume ‘Willem’ Brugman directs the Creative Development and will bring Forum Theatre aspects to the Workshops. Liza Parker and Monique Woldhuis return as actors alongside Clements and are joined by singer/songwriter Jeremiah Johnson and many other exciting actors/dancers from the local performing arts scene.

Australian Chamber Orchestra 2 Cairns Civic Theatre / 7:30pm / $28-33 The Festival’s opening night also offer an opportunity to get classical, when the ACO2 Queensland Tour come to Cairns Civic Theatre, with Thomas Gould as Guest Director and Lead Violin. Since graduating from the Royal Academy of Music in 2006, young British violinist, Thomas Gould has been showered with glowing and enthusiastic acclaim from critics and audiences. He makes his Australian debut directing ACO2 in one of the greatest pieces of music of all time, Bach's Goldberg Variations. Starting with a simple song, Bach guides us through a myriad of musical styles in over 30 variations. First on the program, though, is music from Estonian pop-star-turned-composer Erkki-Sven Tüür and then the ACO2 serves up Schubert's charming Arpeggione Sonata. For music lovers: a Festival night to remember!

The Panics Tanks Arts Centre Doors open at 6:30pm / $38-43 The Panics are back in Australia, bringing their latest album Rain On The Humming Wire to Cairns Festival and the Tanks. The result of a long road trip touring Australia the UK and USA, Rain On The Humming Wire is a document of travels. It includes touches of home sickness, people tested by distance, relationships ended from distance, mistakes and successes—and looking back on how much has changed and how far they've come. The Panics’ previous album Cruel Guards scooped a Triple J Album of the Year Award followed by an ARIA. Trading in sun kissed acoustic guitars, widescreen string arrangements and shuffling drums, the music they will serve up for Cairns Festival sits perfectly in a timeless, romantic environment.

AUGUST 20 Great Gordonvale Pyramid Race and Country Fair Gordonvale / Free Gordonvale’s “Never ending uphill scramble and controlled downhill freefall” takes over the far North on the Festival’s opening Saturday. Now past its own half-century mark, the Great Pyramid Race is an excuse to head South in the name of mountain, community, and country fair. Markets open from 7:30am, with entertainment from 10am. Plenty of kids’ rides, workshops, and even a petting zoo will make for the perfect family day. The opening ceremony is at high noon, with the legendary mountain race up the Pyramid from 2pm. Following the medal presentations, it’s fireworks and free music into the evening.

Arthouse Roadshow: Food and Film Film, Discussion, Performance Arthouse, 240 Scott Street (via McCoombe Street) 6:00pm film and 7:00pm discussion/performance $8 - 10 at the door / Golden Ticket Event Dirt! The Movie opens the Arthouse program and takes you inside the wonders of the soil. It tells the story of Earth's most valuable and under appreciated source of fertility, from its miraculous beginning to its crippling degradation. Join some of the Far North's foodies, Sjoerd Aardema from the Real Food Network, Janet Millington President of Cairns Permaculture, and Beth Shorter from Community Foods as they discuss local soil issues, natural foods and the local industry. A tasty selection of music and performance, yummy foods and info displays will also be served up at Arthouse. Presented in partnership with Prevention is Cure, End Credits, Real Food Network, Community Foods, Permaculture Cairns, Big Cat Green Island, and Seedsavers.

UMI Arts Big Talk One Fire Concert Zennith and Black Image Fogarty Park Festival Stage 3:00pm to 10:00pm / Free UMI Arts in partnership with Cairns Festival and CIAF will be hosting Big Talk One Fire Indigenous Cultural Celebrations—a massive showcase event—at Fogarty Park. After a day exploring the UMI Arts Markets along the Esplanade, or viewing the nearby Cairns Indigenous Art Fair at the Cruise Liner Terminal on Trinity Wharf, head back to the Fogarty Park Festival Stage. The afternoon will include musicians and dance groups from Far North communities, presented as part of the UMI Arts Big Talk One Fire program. The celebration will be headlined by our very own Far North Queensland Indigenous bands including Black Image and Zennith. They will be supported by up and coming Indigenous bands Jun Jun Jarra band from Yarrabah and the Cold Water band whom are descendents from the Kuku Nyungkal clan from Shipton flats. There will also be traditional Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander dance performances through out the evening. Please come along and share the UMI Arts Big Talk One Fire Cultural Celebrations!

Jeff Lang Tanks Arts Centre Doors open at 6:30pm / $25-30 Songwriter, collaborator, virtuosic guitarist and stunning lyricist, Jeff Lang brings his Chimeradour album to Cairns Festival for one night only at the Tanks. Blending rock, roots, folk, blues, ballads, instrumentals, improvisation and a devastatingly high level of musicality, Jeff Lang is a singularly unique performer in the current musical pantheon. Showered with achievements and awards throughout his career, the most outstanding being his six ARIA award nominations and wins in 2002 and 2010, Lang has built up a devoted, almost cult-like, following with live performances like no other. None other than John Butler calls the live Jeff Lang experience “a totally sacred event.” So get reverent, head to the Tanks Arts Centre, and don’t miss Lang’s only Cairns Festival gig!

Salt House Roving Comedy Dinner with Austen Tayshus Salt House Restaurant / $99 includes 3 course meal “Just as there are numerous styles of cuisine, there are numerous styles of comedy and Austen’s is particularly perceptive and dry. Now this isn’t everyone’s cup of tea but if you like your comedy dry, relevant and intelligent then Austen’s your man” (Stuart Borg The Arts Centre - April 21, 2006) Lucky for ticket holders Salt House presents Modern Australian cuisine that is full flavoured and creative. 90 minutes of stand-up comedy. The sunglass-clad, perpetually self-deprecating Tayshus restlessly moves between jokes, and his shtick of frequently recycling gags only manages to drive his humorous points home further, while you enjoy the finest wines and matching dishes. What more could you want from a night out?

Lush: Festival Late Night Supper Club at Havana Cafe Havana Music Café, 113 Lake Street 10:00pm to Midnight / Free Saturday nights are wild for Festival goers, as Havana Café comes alive with Lush, a late night supper club for festival artists and audiences! Lush presents a tasty selection of burlesque and cabaret performances, accompanied by Havana style cocktails, canapes and other delicious pleasures. Queen Fanny Wood will meet you at the door, and issue you with your Lush golden ticket, whereupon our hostess Carmen Geddit will show you to your seat, and offer you a festive treat or two! Relax, imbibe and be bamboozled by The Uncredible Si Mann's card, rope and sleight of hand amazements, before your toes start tapping to the saucy tunes and thrilling melodies of The Hot N Wet Swing Set. The Saturday night hangout will feature not one but two fabulous burlesque artistes: the feathered antics of Mz Panty Rebellion, the contortions of Lu Lu La Bent, the extraordinary circus feats of Monsieur Pepe, the hot pole manouvres of The Boy Eros, the utterly edgy Balloon Boy and Grinder Grrl! And that's not all folks! Festival artists are invited to showcase their own cabaret stylings in an improvised, interactive and totally explicit fashion, with the last half hour of the show dedicated to spontaneous, collaborative mayhem. Lush is the place to unwind, let your hair down, cosy up and get your groove on. So eat, drink and be festive, in a space where desire and imagination run wild — the Cairns Festival Supper Club is the place to be on this Saturday night.

AUGUST 21 Taste of Palm Cove Palm Cove Free This year’s Taste of Palm Cove will be bigger, brighter, and better than ever, with restaurants and cafés offering tasters to tempt the most discerning palate. Stroll along beautiful tree-lined Williams Esplanade, enjoy the entertainment provided by individual venues, and sample the very best that Palm Cove has to offer. The multitude of dining choices available will ensure there is something for everyone – local produce at its peak in the hands of some of Tropical North Queensland’s most creative and imaginative chefs can only mean one thing – Foodie Heaven!! This is a day for the whole family, with street entertainment for everyone! A Taste Around Palm Cove Card will give you entire into the Prize Pool at the end of the day, so make sure you pick one up from your first Taste Tempter stop and get it stamped along the way - three or more stamps will get you into the running to win a Palm Cove prize – ranging from accommodation packages through to dining experiences. Fabulous food on a Beautiful Beach in a Stunning location—Palm Cove!

When the Wheels Fall off the World – Part II, Crossroads Open Forum Community Theatre-making Workshop Cairns Botanic Garden / 1:00pm to 5:00pm / Free A unique, interactive creative development process brings the epic story from When the Wheels fall off the World back to Cairns Festival. As a Work-in-progress, this open workshop at CoCA brings the imagined world directly to audiences who will explore the story along with the project team. Set in a cyclone, in the future, in a new beginning, Crossroads delves into Australian archetypes, myths, cultures and histories and explores our national psyche. Excerpts from the play bring the characters to life. The presentations stop at controversial points to discuss unresolved issues. Audiences will be able to hypothesize community relations in the future, after cataclysmic events have brought about a new world paradigm. Two families, one Indigenous and one non-Indigenous intertwine in a future which must recognise the past. Local theatre makers Avril Duck and Warren Clements are co-writing this new page in the saga. International Theatreman, Guillaume ‘Willem’ Brugman directs the Creative Development and will bring Forum Theatre aspects to the Workshops. Liza Parker and Monique Woldhuis return as actors alongside Clements and are joined by singer/songwriter Jeremiah Johnson and many other exciting actors/dancers from the local performing arts scene. This afternoon of Forum Theatre-style workshops, free and open to all, invites audiences to explore the Crossroads story along with the actors, writers, director and creative team. Audiences can join the work at any point and even find an opportunity to suggest, analyse, discuss and act out pieces of the story. At the end of the afternoon, the work will be once more presented incorporating points which have been developed through the workshop.

One Hundred Thousand YAPS Fundraising Fair Cannon Park / From 10:00am to 2:00pm / Gold Coin Donation The day will be loads of fun for all the family, including the dog, with doggie fashion parades, Overflow’s Longest Hotdog competition, a charity auction, food stalls, plant sales, arts and crafts, book and jumble sales, pony rides and petting zoos, face painting, jumping castles and say g’day to the Zinc Morning Zoo who will be broadcasting live! Celebrate the achievements of those who participated in the inaugural One hundred Thousand YAPS Fundraising challenge—on the campaign’s finale day! All proceeds will go to support YAPS securing a future for the protection of abused and abandoned animals.

Overflow FNQ Grand Parade & Fireworks The Esplanade / From 5:00pm / Free This is it! The Big One! Our 50th Anniversary night on the town! The 2011 Overflow FNQ Grand Parade will fill The Esplanade from 5:00pm as 50+ floats and creative elements come together from throughout the community. Be there to celebrate Honourary Queen Kay Hilder, who served as the 1964 Fun in the Sun Parade Queen and will be wearing that very same historic crown as she waves her way through the Esplanade once again! An amazing fireworks show will follow, and then it’s on to a free homecoming concert by The Medics on the Fogarty Park Festival Stage. Join us for the Cairns Festival Golden Anniversary opening weekend—generously sponsored by Overflow FNQ—and help us explore the past, present, and future with "The Far North Time Machine." Be at the heart of Cairns as 20,000 friends, neighbours, and visitors come together to celebrate our festival heritage!

Festival CIAF Closing Concert The Medics Far North Homecoming Fogarty Park Festival Stage / 7:00pm / Free There’s no denying it: The Medics are making it, making it big. Born of the Far North and now based in Brisbane, The Medics are bound for greatness. Their music-making just keeps getting better, and every live show is proving them champions of the Australian contemporary music scene. On the eve of their debut album, the Festival decided to invite The Medics home, back to Cairns, back to where it all started—to help us close out the 2011 Cairns Indigenous Art Fair weekend. While originally a five piece, the core of the band has always been cousins Kahl Wallace and Jhindu Lawrie, alongside friends Andrew Thomson and Charles Thomas. After making an impression on the hometown scene, the band soon found themselves playing any show they could find: house parties, small local venues, and even the occasional trip to other regional cities like Townsville. And wherever they unleash their sound, they have always been something to behold. From the epic layers of atmospheric guitars, to the rumbling bottom end each track is its own little world. But always front and centre of it all there’s ‘that’ voice. Fragile one minute, on the edge the next.

An exhilarating blur of passion and movement, the band bring an all-too-rare sense of urgency to their songs that underpins Kahl’s emotive delivery. It’s an intoxicating spectacle and has seen them quickly become one of the country’s most talked-about new outfits. All doubts were removed at the 2010 Deadly Awards when they collected the Band of the Year honour. The Medics’ new record is due out any day—in perfect sync with this special Cairns Festival appearance following the Overflow FNQ Grand parade and fireworks. Among their new arsenal of songs is one they have titled “50 Years.” It’s a special tribute to a hometown, a tropical existence, a recollection of a past set right here in Far North Queensland. “What will become of us in fifty years,” they sing. And all of the Cairns Festival will sing it with them.

AUGUST 22 Dancenorth Double Bill: Black Crows & (sic) Centre of Contemporary Arts 22, 23 August / 7:30pm / $25/20 Golden Ticket Event Black Crows, a new work by choreographer and artistic director Raewyn Hill, explores the sense of community created out of sharing a profound experience. Specifically, the work takes its theme from the impact of war on couples and the community that develops between soldiers in battle (and still connected to the loved ones left at home). Using a unique dance language, Hill uses movement based on ideas of protecting and building community. Set on top of a pile of old newspapers, which (along with radio) was once our only form of media communication, Black Crows is presented within an aesthetic uniformity that also represents the rigid formality of military life. Set to a new score by Spanish composer Micka Luna, this work was developed by the company whilst in resident at the Baryshnikov Arts Centre in New York, in September 2010 and premiered in Townsville this past March. [SIC] is a new work by Ross McCormack and Elie Tass, who currently perform for Belgium’s famed les ballets C de la B. It was developed in partnership with Dancenorth in early 2011, as part of a choreographic residency in Townsville. The short dance work, half of this unique double bill for Cairns Festival, has been described as "a flirtation and reinvention of our inner urges, urges otherwise denied or adapted in their natural course of goal and purpose. A naked exaggerated wallow in glorious impulses suddenly discharged from their usual desires of aim, achievement and accomplishment."

Festival Free Film Series Fogarty Park Festival Stage / 7:00pm / Free Every Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday of the Festival the Fogarty Park stage will be transformed into the Far North’s favourite outdoor movie cinema. Free family films are planned, with Wednesday evenings reserved for a slightly older crowd. The Festival is also planning Underwater Worlds—short films from past and present that take a look at the wonders of the reef and our local marine environment. Gather up your friends and family, bring a blanket and your picnic hamper, and enjoy this free movie night at Cairns Festival—made possible by generous 50th season sponsor McDonald’s Cairns Family Restaurants.

AUGUST 23 Ten Tenors Cairns Civic Theatre 8:00pm / $54.80-73 After hitting the road for New Zealand and Australia from June 2011, The Ten Tenors arrive at Cairns Festival with their latest offering, Double Platinum. It’s a brand new show, alongside a double album of the same name—marking the tenth studio album for the group. During ground-breaking achievements in 2010, not only were The Ten gaining new audiences all over the world but also some famous new friends, leading to an appearance on Oprah's Ultimate Australian Adventure. Through the roaring success of the show The Power of Ten, they fused rock and classical music together, kicking and screaming, creating a sound that is uniquely theirs. The Double Platinum appearance at Cairns Festival is set to kick things up yet another gear Musical Director Graham Foote enthused "We're throwing down the gauntlet with this show. It'll be bolder, bigger and better than ever before." Be at the Civic Theatre to see—and hear—what he means.

AUGUST 24 Arthouse Roadshow: Soundspace Arthouse, 240 Scott Street (via McCoombe Street) Doors open at 7:00pm $5-8 at the door / Golden Ticket Event The Festival’s Arthouse series continues with Chihei Hatakeyama, a sound artist and musician living on the outskirts of Tokyo. He has performed for years under his given name, and also as one half of the electro-acoustic duo Opitope. Hatakeyama produces memoryevoking soundscapes with various recorded materials of electric and acoustic instruments such as electric guitars, vibraphone, and piano. For Soundspace, he will be supported by Cairns media/sound artist File_Error. Presented in partnership with Room 40 and Big Cat Green Island

Pecha Kucha Night Tanks Arts Centre Doors open at 6:30pm / $5 at the door The Pecha Kucha Night trend continues at Tanks Arts Centre during Cairns Festival, this time set in the delicious Tanks 4 festival lounge, Earthed. The Pecha Kucha format was devised in Tokyo as an event for creative individuals to meet, network, and share their ideas in public. It has since spread to over 400 cities, inspiring communities worldwide to hold regular show and tell sessions. Pecha Kucha Nights are based on a simple idea: a handful of interesting people present 20 images for 20 seconds each. Don’t miss this special Festival edition in Earthed, a purpose-made creative lounge in Tank 4,and meet, learn, connect at Pecha Kucha Cairns!

Festival Steel Pan Workshop Learn to Play Fogarty Park / 2:00pm to 6:00pm / Free You know the sound: the steel pans of Trinidad and Jamaica. They hit you like a soft Caribbean wind, and that calypso vibe envelops you. Thanks to the newly-formed Cairns Pan Stars, home of the only steel pan orchestra in the Far North, the Festival is inviting you to learn to make that same beautiful island music. Be guided by Violet Stannard, founder of the group, and Trinidadian master player Lennox Jordan, who built the pans and trained the original members. All you need to do is show up, give it a go, and transport yourself back to a West Indian beach with Cairns Pan Stars.

Festival Free Film Series Fogarty Park Festival Stage 7:00pm / 6:00pm for Cairns Pan Stars Performance Free Every Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday of the Festival the Fogarty Park stage will be transformed into the Far North’s favourite outdoor movie cinema. Free family films are planned, with Wednesday evenings reserved for a slightly older crowd. The Festival is also planning Underwater Worlds—short films from past and present that take a look at the wonders of the reef and our local marine environment. Gather up your friends and family, bring a blanket and your picnic hamper, and enjoy this free movie night at Cairns Festival—made possible by generous 50th season sponsor McDonald’s Cairns Family Restaurants. Just before the movie, Cairns Pan Stars will provide a taste of their musical development, with a 30-minute burst of Trinidadian sounds. Formed in March 2010, the group made its public debut at last year’s Cairns Festival Parade. In 2011, pan-master Lennox Jordan spent six weeks in Cairns, arranging and rehearsing a repertoire of tunes with the Pan Stars, culminating in a Caribbean Dance Party at the Tanks Arts Centre. The Pan Stars have been practicing ever since, and welcome new community members to discover their steel pan potential.

Salt House Late Film Salt House Restaurant Lawn From about 9:00pm Just around the corner form the Festival Stage, Salt House Restaurant has long been a supporter of all things creative. This season, they will extend your free film opportunities with late-night movie screenings on their lush waterside lawn. Head there for a drink and Festival special 2 for 1 bar plates, and take in a movie fit for the older crowd. Linger in town, and extend your Wednesday evening Festival plans with Salt House.

AUGUST 25 Far North Murder Ballads Musicians exploring true crime and fable Centre of Contemporary Arts Curtain at 7:30pm / $25/20 Golden Ticket Event After two sell-out seasons in Brisbane’s Judith Wright Centre, Murder Ballads is coming to Far North Queensland for one night only on August 25. Don't miss this special Cairns Festival cabaret style show, featuring Roz Pappalardo and the Wayward Gentlemen, Lucy Star Satellite,The McMenamins and Jeremiah Johnson at the Center of Contemporary Arts. Firmly etched in the Brisbane musical landscape, Murder Ballads shows have bought together lovers of the dark side, always featuring a stellar line-up of artists, locally and statewide, and some fabulously dark visuals. Each act will perform a selection of their favourite crime ballads from past and present, alongside their own original songs inspired by the dark side of humanity and its more nefarious nature.

An Evening with Jim Woodring Tanks Arts Centre Doors open at 6:30pm / Free He’s back, and just in time for the Festival! Jim Woodring, one of the sharpest intellects to ever make a comic book, comes to the Tanks straight from an international Sydney cartoon festival. Like a cross between Dr. Seuss and Hieronymus Bosch, Woodring’s drawings and prints have cult status amongst cartoon aficionados world-wide. If you caught his remarkable exhibition and artist’s talk at Tanks in 2007, you’ll remember an evening of mind boggling ideas, presented against mesmerizing images from his crazed imagination—bizarre man-hog characters, scary and seductive transforming pattern-beasts, and the lovable protagonist, Frank. For Cairns Festival, Woodring returns to administer another dose of his delightfully complex mind with a presentation of slides as part of the Earthed program in partnership with James Cook University.

AUGUST 26 The Grimstones: Mortimer Revealed Contemporary Puppet Theatre Centre of Contemporary Arts 26, 27, and 28 August / 4pm and 6pm / $20/15 Golden Ticket Event Mortimer Revealed is the latest gothic fairytale about the magical Grimstones family, and is sure to enchant and charm audiences at the 2011 Cairns Festival. Martha Grimstone, is a girl who reads dreams, longs for the truth. What really happened to her father Mortimer? The audience will enter Martha’s fantastical world of giant books, old world marionettes and sign language as she uncovers mysterious family secrets. It's a quirky and inspiring tale that explores family, love and loss using magic, tenderness and humour. The show’s creator, Asphyxia, is a deaf circus performer turned master puppeteer. She designs and builds the exquisite props and sets, and handcrafts each of the marionettes. The Grimstones have been created in the tradition Harry Potter, The Addams Family and Edward Scissorhands –they are enjoyed by all ages. Asphyxia has now been approached by a major publisher to create a book series based on The Grimstones. Since this family of loveable marionettes hit the stage in 2008 they have toured continually around Australia and overseas. "This is one of the most touching shows – it is a must see," declared The Sunday Mail. And the Cairns Festival audiences will agree!

Theatre of Environment Double Bill La Mama Theatre presents Schism by Melanie Bainbridge & The Salvage Company presents Whales & Souls by Andrew Kramer New stage works with an earthly concern Centre of Contemporary Arts The Space 26, 27, and 28 August / 7:00pm / one hour interval / $20/15 Golden Ticket Event As part of an ongoing investigation into new theatre works, Cairns Festival is proud to present a double bill of short new plays that specifically address environmental change and concerns. As part of our new performance series at the Centre of Contemporary Arts, we're presenting this double bill of short works, Theatre of the Environment. La Mama presents Schism, a new stage work written by Melanie Bainbridge, with dramaturgy and performance by Pippa Bainbridge. Schism is a theatre piece for solo performer, initially written for and presented as part of La Mama’s Explorations Season in 2010. It is a premonitory work, illuminating the broad impacts of environmental crises, through the eyes of a pair of ‘disconnected’ twins. A collaborative work created by two sisters, writer Melanie Bainbridge, and theatre-maker/performer Pippa Bainbridge, Schism is a psychological thriller documenting the binary opposition that dwells within our individual and collective conscience, an exploration of the psychological impact that a damaged environment can have on its people and the degree of disconnection and perverse reaction this can inspire. In a world inexorably altered by compulsive consumption and disconnection from the environment, Schism explores personal and cultural psychological vulnerability as a response to a culture of ignorance and misinformation.

Whales & Souls, the second part of this program, is a new play by the Festival’s playwright-inresidence, Andrew Kramer. Presented by New York City-based The Salvage Company, the work also delves into mankind’s effect on environment. The leader of a small, rural village is enticed by a large monetary offer that could change the town forever. Meanwhile, an unusual creature emerges from the lake with an ominous warning for the villagers. Whales & Souls is a gritty, sensual fable that examines the way we relate to the environment, ourselves, and each other. It was developed by Kramer under the terraNOVA Collective Groundbreakers Playwright's Group in New York City and features actress Monica Wyche. Andrew Kramer is a two-time finalist in the Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Play Festival with We Happy Animals (2011) and A Map of Our Country (2010). His play, The Dog(run) Diaries is a finalist for the New Play Project with Pandora Productions (Louisville, Kentucky) and will have a reading at the Wordsmyth Theatre Company (Houston, Texas) later this year.

Richard Clapton Tanks Arts Centre / Doors open at 6:30pm / $35-40 Don't miss one of the most influential figures in Australian rock history when Richard Clapton performs live at Tanks, in a one-night only Festival appearance. With singles including Girls on the Avenue, I Am an Island and Goodbye Tiger, Richard Clapton is a singer / songwriter who combines masterful poetic insight with a passionate rock 'n' roll heart. He songs articulate the hopes and dreams, along with the disappointment and disillusionment, of a generation of Australians. Respected by peers and critics alike, he has kept a steady flow of hits across the years, as well as a very loyal live following. Clapton’s timeless classics explore and reflect upon the realities of contemporary Australia, and have remained fresh and relevant throughout the years.

Far North Op Shop Tours Bus odyssey and treasure trail with Jo O'Callaghan 26 and 27 August Departs from Endeavour Store Bus Stop in 76 Sheridan Street at 9:30am Returns 1pm / $25/20 One bus - Five stops - Forty people - Endless bargains! Discover the Far North’s hidden secrets, and rummage for a bargain with host comedian and cabaret singer Joanne O’Callaghan. Four hours of second-hand adventure, competitions, bargain bonanza and giveaways all part of the on-bus action. The Cairns Festival's Op Shop Tours are a great way to see the town, go to places you never knew existed, soak up the Festival atmosphere, find a bargain, recycle something, and join the revolution of second-hand shopping. Since its creation in 2007 Op Shop Tours Australia has been successfully touring op shops in most major cities and some small ones in between (with a track record of sell out seasons in the Adelaide Fringe Festival and Melbourne International Comedy Festival). Generally the tours open with the hit History Repeating, sung by the host and sometimes a few keen shoppers join in. This is the first of many songs on the journey! For the Cairns festival, O'Callaghan has prepared an itinerary inclusive of 5 stops, with a 4 hour journey in total. The tours include a performance element on the bus that really has to be seen to be believed, so book early, and invite a few friends along for the ride!

Circus Oz Steampowered Cairns Civic Theatre 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31 August /7:30pm $25 - 39 The legendary Circus Oz has been touring the world for more than 30 years, as well as entertaining generations of Australians. From Kununurra to New York, Circus Oz has taken its self-crafted performances of wit, grace, spectacle and satire to 26 countries across five continents, to critical acclaim. Circus Oz presents a rock 'n' roll animal-free circus to be enjoyed by people of all ages. For the 2011 Cairns Festival, Circus Oz comes to town with a crew of highly-skilled performers, the rocking sounds of the live Circus Oz band, and a two-hour steampunk performance of absurd acrobatics, graceful aerial performances, fast-paced knockabout comedy and more. With Steampowered, Circus Oz invites you into a time where romance meets technology and everything is hand-made and steam-poweredâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;especially the masterful skill and commanding strength of the performers. In pure Circus Oz style Cairns Festival audiences will be on the edge of their seat at the Civic Theatre, steamed up and howling for more. The 2-hour show is suitable for all ages, and will be presented six times during the Festival. What are you waiting for?

When the Wheels Fall off the World â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Part II, Crossroads Performance Presentation Tanks Arts Centre: Earthed 7:00pm and 10:15pm / Free A unique, interactive Creative Development process brings the epic story from When the Wheels fall off the World back to Cairns Festival. As a Work-in-progress, this open workshop at CoCA brings the imagined world directly to audiences who will explore the story along with the project team. For this event, at the Tanks, two 30-minute work-in-progress readings will tell the story of the first play, When the Wheels fall off the World, and how the characters arrive at 'the Crossroads' to shelter from a cyclone. Set in the future, on an isolated bush farm, the work explores community relations after cataclysmic events have brought about a new world paradigm. Two families, one Indigenous and one non-Indigenous intertwine in a future which must recognise the past. Featuring Warren Clements as Will and Liza Parker as Aphra and introducing singer/songwriter, Jeremiah Johnson as the minstrel Joe as well as other actors drawn from Cairns flourishing performing arts scene.

AUGUST 27 Festival Acoustic Cruise April Maze and Shells Live / In partnership with Ocean Spirit Cruises Departs Cairns Marina at 6:45pm / Returns 9:30pm / $79 The venue: the spectacular Trinity Inlet, with forested mountains on one side and the bright city lights on the other. The experience: a deluxe dinner cruise on Ocean Spirit’s luxurious catamaran, accompanied by the sounds and stories performed by some of the finest folk musicians in Australia. All the way from Melbourne, performing exclusively for the Cairns Acoustic Cruise at Cairns Festival will be The April Maze: one of Australia’s favourite touring folk duos. Using cello, guitar, banjo, stomp box and strong male-female harmonies, this fiercely passionate yet affable duo combine folk, classical and soul music in their fun and captivating shows. Supporting The April Maze will be Far North Queensland’s very own Shells, a female singer-songwriter, representing the local creative community, who will serve up her own soulful folk music. With the setting sun shimmering off the ocean, green tropical islands beckoning on the horizon, there is no better place to experience a truly unique musical dinner cruise, then in one of Australia’s most spectacular environments. Tickets are limited to 80 people so book soon to be part of this one-off event. Tickets include boat cruise along Trinity Inlet, a gourmet tropical dinner, complimentary glass of champagne and this great live entertainment.

Far North Organic Experience Bus tour of local organic farms Departs 8:15am at Reef Fleet Terminal / Returns 5:00pm / $ Explore the source of great local produce on this Festival excursion developed by Emma Lodge and Prevention is the Cure. Jump onboard a guided food shopping experience taking you to the grassroots. There you’ll meet some of our local organic farmers and learn about organic, bio-dynamic and permaculture farming. Experience the produce from the point of origin and get educated on where to source local organic produce, what's in season, what to look for, how to prepare the food, some healthy meal creations and discover how amazing organic produce tastes! The bus trip includes morning tea and a lunch cooking demonstration at a spectacular location on the Tablelands, plus take home recipes.

Fitzroy Island Saturday Party Includes transfers and drinks Departs 5:00pm from Blue Sky Brewery $55 / Book tickets at www.PartyInCairns.com Cairns Festival and Fitzroy Island in conjunction with PartyinCairns.com presents a weekend of fun, games and entertainment on the middle Saturday and Sunday of the Festival. If you really want to celebrate under a tropical sun, 40 minutes from the real world, then Fitzroy Island will be the place to be. A weekend of fun in the sun, great food, music, and island excursions is planned, starting with an island party a cocktail flaring competition on Saturday.

Partyincairns.com presents the Saturday night party (arrives 7.30pm - departs at midnight) with a Pirates and Wenches theme, and prizes for best dressed. Legendary band, The Radiators, will get the island jumping at Foxy’s Bar that night. Sunday’s events will include a Catch and Cook Fishing Competition in the morning, delicious Sea Food Buffet Extravaganza in the afternoon, and Stand Up Paddleboarding around the island. Local Band Grand Theft Audio will be stripping back for unplugged sets at Foxy’s Bar easy afternoon sessions. Why be anywhere else than a tropical isle with music, food, and fun on the Festival’s middle weekend?

Arthouse Roadshow: Cairns Folk & Roots Collective Arthouse, 240 Scott Street (via McCoombe Street) Doors open at 6:00pm / $5-8 at the door / Golden Ticket Event It may have been a bit 'underground' since its humble beginnings around a dining table last year, but Cairns Folk 'n' Roots has grown to be one of the Far North’s new found live music treasures. For the Arthouse series, Folk ‘n’ Roots will be cookin' with country jazzabilly band The Sydney-based Hoo Haa's playing a spicy hybrid of country swamp groove, plus a dynamic showcase of the best Far Northern music and musicians. Be captivated by the warm, seductive, rootsy sound of emerging artist Kim Hurley, the blues/ roots edginess of prolific songwriter Gary George Davies (aka Medicine Man), the rhythmic piano & drum stylings of JJ Duo and the funk, folk & gypsy Jazz cocktail that is the band Choonchie. Be prepared for a toe tappin' hillbilly jazz noire experience like no other—put together especially for the Cairns Festival season. A unique North Queensland night awaits at Arthouse, where music lovers, folkies, young roots-musicians, and the region’s best seasoned musicians play for the shared love of it all—under a brilliant tropical moon! Presented in partnership with Cairns Folk & Roots Collective and Big Cat Green Island.

Lush: Festival Late Night Supper Club at Havana Cafe Havana Music Café, 113 Lake Street 10:00pm to Midnight Saturday nights are wild for Festival goers, as Havana Café comes alive with Lush, a late night supper club for festival artists and audiences! Lush presents a tasty selection of burlesque and cabaret performances, accompanied by Havana style cocktails, canapes and other delicious pleasures. Queen Fanny Wood will meet you at the door, and issue you with your Lush golden ticket, whereupon our hostess Carmen Geddit will show you to your seat, and offer you a festive treat or two! Relax, imbibe and be bamboozled by The Uncredible Si Mann's card, rope and sleight of hand amazements, before your toes start tapping to the saucy tunes and thrilling melodies of The Hot N Wet Swing Set. The Saturday night hangout will feature not one but two fabulous burlesque artistes: the feathered antics of Mz Panty Rebellion, the contortions of Lu Lu La Bent, the extraordinary circus feats of Monsieur Pepe, the hot pole manouvres of The Boy Eros, the utterly edgy Balloon Boy and Grinder Grrl! And that's not all folks! Festival artists are invited to showcase their own cabaret stylings in an improvised, interactive and totally explicit fashion, with the last half hour of the show dedicated to spontaneous, collaborative mayhem. Lush is the place to unwind, let your hair down, cosy up and get your groove on. So eat, drink and be festive, in a space where desire and imagination run wild — the Cairns Festival Supper Club is the place to be on this Saturday night.

AUGUST 28 Fitzroy Island Sunday in Paradise Catch and Cook Fishing Competition Sea Food Buffet Extravaganza Stand Up Paddleboard Demonstrations The Festival fun on Fitzroy Island continues, with a You Catch ‘em. You Cook ‘em fishing contest from 7:00am to noon. The boat that catch's the biggest edible reef fish will take the big prize, and BBQs will be provided for all anglers to prepare their catch. Sunday afternoon gets sporty, with SUP Love stand up paddleboard lessons and a race around the island! Free demonstrations will be on offer so there’s no excuse not to get wet. And from Midday till 4:00pm, Fitzroy Island will offer a Seafood Extravaganza buffet, with an amazing selection of fresh seafood for $45 per person. Special “locals rate” boat transfers will be offered to everyone on both Saturday and Sunday. So head to paradise for your midFestival break!

Tropical Pride Festival Tanks Arts Centre /10:30am to 6:00pm / $5 at the door Cairns Tropical Pride Festival is an annual event for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer community of Cairns and Far North Queensland. It’s also a great way to celebrate the diversity of the region and connect to the wider community. 2011 marks the fifth anniversary of this popular and fast-growing event, destined to become a leading national event in the LGBTQ calendar. The festival's winter timing and fun programming has made Cairns Tropical Pride festivities a desirable holiday experience for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered people from around the country. This year, the Tropical Pride Fair Day will take over the Tanks Arts centre on Sunday 28 August, and over 2,000 people are expected. Also part of the program are the Out! Proud! Dance Party on Saturday 20 August and Tropical Pride Community Awards Night on Friday 26 August.

Cairns International Student Welcome Fogarty Park / 2:00pm to 6:00pm / Free International Student Welcome Celebration is an event proudly brought to you by Study Cairns to officially welcome international students who have chosen Cairns as their destination to study. Enjoy a day of fun team games, watch on-stage entertainment, win fantastic prizes, enjoy Aussie and International cuisine and meet other students from around the world. Mayor Val Schier will officially welcome the students at 3:00pm, and students will have an opportunity to have photos taken as a memento of the celebration. Student orientation and information stalls will also be set up, including Education Institutes, Public Transport Services, Banking, Community Engagement groups, Tourist attractions and Student accommodation. Study Cairns takes this opportunity to acknowledge the contribution students bring to the community and add to the overall multicultural lifestyle we enjoy in Cairns under a tropical sun!

Festival Big Band Extravaganza Cairns Bands: The Hotshots and Tropical Brass / Top Shelf Mr Pinstripe Suit Band Fogarty Park Festival Stage 6:00pm to10:00pm / Free The Festival’s Big Band double-bill is the most action our stage will see all season. It begins with a nostalgic program by Cairns Bands stalwarts, The Hotshots and Tropical Brass, performing music that will take you back and sweep you off your feet. From 6:00pm, Fogarty Park will come alive with fantastic and memorable tunes. For the second half of the Big Band Extravaganza, catch the return of the high energy musicians from last year’s production of Mr Pinstripe Suit! Reformed as Top Shelf, with musical director Jodie Emslie once again taking the helm. They’ll serve up another helping of Mr Pinstripe Suit and add some new tunes to the mix!

AUGUST 29 When the Wheels Fall off the World – Part II, Crossroads Interactive Community Theatre-making Workshop Centre of Contemporary Arts / 2:00pm to 6:00pm Join the creative team behind Crossroads, for this final Festival afternoon of Forum Theatrestyle workshops and explore the Crossroads and the continuation of When the Wheels fall off the World. Beginning with presentations of short sections of the script, the workshop stops at controversial points to discuss unresolved issues. Audiences will be able to hypothesize community relations in the future, in the bush, in a cyclone after cataclysmic events have brought about a new world paradigm. Two families, one Indigenous and one non-Indigenous intertwine in a future which must recognise the past. Audiences can join the work at any point and even find an opportunity to suggest, analyse, discuss and act out pieces of the story. At the end of the afternoon, the work will be presented—incorporating points which have been developed through the Festival-based workshops.

Raku Firing Experience Clubhouse, 28A Grove Street 3:00pm to 9:00pm Free The Cairns Potters Club is inviting members of the public to participate in a Raku firing experience at its Clubhouse, 28 Grove St Cairns (across the railway lines near Cairns High School). Visitors (children and adults) will be able to purchase bisque fired pots of various shapes and forms and can then decorate the pots with various glazes provided—and within an hour or two be able to get their decorated “hot” pots straight out of the kiln ready to take home.

A raku firing is a fast kiln firing process that uses both fire and smoke to create unique patterns and designs on glazed ceramic pieces. The pots are removed from the kiln at their maximum temperature 900-1000 degrees C. It is a spectacular sight to see the red hot pots being taken out of the kiln and within minutes cooling down to show the most exciting glaze colours. Cairns Festival visitors will also have the opportunity to get to know about the club and how it functions, and children can have a go at making their own clay creations.

Queensland Poetry Slam 2011 Heat Tanks Arts Centre / Doors open for sign-up at 6:00pm / Free Get ready to speak, scream, howl, whisper or sing your original poem at the Queensland Poetry Slam heats at Tanks Arts Centre. The Australian Poetry Slam is set to explode around Queensland in 2011, with regional heat winners flown to the State Finals at the State Library of Queensland in October. Then Queensland’s top two champions slug it out for the coveted title of Australian Slam Poet 2011 at the National finals in Sydney. Want to sharpen your words before you hit the stage? Come along to free Slam workshops at Cairns Library (Sunday 28 August from noon to 2:00pm for youth and 3:00pm to 5:00pm for adults). There’s $11,000 worth of prizes up for grabs: showcase your poetic self during Cairns Festival at Tanks Arts Centre’s electric live event. The audience is judge, and you have two minutes to make your mark on the microphone!

AUGUST 30 Ensembles, Arias, and Pipe Organ Cairns Presbyterian Church, 87 Sheridan Street / 7:45pm / $7-12 For over 55 years, Cairns Classical Music Group has been performing for local music lovers. Concerts are now held every second month, and will once again coincide with the 50th Cairns Festival. They again take the stage at St Andrew’s Presbyterian for Ensembles, Arias and Pipe Organ—where the English-made Spurden & Rutt pipe organ is one star of the show. Installed by Mr. Noel Ferguson when the church was constructed in 1953, this is the only pipe organ in Far North Queensland. The Festival program, Ensembles, Arias and Pipe Organ is a showcase concert of the classical music and local performers of Cairns Region. It is compiled by David Godwin and will include instrumental groups and choirs in addition to the arias and pipe organ performances.

AUGUST 31 Festival Free Film Series Fogarty Park Festival Stage 7:00pm / Free Every Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday of the Festival the Fogarty Park stage will be transformed into the Far North’s favourite outdoor movie cinema. Free family films are planned, with Wednesday evenings reserved for a slightly older crowd. The Festival is also planning Underwater Worlds—short films from past and present that take a look at the wonders of the reef and our local marine environment. Gather up your friends and family, bring a blanket and your picnic hamper, and enjoy this free movie night at Cairns Festival—made possible by generous 50th season sponsor McDonald’s Cairns Family Restaurants. Arrive early for a special pre-movie performance by Sing Australia Mareeba and Atherton Chapters. Part of Sing Australia—a network of groups who share the same resources of singing material, with no auditions necessary for its members—make music for the love of singing. With chapters in 140 locations across the country and 5,000 Sing Australia members, there is always a group close by who will warmly welcome visitors and other music-lovers to Sing Australia. Bring your picnic and have a listen before the Festival’s free Wednesday night film.

Salt House Late Film Salt House Restaurant Lawn Just around the corner form the Festival Stage, Salt House Restaurant has long been a supporter of all things creative. This season, they will extend your free film opportunities with late-night movie screenings on their lush waterside lawn. Head there for a drink and Festival special 2 for 1 bar plates, and take in a movie fit for the older crowd. Linger in town, and extend your Wednesday evening Festival plans with Salt House.

SEPTEMBER 1 Dean Stevenson: The Arco Set Rich new music, sweeping strings, bitter-sweet tales with a Tasmanian vibe Centre of Contemporary Arts Curtain at 7:30pm $25/20 Golden Ticket Event Let Dean Stevenson and the Arco set cast you afloat upon an uncertain yet enticing river of childhood dreams, of lover's grit, beauty and determination and ultimately find a message in a bottle bearing a name that inevitably resembles you own. Singer/Guitarist/composer Dean Stevenson with his warm, reedy voice, comes to Cairns Festival's cabaret stage to present songs of symphonic character accompanied by the Arco Set, a string quintet comprising some of the finest musical jewels from the bottom of the world. Dean Stevenson is a writer/performer who flourishes in the Tasmanian winter, and considers tropical living a threat to his musician's tan. With ability to continually explore new genre and vocal styles, Dean has shared stages with Marcia Hines, Stephen Cummings, Lior, Jeff Martin and many others. With 2 major releases available, “In Time’ and ‘Arco Set’, Dean is also a weekly contributor to Hobart ABC song writing forums, winner of the UTAS Con 2004 Director's prize, was the only Australian invited to attend camp MMW in New York 2009 and is a champion of Tasmania's creative scene.

Cairns Big Band Spectacular An Evening of Powerful Big Band Music! Brothers Leagues Club 7:30pm / $ Players from CairnsBands, including the Youth Stage band and Cairns Concert Band, join forces with the 1st Battalion Royal Australian Regiment Army Band to deliver a powerful evening of big band, swing, jazz and popular classics for the closing Thursday night of Cairns Festival.

Tripod Tanks Arts Centre Doors open at 6:30pm / $35-40 Tripod return to your beautiful climes to again enjoy your fat grass, northern hospitality, and oh, do a show at Cairns Festival. The musical comedy sensations have been singing songs and annoying each other for your entertainment for some time now. Over the years, they have appeared on numerous TV shows in Australia and abroad, including Good News Week, Rove, Spicks and Specks and the Just For Laughs Comedy Gala in Montreal, and are fixtures in the annual Melbourne International Comedy Festival Gala. Tripod also featured as core cast members on Network Ten's Skithouse and the ABC's Sideshow. You only get one night with Tripod at Tanks Arts Centre, so book now!

John Waters: Looking through the Glass Onion Musical Tribute to John Lennon Cairns Civic Theatre / 8:00pm / $70 John Waters comes to Cairns Festival with his critically acclaimed production Looking Through A Glass Onion — a homage to the Music, Mystery and Memory of John Lennon. Since its inception in 1992, the one-man (and band) production has toured on the 20th anniversary of Lennon’s death, and now sells out from Adelaide to Canberra. Perfect for baby boomers—people who lived through the actual Beatles-era—the music itself just keeps going and spreads to all the subsequent generations. Lennon’s music is masterfully presented as the text of his life, with monologue interwoven within the songs. Go back in time, and look through a glass onion for one night only at the Civic Theatre.

SEPTEMBER 2 The 2 Dimensional Life of Her by Fleur Elise Noble Captivatingly surreal multi-media puppet theatre Centre of Contemporary Arts The Space 2, 3 and 4 September Curtain at 4 and 6pm / $20/15 Golden Ticket Event 2 Dimensional Life of Her is a visual performance made of drawing, animation, puppetry, projection and paper. Unlike anything you will see at Cairns Festival, Fleur Elise Noble creates a richly imagined parallel world, in which everything thought to be still or flat becomes some_thing else. Noble’s drawings begin to reproduce themselves, drifting between surfaces and moving in and out of three dimensions, as the act of creation separates itself from the artist responsible for its beginnings. In this illusionary, captivating and cheeky work for the CoCA Space, visual tensions build and realities pile up until the artist loses control of her creations and absolutely anything becomes possible. Standing at the centre of this mesmerising work of light and shadows, your sense of reality will be teased and blurred. “Noble not only deconstructs her art, she shreds, incinerates and rebuilds it, milking the full potential of today’s technology like an Andy Warhol for a new era.” - Patrick McDonald, The Adelaide Advertiser (2009)

Renee Geyer and her Sextet Tanks Arts Centre Doors open at 6:30pm / $40-45 One of the world’s finest singers, an Australian music legend and ARIA Hall of Fame inductee, Renée Geyer started out as a sensual blues belter. She comes to Cairns Festival, four decades and 23 albums later, as a bona fide music icon. A consummate entertainer with a proud body of work, Renée is a true and undeniable talent who transfixes a room with the power of her music-making. Don’t miss Renée Geyer and her sextet, when they headline the Tanks Arts Centre’s 2011 Jazz up North series at Cairns Festival.

Festival Icons of the Far North Concert Carinda Christie, Snake Gully, and Johno’s Blues Band Fogarty Park Festival Stage 6:00pm / Free What better way to revel in the tropical life we share in Cairns than through music made by a few of our very own legends. The Festival’s Icons of the Far North concert starts with Carinda Christie, a singular voice in Far North music. In 2000, after years of playing with bands she decided to pick up her well-loved acoustic guitar and travel solo. Her passionate voice is joined by robust acoustic guitar, Dobro Slide guitar and stomp box—and her songs are peppered with entertaining anecdotes about life and music. Folk legends Snake Gully take the stage for a homecoming of their own. One of far north Queensland’s most enduring and endearing bands is celebrating its 25th anniversary with Cairns Festival. Snake Gully has assembled members past and present, including founder member Alan “Piggy” Jones, and resurrected the sketches and songs that first helped establish its reputation as a local crowd favourite back in the ‘80s, when it was known as Snake Gully Ensemble. This iconic evening concludes with the legendary Johno’s Blues Band, one of the most historic and colourful aspects of the local music scene for almost three decades. In the late 80s, the band took off for England and Europe, at the urging of the first swarm of backpackers who had found Cairns and the strip known as the Barbary Coast. Abroad, Johno’s Blues Band played numerous gigs in England, Holland and Germany, and created mayhem in Scotland, France, and Belgium. On the band's return to Australia, they secured a recording contract, relocated to Sydney, and toured the southern capitals making a name for themselves. 1989 saw the band return to Cairns in search of the good life on their beloved Barbary Coast, only to find the bulldozers and developers had beaten them to it. To Johno's Blues Band, the solution was obvious: start their own strictly live music bar, and recapture the fun and magic of the "Barbary"! They did just that, and for nearly the next 20 years, Johno’s Band, and Bar, played host to music every single night, featuring themselves, and the best acts from USA, England and interstate. Don’t miss this powerful trifecta of Far North musicianship when the Festival celebrates true Icons of the Far North. Because nothing celebrates the tropical life like music made right here in our own back yard!

Ash Grunwald Supported by The Grains, Zennith, Battlekat and Jeremy J A.J. Hackett, McGregor Road in Smithfield 7:00pm / $34.70 Ash Grunwald will be bringing his funky blues and roots to the lush tropical surrounds of the Smithfield venue AJ Hackett. It will be a barn storming evening as Ash belts out his new album and some of his past highlights. The Grains are joining Ash on his national tour and promise to deliver some added spice to the night with their take on all things funky! Also support from local award winning acts Zennith, Jeremy J and BattleKat to round out this fine Festival night.

CRIME: USA Cabaret theatre investigation of true crime Centre of Contemporary Arts 2 and 3 September / 7:30pm / $20/15 Golden Ticket Event CRIME, USA is a unique stage work, originating in the devised theatre practice of the New York-based company The Civilians. It has been developed by director Alix Lambert through an ongoing investigation into the world of crime in the United States. The music and theatre project began at in Key West, Florida—mile zero along the American highway and an historic outpost for pirates, smugglers, reprobates, and outlaws from the greater mainland. Working collaboratively, Lambert, has based Crime USA on an continuous series of interviews and first-hand reports. The actors—Maria Dizzia, Brandon Miller, Gerardo Rodriguez, and Frank Harts,—will introduce the audience to characters representing the subject of crime in America, including law enforcement, criminal minds, employees of the FBI, pawnshop workers, experts on serial killers, crime writers, former gang members, and one peculiar man called Monkey Tom. Original songs, written by American blues band Scrapomatic, will be preformed by the actors in a cabaret theatre style. Crime USA is directed by Alix Lambert, who continues her extensive treatment of the modern-day true crime in our midst.

Cairns Amateurs Cannon Park The Cairns Amateurs Racing Carnival is four days of fun, fashion, glamour, food and entertainment built around two days of horse racing in Cairns — and the party returns for the closing weekend of the 50th Cairns Festival! What began as a small meeting in 1959, designed to bring city and country together, has expanded over the years to become one of Australia’s premier spring horse racing carnivals. 53 years on, the Cairns Amateurs is now complemented by a host of social activities, some formal and some very informal, including a number of Members-only and corporate functions as well as events and areas for the general public on both race days. The beautiful mild September climate entices large crowds of locals, Festival-goers, and interstate visitors. Friday kicks off with Ladies Day and eight races, party in the paddock, a garden party, and concludes with the famous black tie Amateurs Ball at the Trinity Wharf Cruise Liner Terminal.

SEPTEMBER 3 Writers on the Waterfront Ciao Italia Restaurant / Donnini’s Doors open at 11:30am $25 includes lunch / Book at 4051 1133 The Festival’s favourite literary lunch returns to Ciao Italia Restaurant (Donnini's in The Pier), thanks to Tropical Writers, Collins Bookstore, and the Get Reading Program. Enjoy a glass of chilled chardonnay overlooking Trinity Inlet, great food, fabulous company and the company of featured writer, David Hill. The author of The Gold Rush, will speak about “the fever that forever changes Australia.” Don’t miss Writers on the Waterfront on the Festival’s closing Saturday.

Festival Family Fun Day Cairns Regional Gallery 10:00am to 3:00pm / Free Cairns Regional Gallery invites families and Festival-goers to this free drop-in, where children’s activities are on offer (no bookings required), great exhibitions are on view, and a creative art trail is planned throughout the gallery. Kids can try their hand at printmaking, or other creative activities, nd might even meet a Gremlin or two. Make the Regional Gallery’s Family Fun Day a stop on your Festival tour!

Arthouse Roadshow: Mixed Grill’d Arthouse, 240 Scott Street (via McCoombe Street) Doors open at 5:00pm / $15-20 Mixed Grill’d celebrates the pop, the avant garde and the absurd, with a stellar cast of music, DJ's, film, media and performance, all commingling at Arthouse for the Festival. LA Vampires (USA) is the shape-shifting sound-system universe of Amanda Beth Brown (co-director of Not Not Fun Records), and her co-collaborators. Their sound is an evolving vibe, utilizing a web of slowed/screwed tapes, boombox Casio FX, low end theories, and bleached voice patterns to conjure a reverb-chamber worth of dance floor mirages. DJ Manchild has been playing dancefloors of Melbourne and beyond since early 2001, supporting everyone from De La Soul to Norman Jay. He also produces the seminal radio show The Breakdown, on Melbourne's 3PBS FM. This unique Festival Mixed Grill includes ample support from Melbourne’s Sexyparty, We Could Be Heroes, performance artists Clarinet Bayonet, Hanzard, Font, Zane Saunders and File_Error, graf artist Wally Wallwork and The Next Page crew, plus local DJ's Jack The Ripper and No Request. Presented in partnership with Arthouse, Upholstery, Wallwork Studios, On Edge, Room40 and Big Cat Green Island.

Lush: Festival Late Night Supper Club at Havana Cafe Havana Music Café, 113 Lake Street / 10:00pm to Midnight Saturday nights are wild for Festival goers, as Havana Café comes alive with Lush, a late night supper club for festival artists and audiences! Lush presents a tasty selection of burlesque and cabaret performances, accompanied by Havana style cocktails, canapes and other delicious pleasures. The Saturday night hangout will feature not one but two fabulous burlesque artistes: the feathered antics of Mz Panty Rebellion, the contortions of Lu Lu La Bent, the extraordinary circus feats of Monsieur Pepe, the hot pole manouvres of The Boy Eros, the utterly edgy Balloon Boy and Grinder Grrl! And that's not all folks! Festival artists are invited to showcase their own cabaret stylings in an improvised, interactive and totally explicit fashion, with the last half hour of the show dedicated to spontaneous, collaborative mayhem. Lush is the place to unwind, let your hair down, cosy up and get your groove on. So eat, drink and be festive, in a space where desire and imagination run wild — the Cairns Festival Supper Club is the place to be on this Saturday night.

Cairns Amateurs Cannon Park The Cairns Amateurs Racing Carnival continues with Cup Day and eight races, garden party, picnic events and members areas, and party in the paddock. Join Cairns Jockey Club for a day to remember, and Australia’s hottest racing!

Public Opinion Afro Orchestra Fogarty Park Festival Stage 7:00pm / Free For our final Saturday night, the Festival has a special gig in store. Inspired by the infectious afro-beat music of Nigeria and its neighbours, the Public Opinion Afro Orchestra unleashes contemporary African funk for Australian dancefloors and festivals—often blowing the roof off the joint. This mammoth ensemble comprises seventeen musicians hand-picked from Melbourne’s music scene, and is a spectacle of glorious music-making. The sound of the entire band is a force to be reckoned with. The Public Opinion’s powerful MCs and tribal rhythms are the modern-day “musical weapon” that Fela Kuti conceived of. Their conscious lyrics and West African grooves are relevant today, while remaining faithful to the message of afro-beat. They opened the Melbourne International Arts Festival in 2008, thrilled WOMADelaide in 2010, and exploded onto the scene at this year’s Perth International Arts Festival. Now it’s Far North Queensland’s turn to get turned on by the Public Opinion Afro Orchestra.

Jazz Under the Stars Cairns Botanic Gardens 6:30pm to 9:30pm $10 at the door A Festival tradition: great jazz performed by the Far North’s best local musicians, in a setting so lush and tropical. It’s Jazz Under the Stars! The program starts with Cool Change, a group of Cairns-based musicians who have been performing together as a four piece, three piece or duo for the past ten years. They play a wide variety of styles from smooth latin bossa novas, jazz, to soul and funk . Next up in the Gardens are The After Hours Big Band, styled after the large jazz ensembles that dominated American popular music in the period 1930s and 40s. Cosmopolitan singer and consummate performer Nikki Doll follows, and her music proclaims the spirit of Gospel, Soul, Rhythm ‘n’ Blues, with an eclectic selection of Afro Jazz Roots, Funk & World Groove Fusions. And finally, a Far North jazz legend, Junior SeePoy, takes the stage under starry skies. SeePoy has been playing Jazz in Queensland for many years. An expert exponent of the Alto and Tenor Saxophones, he is well known for his professional approach to BeBop. With his sons Tom on Keyboard, and Johnny on Drums, Junior will supplement his family group with expert musicians to thrill Jazz lovers at this closing weekend feature of the 50th Cairns Festival season.

SEPTEMBER 4 Paradise Concerts with the Cairns Concert Orchestra The Four Seasons Centre of Contemporary Arts / Curtain at 4pm / $30 Paradise Concerts and Cairns Concert Orchestra present a special Festival program to close our season. Join them for a performance of the timeless beloved masterpiece, Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, with a live narration of the sonnets Vivaldi himself wrote to portray the musical ideas. The performance features soloists Kirtley Leigh Paine, violin, Gwen Roberts, cello, and Jo-Anne Kemp, Harpsichord. The concert also features Cairns’ own Cairns Concert Orchestra, also celebrating 50 years, and the program continues with 2 further string orchestra giants -- also by Vivaldi -- the Concerto for 2 violins and cello, and the Concerto for 4 violins, each featuring additional soloists from the Cairns Concert Orchestra. In their interpretation of the seasons, the musicians will focus on a tropical interpretation, portrayed musically for Cairns: Tropical Summer (relentless and humid), Monsoon (cyclonic and wet), Winter (cool and dry and clear, and Tradewinds (Southeasterlies promising gentle winds). It will be an afternoon of beautiful music to end the 50th season

Carnival on Collins Tanks Arts Centre and Cairns Botanic Gardens 9:00am to 3:00pm / Free As one of the most popular events on the Cairns Festival calendar, Carnival on Collins is the ideal way to spend Father’s Day Sunday. This year—as we revel in the 50th Festival—Carnival on Collins celebrates its 21st birthday. Indulge in a bonanza of activities and entertainment with nearly 200 stalls – including plant stalls, lifestyle products, arts and crafts, food and refreshments, and more. Get a closer look at the brand new, and quite amazing Visitors’ Centre, and wind your way up Collins Avenue towards Edge Hill. Three exciting stages support live entertainment, and a free Children’s Wonderland will be on offer for the little ones. Look out for roving entertainers, discover the coffee retreat for the adults, and connect with the enviro-friendly information booths. Join 20,000 other Far North friends and neighbours for the final Sunday of the Festival—as Carnival on Collins takes over Tanks Arts Centre and the Botanic Gardens.

Kasey Chambers & Shane Nicholson Cairns Civic Theatre 8:00pm / $43.15-59.20 Kasey Chambers album, Little Bird, was released late last year and debuted on the national album charts at #3 and earned 4 Golden Guitars at this year’s Tamworth Country Music Awards. Shane Nicholson released his new album Bad Machines in March. With a stack of multi star reviews and a top-three album on the Country Music Album charts, Shane is the perfect companion for this Festival double-header. The live shows get an added boost, thanks to special guests: the legendary Bill Chambers and Tamworth’s first lady of fiddle, Ashleigh Dallas. Watch them all light up the Cairns Festival stage, as our season comes to a close.

Festival Finale and Fireworks with Tijuana Cartel Fogarty Park Festival Stage 7:00pm / Fireworks at 8:45pm / Free You’d have to look long and hard to find a hotter band than Tijuana Cartel. So before our Finale Fireworks light up the sky on Sunday night, we thought we’d invite them to take the Festival Stage for one last Fogarty Park event. They hail from the Gold Coast, but Tijuana Cartel have built a firm reputation for beats that span the globe. Multi-layered grooves, touches of slide and flamenco guitar, trumpet, vocals and Afro-Cuban Percussion mixed with some hardened electronica – it’s a combo that the Cairns Festival audience will find intriguing, energetic and utterly delicious! What makes Tijuana Cartel so unique—besides an unmatched raw energy—is their ability to beautifully combine diverse musical elements into one track. “We have different backgrounds that are reflected in our music” explains Daniel Gonzalez the band’s Percussionist. Their travels have had a tremendous impact on their music-making, beginning with a tour of India, and a considerable amount of time in the clubbing scene in the UK. Despite the shades of world music, Tijuana Cartel fit even more comfortably within the Indy/Electronica scene. Following in the wake of bands like Vampire Weekend, the Cartel continue to find new ways to filter world music through indie rock and roll., The result, as Festival-goers will find out before the real fireworks hit the skies, is a new era of globalising western music.

2011 Festival Exhibitions

What’s on View during the 50th Season Cairns Festival Man vs Fascinator Portraits of Men in Headgear by Jake Nowakowski

Circa 1907 Gallery / 23 August to 3 September A new collaborative socio-photographic project will debut at Circa 1907 Gallery in City Place for this year's Festival. Photographer Jake Nowakowski and the Cairns Festival team have been setting up mobile portrait studios and shooting the first Man vs Fascinator images for exhibition later in the year. The Festival realizes that the Fascinator, a type of fanciful headdress worn at social functions throughout Australia, is an important aspect of the Queensland woman's wardrobe (especially when equestrian activities or nuptials are happening nearby). This small, often feathered object is a staple of race-going and party-making, and it appears at key events during the year. The Man vs Fascinator project started by asking local women to dig deep into their wardrobe and select one or two of their favourite Fascinators. Then, in a bold attempt at male-female social experimentation, we asked them to present it to their partner and convince him to try it on. If everybody seemed comfortable, the logical next step was for man to meet project artist Jake Nowakowski—a celebrated Australian photo-journalist—and be immortalized in a portrait. Cairns Festival is proud to present Man vs Fascinator, and two dozen bold men in familiar-but-unusual head-dress, during the 2011 season.

(Un) Seen Sculptures North Throughout Festival After invading hipster enclaves in Sydney, taking over large swathes of inner city Melbourne, and spreading colonies of psychedelic virtual toads throughout Victoria and New South Wales, (Un)seen Sculptures is heading north for the 2011 Cairns Festival. The 21st century digital project, curated by Warren Armstrong, is based on an exhibition of mobile 3D augmented reality art situated in locations along the Esplanade and Cairns CBD. These will be virtual digital works – hidden from the naked eye but visible to anyone with an iPhone, Android or the latest Nokia smartphone (and a free app called the Layar Reality Browser). Once they have downloaded to their device, Festival-goers can simply open it up, search for “unseen sculptures”, then hold up their phones at the designated locations. There they will see the artworks, as if they were actually positioned in place. When these sculptures are “touched”, further information about them will be revealed — and other forms of interaction may be unlocked. The show will feature unseen sculptures by local artists, and creative people from around Australia and overseas. The pieces will traverse a wide range of styles and subjects, and viewers will even have a chance to contribute via a work called The Information Virus (Tempus Apparatus Strain), which will play recordings of their personal stories of Cairns from the past, present, (and maybe even) future. Grab your handheld device and confront the future with this unique augmented reality sculpture environment positioned all around the Cairns CBD.

Warren Armstrong, curator of (Un)seen Sculptures, is a new media artist whose practice explores web-based art, sonification and augmented reality. His most recent works include The Information Virus (2010), a 3D augmented reality work that was featured in the Bushwick Augmented Reality Intervention 2010 in Brooklyn, New York; and the Twitterphonicon/Twitter Hymn Book (2010), an installation that converts Twitter updates into music, which he collaborated on with Sydney composer, Amanda Cole. This latter work was exhibited as part of the New Interfaces in Musical Expression conference in Sydney, and was a finalist in the 2010 Blake Prize for Religious Art.

Cairns Festival Ten Minute Landscapes Video Projections in the CBD / Created by Crystal Bustos In partnership with Final Touch Productions The premise is very simple for this urban enhancement project: shoot a series of ten minute high-definition videos, featuring landscapes around Far North Queensland. Project them as a loop in windows and shop fronts, or places where casual observers might stop and ponder the images. Local photographer Crystal Bustos has done just that: captured a handful of Far North scenes in high-definition video. As part of our 50th season, we will present these (and other new video works) to encourage a kind of urban meditation during Cairns Festival—and connect us all a little bit more to the extraordinary beauty of the world around us. Look for Ten Minute Landscapes as you roam City Place and the CBD by night—another creative Festival element.

Hayley Gillespie: The Gremlin Storybook Walk Esplanade, between Muddy’s Playground and Lagoon Cairns Festival has commissioned local artist Hayley Gillespie to depict the unique narrative of our Gremlin visitors, from their time at this past Woodford Festival, to the long ocean journey, and ultimate arrival in the Far North time for Cairns Festival. Storybook panels will be installed as child-friendly signs, allowing viewers to walk from Muddy’s Playground to the Gremlin camp near the lagoon — all the while reading the unusual history of our Gremlin guests, and learning about their fascinating culture through Gillespie’s most beautiful depictions.

Steve Keene: 1000 Far North Pictures Tanks Arts Centre, and other locations One of the most prolific painters in America, Steve Keene produces hundreds of pictures each week, using a rapid-fire one-man assembly line that absorbs various elements of his surrounding, media coverage, and elements of beauty — resulting in a body of work that is unique to the place he is in. As Cairns Festival artist-in-residence, Keene will set up a fast and furious studio at Tanks Arts Centre, and begin absorbing and painting his surroundings. Visitors will be able to have a look at his progress, scan hundreds of new Far North Pictures, and walk away with new original works of art, each for a simple gold coin donation.

Energy Exhibition Tanks Arts Centre / 2 to 30 September The Far North Queensland Energy art exhibition—works by student artists—includes diverse and exciting works that reflect a professionalism and maturity well beyond the age of the young people who are represented. The 2011 exhibition features a wide range of the best young and emerging artists in the region, from Tully to Thursday Island. The calibre, creativity and innovation of these emerging visual communicators is evident in over 150 works—encompassing all media. From digital video art, to installation, painting, drawing and photography, there is something for everyone to engage with. Presented in partnership with Education Queensland, Ergon Energy and Cairns Regional Council.

Creative Generation 2 to 30 September / Tanks Arts Centre / Free This touring exhibition showcases the work of 34 talented young artists, recipients of 2010 Creative Generation Excellence Awards in Visual Art and Design.Now in their 21st year, these awards recognise, celebrate and honour student artists from Queensland's schools. Over 491 entries were submitted by senior visual art students from metropolitan, regional and remote communities, across the state in 2010. The talent of 34 senior visual art students is being showcased in the touring exhibition, with Tanks Arts Centre its first stop, following three months at the Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane. Be at Tanks 4 for an opening reception on Friday 2 September from 6:00pm. Enjoy a selection of mixed media works, including paintings, sculptures, works on paper and new media pieces. The Creative Generation Excellence Awards in Visual Art and Design is a Department of Education and Training program, supported by the Queensland Art Gallery and toured by Museum and Gallery Services Queensland.

Melting Pot: 11th Biennial National Ceramic Exhibition Cairns Regional Gallery 29 July to 18 September 10:00am to 5:00pm (Sundays 1:00pm to 5:00pm)/ $5 / Children Free A diverse showcase of ceramic works by local, state and national artists. Some of the objects are functional, others sculptural. The group show reveals a myriad of forms, glazes and firing techniques, presented in partnership with the Cairns Potters Association.

Storyboat Cairns Regional Gallery 29 July to 18 September 10:00am to 5:00pm (Sundays 1:00pm to 5:00pm) /$5 / Children Free Storyboat is an exhibition of recent works by emerging Zenach Kes printmakers of the Torres Strait Islands. Four artists in the next wave of emerging Islander carvers showcase their prints—big in scale and big in ideas—as part of the Cairns Regional Gallery’s Loft Emerging Artists’ Program .

Cairns Indigenous Art Fair Exhibition Cairns Regional Gallery 29 July to 18 September 10:00am to 5:00pm (Sundays 1:00pm to 5:00pm) $5 / Children Free This exhibition represents artists from a diversity of geographies and styles and delivers an in depth look at Indigenous art from across Queensland. The works showcase both the traditional and contemporary trends—and a vibrant diversity of indigenous artists and cultural elements curated by Avril Quaill, Artistic Director, Cairns Indigenous Art Fair.

Strike a Pose with Lee Lin Chin Cairns Regional Gallery 29 July to 18 September 10:00am to 5:00pm (Sundays 1:00pm to 5:00pm) $5 / Children Free This exhibition explores the world of Australian fashion in the 60s and 70s—a time when trendsetters created a fashion revolution with a mix of mini skirts, space-age garments and granny dresses. Fashion icon and broadcaster, Lee Lin Chin serves as guest curator for this touring exhibition from the National Archives of Australia.

Deadly See Scrolls KickArts Galleries / CoCA 19 August to 5 November (Reception August 20 at 1:30pm) / Free Accompanying The Black See, Gordon Hookey presents Deadly See Scrolls—an installation of large scale oil on canvas scrolls, each 5 metres high. They include his trademark figurative characters, iconic symbols, bold comic-like text with spectrum of vibrant colours. As Cairns Festival begins, Gordon will give a floor talk about his work in the gallery at 12.30pm on Friday 19 August.

The Black See KickArts Galleries / CoCA 19 August to 5 November / Free The proppaNOW Collective is Tony Albert, Vernon Ah Kee, Richard Bell, Bianca Beetson, Jennifer Herd, Gordon Hookey and Laurie Nilson. They are provocative, challenging, mischievous Aboriginal agitators, who challenge people through thoughtful confrontation and by offering new perspectives on how we ‘define’ Aboriginal art. The Black See showcases a series of the collective’s recent works with a focus on racism in sport and will feature photography, sculpture, painting, works on paper and collaborative pieces that address the Aboriginal experience of deeply embedded attitudes on race. This exhibition will be opened by a panel discussion with the proppaNOW collective at 3.00pm Saturday 20 August during the Festival’s opening weekend..

Gijalordi KickArts Feature Wall / CoCA 12 August to 22 October (Reception August 20 at 1:30pm) / Free Girringun Aboriginal Art Centre represents Indigenous artists from the North Queensland Aboriginal people of the Nywaigi, Warrgamay, Gugu Badhun, Warungnu, Girramay, Gulnay, Bandjin, Djiru and Jirrbal tribal groups. Working in collaboration with Djumbunji Press KickArts Fine Art Printmaking, Girringun Art Centre Artists have developed a body of screenprints in line with their recent explorations into the local Kingfisher legend, Gijalordi. Join Festival art lovers for the exhibition launch on Saturday 20 August at 1:30pm.

Joel Sam KickArts Galleries / CoCA 12 August to 11 September (Reception August 20 at 1:30pm) / Free Joel Sam's family lives in Bamaga and originates from Saibai Island. His recent linocut works focus on weather patterns, cycles and occurrences, along with other forces of nature—as these are of a high cultural importance both in past and present days. The work on view on the KickArts feature wall during Cairns Festival represents the exiting new direction that Sam’s work is taking.

Arone Meeks: Forces of Nature and Alick Tipoti: Mawa Adhaz Parual—Sorcerer Masks Canopy Artspace, 124 Grafton Street 19 August to 1 October / Free Canopy Artspace is a 1,000sqm arts complex comprising galleries, artists studios and a printmaking studio that specialises in work by indigenous artists from Far North Queensland and the Torres Strait. During Cairns Festival, don’t miss these two exhibitions by two extraordinary artists from our region.

Pathways 2 Exhibition UMI Arts Gallery, 335 Sheridan Street 19 August to 30 September / Free Pathways 2 group exhibition officially opens at the UMI Arts gallery at 11:00am on the opening Friday of the Festival. In 2008 UMI Arts launched a new program of support for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander visual arts members. The “Exhibition Ready Program” provides one-onone support for artists to learn a range of skills for preparing for public exhibition. Each of the artists included in Pathways 2 has participated in UMI Arts Exhibition Ready Program over the past 12 months. Pathways 2 exhibition will showcase works by artist Teho Ropeyarn, Wujal Wujal Art Centre artists, Shane Gibson, Glen Mackie, Tommy Pau and Bernard Singleton Jnr.

One Window, One Door CIAF Ferry Building / 19 to 21 August Henrietta Fourmile honours her father’s legacy as a reformer on Palm Island and a visionary in the Yarrabah community. Henry Fourmile was a Traditional Owner who paved the way for Indigenous advancement in Cairns and this region. This exhibition, hosted by KickArts Contemporary Arts, summarises his extraordinary life —including his contribution to the abolishment of apartheid on Palm Island.

Djumbunji Press on Display CIAF Exhibition / 19 to 21 August With extensive printmaking facilities and experienced staff, Djumbunji Press offers artists across North Queensland the opportunity to develop their skills in printmaking to create new works of art. Since the opening of Djumbunji Press in March 2009, KickArts Contemporary Arts has commissioned and published new fine art prints and have professionally distributed these to commercial galleries, collectors, public institutions and online. A large collection of these works will be on display and available for sale.

Artbabies—Ceramics and Sculpture for Kids KickArts Foyer 24 August / 10:00am to 11:00am / Free Artbabies introduces Far North Queensland’s youngest art lovers to some of the contemporary art and artists featured in the KickArts 2011 exhibition program. Open to participants from 18 months to 4 years, this session is focused on ceramics and scupture. It all begins with a tour of gallery two and the new works from Girringun Art Centre (Cardwell). Based on the images and stories in the exhibition, young participants will get the opportunity to create ceramic sculptures using paper clay.

Thonar Nu – During that Time: Linocuts and Canvas by Billy Missi Cell Art Space, 109 Lake Street 6 August to 3 September / Free Billy Missi’s artwork is an expression of the importance of cultural heritage, survival, kinships and everyday life. He has explored the complexities of the people of the Torres Strait, and how they have survived for many, many generations in their tropical paradise. Billy Missi is perhaps one of the most celebrated artists to come out of this part of the world, and his accolades include the National Fremantle Print Award Acquisitive Prize (2006), and Highly Commended in the National Indigenous Art Awards (2000). His work now sits in the collections of several prestigious international museums such as the Victoria and Albert Museum (U.K.), Cambridge Museum of Anthropology (U.K.) and University of British Colombia (Canada). Thonar Nu - During that Time is supported by the Visual Arts and Craft Strategy, an initiative of the Australian, State and Territory Governments.. An opening reception will be held before Cairns Festival on 17 August from 5.30pm. Meet the artist and enjoy food and drinks at Twelve Bar Café in City Place.

2011 CAIRNS FESTIVAL: Day by Day Our Season Schedule at a Glance Aug 18

Slowdive Attic Cairns Indigenous Art Fair Opening Party

The Attic Cairns Cruise Terminal

Dance Visual Art

Aug 19

Cairns Indigenous Art Fair Symposium Cairns Indigenous Art Fair Two Sides of the Same Story Festival Opening Concert The Panics Live! Australian Chamber Orchestra 2 Slowdive Attic

CoCA Cairns Cruise Terminal Esplanade / Lagoon Fogarty Park Tanks Arts Centre Civic Theatre The Attic

Visual Art Visual Art Theatre Music Music Music Dance

Aug 20

Gordonvale Pyramid Race Cairns Indigenous Art Fair UMI Arts Big Talk One Fire Jeff Lang Live! Arthouse Roadshow: Food & Film Salt House - A Comedy Dinner with Austen Tayshus Slowdive Attic Lush: Late Night Supper Club

Gordonvale Cairns Cruise Terminal Fogarty Park Tanks Arts Centre The Arthouse Salt House The Attic Havana Cafe

Community Visual Art Multi-Arts Music Multi-Arts Comedy / Food Dance Cabaret

Aug 21

Taste of Palm Cove Cairns Indigenous Art Fair One Hundred Thousand YAPS Fair Overflow FNQ Grand Parade & Fireworks Crossroads: When the Wheels Fall off the World The Medics Homecoming Concert

Palm Cove Cairns Cruise Terminal Cannon Park Esplanade Botanic Gardens Fogarty Park

Food Visual Art Community Community Theatre Music

Aug 22

Free Films at Fogarty Dancenorth: Double Bill

Fogarty Park CoCA

Film Dance

Aug 23

Free Films at Fogarty Dancenorth: Double Bill Ten Tenors

Fogarty Park CoCA Civic Theatre

Film Dance Music

Aug 24

Artbabies Free Films at Fogarty Cairns Steel Pan Workshop Arthouse Roadshow: Soundspace Tanks Pecha Kucha Far North Murder Ballads

KickArts Fogarty Park Fogarty Park The Arthouse Tanks Arts Centre CoCA

Visual Art Film Music Multi-Arts Community Music

Aug 25

An Evening with Jim Woodring The Grimstones: Mortimer Revealed

Tanks Arts Centre CoCA

Visual Art Puppetry

Aug 26

Far North Op Shop Tours La Mama Schism / Whales & Souls Richard Clapton Live! Circus Oz: Steampowered Crossroads: When the Wheels Fall off the World The Grimstones: Mortimer Revealed

Bus Tour COCA Space Tanks Arts Centre Civic Theatre Tanks Arts Centre CoCA

Multi-Arts Theatre Music Circus Theatre Puppetry

Aug 27

Far North Op Shop Tours La Mama Schism / Whales & Souls Circus Oz: Steampowered Far North Op Shop Tours Cairns Acoustic Cruise Festival Island Party Far North Organic Experience Arthouse Roadshow: Folk & Roots Collective The Grimstones: Mortimer Revealed Lush: Late Night Supper Club

Bus Tour COCA Space Civic Theatre Bus Tour Ocean Spirit Fitzroy Island Bus Tour The Arthouse CoCA Havana Café

Multi-Arts Theatre Circus Multi-Arts Music Community Community Multi-Arts Puppetry Cabaret

Aug 28

La Mama Schism / Whales & Souls Tropical Pride Festival The Grimstones: Mortimer Revealed Circus Oz: Steampowered Fitzroy Island Day in Paradise Cairns Big Band Extravaganza

COCA Space Tanks Arts Centre CoCA Civic Theatre Fitzroy Island Fogarty Park

Theatre Community Puppetry Circus Community Music

Aug 29

Crossroads: When the Wheels Fall off the World Circus Oz: Steampowered QLD Poetry Slam 2011 Raku Firing Experience Free Films at Fogarty

CoCA Civic Theatre Tanks Arts Centre Potters Clubhouse Fogarty Park

Theatre Circus Literary Visual Art Film

Aug 30

Ensembles, Arias and Pipe Organ Free Films at Fogarty Circus Oz: Steampowered

Cairns Presbyterian Fogarty Park Civic Theatre

Music Film Circus

Aug 31

Free Films at Fogarty

Fogarty Park

Film

Sept 1

Dean Stevenson: Arco Set Tripod John Waters Looking through the Glass Onion Big Band Spectacular

CoCA Tanks Arts Centre Civic Theatre Brothers Leagues Club

Music Music Music Music

Sept 2

Icons of the Far North Concert Fleur Elise Noble: 2 Dimensional Life of Her Crime USA Renee Geyer & Septet Ash Grunwald

Fogarty Park COCA Space CoCA Tanks Arts Centre A. J. Hackett

Music Theatre Theatre Music Music

Sept 3

Cairns Amateurs Writers on the Waterfront Cairns Regional Gallery Family Fun Day Public Opinion Afro Orchestra Fleur Elise Noble: The 2 Dimensional Life of Her Crime USA Jazz Under the Stars Arthouse Roadshow: MIxed Grill’d Lush: Late Night Supper Club

Cannon Park Donnini’s Regional Gallery Fogarty Park COCA Space CoCA Botanic Gardens The Arthouse Havana Cafe

Community Literary Community Music Theatre Theatre Music Multi-Arts Cabaret

Sept 4

Carnival on Collins Fleur Elise Noble: The 2 Dimensional Life of Her Paradise Concerts: The Four Seasons Kasey Chambers & Shane Nicholson Tijuana Cartel Fireworks Finale

Collins Avenue COCA Space CoCA Civic Theatre Fogarty Park Esplanade

Community Theatre Music Music Music Community

2011 CAIRNS FESTIVAL EVENTS Exhibitions and Special Projects Cairns Birding Tours (Un)seen Sculptures Festival Food Tent Muddy’s Art Village Cairns Historical Society Nostalgiafone Far North Art-o-mat Machine Ten Minute Lanscapes Man vs Fascinator Far North Gremlin Camp Earthed: Tanks Festival Club Steve Keene 1000 Far North Pictures Posters to the People Opening Notes Project Storyboat Strike a Pose with Lee Chin Chin The Black See Deadly See Scrolls Gijalordi Joel Sam Exhibition Arone Meeks & Alick Tipoti Pathways Exhibition Energy Exhibition Thonar Nu — During that Time: Billy Missi Soul Song Jubilee Choir

RSL / Esplanade Various Fogarty Park Muddy’s Playground City Place KickArts City Place Circa 1907 Esplanade Tanks Arts Centre Tanks Arts Centre Festival HQ at Birth Cairns Regional Gallery Cairns Regional Gallery KickArts KickArts KickArts KickArts Canopy Artspace UMI Arts Tanks Arts Centre Cell Art Space Spontaneous

2011 Cairns Festival Sponsors and Partners Supporting our 50th Season under a Tropical Sun Golden Anniversary Partners: James Cook University Overflow FNQ BDO

Major Sponsors: Michael Aw The Good Guys TicketLink Cairns Penny Savings and Loans McDonald’s Family Restaurants Fosters Group Tourism Tropical North Queensland Cairns Airport Rydges Hotels Sebel Cairns Paronella Park Go Transit Gilligan’s Backpacker Resort The Attic Salt House Restaurant Cairns Courthouse Hotel Cairns Hardware The Pier 2011 Season Supporters: 12 Bar Café, Havana Café, Sunlover, Ocean Spirit, Tjapukai Aboriginal Cultural Park, Green Island, All Day Car Rentals, Wink II Restaurant, Grill’d, The Coffee Club, Mama Coco, EntertainmentCairns.com, Pip Miller PR, Still-Life Creative, Lovegreen Photography, Sauce Events, Events Assist, Final Touch Productions, A Bright Nite Fireworks

2011 Media Partners: The Cairns Post, PAK Mag, TimeOUT, Cairns Life Magazine, Channel 7, WIN, Southern Cross Media, SeaFM, Hot FM, Backpacker Xpress, 4CA, Zinc FM, ABC Far North, CairnsBlog

Special Thanks to: Cairns Centre of Contemporary Arts, Arts Queensland, Cairns Regional Council Cultural Services Branch and Creative Partnerships Team, KickArts Contemporary Arts, Inner City Facilities / Esplanade Team, Cairns Civic Theatre, UMI Arts, Tanks Arts Centre, Cairns Indigenous Art Fair, Tropical Arts, Arthouse, Final Touch Productions, Paradise Concerts, and all the creative forces that have come together in Far North Queensland!

2011 Cairns Festival Staff and Team The People Working to Make the Season Happen Festival Administrator: External Relations Coordinator: Sponsorship Coordinator: Festival Publicist / PR: Festival Photographer: Music Program Coordinator: Desig/Branding Coordinator: Parade Coordinator: Grants Coordinator: Technical Production Coordinator: Theatre Projects Assistant: Muddy’s Art Village Coordinator: Gremlin Project Coordinator: Media Agency: Festival Producer:

Nina Bryony Adwick Claire Waddell Jacqui Nolan Pip Miller Colyn Huber, Lovegreen Photography Roz Pappalardo Ray Clark, Still Life Creative Heather Rutter Melissa “Mema” Edwards Will Coe, Final Touch Productions Velvet Eldred Ruby Boussard Sarah Boulle MediaPower Eric Holowacz

Cairns Festival is a unit of the Cairns Regional Council’s Cultural Services and Facilities Branch General Manager Branch Manager Administrator Business Advisory Officer Property & Grant Coordinator Community Partnership Team Inner City Facilities Manager Tanks Arts Centre Manager Botanic Gardens Curator

Ian Lowth Leslie Sparkes Cheryl King Natalie Wyer Karen Ward Terri Golding-Clarke Malcolm Robertson Stephen Foster David Warmington

Cairns Festival Headquarters is located in the ground floor of the Old School of the Arts Building in City Place, opposite the band stage 105 Lake Street Cairns, QLD 4870 07 4044 3594 www.cairnsfest.com.au info@cairnsfest.com.au