GOLD COAST EVENTS
Events may be subject to change. Please check with the event organisers before booking.
BROADBEACH ART & CRAFT MARKETS
1st & 3rd Sunday of every month
The Art & Craft Markets are open every 1st and 3rd Sunday of every month, between 8 am - 2 pm, weather permitting.
GOLD COAST SWIM WEEK
14 – 21 April 2024
It’s official, the Gold Coast is now home to Australia’s largest swimming festival! Gold Coast Swim Week is a week-long celebration of swimming with ocean swims and leading coaches and special guests hosting clinics and training sessions along Gold Coast beaches and pools.
Gold Coast Film Festival
17 – 28 April 2024
The Gold Coast Film Festival brings films to life across the Gold Coast with more than 100 films, panels, parties and pop-up events in unique venues and locations.
Blues on Broadbeach
16 – 19 May 2024
The Blues on Broadbeach festival highlights the best parts of the Sunshine State, with 20 performance areas both on the stunning beachfront and throughout the vibrant streets of Broadbeach, amazing food at local bars and restaurants, and activities for all ages throughout the festival precinct.
SEAFIRE
01 June 2024
The iconic SeaFire is returning with a BANG! The City’s very own international fireworks competition, complete with an acrobatic comedic street show, local DJs, traditional Brazilian drummers, Capoeira displays and Samba dancers!
SeaFire is a FREE family-friendly event that kicks off at 6pm.
Memory Walk & Jog
02 June 2024
The foreshore at Broadbeach’s Pratten Park is the perfect place to get together to enjoy some truly beautiful open spaces for a walk, jog or run to beat dementia! Choose to register as an individual or a group and whether you’d like to walk, jog, or run the 2.5km, 4.5km or timed 9.5km course.
GOLD COAST MARATHON
6 – 7 July 2024
Run alongside the city’s renowned surf beaches south to the Burleigh Heads turn point and then head north along to Paradise Point before being championed to the grandstand finish chute located adjacent to the Broadwater in Southport.
Further 2024 event information will be available closer to the event.
Pacific Airshow
16 – 18 August 2024
The Pacific Airshow is taking to the skies over the Gold Coast for the first time in history! This is the BIG event you absolutely do not want to miss! Originating in Huntington Beach, California (USA), Pacific Airshow first transpired in 2016 and it’s now coming to Australia.
Groundwater Country Music Festival
18 – 20 October 2024
Groundwater Country Music Festival (CMF) gathers some of the best country artists in the industry for three days of FREE live music on the Gold Coast. After a massive 10 year celebration in 2023 that featured close to 60 homegrown and international artist, 1300 songs and 135 live shows, it was three incredible days of jam-packed country music that will forever be in the history books!.
BOOST MOBILE GOLD COAST 500
25 – 27 October 2024
The Gold Coast 500 is one of the premier motorsport racing events in Australia and the Gold Coast welcomes visitors back each year for this thrilling event. Aside from the thundering V8 race cars roaring around the track, there is also plenty of live entertainment, concerts and great activities for kids.