Cairns Vibrance

Play, learn, explore, create, perform and be inspired. COURT HOUSE GALLERY SATURDAY 20 MAY Join us on a wild adventure saving the future one story at a time! Plus an art exhibition made for, with, and BY kids! SEE PAGE 10 CAIRNS PERFORMING ARTS CENTRE SATURDAY 20 MAY Magical light and laser painting, make your own real-life radio station, and ROFL at the very best of kid-ult comedy! SEE PAGE 8 TANKS ARTS CENTRE SUNDAY 21 MAY The kids are rockin’ the Tanks! Human-sized bees are buzzing, cheeky cockatoos are on a mission, and Creation Stations are back! SEE PAGE 12 REGISTER FOR 5 MINUTES OF FAME STAGE You can register online at http://cairns.qld.gov.au/childrens-festival…

SATURDAY 20 MAY CPAC THEATRE 10.00AM & 1.30PM DURATION: 60 minutes AGES: 5+ years Hilarious, ridiculous fun for your kids that will have the whole family in stitches! Back by POOPular demand! Join Rich and Matt for a comedy extravaganza jam packed with magically stupid stuff. ROFL sees The Listies tackle the most terrifyingly tortuous family situation of all: BEDTIME. Rich, the exhausted parental proxy, is trying to get an early night while his hapless, hopeless housemate, Matt, deploys every trick in the book to stay up late. Featuring toilet paper cannons, a real life Cowasaurus, lullabies of doom, detachable legs, a panoply of puns, and possibly too many Aldi gags. This show will have you Rolling On The Floor Laughing! TICKETS: $22.50 FAMILY: $76 (2AD + 2CH) AGES: 4+ Warning: Some sudden loud noises cairns.qld.gov.au/childrens-festival @CairnsCreativeLife TIN CAN RADIO CPAC FOYER 10.00AM - 2.00PM FREE Tin Can Radio is an…

SATURDAY 20 MAY Bees BY POLYGLOT THEATRE Bees is a joyful, interactive work in which children are welcomed into a world of community, communication, wonder, and imagination. Explore a buzzing, humming hive of activity, as three human-sized Bees busy themselves alongside children who transform into bees as they play. SESSION TIMES: 10.00am, 11.30am, 1.30pm & 3.00pm DURATION: 30 mins AGES: 4-11 years FREE cairns.qld.gov.au/childrens-festival @CairnsCreativeLife COURT ROOM 10.30am, 12.00pm, 1.30pm & 3.00pm DURATION: 40 minutes AGES: 6+ Saving the future, one story at a time! We are living in a digital world, could books really become extinct? What would that look like? The Last Collection is a funny, intimate, interactive performance for young people aged 6-14 years that explores themes of the fast-paced digital world, sacred storytelling and future thinking. TICKETS $10 Pop-up Library Cairns Libraries and First 5 Forever are excited to be popping up from 10th…

SUNDAY 21 MAY AT TANKS ARTS CENTRE 9.00AM - 3.00PM FREE BIRMBA Join a tight-knit trio of loud, yellow-crested cockatoos (Birmba) as they encounter a once-in-a-century event which will have them digging deep to find their voices. Birmba is an interactive, super fun yet sensitive play, that explores the lives of the feathered, rainforest Jawun (friends) - Kukubaka (Talk Too Much), Jankaji (Wealth of Knowledge), and Junkurrji (Strong One). This First Nations story, developed in the Kuku Yalanji region tells the story of friendship, grief, strength and weakness between the three, who share their personal journeys through song, dance and yarns, each trying to communicate to their fellow Rainforest Jawun along the way. TANK 3 SESSION TIMES: 10.00am, 12.00pm & 2.00pm DURATION: 45 minutes AGES: 3+ years TINKERING TANK - TANK 4 With a dot over here and a dot over there, and…

LAUNCH PAD Ever dreamt of being on stage, but need a little extra courage? Whether you’re a musician, comedian, dancer, performer, slam poet, or anything to do with the arts, we’d love to hear from you! Launchpad is the brainchild of the Cairns Performing Arts Centre (CPAC) Technical Team who simply love making emerging performers’ dreams come true by mentoring their onstage experience. At Launchpad, the CPAC Studio becomes an incubator for fresh, new creative talent in the Cairns region. It’s a space where emerging artists can present their work in a 15 minute slot on a professional stage with full technical support, in a world class venue. These events are FREE, so bring all your friends and family, come along to support other artists, and grow your creative networks. UPCOMING LAUNCHPAD EVENTS Sunday April 23…

DISCOVER PUBLIC ART ON THE CAIRNS ARTS AND CULTURE MAP The Cairns Arts and Culture Map highlights Cairns as a buzzing arts region with over 1000 listings. The map allows anyone to add their listing for free – from musicians and painters to live music venues, cultural organisations and everything in between. Find information on what’s in the region by narrowing down to categories such as Public Art – you may drive by a mural everyday and wonder what its significance is; perhaps you drink your coffee on a beautifully mosaiced bench; or maybe you’ve always wondered who designed the famous Woven Fish at the Cairns Esplanade Lagoon. Finding information is as simple as locating it on the map, or using categories and keywords to narrow down your search – you never know,…