The Gold Coast’s annual celebration of photograpic arts returns May 1-15 with two weeks of ocean inspired pop up film nights, photo exhibitions, live music, projection art, workshops and photo meets.
For 2026, the festival’s fifth annual innings, expect a sprawling multi-site program: deep-dive photography labs, ocean-immersed screenings, artist exhibitions mapped to tide charts and enhanced by AR elements, and surprise crossovers between filmmakers, surf creatives, visual artists and music makers. Designed for locals, visitors, surf-tragics, culture-seekers and anyone who revels around the edge of the waterline, Flotsam will again transform the coastline from Coolangatta to Burleigh into a living gallery stretched across sand, streets, screens and salt.
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