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a tall wooden carving of a simian creature. Offering by Bernard Singleton. CIAF Art Awards 2025
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Winners of CIAF Art Awards announced

In its ninth year, the CIAF Art Awards 2025 responded to the festival's theme 'Pay Attention!'

Pacific Island artist conducting a workshop with group. Watercolour Muster
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'Families Collecting Giddie Beads' by Fiona Omeenyo from Australian Gallery, Gimuy/Cairns. CIAF 2025
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CIAF 2025 returns to the Tanks Arts Centre this week

Now in its mid teens, CIAF 2025 is well-established as a celebration of community, culture and creativity.

Members of the community choir rehearse for 'The Palace'. an artistic commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the Childers, Qld Backpackers' fire of 2000. Pictured are a group of 13 people, ranging in age from seniors to people in their 30s, rehearsing a song in a country hall meeting room.
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New song cycle commemorates 25th anniversary of the Childers Backpackers Hostel fire

‘The Palace’, a collaboration between the community of Childers, Queensland music ensemble Topology and writer/director Rod Ainsworth, has its world…

A musical recital in Townsville's Queen's Garden at the Australian Festival of Chamber Music 2024. The photo shows seven musicians playing a range of instruments including string and brass, on a low outdoor stage. under trees in front of a seated audience.
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Australian Festival of Chamber Music moving to Cairns in 2026

After 35 years, the AFCM is moving 347 kilometres north to Cairns, but not before its final edition in Townsville…

Four school girls dressed in uniform with white blouses and light green skirts.
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Theatre review: The Assignment, Clubhouse Theatre, Townsville

A coming-of-age comedy drama set in the 80s.

A dancer with their back bent and arms slightly outstretched, looking towards the right hand side. They are framed behind a curtain on stage with a dome-like opening.
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Dance review: Tomorrow Makers 7, Dancenorth Australia

A varied yet captivating collection of six dance works.

Two photos of the Visiting Creatives artists collaged together side by side. On the left is Jeff Koons, a white middle-aged man wearing a blue long sleeve collared shirt. On the right is Jeffery Gibson, a middle-aged Native American man with a gray beard, gray hat, blue shirt, standing in front of a work with a diamond shape in psychedelic colours of blue, orange and red.
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Visiting Creatives Program brings Jeff Koons and Jeffrey Gibson to town

The US artists will be in Canberra this year to present public talks and help bring recognition to Australian art.

A paper cut artwork of a red chrysanthemum inside a white cage.
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Hand-cut papers map out intricate Japanese-Australian histories in Townsville

Artist Elysha Rei hopes to create an emotional reaction to a lesser known history of Japanese migrant workers.

A painting of little figures camping by the beach in a naive style.
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