A special milestone is in order of a celebration – the Caloundra Community Kindergarten is turning 60! Six decades of nurturing young minds, fostering creativity, and building a strong sense of community.
A fun, family-friendly event with oldschool charm is coming back - Caloundra hosts it's Biggest Street Stall event
The Solbar Lounge plays host to tunes and chats throughout the 10 days of the festival.
Cheers to the return of Horizon! Join us for a drink to celebrate at QTouring’s Gather Round — a hyper-local networking night for the arts.
Presented by QTouring, Queensland’s statewide touring service, Gather Round is a casual evening of networking for artists, producers, and presenters from the Sunshine Coast and surrounds.
Hold Me Closer Tony Danza is bold, brash, and non-conforming dance-theatre work that – just like a pop song that you can’t get out of your head – is also deeply seductive.
The Daily Muse is a daily public art project, within the Festival Precinct, where each piece (an unavoidable good news mural) is created in response to current events in mainstream media’s daily news.
The project will be led by public artist Alison Mooney and a changing roster of special guests (or broadcasters) from different creative disciplines – including Sunshine Brass; Sydney-based artist, Filthy Ratbag; Dr. Kellie O’Dempsey; Aaron Craig; Funny Coast Comedy; Ruby Donohoe and more.
Developed in collaboration with local AI experts at Soulbotix, this new interactive tabletop theatre work by Counterpilot blends cunning algorithms and virtual beings, to put its audience to the test.
Step into the neon-lit dreamscape of Tokyo Rain, a bold reimagining and deconstruction of Mary Eggleston & Nycole Prowse’s narrative screenplay.
For Horizon 2025, writer and performance artist Mary Eggleston joins forces with multimedia artist Möbius to dismantle and rebuild the story anew – melding past, present, and future in a multi-sensory journey.
Within Horizon's Urban Gallery, Vernon Ah Kee presents his new work, building upon and extending his long-term project - Dark & Disturbing.
Dark & Disturbing is a curatorial and creative project that explores Aboriginal sensibilities around knowledge, identity, and protest. Dark & Disturbing interrogates power structures and provides a platform for Aboriginal voice.
Light Line is two new First Nations music works, which embed sound at two specific locations, one on Kabi Kabi and one on Jinibara Country — capturing the majic in the changing light of dusk and dawn.
Featuring Kabi Kabi and Jinibara languages, the works celebrate the significance of the horizon: the meeting point of the water with sky and the majestic canopy lines.
Within Horizon's Urban Gallery, Shadowgram invites audiences to contribute to a wall of ideas expressed through shadows and words.
Shadowgram is a community-focused project inspired by 19th-century photogenic drawings, bringing this unique image-making process to the digital age. Audiences generate their own shadowgram portraits and display them with an associated statement, contributing thoughts and ideas to the ever-growing collective of voices.
Within Horizon's Urban Gallery, Stasis combines generative art and data visualisation as a medium for expressing complex human stories, fostering connection, and building understanding and compassion across communities.
ShayeKet invite you to step into the Confashional – where fashion waste meets faith, and redemption is just a confession away.
Confashional is a visual and interactive experience where salvation from fashion guilt is served in sacred, ritualistic doses. This immersive installation is part performance, part sacred space, dedicated to confronting the fashion waste crisis on the Sunshine Coast.
Kids Promotions and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, are excited to present the national tour of Play School's beloved show, ‘Once Upon a Time. Join Jemima, Big Ted, Little Ted, and Humpty for a fun-filled 45-minute adventure with stories, songs, and dance.
Bernard Fanning and Paul Dempsey are two of the most revered and successful Australian artists of the last 30 years.
The esteemed pair launched new project Fanning Dempsey National Park releasing their highly acclaimed debut album ‘The Deluge’
Doors - 7.30pm
Support Act - 8.00pm
FDNP - 8.50pm
Us And All Of This is a mesmerising public space performance that invites up to 100 community members to move together in an act of radical slowness, offering a rare moment of calm reflection.
Created by Liesel Zink, with sound artist Lawrence English, the performance momentarily unfolds across urban public spaces – exploring assembly and collectively as an antidote to a capitalistic era of over-productivity, disembodiment, and dislocation.
Join us for the Queensland Premiere of Phantom Femme Fatale – a haunting performance-art-dance piece built around a hard-edged, and vampiric subversive, character who transgresses female subjugation with assassin-like stoicism.
Choreographed and performed by Jenni Large, and defiantly exploiting physical prowess, this show pays homage to stigmatised displays of femininity – remixing movement, costume and sound in a confronting exposé of sex, horror and stigma.
BERSERK is a movement-based performance inviting audiences to witness human bodies being pushed to the edge of transformation, shapeshifting and traversing surreal terrains, and embodying the primal and the absurd.
Choreographed by Jag Popham, and brought to life by a dynamic ensemble, BERSERK delves deep into the mysterious forces that shape our shared mythology and somatic landscapes. With visceral movement, a pulsing soundscape, and ritualistic intensity, this is a celebration of the primordial forces that shape and consume us.
For the very first time in South-East Queensland: Patricia Piccinini’s Skywhales Across Australia will be presented at Horizon 25.
Skywhales Across Australia will see Patricia Piccinini’s beloved Skywhale 2013 and Skywhalepapa 2019–2020 take their family on another tour of Australia.
For the very first time in South-East Queensland: Patricia Piccinini’s Skywhales Across Australia will be presented at Horizon 25.
Skywhales Across Australia will see Patricia Piccinini’s beloved Skywhale 2013 and Skywhalepapa 2019–2020 take their family on another tour of Australia.