Expression of Interest - Artists & Creative Practitioners

Cairns Festival 2024 will run from Friday 23 August - Sunday 1 September.

Annually the Cairns Festival seeks to deliver a vibrant, progressive and collaborative arts and cultural festival featuring local and national talent and ideas. In particular, the Cairns Festival program has a focus on presenting local, original content that provides new experiences for our audience. This is a curated event with stages on the Esplanade, Court House, Munro Martin Parklands, Tanks Arts Centre and Carnival on Collins.

The Brief

Our community has an insatiable appetite for creative excellence, and we want to enhance the festival menu with work from a diverse range of artists and creative practitioners that are thirsty to offer something fresh, bold, original, or transformative. Through arts and culture, we want to showcase and celebrate unique stories that are wrapped in authenticity and reflective of our people, lifestyle and environment. We want to put front and centre artists with amazing skills in music, dance, visual arts, comedy, circus, cabaret, theatre, puppetry, projection, film, literature, workshops, roving, …everything!

Key Dates

Applications open now
Applications close Sunday 19 May 2024 (11:59pm)
Successful applicants start being notified week commencing Monday 10 June 2024
Unuccessful applicants start being notified week commencing Monday 24 June 2024
Cairns Festival 2024 will run from Friday 23 August - Sunday 1 September

Please note minimum requirements for successful applicants are:

A current certificate of currency for Public Liability Insurance (PLI) up to $20 million
Marketing Assets of one (1) high resolution hero image (1MB or larger) and 100-word (max) bio
Technical Specifications document (tech specs)

If you are able to offer something fresh, new and original to our festival program please submit an application below.

Your Application

Your following application should provide as much information and detail as possible! We want to see examples of your work, this might include concept or design drawings, links to social media, website, marketing, technical specifications or riders, budgets, information about location, target audience, relevance, resources etc. – we want to see YOU and the clear vision of you are offering for the Cairns Festival program!

Artist or Performer Name

Artist, Performer or Show name (hereby known as the ‘Act’) *As would appear in all published material

Contact Details

Name *Primary contact person

Name of agency, group or organisation If applicable

Your role *

Email address *Our preferred method of communication

Phone number *Mobile number preferred

Address

About the Act

What style *

Please describe *

How many people in the Act? *

Where is the Act from? *

Describe the Act *Max 150 words

What does the Act want to achieve by being part of Cairns Festival? *Max 100 words

Support Material

The following support material fields are not mandatory, but it is advantageous for your application to supply material that is applicable to the Act.

Web Links

Website

YouTube

Instagram

Facebook

Technical Specifications

Tech specs

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Concept design

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Stage plot

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Presenter pack

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Other technical specifications

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Other technical specifications 2

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Other technical specifications 3

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Marketing and Promotion

As would appear in all published material.

Hero image (1MB or larger)

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Synopsis or Bio

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Marketing kit

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Other marketing material

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Other marketing material 2

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Other marketing material 3

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General Other

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General Other 2

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General Other 3

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Availability

Cairns Festival is a ten-day event that will run from Friday 23 August to Sunday 1 September in 2024.

Fee

What is the Act's proposed fee? *

Do you want to provide comment about this fee?

Note: In general travel and accommodation must be arranged, booked and paid for by you, in some rare instances Cairns festival will be open to negotiate these items.

Insurance

To participate in Cairns Festival a certificate of currency for Public Liability Insurance (PLI) to a minimum amount of $20 million is mandatory.

Indicate your PLI status *

I/we have a current PLI and if successful will provide at time of contracting I/we do not have a current PLI but if successful I understand it is my responsibility to provide this at time of contracting

Geronimo!

Thank you for taking the time (and the leap) to submit an application for programming consideration at Cairns Festival 2024.

The program and planning of a ten-day festival is a rather big project with a million moving parts. We ask that you please be patient and limit enquiries about the status of your application. Rest assured the festival team are on it and will contact you in due course.

If you have enquiries, please contact us on 07 4044 3594 or festival@cairns.qld.gov.au

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