Upcoming events at HOTA, Home of the Arts

• Senior Moments

  HOTA, Home of the Arts, Surfers Paradise, Queensland

  Wed 27 Feb 1:00pm – more dates / Comedy

• Opening Day – Starstruck: Australian Movie Portraits

  HOTA, Home of the Arts, Surfers Paradise, Queensland

  Sat 2 Mar 10:00am / Photography

• Starstruck: Australian Movie Portraits

  HOTA, Home of the Arts, Surfers Paradise, Queensland

  Sat 2 Mar 10:00am – more dates / Photography

• Ocean Film Festival World Tour 2019

  HOTA, Home of the Arts, Surfers Paradise, Queensland

  Tue 5 Mar 7:00pm – more dates / Film

• A Night On Bourbon Street – New Orleans Mardi Gras

  HOTA, Home of the Arts, Surfers Paradise, Queensland

  Wed 6 Mar 7:00pm / Jazz

• The Gruffalo

  HOTA, Home of the Arts, Surfers Paradise, Queensland

  Fri 8 Mar 1:00pm – more dates / Theatre

• ArtLab: Stencil Stars with CRT

  HOTA, Home of the Arts, Surfers Paradise, Queensland

  Sat 9 Mar 10:00am – more dates / Children, Kids, Holidays

• Shen Yun 2019

  HOTA, Home of the Arts, Surfers Paradise, Queensland

  Tue 12 Mar 2:00pm – more dates / Dance

• Sons of Matthew – 70th Anniversary Screening and Q&A

  HOTA, Home of the Arts, Surfers Paradise, Queensland

  Wed 13 Mar 6:30pm / Film

• Little ArtLab: Paper Costumes

  HOTA, Home of the Arts, Surfers Paradise, Queensland

  Wed 13 Mar 10:00pm / Creative

• Life Drawing at HOTA

  HOTA, Home of the Arts, Surfers Paradise, Queensland

  Thu 14 Mar 6:30pm – more dates / Creative

• The Sapphires

  HOTA, Home of the Arts, Surfers Paradise, Queensland

  Fri 15 Mar 7:30pm – more dates / Musicals

• Editor's Pick

  Daniel Sloss – X – GC Laughs Festival

  HOTA, Home of the Arts, Surfers Paradise, Queensland

  Wed 20 Mar 7:00pm / Comedy

  Internationally acclaimed, award-winning Scottish stand-up star, Daniel Sloss returns to Australia with his new show, X. Brilliantly dark… Read More

• Editor's Pick

  Damien Power – Man Puts His Dreams In a Sock – GC Laughs

  HOTA, Home of the Arts, Surfers Paradise, Queensland

  Thu 21 Mar 7:00pm / Comedy

  Achieve your dreams. Reach your full potential. Be the best that you can be. God is dead but not to worry—there is a new religion of… Read More

• Editor's Pick

  Fern Brady – Power and Chaos – GC Laughs Festival

  HOTA, Home of the Arts, Surfers Paradise, Queensland

  Thu 21 Mar 8:30pm / Comedy

  With her dry wit and caustic charm, Fern has built her name on incisive commentary and close-to-the-bone comedy. Fern is bold, brash and… Read More

• Editor's Pick

  Frenchy – Guttermind – GC Laughs Festival

  HOTA, Home of the Arts, Surfers Paradise, Queensland

  Fri 22 Mar 8:30pm / Comedy

  Frenchy is back with his brand new and most outrageous show yet, Politically Uncorrekt. This unforgettable night is full of wild banter… Read More

• Editor's Pick

  Shit-Faced Shakespeare – A Midsummer Night’s Dream

  HOTA, Home of the Arts, Surfers Paradise, Queensland

  Fri 22 Mar 9:45pm – more dates / Comedy

  "No-holds-barred ecstasy." - BroadwayBaby "A hilarious, laugh-a-minute riot." - The Clothesline Sold Out,… Read More

• Editor's Pick

  Dusty Rich – The Lying King – GC Laughs Festival

  HOTA, Home of the Arts, Surfers Paradise, Queensland

  Fri 22 Mar 7:00pm / Comedy

  Did you know that Giraffes necks are so long because they have incredibly severe flatulence. Natural evolution has helped with this problem… Read More

• Editor's Pick

  Joel Creasey – Drink. Slay. Repeat. – GC Laughs Festival

  HOTA, Home of the Arts, Surfers Paradise, Queensland

  Fri 22 Mar 7:00pm / Comedy

  Joel Creasey has had quite the year. You may have seen him hosting Eurovision and Mardi Gras on SBS, or Take Me Out on Channel 7, his… Read More

• Editor's Pick

  Phil Wang – Gold Wang – GC Laughs Festival

  HOTA, Home of the Arts, Surfers Paradise, Queensland

  Fri 22 Mar 8:30pm / Comedy

  Phil Wang is a British-Malaysian stand-up comedian making his Gold Coast debut with a show about morality and what the hell it means to be… Read More

• Editor's Pick

  Arj Barker – The Classics – GC Laughs Festival

  HOTA, Home of the Arts, Surfers Paradise, Queensland

  Sat 23 Mar 7:30pm / Comedy

  Join Arj as he serves up a selection of his all-time greatest hits. Returning to our shores to prove once again why he is 'the American… Read More

• Editor's Pick

  Nazeem Hussain – Basic Idiot – GC Laughs Festival

  HOTA, Home of the Arts, Surfers Paradise, Queensland

  Sat 23 Mar 8:30pm / Comedy

  It’s been a massive year for Nazeem. He became a Dad, his sketch show Orange Is The New Brown began airing on Ch 7, he recorded his… Read More

• Editor's Pick

  Paul Foot – Image Conscious – GC Laughs Festival

  HOTA, Home of the Arts, Surfers Paradise, Queensland

  Sat 23 Mar 5:00pm / Comedy

  Greetings! It's my brand-new show, baybayyy! Ever considered the unique predicament of the soft-shell crab? I have. What about the… Read More

• Editor's Pick

  Becky Lucas – Um, Support Me?! – GC Laughs Festival

  HOTA, Home of the Arts, Surfers Paradise, Queensland

  Sat 23 Mar 7:30pm / Comedy

  Hello, I’m becky, and I’m a 29-year old woman which means I’m passionate about two things: getting every surface of the… Read More

• Editor's Pick

  Stephen K Amos – The Story So Far – GC Laughs Festival

  HOTA, Home of the Arts, Surfers Paradise, Queensland

  Sun 24 Mar 6:00pm / Comedy

  Comedy superstar Stephen K Amos returns to Australia with a show looking back on his last 10 years. An evening of brilliant favourites,… Read More

• Editor's Pick

  Helen Bidou: Enter the Spinnaker Lounge – GC Laughs Festival

  HOTA, Home of the Arts, Surfers Paradise, Queensland

  Sun 24 Mar 6:00pm / Comedy

  Helen Bidou was the show that Melbourne audiences were clambering over one another to get to during last year’s Comedy… Read More

• Editor's Pick

  Mel Buttle – Welcome Aboard – GC Laughs Festival

  HOTA, Home of the Arts, Surfers Paradise, Queensland

  Sun 24 Mar 6:00pm / Comedy

  As my personal hero and décolletage mentor Deborah Hutton used to say, Hi I’m Mel Buttle and it’s my pleasure to welcome… Read More

• Editor's Pick

  Akmal – Open for Renovations – GC Laughs Festival

  HOTA, Home of the Arts, Surfers Paradise, Queensland

  Sun 24 Mar 7:30pm / Comedy

  Have you always wanted a perfect body, with rock hard abbs and buns of steel without ever getting out of bed? Imagine having enough… Read More

• Editor's Pick

  Catherine Alcorn Is the Divine Miss Bette – GC Laughs

  HOTA, Home of the Arts, Surfers Paradise, Queensland

  Sun 24 Mar 7:30pm / Comedy

  In a very special and intimate appearance, prepare to be mesmerised by award-winning stage sensation Catherine Alcorn and her hilarious… Read More

• Editor's Pick

  Ross Noble – Humournoid – GC Laughs Festival

  HOTA, Home of the Arts, Surfers Paradise, Queensland

  Sun 24 Mar 7:30pm / Comedy

  What happens when pure comedy takes human form. What happens when a creature is created and bred to do stand up. Nobody knows because that… Read More

• Editor's Pick

  Fiona O'Loughlin – A Few of My Favourite Things – GC Laughs

  HOTA, Home of the Arts, Surfers Paradise, Queensland

  Sun 24 Mar 7:45pm / Comedy

  Fiona is Australia’s true Queen of Comedy and is bringing her best to Gold Coast Laughs Festival. A Few of My Favourite Things… Read More

• Editor's Pick

  Rhys Nicholson – Nice People, Nice Things, Nice Situations

  HOTA, Home of the Arts, Surfers Paradise, Queensland

  Sun 24 Mar 8:45pm / Comedy

  Hello there. It’s me, Rhys, from comedy. Would you like to come to my comedy concert? Why not, you know? It will be nice. Please… Read More

• Junk

  HOTA, Home of the Arts, Surfers Paradise, Queensland

  Fri 29 Mar 10:30am – more dates / Circus

• A Tribute To Aretha Franklin – Respect, A Natural Woman

  HOTA, Home of the Arts, Surfers Paradise, Queensland

  Wed 3 Apr 7:30pm / Jazz

• Respect, A Natural Woman – A Tribute to Aretha Franklin

  HOTA, Home of the Arts, Surfers Paradise, Queensland

  Wed 3 Apr 7:30pm / Jazz

• Gold Coast Film Festival

  HOTA, Home of the Arts, Surfers Paradise, Queensland

  Wed 3 Apr 8:00am – more dates / Film

• ArtLab: Red Dog | Making Workshop

  HOTA, Home of the Arts, Surfers Paradise, Queensland

  Sun 7 Apr 10:00am / Family & Lifestyle

• Little ArtLab: Star Portraits

  HOTA, Home of the Arts, Surfers Paradise, Queensland

  Wed 10 Apr 10:00am / Creative

• Editor's Pick

  Christian Hull – Complete Drivel Live

  HOTA, Home of the Arts, Surfers Paradise, Queensland

  Fri 12 Apr 7:30pm / Comedy

  Comedian, writer, podcaster and prolific content creator Christian Hull is taking his iTunes Top 50 podcast 'Complete Drivel' to… Read More

• ArtLab Headshots with Aaron Chapman

  HOTA, Home of the Arts, Surfers Paradise, Queensland

  Sat 13 Apr 9:00am – more dates / Creative

• Editor's Pick

  Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour 2019

  HOTA, Home of the Arts, Surfers Paradise, Queensland

  Tue 7 May 7:00pm – more dates / Film

  The original and the best mountain film festival is coming back to Gold Coast for 2 massive nights. The 2019 Banff Mountain Film Festival… Read More

• Van Morrison's Masterpiece – Astral Weeks & Moondance

  HOTA, Home of the Arts, Surfers Paradise, Queensland

  Sat 11 May 7:30pm / Jazz

• Foster & Allen Australian Tour 2019

  HOTA, Home of the Arts, Surfers Paradise, Queensland

  Sat 1 Jun 7:00pm / Folk

• New Editor's Pick

  Demetri Martin – Wandering Mind Tour

  HOTA, Home of the Arts, Surfers Paradise, Queensland

  Thu 6 Jun 8:00am / Comedy

  Following a massive 30-date tour of the US, UK, Ireland and Europe, US comedy legend Demetri Martin brings his world-acclaimed… Read More

• Dangerous Liaisons

  HOTA, Home of the Arts, Surfers Paradise, Queensland

  Fri 14 Jun 7:30pm – more dates / Ballet

• Wicked

  HOTA, Home of the Arts, Surfers Paradise, Queensland

  Tue 25 Jun 7:30pm – more dates / Musicals

• Possum Magic

  HOTA, Home of the Arts, Surfers Paradise, Queensland

  Fri 12 Jul 1:30pm – more dates / Theatre

• Editor's Pick

  Madame Butterfly

  HOTA, Home of the Arts, Surfers Paradise, Queensland

  Thu 18 Jul 7:30pm – more dates / Theatre

  A man enchanted by the beauty of the East. A woman in love with the promise of the West. Separated by a vast ocean and many years, what will… Read More

• The Young King

  HOTA, Home of the Arts, Surfers Paradise, Queensland

  Fri 2 Aug 10:30am – more dates / Theatre

• Lady Beatle

  HOTA, Home of the Arts, Surfers Paradise, Queensland

  Wed 14 Aug 7:30pm / Cabaret, Burlesque

• Much Ado About Nothing

  HOTA, Home of the Arts, Surfers Paradise, Queensland

  Wed 4 Sep 7:30pm – more dates / Theatre

• Hitler's Daughter

  HOTA, Home of the Arts, Surfers Paradise, Queensland

  Thu 12 Sep 2019 7:30pm – more dates / Theatre