Bleach* Festival: New date and location for Gold Coast event announced

One of the Gold Coast’s best-known festivals will go ahead, with organisers announcing new dates and locations. It will be one of the city’s only major events to go ahead in 2020.

ONE of the Gold Coast’s best-known arts festivals will go ahead, as the organisers announce new dates and locations.

It was announced this morning Bleach* Festival 2020 will deliver 11-days of entertainment across three major precincts from November 12-22.

The event, which celebrates contemporary art, will be hosted at Burleigh, Chevron Island and Gold Coast Regional Botanic Gardens in Benowa.

Placemakers* Gold Coast CEO and artistic director Rosie Dennis said organisers explored “a range of different options” in order to be able to hold the festival.

Bleach Festival at Burleigh Heads in 2019. Picture: Scott Belzner

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“Back in March we wrote to our festival followers saying that we were optimistically planning to proceed with Bleach* Festival in August this year.

“Since that time, we have explored a range of different options to do just that.

“We’re now putting the finishing touches on the re-imagined program with a full line-up of artists and events to be announced in early August – which we are certain will entice and delight audiences across the Gold Coast and beyond.”

Mrs Dennis was named the new artistic director and CEO of Bleach* Festival in March last year.

Bleach* had previously been held in April but it was announced late last year the festival would be moved to August so it would be held in pre-Spring.

It will now be one of the Gold Coast’s only major events to be held this year.

Sword Swallower Heather Holliday at The Star Gold Coast, Broadbeach for Bleach* Festival 2019. Picture: Jerad Williams

The full re-imagined program with a full line-up of artists and events for this year’s Bleach* Festival will be announced in just over a month.

Bleach* Festival transformed beaches, Gold Coast waterways, parklands and civic gathering places across the city into playgrounds for contemporary performances and artistic installations last year.

The event had attracted more than 470,000 people since the festival’s inaugural year in 2012.