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Visit What’s On Townsville - to enter your community and sporting events, shows, exhibition, workshop, fundraiser, markets and a range of other events.

Council’s free dump weekend is being held from the 25 - 28 October 2019.

Now is the perfect time to clean up your home before Cyclone Season, with free waste disposal at all Council waste facilities!

Townsville Dashboards is a digital platform to access high quality, current data and information about Townsville, informing and enabling the Townsville community and those with an interest in investing in the region.

Council is conducting minor maintenance work on Castle Hill and Castle Hill Road, requiring the closure of Castle Hill Road commencing from Tuesday 22 October - 6.30am to 4pm to pedestrians, cyclists and vehicles.

Dress up in your best cocktail attire and join us for a Rio Carnival themed evening to support our local community in need at this year’s Mayor’s Christmas Tree Appeal VIP Cocktail Party, with special guest appearances from the North Queensland Cowboys, live entertainment, raffles and an auction.

Saturday 23 November 2019.

The Right to Information Act 2009 gives you the right to access and amend information held by public section agencies in QLD.

Find out what you can and can't access!

Council’s city-wide kerbside collection service is back in 2019. Select your suburb from the drop down on our Kerbside Collection webpage to find out when your suburb will be collected.

Are local organisation or community group?

Submit your FREE or low cost activities/events for the 2019 Summer School Holiday Guide.

Submissions close 5pm, Friday 25 October 2019

Skip the tricks and treat yourself at the Townsville Eats Halloween spook-tacular on Friday, 25 October. It will be a ghoulish night packed with mouth-watering food, market stalls, live entertainment and much more.

Council is offering free microchipping to currently registered dogs and approved cats.

The event will take place on Saturday 26 October between 8-11 am at Greenwood Park, Kirwan.

Ignite your child's imagination and accelerate their language development by listening to great children's stories, songs, and rhymes.

Join us in celebrating National Water Week with a day of discovery at the Rowes Bay open house.

Saturday 26 October 9am - 12pm

The Animal Care and Adoption Centre are offering a 50% discount off all dogs and puppies from 19 October – 2 November 2019!

Set your singing voice free and explore nursery rhymes with your baby. Develop your child’s pre-emergent literacy skills and connect with other parents and bubs.

A First Five Forever Program
For parents and their babies aged 0 to 24 months.

Drawing together twelve Australian and International artists, Soft Core surveys the fluctuating meanings of softness – time stamping soft and inflatable art making here and now.

Perc Tucker Regional Gallery - 6 September - 3 November 2019

Learn to digitise your organisation’s slides, negatives, photographs, papers and books to conservation standards during this free class. A trainer will teach you how to identify the best format and device to use in our Digitisation Lounge to preserve and save your precious materials.

CityLibraries Flinders Street

Free though bookings required

Street Art as an important factor in creating a vibrant and lively city centre. Contributing to placemaking and urban living transformation.

Townsville has four botanic gardens: Anderson Gardens, Palmetum, Queens Gardens and Dan Gleeson Gardens and they are a beautiful sight to behold. Visit them today!

Council has a number of venues, parklands and facilities that are available for hire by residents, community and other groups.

The 15-hectare heritage precinct commemorates the military and Aboriginal heritage of the Kissing Point headland through 32 specially commissioned public artworks, extensive interpretive signage and the restoration of significant elements of the Kissing Point Fort complex. Large-scale landscaping works have also opened up the area for public use.

Visit our pools, beaches, Riverway lagoons or rockpool for a refreshing dip.

Perc Tucker Regional Gallery is Townsville's premier regional art gallery, offering a dynamic range of local, national and international exhibitions complemented by workshops, talks and a host of other programs.

We have three library branches and a mobile library so come in and explore your library.

The main aim of Sister City contact is to create friendship and understanding between peoples and to lay a foundation of goodwill and exchange for future generations.

Visit our Sister Cities page for more details.

Image: Hwaseong Fortress, Suwon - Japan