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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.

The biennial Percival Portrait Painting Prize is North Queensland’s own portrait competition.

Having begun in 2007, The Percivals is an open competition for artists.

Our online payment area allows you to pay rates and utilities, penalty infringements, animal registrations, business renewals and invoices.

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!

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.

Pinnacles Gallery and the North Queensland Potters' Association Inc. invites entries into the 2020 Biennial North Queensland Ceramic Awards.

Entries close Friday 20 April 2020.

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.

Townsville City Council proposes to amend a planning scheme for the City of Townsville.

The purpose and general effect of the major amendment is to change the zoning of a number of land parcels, and update the strategic framework, relevant mapping, tables of assessment and zone codes, to enable future industrial uses and a motor sport facility to be developed at the Lansdown Station site at Calcium.

See What's On in the Townsville region or submit your events for free!

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

Bring a blanket and set up your perch for the FREE screening of Flying the Nest!

Help Ploey, a plucky little plover chick who can’t fly, embark on a brave adventure to find his family from 6:30pm Friday 15 November at Riverway Oval.

Join us at the Perc Tucker Regional Gallery this Sunday for our Free Family Fun Day.

Free art making activities for families.

Pokemon and Lego!

What more could you want?

Join us for both and meet others with similar interests.

Each year, Perc Tucker Regional Gallery is proud to provide a platform for TAFE students to display and coordinate an exhibition, curating the space to best display their work.

Exhibition dates: 8 November - 1 December

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

The Animal Care and Adoption Centre are offering adult cat adoptions for $50 and kitten adoptions for $100 from 4 – 23 November 2019!

llustrators, animators, photographers, graphic designers, and cinematographers; twenty-eight emerging artists
from James Cook University’s graduating class showcase their best works.

Exhibition on display from 8 November to 1 December 2019.

This time 20 years ago Townsville was preparing for the opening of what has become one of the city’s most popular destinations – The Strand.

On Saturday 19 October 2019, we celebrated The Strand’s 20th birthday in collaboration with Star 106.3’s Fire in the Sky event.

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.