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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.

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.

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

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.

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!

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

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

Free art making activities for families.

Come along and assist with clearing rubbish at the Ross River Creek (Lou Litster Park) to stop litter travelling to the ocean.

Saturday 19 October from 8:30am.

Garage Sale Trail is a great way to declutter, make some money and meet people in your local community.

Taking place across one jam packed weekend on October 19 & 20 - find a sale near you!

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

Pokemon and Lego!

What more could you want?

Join us for both and meet others with similar interests.

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

Ready to move on from Baby Rhyme Time? Not quite ready for Storytime? Come and join Toddler Time! Develop your toddler's concentration and early literacy skills with fun songs, dance and a story.

Visit our What's On Townsville guide for session times and locations.

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