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Report released – 2019 Weather Event
An independent review has assessed the effectiveness of Council’s preparedness and response to the 2019 Monsoon event.
Kerbside is Back!
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.
Nominations now open!
The Townsville City Council Senior Awards have been designed to provide public thanks to those quiet achieving seniors who give so much to our city.

Nominate someone for a Seniors’ Award and go into a draw to win two tickets to see the North Queensland Cowboys play the Brisbane Broncos!
One-stop shop information about Council's performance
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.
Competition now open!
Everybody has a story to tell.

Write a story on the theme ‘be brave, be bold, be brilliant’ and win!

Entries close 5pm Saturday 3 August.
Registrations are now open!
Welcoming Babies Ceremonies are held as a special event for our city's youngest residents and their families.

Registrations now open for Sunday 11 August ceremony!
We are making it easier for you to access your information
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!
Horseshoe Bay – Community Feedback
Feedback closes this Sunday!

Council is seeking the community’s feedback on the draft Shoreline Erosion Management Plan for Horseshoe Bay.

The feedback form is available until Sunday 21 July.

This week in Townsville

1 July - 29 July 2019
Everybody has a story to tell.

Throughout July in a range of locations, Townsville CityLibraries will be hosting a festival of workshops, discussions and celebrations of storytelling in all its forms.

Visit What's On Townsville for more information.
Starlight Move Haus
Presented by the North Australia Festival of Arts.

The Starlight Move Haus and Bar brings you a variety of free activities to get you moving and grooving. From a good old bush dance to seriously sexy Latin moves these free events will have you on your feet!

19 - 28 July - Queens Gardens
Rouge the Show
Presented by the Northern Fringe Festival.

Rouge is a decadent blend of sensational acrobatics, operatic cabaret and tongue in cheek burlesque. Rouge is circus for grownups.

19 - 27 July, 6pm - Wonderland Spiegeltent - Strand Park

BOOK NOW!
La Traviata at the Met
This performance is part of the North Australian Festival of Arts and the 2019 Theatre Season.

Sung in Italian with English subtitles this is a film of the live Theatrical Performance.

Sunday 21 July, 3.30pm - The May Wirth - Queens Gardens

BOOK NOW!
Cats Cradle
Presented by Legs on The Wall & Townsville City Council and part of the Northern Fringe Festival.

"Cats Cradle is like an aerial Scenes from a Separation but with more sex, more sweat, and just a little bit of bondage".

BOOK NOW!
The 2019 Flood; Record Your Story
We would like to invite people to participate in an interview about their experience of the 2019 floods in Townsville.

7 - 28 July
Umbrella Studio Contemporary Arts
Secret Show at Neighbourhood Live House
A series of Secret Shows at Neighbourhood Live House this July.
Neighbourhood Sessions are known for curating high quality live music events with the best up and coming artists in Australia. The lineup is kept a complete secret until the night of the event.
1RAR Acoustic Band
Presented by NAFA, Townsville City Council & 1RAR.

All your favourite classics are reinvented utilising vocals, keyboard, bass and percussion to become new hits!

Sunday 21 July - 5.30pm - Wonderland Spiegeltent - Strand Park
Christian Flynn – Unfamiliar Theatre/Unknown Stage
The landscapes of Unfamiliar Theatre / Unknown Stage are the landscapes of not knowing. They are conversations between opposing painterly forces and capture an engagement with a subject whose form is determined in part by the consciousness by which it is observed.
Perc Tucker Regional Gallery - 21 June - 11 August
Robert MacPherson: Boss Drovers
A touring exhibition of works by Robert MacPherson explores language, related systems that seek to categorise knowledge, and how changes to both can affect the gradual disappearance of specialist knowledge as generations pass.

Perc Tucker Regional Gallery
11 July - 1 September
Northern Fringe Festival
The Northern Fringe – in the spirit of Fringe Festivals across the globe – will be an inclusive and organic festival hosted in theatres, cafés, pop-up venues, laneways and street corners right across Townsville – Australia’s largest tropical city.

Visit our page to find out What's On and to download our program.

Explore Townsville

Perc Tucker Regional Gallery
Discover the latest shows and programs available at our theatres and galleries.

Image Under The Rock from the exhibition 'from under the rock. Seppo Hautaniemi' which was on display from 27 January - 4 March 2018 at Perc Tucker Regional Gallery.
Street Art Locations
Street Art as an important factor in creating a vibrant and lively city centre. Contributing to placemaking and urban living transformation.


Image - Leans Mother Earth 2017, street art mural painted in Odgen St, Townsville
Jezzine Barracks
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.
CityLibraries
We have three library branches and a mobile library so come in and explore your library.
Townsville's Sister Cities
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
Sport & Leisure Facilities
Council has a range of sports and leisure facilities to suit every taste including boating and fishing locations, pools, cricket, AFL, skateboard parks and more.
Townsville's History
Discover Townsville from its humble beginnings.
Botanical Gardens
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!