TROPICAL FRUITS GAY FESTIVAL - LISMORE/ NSW

Strap in, fleet! This New Years we launch into another orbit ~ an extraterrestrial voyage to a love supernova.

This year’s mission is 💫 SPACE CADETS 💫 an interstellar odyssey calling on every starseed, alien super stan, cosmic cowboy, and space witch to gather beneath the Milky Way on Widjabul Wia-bal Jagun. Expect astral communion, freaky ET love-making, gay space race propaganda, and an all-star fleet of artists steering us deep into hyperspace.

This is more than a party. It’s an intercellular convergence, a queer constellation like no zodiac the universe has seen, a festival love mission in zero gravity. Together we’ll bend space continuum and welcome a new lightyear. 

We are the force.

🚀Festival Formations🚀

Gay Camp Party 💅 Dec 30 — 4pm-11pm (campers only)

Prepare for launch sequence... Engage the thrusters! Lifting off with DJs, performances, and frivolity under the stars for those already docked at basecamp.

New Years Eve Gay Party 🚀 Dec 31 — 8pm-6am

A smorgasbord of stellar sound. Two main stages (our mothership Arena & Trade the warp zone), live music in the Nest, a Sensorium chill nebula, cabaret glamour, art gallery orbits, and a firework supernova. The peak of our queer galactic communion.

Gay Pool Party 👙 Jan 1 — 10am-4pm

Our New Year’s Day field mission to a wet and wonderful world. 1000 queers, one pool, pure slip-slop-splashery. Only available with the 3-party package. ⛱️ 

Gay Recovery Party 👽 Jan 1 — 4pm-3am

We reach the edge of the known universe. Time feels different here. Witness the wonky wonders of our Next Day Cabaret + lock in for one supermassive interplanetary dance floor at the armagedditon, as hyperdrive daddy Matt Vaughan takes us to our final landing place. Phone homo! 💜

Gay Arts & Culture 🧘 

From December 28, our festival starbase comes alive. We launch with an Acknowledgment of Country before a meteor shower of workshops, offerings, and cosmic creativity unfold daily. Arts & Culture Day passes available at the A&C tent 🎪 for non-campers. Wanna beam in your own workshop or offering? Submit via the form (landing soon) or snag a vacant spot on the program upon arrival

🌟 Line up 🌟

Artists from galaxies near and far TBA … 

Discounts & Access 💜

Active Tropical Fruits members score 15% off. Renew on our website ~ we will email your member no. 

Concession holder? Enter 'CONCESSION' discount code at checkout (validated on entry). Fruits members are unable to add both discount codes

Our events are no cost for LGBTIQSB+ Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander folks.

Afterpay and ZipPay are available.

Volunteer with us to pay for part or all of your ticket.

We know festivals can be pricey ~ we do our best to keep tickets as affordable as possible. Want to lighten the load? Join our fabulous volunteer crew and work your ticket off.

⛺️ Camping ⛺️

Dec 28 — Jan 4.

Bring your space tent, set phasers to fabulous. Limited powered sites available, with complimentary device charging at the Trop Fruits Camp Hub. Purchase camping and power on Humanitix. 

🛰️ Sluttle Bus 🛰️

Catch our space shuttles from coast and town. Reserve in advance for coastal orbits (Byron, Bangalow, Clunes, Lennox, Ballina, Alstonville, Goonellabah). Town loop between Lismore/Goonellabah requires no booking. Detailed timetables coming soon on Humanitix.

🦋 Accessibility 🦋

Wheelchair accessible festival + campsite. Dedicated accessible toilets/showers, powered sites for medical needs, Auslan interpretation for cabaret, speeches + selected workshops. 

Let us know access requirements at checkout or email [email protected] 

👩🏻‍🤝‍👨🏾 Volunteering 👩🏻‍🤝‍👩🏾

This mothership runs on our wonderous volunteers. Bring your forces and laughter to fabricate, beatificate, and worldbuild with us. Applications: TBA 

🤸🏽‍♀️ Performers 🤸🏼

Join the fleet! Cabaret divas, gogo dancers, crooked cabaret misfits ~ all are welcome. Cabaret EOI form: TBA

MORE QUESTIONS ?

E-mail [email protected] 

MORE INFO/ DETAILS

https://tropicalfruits.org.au/events/nye

https://www.facebook.com/tropicalfruitsbackup/

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