🛩️ Dates announced, 2025 Pacific Airshow | Lower Beechmont Centre Grand Opening | GC earns AACTA film festival sequel | NVIDIA's breakthrough AI | Matildas vs. Brazil on the GC and heaps more!
Volume 91: Today's newsletter is 1,350 words, a 5.5-minute read.
Happy GC Minute Thursday, it’s a hot and humid November 28!
In today's email:
One Big Thing: Gold Coast earns AACTA film festival sequel
The 2025 Pacific Airshow: Dates have been announced!
Sporting fanatics converge: on Carrara
The Lower Beechmont Community: Centre grand opening
A poll
Trending: What local snake is this?
Around the web (Snippets): NVIDIA’s breakthrough new text-to-sound AI, UNIQLO opens at Robina, Attwood Marshall Lawyers support Coolangatta SLSC and more!
Upcoming events - Brazil vs Matilda’s on the GC, The Mayor’s Christmas Carols and heaps, heaps more!
Weekend Weather and Surf
The Weekly Dream Gig
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🎲🎄 That’s Fun: It feels like it’s well and truly winding into silly season, so here’s a quick and free Santa Parkour game to help the jolly fellow parkour race jump and dodge obstacles on roofs of the city.
Live Housing Price Index
1. One Big Thing: Gold Coast’s Spotlight Moment Returns
What’s Happening
The 2025 AACTA (Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts) Festival is set to make a comeback at HOTA from February 5 to 9.
Why It Matters
Featuring heaps of events, including film premieres, exclusive screenings, and networking opportunities, it’s a must for screen enthusiasts and locals alike.
By the Numbers
100+ events: Spanning film, TV, and documentaries will be exhibited
5 days: Will cover the celebrations at the venue
Thousands of attendees will descend on the venue: Including top industry figures like Margot Robbie.
Local Impact
The AACTA Festival highlights the Gold Coast’s growing role in the Australian screen industry, creating career pathways and global opportunities for local talent.
The festival cements the Gold Coast’s reputation as a creative hub in the Asia-Pacific region and provides a platform for local talent to shine on the national stage.
What To Look For Next
The full article, below.
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3. Carrara Courts All the Action
What’s Happening
Carrara is hosting two major sporting events this week; the 2024 Gold Coast Tennis International is underway at KDV Sport, while the Gold Coast Sports and Leisure Centre gears up for the Foot Locker Australian Schools Championships.
Why It Matters
These events solidify Carrara as an in-demand major sporting event faclity, through the showcasing of international tennis talent and welcoming a record-breaking number of basketball players and teams to our city.
By the Numbers
2,000 basketball players: Are set to compete in the Australian Schools Championship.
216 teams: Will be battling it out in U15, U17, and U20 categories.
2 tennis tournaments, with tennis favourites Daria and Luke Saville leading the charge at the Gold Coast Tennis International.
Zooming In On Tennis
December 1 features husband and wife players Luke Sa ville and Daria Saville, who are among the crowd favourites to take out their respective singles titles
What To Look For Next
The full article, below 👇
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4. A Poll
Since launching the Gold Coast Minute, we’ve worked super hard to focus on brevity and deliver quick, engaging content that is rounded up from across the net in a single weekly newsletter, so we didn’t get too much for the inbox.
As we’ve grown, we keep finding more info we think you’d love—stuff we can’t always squeeze into our massive Thursday edition.
So, we’re curious: What would you think about a second, much shorter email, perhaps on a Monday (and only when we have enough to share, so not necessarily every week), in a super quick style that brings you up to speed on more things GC and the internet?
5. Trending
6. Around The Web (Snippets)
We asked, and you answered last week’s poll about our new quick-read section style.
And, it seems snippets with a few images are here to stay 🫡
Spotify debuts marketing tools and insights: For audiobook authors
A 35,000-year-old: Saber-toothed cub was unearthed in Siberia which still had whiskers and claws
Alibaba release an ‘open’ challenger to: OpenAI’s o1 reasoning model
The latest decisions made by Ad Standards, which include: A case against Temu for their ad named "Yellow Bikini Girl Hot Butt Metal Tin Sign"
NVIDIA’s breakthrough AI model called: Fugatto allows you to create audio from text 👇
7. Upcoming Events
🌏 6th Asia Pacific Screen Forum: November 27 to November 30; featuring in-conversations, workshops, panel discussions and intimate roundtables at The Langham Gold Coast
🎄 Christmas Variety Concert & Morning Tea: November 28 from 10 am onwards; featuring live entertainment from the spectacular Samantha Mooney and The Dukes at Robina Community Centre Auditorium
🏉 Festival of Touch: November 29 to December 8 from 8 am to 5 pm; the festival includes professional development opportunities for administrators and sports enthusiasts through the QTF Conferences at Coomera Sports Park
🥇 Queensland State Cup Touch Football Carnival: November 29 to December 1 from 8 am to 7 pm; the premier affiliate touch competition Queensland to be held at Coomera Sports Park
🏆 2024 Gold Coast Business Excellence Awards Gala Event: November 30, celebrating the region’s leading businesses at The Star Gold Coast
🎅🏼 Mayor’s Christmas Carols: November 30 from 6 pm to 8:30 pm; large screens broadcasting the event, free family entertainment and delicious food trucks, headlined by Budjerah at the HOTA Outdoor Stage
🎥 Asia Pacific Screen Awards: November 30 from 6 pm onwards; celebrate the region's finest films, honouring cultural storytelling and visionary filmmakers at Diamond Ballroom, The Langham Gold Coast
⚽️ CommBank Matildas vs Brazil: December 1 from 6:35 pm onwards; heading to the Gold Coast this November for the first time since 2001, taking on football powerhouse Brazil at CBUS Super Stadium
🏀 Basketball Australia - Australian School Championships: December 1 to December 6 from 8 am onwards; featuring secondary schools nationwide and teams from neighbouring countries in a weeklong competition at
🤸🏼♂️ AASCF Nationals Cheer & Dance Championships: December 5 to December 9 from 12 pm; with well over 2000 teams and 11,000+ athletes competing at Gold Coast Convention & Exhibition Centre