SPACE CADETS LGBTIQ+ New Years Festival

🧬 🖖🏾 🖖🏼 🖖🏻 🖖🏽 🖖🏿 🧬

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

This year’s mission is 💫ＳＰΛＣΞ ＣΛＤΞＴＳ 💫 an interstellar odyssey calling on every star seed, 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 the spacetime contimuum, and welcome a new lightyear. We are the force.

Grab packaged passes or mix-and-match with party tickets, camping passes, powered sites and space shuttle rides from coast to hinterland, all through Humanitix.

• 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).

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

• Afterpay and ZipPay are available.

We know festivals can be pricey ~ we do our best to keep tickets prices as low as possible. Our festival is built by a fleet of off-world divas like you!! If you want to help us, hold off on buying a ticket and sign up for volunteering instead. Dets coming soon!

Questions? Reach us at fruits@tropicalfruits.org.au

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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.

ＣΛＭＰ ＰΛＲＴＹ 💅 Dec 30 — 4pm-10pm (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 ＹＥΛＲ’Ｓ ＥＶＥ ＰΛＲＴＹ 🚀 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.

ＰＯＯＬ ＰΛＲＴＹ 👙 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 or full-festival pass. 🌊⛱️

ＲＥＣＯＶＥＲＹ ＰΛＲＴＹ 👽 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! 💜

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Annabelle Gaspar, Ayebatonye, Betty Grumble, Butch Le Butch, Charlie Villas, Chico De Soja, CHRS, Crescendoll, Daws, Deepa, Destiny Has Arrived, DJ Magnus, ENN, Gaff-E, Gogo Bumhole, Hip Hop Hoe, Jase Lasso, Ketia, Kitty Glitter, Martoya Jackson, Matt Vaughan, Meggy Sue, Mutton, Neesha Alexander, Phasmahammer, Ruby Teys, Saint, SarahTone’n, Slo Dolio, Sprung, That Woman, The Deadly Good, Winona Router + many more!

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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.

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Play it safe when travelling to the festival site... 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!

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

Let us know access requirements at checkout or email fruits@tropicalfruits.org.au.

ＶＯＬＵＮＴΞ Ξ ＲＩＮＧ 👩🏻‍🤝‍👩🏾

This mothership runs on our wondrous volunteers. Bring your forces, and laughter — from building to beautifying — and help steer the ship.

Sign up here:

https://airtable.com/appsgGs3EGXz917J7/pag9a6qdrwMjYwugJ/form

ΛＲＴＳ ＆ ＣＵＬＴＵＲ Ξ 🍑 🍆

We’re seeking offerings of every orbit: workshops, games, panels, roving, installations, storytelling, yarning circles & cosmic creations of all kinds.

Email: artsandculture@tropicalfruits.org.au

ＰΞ ＲＦＯＲＭ Ξ ＲＳ 🤸🏼

Join the fleet! Cabaret divas, gogo dancers, crooked cabaret misfits ~ all are welcome. EOI coming soon!

Email: performers@tropicalfruits.org.au

ＣＯＵＮＴＲΥ ♾️

Our Worldbuilding takes place on Widjabul Wia-bal Jagun in the heart of the Northern Rivers. We pay our respects to the Bundjalung Nation. Always was, always will be. ❤️💛🖤

✨ Queers of the cosmos ~ this is your cosmic cat call to suit up, show out, and blast into 2026 with Tropical Fruits.
The countdown has begun.