Self Guided Festival Tour Info
Creality’s Gascoyne Travelling Arts Festival is a six-week tour which spans 3000km. It’s a mobile, intergenerational, multicultural festival family which invites you into the world of Art Adventure Tourism!
Art Adventure Tourism is for the self-reliant audacious traveller who's ready to revel in short term communities of like-minded people, who know there’s more to life than being a consumer, and more in Art than a city can offer. Its ‘Situation Dining’ on the edge of world heritage marine parks, seasonal musters with loved ones on ancient landscapes, where natural beauty becomes the theatre framing multi-sensory art experiences. It's a convocation of eagles overhead, termite mounds and sunburnt selfies, being barefooted on a beach in black tie watching trapeze performed over water in the receding Wintersun. Making lifelong memories, new experiences and traditions; Moonlight bathing with meteor showers; a daily juggling jam or hula hooping for the first time since you were a child. It’s learning to paint in twilight, smoking ceremonies, fireside stories and new friends. It’s a departure from the mundane into a seasonal caravan of festival celebrations.
It’s the Gascoyne Travelling Arts Festival: One festival set over 6 weeks on a 2973km festival circuit of the Gascoyne region. All festivals feature ‘high arts in situ’, spectacle and the best of Dance, Circus, Comedy and Music. These free events include Barefoot Black Tie in Denham, Gascoyne River Music Festival in Gascoyne Junction and Honeycomb Gorge in the Kennedy Range, Burringurrah Festival of Fire at Mt Augustus Tourist Park and Burringurrah Remote Community, Exmouth Arts Festival, Coral Bay’s Festival of the Reef and Carnarvon’s Eventide Arts Festival.
Free workshops at all festivals include: circus, dance, festival costume making, make & keep circus gear, sculpture, family acro-balance, yoga and cultural walking tours. Paid Workshops and tours available between and at festivals: Landscape Painting at the Kennedy Range and Mt Augustus, Seascape Painting in Coral bay, Landscape Photography, Event photography, Camp Cooking at Gascoyne Junction and Mt Augustus, Yoga, Cultural Tag-along Tours, Plantation Cooking in Carnarvon, Hula Hoop for vitality, Bush Craft and more.
Can’t make it to all festivals this year? No Problem! Choose your own adventure to fit the time you have.
3 days – One Festival
9 days – Two Festivals
16 days – Three Festivals
23 day – Four Festivals
30 days – Five Festivals
37 days – Six Festivals
Oh… and did we mention that all festivals are free to attend?
Your options include:
Coastal to Desert: Shark Bay World heritage Marine Park to the Upper Gascoyne’s Kennedy Range National Park
Deep outback immersion: Upper Gascoyne’s Kennedy Range National Park to Burringurrah (Mt Augustus Tourist Park)
Deep Desert to Coastal: Burringurrah (Mt Augustus Tourist Park) overland drive to Exmouth and the Ningaloo Reef.
Ningaloo Reef Run: Exmouth to Coral Bay
Reef to River: Coral Bay to Carnarvon, the Food Bowl of WA.