Cairns Winter Solstice Celebration and Sustainable Lifestyle Gathering

The Freeform Collective would like to take this opportunity to once again, thank every single person who has spent time and effort supporting and helping to create our gathering every year,our entire team has consisted of unpaid volunteers and your time and efforts have not gone unnoticed.

We THANK YOU all, and are truly grateful and honoured for your assistance and creativity .

 

It is with great sadness and disappointment that we here at Freeform Collective have to announce that - the 6th Annual Cairns Winter Solstice Celebration & Sustainable Lifestyle Gathering which was to be held over the weekend of June 17 - 20, 2011 at the Sugarbag Festival Grounds in Mt Garnet, has been cancelled due to circumstances beyond Freeform Collective's control.

 

The reasoning behind our cancellation, is not only of a financial nature, but by cancelling our event, we are assuring that our local area does not have 3 Festivals on the same weekend in June 2011, which would ultimately affect the attendance figures and sustainability of each event.

 

To all of you who were looking forwards to Cairns Winter Solstice 2011 - Thank you for your sign of commitment to our gathering. We hope that you will continue to be supportive of your local music industry and we invite you to join us for our Winter Solstice Celebration & Sustainable Lifestyle Gathering, when we return in 2012.

 

warmest regards,

 

Freeform Collective.

 

 

In the expanse of the Australian outdoor festival culture, Winter Solstice Lifestyle Gathering holds a special place in the hearts and minds of punters from not only Cairns, but from around the country and indeed the globe as well. The annual event, in its fourth year in 2009, was one of the region’s biggest and most creative festivals, attracting well over a hundred acts, performers, healers and artists over four days and three nights in the rugged beauty of the Atherton Tablelands. The thing about Winter Solstice is that it’s much more than a Far North Queensland event, instead being one of Australia’s premier alternative life style festivals with a strong focus on entertainment for all the ages and a holistic festival experience. Thousands of punters have been known to travel from interstate and overseas just to attend, proving it’s not only one of the region’s top music and arts events, but a global tourism drawcard as well. With a broad range of musical styles – from electronic music to live bands and solo acts – as well as roving performers, fire shows, healing areas, sustainability exhibitions and market stalls, Winter Solstice definitely deserves its spot as the winner of the Best Festival in the timeOUT Awards 2009.

Written by Jesse Kuch - Editor - TimeOut - Cairns Post....