Queensland Week
6-13 June 2009
Queensland Week is celebrated across the state each year. This year it's our 150th anniversary and there's no better time than 2009 to reflect on what it means to be a Queenslander. This is how we celebrated Queensland Week this year.
Queensland Week events calendar
Friday 5 June
Greenfest
Friday 5 to Sunday 7 June 2009
Brisbane Botanic Gardens
The Dreaming - Australia's International Indigenous Festival
Friday 5 to Monday 8 June
Woodford
Saturday 6 June
Queensland Day Citizenship Ceremony
Saturday 6 June, 11.30am
Suncorp Piazza, the Parklands, South Bank
Queensland Day in Mount Isa
Saturday 6 June 2009
Q150 will celebrate Queensland Day in Mount Isa, where the Q150 Shed and Q150 Steam Train will come together for a weekend of celebrations.
The Mount Isa Recreation Park, a Q150 Legacy Infrastructure Project, will officially open on the morning of Queensland Day. The Mount Isa celebrations are being termed ‘Mega Day Out’, and will bring the community together – more than 5000 are expected to attend.
Creative Generation - State Schools Onstage
Saturday 6 June, 7.00pm
Brisbane Entertainment Centre, Boondall
Book via the Ticketek website or call 132 849
Cooktown Re-enactment Committee costume ball
Saturday 6 June
Cooktown Shire Hall, Cooktown
Queensland Week Gun Salute
Saturday 6 June, 11am, 12pm, 1pm and 2pm
Cultural Forecourt, the Parklands, South Bank
Victoria Barracks Historical Society's military re-enactment unit will fire its four 1850s bronze, muzzle loaded cannons in salute to Queensland Day. The Society that administers 'A' Battery, Queensland Permanent artillery, circa 1896, has fired the Queensland Day Gun Salute for 15 years.
Queensland pipe band championships and Queensland solo piping/solo drumming championships
Saturday 6 June
Limestone Park, Ipswich
Stitches of the Heart - an exhibition exploring Greek embroidery in Queensland
Saturday 6 to Monday 8 June
Fortitude Valley
Sunday 7 June
RACQ Big BBQ
Sunday 7 June, 10.30am-3.30pm
Roma Street Parkland, Brisbane City
Comedy Fix
Sunday 7 June, 7.30pm
Suncorp Piazza, The Parklands, South Bank
Old Government House opening
Sunday 7 June
QUT, Gardens Point
Queensland Day at Templin Museum
Sunday 7 June
Monday 8 June
25 Down by Richard Jordan
Monday 8 June to Saturday 4 July
Winner of the 2008/09 Queensland Premier's Drama Award
Tuesday 9 June
Suncorp Queenslanders of the Year announcement
Tuesday 9 June
Q150 commemorative stamps
Available from Tuesday 9 June 2009
Wednesday 10 June
Top 150 Queensland icons announcement
Wednesday 10 June
Thursday 11 June
Queensland Greats announcement
Thursday 11 June
Friday 12 June
Police Induction Spectacular
Friday 12 June
Queensland Police Academy, Oxley
Saturday 13 June
Queenslanders' Cruise
Saturday 13 June
Kookaburra River Queens, Brisbane
South Bank's Regional Flavours
Saturday 13 June, 10.00am-3.00pm
The Parklands, South Bank
South Bank's Regional Flavours provides Brisbane residents with a unique opportunity to experience a selection of fine wine and fresh produce from the award-winning growing regions in the South-East.
Other activities
2009 Queensland Week Icons School Competition
Have fun in your classroom this Queensland Week and celebrate Queensland's 150th birthday by helping your students enter a statewide primary school competition. Students can win a Nintendo DSi and Big Brain Academy game or a Panasonic Lumix DMC-FS4 digital camera!
This competition closes 5pm June 16.
For more events and activities, search our events calendar.
Last reviewed 25 June 2009
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