What's happening around town this January
Whether you’re after street feasts, line dancing, Shakespeare or ballet, this month has everything you want and more.
Published 04 January 2024
Photography: Castle&Crown
Featuring: Windy Acres Lavender Farm, Mural by Katie Whyte
Welcome to The Field Guide’s guide covering what’s happening the entire month of January, so you’ve got time to lock in plans well in advance.
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1 - 30 January
Queensland to a T dishes the dirt on the qualities that made tea towels desirable Queenslandiana and how we see them now. Featuring 100 tea towels from the State Library of Queensland's Glenn R. Cooke Souvenir Textile Collection, this is a unique look into Queensland’s culture and identity.
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5 January
Street Feast is coming to you with a big one! Join in at the Showground for a night of food trucks, boutique retail stalls, rides, games & live music! Full lineup to be announced! Watch this space!
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6 January
Offering Pick Your Own sessions. Start the New Year reconnecting with nature, smelling the flowers, and quiet time with your family and friends. Coffee @Windy Acres will have Granny’s Lavender Scones with jam and cream (weekends only), Cooks Soft Drinks, and coffee/tea.
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8 January - 16 February
Furari Flores is a multisensory arts experience exploring the wonder of plants by local artist Cara-Ann Simpson. Enter a world of multisensory botanical magic and join the artist on a journey of deep listening, Earth admiration and plant love.
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Ornamental/Elemental: Exhibition
10 January - 04 February
Ornamental/Elemental features works that play with the structure and poetics of ornamentation. Ornamentation and decoration were famously derided as superfluous additions to otherwise pure form by Austrian modernist architect Adolf Loos in his essay ‘Ornament and Crime’ (1913). This essay influenced modernist and minimalist approaches to making art in the 20th century.
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12 January
Legends of British rock, Dire Straits have sold over 120 million albums worldwide. Today Dire Straits Legacy bring back their iconic music, performed by musicians who recorded and toured with Dire Straits, over 30 years ago. Drawing from six platinum albums, DSL’s incredible live show features all of the classic Dire Straits hits including Money for Nothing, Sultans of Swing, Romeo and Juliet, Walk of Life, Brothers in Arms, Tunnel of Love, and many more.
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13 January
Come along to the USQ in Toowoomba for the first stargazing session of 2024. Early in the night we will be able to view all 8 Planets. Because this is a weather-dependent event please follow www.facebook.com/ournightsky for any cancellations.
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18 January
In 2023 Mashed Theatre & Films acting students put together a series of showreel scenes showcasing their skills both on camera and off and on. You are invited to come and enjoy the fruits of their labour alongside industry professionals and independent filmmakers presenting their work.
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Romeo & Juliet @ Aberfeldy Barn
19 January
Award-winning theatre company, The Barden Party is bringing their usual fun-loving spin to R&J and filling Shakespeare’s most famous play with their general hilarious, heartfelt antics. Set as modern-bohemian romance put to Kiwi and Australian music you love, and that you’ve never heard before… You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll dance the night away.
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19 January
Experience the timeless enchantment of a ballet masterpiece that has captivated audiences for generations. Swan Lake tells the tale of Odette, a princess trapped in the form of a swan by an evil sorcerer's curse.
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19 January
The Screaming Jets are ready to unleash their highly anticipated new studio album, "PROFESSIONAL MISCONDUCT," following the success of their Top 5 album, "All For One" 30th Anniversary Edition.
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Preston Peak Wedding Festival 2024
20 January
Preston Peak’s annual wedding festival boasts some of the regions most prestigious vendors all in the one place.
Hosting a roaming fashion parade to help kick the event off in style followed by a relaxing afternoon with nibbles and drinks from Preston's world class chefs and cocktail specialists.
In keeping with tradition, Preston Peak is offering a “Grand Prize Wedding Package” to one lucky guest at the event. If you are getting married in 2024, you won't want to miss this event!
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20 January
Bring your yoga mats, an open heart, and a love for feline friends. This cat yoga session promises laughter, warmth, and the chance to make a positive impact on the lives of our whiskered companions.
Join SCA for an afternoon of cat yoga, where furry friends and flexible poses come together in harmony! Designed for all levels of yoga, this heartwarming event is brought to you by Street Cat Alliance and Bloom Holistic Collective Yoga Studio, dedicated to the well-being of our whiskered companions.
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20 January
Looking for a summer mini adventure? Getting outside has never been so fun!
Come and join us for a 3 hour treasure hunt in the city with real maps and prizes. Explore the well known and not so well known land marks of Toowoomba and race against the clock and the darkness to get the highest points before your time runs out...
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Aussie Day Dancing at Aberfeldy Barn
23 January
Toowoomba Line Dancing Fun & Fitness is a great way to meet people, get moving and have fun while your are doing it. Known to be the friendliest and most easy going crew around, everyone is welcome, encouraged and feels comfy as soon as they walk in the door. Great way to see if line dancing is for you.
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26 January
Various - see the Calendar for details.
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The Sermon of Sylvia Plath - Jack Lynch x ICC
27 January
Toowoomba Line Dancing Fun & Fitness is a great way to meet people, get moving and have fun while your are doing it. Known to be the friendliest and most easy going crew around, everyone is welcome, encouraged and feels comfy as soon as they walk in the door. Great way to see if line dancing is for you.
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Candlelight Concerts: Vivaldi Four Seasons & TRIBUTE TO QUEEN
27 January
Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations like never seen before in Toowoomba.
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Free Walk & Talk - Eating & Utilising Native Australian Plants
28 January
Despite Australia being the traditional home to a wide range of native Australian bushfood, medicinal plants and utility trees, for one reason or another, the majority of the Australian population does not know much about them, if at all and therefore do not know how to make the most of this natural bounty!
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28 January
Children and families can take part in a range of fun art-making activities by contemporary Australian artist Natalya Hughes when ‘The Castle of Tarragindi on Tour’ comes to Toowoomba Region's Art Galleries.
Developed in collaboration with the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA), ‘The Castle of Tarragindi on Tour’ invites audiences to create their own digital hybrid creature, decorate and assemble a 3D object, make elaborate patterns using printed paper, and take part in self-portrait drawing activities.
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31 January
The January Business@Dusk event is hosted by UniSQ
Don’t miss the chance to explore UniSQ’s innovative learning environments at their Business @ Dusk event.
Have you got an event we should know about? Let us know!
