CAIRNS REGIONAL COUNCIL TO OFFICIALLY LAUNCH EVENT PROGRAM, TOP 5 HIGHLIGHTS AND 09 DEVELOPMENTS

WHAT:              Mayor of Cairns, Councillor Val Schier makes official announcement to

News media about the entire program of events featured in Festival Cairns 09 and launch of new festival website.

Festival Cairns coordinator, Belinda Griffin will provide specific details

                        of key events, top 5 highlights, major event partners and

other 09 developments that define Festival Cairns 2009

WHO:               Councillor Val Schier, Mayor of Cairns Regional Council

DATE:               Tuesday 16 June 09

TIME:                 9.00 am

PLACE:             The Pier Wireless Hotspot – centre court

SPOKES

PEOPLE:           Mayor of Cairns, Councillor Val Schier

                        Festival Cairns Coordinator, Belinda Griffin

MEDIA:             News, features and entertainment journalists covering Festival Cairns

                        In lead up and during will receive media kit.  If not able to attend, please

                        Request a copy to be posted or emailed.  Contact: Pip Miller for details

PR:                   Pip Miller PR     Tel: 4032 4400  Mob: 0419 681543  Email: pip@pipmillerpr.com.au

About Festival Cairns

The opening of a new Green Island jetty on 26 May, 1962 was established as the first annual Cairns Tourist Festival, and renamed ‘Fun In The Sun’ the following year.  Since then Tropical North Queensland’s most significant annual celebration, now in its 47^th year, has experienced a number of changes including its re-launch in the early nineties as ‘Reef Festival’ before its dynamic incarnation in 2002 as ‘Festival Cairns’.

This year Festival Cairns begins a new chapter.  For the first time in many years it will be managed and directed by its founding organisation, Cairns Regional Council; who in April this year, unveiled details of its vision to deliver a reinvigorated, brighter and bolder event program spanning visual and performing arts, culture and entertainment – showcasing the city’s key cultural precincts with a mix of free and ticketed events.

Festival Cairns will run between Friday 21 August and Sunday 6 September 2009.  This year’s theme is “Telling our Stories”.

Ends

For more information:

Belinda Griffin, Festival Cairns Coordinator 

T: 07 4044 3593 M: 0407 966 530 E: festival@cairns.qld.gov.au

www.cairns.qld.gov.au

Issued by:

Pip Miller PR                

T: 07 4032 4400 M: 0419 681543  E: pip@pipmillerpr.com.au

www.pipmillerpr.com.au