SEASONAL EVENTS
Get organised this year and plan your next event/party or get your business decorated for the following upcoming events:
2018
JANUARY
FEBRUARY
- Waitangi Day - 6th February
- Winter Olympics - 9th - 25th February
- Shrove (Pancake) Tuesday - 13th February
- Valentines Day - 14th February
- Chinese New Year (Year of the Brown Dog) - 16th February
MARCH
- St Patricks Day - 17th March
- National Close the Gap Day - 15th March
- Australian Grand Prix - 25th March
- Good Friday - 30th March
APRIL
- Easter Sunday - 1st April
- Mackay Easter Carnival - 1st April
- April Fools Day - 1st April
- Commonwealth Games - 4th -15th April
- Black Friday - 13th April
- ANZAC Day - 25th April
MAY
- North Queensland Games - 4-7 May (to be staged in Mackay in 2018)
- Mother's Day - 13th May
- Relay for Life (Mackay) - TBA
- National Sorry Day - 26th May
JUNE
- State of Origin Game 1 - 6th June
- Queensland Day - 6th June
- FIFA World Cup - 14th June - 15th July
- Mackay Show - 19th - 20th June
- State of Origin Game 2 - 24th June
JULY
- NAIDOC Week - 5th - 12th July
- State of Origin Game 3 - 11th July
- Black Friday - 13th July
- Mackay Festival of Arts - Starts 20th July
- Christmas in July
AUGUST
SEPTEMBER
- Father's Day - 2nd September
- Sarina Festival - TBA
- AFL Grand Final - 29th September
- NRL Grand Final - 30th September
OCTOBER
- World Teacher's Day - 5th October
- Mackay Eisteddfod - TBA
- Invictus Games - 18th - 29th October
- Mackay Region Global Grooves Cultural Festival - 20th October
- Pink Ribbon Day
- Oktoberfest
- Halloween - 31st October
NOVEMBER
- Movember
- Melbourne Cup Day - 6th November
- Remembrance Day - 11th November
DECEMBER
- Graduations
- Christmas Day - 25th December
- Boxing Day - 26th December
- New Years Eve - 31st December