Come join the fun at HOTA these school holidays. Join the Boxwars team to help create the mega and mysterious creations that you can use in the battle of battles. We need makers and battlers. Best of all – It’s free!
Boxwars
Boxwars is both art and destruction, using nothing but cardboard. You build something out of cardboard and then destroy it in a huge battle. Come join the Boxwars team to help create the mega and mysterious creations that you can use in the battle of battles in Surfers (not so) Paradise. We need makers and battlers. Join the ranks!
Kids Box Workshops
Learn the basics of cardboard engineering and create your own cardboard costume at the infamous Boxwars workshop. Build a true recycled creation to keep and take home with you! To give it a Gold Coast flavour it’s a beach and sea creature theme.
Turn yourself into a shark and convince mum and dad they should fear the water.
Dates: Friday 28 September – Monday 1 October 2018
Time: Drop in between 10am–2pm daily
Location: Showroom
FREE
Suitable for ages 7+
Adult Box Workshops
We need your expertise! Calling all adults that want to make, play and do.
Adults will prepare cardboard elements for the battle on Sunday, just don’t let the kids in on your plans.
Dates: Wednesday 26 – Saturday 29 September 2018
Time: Drop in between 9am–5pm daily
FREE
Location: Showroom
Boxwars Battle | Surfers (not so) Paradise
Join us for the FREE battle of battles! Families and friends are welcome to turn up and grab some gear take part in an epic Boxwars battle on HOTA turf. Kids nominate an adult to take part as huge cardboard creations duke it out for superiority in an explosive family friendly festival of pointlessness.
To honour Surfers Paradise Boxwars will grant reverence to the great tradition of surfing. How do you surf when your surfboard is made from cardboard?
Prepare for the battle with our adult and kids workshops through the week. All the way from Melbourne and fresh from touring around Australia this is the first time Boxwars will be seen on the Gold Coast.
Date: Sunday 30 September 2018
Battle from 12-2pm
FREE
Location: Outdoor Stage
Located: HOTA, Home of the Arts, 135 Bundall Road, Surfers Paradise
Phone: 5588 4000