QFest Cue Outback Festival

Artistic Direction: Peter Grant, Barry Strickland and Rubeun Kooperman.

Artists: Snuff Puppets, Lunar Circus, Monica Main, Queens of the Murchison – Arpi, Tuck Annarra, Big Bell, Day Dawn, Delta, Esta Pol, Barbie Q, Milly Soak.

Central TAFE fire sculpture project, Jimmy Little, Lois Onley, Junkadelic and more.

2004–06

Shire of Cue

QFest; Cue Outback Festival was a free community festival inspired by the heady Goldrush period of Cue.

Presenting Australian artists, musicians, theatre and the extravagant Queens of the Murchison. Free family fun under the Lunar big tent with costumed, choreographed drag shows specially designed for Cue, the Queen of the Murchison.

Festival highlight the QFest Big Burn, was WA’s first fire festival, lead by Tony Jones OAM, Matt Dickman, Peter Daley and Central TAFE sculpture students.

600km north north-east of Perth on the Great Northern Highway.

  • Qfest Cue Outback Festival, Big Burn TAFE sculpture students, 2002

  • Qfest Cue Outback Festival, Jimmy Little, 2003

  • Qfest Cue Outback Festival, Travels in Terra Marvelous, Monica Main, 2003

  • Qfest Cue Outback Festival, Queens of the Murchison, 2003

  • Qfest Cue Outback Festival, Snuff Puppets Skullies, 2003

  • Qfest Cue Outback Festival, nyets on the street

  • Qfest Cue Outback Festival, Queens of the Murchison, 2003