Here at 1029 Hot Tomato we love giving you the opportunity to check out incredible Gold Coast events and experiences!
And thanks to our mates at HOTA, Home of the Arts there’s no shortage of amazing events coming up!
Check out What’s coming up at HOTA below and keep it locked on 1029 Hot Tomato for your chance to WIN tickets to be there!
Melbourne Cup Luncheon
When: Tuesday 3 November 2026
Where: Palette Restaurant
Time: 12pm
Duration: 3 hrs
Ages: 18+
Tickets: $230.00
Enjoy a three-course lunch with a three-hour premium beverage package and live race coverage on the big screen. Try your luck in the sweepstakes and show off your race-day style in Fashions on the Field, with prizes up for grabs.
Start early: Join us from 11am at The Exhibitionist Bar for a pre-event cocktail and snack. Add-on: $25 per person.
Dumpling Masterclass
When: Wednesday 4 November, Wednesday 11 November, Wednesday 18 November, Wednesday 25 November
Where: Level 5 – HOTA Gallery
Time: 4pm
Duration: 1 hr 30 mins
Ages: 12+
Tickets: $60.00 – $100.00
Roll up your sleeves and join us at The Exhibitionist Bar for a hands-on dumpling masterclass that’s equal parts skill-building and seriously good fun.
You’ll learn the art of dumpling-making from the ground up — crafting your own dough, preparing flavour-packed fillings, and mastering the folds and shapes that turn simple ingredients into bite-sized perfection.
Come hungry, leave confident, and take home the skills to make dumplings like a pro.
Workshop includes a welcome cocktail (non-alcoholic option available)
Takashi Wakasugi: Waba-Sabi Comedy
When: Saturday 14 November 2026
Where: HOTA Basement
Time: 5:30pm
Duration: 1 hr
Ages: 18+
Tickets: $37.00
Winner Director’s Choice Award 2023 – Melbourne International Comedy Festival
Nominee Most Outstanding Show 2024 – Melbourne International Comedy Festival
As seen on The Gala, Thank God You’re Here, Guy Montgomery’s Guy-Mont Spelling Bee and Taskmaster Australia.
Wabi-sabi (侘び寂び) is a Japanese aesthetic that finds beauty in imperfection, impermanence, and incompleteness. Waka believes the concept of Wabi-sabi is the great way to make people happy. And he also thinks it might connect and adapt to his comedy.
Arigato! Big bow.
Drawing for Life – Butoh and the Fool’s Alchemy
When: Thursday 19 November 2026
Where: HOTA Gallery 2
Time: 6pm
Duration: 2 hrs
Ages: 16+
Tickets: $35.00
Content: HOTA Gallery Public Programs
Join us for a life drawing experience where all abilities are welcome, set within HOTA Collects: Alchemy.
Two Butoh performers become your models, embodying themes of transformation. Led by artist and Butoh performer Cedar Roppola, you’ll draw a series of still poses, then a live performance of Fool’s Gold.
All materials are provided. Food and drink aren’t permitted in the Gallery (bottled water is fine), so enjoy refreshments before or after at The Exhibitionist Bar on Level 5, open until 10pm.
Doors open 5:30pm
Workshop 6pm – 8pm
Bangarra Dance Theatre – Horizon
When: Saturday 21 November 2026
Where: HOTA Theatre 1
Time: 7:30pm
Duration: 1 hr 15 mins
Ages: All
Tickets: $40.00 – $56.00
Where sea meets sky, a new work is born. In HOTA’s first mainstage cross-cultural collaboration, Māori choreographer and Arts Laureate Moss Te Ururangi Patterson joins Bangarra alumna Deborah Brown to guide our award-winning ensemble in stories honouring their mother countries and the spirit that calls them home.
Horizon is a double bill. It opens with Kulka, Saibailayg (Saibai Islander) Sani Townson’s thrilling tribute to his grandfather and Torres Strait heritage, followed by The Light Inside, choreographed by Brown and Patterson.
Experience the resilience of the First Peoples of Oceania, across the Torres Strait Islands, Australia and Aotearoa.
Book now, final tickets available
HOTA Collects: Alchemy
When: 24 October 2026 – 4 April 2027
Where: HOTA Gallery 2
Ages: All
Tickets: Free, non-ticketed
Alchemy brings together works from the HOTA Collection that explore materiality, process, decay and transformation. From cameraless photography to sculpture, ceramics and drawings made with wind and fire, the exhibition looks at the philosophical and physical ways contemporary artists use alchemical processes in their practice.
Features two light-based sculptures by Lindy Lee, recently acquired to mark the fifth anniversary of the HOTA Gallery.
Artists include Daniel Boyd, Vincent Brown, Elisa Jane Carmichael, Rose Farrell & George Parkin, Leah King-Smith, Jae Hoon Lee, Lindy Lee, eX de Medici, David Oswald, Susan Purdy, Cameron Robbins, Justine Varga and John Wolseley.
