Coastal Twist Festival

30/10/2026

🌈 A BIG COASTAL TWIST THANK YOU TO TREVANS! 🌈 TREVANS

Behind every great festival is a whole lot of creative magic, and we were lucky enough to have the brilliant team at Trevans generously donate their creativity, time and design skills to bring the 2026 Coastal Twist Festival campaign to life.

From creating the festival's visual identity and designing our posters, flyers and social media tiles, to rolling out the artwork across our media and merchandise, Trevans helped give Radical Radiance its look, feel and creative flair.

Their generosity is about more than great design. It's about using creative skills to support community, champion the arts and help our regional stories shine.

So please give TREVANS a follow, show them some love and join us in giving them a HUGE clap of gratitude for getting behind Coastal Twist and our communities. 👏💖

We appreciate you! ✨

18/10/2026

🐾💖 A HUGE PAWS UP FOR OUR COMMUNITY PARTNERS! 🐶✨

A big, tail-wagging THANK YOU to our wonderful community partners who helped make this year’s Pupparatzi Pooch Parade at Coastal Twist Festival’s Coastie Carnie Fair Day extra special!

Your generous support helped us put together prize packs that were next level - packed with goodies for our gorgeous pooches AND their beloved hoomans! 🦴🎁🐕

It’s community supporting communities that makes events like this so special. When local businesses and our arts and community fam come together, everyone wins - especially the four-legged VIPs! 🐩👑

A big lick of gratitude & give them a follow to:

💖 voco Gosford
🐾 Dog Snoods Australia | Tinka & Co
🦴 Dd.and.Bear.Dogs
✂️ T Mills & Co Dog Grooming
💍 Shona - Marriage celebrant
🍔 Beau’s Burgers
🏳️‍🌈 FunHaus Factory

Thank you for backing our community, celebrating our beautiful pooches and helping us create more moments of joy, connection and belonging on the Coast.

Give these legends some love, Coasties! 🐾💋

📸 pics 1-2 Relapse Studio | Central Coast Film Photo Podcast Studio Cowork
📸 pics 3-4 Lisa Haymes

16/10/2026

💖✨ TO OUR INCREDIBLE COASTAL TWIST VOLUNTEERS ✨💖

Across 12 events and seven huge days, we simply want to say THANK YOU.

Whether you volunteered for one shift or many, were part of the family for the first time or returned once again, every contribution mattered.

You welcomed guests, supported artists, transformed spaces, solved problems, carried things, packed things, unpacked them again, and stepped up whenever needed.

But most importantly, you helped create the feeling of Coastal Twist... a sense of welcome, belonging, joy, connection and community. 🌈

You are the heart and soul of this festival, and we couldn't do it without you.

✨ One extraordinary community.
💜 A whole lot of volunteer love behind it.

Thank you for showing up. Thank you for giving your time. Thank you for being part of our beautiful Coastal Twist family. 🏳️‍🌈💖

If yiu would like to volunteer for next year sign upbon this link: https://coastaltwist.org.au/volunteers/

15/10/2026

💖 Read all about the impact of Coastal Twist Festival, why it remains so important & relevant, and why we keep pushing forward despite the challenges, in this week’s Central Coast Community News.

Because visibility matters, community matters, and so does keeping the joy alive. 🌈✨

14/10/2026

What a joy. A day of fun in the sun, connection and, more than anything, the definition of community pulling together.

A huge thank you to everyone who made it happen — from Adssi In-home Support supporting artist transport, Ettalong Diggers stepping in to help with escalating red tape and compliance costs, voco Gosford with prizes, ACON Hunter with so much support, and the countless artists, volunteers, businesses, organisations and community members who got behind us.

We need to nurture and support each other and keep pushing for equal space, funding, safety and security for our legacy and our futures. 🌈

We also acknowledge the important work of Equality Australia RIGHT NOW around the federal government's hate crime and speech reforms which do not extend the new protections against inciting hatred or specific aggravated sentencing provisions to LGBTIQ+ people and other vulnerable groups. A missed critical opportunity excluding LGBTIQ+ people and other vulnerable groups from aggravated sentencing provisions and protections against inciting hatred.

Behind the scenes, it was hard. And we know we’re not alone. With our sister organisations from Wagga Wagga to Tamworth, Newcastle to Freo, Pride events cancelled or suspended, LGBTIQ+ events are facing increasing challenges on all fronts.

We never want to see the day when communities can’t celebrate with each other, build safer hometowns, educate, connect and celebrate in their own communities. None of this weekend, or any Pride, is a given.

Victoria has recognised the value of Pride through its dedicated Pride Events and Festivals Fund. We believe NSW Pride events deserve the same certainty and support.

✍️ Sign the petition so NSW and the rest of us can ensure your local pride gets to lift your community for another year:
amandacohn.org/fund_pride_events

Thank you, Central Coast. You really brought it for 2026 ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜 Who would have thought just a few years ago we would have come together in strength and numbers such as we have across the last 7 days and 14 events xoxo

See you in 2027.

11/10/2026

10/10/2026

✨ BAUHAUS ELECTRIC ✨

The pics are in... and WOW. ⚡🌈

A dancefloor transformed into a living artwork. Bold looks, bright souls, electric energy and a whole lot of q***r joy.

We danced. We laughed. We connected. We expressed ourselves without limits and together created something truly magical. 💖

Thank you to everyone who brought their sparkle, their style, their spirit and their beautiful party vibes. These photos are proof of what happens when a community comes together to shine unapologetically bright.

We didn't just light up the room... we became the light. ✨⚡

Pics: Lisa Haymes Photographer

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07/10/2026

🌈⚡ NEON RIOT: COASTAL TWIST YOUTH PARTY ⚡🌈

Teen spirit. Ultra-violet vibes. A packed dancefloor and unapologetic q***r joy. 💜✨

Neon Riot brought together LGBTQIA+ young people and allies aged 12-17 for a night of music, connection and celebration, with performances from festival headliners and a DJ keeping the dancefloor bouncing all night long.

For regional q***r young people, opportunities to connect, build friendships and find community really matter. Every young person deserves spaces where they can be themselves, feel supported and know they belong.

This party was absolutely popping with great energy, new friendships and plenty of unforgettable moments. Most importantly, it was filled with young people showing up as their authentic selves and absolutely owning it. 🌈

📸 Check out the full album, tag your friends and relive all the Neon Riot magic!

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