MONDO-DR Awards 2023: Tanks Arts Centre makes Performance Venue Shortlist
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Photo: Tanks Arts Centre
Last years installation at Tanks Arts Centre in Cairns has made the cut for the Performance Venue shortlist. NAS would like to congratulate everyone involved in this unique project; local integrator AVLX; Entertainment Production Supplies in Queensland; our own Doug Pringle, who also commissioned the system; d&b audiotechnik; and of course, Tanks Arts Centre.
The dynamic and busy hub for visual and performing arts in Cairns, Tanks Arts Centre, has been created from three giant, concrete tanks originally built in wartime to store fuel for the Royal Australian Navy. Of the three main structures remaining, Tank 5 has been converted into one of Australia’s most unusual performance spaces.
Photo: Adrian Goleby
Inside its 8m-high, 1m-thick circular wall is a fully equipped performance stage, a tiered audience area for up to 650 people, and a licensed bar. Though the roof is new, it is still held aloft by a veritable forest of oil-stained original timber poles which are heritage listed, as is the entire site.
Established and run by the Cairns Regional Council, Tanks hosts a wide variety of artists, with recent acts including The Hoodoo Gurus, Amy Shark, Vika and Linda Bull, and many more.
Recognising that the existing PA in Tank 5 had multiple shortcomings, Council issued a tender for an upgrade of the FOH speaker system and console.
Photo: Tanks Arts Centre