Cairns’ creative communities are struggling to make a living from their work in a region dominated by nature tourism.
But some visitors to the Far North are drawn to Kuranda village, in the Atherton Tablelands, where artisans and craftspeople settled in the late 1960s.
Last year almost 1.6 million visitors headed to the region to experience the Great Barrier Reef and the Daintree Rainforest.
In an attempt to connect with the larger community Cairns artists hold a pub-crawl with a twist. The Cairns Creative Crawl is an ‘arty bus’ tour of creative spaces aboard the city’s notorious party bus.
Art lovers experience the warm Cairns afternnon at the start the Cairns Creative Crawl from an open top double decker bus. Image (c) Junaid Mark
