MEDIA RELEASE
2025 FESTIVAL CANCELLED
The Australian Italian Festival announced today that the Committee has decided to cancel the 2025 Australian Italian Festival. The committee considered the extent of devastation and impact to the Ingham community following the February flooding and realised that there was no other option but to cancel the Festival for this 2025.
In announcing this decision, the Festival President Pino Giandomenico said “it was very sad to have to make this decision as the committee was looking forward to presenting our 30th Festival but the impact of the flooding on our sponsors, committee members and volunteers and the community in general left us no choice but to cancel.”
EXPERIENCE LIKE NO OTHER
The Australian Italian Festival is enhanced by the beautiful TYTO wetlands and parkland setting, with its lagoons, raised walkways and alive with Australian Flora and Fauna.
Come and enjoy an experience like no other in Australia.
A fun, family day out that has something for everyone. All children's entertainment is free! There are competitions, entertainment, food and of course Italian wine and beer. This is a family friendly event with lots to see and do for all ages.
The festival attracts visitors of all ages with diverse cultural backgrounds from our region as well as Queensland and all over Australia who come to enjoy the authentic cuisine on offer.
Outstanding community spirit. The Festival is run by volunteers and is a celebration of our cultural heritage.
Located at the award-winning TYTO Precinct, just 500 metres from Ingham's CBD. The precinct includes a library, gallery and visitors information centre along with pristine parklands and wetlands.
2024 Festival Sponsors
In 2025 the Australian Italian Festival will celebrate its 30th festival!
The Australian Italian Festival was founded in 1995 by the passionate Italian community of Ingham and the wider Hinchinbrook Shire. It has since grown from the dedication of multiple generations of volunteers.
The predominant culture of the Hinchinbrook Shire is Italian. Many Italians migrated to Ingham in the late 1800s and early 1900s to work in the cane fields and raise their families. While the Australian Italian Festival focuses on the Italian culture, it also includes our First Nations people and other nationalities who have made Ingham and the Hinchinbrook Shire so culturally diverse.
The 2025 Australian Italian Festival will be held on the 7th and 8th of June at TYTO Parklands in Ingham, North Queensland. Over this weekend, the Parklands is transformed into a full-scale piazza with non-stop entertainment, competitions, free amusement rides for the children, market stalls, homemade, mouth-watering Italian food from professional Italian chefs and the best local Italian nonnas!
Come for the food, stay for the entertainment.
