Festival Q & A
General information:
Beyond the Book, formerly Voices on the Coast is an annual youth literature festival, located on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland. The festival is targeted for children aged 10 to 18 (although adults are welcome too!), offering them the opportunity to step beyond the pages of their favorite books and meet beloved authors and illustrators in person. Made up of two student days held at UniSC Sunshine Coast, there are alsoplus additional community events aimed at adults, emerging writers and readers held across the Sunshine Coast. In 2024 the festival will be held, in person, at UniSC Sunshine Coast from Thursday 22 February to Friday 23 February 2024, followed by a virtual festival from Monday 26 February to Wednesday 28 February 2024.
You do not have to be part of a school group to participate in Beyond the Book. Everybody is welcome!
Purchasing Tickets
NOTE: Tickets are available HERE.
Speaker Sessions are $9.00 per Talk per person.
Workshop Sessions are $15.00 per Workshop per person.
The festival is open to everyone, both as a member of a school group, or as in individual. The festival is open to young people and adults.
Please purchase tickets for all accompanying adults with school groups.
You are able to request an invoice for payment once you have selected the tickets you require.
1. Read through the program and select sessions for yourself or your students. Don’t forget to check the age group guides and to include accompanying adults in the numbers required.
2. Once ticket sales open, either purchase the tickets online at www.beyondthebook.com.au directly using a credit card for payment
Or :
3. Select your sessions online at www.beyondthebook.com.au and request an invoice. An invoice will be emailed to you for payment.
One week prior to the festival all ticket holders will be emailed their Ticket Confirmation to their designated email. Please show this confirmation email at each venue for entry.
Workshops are limited to six tickets per school per workshop.
There are no refunds or exchanges once tickets are processed.
School Reservations
If you wish to reserve tickets once ticket sales open, select the required tickets online at www.beyondthebook.com.au and request an invoice for payment.
All payments must be finalised prior to the Festival, please contact the Voices office if there is a problem with payment timelines.
If you have any questions regarding tickets please contact us at
E: btbook@immanuel.qld.edu.au or T: 07 5477 3437.
Venues
Venues and rooms will be allocated closer to the date of the festival.
The in-person festival will be held at:
UniSC Sunshine Coast,
90 Sippy Downs Drive
Sippy Downs
Queensland 4556
Australia
The virtual festival will be held via ticket sales across Aircast, with the ability to be viewed within schools.
Food and Drink
Bottled water is not available for purchase at UniSC Sunshine Coast. However, there are water stations on-site to refill water bottles. It is highly recommended attendees bring their own water bottles. Food and other beverages can be purchased at cafés on-site.
Book Sales
QBD Bookshop will be selling books during the Festival and presenters will be available for book signings.
Book Sales and book signing location will be announced closer to the festival.
Parking
UniSC Sunshine Coast is a paid regulated parking area Monday to Friday 8.00am to 6.00pm.
$5.00 for more than 4 hours $3.00 for 4 hours or less
Parking must be paid as you leave your car and enter the campus. Parking can be paid online at https://www.usc.edu.au/about/locations/transport-and-parking/parking prior to the Festival.
There is no bus parking on campus. School buses can use Platform 3 at UniSC Transit Centre to drop off and pick up passengers. There is an option to park buses in car park 15 (Claymore Road free car park)
Photography Permissions
A photographer will be in attendance at the Festival. The purchase of a ticket implies permission to use the photos for archival and marketing purposes.
COVID-19
Beyond the Book will be complying to all COVID-19 restrictions and directives from Queensland Government, as at the time of the festival.