Surfrider Foundation Gold Coast Tweed is excited to be putting on another Movie Night. Featuring the Bag It documentary asking “is your life is too plastic?” and we also have the iconic “Melali, The Drifter Sessions” featuring Rob Machado.

Tickets are just $10, and the action kicks off from 6pm on Tuesday October 4th at Point Break Bar & Grill on Goodwin Terrace, Burleigh Heads.

Look forward to seeing you there!

International Surfing Day for 2011 is nearly upon us, so we thought we’d let you know what we’re up to!

On Monday 20th June, we’re holding a movie & music night at the Pointbreak Bar & Grill in Burleigh Heads (click here for a map and please leave them a review cos they love us and we love them!)

The music will be from M. Jack Bee and the movies will be Johnny Abegg’s “Two Weeks” and Cyrus Sutton’s “Stoked & Broke” so make sure you get along to support these awesome people.

Tickets are $10 and can be purchased from the Patagonia store on James St, Burleigh.

Surfrider Foundation Gold Coast Tweed presents...

The next instalment of North Kirra Dune Care takes place this Saturday 11th June, again between the hours of 9am and 11am.

Make sure you’re there to come and see the progress we’ve made on the site!

This Tuesday evening (April 5), Surfrider Foundation Gold Coast Tweed, in relationship with National Surfing Reserves is calling and hosting a meeting for all local Gold Coast surfing and beach stakeholders to discuss the possibility of creating a Gold Coast National Surfing Reserve. You are invited and encouraged to attend this important meeting.

The Gold Coast is one of Australia’s and the world’s most famous regions for surfing. It only makes sense to dedicate some of our renown surf breaks as a National Surfing Reserve. A “National Surfing Reserve” is an iconic place of intrinsic environmental, heritage, sporting and cultural value to a nation.

The essential criteria for a National Surfing Reserve are:

1. Quality of waves
2. A place considered sacred by the local and national surfing community
3. Long term usage of the beach and wave environment by local and national surfing community

More details about National Surfing Reserves can be found at www.surfingreserves.org.

The meeting on the 5th of April will be an informational evening on what a National Surfing Reserve would look like on the Gold Coast. There will be specific clarity on what a National Surfing Reserve is and is not. We will also discuss the immense benefits that a National Surfing Reserve will have for the Gold Coast.

Another hope would be that as a result of this gathering, a local community-based steering committee will be formed to set this dream forward into a reality. A National Surfing Reserve on the Gold Coast will not be under the umbrella of Surfrider Foundation Gold Coast Tweed. We are just one passionate voice willing to get the conversation started, and need an array of different Gold Coast stakeholders to take hold of this vision and run with it.

The meeting will be at Fradgley Hall, Park Ave, Burleigh Heads from 7-9pm.

“One man’s trash is another’s treasure.” Surfrider Foundation Gold Coast Tweed is hosting their Summer Board Swap at Currumbin Alley on Saturday 4 December. The first board swap back in May was a huge success with over 200 people walking up and bringing their old surfboards that were lying around their houses. This event should be even bigger.

Surfrider Foundation Gold Coast Tweed desires to highlight the beauty of reducing, reusing, and recycling surfboards, in a city obsessed with the consumption of new surfboards.

“Why would you pay $600 for a new surfboard, when you could swap an old board that you don’t use anymore with another mate’s board and walk away with a new (old) magic board?” – Adam Feichtmann President of Surfrider Foundation Gold Coast Tweed.

There will be a wide collection of surfboards: short boards, fishes, quads, bonzers, eggs, guns, logs, historical collectible, and more. Everything from barely ridden beauties to garage-sale beaters will be available.

The event will be held at the park across the street from Currumbin Alley on Saturday 4st of December from 9am-12pm. Walk on up for free, sign in at the Surfrider Foundation table and browse around for your recycled magic board.