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6-12th October 2025
Celebrating National Mental Health Week
on the Surf Coast

2025 Song Contest
Songs of Hope & Wellbeing
Tuesday October 7, 2025
• 7:00pm
to 10:00pm
Cost: Free Entry to Contest/$30 Artist Registration
Location Torquay Bowls Club
Address: 47 The Esplanade, Torquay
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The annual Surf Coast Song Contest is back! Enter now for your chance to win cash, prizes and exposure!
Designed to engage and inspire through creativity and self-expression, this year's Surf Coast Song Contest is once again on the lookout for songs that reflect hope and wellbeing.
Theme: Song of hope and wellbeing
Conditions of entry:
1. Submit a $30 entry fee per song via the Book Online button below, which will send you to our Humantix booking page: Surf Coast Song Contest Registration 2025
2. Send the following files to
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* Your song, representing ‘Hope and Wellbeing’ in *MP3 format.
* One Word *doc with a song lyrics, up to 25-word song description, and short artist bio,
* Headshot as a *jpg file
IMPORTANT: Include full name in ALL 3 files, e.g. FIRSTNAME_LASTNAME_SONGTITLE
Entries close Sunday 7th September 2025 Midnight.
Prizes:
First Prize:
$1,000 Cash
Valued at $1000 - Recording with Professional Producer Tim Henwood at Medici Studio to record the Winning Song
Valued at $660 - 8hrs Studio Time at Don’t Poke The Bear with Audio Engineer included - Provided by Oxygen College
$200 Voucher from Music Workshop
Second Prize:
$500 Cash
$100 Voucher from Music Workshop
Third Prize:
$250 Cash
$50 Voucher from Music Workshop
Encouragement Award:
$100 Cash
What happens on Performance Night?
Date: Tuesday 7th October
All performances will be acoustic only.
The top 10 songs will perform in front of a live audience and a panel of judges.
Three will be shortlisted on the night to perform again to select the winning artist.
What happens next?
The winning song and artist will be featured in the 2025 Art of the Minds Festival to help create awareness of mental health and wellbeing. The winning artist will also feature at the 2025 Festival Launch and Song Contest.
Hosted by the Surf Coast's very own Lukey Luke.
This year's prize pool has been made possible thanks to the generous support of the Lions Club in Torquay.
You may also like the following events from Art of the Minds:
Also check out other
Contests in Waurn Ponds,
Arts events in Waurn Ponds,
Workshops in Waurn Ponds.
