Can events survive Covid-19? | Noosa Today

By Phil Jarratt

Perhaps not as we know them, although while Noosa Council deliberated over the lifting (or at least raising the limit) of the 500-people cap on events on public land this week, at least one long-time Noosa favourite, the Festival of Surfing, scheduled for May, was going from strength to strength.

Despite no internationals being able to attend, the surf festival’s amateur divisions were almost full this week, just two weeks after they opened for entries, and new sponsors seemed to be lining up at the door. (See story page xx)

But right now the surf festival is the only major event on the normal Noosa calendar to have applied for a permit. The others, it seems, are waiting until the last minute to…