Gemfields Festival

Get set for the Gemfields Festival – 6th – 13th August 2022

The Sapphire Gemfields are once again ready to dazzle this August as the quintessentially unique destination, located just a short distance from Emerald, comes to life for the inaugural Gemfields Festival.

Kicking off on Saturday 6th August, the week of community celebration and enga’GEM’ent will welcome locals and visitors from far and wide to take part in a suite of exciting events that showcase this diverse and distinctive part of the world.

From family fun days, high teas, and fossicking, to workshops, mine showcases, historic walks, a fancy-dress ball and much more, the arran’GEM’ent of festivities stretching across the townships of Rubyvale, Sapphire, Anakie and Willows have something appealing to everyone of all ages and abilities.

Following a significant rebrand of the region’s biggest tourism event, ‘Gemfest’, which was cancelled for two years running due to COVID outbreaks, the Gemfields Festival will bring local community groups together to deliver an extravaganza across the fields.