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Win tickets to see Looking for Alibrandi at Geelong Arts Centre

Friday 15 August

We’re so excited to team up with our friends at Geelong Arts Centre to give our library members the chance to win tickets to the much-anticipated stage adaptation of Melina Marchetta’s iconic coming-of-age novel, Looking for Alibrandi.

Starring Chanella Macri as Josie Alibrandi, alongside a talented ensemble cast, this production delivers all the heart, humour, and raw emotion of the original film and novel, plus plenty of live passata-making on stage. The production is on stage from 20-23 August. Find out all about the show by visiting the Geelong Arts Centre website. (Recommended for ages 14+).

From today until 5pm Monday 18 August, library members can enter to win a double pass to see Looking for Alibrandi live on stage.

How to enter:

For you chance to win the tickets: 

  • Be a library member. You can join for free online or in person at any of our libraries.
  • Complete an online entry form by 5pm, 18 August 2025. One entry per member.

Winners drawn and notified on Tuesday 19 August. Prizes are to be provided as gift vouchers redeemable at the Geelong Arts Centre box office.

 

TERMS AND CONDITIONS:
By participating in this competition, you agree to the following terms and conditions:
1. The competition opens on Friday 15 August and the competition closes at 5pm Monday18 August 2025.
2. Entries received after the closing time and date will be deemed ineligible.
3. Entrants are the parents or guardians of the children. Children’s first name only.
4. To enter this competition, you must complete the entry form. Under no circumstances will GRLC share any entrant’s personal information with any third parties, partners or affiliates.
5. By entering this competition, you warrant to GRLC that you are eligible to enter this competition based on these terms and conditions. Entry into the competition is deemed acceptance of these terms and conditions. If you do not agree with any part of these terms and conditions, you should not enter the competition or accept any prize resulting from entry into the competition.
6. Employees and their immediate families of the Geelong Regional Library Corporation and the Geelong Arts Centre are ineligible to enter.
7. GRLC reserves the right, at any time, to verify the validity of entries and to disqualify any entrant who tampers with the entry process or who submits an entry that is not in accordance with these terms and conditions. Failure by GRLC to enforce any of its rights at any stage does not constitute a waiver of those rights.
8. The use of false names (being names by which the entrant is not usually known) or false addresses will result in disqualification.
9. Only one entry permitted per library member.
10. Incomplete, indecipherable or illegible entries will be deemed invalid.
11. The winners will be drawn on Tuesday 19 August and notified by contact details supplied.

 

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