Numerous festivals and events such as the annual Miss Bondi beauty pageant have made Bondi Beach a popular destination among travellers. The beach has long captured the attention of poets including Joanne Burns, Les Murray and Brook Emery. A skateboarding competition called Bowl-A-Rama is held in February every year.
Pop culture
Bondi Beach has been used as a location for a few Australian and International movies, various television series as well as music videos and a video game.
- The 1959 film version of Summer of the Seventeenth Doll featured the characters drinking beer at the Bondi Iceberg's Club.
- Bondi Rescue is a semi-factual television series filmed on Bondi Beach.
- Bondi Vet is a factual television series filmed at Bondi Beach and surrounding suburbs.
- Breakers was a television drama series filmed around Bondi Beach.
- The Block is an Australian home renovation television series, the first season was filmed at Bondi Beach.
- American hip hop duo People Under the Stairs filmed part of their song, The Wiz, on Bondi Beach.
- Tony Hawks Underground 2's Level Australia is a video game based on Bondi Beach.
- Les Norton famous Aussie fictional character (stars in the Robert G. Barrett series of books) "lives" at Bondi.
