Currumbin Mother's Day Paint and Sip Recap May 2026: A Sold-Out Morning at the RSL

Mother's Day at Currumbin sold out fast. 100 lovely humans turning up to celebrate the mums in their lives, filling the Currumbin RSL function room on a bright Sunday morning with paint, mimosas and three generations of song. Lotti held the mic and brought her own mum and her two boys along to paint. James opened with a tribute that landed properly. The artwork was flowers in a teacup. The YMCA finale somehow recruited the venue staff along with everyone else in the room. Here's how the Currumbin Mother's Day Paint and Sip went down in May 2026.

A sold-out room at Currumbin RSL on Mother's Day morning

100 tickets, all gone, days ahead of the date. By the time the doors opened, the function room at the Currumbin RSL was already filling with the kind of soft buzz that comes from people who genuinely want to be there. Mothers and daughters at the same table. Sons who'd quietly talked their mums into this one. Grandmothers settled in with their daughters and their granddaughters. A couple of newborns asleep through the entire morning, blissfully unaware they were already attending their first paint and sip.

Morning sessions hit differently. We ran this one from 10am to 12pm specifically so families could keep the day rolling afterwards. Brunch at the venue, lunch somewhere down the road, an afternoon at the beach. Mother's Day Sunday is for the long version of a day, not a wind-up at 9pm. The Currumbin RSL function room delivered exactly what we needed. Big bright windows, plenty of natural light pouring across the easels, and room enough for 100 painters without anyone feeling on top of each other.

Flowers in a teacup, the Mother's Day painting

For Mother's Day the painting brief was a soft still life. A delicate teacup centre stage, blooms spilling over the saucer, a few stems trailing for movement, the whole composition feeling more like a watercolour than a heavy acrylic piece. Pastel pinks and yellows, sage greens, soft creams. The kind of canvas that looks like it belongs framed on a hallway wall, not stacked behind the couch.

The brief was forgiving, which is the point. Some painters went full pastel. One went bold with hot pinks and a deep navy backdrop. A couple of guests painted lavender stems instead of the demonstration flowers. One painted a single sunflower so big it nearly broke out of the cup. The signature of every Paint Juicy session is that no two canvases leave the room looking the same. Mother's Day delivered the same magic. Same brief, very different outcomes, every painter walking out with something genuinely their own.

James opened the morning with a tribute

Before the brushes were dipped, James got on the mic. A few words for the mums in the room. A few more for the mums-to-be. And a few for the mums no longer here. It was not long and it was not speech-heavy, but it was honest, and the room went very quiet for it. Mother's Day is not just a celebration for everyone in the room, and it felt important to mark that. By the time he handed the mic back to Lotti, the energy had settled into something gentler than a normal Sunday session, and that gentleness carried through the whole morning.

Lotti on the mic, with her own family at the easel

Lotti was hosting, which by now is a regular. What made this one a little different was who was in the room with her. Lotti's own mum came along with her two boys, and the three of them set up at a table together. Watching the host of a Paint Juicy session sing her own mother into a chorus while her boys patiently painted their flowers in a teacup is one of those moments you cannot script. Three generations of one family at the same table, all in for the morning. Exactly the kind of energy Mother's Day is built for.

Mimosas, dessert platters and a morning-session rhythm

The Currumbin RSL kitchen and bar did their part. Mimosas circulated throughout the morning, refills handled quickly, no queueing. The dessert platters came out at about the halfway mark, looked enormous, looked delicious, and the kind of thing you'd happily order again on a normal Sunday. Food and drinks moving fast makes or breaks a paint and sip morning. The RSL had it sorted from the first order to the last clean-up.

There's something specific that morning sessions get right. The light is bright. The energy is warm rather than rowdy. The painting tends to attract more detail because people can see their canvas clearly. The conversations flow more easily than they do in a noisy evening session. Then once the brushes are down, the playlist tips up, and the room still finds the energy for a proper finale. Sunday morning Mother's Day at Currumbin was exactly that.

The YMCA finale and a Currumbin RSL crew that joined in

Brushes down, canvases dried, music up. The classic Paint Juicy session-end dance break. Mother's Day got the YMCA treatment, complete with letter arms, full commitment, mums dancing with daughters, daughters dancing with their own daughters, grandkids in the middle. Then the Currumbin RSL staff joined in. The bar team, the floor team, anyone who happened to be near the dancefloor at the right moment. By the last chorus the dancefloor had picked up a whole separate cast, half the venue clocking out for thirty seconds to throw the Y. We do not stage the dance finale. It just happens. Mother's Day at Currumbin was one of the bigger ones we have run.

What is a Paint Juicy session, exactly?

This Mother's Day session ran as a special two-hour morning slot, 10am to 12pm, so families could keep their Sunday moving afterwards. Most Paint Juicy public sessions are three hours, evenings, big choruses and bigger dance floors. We bring everything: easels, canvases, paints, brushes, aprons, the host, the mic, the lights and the sound. You bring your group, your favourite drink and the willingness to belt out a chorus when the moment lands. Paint Juicy is 100% mobile. We come to the venue, set up around you and pack down at the end.

Public sessions are $59 per person standard. Bottomless sessions at licensed venues are $99 with food and drinks handled by the venue. Most events are 18+. Some are 12+ with a paying guardian along for the ride. Bottomless and nude life drawing sessions are strictly 18+. Mother's Day is the rare exception built for families coming together across generations, which is exactly why we put it on a Sunday morning.

Want a private Paint Juicy session for the next big moment?

Public sessions like this Mother's Day one run regularly across the Gold Coast and beyond. Private bookings are a different beast. Our private sessions start at $700 flat for the first 10 guests, then $65 per extra head, with a 10-paid-seat minimum. Hens nights, milestone birthdays, team building, Christmas parties, baby showers, bridal showers, fundraisers and corporate events all run on the same private format. Pick your venue, pick your theme, we come to you and run the morning, afternoon or night.

Big love to every mum, daughter, son, grandkid and tiny new arrival who came along on Sunday morning, to Lotti for hosting and bringing her own crew, to James for opening the morning the way it needed to be opened, to the Currumbin RSL team for jumping into the YMCA without a second thought, and to every painter who walked out with a teacup full of flowers and a Mother's Day worth remembering. We'll see you at the next one.