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. The Vans Bowl-A-Rama skateboarding competition is held at the skate bowl in February every year.
In popular culture
Bondi Beach has been used as a location for several Australian and international movies, various television series, music videos, and a video game:
� The Block is an Australian home renovation television series; its first season was filmed at Bondi Beach.
� Being Lara Bingle is an reality television series, that follows model and socialite Lara Bingle.
� Bondi Hipsters is a web series by Christiaan Van Vuuren and Nick Boshie with over 4 million views
� Bondi Rescue is a factual television series about the team of lifeguards who patrol the beach.
� Bondi Vet is a factual television series about two vets in Bondi Junction.
� Breakers was a television drama series filmed around Bondi Beach.
� Tony Hawks Underground 2's Level Australia is a video game based on Bondi Beach.
� Les Norton, a popular Aussie fictional character who stars in the Robert G. Barrett series of books, "lives" at Bondi in the stories.
� People Under the Stairs, an American hip hop duo, filmed part of the video for their song "The Wiz" on Bondi Beach.
� Scooby-Doo! and the Legend of the Vampire, an American animated movie, includes scenes filmed at Bondi Beach.
� The 1959 film version of Summer of the Seventeenth Doll featured the characters drinking beer at the Bondi Iceberg's Club.
� The 1966 film They're a Weird Mob features a scene in
