Over the last year, for all of Australia’s international arts festivals, the challenge of creating engaging programs for our communities was made more complex and difficult by the constraints of border closures and travel restrictions, audience capacity limitations, the instant impacts of random COVID-19 cluster flare-ups and an underlying sense of uncertainty about, well, everything. […]
A LETTER FROM LINDY ARTISTIC DIRECTOR OF TEN DAYS ON THE ISLAND For most of the year, making a festival is an exploratory journey across a landscape that takes in an expansive horizon, criss-crossed with roads that twist and turn and a few that lead nowhere. Then, as we near our destination, three mountain-peaks loom: program […]
TEN DAYS ON THE ISLAND ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Expanded Horizons – travels through lutruwita Tasmania It’s sheer pleasure to travel through the landscapes of lutruwita Tasmania, and thanks to COVID-19, and while we have the place all to ourselves – temporarily – it seems an even more sumptuous experience. Over the last weeks and months, it […]
Image: Artists Rebecca Thomson and Catherine Pettman take their work from the Hobart Tip all the way to Cannes Film Festival Last month we shared our plan to celebrate our 20th year with a Tasmanian artist focused Ten Days on the Island in March 2021. Since then we’ve been absorbed in the processes of […]
Image: Ten Days on the Island Artistic Director, Lindy Hume; CEO, Jane Haley; and Executive Producer, Vernon Guest Waking up on March 20 to The Mercury’s brilliant (now iconic) headline We’ve Got a Moat and We’re Not Afraid to Use It, it was clear that the singularity of living on an island was coming […]
In her terrific book Rusted Off! Why Country Australia is Fed Up, Gabrielle Chan describes the annual race day in her community, the NSW town of Harden Murrumburrah: ‘The races are a microcosm…. In a funny way, we cover most of the ministerial portfolios, traversing health, education, immigration, trade, Treasury, but we do it via […]
Reflecting on Ten Days on the Island 2019 there’s so much to celebrate, starting with the popularity of our new three-weekend Festival model. Welcome, access and participation were touchstones of our approach to everything – from our website and branding to the program itself. There were almost twice as many free events this year and […]
This week the Ten Days on the Island team made its way back from Hobart to Burnie after an EPIC three weekend adventure, having brought a kaleidoscope of amazing Festival experiences to communities across Tasmania. Remembering a festival is recreating a collage of seemingly unrelated moments – moments of connection, moments of revelation, of sheer […]
From the first, spine-tingling call of ‘mapali!’ at dawn on Devonport beach, to the final raucous chorus of ‘in the future’ ending Lucky Oceans and Heath Cullen’s inspired set in a packed shed on Table Cape, this was a beautiful weekend in the North West of Tasmania. mapali – Dawn Gathering was a particular highlight […]
Big week for Ten Days on the Island: just one final week of preparation before the festival opens. It’s one of my favourite moments – the artists start to arrive, rehearsals are in progress and we begin to see what the works in progress are actually going to look like! It’s not every day that […]
Showcasing our local creative community! Around dinnertime on a Tuesday night – depending on the direction of the wind – in the distance around Wynyard you can hear driving drum-beats… first ominous then gathering momentum into complex rhythms interspersed with ferocious Japanese war-cries! The drumbeats might seem incongruous with the relaxed neighbourhood I now live […]
Last Thursday was epic. Three launches in one day but we made it – the program is out there, and the website is live. So welcome to Ten Days on the Island 2019! Our epic adventure is not only through exterior landscapes, but those of the interior, of the soul, the emotions, mind and spirit. […]