The Board of Ten Days on the Island has announced that, after leading the organisation for six years, CEO Jane Haley has advised the Board that she will step down from her role towards the end of 2021. In her 40-year career in the arts, Jane has led several of Australia’s significant arts organisations including […]
Ten Days on the Island 2021 will fill all corners of the island across three weekends in March (5–21 March) with a program that will ignite connections with communities from St Helens to Zeehan and Stanley to Sorell as well as Burnie, Launceston and Hobart. The international arts Festival program features over 45 events with […]
Ten Days on the Island 2021 will be a journey across the island to celebrate and unify our communities after a tumultuous year. The Festival, which runs from 5-21 March, will follow the three-weekend model that proved overwhelmingly popular in 2019 and will celebrate each of our regions in authentic and memorable ways. In 2021, […]
Following a statewide call out, 10 writers have been selected to participate in an exciting artistic project. Each writer has been paired with one of 10 halls (or notable venues) in regional Tasmania. Each writer will produce a short creative literary work in response to the history of the hall and the stories of the […]
The sound of an extraordinary musical instrument resonated for the first time in decades at Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery (QVMAG) last Friday, as gloved curators unpacked a set of 1900 Deagan aluminium organ chimes. This rare set, made in Canada, is the only one in Australia and one of only a dozen in existence. This particularly special set was […]
Image Credit: Lucy Gouldthorpe Our call-out for recordings lasted for a couple of weeks during May 2020 and went out via Ten Days On The Island mail burst, website, blog and social media as well as through our own contacts and the official Facebook page for There is No ‘I’ in Island. We also had […]
Ten Days on the Island has partnered with Island Magazine to commission Tasmanian writers to write about the unique community halls dotted around the island that will be part of If These Halls Could Talk for Festival 2021. Ten Days on the Island and Island Magazine will co-design and implement a literary initiative to complement If These […]
Artwork by Gadget Ten Days on the Island is once again collaborating with the community of Shorewell Park, Burnie Community House (BCH) and Urban Theatre Projects (UTP) for a project that continues to grow the relationships established during the Ten Days on the Island Festival in March 2019. Shorewell Presents… Dear Friend, is a pen […]