A Personal Message from Marnie Karmelita, Artistic Director

GUEST CURATOR – BERT SPINKS

I’m excited to be a part of this year’s Ten Days on the Island. I’ll be chatting with author Ailsa Piper, in the Hobart Town Hall on March 22. Last year, Ailsa released a book called For Life, which explores grief and our connection with the world around us. I’m really looking forward to an unhurried […]

Ten Days on the Island appoints highly acclaimed new Artistic Director.

A major coup for Lutruwita/Tasmania, Ten Days on the Island appoints highly acclaimed new Artistic Director. Acclaimed festival director Marnie Karmelita will become the next Artistic Director of the biennial statewide arts festival, Ten Days on the Island. Chair of Ten Days on the Island, Mr Craig Perkins said that the organisation is thrilled to […]

World-renowned Kronos Quartet will perform in Hobart on their final Five Decades tour

One of the world’s most celebrated and influential string quartets is heading to lutruwita Tasmania in a major musical coup for Ten Days on the Island 2023. Grammy Award-winning Kronos Quartet will perform in nipaluna Hobart during the Ten Days Festival in March, as part of their Five Decades Tour to celebrate the group’s 50th […]

FINANCE MANAGER WANTED

Ten Days on the Island is seeking an experienced Finance Manager to join the team. Reporting to the CEO the Finance Manager is responsible for the financial operations of Tasmania’s statewide biennial arts festival, including financial modelling, planning, reporting and general business management and, with the CEO ensuring legislative compliance, government and Board reporting. Based in pataway/Burnie on the […]

JOIN THE 2023 FESTIVAL TEAM

The next Ten Days on the Island Festival is in March 2023. As lutruwita/Tasmania’s premier state-wide arts Festival, we need clever and capable people to deliver and share our program with audiences across the state. We’re looking to appoint two senior leadership roles including the Head of Programming Operations and the Head of Partnerships and Marketing. If you […]

Welcome Sally Richardson

We are excited to be able to announce Sally Richardson has been appointed Executive Producer of Ten Days on the Island. Lindy Hume AM, Artistic Director, Ten Days on the Island stated, “I am thrilled to be working alongside the brilliant Sally Richardson as we bring the 2023 Festival to life. Sally is a creative […]

Artistic Director poses six questions to Festival artist Vic McEwan

Artistic Director, Lindy Hume poses six questions to artist Vic McEwan, his work Haunting and Alder Hey are showing as part of our Ten Days on the Island program this March. Describe in a few sentences the work you’re bringing to Ten Days on the Island from your own perspective – what interests and excites […]

Big Dreams – How (our) small community can inspire the world

In every festival the headliners grab the attention, but it’s the detail of a festival program that reveals its real riches. This is certainly true this weekend with our Creative Coast program at Burnie Arts and Function Centre. We’re transforming Burnie Arts and Function Centre into the heart of the 2021 West + North West […]

Six Questions with Lindy Hume – No I in Island’s Cat Pettman

Artistic Director, Lindy Hume poses six questions to Cat Pettman Describe in a few sentences the work you’re bringing to Ten Days on the Island from your own perspective – what interests and excites you about it? What do you hope audiences will experience? There’s nothing quite like listening to the self-recorded experiences of people living through […]

A signature project for Ten Days on the Island

Image: Ross Town Hall A signature project for Ten Days on the Island 2021 will be the Tasmanian re-imagination of If These Halls Could Talk, a magnificent place-making, community-building project which originated in northern NSW by our friends at Arts Northern Rivers. The Tasmanian version of If These Halls Could Talk, a series of art […]