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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Artistic Director, Lindy Hume poses six questions to Jillian Mackenzie, curator at the NFSA. 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? The NFSA is bringing a wonderful curated […]
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 […]
Image: David Gough in mapali, opening Ten Days on the Island Festival in 2021 Ten Days on the Island welcomed the announcement today by the Minister for Communications, Cyber Security and the Arts, the Hon Paul Fletcher of funds for the costs of its major community project for the North West for Festival 21. “We are thrilled to have received funding from […]
Next year’s Ten Days on the Island event is set to be both a post COVID-19 expression of our shared humanity and a celebration of Tasmanian artists, writes Lindy Hume: IT seems like a very long time ago — mid-March — that I returned, nauseous with foreboding, to Burnie after a day in transit in […]
DAY 1 (FRIDAY 8 MARCH) 7AM – Set the alarm early because at 7am you’ll be watching a glorious sunrise over The Bluff in Devonport as mapali – Dawn Gathering unfolds. A unique community performance with hundreds of local singers, dancers and performers breathing as one in a shared moment of reflection and ritual. 9AM […]