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 […]
Award-winning festival and opera director, Lindy Hume will become the next Artistic Director of Tasmania’s biennial statewide arts festival, Ten Days on the Island. Chairman of Ten Days on the Island, Saul Eslake said that the organisation is thrilled to secure Ms Hume’s involvement. “Her extensive experience of major Australian international arts Festivals and her […]