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 […]