Poor Souls 26 Feb – 11 Apr In 1845, the émigré barque Cataraqui was wrecked off the jagged shore of King Island. The disaster caused 400 deaths of emigrant families and crew, who will be remembered as Poor Souls – an exhibition by King Island and mainland Tasmanian artists who interpret Australia’s worst civil disaster […]
Remembering a festival is recreating a collage of seemingly unrelated moments – moments of connection, moments of revelation, of sheer beauty or raw potential, moments of eloquence, unexpected moments of insight or beauty. While the collage of moments forms a very different picture this time, I wrote these thoughts after the 2019 Festival, and they […]
Over the last year, for all of Australia’s international arts festivals, the challenge of creating engaging programs for our communities was made more complex and difficult by the constraints of border closures and travel restrictions, audience capacity limitations, the instant impacts of random COVID-19 cluster flare-ups and an underlying sense of uncertainty about, well, everything. […]
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 […]
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, […]
A LETTER FROM LINDY ARTISTIC DIRECTOR OF TEN DAYS ON THE ISLAND For most of the year, making a festival is an exploratory journey across a landscape that takes in an expansive horizon, criss-crossed with roads that twist and turn and a few that lead nowhere. Then, as we near our destination, three mountain-peaks loom: program […]
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 […]