Ten Days on the Island notes with sadness the passing of Annie Greig, a generous creative spirit. The contribution of Tasdance to our festivals has been immense and we acknowledge Annie’s leadership for this partnership over many years and, more recently, her support as a donor. We send our deep sympathy and warm love to […]
The Board of Ten Days on the Island has announced that, after leading the organisation for six years, CEO Jane Haley has advised the Board that she will step down from her role towards the end of 2021. In her 40-year career in the arts, Jane has led several of Australia’s significant arts organisations including […]
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 […]