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 […]
Image Credit: Lucy Gouldthorpe Our call-out for recordings lasted for a couple of weeks during May 2020 and went out via Ten Days On The Island mail burst, website, blog and social media as well as through our own contacts and the official Facebook page for There is No ‘I’ in Island. We also had […]
TEN DAYS ON THE ISLAND ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Expanded Horizons – travels through lutruwita Tasmania It’s sheer pleasure to travel through the landscapes of lutruwita Tasmania, and thanks to COVID-19, and while we have the place all to ourselves – temporarily – it seems an even more sumptuous experience. Over the last weeks and months, it […]
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 […]
Ten Days on the Island has partnered with Island Magazine to commission Tasmanian writers to write about the unique community halls dotted around the island that will be part of If These Halls Could Talk for Festival 2021. Ten Days on the Island and Island Magazine will co-design and implement a literary initiative to complement If These […]
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 […]
Artwork by Gadget Ten Days on the Island is once again collaborating with the community of Shorewell Park, Burnie Community House (BCH) and Urban Theatre Projects (UTP) for a project that continues to grow the relationships established during the Ten Days on the Island Festival in March 2019. Shorewell Presents… Dear Friend, is a pen […]
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 […]
Image: Artists Rebecca Thomson and Catherine Pettman take their work from the Hobart Tip all the way to Cannes Film Festival Last month we shared our plan to celebrate our 20th year with a Tasmanian artist focused Ten Days on the Island in March 2021. Since then we’ve been absorbed in the processes of […]
Image: Ten Days on the Island Artistic Director, Lindy Hume; CEO, Jane Haley; and Executive Producer, Vernon Guest Waking up on March 20 to The Mercury’s brilliant (now iconic) headline We’ve Got a Moat and We’re Not Afraid to Use It, it was clear that the singularity of living on an island was coming […]
In her terrific book Rusted Off! Why Country Australia is Fed Up, Gabrielle Chan describes the annual race day in her community, the NSW town of Harden Murrumburrah: ‘The races are a microcosm…. In a funny way, we cover most of the ministerial portfolios, traversing health, education, immigration, trade, Treasury, but we do it via […]
Reflecting on Ten Days on the Island 2019 there’s so much to celebrate, starting with the popularity of our new three-weekend Festival model. Welcome, access and participation were touchstones of our approach to everything – from our website and branding to the program itself. There were almost twice as many free events this year and […]