From the first, spine-tingling call of ‘mapali!’ at dawn on Devonport beach, to the final raucous chorus of ‘in the future’ ending Lucky Oceans and Heath Cullen’s inspired set in a packed shed on Table Cape, this was a beautiful weekend in the North West of Tasmania. mapali – Dawn Gathering was a particular highlight […]
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 […]
Big week for Ten Days on the Island: just one final week of preparation before the festival opens. It’s one of my favourite moments – the artists start to arrive, rehearsals are in progress and we begin to see what the works in progress are actually going to look like! It’s not every day that […]
Showcasing our local creative community! Around dinnertime on a Tuesday night – depending on the direction of the wind – in the distance around Wynyard you can hear driving drum-beats… first ominous then gathering momentum into complex rhythms interspersed with ferocious Japanese war-cries! The drumbeats might seem incongruous with the relaxed neighbourhood I now live […]
Last Thursday was epic. Three launches in one day but we made it – the program is out there, and the website is live. So welcome to Ten Days on the Island 2019! Our epic adventure is not only through exterior landscapes, but those of the interior, of the soul, the emotions, mind and spirit. […]
January 24, Sydney: A reflection with one week to go before we launch Festival 2019… People often ask me how we go about preparing a festival, but I never have a very good answer, even for myself. If there were a recipe, I guess I wouldn’t follow it anyway. But in preparing any gathering, whether it’s […]
As we ease into the languid summer days and the final weeks of 2018, it’s time to share with our audiences a taste of the Festival events to come in 2019 – the 10thTen Days on the Island. This is an exciting time for Tasmania’s beloved state-wide festival as we release six very special projects […]
Greetings from the other side of the planet – I’m enviously imagining the arrival of summer in Australia while I wait for the predicted snowfall here in Leipzig. This afternoon we have our first Hauptprobe (major rehearsal) for the production of Bizet’s Carmen I’m making for Leipzig Opera. This means that we see all the […]
I’m not sure where 2018 has gone, but suddenly it’s October – an exciting and slightly anxious time for the Ten Days on the Island team as we arrive at the pointy end of the 2019 festival planning process. It’s suddenly and gloriously springtime, the tulips are out in a riot of colour on Table […]
So much has happened since I began in January as Artistic Director of Ten Days on the Island, and we thought today would be the perfect day to share some of our thinking as we plan the next two festivals. And why is International Women’s Day the perfect day? Because on this same auspicious day […]
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 […]