Join Ten Days on the Island’s Artistic Director Lindy Hume for a conversation with Tasmanian arts leaders and guest thinkers about how art can inspire and empower regional communities, and what big cities can learn from regional artists and cultures.
For Creative Coast, two-time Emmy Award winner and visionary artist Lynette Wallworth will talk about her work as a filmmaker and the profound impact of three magnificent films Tender, Awavena and Collisions, each made in collaboration with a small community
In the tradition of the Moth, the Stoop, and StorySLAM, the Weft is about weaving true stories, told live, on stage, without notes, props, or falsehoods.
Step into the beautiful surrounds of Black Swan Cafe for an intimate hour of readings by some of Tasmania’s most celebrated authors.
The Derwent Valley Concert Band is one of Australia’s most highly acclaimed, travelled and successful Community Bands. Relax on the lawns of Willow Court on a Friday afternoon and enjoy this specially curated repertoire by Derwent Valley’s greatest export.
Step into a singular room at Willow Court’s Barracks to experience Derwent Valley artist Alexander Okenyo’s text-based installation drawn from public documents and private stories, hospital records and forgotten thoughts scrawled on asylum walls.
This work, improvised in the rubble of a hospital as it was being demolished, honours the histories of that place; the lives saved, the lives lost.
Visit the National Trust property of Valleyfield, step into its old stone coach house, and listen to New Norfolk’s St Matthew’s Motet deliver an immersive a capella performance of sacred and secular music: songs of longing and redemption from the plague years of 16th century Europe.
Be guided through this sprawling multi-room work that conjures gentle landscapes in a marriage of nature, culture, sculpted clay and mined earth to create a personal monologue, a communal desecration where ritual is sacrosanct.
If you think you know Burnie backwards, take another look. To participate download the Google Map for Burnie Living History QR Walk to locate the QR codes on your walk. These will be numbered but it’s not necessary to follow these numbers in any particular sequence. Using your phones camera, hover your phone over the […]
Indigenous elder Nyarri Morgan’s first contact with Western culture came in the 1950s when his traditional worldview collided with a nuclear explosion in the South Australian desert. Through the virtual reality experience, Morgan invites you onto the land of the Martu people in the remote Western Australian desert.
Wallworth has filmed portraits of 11 women who live in Australia but originated from countries including Afghanistan, Sudan, Iraq and El Salvador.