Regional Tasmania
Summer festival season heats up as programs launch nationwide
Adelaide, Perth and Sydney Festivals launched their 2024 programs this week, with Mona Foma waiting eagerly in the wings.
Exhibition review: Holding Pattern, Haus of Vovo
An exhibition that celebrates texture and pattern while strategically navigating the cultural connotations of textile works.
Unconformity rules at this unique celebration of place
This site-specific festival on Tasmania's remote West Coast offers locals and visitors alike an array of unique cultural experiences.
Killing it in Australian publishing
Ann Cleeves and Garry Disher feature at the Huon Valley's Terror Australis Readers and Writers Festival, with panels, writer retreats,…
Radical optimism on the island
The final festival from Lindy Hume saw artists making a range of important statements about their life experiences.
Off the main stage
Many of this year's Mona Foma events were local in origin or involved protests on a topical issues.
Theatre review: The Director, reUnion district, Launceston
The Director merges the realms of theatre and funeral directing, alongside the tragic and the comic.
How funding woes inspired a new home for live art
Launceston’s Assembly 197 is a new approach to art-making that celebrates the spirit of community and collaboration.
Dance review: Body Body Commodity, Earls Arts Centre, Launceston
The lines between object, body and product blur as five female performers animate and interact with a mass of pastel…
How international festivals enrich their local arts ecologies
Four artists and four festival directors discuss the many ways major festivals support and nurture the national arts ecology.