Tasmania
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…
Fringe festivals power ahead across three states
As Adelaide Fringe opens, new Fringe Festivals are also springing up in Hobart and on the Mornington Peninsula.
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.
After 20 years, Lindy Hume has programmed her final festival
Having curated 12 international arts festivals in 20 years, Hume says it’s time for a change of direction.
2023: a first-class year for Australian symphonic orchestras
An emphasis on sustainable music making, Australian composition, the showcasing of female conductors and composers, plus the voices of First…
Connections, projects and updates: Tasmania’s Performing Arts Sector Day
Lesley Graham reports on the discussions and conversations to emerge from the third Performing Arts Sector Day held in Launceston,…
From dust to universe: Tomás Saraceno opens at Mona
An artist who can ‘change the world with beautiful things’ – Mona’s latest exhibition features the work of Tomás Saraceno…
Exhibition Review: HOME|LAND
HOME|LAND interrogates personal and cultural ideas of heritage and home, by six Tasmanian artists.
Theatre review: Amy's Tattoo
Nature, nurture and the slippery laws of attraction.