Tasmania: more than just MONA

Arts Tasmania has launched a new website designed to help cultural tourists look further afield than David Walsh’s museum.

27 Apr 2015

Richard Watts

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Image: Midnight Mingle (detail) by Michael McWilliams via tasmanianartsguide.com.au

The rapid growth of cultural tourism to Tasmania has led to the creation of a new website, the Tasmanian Arts Guide, designed to help visitors access more of the state’s arts and cultural offerings.

Tasmanian Minister for the Arts, Vanessa Goodwin, said the Tasmanian Arts Guide was introduced to better service the recent influx of culturally-engaged tourists.

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Richard Watts is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM, and serves as the Chair of La Mama Theatre's volunteer Committee of Management. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, and was awarded the status of Melbourne Fringe Living Legend in 2017. In 2020 he was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize. Most recently, Richard was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Green Room Awards Association in June 2021. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts