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A scene from the 2025 ROOKE production 'Wilds', featuring performers Conor Wild and Freyja Wild. Contemporary circus company ROOKE is one of the inaugural members of the Tasmanian Live Performance Exchange. The photograph depicts a female-presenting acrobat wearing brown garments and performing a headstand; in the background, a male-presenting performer in blue clothes and black boots sits in a folding chair beside an inflatable palm tree.
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Tasmanian Live Performance Exchange to develop statewide strategic plan by and for the sector

The newly formed Tasmanian Live Performance Exchange will develop a 10-year strategic plan for the state’s performing arts sector, and…

A publicity image for 'Influencer'. a Junction Arts Festival dance production about social media. The image shows a group of people half-visible in a cloud of theatrical smoke: a pasted-on photo of a blonde-haired woman obscures one of the faces, which has a male figure in a brown coat and red beanie holding up a ring-light in front of them.
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Junction Arts Festival's 2025 program celebrates Launceston culture

Celebrating Launceston-based companies and artists, Junction also draws in mainland performers and musicians from across Tasmania.

Hero Image for musical theatre performance, decorated image of woman singing.
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A taste of what's to come at the Australian Musical Theatre Festival 2025

This May, Tasmanian talent shares Launceston stages with international acts.

A low round table made out of Hydrowood myrtle, stoneware tiles, glaze, igneous rocks, sandstone, industrial waste inside a white industrial gallery space. Design Tasmania.
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One day to catch 2 exhibitions of Tasmanian design

16 designers are showcasing their works in ‘Tasmanian Makes 25’, but there’s only one day to catch them all.

realistic style painting of Tasmania devil and other native animals surrounded by logged forest. Michael McWilliams.
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Exhibition review: Gentle Protagonist: Art of Michael McWilliams, QVMAG

The disarming paintings of Michael McWilliams both delight and probe in their quirky environmental narratives.

Gallery view of man walking in an immersive exhibition with video projection and metal sculpture. Unsettling Queenstown.
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From Venice to Tasmania: a design collaboration shifting thinking

Australia’s representation at the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale returns home to Tasmania, for its Australian debut.

Audiences gather outside a brightly-lit venue in Prince's Square. They, the building and the night sky are reflected in a dark pool of water in the foreground.
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The festival at the junction of artistic innovation and tourism KPIs

Government support from Events Tasmania instead of Arts Tasmania in no way prevents Junction from offering a strong cultural program…

Long open road in outback Australia. Tourism.
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Surprises as most cultural Australian cities (per capita) revealed

Recent data shows that regional cities offer top cultural experiences.

A luminous inflatable statue of a contemplative male figures floats on a river at sunset. The sunset is reflected in the water and dark trees line the banks.
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David Walsh pulls the plug on summer festival Mona Foma

The festival’s most recent edition was ‘a poorly attended artistic triumph,’ according to Mona owner and founder David Walsh.

Waverley 150+. A black and white photograph of a brick factory with 'Waverley Mills' printed on a wall.
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Waverley 150+ exhibition: celebrating Tasmania's first commercial woollen factory

Design Tasmania is hosting Waverley 150+ as an evolving exhibition.

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