Launceston
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+ exhibition: celebrating Tasmania's first commercial woollen factory
Design Tasmania is hosting Waverley 150+ as an evolving exhibition.
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.
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.
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.