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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.

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Radical optimism on the island

The final festival from Lindy Hume saw artists making a range of important statements about their life experiences.

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Off the main stage

Many of this year's Mona Foma events were local in origin or involved protests on a topical issues.

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Theatre review: The Director, reUnion district, Launceston

The Director merges the realms of theatre and funeral directing, alongside the tragic and the comic.

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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.

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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…

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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.

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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.

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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,…

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Circus review: Interloper

A big-hearted, sweaty celebration of human connection.

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