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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…

Man standing in foggy mountains holding up a yellow flag. The Unconformity
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The Unconformity: anything but usual - the intimate festival changing how we engage

The intimate and daring Tasmanian festival, The Unconformity announces its October program - and it's a cracker.

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.

Columbian-Australian violinist Natalya Bing, a Queenstown resident, plays her instrument in front of a seven-metre-diameter reproduction of the moon as part of 'Earthshine' at The Unconformity, 2023.
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The Unconformity returns for 2025

Taking place in Queenstown on palawa Country, on lutruwita/Tasmania’s remote West Coast, The Unconformity has announced its October dates for…

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Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery

Sam Jinks || Mortal Reflections

Encounter art in its most human form—step into the imagined world of Sam Jinks, one of Australia’s most prominent contemporary…

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.

'Crash Body' by Paula Garcia, Dark Mofo 2025. Two cars, one yellow, one black, collide head-on under spotlights in a dramatic, moodily-lit photograph.
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Dark Mofo 2025: the art of screaming and a literal car crash

Featuring artistic provocations, free visual art experiences and a number of exclusive international acts, the program for Dark Mofo 2025…

The Big Sing at Festival of Voices.
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Festival of Voices celebrates 20 years of community through song

The 20th anniversary Festival of Voices program honours the past while looking firmly to the future.

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.

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