Tasmania
![ROOKE perform Nimble at Theatre Royal Hobart. A balding man with a beard holds a hoop up over the heads of an audience of children and parents sitting on the floor. He wears a green T shirt and white shorts.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/Nimble-1-Theatre-Royal-2024-Staycation-Photo-Cassie-Sullivan-e1716264131966.jpg?w=310)
Circus review: (Excerpts from) Nimble, Theatre Royal
Tasmania's circus troupe presented a show nimble in name and act.
![A body wrapped in paper is carried aloft by five women who have their backs to the viewer.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/MADE.jpg?w=310)
Dance review: To Carry/To Hold, Theatre Royal Hobart
A dance work that focused on touch, skin, and the history and glory of the human body.
![An aerial view taken at dusk of a large crowd gathered outdoors preparing to sing together as part of The Big Sing at Festival of Voices.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/banner_The-Big-Sing.jpg?w=310)
Singing in the winter dark: Festival of Voices returns for 2024
Hobart’s original winter festival returns with a program featuring everything from US R&B star Macy Gray and choral workshops to…
![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.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/46725321561_ad38944009_k.jpg?w=310)
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.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/waverley-mills-150-years.jpg?w=310)
Waverley 150+ exhibition: celebrating Tasmania's first commercial woollen factory
Design Tasmania is hosting Waverley 150+ as an evolving exhibition.
![A heritage-listed former warehouse that is now an arts centre. The photo shows the sandstone which makes up the building, several windows, and a sign reading 'Salamanca Arts Centre' above the main entrance.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Credit-Jesse-Hunniford.jpg?w=310)
Salamanca Arts Centre campaigns for Tasmanian Icon status
Home to many artists and arts organisations, Hobart's heritage-listed Salamanca Arts Centre has not received recurrent government funding for over…
![a montage of sepia toned 18th and 19th century illustrated portraits of 18th and 19th century Australian convicts and First Nations people.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/HERO_Unshackled_Artwork_landscape-cropped-version-e1710889448419.jpg?w=310)
Major new museum show unshackles convict stories from myth
The exhibition spotlights freedom fighters among Australia’s early convicts to reframe well-worn narratives around their fates as dispossessed victims. Instead,…
![Accessibility. A blue figure is in the background with a stream of pancake like yellow discs winding out in front of them like a path.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/igor-omilaev-MaGyGv5PI4g-unsplash-e1709697363735.jpg?w=310)
Mona Foma – working to increase accessibility
Accessibility is not a 'one and done' issue, but festivals like Mona Foma are moving in the right direction.
![Hyperbolic Psychedelic Mind Melting Tunnel of Light, the image is the silhouette of a person holding a joystick in the foreground and behind them an explosion of red laser lights.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/fox.jpg?w=310)
Installation review: Hyperbolic Psychedelic Mind Melting Tunnel of Light, Mona Foma Festival
An installation that allows you to control the light and sounds yourself.
![Mona Foma, Kutcha Edwards and the Australian Art Orchestra. Image is of a First Nations man singing at night on a stage, with a band of musicians around him and yellow spotlights beaming across the image.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/02/Kutcha-Edwards-and-The-Australian-Art-Orchestra-Mona-Sessions-at-Mona-Mona-Foma-2024.jpg?w=310)
Music review: Mona Sessions, Moma Foma
Mona Sessions presented a dazzling array of different musical acts as part of the Mona Foma festival.