Radical optimism on the island

This was Lindy Hume’s third and final curation of the Ten Days on the Island festival in lutrawita/Tasmania. And so it was a good time for her to reflect on her 20-year experience in such a role by declaring that creating a festival is an exercise in ‘radical optimism’. In her words: ‘Implicit in the creation of a program of experiences that bring people together in celebration of our shared humanity is an idealism, a belief in the role of artists to help us make sense of a world in all kinds of chaos.’