Unconformity rules at this unique celebration of place

This site-specific festival on Tasmania's remote West Coast offers locals and visitors alike an array of unique cultural experiences.
An aerial view of the winding road into Queenstown TAS highlighting the moonscape-like hills around the town.

When Travis Tiddy and friends first established Tasmania’s biennial West Coast festival The Unconformity in the old copper mining town of Queenstown, they were all very new to the festival world.

‘None of us had one shred of experience in putting together an arts festival, though a few of us were creatively minded, and we started the journey from that very naïve and probably intuitive basis,’ Tiddy, The Unconformity’s Artistic Director, explains.

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Richard Watts OAM is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, a Melbourne Fringe Festival Living Legend, and was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize in 2020. In 2021 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Green Room Awards Association. Most recently, Richard received a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in June 2024. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts