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 2025.
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.

The Unconformity, lutruwita/Tasmania’s biennial contemporary cultural festival, which is deeply rooted in and reflective of the distinctive West Coast town of Queenstown where it takes place, returns from Thursday 16 to Sunday 19 October 2025.

The festival’s 2025 edition will be its first without founding Artistic Director Travis Tiddy (who stepped down from the role in August 2024 after 15 years and seven festivals) and, consequently, marks the beginning of a new chapter for The Unconformity under the joint leadership of CEO Louisa Gordon and Artistic Director Loren Kronemyer.

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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 2019 Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize. 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