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MESSAGE FROM THE MESSAGE FROM THE ARTS MINISTER CHAIRMAN

The Hodgman Government is a proud As an economist I hold firmly to the view supporter of the arts in Tasmania, and that the arts promote true prosperity. we highly value the jobs and investment As well as their role in fostering creativity opportunities the industry brings to the and beauty, helping us to manifest our state. values and building bridges between The 2017 Ten Days on the Island Festival cultures, the arts have a significant will bring performance, exhibitions financial impact. and related activities to 38 locations Ten Days on the Island is intensely in 25 municipalities across the state. proud of the contribution it has made to This is a fantastic effort that will enable Tasmania. We are proud of the support people from all parts of Tasmania to that the Festival has given to Tasmanian share in these experiences, and allows the artists and of the support it has received MESSAGE FROM THE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR opportunity for locals and tourists alike from Tasmanian audiences. to participate in creativity in ways that will The inclusion of local Tasmanian artists enrich their lives and connect them to the in the international Festival, and the The 2017 Ten Days on the Island program again celebrates Tasmania’s creative wider world. presentation of events in communities connections to the world, with work from artists of many different nationalities throughout Tasmania is in line with including China, New Caledonia and Germany. But central to the Festival’s There are experiences in the Ten Days on programming is the outstanding work of our own artists. In 2017 the Festival premieres CONTENTS the Island Festival 2017 program that will Ten Days on the Island’s commitment to place Tasmanian audiences at the centre ten new performing arts works written and devised by local artists, in addition to an THEATRE/PERFORMANCE 3 strike a chord in the heart of everyone. astonishing program of visual arts. I hope you will take up the opportunity to of a festival that is distinctly different and experience what the Festival has to offer, to position Tasmania, as a place, at the The work of local artists has always been of great importance to Ten Days on the Island. MUSIC 17 and to take advantage of this amazing core of the celebration of distinctiveness. If the 2017 program is any measure of the vibrancy of ideas in the community, then the spread of arts activities and experiences We are proud of the ways in which Festival will once again demonstrate the wealth of artistic endeavour harboured on our DANCE 29 across the state. Ten Days on the Island brings island and the appetite for audiences to dive into an exciting torrent of experiences. international recognition for Tasmania At the heart of an arts festival lies the obligation to provide audiences with a range of SPIEGELTENT HOBART 31 and demonstrates how the arts can performances and exhibitions that might otherwise not be possible. At one end are Dr Vanessa Goodwin, MLC positively influence a community’s experiences that will be entertaining and joyful. At the other end are works that are VISUAL ARTS 33 Minister for the Arts perception of itself and the image it provocative and transformative. Between the two lie all manner of experiences to be projects to the world. interpreted an all manner of ways. FESTIVAL EXTRA 49 Ten Days on the Island is a stimulation I am sure that there is something in the program that you know you will love. I hope that to the imagination of Tasmania and you will also try something you don’t know yet. At Ten Days on the Island we take great PARTNERS AND SUPPORTERS 53 our Festival 2017 program will continue delight in seeing both artists and audiences take one step further. this tradition. TICKETING AND VENUES 55

David Malacari MAP AND ROAD TRIP 59 Saul Eslake Artistic Director, Ten Days on the Island Chairman, Ten Days on the Island EVENT PLANNER 61

Book online at tendays.org.au Book online at tendays.org.au #ontheisland #ontheisland WORLD PREMIERE SEASON “Start at Two Tree Hill then THEATRE 4 work Big Snaky down to

A Tasmania Performs production the Sandy Patch … we’ve been doing it this THE SEASON way for years.” by Nathan Maynard It’s mutton-bird season and the Duncans are back in their plucking shed. Amid the threat of bird gurry, tiger snakes, Aunty Marlene and Pop blowing a pooper valve, the family reunites with a country and culture still very much alive. Hatchets are buried, secrets told, pranks pulled and deep connections drawn. Set on Dog Island in Bass Strait, The Season is written by Tasmanian Aboriginal writer and performer Nathan Maynard, who has been endorsed by elders to share the stories of his community. His voice is as sharp as a tack and as blunt as a brick, and with it he tells a disarming, funny story with a crucial point to make; “We’re still here”. Featuring some of the best Aboriginal talent from around the country including Trevor Jamieson (The Secret River) and Tammy Anderson (I Don’t Wanna Play House). You’ll be fascinated and inspired. And you’ll laugh your head off.

WRITER: Nathan Maynard DIRECTOR: Isaac Drandic DRAMATURG: Peter Matheson SET AND COSTUME DESIGNER: Richard Roberts LIGHTING DESIGNER: Rachel Burke SOUND DESIGNER: Ben Grant

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HOBART TICKETS Theatre Royal Stalls and Dress Circle Thu 16 – Sat 18 March, 7.30pm Premium/A Reserve $75 Sun 19 March, 4pm B Reserve $65 C Reserve $55 DURATION B Reserve Concession $55 1hr 30mins approx. (no interval)

PATRON ADVICE Recommended for ages 15+ Strong language and sexual themes. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are advised that the play may refer to people who are deceased and include the sound of their voices.

This project has been assisted by the Australian Government’s Major Festivals Initiative in association with the Confederation of Australian International Arts Festivals Inc., Ten Days on the Island, Sydney Festival and

Melbourne Festival. Simon Pynt Image: Book online at tendays.org.au #ontheisland 白蛇传 THEATRE 6 古老的传说捕获着人民大众几个世纪的想象力。它将会被 AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE SEASON 上海话剧艺术中心最优秀的舞蹈演员赋予新的生命。 这个舞台剧的表演是汉语，同时会有英文字幕。 AN ANCIENT CHINESE LEGEND RETOLD IN BRILLIANT COLOUR. WHITE SNAKE Shanghai Dramatic Arts Centre Once upon a time, a young man fell in love with a beautiful woman. They married and lived happily until her true identity was revealed; she was a magical white snake. The famous myth has captured imaginations for centuries. This telling turns the classic, ‘love-knows-no-bounds’ tale into a sumptuous visual experience of performance, music, art, song and costume. The deft hand of Italian dramatist Giacomo Ravicchio places some of Shanghai’s best performers against a backdrop of projected live illustration and traditional imagery. This, along with a blend of Chinese and western music by composer Jeremy Bauer, punctuates and accents the Mandarin narration. Staged with English subtitles, this is a wonderful introduction to Chinese theatre for all the family.

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LAUNCESTON TICKETS Princess Theatre Princess Theatre Tue 21 March, 8pm Full $59 Concession $39 HOBART Family (2 + 2) $178 Theatre Royal Fri 24 & Sat 25 March, 7.30pm Theatre Royal Stalls and Dress Circle DURATION Premium $69 1hr 10mins (no interval) A Reserve $64 B Reserve $59 PATRON ADVICE C Reserve $44 Mandarin language with English B Reserve Concession $44 subtitles. A Reserve Family (2 + 2) $198

Book online at tendays.org.au #ontheisland WORLD PREMIERE SEASON “A magical and beguiling piece of theatre.” THEATRE 8

— Michael Cathcart, ABC Radio National Books and Arts YOU AND ME AND THE SPACE BETWEEN Terrapin Puppet Theatre The Island of the Proud Circle has sprung a leak and its citizens must find a way to stop their home from disappearing altogether. It takes the wandering, wondering mind of a child to save the island, its people and their ways. Adventures happen, horizons widen, important things are said: “Unknowns, which worry us, can actually hold unthoughtofs, which teach us.” Cartoonist Tom O’Hern will draw the story as actor Jane Longhurst narrates it and puppeteer Felicity Horsley brings it to magical life. With words by Finegan Kruckemeyer, direction by Sam Routledge and a musical score by Dean Stevenson, this is storytelling at its creative best. Laugh, lift, think, hope. For all the family.

WRITER: Finegan Kruckemeyer DIRECTOR: Sam Routledge DESIGNER: Jonathon Oxlade LIGHTING DESIGNER: Nicholas Higgins COMPOSER AND MUSICIAN: Dean Stevenson

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LAUNCESTON TICKETS Earl Arts Centre Adult $29 Thu 16 & Fri 17 March, 6pm Child $23 Sat 18 March, 2pm Family (2 + 2) $79

HOBART PATRON ADVICE Peacock Theatre Recommended for ages 7+ Fri 24 & Sat 25 March, 6pm SUPPORTED BY Sun 26 March, 2pm Launceston performances are DURATION presented in association with Theatre North at the Princess 1hr (no interval)

This production has been assisted by the Australian Government’s Major Festivals Initiative in association with the Confederation of Australian International Arts Festivals, Ten Days on the Island, Darwin Festival,

Brisbane Festival, Melbourne Festival, Sydney Festival and Terrapin Puppet Theatre. Mathew Peter Image: Book online at tendays.org.au #ontheisland 9 THEATRE THEATRE 10

Gardens, piñatas, brilliance and sadness in a vivid, gorgeous performance.

Image: Mansoor Noor Image: Franz Ritschel Blue Cow Theatre Inc. in association with “ART COULD NOT BE QUIETER, SIMPLER OR MORE BEAUTIFUL.” Ten Days on the Island presents — TAGESANZEIGER ZÜRICH MOLTEMA DURATION Villarett 2hrs (including An Aurora Nova production FRIDA AND DEREK Gardens interval) Thu 16 March, FLINDERS ISLAND TICKETS TICKETS Blue Cow Theatre Inc. 7pm Flinders Island Arts & Full $38 Full $48 Entertainment Centre Concession $28 This is a celebration of the lives of two of the 20th century's most idiosyncratic, LAUNCESTON Concession $28 PORTRAITS Tue 21 March, 7pm charismatic icons: Mexican surrealist painter Frida Kahlo and English punk filmmaker Hatherley DURATION Derek Jarman. House PATRON ADVICE DELORAINE 1hr 5mins (no interval) The lives of these striking individuals share surprising parallels. Both had almost Sat 18 March, Recommended IN MOTION Little Theatre mystical regard for colour, both practised their art with exuberant excess, opulence and 7pm for ages 16+ Wed 22 March, 7.30pm PATRON ADVICE flirtation, and both kept exotic gardens. Adult themes. Volker Gerling CLAREMONT Recommended for ages 12+ Derek was a loud and proud gay activist; Frida a committed communist. Pain, injury and Further venue SWANSEA illnesses stalked Frida for her whole life, while Derek’s final year was veiled in blindness. Claremont The earliest form of film – the flipbook – is revived by a travelling Some images contain adult information Town Hall content. These fascinating characters have captured the world’s imagination and now leading House available at minstrel whose music is in his pictures. Tasmanian theatre director Robert Jarman sets them free in our gardens. He has taken Wed ­22 & Thu 23 tendays.org.au Volker Gerling has walked 3,500km over 13 years and had Thu 23 March, 7.30pm these characters and their stories and with an eclectic ensemble of four actors and a March, 7pm thousands of human encounters in search of lost moments. musician, shaped them into a performance piece of vibrant beauty. SUPPORTED BY He has compiled these intimate moments into flipbooks and HOBART “… Brilliant, gorgeous, painted, gay / Vivid, flaunting, tearaway. Glowing, flaring, lurid, HOBART now presents the best of them to audiences all over the world. Town Hall loud / Screaming, shrieking,marching, proud ..." – Derek Jarman, Chroma Royal Tasmanian Using his flipbooks, a projector and his elegant humour, Fri 24 & Sat 25 March, Botanical he creates a narrated ‘thumb cinema’ that exposes what the 7.30pm Gardens rushing world doesn’t see. DIRECTOR: Robert Jarman Tue 28 March – A gentle meeting of cinema, photography and story. FRANKLIN Sat 1 April, 7pm Palais Theatre Sun 26 March, 5pm TASMANIA WORLD PREMIERE GERMANY

Book online at tendays.org.au Book online at tendays.org.au #ontheisland #ontheisland PERFORMANCE 12 FREEZE! “… absolutely and Nick Steur compellingly beautiful.” If concentration is an art form, Nick Steur from the Netherlands is a master. With his hands, will, focus and skill, he achieves the improbable by balancing odd shaped — wow247, Edinburgh Fringe rocks on top of one another. This is not trickery or illusion, but the culmination of one man pushing the limitations of possibility. Steur uses the location to underscore his work and will perform in some of Tasmania’s most beautiful places. Without showmanship or bluster, he gives pause to the daily thoughts and preoccupations of his audience and places them gently in the present. With variations in materials, place and potential distractions, each performance is unique in its own astonishing way.

NETHERLANDS

PORT ARTHUR DURATION Port Arthur Historic Site Performances can vary between Fri 17 March, 6.30pm 40 and 70mins

BAY OF FIRES TICKETS Cosy Corner FREE EVENT Sat 18 March, 5pm Registration essential at tendays.org.au

BAKERS BEACH PATRON ADVICE Narawntapu National Park Suitable for ages 6+ Sun 19 March, 4pm Children must be accompanied by an adult. STANLEY In the event of inclement weather, Highfield House check the website for relocation or Tue 21 March, 6.30pm cancellation of a performance. Allow yourself plenty of time to reach SHEFFIELD the site, look for the Ten Days on the Eagles Nest Retreat Island signage for parking areas and please bear in mind some sites require Wed 22 March, 6.30pm a 5-10 minute walk from your car. Detailed maps and further information STRAHAN on performance sites can be found at People’s Park tendays.org.au Fri 24 March, 6.30pm

LAKE ST CLAIR NATIONAL PARK Lake St Clair Sat 25 March, 4pm

BIRCHS BAY Art Farm Birchs Bay Sun 26 March, 3pm

AUSTRALIAN EXCLUSIVE

Richard Jordan Productions & Theater-aan-Zee

in association with Theatre Royal Plymouth, Big in Belgium and Summerhall Nick Steur Image: Book online at tendays.org.au #ontheisland “ Astonishing … MUSIC THEATRE 14 Genius … tough and tuneful and terrific.”

— The Toronto Star

AUSTRALIAN EXCLUSIVE THE GOD THAT COMES featuring Hawksley Workman 2b theatre company In a world ruled by greed and an oppressive king, the lesser classes have taken to the countryside in a revolution of hedonism and spirituality. There, they commune with their animal needs to dance, to lose control, to get drunk and to have sex. The God That Comes is a wine-soaked rock & roll cabaret starring Hawksley Workman in an extraordinary solo performance that fuses the chaotic revelry of a rock concert with the intimacy of theatre. Hawksley – award-winning rocker, writer and actor – plays all the characters and all the instruments in a spectacle of pure talent. It is a tonic for a society that has lost its sense of balance and abandoned its animal instincts. Raise a glass, get lost in the music, but beware; this is Bacchus at his most potent.

CANADA

DEVONPORT TICKETS Devonport Entertainment Full $48 & Convention Centre Concession $38 Tue 21 March, 8pm PATRON ADVICE HOBART This show contains mature subject The Playhouse Theatre matter, strobe lighting effects, beautiful Fri 24 & Sat 25 March, 8pm loud music, explicit language, sexual imagery, and other naughty ideas. Enjoy. Cabaret seating available.

DURATION 1hr 15mins (no interval)

Image: Trudie Lee Trudie Image: Book online at tendays.org.au #ontheisland 15 PERFORMANCE THEATRE 16

Image: Richard Parkinson Tasmanian Theatre Company presents

HOBART The Patrick THE ONENESS OF E-BABY Street Theatre Image: Nicole Robson (entry opposite DIVERSITY … AMPLIFIED. Catherine, 45, an Australian expat 137 Patrick St) living in London, has everything – a husband, a career and an international Mon 20 – Wed 22 Invisible Practice in association with life. Everything except a child. In a & Tue 28 – Fri 31 Ten Days on the Island presents desperate attempt to fulfill her dream of March, 8.15pm motherhood, she hires Nellie, a working Sat 1 April, 2.15pm mother of two and first-time surrogate, & 8.15pm living in the surrogacy-friendly state of Massachusetts in the US. BABEL DURATION As they share the highs and lows of WORLD PREMIERE 1hr 50mins Invisible Practice pregnancy, we get to know two very (including interval) different women, both of whom have This live performance of sound and expression will immerse you in many of the fifty underestimated the emotional impact or so languages spoken in Tasmania. Words and lilts and tones have been studied, HOBART SUPPORTED BY of the path they have chosen. PATRON ADVICE combined and choreographed into a durational performance in a disused office Level 5, Hobart Council Centre Recommended 16 Elizabeth St (entry from Davey St) Funny, touching and important, e-baby for ages 12+ space in central Hobart. is written by writer and journalist Choreographer and creator Glen Murray, composer Heath Brown and sound and Sat 18 March, 5pm – 10pm Jane Cafarella. Jane has created an Mature themes. lighting designer Jason James join with Tasmanians for whom English is not their Fri 24 March, 6pm – 11pm enthralling story about love, obsession first language to give voice to a hidden population. Together they have created an Sat 25 March, 5pm – 10pm and entitlement. Written with humour TICKETS embracing, confronting and tender work that evokes contemplation and conversation and compassion, e-baby comes to Full $49 about language and humanity. DURATION Hobart after successful seasons in Senior $40 Melbourne and Sydney. If you understand nothing that is said, you will look for the unsaid and it will speak 5-hour durational work with Concession $30 volumes. entry anytime until 30mins Door sales for before closing time. “FUNNY, POIGNANT under 30s $25 CHOREOGRAPHER AND CREATOR: Glen Murray AND POWERFUL … (subject to TICKETS availability) CONSULTING COMPOSER: Heath Brown Full $25 Development supported by TELLS A STORY OF LIGHTING AND SOUND DESIGNER: Jason James Concession $20 Festival of Voices and Salamanca Arts Centre OUR TIMES.” — THEATRE PEOPLE

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“PARIS COMBO HAS FIRED THE IMAGINATION OF ANYONE WHO LIKES THEIR MUSIC COOL, CONTINENTAL, WITTY AND MORE THAN A LITTLE MYSTERIOUS.” — BOSTON HERALD

PARIS COMBO Six albums and two decades of crisscrossing the globe from Paris to São Paolo, Berlin to Beijing have created Paris Combo’s unique cosmopolitan sound. Swinging gypsy jazz and cabaret meets French pop; Latino meets Middle Eastern rhythms; they all live happily ever after. Fronted by the charismatic vocals of chanteuse Belle du Berry, critically acclaimed Paris Combo has established itself as one of the most piquant, intriguing groups on the international music scene. This French indie band is a favourite with crowds not only in France and Europe but also in Australia and the USA where they have chalked up over twenty tours. For the first time, they bring their fun-loving sound and their new album to Tasmania. Tables and chairs, drinks, dance floor, happy days.

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BURNIE DURATION Burnie Arts & Function Centre 1hr 30mins (no interval) – Town Hall Wed 22 March, 7.30pm TICKETS Full $48 HOBART Concession $38 Wrest Point Cabaret seating in tables of 8 around Entertainment Centre the dance floor. Thu 23 March, 8pm

Book online at tendays.org.au Fidel Alvarez Jorge Image: #ontheisland “Music has the power to bring MUSIC 20 people together like no other art form.” — Michael Franti We remember the past: we look to the future. Stories, images, music, poetry.

Image: Rob Blakers Silkweed presents FIRE Silkweed is known and loved for historically themed, hauntingly HOBART insightful performances. Using original The Founders compositions, rare archival images, Room, Salamanca poetry and narrative, the ensemble Arts Centre RAISE YOUR VOICES, RING THE takes its audiences back to important Fri 17 March, 8pm and fascinating events in Tasmania’s BELLS, THIS IS A CELEBRATION. past. FIRE recalls the catastrophic fires KETTERING of 1967, moving smoothly and soulfully St David’s Cathedral presents through to the present day and the Community impact of climate change. Hall The music encompasses violin, cello, Sat 18 March, 8pm keyboard, flute, banjo, accordion SANCTUARY FERN TREE and voice. It is lovingly shaped into The first foundation stone of Hobart’s electronic soundscapes, soaring Community St David’s Cathedral was laid 200 years HOBART improvisations and gentle acoustic Centre ago. To commemorate this auspicious St David’s Image: Christopher J songs to tell a deeply intimate tale Fri 24 March, 8pm event, celebrated film composer and Cathedral of loss in a world drained of colour. orchestrator Ricky Edwards (Shine, Sat 25 March, 8pm BURNIE An immersive, dramatic and moving FRANKLIN Sliding Doors, The Lego Movie) has Burnie Arts & Function Centre narrative brought to life through Palais Theatre written a breathtaking hymn for an DURATION – Regional Art Gallery and Town Hall historical records, memory and augmented Cathedral Choir. FACING NORTH Sat 25 March, 8pm 1hr (no interval) Sun 12 March, 5pm anecdote. Two centuries of noble history deserves Facing North is an ambitious community project that takes the character, people, history and landscapes of the Cradle Coast and turns them into music. “I was eleven. I knew everything. But DURATION a rich tribute. Edwards' composition TICKETS DURATION nature lifted me up to heaven, filled me embraces the musical elements that 1hr 15mins Under the tutelage of exceptional Tasmanian composer/songwriter Dean Stevenson, 1hr approx. with the shining beauty of the natural have a place in that history: affiliated Unobstructed view over 100 local musicians bring their skills to the musical narrative. (no interval) $45 world and then let me fall down hard to choirs, boy soprano and baritone Dean composed the work whilst an artist-in-residence in the stirring surrounds of the the ash-filled earth. A thick black line was soloists, organ, bells and percussion. Obstructed view TICKETS PATRON ADVICE Cradle Coast. Over many months he has been working with musicians and choristers of drawn under childhood.” Also featuring is Puccini’s spectacular $35 Full $25 all ages and abilities from local schools, bands, orchestras and choirs, all of whom have Concession $20 Images may be Sanctus e Benedictus for baritone and embraced the opportunity and the process. WRITERS: Marjorie Gadd disturbing for Family (2 + 2) $60 and Erin Collins choir, and Mystical Songs by Vaughan This flagship community performance is proof that in a region where high calibre young children. Williams for solo baritone and organ. COMPOSERS: Marjorie Gadd, touring music is limited, the locals can make it themselves, on a grand scale. SUPPORTED BY Erin Collins and Susan McGowan TICKETS Honouring 200 years of living faith, profound hope, love and sanctuary. PERFORMERS AND VISUALS: Full $35 Anna Spinaze, Steve Gadd, Concession $20 COMPOSER/SONGWRITER: Dean Stevenson Dave McNamara and Michael Thomsen PERFORMERS FROM THE NORTH WEST COAST COMPOSER: Ricky Edwards TASMANIA TASMANIA TASMANIA Book online at tendays.org.au #ontheisland MUSIC 22

Image: Beth Sometimes Big h ART Inc. in association with Ten Days on the Island presents RURAL LIFE BLENDS WITH ART TO CREATE SURPRISING NEW HARMONIES.

DATES SISTERS BEACH PATRON ADVICE ACOUSTIC Sat 18 & Sun 19 March and The Barn To receive information about Sat 25 & Sun 26 March Irby Boulevard locations, accessibility, route and Madeleine Flynn, Tim Humphrey and related events, register at WYNYARD Lisa Garland www.acousticlifeofsheds.bighart.org LIFE OF SHEDS Journey Registration Hub Performances 12.45pm and 2.15pm This event is held at various venues Coastal Pods, Wynyard Wharf, from Table Cape/Wynyard to Rocky 1 Goldie St BOAT HARBOUR Cape on the north west coast and requires your own transportation. CAPE TO CAPE Your 5-shed touring experience starts Gasthorpe here with coffee and locally sourced 128 Port Rd SUPPORTED BY produce available from 9.30am. Pick up Claire Edwardes (Ensemble Offspring) your map and be ready to depart and Peter Knight (Australian Art Big hART celebrates its 25th year with an expanded version of its much loved music project, Acoustic Life of Sheds, with a journey at 10am or 11.30am. Orchestra) in sound, cape to cape, along the Arcadian north west coast. The Stables Performances 1.45pm and 3.15pm Sheds have many lives. They dot the Tasmanian landscape, built to serve through storms, floods and drought. Sheds are sentinel 124 Stennings Rd shapes on the horizon, watching as rural life changes around them, bringing a new purpose, a new patina, a new story, until TABLE CAPE abandoned. With their heyday long gone, these relics stand with hinges rusted shut on a rich past, preserved in metal, grease and dust. Nate Gilkes (Present Tense) and James Milsom (Tricksy Studio) Tulip Farm Shearing Shed Acoustic Life of Sheds brings together musicians, composers and sound designers to listen to these sheds on family farms, to be inspired 363 Table Cape Rd by the echoes of the past, and to play back these sonic lives to us. Performances 10.30am and 12 noon Lucky Oceans Big hART created Acoustic Life of Sheds for the 2015 Festival to such acclaim, it was clear they’d barely scraped the surface. This year, Supported by The Commonwealth Department FLOWERDALE Performances 2.45pm and 4.15pm of Employment’s Empowering Youth Initiatives, invited back by popular demand to explore five new sheds between Table Cape and Rocky Cape in a 50-kilometre round trip, finishing Arts Tasmania and Australia Council for the Arts. with a celebratory concert hosted in a large working shed. The Calving Shed Complete your day with a celebration Currajong of local food and refreshments. Take the complete 5-shed tour or follow your nose to any for the set performance time. 136 Robin Hill Rd The Twoks – Mark Leahy and TICKETS CREATED BY: Scott Rankin and Andrew Viney Xani Kolac FREE EVENT Performances 11.30am and 1pm Register at TASMANIA www.acousticlifeofsheds.bighart.org 23 MUSIC Striking colours, brutal harmonies.

Ten Days on the Island, the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra and the Australian National Academy of Music present THE RITE OF SPRING Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra

Marko Letonja conductor Musicians from the Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM) LIGETI Lontano RICHARD STRAUSS Also sprach Zarathustra STRAVINKSY Le sacre du printemps

Stravinsky’s Le sacre du printemps – or, to use its English title, The Rite of Spring – arrived like a thunderclap in Paris in 1913, provoking a riot that has gone down in the annals of music history. Its pulsating rhythms, striking colours and brutal harmonies have lost none of their power to shock, but audiences today are more likely to be invigorated than outraged by the work’s seismic energy. Also shocking in its own way is Richard Strauss’s Also sprach Zarathustra, a work composed in 1896 and, in the words of the composer, “Dedicated to the 20th century”. Inspired by Friedrich Nietzsche’s philosophical novel of the same name, Also sprach Zarathustra was used to spectacular effect as the title music in Stanley Kubrick’s cult classic, 2001: A Space Odyssey. Ligeti likewise won a whole new audience for himself thanks to the movie. Lontano is like a mirage – sounds appear from nowhere, float dreamily and disappear into the ether. Music meets metaphysics in this strange and haunting work.

TASMANIA / AUSTRALIA

HOBART TICKETS Federation Concert Hall Full Concession Student Fri 24 March, 7.30pm A Reserve $96 $90 $90 B Reserve $80 $70 $70 DURATION C Reserve $70 $54 $40 2hrs (including interval) D Reserve $32 $32 $32

Book online at tendays.org.au Kandinsky by Wassily Circles Several Image: #ontheisland HOBART MUSIC 26 Federation Concert Hall Fri 10 March, 7.30pm

LAUNCESTON Albert Hall Thu 16 March, 7.30pm

BURNIE Burnie Arts & Function Centre – Town Hall Fri 17 March, 7.30pm

ZEEHAN* Gaiety Theatre Sat 18 March, 7.30pm

DURATION 2hrs (including interval)

TICKETS Hobart Image: Ray Joyce Image: Yamaha Europe Full Concession Student A Reserve $96 $90 $90 “PERFECTLY NUANCED, INCREDIBLY Reckless Moments presents B Reserve $80 $70 $70 C Reserve $70 $54 $40 SENSITIVE. MAGIC STUFF!” — LILYDALE ARTS Launceston AXOUM DUO by Ernest Walter Histed. Collection: National Portrait Gallery, Canberra Gallery, Histed. Collection: National Portrait Nellie Melba 1898 by Ernest Walter Image: Full Concession Student French-Polish percussionists Gabriel A Reserve $85 $72 $72 ROSNY SEQUENZA Collet and Elwira Slazak bring their Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra presents B Reserve $70 $54 $36 incredible marimba music to the The Barn at Sequenza is an ensemble of four Rosny Farm C Reserve $53 $41 $26 musicians united by a mutual passion CYGNET beauty and drama of the Returning for ancient instruments, historically Carmel Hall Lives exhibition. Sat 18 & Burnie (Reserved Seating) informed performance and innovation Sun 19 March, Axoum Duo’s performances reflect Sun 19 March, 8pm ODE TO within their art form. 2.30pm with sparkling clarity their classical Full $70 DURATION The haunting voice of soprano Helen training and interest in contemporary Concession $54 music. They will draw on their own 1hr (no interval) Student $36 Thomson forms a unique timbre SCOTTSDALE with Brett Rutherford on viola da repertoire of concert compositions as Mechanics’ well as soundtracks and scores they NELLIE MELBA gamba, David Malone on lute and the Hall TICKETS Zeehan (General Admission) percussion of Matthew Goddard. have created for filmmakers, musicians, Marko Letonja conductor Sat 25 March, singers, dancers and painters. Full $35 Full $49 They present an eye-opening program Concession $25 Lorina Gore soprano 2.30pm Axoum Duo will feature original Concession $44 that blends ancient music from the troubadour tradition with new works compositions and arrangements by Before there was The Voice, there was “The Voice”, as Dame Nellie Melba was known Student $22 DELORAINE Gabriel Collet as well as compositions to describe herself. Famous from St Petersburg to San Francisco, the Melbourne- Child $10 especially written by accomplished Tasmanian composers for the Little Theatre that have been created by other born soprano was idolised in the theatre and mobbed on the street. A celebrity who * The Zeehan concert is an intimate composers especially for them. enjoyed all the trappings of superstardom – seven kings and queens attended one of ensemble’s unique chemistry. Sun 26 March, recital featuring Lorina Gore with piano 2.30pm From the music conservatories of Paris her gala performances; a dessert was created in her honour – Nellie Melba basked accompanist Jennifer Marten-Smith. Enter an extraordinary, rarely heard in the spotlight at Covent Garden, the Paris Opera, La Scala and…Hobart City Hall, musical world where passion and and Brussels, for their first time in Launceston’s Albert Hall and Zeehan’s Gaiety Theatre. talent soar. DURATION Australia, Axoum Duo’s nimble mastery must be seen to be believed. Stunning Australian soprano Lorina Gore performs Nellie Melba’s signature arias, 1hr (no interval) including 'Caro nome' from Rigoletto, the 'Jewel Song' from Faust, the 'Waltz Song' SOPRANO: Helen Thomson from Roméo et Juliette, and lots more. The diva on the hundred dollar note comes TICKETS “I HAVE NOT SEEN OR HEARD SUCH to life in this sumptuous tribute concert. Nellie Melba captured the hearts of the nation. VIOLA DA GAMBA: Brett Rutherford Full $35 Lorina Gore as Nellie Melba will capture yours too. LUTE/GUITAR: David Malone Concession $25 MUSICAL VIRTUOSOS IN A VERY Student $20 EXTENDED PERCUSSION: Under 12 FREE LONG TIME … THESE TWO HAVE THE Matthew Goddard TASMANIA ABILITY TO TAKE ON THE WORLD.” SUPPORTED BY — MUZYKA 21

Book online at tendays.org.au TASMANIA FRANCE / POLAND #ontheisland 27 MUSIC Van Diemen's Band presents MUSIC 28 Raw, confessional poetry and a voice that’s a thing of wonder.

Image: Ray Joyce TASMANIA’S EXCITING NEW CHAMBER ORCHESTRA, DEDICATED TO THE PRESERVATION, PROGRESSION AND EXPRESSION OF MUSIC OF THE BAROQUE. CELLO NAPOLETANO TIN SHED BAROQUE with guest artist with guest artist Catherine Jones (cello) David Greco (baritone) HOBART TRIABUNNA Town Hall Spring Bay Mill Sat 18 March, 2pm Sun 26 March, 3pm LAUNCESTON Gaynor Crawford and Chugg Entertainment present Queen Victoria DURATION Art Gallery, 1hr 5mins Royal Park, (no interval) Central Gallery MARTHA WAINWRIGHT Sun 19 March, 2pm TICKETS All $30 With an undeniable voice and an arsenal of powerful songs, Martha Wainwright DURATION is a beguiling performer and a refreshingly different force in music. HOBART Theatre Royal 1hr 5mins SUPPORTED BY

Her songs provide a window into her life without artifice or pretension. Ola Image: Renska Wed 22 March, 8pm (no interval) Spring Bay Mill The daughter of folk legends Kate McGarrigle and Loudon Wainwright III, Martha’s Australian born, Italy-based cello A stunning program of baroque immersion in music from an early age is evident in her command of the stage and her DEVONPORT virtuoso Catherine Jones joins Van TICKETS masterpieces with Van Diemen’s masterful handling of a spectrum of musical styles. Diemen’s Band to present a ravishing Full $40 Band and David Greco, whose Devonport Entertainment program of Neapolitan baroque The performance will showcase her fifth record, Goodnight City, which just may be & Convention Centre Concession $33 rich baritone beautifully decorates her best yet. The album features her own work, alongside songs written by her brother music. Naples was home to some the rustic surrounds of the shed at Rufus Wainwright and friends such as Beth Orton, Glen Hansard, Michael Ondaatje Thu 23 March, 8pm of Europe’s most daring and exotic SUPPORTED BY Spring Bay Mill. This intimate musical musical minds, including featured and Merrill Garbus of tUnE-yArDs. Queen Victoria sojourn features some of the best Martha Wainwright’s astonishingly versatile voice soars, sighs, provokes and tells secrets. DURATION composers Nicolo Fiorenza and loved tunes of Bach, Vivaldi and Francesco Durante. Their music Museum and 1hr 30mins (no interval) Art Gallery Handel, along with some surprising contributed to one of the most musical revelations. TICKETS inventive and distinctive styles in CANADA / USA 18th century musical history. Beautiful views, stirring music, All $79 and a drink from the bar on an Catherine brings her talent, finesse autumn afternoon. and impeccable dexterity to the front and centre of this fiery, passionate repertoire. Book online at tendays.org.au Book online at tendays.org.au TASMANIA / AUSTRALIA / ITALY #ontheisland #ontheisland Stompin in association with Tasdance in association with Ten Days on the Island presents Ten Days on the Island presents DANCE 30

HOBART Peacock Theatre Fri 17 March, 7.30pm Sat 18 March, 4pm & 7.30pm

BURNIE Burnie Arts & Function Centre – Arts Theatre Tue 21 March, 7.30pm

DEVONPORT Devonport Entertainment & Convention Centre Image: Jasper Da Seymour Image: SensoReye Production Wed 22 March, 7.30pm

"… MORE THAN MACHINERY WE LAUNCESTON FULLY GROWN NEED HUMANITY, MORE THAN Earl Arts Centre CLEVERNESS WE NEED KINDNESS Fri 24 March, 7.30pm Stompin AND GENTLENESS …" Sat 25 March, 4pm & 7.30pm Fully Grown invites audiences into a TICKETS cosmos created in Launceston’s LAUNCESTON — CHARLIE CHAPLIN, THE GREAT DICTATOR, 1940 John Hart Conservatory in City Park John Hart Full $45 where dance and multimedia tell the Conservatory, Concession $35 story of evolution from the big bang City Park to present day and beyond. Wed 22 – Image: Gerard Manion DURATION In our world there are stargazers, FRAGILE MATTER 1hr 10mins (no interval) Sun 26 March, adventurers, philosophers and inventors. 7.30pm There are trees, plants, planets and earth. Tasdance & Jukstapoz The girl gazing at the frock said: "Queen of my wardrobe, PATRON ADVICE There are complexities beyond what we DURATION Inspired by Charlie Chaplin’s epic film Mature themes and adult language. can possibly imagine. at last you are mine". The frock replied: "Yes, you bought 1hr (no interval) The Great Dictator, Fragile Matter MOONAH Celebrating 25 years of Stompin, uses dance, theatre, and puppetry to Moonah Arts me but the instant you wore me, I owned you." SUPPORTED BY performers both past and present will TICKETS craft an original and dramatic dance Centre — Graeme Murphy AO captivate their audience and take them performance for our time. Fri 17 & Sat 18 in search of the things that connect us all. Full $30 MADE in association with Concession $25 Using the body as a metaphor for war March, 1pm & Ten Days on the Island presents and unity, eight embattled dancers rally, 7.30pm resist and break out with delicate grace. Deftly melding collectivity with the LAUNCESTON “THE CONVICTION AND DEPTH personal, Fragile Matter is a work that is OF THESE YOUNG PERFORMERS both fiercely physical and intimate, with Princess Theatre THE FROCK a sound score to match. Fri 24 March, 1pm IS IMPRESSIVE … STIRRING, Storm and stress encounters fragility & 7.30pm Graeme Murphy & MADE ENGAGING WORK!” — AUSTRALIAN STAGE and lyricism in this inspiring and thrilling performance. TICKETS MADE, in collaboration with Graeme Murphy and Janet Vernon, brings to the stage CHOREOGRAPHY: Graeme Murphy AO Full $45 an impeccably produced dance theatre work that draws together spoken word, song, recorded soundscape, installation, costume and animation. Concession $35 CREATIVE ASSOCIATE: Janet Vernon AM PERFORMED AND CO-CREATED BY YOUNG TASMANIANS CHOREOGRAPHY: Christine Gouzelis The creative team drew inspiration from photographs provided by each ensemble & Paul Blackman SET DESIGN: Gerard Manion ARTISTIC DIRECTOR: Caitlin Comerford DURATION member. These photographs, taken in earlier years wearing their "best dress", are LIGHTING DESIGN: Luca Sirviö applied to embroider together The Frock, a patchwork of personal recollection and COSTUME DESIGN: Jennifer Irwin GUEST CHOREOGRAPHER: Adam Wheeler 45mins PUPPET DESIGN: Dimitris Nassiakos aspiration. LIGHTING DESIGN: Damien Cooper DRAMATURGE/MULTIMEDIA ARTIST: Martyn Coutts ARTISTIC DIRECTOR: Felicity Bott PATRON ADVICE "The Frock is neither a dress nor a gown, it is an entity and like other invaders from the LIGHTING DESIGNER: Nicholas Higgins 'mainland' this frock held unknown consequences – even months in the 'quarantine of layby' REHEARSAL DIRECTOR: Recommended for could not reduce its feral potency." – Graeme Murphy, AO WORLD PREMIERE COSTUME DESIGNER: Bones Sylvan Carol Wellman Kelly ages 12+ SOUND DESIGNER: Matt Cornell The Frock expands on ideas of how Australians lived, have loved, why they dance and what makes their hearts sing.

TASMANIA TASMANIA / GREECE TASMANIA / AUSTRALIA Book online at tendays.org.au #ontheisland Strut & Fret in association with Ten Days on the Island presents SPIEGELTENT HOBART 32 SPIEGELTENT HOBART

Image: Steve Farmer A DIVINE DISCOTHEQUE CIRCUS BACK FOR ITS FOURTH YEAR — BIGGER AND BOLDER THAN EVER BEFORE! Organised Pandemonium and Strut & Fret present

International stars and home-grown Tassie heroes will call the Spiegeltent home as the HOBART doors open for another stellar season of premium entertainment at PW1. Princes Wharf No.1 Forecourt The very best in comedy, cabaret, theatre and music has been hand-picked for the 2017 (PW1 Forecourt) VELVET program with something to tempt everyone. Welcome to Wonderland … Boogie Wonderland! The must-see headline show of the season, VELVET arrives in Hobart after touring Thu 9 March – Sat 1 April HOBART After dazzling audiences around the globe, VELVET arrives in Hobart in March. the world and will raise the roof of the tent with its seductive, disco-fuelled inferno! Spiegeltent Hobart Critically acclaimed as ‘Best Cabaret’­ (Sunday Mail) and ‘Best of the Fringe’ (The Continuing to defy expectations with an electrifying journey to a world of glamour and Thu 9 March – Sat 1 April Advertiser), this is the hot ticket of the year. abandon, VELVET is a raucous and seductive fusion of disco, dance and circus. Performance times Spiegeltent Hobart will open on 9 March, kicking off its extended three-week program It’s a party, a showcase fuelled by an exhilarating disco soundtrack that never lets up Tue to Sun, 8.30pm with free entertainment and the premiere performance of VELVET. from the opening moments. Slip behind the red velvet rope to visit a glitter ball world of with matinees Sat & Sun, 4.30pm The full program is available on the Spiegeltent Hobart website. fantastic sensory overload! www.spiegeltenthobart.com Created in Australia but with an international ensemble, VELVET features Hula Boy TICKETS extraordinaire Craig Reid, acrobatic wonder kid Mirko Kockenberger, sizzling aerialist Emma Goh, dreamy muscle man Stephen Williams, sassy sirens Rechelle Mansour and Tickets from $49 Kaylah Attard, rising Australian star Tom Oliver and the legendary diva Marcia Hines. DURATION In Hobart for a strictly limited season, don’t miss this opportunity to rediscover the DON’T BE SHY, STEP INSIDE! disco inferno that is VELVET, where every second entices the audience into a world 1hr 20min (no interval) of fun, funk and glamour!

Book online at tendays.org.au Book online at tendays.org.au #ontheisland #ontheisland RESILIENCE BELLOW 34 GYMNASIA Tiagarra Holy Trinity The Pulp In the years following Catholic Burnie is a blue-collar European contact, Church town, built upon the toil the north west coast of The ambience of and sweat of working class Tasmania witnessed scenes the church organ in a industry. But what becomes BURNIE of unspeakable horror contemporary world of such communities when and loss. Forty years ago conjures many things. This these industries close down The Pulp, Tiagarra opened as a site DEVONPORT work moves beneath the and manual labour is no Marine Tce (access from for sharing culture and for WESTBURY Bunnings carpark) surface of the Meander longer required? This work addressing the misplaced Tiagarra, Mersey Bluff Valley where large-scale Holy Trinity uses the gym as a metaphor Fri 17 – Sun 26 March belief that there were no Sat 18 – Sun 26 March rhythmic structures Catholic Church, to explore the fractured 10am – 4pm longer any Tasmanian resonate within an intricate Meander Valley Rd condition of masculinity Aboriginal people – a site of 11am – 4pm system of caves. Mon 20 – Sun 26 March in this new world. PATRON ADVICE healing and resilience. PERFORMANCE EVENT ARTIST: Dylan Sheridan 10am – 4pm ARTIST: Shannon Field Access via stairs. ARTIST: David Gough Sat 18 March, 11am – 4pm

CROCOITE. LEVEL CROCOITE. GROUND THE SILVER. Kempton Oval DISTANCE SITES OF SILVER/LEAD. There was a time when every town Kelvedon Estate West Coast had its own football This place cannot be KELVEDON ESTATE Heritage Centre team and intercommunity embellished, so the structure LOVE AND rivalry stoked passion and is barely there – a sketch, South of Spiky Bridge The west coast landscape blind loyalty. Football is a an inkling to see beyond. Fri 17 – Sun 26 March has been inexorably great leveller, transcending transformed by mining. ZEEHAN KEMPTON Its subject is the place it 10am – 4pm West Coast Heritage class, status and politics. occupies and the space This project rediscovers This immersive experience Kempton Oval, Main St NEGLECT four missing rocks from Centre (formerly School around it, as well as the PATRON ADVICE connects nostalgia for the Sun 19 – Sun 26 March distance it takes to get there, Tasmania has a complex history, a challenging present a discarded geological of Mines and Metallurgy), Good walking shoes 114 Main St team to contemporary 10am – 2pm first by car then by foot. and an intriguing future. For millennia, Aboriginal people specimen display board, thoughts about class and recommended. Easy walk have walked this island, nurturing its resources and then recomposes them as Sat 18 – Sun 26 March community. ARTIST: Peter Waller to site via steps. living events or ‘fictionellas’.¯ PERFORMANCE EVENT harvesting its abundant riches created through careful 10am – 4pm land management practices. ARTIST: Astrid Joyce Sat 18 March, 2pm – 4pm ARTISTS: Justy Phillips, Emerging from the tragedy and turmoil of European Margaret Woodward, LIVE READINGS settlement and colonisation, the island was thrust in a Sarah Jones & Jane Rendell another direction. Irrevocable change was brought in on Sat 18 March, 4pm – 7pm the tide and with it came more stories to tell about who we are, where we’ve been and where we’re going. THE HOUSE This intriguing project reflects on secrets, lost memories, forgotten histories and neglected places. It aims to TRACE OF LONGING engage both local people and visitors in conversations Shag Bay Dunalley Fish that reveal and shift knowledge, understanding and BAC Cannery expectations of this place. Brighton Hidden beneath the surface of this Many buildings were lost CURATOR: Jane Deeth Army Camp seemingly innocuous in the extreme bushfires of To find out more about Sites of Love and Neglect (SOLAN) Brighton Army Camp inlet on the Derwent GEILSTON BAY 2013 including an artist's (BAC) has been a place of Estuary is a grand tale boatshed studio adjacent go to www.solan.org.au Shag Bay arrival and departure, both of gradual demise in the to this site that held her life’s DUNALLEY willing and unwilling. This face of technological (access from Geilston Bay work. Here she furnishes SUPPORTED BY installation encourages advancement. This Marina carpark) the house she does not Waterfront Café (formerly reflection on the site’s fascinating project links Fri 17 – Sun 26 March have – a chimera with large, Dunalley Fish Cannery), BRIGHTON 4 Imlay St varied roles through an Tasmania to England’s 10am – 4pm calm rooms, high ceilings, evocation of the continual Brighton Army Camp largest wooden sailing wooden floors and gracious Sun 19 – Sun 26 March comings and goings of (access from the end warship and the purported PATRON ADVICE open windows through 10am – 4pm those who have passed of Stanley St) plans for a Russian invasion which benediction breezes through it. of Australia. Good walking shoes flow in. Thu 16 – Sun 26 March recommended for 1km PERFORMANCE EVENT ARTIST: Brigita Ozolins 10am – 4pm ARTIST: Dean Chatwin medium grade walk to site. ARTIST: Gay Hawkes Sat 18 March, 12 noon University of Tasmania (Tasmanian College of the Arts) presents VISUAL ARTS 36

ARTISTS AND ARCHAEOLOGISTS WORK TOGETHER REMANENCE (N.): THE RESIDUAL MAGNETISM AND INVISIBLE TO DOCUMENT HISTORY IN SURPRISING NEW WAYS. FORCES THAT LINGER LONG AFTER AN INITIAL OBJECT (OR EVENT) HAS BEEN DETACHED. STRATA: TRACING THE PAST University of Tasmania Veiled by grass and decayed (Tasmanian College of the Arts) BREADALBANE presents The John Glover Society Inc. through time, the remnants of the SECRETS, INTRIGUE AND UNSPEAKABLE SCANDAL LIE HIDDEN Kerry Lodge convict site are silent Kerry Lodge, BEHIND THE WALLS OF A CHARMING GEORGIAN HOUSE. in association with Ten Days reminders of history held in the earth. 563 Hobart Rd on the Island presents The artists in this project worked Fri 17 – Sun 26 March REMANENCE University of Tasmania and alongside a team of archaeologists to THE FATHER OF AUSTRALIAN LANDSCAPE PAINTING IS gradually remove the layers of earth, Open daily This exhibition examines how fire the National Trust of Australia HONOURED IN A THOUGHTFUL AND TIMELY MANNER, exposing again the stone walls, the 10am – 4pm shapes landscape and impacts HOBART (Tasmania) presents IN THE PLACE HE LOVED. debris of daily life and the boundless on the psyche of people whose Domain House, possibility of stories reimagined. PATRON ADVICE homelands are affected by fire. It Glebe DEDDINGTON Registration draws together Tasmanian artists Fri 17 – Sun 26 March THE PATTERDALE The site is returned to rest now, working across a range of mediums JANE ELIZABETH Patterdale, essential at blanketed once more in soil, but it including interactive video, jewellery, Open daily 183 Uplands Rd is kept alive by the responses of the tendays.org.au In 1833, Miss Jane Elizabeth Wylde PROJECT architectural performance, sculpture 10am – 4pm RICHMOND Sat 11 – Mon 13, artists to their experiences of the dig. found herself at the centre of a CURATOR'S TALK and furniture. Colonial artist John Glover’s paintings Sat 18 & Sun 19 and Ephemeral and performance works FLOOR TALK socio-political scandal that outraged Oak Lodge, display exquisite detail and glorious Sat 25 & Sun 26 form a collaborative installation that The artists envisage fire as a much of the British Empire. Ten years 18 Bridge St Mon 20 March, Sat 18 March, 2pm mastery. They also depict colonial March, 10am – 4pm calls long-held history to the present 5.30pm destructive force and ever-present later she had moved to Oak Lodge in Sat 18 – Sun 26 March heritage, the history of landscape art and allows the earth to speak. threat, as well as a mechanism of Richmond, Tasmania as Mrs James Tasmanian College of renewal and a sculpting force across EVENING EVENT Richard Booth, and disappeared Open daily and an Aboriginal presence. It is all PATRON ADVICE A flash of light, a line of dust, a these things that see people making the Arts, Inveresk the island. Engagements include from historical records. 10am – 4pm Good walking shoes scatter of fragments – all words and Tue 21 March, the pilgrimage to Glover’s former land Gay Hawkes’ documentation of loss 7pm – 8.30pm FREE ENTRY recommended. punctuation in a story retold. SUPPORTED BY The exhibition, Jane Elizabeth, grant, Patterdale Farm. The house at to fire, Philip Blacklow’s thermally gives voice to a woman silenced. Mon 27 March Patterdale, itself a subject of Glover University of Tasmania modified furniture and Neil Haddon’s PATRON ADVICE It animates a high society life of – Tue 18 April paintings, still stands today and the CURATOR’S TOUR vibrant paintings. Art-science works Beau and Small objects on extensive travel and engagement, Open daily landscape is remarkably unchanged. Sat 25 March, 2pm Elizabeth Grubb by Peter Davies, Joe Shrimpton and punctuated by notoriety and Bill Hart explore environmental display – young 10.30am – 3.30pm 2017 marks the 250th anniversary Registration CURATOR: Karen Hall children must be scandal. Artists Penny Malone and cycles and chance events. Mary Scott reimagine events from Adult $4 of Glover’s birth. In preparation for recommended at ARTISTS: Robert Boldkald, Caroline Heine, Wendy McGrath, supervised. www.johnglover.com Jane Elizabeth's life events that Child FREE this occasion, four Tasmanian artists Graeme Miles, Julie Montgarrett, Lydia Nicholson, “You think … well, it couldn’t have Uneven surfaces, flat spent time at Patterdale exploring the happened. That place down there, would become memories, forever Amelia Rowe, Mary Peacock, Patrick Sutczak footwear advised. embedded within the walls of PATRON ADVICE landscape and creating installations in SUPPORTED BY and Helene Weeding that place I loved, it must be still response to the site, to Glover himself there.” – Gay Hawkes. Wheelchair access Oak Lodge. Wheelchair access and to the landscape that inspired him. limited. A historical perspective on the things limited. CURATORS: Noel Frankham, Kit Wise, that can influence a woman’s place CURATOR: Jane Deeth Svenja Kratz and Zoe Veness in the world – politics, class, mobility, FLOOR TALK alliances and gossip. ARTISTS: Sun 19 March, 2pm Amanda Davies, ARTISTS: Philip Blacklow, Lucy Bleach, Dorita Hannah & Josh Foley, Liam James and Glover Country Experiences Sean Coyle, Neil Haddon, Jan Hogan, Joe Shrimpton & Bill Hart, CURATOR: Noel Frankham SUPPORTED BY Megan Walch Gay Hawkes, Zoe Veness, Martin Walch, Peter Davies, Lynn Davies & Rachael Rose and Rob Long ARTISTS: Penny Malone and Coal River Valley Image: John Richardson Glover, Mill’s Plains, Morven District, Van Image: Patrick Sutczak, Remains (detail), 2015, manipulated convict Mary Scott Historical Society Diemen’s Land [Patterdale Farm], 1835, ink and wash on paper. photographs, digital photographs, text, acrylic. Image: Neil Haddon, The First Time (Castra), 2014, enamel paint and clear coat Courtesy of Allport Library and Museum of Fine Arts Collection. Photograph by Melanie de Rutyer. on aluminium panel. Courtesy of the artist, Bett Gallery and This Is No Fantasy. Image: Penny Malone, Bush garland with fan, 2007. Courtesy of the artist. 37 VISUAL ARTS

University of Tasmania presents "IF MORE OF US VALUED FOOD AND ART AND CHEER ABOVE HOARDED GOLD, IT WOULD BE A MERRIER WORLD." — J.R.R. TOLKIEN IMAGINING FOOD: ART, AESTHETICS AND DESIGN Imagining food: Art, Aesthetics and Design regards food as more than a LAUNCESTON means of sustaining life, but as a motif Academy Gallery, that colours the patterns of life. University of Tasmanian artists, researchers Tasmania, and educators present works in a 2 Invermay Rd, variety of forms including painting, Inveresk A UNIQUE COLLABORATION BETWEEN THREE ARTISTS WHOSE COMBINED EXPRESSIONS FORM A COMMANDING VOICE. sculpture, photography, furniture, Mon 20 February craft, installation and mixed media. – Fri 7 April Ten Days on the Island in association with Their interpretations of food and its Mon to Fri social, economic and environmental 9am – 5pm Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery presents impacts are fascinating, beautiful and deeply satisfying. Additional LAUNCESTON Art made from food, playing with Festival hours Queen Victoria Museum, Inveresk, food and celebrating food. 2 Invermay Rd Sat 18 & Sun 19 and ISLANDS ­— A SPECULATION Sat 25 & Sun 26 March Fri 17 March – Sun 23 April The connections between the two islands of New Caledonia and the Asia Pacific Triennial last year; Grace Williams, an emerging 1pm – 3pm Tasmania are curious and remarkable. Colonialisation, Indigenous Tasmanian Aboriginal artist; and her current mentor Jamin. Open daily cultures, significant and fraught mining industries, isolation These three artists share a commitment to collaborative creative 10am – 4pm CURATORS: Dr Malcom Bywaters, CURATORS' TALK and French exploration all blend to define the character and processes and use street art aesthetics and animation to bring Dr Kim Lehman and Distinguished Sun 26 March, 2pm complexion of both islands. their thoughts to life. Their speculation will create an immersive FLOOR TALK Professor Jeff Malpas This project is a collaboration between New Caledonian experience that illuminates islandness, Indigenous experience and Thu 16 March, 12.30pm contemporary politics. ARTISTS: Diane Allison, Jack Birrell, Karina Clarke, artist Nicolas Molé, who presented a major installation at Joanna Gair, Neil Haddon, David Hamilton, Dorita Hannah, SUPPORTED BY Marian Hosking, Meg Keating, David Keeling, Fiona Lehman, Stephen Loo, Anne MacDonald, Anne Morrison, Troy Ruffels, ARTISTS: Nicolas Molé, Grace Williams & Jamin Yvette Watt, Kit Wise & Helen Wright and others

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SIXTEEN ARTISTS QUESTION THE VALUE WE INVEST IN PLACES, SPACES AND OBJECTS FROM EVERYDAY LIFE. THE ENDLESS POSSIBILITIES, THE BEAUTIFUL POTENTIAL AND THE INFINITE VALUE OF RUBBISH.

Sawtooth ARI and The Egg & Dart LINC Tasmania, Burnie City Council in association with Ten Days on the Island present and Ten Days on the Island present SENTIMENT THE SILVER LINING Sentiment is a co-curated exhibition that explores notions of sentimentality that exists We live in a throwaway age. In a gesture toward reconciling this dilemma, artist Ritchie in the realms of imagination and personal experience. LAUNCESTON Ares Doña transforms the most mundane, unwanted materials into new form. For this BURNIE Artists were invited to shape and express their thoughts on the things that create Sawtooth ARI, particular work, fast food wrapping is the primary material. With meticulous precision The Atrium emotional connection and disconnection. Using a variety of media, the works move Level 2, 160 Cimitiere St and seemingly endless repetition Ritchie has recovered thousands of redundant food Burnie City Council, between light and dark, fact and fiction, interest and disengagement. Fri 17 – Sun 26 March packets and given them another purpose. 80 Wilson St Fri 17 – Sun 26 March Concerned with ideas of creative and cultural exchange, Aaron Fell-Fracasso of The Open daily By engaging communities through their libraries and schools, he has enlisted the help of Egg & Dart (NSW), and Patrick Sutczak of Sawtooth ARI (Tas) have produced a 10am – 5pm hundreds of willing hands to bring thousands of bits of rubbish together into a luminous, Mon to Fri 9am – 5pm contemplative exhibition that crosses cultures to inspire thoughts of presence and triumphant cloud. departure, memory and experience, change and loss, love and longing. FLOOR TALK This project stimulates reflection on the value of the stuff we use and the never-ending FLOOR TALK Thu 23 March, 12.30pm hope generated through creative experience. Ritchie Ares Doña Mon 20 March, 5.30pm CURATORS: Patrick Sutczak and Aaron Fell-Fracasso COORDINATOR: Jess Panday, Literacy Services, Launceston LINC SUPPORTED BY ARTIST: Ritchie Ares Doña

Image: Patrick Sutczak, digital image, 2016. Courtesy of the artist.

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AN UNLIKELY BUNCH JOINS A SCIENTIFIC VOYAGE TO CAST A THOUGHTFUL RESPONSE TO THE UNTOLD STORIES OF ADDING THE HUMAN FOOTPRINT TO THE AUSTRALIAN LANDSCAPE. A NEW PERSPECTIVE ON TRANSFORMING NATURE INTO WOMEN AND THE SEA. KNOWLEDGE. Devonport Regional Gallery Bass Strait Maritime Centre presents in association with Ten Days on the Island presents A DECOLONIAL BENEATH THE DEVONPORT A COMMUNITY GALLERY, AN ASTONISHING COLLECTION AND Bass Strait GEOGRAPHIC A MAJOR PRIZE. In early 2016, the research vessel WATERLINE Maritime Centre, BURNIE Gloucester Ave Ideas of the pastoral and natural Investigator sailed into some of the DEVONPORT Burnie Regional Art Gallery world’s most remote and uncharted Makers’ Space, The north west coast of Tasmania Thu 9 March Australian landscape are commonly presents regions to investigate the role of iron Makers’ Workshop, has a proud maritime history. – Sun 9 April depicted as postcard perfect – Devonport in the food web and in generating the 2 – 4 Bass Hwy Before roads were constructed, Open daily sublime and transcendent – and Regional Gallery, oxygen we breathe. Fri 17 March – access to the settlements along the 10am – 5pm emptied of human beings. 45 Stewart St Mon 17 April coast was by water. It was the sea Sun 19 March – BURNIE PRINT PRIZE Joining the voyage were a ENTRY FEES APPLY A decolonial geographic, curated photographer, a petrologist, a science Open daily that brought local communities by acclaimed artist Fernando do Sun 30 April The Burnie Print Prize is a major together and the sea that connected BURNIE photographer, a visual artist and 9am – 5pm OPENING EVENT Campo, recalibrates this idealised Mon to Fri national art award that celebrates the a choreographer. With Heard and them to the world. and romantic view of what landscape 10am – 5pm immeasurable craftsmanship Burnie Regional McDonald Islands in the Southern OPENING ADDRESS Amid the wind and waves, behind International signifies and how it should be Sat, Sun and of printmaking. The prize has Art Gallery, Women's Day: – Ocean as their backdrop, they the portholes, in the steam and portrayed. public holidays earned the Burnie Regional Art 77 79 Wilmot St Professor Mike Diamonds of 1pm – 5pm produced works exploring image and Coffin, Institute for beneath the surface of oceans, The exhibition brings together the Gallery a national reputation for its Sat 18 March – movement as modes of information maritime stories abound. But the Devonport, exploration of the expressive and Sun 7 May Marine and Antarctic including artist talk work of eleven Australian artists gathering, documentation, sharing Studies (IMAS), place of women in them is almost who engage with pictorial, material FLOOR TALK aesthetic possibilities of the medium. knowledge and communication. absent. Wed 8 March, 6pm It is open to artists living and working Mon to Fri University and philosophical questions that Thu 23 March, in Oceania. 10am – 4.30pm Taken from multiple perspectives of Tasmania Beneath the Waterline is For ticket details go to rethink misleading representations 5.30pm Sat, Sun and – science, art and the media – Fri 17 March, 5pm Anne Morrison’s response to tendays.org.au of our landscape. Their work is not The winning piece will become part public holidays this exhibition reflects a shared the Bass Strait Maritime Centre’s commonly within the landscape EXHIBITION OPENING of the gallery’s collection, taking its 1.30pm – 4pm experience of sea, sky, land, ice, genre, but it comments on being SUPPORTED BY collection of objects and their WORKSHOP Sat 18 March, 5.30pm place among works by artists such vessel, body and space. associated narratives. The title in the landscape and on the as Lloyd Rees, Sidney Nolan, Brett IMAS and CSIRO Sun 12 March, SUPPORTED BY reflects the invisible submarine 1pm – 3pm implications of our presence on the Whitely, James Gleeson, Arthur presence of icebergs. It also planet – introducing a new lexicon Boyd and Ben Quilty. With a growing acknowledges women’s experiences FEES APPLY for the genre of landscape where the collection of over one thousand as convicts and immigrants forced to bookings@ colonial lens has prevailed. artworks, the gallery focusses on live below the waterline on their long bassstraitmc.com.au works of art on paper to honour the Burnie City Council CURATOR: sea voyage to the Antipodes. (03) 6424 7100 vital role of paper in Burnie’s history. Joanna Gair CURATOR: Fernando do Campo Friends of the Burnie ARTISTS: Richard Arculus, Pete Harmsen, Annalise Rees, Regional Art Gallery SUPPORTED BY ARTISTS: Richard Bell, Jon Cattapan, Juan Davila, Kerry Gregan, JUDGES: Akky van Ogtrop, Charles Tambiah and James Batchelor ARTIST: Anne Morrison Raafat Ishak, Penny Mason, Alex Pittendrigh, Jessica Rankin, Dr Deborah Malor and Dr Jan Hogan Judy Watson, Megan Walch and Ruth Waller

Image: Neil Malone, Sometimes it rains no. 2, 2014, wood drilling (engraving), Image: James Batchelor improvising on deck, RV Investigator, January 2016. Image: © Juan Davila, Ohhhhhh!, 2014, oil on canvas. detail, edition 1/5. Courtesy of the artist. Courtesy of Charles Tambiah. Image: Bass Strait, 2016, digital photograph. Courtesy of the artist. Courtesy of Kalli Rolfe Contemporary Art.

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IN TASMANIA, WILDERNESS PHOTOGRAPHY TURNS ART INTO EPIPHANY, PROPHECY, PROCLAMATION AND REDEMPTION. AN ADVENTURE THROUGH RENEWED PERCEPTIONS OF A TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE. Cradle Mountain Wilderness Gallery presents Design Tasmania in partnership with Spring Bay Mill presents EXTREME AN EXERCISE IN COMMITMENT IN THE WORLD OF AMATEUR CRAFT. The Extreme exhibition speaks quietly TRACK and elegantly for lands pushed to CRADLE MOUNTAIN The site of Spring Bay Mill is a their limits by fire, flood, neglect, Wilderness Gallery, landscape steeped in history and TRIABUNNA isolation or proximity. Cradle Mountain marked by industry. For millennia it Spring Bay Mill, In the tradition of masters such Hotel, 3718 Cradle has been the country of Tasmanian 555 Freestone Rd as Olegas Truchanas and Peter Mountain Rd NEARLY 50 USEFUL THINGS Aboriginal people. This contrasts Thu 9 March Fri 17 – Sun 19 & Dombrovskis, the Extreme artists At any given time, someone somewhere is following a pattern to make something in their starkly with its boom-and-bust Thu 23 – Sun 26 have pushed their own limits to give – Wed 31 May ST HELENS free time. They may be following a pattern using a familiar technique or they may be history of whaling, quarrying and March, 9am – 6pm voice to the broken, the forgotten, Open daily trying something completely new. These are acts of relaxation, exploration, frustration Gallery Parnella, 60 Cecilia St woodchipping. the fragile, the ravaged and the 9am – 7pm and commitment; and they are commonly known as crafts – practised, refined, Sat 11 – Sun 26 March Over three days last year, a group ENTRY FEES muted. practised, refined, practised again, and sometimes discarded. Open daily of Australia’s leading and emerging $5 per person The exhibition includes work from FLOOR TALK Lucia Usmiani is an amateur craftsperson as well as an artist. The volume of carefully 10am – 5pm designer/makers immersed or $10 per vehicle the Cradle Mountain Wilderness Kylie Eastley crafted objects in this show have been made by following the patterns in a home craft themselves in this landscape under Gallery’s extensive photographic the guidance of internationally Fri 10 – Sun 12 March, book. The project employs crochet and knitting techniques but could equally focus on ARTIST IN THE GALLERY PATRON ADVICE collection which has been gathered 4pm gardening or woodwork. The work is in conversation with other amateur makers. Lucia renowned practitioners Trent Jansen, from around the globe in celebration Sat 25 & Sun 26 March Peter Adams and Karina Clarke. Sites Sturdy walking shoes Register at is curious about what they do, why they do it and if they ever finish it. She looks at how required. of the natural world. Alongside these activities can contribute to art practice as well as the wellbeing of civil society. of rest and reflection were explored them are new works by Tasmanian wildernessgallery@ Nearly 50 Useful Things considers the value of seemingly banal handmade objects and FLOOR TALK and responses honed into a series of photographers who are constantly cradlemountainhotel. demonstrates the labour and time intensive processes that are involved in living this Sat 25 March, 2pm orienteering experiences designed finding ways to collaborate with the com.au commitment to complete a project. The exhibition remains a work in progress. to reconnect us to this special place. environment and to bring distant As an adjunct to this project, an exhibition by artists and craftspeople from the east SUPPORTED BY You are invited to navigate this struggles into sharp focus. SUPPORTED BY coast will also be presented. dynamic terrain and experience its RACT and Cradle diversity, its history and its surprises. These pictures are worth countless words. Mountain Hotel ARTIST: Lucia Usmiani DIRECTOR: Karina Clarke CURATOR: Kylie Eastley ARTISTS: Rob Blakers, Rick Eaves, Dan Broun, Kelli Nalder, Hillary Younger, Simon Olding, Wolfgang Glowacki, Carol Maney, Peter Dombrovskis and other Tasmanian photographers

Image: Kelli Nalder, Burnt Tarkine. Courtesy of the artist. Allport Library and Museum Salamanca Arts Centre presents of Fine Arts presents VISUAL ARTS 46

IS SURVIVAL A SUFFICIENT CONDITION FOR OUR EXISTENCE, A NEW AND WONDERFUL INTERPRETATION OF HISTORY THREE INTERNATIONALLY CELEBRATED ARTISTS INVITE YOU ART EXHUMES TRADITIONAL, PHYSICAL AND MYSTICAL BELIEFS OR IS THERE MORE TO BEING HUMAN? TOLD IN OBJECTS. TO PARTAKE IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF MAJOR NEW WORKS THAT ARE FOUND WHERE ROADS MEET. AND TO ENJOY AN ALL NIGHT FILM EVENT. THE HOMESICKNESS PROJECT: Moonah Arts Centre presents REVFERENCE [SIC] GASP (Glenorchy Art & PROOF OF LIFE (STUDIO SESSIONS) Sculpture Park) presents Hidden behind the modest guise of The Homesickness Project is a roving, Hobart's LINC Tasmania is a cache HOBART multi-platform, collaborative project HOBART of priceless treasures. From the Allport Library and GASP ALL NIGHT CROSSROADS in search of home. Its thesis is that Long Gallery, classically beautiful to the delightfully Museum of Fine Arts, Society has imposed multiple the role of the world as a home for Salamanca curious, the Allport Library and Ground Floor, An evening of audience engagement meanings upon crossroads, those MOONAH GLENORCHY its citizens is under threat and that Arts Centre, Museum of Fine Arts is sometimes 91 Murray St in which artists Janet Laurence and otherwise benign and simple Moonah Arts Centre, collectively, we are increasingly 77 Salamanca Pl referred to as Hobart’s secret jewel. Thu 16 March – Tega Brain reveal their proposition GASP intersections that are found 23 – 27 Albert Rd homesick. Wed 15 – Over the past year a group of local Sat 26 August for a hugely ambitious new work: an Wilkinsons Point, throughout the world. These island for Elwick Bay. Developed as a (entry off Brooker Fri 10 March – Artists, subject matter experts, Sun 26 March artists have studied the Allport Mon to Fri places of meeting and parting of Sat 1 April community groups and the general collection. They have read, drawn, part of GASP's Swimmable initiative, Hwy at the DEC) ways, resolution and decision, have Open daily 9.30am – 5pm Tue to Fri public will participate in a series 10am – 5pm photographed and dreamed their Parliament: An Island in an Island Sun 26 March garnered throughout time a vast Sat 9.30am – 2pm blurs the boundaries between art, 10am – 5pm of events that elaborate on and way through the myriad of pieces 8pm – all night history, one that enters the spiritual investigate possible answers to these FLOOR TALK and in doing so, found inspiration for environmental science, engineering and mystical realms. Sat 11am – 3pm their own new precious works. FLOOR TALK and interspecies relations. The questions: What does it mean to Elizabeth Woods PATRON ADVICE This exhibition features the work be civilised against an increasingly Tue 21 March, 1pm presentation and discussion will FLOOR TALK & Kevin Leong From silk fans to historical books, be punctuated by visuals, working Films MA15+ of Tasmania-based artists invited to market-driven system of social explore the mysteries and powers Victor Manuel Sat 18 March, colonial portraits to archaic designs, sound and projection and values? What is required from our household objects, the artists have SUPPORTED BY Bring a blanket and embodied in the traditions of the Medrano-Bonilla environment for us to thrive? 12.30pm the opportunity to contribute to a picnic. taken stories and aesthetics from LINC Tasmania this proposition. crossroads. Using the medium Sat 25 March, 1pm The ensuing discussions, lectures, the past and brought them into the Parking at the DEC. of their choice, the works traverse SUPPORTED BY Parliament will be followed by performances, demonstrations present. The pieces both revere and FREE EVENT gothic sensibilities from superstition SUPPORTED BY and exhibitions will invite public reference the old while informing and an advance preview of artist and and folklore to ancient ritual and contribution and form the basis for inspiring the new. filmmaker James Newitt’s new film A Limited capacity – horror. Plan For Escape. The film chronicles registration new Tasmanian projects that will The contemporary works will be At the point where roads intersect, return to the gallery later in the year. the story of 18-year-old Jane Cooper essential at displayed inside the Allport rooms; who in 1971 moved to De Witt Island tendays.org.au will you be haunted by ghosts, An opportunity to observe interrupting the calm, distorting the off the southern coast of Tasmania demons and witches, or will you find known, and reflecting on change. a place of wisdom and protection? and participate in the creative and vowed never to return. SUPPORTED BY development of collaborative, socially-engaged art works. Newitt has also curated Cine Australia Council CURATORS: Christl Berg and Penny Carey-Wells Escape, a season of films that have for the Arts, CURATOR: Victor Manuel Medrano-Bonilla been important to the artist in the Arts Tasmania, ARTISTS: Christl Berg, Lorraine Biggs, Irene Briant, ARTISTS: Lou Conboy, Sabrina Evans, Nancy Mauro-Flude, CURATORS: Elizabeth Woods development of his new work, Glenorchy City Faridah Cameron, Penny Carey-Wells, Chantale Delrue, which will be screened throughout Nadege Philippe-Janon and Caz Rodwell and Kevin Leong Diane Masters, Janelle Mendham, Leonie Oakes, Julie Payne, Council, Marine the night. Solutions Tasmania, ARTISTS: Lisa Garland, Paul Gazzola & Laura Purcell, Diane Perndt and Francis Watson Bridgette Watts, Elizabeth Woods & Kevin Leong, IMAS, Carbon Arts, UTAS, UNSW Abdul Hakim Hashemi Hamidi, Dalibor Martinis, ARTISTS: Janet Laurence & Tega Brain Dr Elaine Stratford, Belinda Winkler, Ian Pidd, and James Newitt Daphne Keramidas, James Newitt, and Hussen Ibraheem & Ameen Nayfeh Image: Imari Dish, Japan Meiji period. Photo by Cara Howell. Courtesy of Allport Image: Janet Laurence & Tega Brain, Parliament (maquette), 2016. Image: Kevin Leong, Hobart Airport, 2007. Courtesy of the artist. Library and Museum of Fine Arts, Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office. Courtesy of the artists. Image: Lou Conboy, El Shaddai, 2015, photograph. Courtesy of the artist.

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“ART IS LIKE WRITING OR SPEAKING. IT TELLS PEOPLE THE TEACHINGS OF LUNA TUNAPRI (WOMEN’S KNOWLEDGE) THE IDEAS OF YOUR MIND … MY WORK IS A COMPLEX AND MANIFEST IN A FORM THAT IS EXQUISITE, DELICATE, HISTORIC INCLUSIVE ART LANGUAGE.” — CHEN PING AND RARE. RETURNING LIVES KANALARITJA: Returning Lives is the title of a new LARGE-SCALE CHARCOAL DRAWINGS DEPICT BLACKNESS, series of 20 oil and ink paintings that ROSNY AN UNBROKEN STRING DARKNESS AND SHADOW IN A WHOLE NEW LIGHT. have been created in Tasmania by The Barn at Rosny kanalaritja: An Unbroken String is a HOBART the Chinese-Australian artist Chen Farm, Rosny Park celebration of Tasmanian Aboriginal Ping. The commanding works of art Sat 18 – Sun 26 March shell necklace making – past, present Tasmanian Museum use both colour and emptiness to and future. kanalaritja offers visitors and Art Gallery, enhance the presence of tension. Open daily 11am – 5pm a unique glimpse into one of the Dunn Pl FULL VOID They represent the artist’s emotional most culturally significant and Fri 9 December 2016 response to his own world, using the Responding to the rich textural "… AN ARTIST WHO 'ADDS SOMETHING NEW AND PERFORMANCES closely guarded traditions that has – Sun 21 May 2017 qualities of charcoal, Mary Scott and HOBART SIGNIFICANT TO AN ANCIENT TRADITION'." Buddhist concept of returning lives. survived millennia. See bottom of page David Edgar explore darkness and Tasmanian Museum Accompanying the paintings (and Animation with — ARTLINK MAGAZINE live music The exhibition features historic shell for opening hours. the void through a series of abstract and Art Gallery, inspired by them) is an exquisite, necklaces that exemplify the stringing architectural and geological spaces. Dunn Pl hand drawn short animation film 11.30am & 3pm daily skills of Tasmanian Aboriginal FLOOR TALK In contrast to the traditional concept Fri 17 March – by Shanghai animator Zeng Yi Gang. ancestors in the 1800s and of Sat 8 April LIGHT MEMORY A score for the animation has TALKS Zoe Rimmer, of the void as an empty or vacuous women on the Furneaux Islands in Indigenous Cultures space, the artists engage charcoal as See bottom of page been composed by Gabriel Collet Sat 18 March Bass Strait during the 20th century. and will be performed live by Collet 11.45am Gabriel Collet Senior Curator a medium that gives dimensionality for opening hours. DARK GROUND Alongside these are contemporary to blackness, and explores the visual and Warsaw-based percussionist, and Elwira Slazak pieces from today’s makers. Fri 24 March, 11am Elwira Slazak. 3.15pm Zeng Yi Gang and psychological responses to dark. FLOOR TALK Michael Schlitz’s magical installation The lives, practices and voices of goes beyond what we see in the HOBART SUPPORTED BY The works exploit connections Sat 18 March, 11am Sun 19 March key makers will be threaded through between charcoal as a natural Artists and curator natural world, transforming it into Contemporary Art 11.45am Chen Ping the exhibition to tie together the This project has something more miraculous, more Tasmania, been assisted by material derived from the earth in conversation 3.15pm Barry Plews themes of resilience, continuity, and the philosophical and affective telling. It is an amalgam of dreams 27 Tasma St, and Hu He identity and revitalisation. the Australian and natural systems, empirical North Hobart Government's Vision dimensions of the architectural SUPPORTED BY understanding and emergent lore. of Australia Program. void. The exhibition expands the Thu 16 March parameters of tonal drawing. CURATORS: Zoe Rimmer and Schlitz is an acclaimed printmaker, – Sun 16 April PRODUCERS: Reckless Moments (Barry Plews & Hu He) The Foundation of the using ancient woodcut methods Liz Tew, TMAG Tasmanian Museum Open daily ARTISTS: Chen Ping, Zeng Yi Gang, Gabriel Collet & Elwira Slazak to create his distinctively intricate 10am – 5pm ARTISTS: The exhibition will and Art Gallery pieces. This new work extends showcase a number of today’s senior his methods to encompass chalk, FLOOR TALK stringers along with a new wave of carving, ultraviolet light and a large, Sat 18 March, 4.30pm A Creative Futures initiative contemporary makers, including CURATOR: Eliza Burke organic structure that references Lola Greeno, Aunty Dulcie Greeno, natural systems. Artists and curator ARTISTS: David Edgar and Mary Scott in conversation Aunty Corrie Fullard, Jeanette James, Our troubled relationship with the Verna Nichols and Ashlee Murray natural world is eloquently addressed Axoum Duo (Gabriel Collet and Elwira Slazak) will perform and sharply illuminated. ticketed events on the evening of Sat 18 and Sun 19 March. Image: Shells collected on Bruny Island as part of the luna tunapri program. Image: Mary Scott, After the Deluge I, 2015, pencil on paper. See page 26 for prices and details. Courtesy of Lucia Rossi, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery. Courtesy of the artist.

ARTIST: Michael Schlitz TMAG OPENING HOURS*: 1 April – 24 December 26 December – 31 March Closed Christmas Day, *Subject to variation. Tue to Sun Open daily Good Friday and Anzac Please check the TMAG Image: Michael Schlitz, Forest, 2005, handprinted wood cut on Japanese Kozo Image: Chen Ping, Venus vs Easternism, 2016, ink on rice paper. 10am – 4pm 10am – 4pm Day (25 April) website for current details: paper, framed. Photo by Jack Bett. Courtesy of the artist and Bett Gallery. Courtesy of the artist. www.tmag.tas.gov.au The Theatre Royal in association with Tasmania Performs and Ten Days on the Island FESTIVAL EXTRA 50 FESTIVAL EXTRA presents HOBART TEN DAYS ON THE ISLAND IS NOT ABOUT PUTTING PEOPLE INTO SEATS, BUT GETTING PEOPLE OUT OF THEIR SEATS — HELPING THEM TO The Theatre Royal Backspace DANCE AND SING, LAUGH, TALK, THINK AND LEARN. Thu 16 – Sat 18 March, 6pm The best festival experiences are formed not by what you see, Workshops, forums, masterclasses, mentorships and but by what you take away. Ten Days on the Island is a spectacle discussions will take participants beyond the art, into the realm DURATION of wonderful artistry from near and far and a wonderful reason of their own creativity. 1hr approx. to leave the house, but it is also a touchpaper for learning, Visit www.tendays.org.au or check your Ten Days Regional happenstance and inspiration. Guide (in your local paper in February) for further information TICKETS FESTIVAL EXTRA is a chance for audiences and artists on FESTIVAL EXTRA’s free and ticketed events. to exchange ideas and build relationships. Adult $20 Child/Concession $12

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Theatre North at the Princess Visit www.theatreroyal.com.au for presents more information. Theatre that is fresh, unprocessed, raw and satisfying. Following the extraordinary success of the RAWspace program in 2015, The Theatre Royal, FRINGE AT Tasmania Performs and Ten Days on the Island again join forces to nurture and release a series of fledgling works by talented Tasmanian theatre makers. They get encouragement, a stage and the chance to fly. THE EARL Be their audience and see what happens. It could be the start of something big.

From the tender brush of a gaze, HOBART The Founders Room, to the flick of a Salamanca Arts Centre tiny rejection, to Mon 20 & Tue 21 March, 7.30pm the balancing of DURATION caretaking, we are 1hr (no interval) all dancing in our TICKETS 21 LIVING ICONS Adult $25 relationships. Concession $20 — Tamara Searle EXHIBITION SUPPORTED BY Image: Damien Hinds Salamanca Arts Centre, Festivals To celebrate 21 years of subscription Australia, City of Hobart, Events seasons, Theatre North at the Princess LAUNCESTON Tasmania is showcasing 21 local icons, nominated Foyer, Earl Arts by the community, in this exhibition of Centre DANCE INTERROGATIONS luminous lightbox portraits! As the Ten Days on Dance Interrogations plays between the formats of video installation and contemporary dance 21 passionate, creative individuals who the Island Festival performance, featuring Screendance artist Dianne Reid and Melinda Smith, a dancer living have made a real difference to the arts in Club, open 5pm with cerebral palsy. The two build upon their unique six-year collaboration in which they have northern Tasmania, some with national until late developed strong performance models beyond the confines of commonly held disability recognition, others as local legends, are stereotypes. SUPPORTED BY portrayed in costume in a scene from a Through the lens of a stark and tender portrait of partnership, and ghosted by the presence of The 2016 development of this project LAUNCESTON Thu 23 March, 7.30pm work of art, literature or theatre. Exposing Edith Friends of Theatre others on screen, Dance Interrogations is a duet between the gently insistent, fragile Smith and was supported by Creative Victoria, Earl Arts Centre North at the the Australia Council for the Arts, $48/$39.50 Featuring showbiz attire from the the fiercely wry Reid. Footscray Community Arts Centre and Sun 19 March, 7pm wardrobes of local theatre companies, Princess the Women’s Circus. Mudlark One Day Sun 26 March, 7.30pm the 21 icons are up in lights like never Best Western Plus Dance Interrogations was the 2016 winner of The A.W.A.R.D. Show. $24/$20 RAW2! Young Talent on before, spectacularly transformed into Launceston Stage Winners' Bash St Joan (Bernard Shaw), Dolly Levi (Jerry During the Salamanca Moves Festival in 2016 a panel of industry experts roamed festival Tue 21 March, 8.30pm $24/$18 Hermann’s Hello Dolly), Lady Capulet performances, events and popups. They selected three works for a live grand final Open Mic Night and Lady Montagu (Romeo & Juliet) and performance on the final Friday night of the festival. $5 (on the door) For more information many, many more! After a discussion with the artists and the panel the audience then voted to select Wed 22 March, 8.30pm and the full Fringe at one work as the winner of The A.W.A.R.D. Show, which is now being presented at Ten Days on the Island in 2017. Book online at tendays.org.au Uber Comedy the Earl program go to Image: Kim Schneiders as Bernard Shaw’s St Joan (detail). $5 (on the door) www.theatrenorth.com.au Creative credits: Brian Dullaghan, Greg Leong and Gina Mckenzie. #ontheisland TASMANIA’S FUNNIEST EMERGING HOBART HOBART FESTIVAL EXTRA 52 SCREEN PRODUCERS ROLL OUT THEIR ISLAND FILMS PROJECTS FOR ALL TO SEE. State Cinema State Cinema Thu 23 March, AT THE STATE CINEMA Fri 17 – Sun 26 March You are cordially invited to the 6pm Experience indie cinema from around premiere screening of four spanking the world that resonates with the TEN STORIES new Tasmanian comedy web series, in TICKETS theme of 'islandness'; isolation, people Program details which talent will be unearthed, sides All $5 from islands or feeling like an island, coming soon! split and thighs slapped. and pilgrimages around and over Keep an eye on FOR TEN DAYS Developed as part of the Screen DURATION islands of thought. statecinema.com.au LINC Tasmania and 26TEN around the state explore stories Tasmania/Screen Australia match- from their towns. funded initiative, #ComedyConcentrate, 2hrs #COMEDYCONCENTRATE the series have been developed and WHEN: Fri 17 to Sun 26 March, check your local LINC Facebook produced under the intensive guidance PATRON ADVICE page for dates and times. of some of Australia’s best screen and Content for mature THE ART OF comedy minds. audiences. BURNIE our local community … those good old days. You can also Come along, support Tasmanian COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT WHERE: Pop ups in popular SUPPORTED BY places at LINC Tasmania in learn how to record and share screen culture and fall about laughing. “ART TO THE COMMUNITY IS WHAT THE HOBART your memories with support DREAM IS TO THE INDIVIDUAL.” Burnie, Wynyard & Penguin State Cinema, Dechaineux Theatre, from the LINC team. Hobart — THOMAS MANN 10 Stories in 10 Places For more information and to book Hunter Street Enquiries to Glenorchy.Linc@ tickets go to www.statecinema.com.au Discover 10 stories in 10 How can art reflect the energies and Tue 21 March, 5.30pm education.tas.gov.au or phone values of a community? What does it exciting locations. Keep an eye (03) 6165 5493 out for us! really mean to be ‘creative’? How can LAUNCESTON art have impact on the wider agendas HUON of this island in particular? Lecture Theatre, CIRCULAR HEAD Tasmanian College WHERE: LINC Tasmania in the THE VANITY UNIT ONCE UPON A PORNO The University of Tasmania and of the Arts, Inveresk WHERE: Pop ups around Huon and libraries in Cygnet Ten Days on the Island present a Circular Head Wed 22 March, and Geeveston (SCREENPLAY) READING series of public forums to talk all Reading Bug Tales (SCREENPLAY) READING things art. The events bring together 5.30pm 10 Stories in the Huon professional practitioners, researchers Where has the Reading Bug Readings by local authors and WHO DID A POO IN THE VANITY UNIT? FIND OUT AT THIS HILARIOUS HELENA MUST LEARN THAT SOMETIMES TO PLEASE OTHER PEOPLE BURNIE been travelling to? Hear stories LIVE SCRIPT READING. YOU NEED TO LEARN TO PLEASE (PLEASURE) YOURSELF. and interested community members writers. to discuss and celebrate the many Makers’ Space of the wonderful places it’s been! creative activities being pursued by Thu 23 March, HOBART A group of residents at a retirement After discovering a massive cache HOBART village are given one last chance to HOBART of hidden porn on her husband’s communities across our creative 5.30pm The Theatre Royal island, the outcomes they achieve, DEVONPORT WHERE: Pop ups in popular host a dinner party. The evening turns The Theatre Royal computer, Helena, frazzled ‘super mum’ places to chaos when human excrement is Backspace secretly enlists the help of Angel, the Backspace and what to do next. TICKETS WHERE: LINC Tasmania in 10 Stories in 10 Places discovered in the vanity unit. People’s Mon 20 March, focus of her husband’s porn obsession, Tue 21 March, 6pm Creative, progressive communities FREE EVENTS Devonport and libraries in prejudices and assumptions allow 6pm to give her sexiness lessons. Once Upon will talk constructively and Ulverstone, Latrobe, Sheffield, Discover 10 stories in 10 long held grievances to surface and A Porno is a sex comedy for mums TICKETS passionately about fine art, music, HOSTED BY Deloraine and Westbury. popular places with LINC the proverbial poo really hits the fan. A TICKETS about female desire, empowerment FREE EVENT theatre, film, dance, design, futures, Tell a Story and Take it Away Tasmania Hobart. Look out for ‘poodunnit?’ that reminds everyone of FREE EVENT and authenticity. Helena must learn presents and dreams. us around town! what is really important in life. that sometimes to please other people Book your free Your stories of island living. Book your free tickets at Choose from 10 story prompts Award-winning Tasmanian writing team you need to learn to please (pleasure) KINGSTON tickets at yourself. tendays.org.au to get started. Story writing Franz Docherty and Belinda Bradley, tendays.org.au volunteers will be there to help. WHERE: LINC Tasmania, along with director Clayton Jacobson Tasmanian filmmakers Carrie McLean, DURATION HOBART Kingston (Kenny) have created the feature film Rebecca Thomson and Elise Taylor LIVING GLENORCHY script over eight months as part of DURATION created this outrageously funny story 1hr 30mins Tasmanian Museum 10 Photos in 10 Days Screen Australia and Screen Tasmania’s 1hr 30mins as part of Screen Australia and Screen (followed by a Q&A) and Art Gallery WHERE: LINC Tasmania, Celebrate your love of reading Pitch, Plot and Produce initiative. (followed by a Q&A) Tasmania’s Pitch, Plot and Produce CULTURE Sun 26 March Glenorchy and photography by snapping Be among the first to hear this initiative. PATRON ADVICE TMAG FAMILY DAY 11am – 3pm Our Place on the Island: Stories photos of yourself, your family PATRON ADVICE or friends in favourite reading screamingly funny Tasmanian story, Content for mature A free day of activities and of Glenorchy support local screen practitioners and Content for mature audiences. TICKETS places, or with your best must- entertainment at TMAG for Who remembers getting the read book. We will be hosting help see this project through audiences. 3 to 8-year-old children and their FREE EVENT train to school or when horses to production. some great free photography families. The theme of the day ‘living and buggies trotted down Main workshops and sharing culture’ celebrates the rich and PATRON ADVICE Street in the 1960s? Explore some of your photos on our PRODUCER/DIRECTOR: DIRECTOR: Rebecca Thomson Clayton Jacobson vibrant Aboriginal culture of lutruwita All activities free and some of the historical images Facebook page! WRITER: Carrie McLean (Tasmania). Explore the beautiful of post WWII Glenorchy and WRITERS/CO-PRODUCERS: drop-in (no bookings Enquiries to Kingston.Linc@ Franz Docherty and Belinda Bradley PRODUCER: Elise Taylor kanalaritja: An Unbroken String necessary). surrounds. Most of us have a exhibition (pg. 48), meet a shell story to tell or memory about education.tas.gov.au or phone (03) 6165 6210 necklace maker, enjoy live music, join HOSTED BY activities with TMAG’s Aboriginal Learning Facilitator, and much more. Check www.tmag.tas.gov.au for more information.

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From Ten Days on the Island and the artists and companies in Festival 2017, thank you to all of the private companies and individuals, and government, arts and educational bodies for your valuable support and contribution. 55 TICKETING INFORMATION & OUTLETS PERFORMING ARTS VENUES 56 Ticketing for Ten Days on the Island Burnie Arts & Function Centre Tickets to selected events also can be SOUTH St David's Cathedral DEVONPORT is powered by (03) 6430 5850 purchased at the following venues: 23 Murray Street NORTH Devonport Entertainment BIRCHS BAY BAKERS BEACH 77 – 79 Wilmot St, Burnie & Convention Centre Spiegeltent Hobart Art Farm Birchs Bay Tasmanian Museum Narawntapu National Park 145 – 151 Rooke St and Art Gallery Centertainment Only selling for Spiegeltent performances 3866 Channel Hwy 1349 Bakers Beach Rd Dunn Pl SHEFFIELD (03) 6234 5998 PW1 Forecourt, Hobart From 9 March to 1 April 2017 CLAREMONT DELORAINE Eagles Nest Retreat 53 Elizabeth St Mall, Hobart Theatre Royal PURCHASING TICKETS Claremont House 29 Campbell St Little Theatre 62 Browns Rd, (West Kentish) Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra 12 Lady Clark Ave The quickest and easiest way to purchase Devonport Entertainment 2 Meander Valley Rd tickets is online through Only selling for The Rite of Spring The Founders Room STANLEY & Convention Centre CYGNET www.tendays.org.au and Ode to Nellie Melba Salamanca Arts Centre LAUNCESTON Stanley Town Hall (03) 6420 2900 Carmel Hall 77 Salamanca Pl 10 Church St or through the (03) 6232 4450 Albert Hall 145 – 151 Rooke St, Devonport Mary St TICKETING HEAD OFFICE Federation Concert Hall The Patrick Street Theatre 45 Tamar St Highfield House Theatre North at the Princess 1 Davey St, Hobart FERN TREE Entry opposite 137 Patrick St Green Hills Rd Ten Days on the Island Earl Arts Centre (03) 6210 5777 (03) 6323 3666 Community Centre 10 Earl Street Wrest Point 8 Stephenson Pl The Playhouse Theatre WYNYARD 71 Murray St, Hobart 57 Brisbane St, Launceston Only selling for Paris Combo 106 Bathurst St Journey Registration Hub at Wrest Point FRANKLIN Hatherley House Theatre Royal Coastal Pods, Tickets for all performances can also be The Theatre Royal Backspace 43 High St, East Launceston Wynyard Wharf, purchased in person from any of our five (03) 6221 1888 Palais Theatre 29 Campbell St (03) 6233 2299 3388 Huon Hwy 1 Goldie St statewide outlets. 410 Sandy Bay Rd, Sandy Bay (behind the Theatre Royal) John Hart Conservatory 29 Campbell St, Hobart City Park HOBART Wrest Point Entertainment WEST Dechaineux Theatre Centre Lecture Theatre, STRAHAN University of Tasmania 410 Sandy Bay Rd Academy Gallery FEES AND CHARGES CHILD, CONCESSION, PROGRAM DETAILS 41 Hunter St People’s Park Tasmanian College Entry off Esplanade All prices are stated in Australian dollars AND FAMILY TICKETS The Ten Days on the Island Festival KETTERING of the Arts and include booking fees. 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TEN DAYS ON THE ISLAND ACN 092 326 951 ABN 30 092 326 951 Ten Days on the Island is a not-for-profit organisation, and Thank you to the following generous lovers of Tasmanian art for 71 Murray Street, Hobart we rely on support from a variety of sources to ensure that their gift towards Ten Days on the Island Festival 2017: GPO Box 1403 Tasmanian communities are treated to exciting, moving and Paul McCartney and Asha Ram inspiring shows. Our purpose is to strengthen the local arts Hobart, Tasmania, sector and preserve Tasmania’s place on the world stage. Since Peter and Ruth Althaus Australia, 7001 our inception in 2001, we have presented the works of an Julia Farrell +61 (0)3 6210 5700 outstanding range of international, national and local artists Sir Guy Green and Lady Rosslyn Green [email protected] to audiences statewide. tendays.org.au Jane Haley The donations we receive from generous individuals enable us to create opportunities for Tasmanian artists and arts Anna Mestitz companies to present their exhibitions and performances John Heathcote BOARD OF DIRECTORS MARKETING, COMMUNICATIONS alongside international works of excellence in the Festival program. Vicki Randell PATRON: Sir Guy Green AND PARTNERSHIPS Anonymous Examples of works in Festival 2017 that have been nurtured CHAIRMAN: Saul Eslake DIRECTOR OF MARKETING AND COMMUNICATIONS: Adrian Smith and encouraged by our donors include The Season by BOARD DIRECTORS: Jacqui Allen, Noel Frankham, MANAGER OF MARKETING AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT: Tasmanian playwright Nathan Maynard and produced by Stephanie Jaensch, Jenny-Ellen Kennedy, Roz MacAllan, Robert Catchpole Tasmania Performs, and You and Me and the Space Between BEQUESTS Gillian Miles, David Palmer written by Finegan Kruckemeyer and produced by Terrapin A bequest, or legacy, is a gift of money and asset that you leave MARKETING COORDINATOR — PUBLICATIONS AND DIGITAL: Puppet Theatre. in your Will. By providing for Ten Days on the Island in your PAST BOARD DIRECTORS: Travis Tiddy (until October 2016) Alison Murray Our free workshops, talks and seminars are made possible Will, you will not only make a personal contribution to the MARKETING COORDINATOR — NORTHERN REGION: Tanya Hussey by donations from Tasmanian arts lovers; our Islanders. joy, delight and celebration of the Festival, you will also help ARTISTIC DIRECTOR: David Malacari MARKETING AND PARTNERSHIPS OFFICER: us to ensure that future generations of Tasmanian artists and Claire Pendrigh Elliott Donors get the chance to engage with our productions in CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER: Jane Haley EVENTS COORDINATOR: Nadine Cove unique and special ways during the Festival so they can see audiences benefit from your generosity. for themselves what they are helping to achieve for Tasmanian If you feel passionately about the impact that the arts can have COPYWRITER: Meg Bignell artists and arts companies. on the lives of Tasmanians and the growth in confidence that UTAS PROFESSIONAL PLACEMENT INTERN: Rachel Kumar ensues from involvement in making work and participating in PROGRAMMING AND PRODUCTION FESTIVAL IDENTITY: Atomic Blender creativity, then your gift will support us to continue to present DIRECTOR OF PROGRAMMING AND PRODUCTION: Louisa Gordon and deliver a program that is relevant, accessible and reflects HOW TO DONATE the lives and personal experiences of all of those who take part. 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Hobart Tasmania 7000 Corporate partners with Ten Days on the Island enjoy benefits At the time of printing this brochure many of the people who make the Festival possible are yet to be working with us that provide opportunities in: at Ten Days on the Island. To all of you, a huge thankyou in advance. IN PERSON 71 Murray St, Hobart •• Branding •• Marketing All gifts over $2.00 can be tax deductible. •• Event activation SPECIAL THANKS Once you have made a donation you will receive a receipt in the mail. •• Public relations TEN DAYS ON THE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS: Thanks for your help in the Ten Days on the Island office, at events and on the road around •• Networking and hospitality Tasmania. We could not do it without you! There are still opportunities to gain exposure for your brand in Festival 2017 and we have a team that can bring creative and If you are not already one of our volunteers and would like to become one, please call the Ten Days on the Island office on unique projects to life. Call (03) 6210 5700 and ask to speak (03) 6210 5700 or visit tendays.org.au/volunteer to register your interest. with someone from our partnerships team to find out more. Book online at tendays.org.au Book online at tendays.org.au #ontheisland #ontheisland 59 THU 16 MARCH MON 20 MARCH Triabunna where Track (pg. 44) will take 60 Begin in Hobart with a tour of its streets Your tour now takes you eastward you on an orienteering adventure. Now and galleries, starting in North Hobart to Burnie and a third 'site of love and on to Hobart for a fine dining experience for breakfast at one of the many cafes. neglect', Gymnasia (pg. 33). A plethora at Aloft on the waterfront at the striking Whitemark Stroll towards Hobart, stopping in at the of visual arts experiences will fill your Brooke Street Pier. After an early dinner Contemporary Art Gallery Tasmania for day as you explore this surprising port you have several evening entertainment Michael Schlitz’s magical installation, town. You’ll find The Silver Lining (pg. options; you can see White Snake (pg. 5) Light memory dark ground (pg. 47). Next 40) in the atrium of the Burnie City at the Theatre Royal at 7.30pm; The Rite head to Murray Street and drop by the Council, Backscatter – The Voyage of the of Spring (pg. 23) with the Tasmanian Allport Library and Museum of Fine Arts Investigator (pg. 41) at the Makers' Space Symphony Orchestra at the Federation for Revference [sic] (pg. 45). Continue and the annual Burnie Print Prize (pg. 41) Concert Hall at 7.30pm; or take a drive towards Salamanca and perhaps stop at at the Burnie Regional Art Gallery. towards Mount Wellington into Fern one of Hobart’s scrumptious eateries for Tree at 8pm for FIRE (pg. 19) if you didn’t lunch. In Salamanca pop into the Long TUE 21 MARCH catch it before. Gallery to check out The Homesickness Zip over to Devonport for a fourth 'site of Stanley Project: Proof of Life (Studio Sessions) love and neglect', Resilience (pg. 34) SAT 25 MARCH (pg. 45). Grab a seafood dinner on the at Tiagarra and Beneath the Waterline More galleries and exhibitions to explore Wynyard waterfront, perhaps at one of Hobart’s (pg. 42) at the Bass Strait Maritime on an autumnal Saturday morning Narawntapu Park famous punts, and finish in time to catch Centre. Visit the Devonport Regional Art in Hobart. Start your day early at the fresh, new exciting theatre at the Theatre Gallery for A decolonial geographic renowned Salamanca Market and stroll BURNIE Royal Backspace with RAWspace (pg. 50) Devonport Scottsdale (pg. 42) before an early dinner and along the waterfront to the Tasmanian at 6pm, followed by The Season (pg. 3) at extraordinary performance by Canada’s Museum and Art Gallery for two Moltema 7.30pm at the Theatre Royal. Hawksley Workman in The God That fascinating exhibitions, kanalaritja: An Eagles Nest Retreat Deloraine Comes (pg. 13) at 8pm. Unbroken String and Full Void (pg. 48). LAUNCESTON FRI 17 MARCH Breadalbane If you're looking for more discoveries Bay of Fires Head to Moonah to see Crossroads WED 22 MARCH strike out north to Kempton via Brighton Westbury St Helens (pg. 46) at the Moonah Arts Centre for your seventh and eighth 'sites of love Cradle Mountain Meander your way through picturesque Deddington and stay for the 1pm session of Tasdance scenery to Deloraine and take in the and neglect', BAC (pg. 34) in Brighton and Jukstapoz's Fragile Matter (pg. 29). local arts and crafts before heading to the and Level Ground (pg. 34) at Kempton You can then go back to Salamanca to Little Theatre for Portraits in Motion Oval. Loop back to Hobart through see FIRE (pg. 19) at 8pm (The Founders (pg. 10) at 7.30pm. historic Richmond to see Jane Elizabeth Room) or The Frock (pg. 30) at 7.30pm (pg. 36) and enjoy afternoon tea at a (The Peacock Theatre) or take a drive THU 23 MARCH local cafe. Make it back to Hobart by 5pm Zeehan Swansea south through rugged landscapes to for the must-do experience Babel (pg. 15) Port Arthur and catch FREEZE! (pg. 11) at Continue east to Launceston via at the Hobart Council Centre, and then Kelvedon Estate 6.30pm, stopping in at Dunalley for The Westbury for your fifth 'site of love and back to Salamanca for the delightful You neglect', Bellow (pg. 34), and spend Kempton House of Longing (pg. 34), a 'site of love and Me and the Space Between (pg. 7) at Strahan and neglect'. your day exploring the sites and streets 6pm at the Peacock Theatre. Finish your Triabunna of Tasmania’s northern city. The Queen Brighton evening with a musical celebration at St Lake St Clair SAT 18 MARCH Victoria Museum and Art Gallery holds David’s Cathedral with Sanctuary (pg. 19) Claremont Richmond a treasure trove of interest and a very at 8pm. Glenorchy Shag Bay A gorgeous, meandering drive awaits you special exhibition that connects Tasmania Moonah today as you head to Zeehan. You will to New Caledonia, Islands – A Speculation SUN 26 MARCH Dunalley see some of Tasmania’s most stunning (pg. 37). Your visual arts odyssey can HOBART Rosny scenery and charming towns along the continue with a trip to the Academy Take a morning drive to Geilston Bay for Kettering way. Feel free to detour into New Norfolk your final 'site of love and neglect', Trace, Franklin Port Arthur Gallery in Invermay for Imagining Food: for some antiquing and a spot of tea. Give Art, Aesthetics and Design (pg. 38) and (pg. 34) before heading to The Barn at Cygnet Art Farm Birchs Bay yourself enough time to get to Zeehan then to Sawtooth ARI for Sentiment Rosny Farm for 11.30am performance of to see a second 'site of love and neglect', (pg. 39). Grab an early dinner and Returning Lives (pg. 47). If you still didn’t Crocoite. Crocoite. Silver. Silver/Lead. wander down to City Park for Stompin’s catch it previously, it’s your last chance (pg. 33), it's open until 7pm tonight as a Fully Grown (pg. 29) at 7.30pm. End your for the enchanting You and Me and the special treat. Top off a magical day with evening with local cider and the 21 Living Space Between (pg. 7) at the Peacock an intimate concert, presented by the Icons exhibition (pg. 49) at the Festival Theatre at 2pm. Or if you want to venture Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, Club at the Earl, which is open till late. further afield, wind your way down the Ode to Nellie Melba (pg. 25) with soloist channel to Art Farm Birchs Bay for the Lorina Gore at 7.30pm right next door at FRI 24 MARCH final performance of FREEZE! (pg. 11) at the Gaiety Theatre. 3pm. You'll be back in time for dinner, a Starting your journey back to Hobart drink and the dazzling VELVET (pg. 32) SUN 19 MARCH just before 10am should allow you time at 8.30pm at the spectacular Spiegeltent to stop into Breadalbane, just outside of Hobart. If you're after a more mellow Continue north to Wynyard, aiming to Launceston, to see Strata: Tracing the Past arrive before 11.30am, where a day of Sunday evening, grab a blanket and (pg. 35). Continue south, turning east picnic, and make your way to Glenorchy YOUR ROAD TRIP exploring the rural landscape through a when you get to Campbell Town towards There are countless ways to mix and match your Ten Days on the Island program journey in sound along the north west for GASP All Night (pg. 46), starting at the coast; you'll be in Swansea for lunch 8pm. Whichever you choose, it will be across the state, and you can find more details on our website, but here is a suggested coast awaits you with Big hART’s Acoustic by the sea. Your sixth 'site of love and itinerary that takes in all nine intriguing Sites of Love and Neglect to inspire you to hit Life of Sheds – Cape to Cape (pg. 21). the perfect way to end your Ten Days on neglect', The Distance (pg. 34), awaits the Island. the road. Begin in Hobart, then venture out and lose yourself in a world of theatre, you just a short walk off the Tasman dance, music and visual arts around the state whilst enjoying the spectacular sights and Highway at Kelvedon Estate. Follow sensational food Tasmania has to offer. the coast down to Spring Bay Mill in

Book online at tendays.org.au Book online at tendays.org.au #ontheisland #ontheisland 61 62 PERFORMING ARTS & EVENTS PLANNER PAGE GENRE EVENT LOCATION THU 16 FRI 17 SAT 18 SUN 19 MON 20 TUE 21 WED 22 THU 23 FRI 24 SAT 25 SUN 26 16 Theatre E-BABY1 Hobart Hobart 8.15pm Hobart 8.15pm Hobart 8.15pm 9 Theatre FRIDA AND DEREK2 Statewide Moltema 7pm L'ton 7pm Claremont 7pm Claremont 7pm 10 Theatre PORTRAITS IN MOTION Statewide Flinders Is 7pm Deloraine7.30pm Swansea 7.30pm Hobart 7.30pm Hobart 7.30pm Franklin 5pm 13 Music Theatre THE GOD THAT COMES Devonport/Hobart Devonport 8pm Hobart 8pm Hobart 8pm 3 Theatre THE SEASON Hobart Hobart 7.30pm Hobart 7.30pm Hobart 7.30pm Hobart 4pm 5 Theatre WHITE SNAKE Launceston/Hobart L'ton 8pm Hobart 7.30pm Hobart 7.30pm 7 Theatre YOU AND ME AND THE SPACE BETWEEN Launceston/Hobart L'ton 6pm L'ton 6pm L'ton 2pm Hobart 6pm Hobart 6pm Hobart 2pm 15 Performance BABEL Hobart Hobart 5pm — 10pm Hobart 6pm — 11pm Hobart 5pm — 10pm 11 Performance FREEZE! Statewide Port Arthur 6.30pm Bay of Fires 5pm Bakers Beach 4pm Stanley 6.30pm Sheffield 6.30pm Strahan 6.30pm Lake St Clair 4pm Birchs Bay 3pm 21 Music ACOUSTIC LIFE OF SHEDS3 NW coast Various Various Various Various 26 Music AXOUM DUO Rosny Rosny 8pm Rosny 8pm 28 Music CELLO NAPOLETANO Hobart/Launceston Hobart 2pm L'ton 2pm 20 Music FACING NORTH4 Burnie 19 Music FIRE Statewide Hobart 8pm Kettering 8pm Fern Tree 8pm Franklin 8pm 27 Music MARTHA WAINWRIGHT Hobart/Devonport Hobart 8pm Devonport 8pm 25 Music ODE TO NELLIE MELBA5 Statewide L'ton 7.30pm Burnie 7.30pm Zeehan 7.30pm 17 Music PARIS COMBO Hobart/Burnie Burnie 8pm Hobart 7.30pm 19 Music SANCTUARY Hobart Hobart 8pm 26 Music SEQUENZA Statewide Cygnet 2.30pm Scottsdale 2.30pm Deloraine 2.30pm 23 Music THE RITE OF SPRING Hobart Hobart 7.30pm 28 Music TIN SHED BAROQUE Triabunna T'bunna 3pm 29 Dance FRAGILE MATTER Moonah/Launceston Moonah 1pm & 7.30pm Moonah 1pm & 7.30pm L'ton 1pm & 7.30pm 29 Dance FULLY GROWN Launceston L'ton 7.30pm L'ton7.30pm L'ton 7.30pm L'ton 7.30pm L'ton 7.30pm 30 Dance THE FROCK Statewide Hobart 7.30pm Hobart 4pm & 7.30pm Burnie 7.30pm Devonport 7.30pm L'ton 7.30pm L'ton 4pm & 7.30pm 51 Festival Extra #COMEDYCONCENTRATE Hobart Hobart 6pm 50 Festival Extra DANCE INTERROGATIONS Hobart Hobart 7.30pm 49 Fringe at the Earl EXPOSING EDITH Launceston L'ton 7.30pm 52 Festival Extra LIVING CULTURE: TMAG FAMILY DAY Hobart Hobart 11am — 3pm 49 Fringe at the Earl MUDLARK ONE DAY PROJECT Launceston L'ton 7pm 51 Festival Extra ONCE UPON A PORNO Hobart Hobart 6pm 49 Fringe at the Earl OPEN MIC NIGHT Launceston L'ton 8.30pm 49 Fringe at the Earl RAW2! YOUNG TALENT ON STAGE Launceston L'ton 7.30pm 50 Festival Extra RAWSPACE Hobart Hobart 6pm Hobart 6pm Hobart 6pm 52 Festival Extra THE ART OF COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT Statewide Hobart 5.30pm L'ton 5.30pm Burnie 5.30pm 51 Festival Extra THE VANITY UNIT Hobart Hobart 6pm 49 Fringe at the Earl UBER COMEDY Launceston L'ton 8.30pm VISUAL ARTS EXTRA AND ONE-OFF EVENTS (FOR THE FULL VISUAL ARTS PROGRAM PLEASE GO TO PAGE 33. PLEASE SEE EXHIBITION PAGES FOR DETAILS OF ASSOCIATED TALKS.) 33 Visual Arts CROCOITE. CROCOITE. SILVER. SILVER/LEAD. Zeehan Zeehan 4pm – 7pm 46 Visual Arts GASP ALL NIGHT Glenorchy Glenorchy 8pm 34 Visual Arts LEVEL GROUND (SOLAN) Kempton Kempton 2pm – 4pm 43 Visual Arts NEARLY 50 USEFUL THINGS St Helens St Helens 10am — 5pm St Helens 10am — 5pm 36 Visual Arts REMANENCE Hobart Hobart 7pm – 8.30pm 34 Visual Arts RESILIENCE (SOLAN) Devonport Devonport 11am – 4pm 47 Visual Arts RETURNING LIVES Rosny Rosny 11.30am & 3pm Rosny 11.30am & 3pm Rosny 11.30am & 3pm Rosny 11.30am & 3pm Rosny 11.30am & 3pm Rosny 11.30am & 3pm Rosny 11.30am & 3pm Rosny 11.30am & 3pm Rosny 11.30am & 3pm 34 Visual Arts THE HOUSE OF LONGING (SOLAN) Dunalley Dunalley 12 noon

1. E-BABY: Hobart Tue 28 – Fri 31 March, 8.15pm and Sat 1 April, 2.15pm & 8.15pm • 2. FRIDA AND DEREK: Hobart Tue 28 – Sat 1 April, 7pm • 3. Refer to page 21 for details of performances • 4. FACING NORTH: Sun 12 March, 5pm • 5. ODE TO NELLIE MELBA: Hobart Fri 10 March, 7.30pm *SPIEGELTENT HOBART runs from Thu 9 March - Sat 1 April (full program and tickets available at tendays.org.au or spiegeltenthobart.com) Book online at tendays.org.au #ontheisland