Image: David Gough in mapali, opening Ten Days on the Island Festival in 2021 Ten Days on the Island welcomed the announcement today by the Minister for Communications, Cyber Security and the Arts, the Hon Paul Fletcher of funds for the costs of its major community project for the North West for Festival 21. “We are thrilled to have received funding from […]
Artwork by Gadget Ten Days on the Island is once again collaborating with the community of Shorewell Park, Burnie Community House (BCH) and Urban Theatre Projects (UTP) for a project that continues to grow the relationships established during the Ten Days on the Island Festival in March 2019. Shorewell Presents… Dear Friend, is a pen […]
Next year’s Ten Days on the Island event is set to be both a post COVID-19 expression of our shared humanity and a celebration of Tasmanian artists, writes Lindy Hume: IT seems like a very long time ago — mid-March — that I returned, nauseous with foreboding, to Burnie after a day in transit in […]
Image: Artists Rebecca Thomson and Catherine Pettman take their work from the Hobart Tip all the way to Cannes Film Festival Last month we shared our plan to celebrate our 20th year with a Tasmanian artist focused Ten Days on the Island in March 2021. Since then we’ve been absorbed in the processes of […]
Image: Ten Days on the Island Artistic Director, Lindy Hume; CEO, Jane Haley; and Executive Producer, Vernon Guest Waking up on March 20 to The Mercury’s brilliant (now iconic) headline We’ve Got a Moat and We’re Not Afraid to Use It, it was clear that the singularity of living on an island was coming […]
In her terrific book Rusted Off! Why Country Australia is Fed Up, Gabrielle Chan describes the annual race day in her community, the NSW town of Harden Murrumburrah: ‘The races are a microcosm…. In a funny way, we cover most of the ministerial portfolios, traversing health, education, immigration, trade, Treasury, but we do it via […]
Reflecting on Ten Days on the Island 2019 there’s so much to celebrate, starting with the popularity of our new three-weekend Festival model. Welcome, access and participation were touchstones of our approach to everything – from our website and branding to the program itself. There were almost twice as many free events this year and […]
This week the Ten Days on the Island team made its way back from Hobart to Burnie after an EPIC three weekend adventure, having brought a kaleidoscope of amazing Festival experiences to communities across Tasmania. Remembering a festival is recreating a collage of seemingly unrelated moments – moments of connection, moments of revelation, of sheer […]
From the first, spine-tingling call of ‘mapali!’ at dawn on Devonport beach, to the final raucous chorus of ‘in the future’ ending Lucky Oceans and Heath Cullen’s inspired set in a packed shed on Table Cape, this was a beautiful weekend in the North West of Tasmania. mapali – Dawn Gathering was a particular highlight […]
DAY 1 (FRIDAY 8 MARCH) 7AM – Set the alarm early because at 7am you’ll be watching a glorious sunrise over The Bluff in Devonport as mapali – Dawn Gathering unfolds. A unique community performance with hundreds of local singers, dancers and performers breathing as one in a shared moment of reflection and ritual. 9AM […]
Big week for Ten Days on the Island: just one final week of preparation before the festival opens. It’s one of my favourite moments – the artists start to arrive, rehearsals are in progress and we begin to see what the works in progress are actually going to look like! It’s not every day that […]
Showcasing our local creative community! Around dinnertime on a Tuesday night – depending on the direction of the wind – in the distance around Wynyard you can hear driving drum-beats… first ominous then gathering momentum into complex rhythms interspersed with ferocious Japanese war-cries! The drumbeats might seem incongruous with the relaxed neighbourhood I now live […]