The festival will run over three weekends, each one providing unique events for a different region of Tasmania, rather than over 10 consecutive days with events scattered all over the island. 

The first weekend will be held in the North-West, the second in Launceston and the North-East, and the last in Hobart and the South. 

Ms Hume said the event would dig deep into what makes each region special.

“You want to do something so unique in each of those places that people will travel, and so that there will be real engagement with the local community,” she said. 

“We’re saying, ‘what have we got here? What’s going on creatively in this part of the world? How do we animate that - not just creatively but socially, what have these communities got that they’re proud of or interested in?’

“What we want to promote is that the experiences that people can have in these places is incredibly high quality, and that you can go into a different part of the world to experience them.

“I’ve been really enchanted by some of the different smaller villages, and certainly the driving around the island is utterly beguiling.”

In the North-East, the festival will roll out a range of family friendly activities within Launceston itself, and more adult offerings in the surrounding countryside. 

For example there will be, for the first time, an opera performance, at Clover Hill Wines.

“It’ll be a beautiful baroque opera concert performance in a vineyard,” said Ms West. 

“What we’re actually doing rather than a single opera is to focus on a single composer, so it’ll probably be Handel.

“There will be all these bits and pieces that will be really interesting. Granular pieces that get out into the countryside for these village experiences which will be very special. And then, of course, the opera.” 

The full Ten Days on the Island program will be launched in January, before the festival in March. 

Last year’s program included Archie Roach, Wil Anderson, and Hannah Gadsby’s hit show Nanette, among 87 arts, theatre, music, and comedy performances. 

The festival was created in 2001.