Ten Days on the Island, Tasmania’s premier multidisciplinary arts festival, is ready to celebrate its 10th year as it kicks off events in March 2019.
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Held every two years, this much-loved arts program is Australia’s only multi-arts statewide festival and provides a celebration of Tasmania's distinct island culture.
With a mix that spans theatre, dance, visual arts, music, film, literature and design there really is something for everyone with this year’s lineup.
Celebrated over three weekend starting from 8 March and in three different parts of the state, this year’s festival is an action-packed affair for art-lovers of all ages.
It will be kicking things off in Burnie, its new home-base, on 8 March with the world premiere of Out of Chaos, the latest show from Australia’s world-conquering contemporary circus radicals Gravity and Other Myths.
Lovers of baroque music won’t want to miss Enchanted Island during the program’s second weekend.
This opera concert is set to be held amongst the vines at Clover Hill Vineyard and features mezzosoprano Anna Dowsley, soprano Sara Macliver and baritone Christopher Richardson singing arias and excerpts from Handel’s operas including Alcina, Orlando and Acis, Galatea and Polifemo.
Another unmissable performance sees Peter and the Wolf narrated by Madame Lark and accompanied by the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra (TSO).
Music lovers are well catered for during the third weekend in Hobart, with performances including Compassion performed by Australian singer Lior who presents a plea for empathy sung in both Arabic and Hebrew.
And in a spectacular finale Bosnian singing sensation Božo Vrećo will perform his solo Tasmanian show in a performance that sees traditional folk music known as Sevdah with pop, carnival and dance music.
It’s hard to imagine a more encompassing arts festival than 10 Days on the Island and the 2019 schedule looks to be the biggest and best yet.
Ten Days on the Island brings international recognition for Tasmania and demonstrates how the arts can positively influence a community's perception of itself and the image it projects to the world.