There's "morning meditations": tranquil, intimate live music outside in the peaceful nature surroundings of the Cataract Gorge, at the respectable hour of 10am.

There's a program of independent, music-related films at the Star Theatre.

There's late-night electronica in the heritage grandeur of the Albert Hall.

And art installations at locally-iconic spots from the Elphin Sports Centre to Royal Park.

There's the main event at Festival Hub of Queen Victoria Museum, Inveresk, with heaps of acts both obscure and famous.

There's a Tasmanian Aboriginal dinner served in a specially-designed hut in the bush, and a Dolly Parton themed all-night party in Faux Mo.

And don't forget three nights of the festival's headlining event: a family-friendly political satire with a huge cast and giant puppets in the Cataract Gorge - King Ubu.

The curious will definitely be able to find something to do.

This guide is divided into three sections:

Or you could just pick something at random. Zoom in to see what's happening where in Launceston for Mona Foma 2020:

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The festival is utilising every nook and cranny of the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery (QVMAG) at Inveresk. Firstly, there are the two main stages, the Northern Stage and the Traverser Stage: temporary set-ups where most of the biggest acts are playing. Then there's the rooms in the museum itself: the Object Gallery, the Community Gallery, and the Touring Exhibitions Gallery. To the north of the museum is the Annexe Theatre: part of the University of Tasmania School of Creative Arts, and the setting for more intimate shows.

7.30pm: My Favourite Things. A variety show featuring Amanda Palmer, Slovenian totalitarian-camp band Laibach, Japanese sugar-pop girlband Chai, and three local acts: jazz act Evan Carydakis, pub rockers the Native Cats, and indie pop singer Medhanit Barrett. Each performer will present their take on the Julie Andrews ditty 'My Favourite Things' as well as a few surprises.

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From 2pm: Head to the Interweave Arts Studio to see a livestream of the studio's dog, Patch, running around the festival.

2-4pm: Double Double, at the Touring Exhibitions Gallery. a two-hour dance performance set to drumming.

2.15-3pm: Aki Onda at the Annexe Theatre. Aki Onda is a Japanese composer, improviser, and collector of sounds in a city environment for later use in music: expect soothing and slow-moving unfurling sound.

2.30pm - 3.15pm: Philomath at the Traverser Stage. A six-piece improv band from Hobart with vocals, saxophone, "bird noises", percussion, keyboard, bass, drums, and kazoo.

3pm, 3.15pm and 3.30pm: Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra Chorus Extreme at the Annexe Drama Studio. TSOCExtreme will feature darkness, clocks, body percussion, paper bags, processions, Lorca, and eyeballs.

3.15 - 3.45pm: Akio Suzuki at the QVMAG Object Gallery. Akio Suzuki is known for capturing organic sounds - for example, throwing an object down a hallway and capturing the echoes. As well as performances, he will capture a soundscape of Launceston while he is here.

3.15-3.45pm: Annette Krebs at the QVMAG Community Gallery. Annette Krebs makes her own instruments, and plays them with minute, slow-building sound against silence.

3.15-3.45pm: Robbie Avenaim at the Northern Stage. Avenaim makes motorised drum machines that play themselves with robotic arms holding the sticks and hitting each of the drums and cymbals.

3.45-4.45pm: Aunty Delmae and William Barton at the Annexe Theatre. This duo are one of the world's finest didgeridoo players and an operatic singer about Aboriginal spirituality, and also mother and son.

3.45-4.30pm: Zoj at the Traverser Stage. Ancient Persian music and Farsi poetry combined with experimental rumblings and frenzied improvisation.

4.45pm and 5.30pm: Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra Chorus Extreme, at the Touring Exhibitions Gallery. TSOCExtreme will feature darkness, clocks, body percussion, paper bags, processions, Lorca, and eyeballs.

4.45-5.30pm: Hiromi Miyakita at the Annexe Drama Studio. Miyakita is an improvisational dancer who explores the idea of 'dance as stillness', and the motion of a human body when considered an object rather than a living being. She performs with musicians o3.

4.45-5.15pm: Julia Droughin and Emile Boudghene at the QVMAG Object Gallery. This pair will improvise on the Petit Cristal Baschet - a glass and metal musical contraption of mid-century French design that makes eerie, almost electronic sounds, even though it's totally acoustic. Such instruments have also been found to be therapeutic for people with autism.

4.45-5.45pm: Orville Peck at the Northern Stage. Peck is a queer masked cowboy who sings country.

5-5.30pm: Annette Krebs at the QVMAG Community Gallery. Krebs makes her own instruments, and plays them with minute, slow-building sound against silence.

5.45-6.30pm: Jeremy Dutcher at the Annexe Theatre. Dutcher and band perform rousing, contemporary arias and pop-operatic ballads in Wolastoq, the nearly extinct tongue of Dutcher's First Nation ancestors (only 100 speakers remain). In the Annexe Theatre.

5.45-6.30pm: Ripple Effect at the Traverser Stage. Ripple Effect are an all-female trio from a remote Aboriginal community in Arnhem Land: where music has traditionally been the domain of men. They play saltwater rock, reggae and garage grunge in five languages.

6-8pm: TasDance and youth dance ensemble Stompin', at the Touring Exhibitions Gallery. The two groups join forces for a performance where the audience controls the dancers, as they move through pools of light and dark.

READ MORE: TasDance and Stompin work 'Reactor' to pull in the audience

6.30-7pm: Julia Droughin and Emile Boudghene at the Annexe Drama Studio. The duo will improvise on the Petit Cristal Baschet - a glass and metal musical contraption of mid-century French design that makes eerie, almost electronic sounds, even though it's totally acoustic. Such instruments have also been found to be therapeutic for people with autism.

6.40pm: Holly Herndon at the Northern Stage. Herndon wrote her most recent album, Proto, with an ensemble that included an artificially intelligent machine named Spawn. The experiment worked well enough to score the album an 8.2 on Pitchfork, who described it as "stunning and revealing" - Spawn joins her on stage at Mona Foma.

6.45-7.15pm: Akio Suzuki at the QVMAG Object Gallery. Suzuki is known for capturing organic sounds - for example, throwing an object down a hallway and capturing the echoes. As well as performances, he will capture a soundscape of Launceston while he is here.

6.45-7.15pm: Annette Krebs at the QVMAG Community Gallery. Krebs makes her own instruments, and plays them with minute, slow-building sound against silence.

7.15-8pm: Ann O'Aro at the Annexe Theatre. O'Aro is from Reunion Island, a former French colony off the coast of Africa. She performs stark and bluesy songs of rage and hope, tackling taboos and her personal history. Backed by simple percussion and trombone, she transforms the Maloya tradition: the music of the sugarcane fields worked by slaves.

7.30-8.30pm: Chai at the Traverser Stage. Chai are an all-female four-piece from Japan who will explode your totally archaic notions of Japanese girl power cuteness though the power of pop.

READ MORE: Don't call us 'kawaii': Mona Foma Japanese girlband Chai

8.30-10pm: Laibach at the Northern Stage. Laibach are a Slovenian mostly-cover band who filter Western music through industrial noise, camp, and totalitarian imagery. They were also the first 'outsider' rock band to be invited into North Korea and perform in Pyongyang.

READ MORE: Q&A: Mona Foma band Laibach, the first Western act to play in North Korea

10-11pm: Tim Hecker and the Konoyo Ensemble at the Traverser Stage. Tim Hecker is a cult-hero electronic artist who makes ambient music. It's been said that he creates electronic music fit for 'the rain-soaked alley between a church and a nightclub'. Now he's turning his attention to the ancient music of the Japanese royal court, in collaboration with Japanese gagaku musicians.

2-8pm: Robbie Avenaim at the QVMAG Community Gallery. Avenaim makes motorised drum machines that play themselves with robotic arms holding the sticks and hitting each of the drums and cymbals.

2-4pm: TasDance and youth dance ensemble Stompin', at the Touring Exhibitions Gallery. The two groups join forces for a performance where the audience controls the dancers, as they move through pools of light and dark.

READ MORE: TasDance and Stompin work 'Reactor' to pull in the audience

2-7pm: o3 at the QVMAG Object Gallery. o3 are a group of improvisers from Australia, Spain, Norway, Italy and Spain.

2.15pm, 2.30pm and 2.45pm: Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra Chorus Extreme at the Annexe Drama Studio. TSOCExtreme will feature darkness, clocks, body percussion, paper bags, processions, Lorca, and eyeballs.

2.15-3.15pm: Artist talk with Holly Herndon in the QVMAG Theatrette. Holly Herndon wrote her most recent album, Proto, with an ensemble that included an artificially intelligent machine named Spawn. The experiment worked well enough to score the album an 8.2 on Pitchfork, who described it as "stunning and revealing".

3-3.45pm: Laibach at the Annexe Theatre. Laibach are a Slovenian mostly-cover band who filter Western music through industrial noise, camp, and totalitarian imagery. They were also the first 'outsider' rock band to be invited into North Korea and perform in Pyongyang.

READ MORE: Q&A: Mona Foma band Laibach, the first Western act to play in North Korea

3-3.45pm: Ann O'Aro at the Traverser Stage. O'Aro is from Reunion Island, a former French colony off the coast of Africa. She performs stark and bluesy songs of rage and hope, tackling taboos and her personal history. Backed by simple percussion and trombone, she transforms the Maloya tradition: the music of the sugarcane fields worked by slaves.

3.45-4.15pm: Julia Droughin and Emile Boudghene at the Annexe Drama Studio. The duo will improvise on the Petit Cristal Baschet - a glass and metal musical contraption of mid-century French design that makes eerie, almost electronic sounds, even though it's totally acoustic. Such instruments have also been found to be therapeutic for people with autism.

3.45 - 4.30pm: Zeolite at the Northern Stage. Zeolite are blend of death, groove and tech metal: it's aggressively heavy, it's anti-establishment, it's metal with intent-'soaked in harrowing political and social commentary', says the band.

4.30-6pm: Artist talk from Laibach at the Annexe Theatre. Laibach are a Slovenian mostly-cover band who filter Western music through industrial noise, camp, and totalitarian imagery. They were also the first 'outsider' rock band to be invited into North Korea and perform in Pyongyang.

READ MORE: Q&A: Mona Foma band Laibach, the first Western act to play in North Korea

4.45pm and 5.30pm: Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra Chorus Extreme at QVMAG, at the Touring Exhibitions Gallery. TSOCExtreme will feature darkness, clocks, body percussion, paper bags, processions, Lorca, and eyeballs.

4.45pm: Aunty Delmae and William Barton at the Traverser Stage. This duo are one of the world's finest didgeridoo players and an operatic singer about Aboriginal spirituality, and also mother and son. They play with Veronique Serret, a classically trained but totally off the rails electric violinist.

5.45-6.45pm: Chai at the Northern Stage. Chai are an all-female four-piece from Japan who will explode your totally archaic notions of Japanese girl power cuteness though the power of pop.

READ MORE: Don't call us 'kawaii': Mona Foma Japanese girlband Chai

6pm: Double Double, at the Touring Exhibitions Gallery. This is a two-hour dance performance set to drumming.

6-6.45pm: Aki Onda and Akio Suzuki at the Annexe Theatre. Onda is a Japanese composer, improviser, and collector of sounds in a city environment for later use in music: expect soothing and slow-moving unfurling sound. The Annexe Theatre. Akio Suzuki is known for capturing organic sounds - for example, throwing an object down a hallway and capturing the echoes. Here they duet.

6.45-7.30pm: Laibach at the Annexe Theatre. Laibach are a Slovenian mostly-cover band who filter Western music through industrial noise, camp, and totalitarian imagery. They were also the first 'outsider' rock band to be invited into North Korea and perform in Pyongyang.

6.45-7pm: The Native Cats at the Traverser Stage. This Hobart band play electronic pub rock: post-punk minimalism mashed together with existential lyrics and life-or-death femininity, bleak but danceable.

7.30-8pm: Julia Droughin and Emile Boudghene at the QVMAG Object Gallery. The pair will improvise on the Petit Cristal Baschet - a glass and metal musical contraption of mid-century French design that makes eerie, almost electronic sounds, even though it's totally acoustic. Such instruments have also been found to be therapeutic for people with autism.

7.30-8.30pm: Jeremy Dutcher at the Northern Stage. Dutcher and band perform rousing, contemporary arias and pop-operatic ballads in Wolastoq, the nearly extinct tongue of Dutcher's First Nation ancestors (only 100 speakers remain).

8.30pm - 9.15pm: Oren Ambarchi at the Traverser Stage. Ambarchi 's solo guitar sets feature otherworldly, swirling and overtone-drenched harmonics influenced by Indian raga, 70s fusion / free jazz, and the work of electro-acoustic composers such as Alvin Lucier.

9.30-10.45pm: Flying Lotus 3D at the Northern Stage. The LA beat-maker loved by the critics and the underground alike returns with an electrified, psychedelic odyssey of jazz-funk, hip-hop, and intergalactic eye candy. 3D specs at the ready, please. On the night: collect your free 3D glasses from the merch stand near the Northern Stage, available from 5pm.

9pm: Film, Kuso by Flying Lotus, at the Star Theatre. Plague-ridden survivors of a nightmarish Los Angeles earthquake tell their gory, not-for-the-faint-hearted stories on a makeshift network of discarded televisions. The directorial debut of Flying Lotus (here to unleash his 3D spectacular at the Festival Hub) and starring George Clinton, Tim Heidecker, Hannibal Burress and more. Tickets $23 or $80 for all Mona Foma films through startheatre.com.au/mofo-at-the-star

7pm: Film, Liberation Day, at the Star Theatre. The story of how Slovenian cult band Laibach (they're here in town for the festival) became the first rock group ever to perform in the fortress state of North Korea. Tickets $23 or $80 for all Mona Foma films through startheatre.com.au/mofo-at-the-star

READ MORE: Q&A: Mona Foma band Laibach, the first Western act to play in North Korea

10am: Morning meditation with Brian Ritchie at the Fairy Dell, Cataract Gorge. Mona Foma festival director and Violent Femmes bassist Brian Ritchie plays shakuhachi - a Japanese bamboo flute - in Launceston's picture-perfect Cataract Gorge. Free.

1pm: Film, There Are No Fakes, at the Star Theatre. Australian premiere. When Kevin Hearn from the Barenaked Ladies buys a painting by Norval Morrisseau-the great Canadian indigenous artist Chagall once called 'the Picasso of the North'-he's drawn into the world of an art forgery ring. Tickets $23 or $80 for all Mona Foma films through startheatre.com.au/mofo-at-the-star

3.45pm: Film, Icepick to the Moon, at the Star Theatre. Australian premiere. A nineteen-years-in-the-making documentary about the Alfred Jarry-inspired eighties cult-status crooner Reverend Fred Lane and a lively chronicle of the Raudelunas arts collective from which he emerged in 1970s Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Tickets $23 or $80 for all Mona Foma films through startheatre.com.au/mofo-at-the-star

10am: Morning meditation with Anne Norman, at the Fairy Dell, Cataract Gorge. Anne Norman is a shakuhachi - Japanese bamboo flute - teacher based in Melbourne, who has played in Australia, Japan, America and Europe and is completing a PhD on the instrument at Monash University. Free.

6.45pm: Calculating Infinity at Queen Victoria Art Gallery, Royal Park: How many ways can you interpret an art collection spanning centuries? Award-winning artist Josh Foley - who has won the Glover Prize, among other achievements - has always been fascinated by QVMAG. He's taken over a gallery and is spectacularly translating classic works by Wolfhagen, Glover and Gould onto the blank walls. It's open 10am to 4pm daily with a special performance from Foley's alter-ego Xydep Xydahlia at 6.45pm on Monday, January 13, and from 11am on Sunday, January 20.

10am: Morning meditation with Evan Carydakis, at the Fairy Dell, Cataract Gorge. Launceston jazz musician Evan Carydakis, a post-move Mona Foma favourite, will play a solo sax performance inspired by jazz trailblazer Albert Ayler. Free.

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10am: Morning meditation with Karlin Love at the Fairy Dell, Cataract Gorge. Karlin Love is a Tasmanian-based musician who makes and performs with instruments made out of leather. Free.

7pm: King Ubu at the Cataract Gorge. For the first time ever, the headline performance for Mona Foma isn't a touring artist but something commissioned by the festival itself. It's the performance festival director Brian Ritchie is most looking forward to and has put the most work into: the musical play King Ubu.

King Ubu an adaption of the 19th-century French political satire Ubu Roi set in modern day Tasmania, put on by a mix of larger-than-human-sized puppets and regular actors. It will include a cast and crew of over 100, original costumes, and a live brass band, taking place on a purpose-built stage in the Cataract Gorge. Get there at 7pm for an 8pm start. Free.

READ MORE: Behind-the-scenes with gigantic puppet production King Ubu

10am: Morning meditation with Myles Mumford and Julius Schwing at the Fairy Dell, Cataract Gorge. Myles and Julius improv-converse with guitar and electronics to create a mid-morning mirage of shimmering, sun-baked sounds inspired by the climate crisis. Free.

6-7.45pm: Paul Kelly's Thirteen Ways to Look at Birds. This show has sold out.

7pm: King Ubu at the Cataract Gorge.

7pm: King Ubu at the Cataract Gorge. For the first time ever, the headline performance for Mona Foma isn't a touring artist but something commissioned by the festival itself. It's the performance festival director Brian Ritchie is most looking forward to and has put the most work into: the musical play King Ubu.

King Ubu an adaption of the 19th-century French political satire Ubu Roi set in modern day Tasmania, put on by a mix of larger-than-human-sized puppets and regular actors. It will include a cast and crew of over 100, original costumes, and a live brass band, taking place on a purpose-built stage in the Cataract Gorge. Ger there at 7pm for an 8pm start. Free.

READ MORE: Behind-the-scenes with gigantic puppet production King Ubu

10am: Morning meditation with James Rushford at the Fairy Dell, Cataract Gorge. James Rushford creates original compositions on the portative organ, a smaller version of a pipe-style organ you see in churches. Free.

5.30pm: Tasmanian Aboriginal soundscape walk and dinner, kipli paywuta lumi, at the Trevallyn Nature Reserve. Bus transfer from the Festival Hub will take you to the Trevallyn Nature Reserve, where you will walk through the bush to an original soundscape of palawa kani - Tasmanian Aboriginal language - and other sounds. You will then eat a meal of traditional foods in a domed hut built for this project, in the style of those used pre-invasion. $100 through monafoma.net.au/

READ MORE: Tasmanian Aboriginal cultural experience on the menu

7pm: King Ubu at the Cataract Gorge. For the first time ever, the headline performance for Mona Foma isn't a touring artist but something commissioned by the festival itself. It's the performance festival director Brian Ritchie is most looking forward to and has put the most work into: the musical play King Ubu.

King Ubu an adaption of the 19th-century French political satire Ubu Roi set in modern day Tasmania, put on by a mix of larger-than-human-sized puppets and regular actors. It will include a cast of hundreds, original costumes, and a live brass band, taking place partly on a purpose-built stage over the swimming pool in the Gorge, and partly in the water of the swimming pool itself. Get there at 7pm for an 8pm start. Free.

READ MORE: Behind-the-scenes with gigantic puppet production King Ubu

10pm: Stockhausen 50th anniversary tribute concert at Albert Hall. Karlheinz Stockhausen is one of the most important and influential figures in the history of electronic music. Fifty years ago the German composer performed in the Albert Hall in Launceston: this show is a tribute to that concert. Music will be by Myles Mumford, Aviva Endean, Ian Parsons, Julius Schwing, Karlin Love and Ron Nagorcka. Free.

10am: Morning meditation with o3, at the Fairy Dell, Cataract Gorge. Euro-improv: lush, hypnotic, and influenced by contemporary classical and experimental music stylings. Free.

12pm: Organ performance from Pavel Kohout at the City Baptist Church. Czech musician Pavel Kahout is a master of the organ - regarded as one of the great new interpreters of the organ from the concert stages of Europe. Free.

5.30pm: Tasmanian Aboriginal soundscape walk and dinner, kipli paywuta lumi at the Trevallyn Nature Reserve. Bus transfer from the Festival Hub will take you to the Trevallyn Nature Reserve, where you will walk through the bush to an original soundscape of palawa kani - Tasmanian Aboriginal language - and other sounds. You will then eat a meal of traditional foods in a domed hut built for this project, in the style of those used pre-invasion. $100 through monafoma.net.au/

9pm-5am: Faux Mo at the Workers Club. Dolly Parton is the patron saint of Mona Foma's late-night party this year, which will feature all sorts of unexpected entertainment throughout the night - including a drag queen stageshow starring over 60 performers - finishing up with a breakfast of croissants and coffee. $75 through monafoma.net.au

READ MORE: Faux Mo 2020 will party from 9pm to 5am

9-11.30pm: James Rushford at Albert Hall. A mashup of vintage synth and whale song, inspired by the story of Greenpeace expeditioners using the Serge modular synthesiser to communicate with humpback whales. Free.

12-12.30am: Ora Clementi at Albert Hall. Field recordings, electronics, microphones, wind and keyboard instruments, percussion and voice. Ora Clementi is composer-performer James Rushford and sound artist Crys Cole. Free.

10am: Morning meditation with Akio Suzuki and Hiromi Miyakita at the Fairy Dell, Cataract Gorge. Akio Suzuki is known for capturing organic sounds - for example, throwing an object down a hallway and capturing the echoes. As well as performances, he will capture a soundscape of Launceston while he is here. Miyakita is an improvisational dancer who explores the idea of 'dance as stillness', and the motion of a human body when considered an object rather than a living being. Free.

11am: Calculating Infinity at Queen Victoria Art Gallery, Royal Park: How many ways can you interpret an art collection spanning centuries? Award-winning artist Josh Foley - who has won the Glover Prize, among other achievements - has always been fascinated by QVMAG. He's taken over a gallery and is spectacularly translating classic works by Wolfhagen, Glover and Gould onto the blank walls. It's open 10am to 4pm daily with a special performance from Foley's alter-ego Xydep Xydahlia at 6.45pm on Monday, January 13, and from 11am on Sunday, January 20.

1-2.30pm: Ludovico Einaudi at the Princess Theatre. Ludovico is a superstar, famed for his rippling, cinematic music and for playing a grand piano floating among icebergs in the Arctic. Here for us, he'll perform his immersive new project, Seven Days Walking: a seven-part cycle released over seven months and inspired by a winter's walk through the Alps. Tickets $119 - $189 depending on seating through monafoma.net.au

10.30-11.15pm: Oren Ambarchi and Crys Cole at Albert Hall. A hazy, electro-acoustic dream of organ, guitars, electronics, muttered vocals, love letters, and field recordings. Free.

6pm - 10pm: Amanda Palmer at the Princess Theatre. Palmer's the patron saint of all things Mofo. Pianist, performer, punk cabaret star. Now she's returning to our shores with her first album in ages: a grand manifesto of survival and empathy, and an extended audience with the artist and her piano. $60 through monafoma.net.au

READ MORE: Palmer's one-off Launceston project, Confessional, will see her as festival shaman

Architects of Air's Daedalum Luminarium at Royal Park: A giant, inflatable maze to be explored, with music from Midnight Oil's Jim Mogninie.

Open from 10am to 7pm from Saturday, January 11 to Monday, January 20, except for Friday when it closes at 5.30pm.

$13 per person through monafoma.net.au

The Centre at Elphin Sports Centre: The Mona curators that took over the Workers Club in 2019 are doing the same to the Elphin Sports Centre in 2020. There will be visual art, video, and photography installations, based around the theme of the body and sports.

Running until from 11am to 8pm on the festival weekend Friday, January 17, to Sunday, January 19; 6pm to 8pm on Tuesday, January 14; and 4pm to 8pm on Wednesday and Thursday.

Free.

Hypnos Cave at Penny Royal Adventures: The Dark Ride - where tourists get into a boat and are taken through a convict-themed installation - has been taken over by Mona Foma. It is now Hypnos Cave, with laser beams, video art, and a specially commissioned, out-of-this-world synth-soundtrack. It's inspired by stories of the afterlife in Greek mythology, where the dead would drink from the river Lethe-which flowed through the cave of Hypnos, the god of sleep-to forget their past lives and thus find paradise.

Open from 10am to 7pm from Wednesday, January 15 to Sunday, January 19.

Not included in Festival Pass: $13 per person at monafoma.net.au

Body Future at Design Tasmania: This exhibition looks at the almost-invisible traces humans leave behind everywhere they go. Alice Potts creates crystals out of the salt in sweat, and has created salt-crystal artworks from athletes' sweat, including a pair of crystal-encrusted ballet pointe shoes. Tarryn Handcock works with dust and dander, and has collected dust from 200 people with accompanying works created in response to the idea of what our physical touch leaves behind.

Opening at 5pm on Wednesday, January 15, and then running from 9.30am to 5.30pm on Thursday and Friday, and 10am to 4pm on Saturday and Sunday.

Free.

IMAGE_OBJECT at Poimena Gallery, Launceston Church Grammar School, Mowbray: Nearly fifty artists, boundary-pushing abstract art, and a whole lot of good stuff on the walls.

Opening Thursday, January 16 at 5.30pm and then running 10am to 3pm.

Free.

Calculating Infinity at Queen Victoria Art Gallery, Royal Park: How many ways can you interpret an art collection spanning centuries? Award-winning artist Josh Foley - who has won the Glover Prize, among other achievements - has always been fascinated by QVMAG. He's taken over a gallery and is spectacularly translating classic works by Wolfhagen, Glover and Gould onto the blank walls. It's open 10am to 4pm daily with a special performance from Foley's alter-ego Xydep Xydahlia at 6.45pm on Monday, January 13, and from 11am on Sunday, January 20.

The Kookaburra Self-Relocation Project at random times around Launceston. Did you know that the laughing kookaburra was introduced to Tassie when Launceston was establishing a colonial zoo? The council exchanged the bird from mainland zoos for thylacine puppies. This was around the turn of the nineteenth century, when the bird was called a 'laughing jackass'. Nowadays, the laugh of the kookaburra is a patriotic, yet alien, element of our island's soundtrack. Part protest, part laughing circle, Fernando and his group of performers will present a series of absurd interventions into public city spaces in dialogue with the kookaburra.