*Pic: Extreme federal budget cuts and runaway climate change are likely to force winter to be cancelled until further notice. ABC pic.
MOONA’s unique winter festival has attracted considerable artistic praise after it reached its climax recently. Conceived after a letter was stolen from the city’s welcome sign by vandals, DANK MOOFs contribution to the rats of Hobart has been undesirable.
Artistic Director Ryan Bitchy said the festival attracted all kinds of lost tourists, dyslexics, bad spellers and those who lived by their smell chequers. “Indebtedly, the local areola is much enhanced by this kind of depravity,” he started. “And, predictive sext seems to be something tea nagers are familiar with.”
The feature event was ‘Snarfarculated Intersection’, a light and sound installation at Albert Road created when Jacko backed his ute out of Cooley’s and hit the traffic pole. The resulting boxcar accident displayed dangling hi-beams, rain-spattered LEDs, orange cones, glass shards and a ‘morally confronting soundscape crafted in Nepali, Pashtun, Croatian, Somali and Boganese’.
Similarly, the Festival of Vices had drawn significant crowds looking for some winter fun. “A lot of people wouldn’t necessarily associate Hobart with a celebration of vice,” said spokeswoman Prue Dish, “but we found some great venues in Rokeby.”
The highlight of the festival was the communal bomb-fire when a bunch of kids stole the car Bluey was restoring and set it alight in a paddock after doing some burnouts on the South Arm Highway. “It was a lovely evening, lit up by our local fizgigs and fireships. And you couldn’t help but be impressed by the way everyone got behind the participatory section, the Big Snog,” she said.
Despite the positive reviews, both festivals are in doubt for next year. Extreme federal budget cuts and runaway climate change are likely to force winter to be cancelled until further notice. Organisers, however, are mildly optimistic that winter might return by the year 3742. And that the rats would thrive even without significant government support.
