Filmmaker Wallworth Headlines Creative Coast

Two-time Emmy Award winner and visionary Australian filmmaker Lynette Wallworth will lead the line-up at Creative Coast with her keynote entitled Big Dreams: How small communities can inspire the world.

Lynette Wallworth will invite us to ‘dream of change’, while discussing her award-winning films Tender, Awavena and Collisions – stories of small regional communities from Australia and the Amazon that have inspired the world, while expanding the horizons of local people.

This keynote, exclusive to Burnie, opens a program of talks and panels on Saturday 6 March with local and national artists, workshops with members of the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, and screenings of premiere works including Past the Shallows and There is no ‘I’ in Island, alongside films by Wallworth and David mangenner Gough.

In a special session, the National Film and Sound Archive will share the journey of digitising the 120-year old Corrick collection of silent films.

Creative Coast will take over the Burnie Arts and Function Centre on the opening weekend of Ten Days on the Island. This free event will give audiences the opportunity to learn more about the festival’s artists and their works and to engage with the arts in the north-west in a new way.

Ten Days on the Island will give the central courtyard in the Burnie Arts & Function Centre a major makeover, transforming this hidden hideaway into the central social hub for the long weekend.

Visitors will be able to experience the new Atrium Festival Lounge – a relaxed, welcoming place run by the team behind Burnie’s favourite coffee shop, The Chapel, to meet friends before or after a show, share a coffee, sit and read, enjoy a snack or a late-night glass of wine.

A highlight of Creative Coast will be the lunchtime panel hosted by Ten Days on the Island Artistic Director, Lindy Hume, a discussion on ‘how art can inspire the social imagination of our regional communities’ featuring Caroline Sharpen CEO of TSO, singer/songwriter Monique Brumby, visual artist Vic McEwan, cultural researcher Dr Sandra Gattenhoff, artist and cultural leader Dave mangenner Gough and actor/producers Ben Winspear and Marta Dusseldorp.

Of the Creative Coast program, Lindy Hume said:

“We can expect an electrifying and poetic keynote from Lynette Wallworth. I have been a fan for years and watched her magnificent Crystal Award acceptance speech last year at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Within hours of her challenge to world leaders and climate-emergency-denying governments it became an internet sensation.

“The whole day’s line-up is rich and inspiring. We will hear from Burnie locals and international luminaries and I look forward enormously to being part of the conversation connecting these brilliant artists with our creative communities in the North West. And we launch our 2021 hub at the Burnie Arts and Function Centre – the Atrium Festival Lounge. This critical mass is exactly what our Festival is about!”

Ten Days invites Creative Coast attendees to set off for Walking the City of Makers, a tour of Burnie’s hidden corners and open streets to uncover the city’s hidden gems through the works of local artists and makers. You will be able to grab a map and a QR code on your phone and make your way from the Makers’ Space, to the Beach Hotel, the old Spirit Bar up to Shorewell Park.

All Creative Coast events are free with registration required for some events.

For a full program of free events and artist talks see tendays.org.au.