Arts

Tas That Was – Sandy Bay Road (1972)

This photograph captures snow descending upon Sandy Bay Road in the winter of 1972.

Australians Turn to Arts and Culture to Improve Wellbeing

Media release – Creative Australia, 20 September 2023 Audiences are coming back, with purpose: Australians turn to arts and culture to improve...

Inaugural Creative Australia Award Recipients

Media release – Creative Australia, 18 September 2023 Celebrating the inaugural Creative Australia Award recipients Beloved Australian singer songwriter Deborah Cheetham Fraillon...

Poem – ‘The Bridge, January 5, 1975’

For my father i. Something quiet punched a hole in the road across water: in near darkness, no one saw it coming....

Royal Czech Ballet Awakens Sleeping Beauty

The fairytale ‘Sleeping Beauty’ is brought to life by the Royal Czech Ballet. On their second visit to Hobart after ‘Swan Lake’...

HandMADE and MADE to Last in Hobart and Burnie

Media release – Mature Artists Dance Experience (MADE), 25 August 2023 HandMADE and MADE TO LAST “Seriously funny…verging on the anarchic…growing older...

Fanny Lumsden Touring Regional Tasmania

Musician Fanny Lumsden is performing across Tasmania next week following the release of her new album, ‘Hey Dawn’, which debuted #1 on the ARIA Australian album charts....

Poem – Football Folly

your words will not seduce us however hard you try Tassie’s travelled down this road before and we’ve learned that words belie...

Artist Interview – Anne Morrison, ‘Spin Drift’

Tas That Was – The Royal Hobart Hospital

The Royal Hobart Hospital has treated patients since 1804, making it one of the longest-running institutions in Tasmania.