16 Sunday Jul 2017
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Another weekend in Tasmania, another festival. At this weekend’s Mid Winter Festival there were lots of fires to keep everyone warm.
Live music, local food and drink, story telling, Morris dancing, wassailing, a burning man and a bonfire were all part of the festival.
And a very funky piano.
10 Monday Jul 2017
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… with wooden fruit.
I’ve joined an online photography course and the first topic is composition. So I’m joining fellow blogger, Desleyjane in her challenge # regular random.
The rules are … Choose an object or a scene and spend just five minute shooting it from as many angles as you can. Look at the way the light interacts with the object, or look at what comes into or moves out of the frame.
So here’s a few snaps of our wooden fruit bowl.
09 Sunday Jul 2017
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Tasmania is enjoying the annual celebration of song, music, spoken word.
A highlight of the festival is the Big Sing & Bonfire. An open air, free family event, a fun sing-a-long, attended by a few thousand people.
A selection of choirs and singers led the crowd in a variety of well known songs, from “Over the rainbow” to David Bowie’s “Under Pressure” and Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah”.
As well as formal, organised concerts covering multiple music genres, there are also pop-up events around the city.
Another fascinating event was a walking tour, led by this actress, who shared some of Hobart’s history through the eyes and colourful lives of early female convicts.
“The Founding Fathers may have found things but it was the Founding Mothers who filled this place with life, culture and made a lot of money.”
02 Sunday Jul 2017
26 Monday Jun 2017
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The first HP book was published 20 years ago today. A hardback print run of just 500 copies.
My girls grew up with Harry and his friends, reading the books, listening to the audio version on car journeys, watching the movies at the cinema, the dvd a guaranteed Christmas gift.
Thank you J K Rowling, our family have have spent many, many happy hours in that wizarding world.
21 Wednesday Jun 2017
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18 Sunday Jun 2017
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One of the features of DARK MOFO is the Ogoh Ogoh.
It is a demon like sculpture, common in Balinese Hinduism. People write down their fears, and feed them to the ogoh ogoh. At the end of the festival, the ogoh ogoh is paraded along the street and cremated in ceremonial smoke, fire and noise.
It has taken me a couple of years to get used to this idea, but right now, with everything going on in the world, it felt right to put my fears on paper, give them to this stunning sculpture based on the extinct Tasmanian Tiger, the Thylacine, and watch them go up in flames.
This evening, we joined the parade and “the burning”.
Although it originates from a very different culture and religion to my own, it felt remarkably calming and therapeutic to be a part of this ceremony.
17 Saturday Jun 2017
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Hobart’s winter festival is in full swing with a two week programme of art and music at numerous venues around the city.
DARK PARK
Lasers, lights, live music, food vans and bars.
STREET ART and PERFORMANCE ART
Animation projected onto our “Save the Tasmanian Devil” mural.
Students from the Art College engage with the public.
WINTER FEAST
A banquet of local Tasmania produce and dishes, on offer from a variety of vendors, guest chefs and favourite restaurants, vineyards, distillers. Great food and atmosphere both inside the wharf building and outside with the fire pits.
It has been great to see so many people out, enjoying the festival. All generations, locals and tourists. And the weather has been perfect, dry mild winter nights.
09 Friday Jun 2017
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Hobart is ready for it’s winter festival. The whole city gets involved by “painting the town red”.
08 Monday May 2017
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We recently visited the Art Farm at Birchs Bay, Tasmania. We had a delightful walk through gardens and bush land.
We met unusual people.
We sat on distinctive benches, walked through artistic gates.
And admired many of the pieces, wondered about a few.
We followed a variety of arrows along the Sculpture Trail.
For local Tassie readers, it is well worth a visit.
