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Tasmania Performs

Locality: South Hobart, Tasmania, Australia

Address: 14 Weld Street 7004 South Hobart, TAS, Australia

Website: http://www.tasperforms.com

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25.01.2022 When three highly skilled creatives collaborate.... something very special and exciting will emerge! Each year our partner Moonah Arts Centre generously provides rehearsal/development time and space to selected artists from the Tasmania Performs Artist Residency held at Tarraleah the previous year. This year three fabulous artists have been selected: Robert Jarman, Hannah Vermeulen and Hera Pixie Gemini Direen. And they've chosen to use this opportunity to work collaborativel...y and support each other. Really looking forward to seeing the outcomes of this creative development process! The Tasmania Performs Artist Residency is supported by Elise Archer MP, Minister for the Arts, Arts Tasmania and Tarraleah Estate - Cottages, Accommodation & Events. Tasmania Performs is part of Performing Lines.

24.01.2022 Thanks heaps for the shout out! Tasmanian

23.01.2022 RATTLE is a new queer play written by Hera Direen, about radical self care and the intersectionality of care and sexuality. Auditions are being held on 5 & 6 Dec for the following roles for this Hobart production: SAMMY - MAN between 20 and 30. Bit of a dick head, gamer, straight frat boy. EYVE - NON-BINARY between 18 and 25. Naive but provocative. ALICE - WOMAN between 25 and 35. One of the lads, with a fickle conscience.... (Although roles are gendered, people auditioning may be of any gender or sex that does not align with the gender of the characters.) For more information or to book an audition please email Hera at [email protected] Performers will participate in a developmental weekend (Jan 2021) on a volunteer basis, and a performance season (late 2021, dates to be announced) for cut of profit.

22.01.2022 Rehearsals are going really well for the Tasmania Performs production, Hide The Dog, co-written by Nathan Maynard (palawa) and Jamie McCaskill (Mori). Everyone's workin' hard/havin' fun! Look out for a story later this week in The Mercury. Thanks to The Old Nick Company for the great venue.

21.01.2022 It’s definitely time to brag! We’re absolutely thrilled that the World Premiere Season of Hide The Dog, co-written by Nathan Maynard (pakana) and Jamie McCaskill (Mori), will be part of the Sydney Festival (1317 Jan) and Ten Days on the Island (1921 March). Nathan explains the beginning of the project: ‘Jamie and I spent time together at the Tasmania Performs annual residency at Tarraleah and after a blossoming bromance, we decided to we wanted to collaborate. We shared s...tories from our respective cultures and Jamie was really intrigued by the Tasmanian Tiger and I’ve always wanted to write something about the Tasmanian Tiger that actually celebrated the strength and continuation of palawa culture. The plot formed organically and very quickly. Two kids from different cultures discover a Tassie tiger and decide to save it by hiding it in Aotearoa/NZ. But obviously there’s more to the story than what’s on the surface. This Tasmania Performs production is a truly trans-Tasman creation, bringing together First Nation performers and creatives in this celebration of adventure, friendship and the power of culture. All achieved in the midst of a pandemic with artists going through quarantine multiple times to bring the story to the stage. Hide the Dog has been assisted by Elise Archer MP, Minister for the Arts, through Arts Tasmania, and by the Australian Government’s Major Festivals Initiative, managed by the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body, in association with the Confederation of Australian International Arts Festivals Inc., commissioned by Brisbane Festival, Rising, Ten Days on the Island, Sydney Festival and also Creative New Zealand. Image credit: Jillian Mundy

20.01.2022 Always Was, Always Will Be. We celebrate the history, culture and achievements of all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists and cherish the palawa artists we get to work with here in lutruwita including Nathan Maynard, Sinsa Mansell, Jamie Graham, Kartanya Maynard, Denni Proctor, Jordy Gregg and Nunami Sculthorpe-Green. #NAIDOCWeek2020 #NAIDOC2020 #NAIDOC... Sinsa Jo Mansell, Jam Nupitja, Kartanya Maynard, Denni Proctor, Jordy Gregg, Nunami Sculthorpe-Green, See more

19.01.2022 Recently launched by the Minister for the Arts, Elise Archer MP, this Cultural and Creative Industries Recovery Strategy outlines a framework of support for this sector. Read it and understand the framework to help us move forward.....

18.01.2022 Don't take our word for it, read this (fabulous) review for The Bleeding Tree, now playing at the Theatre Royal (Hobart). Seriously, you do not want to miss this show. https://www.tasmaniantimes.com//the-bleeding-tree-delivers/

18.01.2022 Hide the Dog is a fantastic new production, supported by Tasmania Performs, that you’re going to hear a lot more about. So here’s a sneak peek at the work underway. Many highly talented people are contributing to the set, scenery and preproduction including Denni Proctor, Petra Lagewaard, Edith la Sauvage, Jake Sanger, Greg Methe, Sabio Evans, Jane Hakaraia and Simon Rush. Thanks to The Old Nick Company for their fantastic rehearsal space. ... Nathan Maynard

17.01.2022 Artlands Conversation Series, presented by Regional Arts Australia, is a fascinating curated program of critical conversations aimed at the arts sector. Don't miss the first conversation titled 'Navigating the Pandemic: Risk and Temptation, Drawing the Community Together' (2 Sept at 2.30pm). Facilitated by Kath Melbourne, join Lindy Hume, Kelly Drummond Cawthon, Caroline Sharpen and Ruth Langford as they explore what it might mean to come together in the future. Register here: https://bit.ly/2EJq6FI

17.01.2022 Here's another great review of The Bleeding Tree. You'll need to be quick if you want to get tickets to see it at the Theatre Royal (Hobart) Read via the link below or look out for the review in the Sunday Tasmanian tomorrow.

17.01.2022 Thank you so, so much Anna Kidd for your generosity in sharing your thoughts, feeling and anxieties with us. We can’t wait to see the cool things that happen over the next two weeks as ‘That Parking Lady’ moves from amorphous blob to amazing production! We’re with you all the way...... This Tasmania Performs Production is supported by Elise Archer MP, Minister for the Arts, through Arts Tasmania. Developed at the Tasmania Performs Tarraleah Residency 2018.... Tasmania Performs is part of Performing Lines.

17.01.2022 Think you know Hobart? Soon there'll be an opportunity to learn so much more. Meet the multi-talented Nunami Sculthorpe-Green, a palawa woman with a background in history studies. Nunami is creating a walking tour/performance of 'historic Hobart', taking in landmarks of the historic city re-interpreted through a palawa lens. Combining humor, drama, history and story, this site-specific work is being developed by Nunami with support from her mentor Sarah Hamilton (we'll tell... you more about this later). This exciting Tasmania Performs project is supported by Elise Archer MP, Minister for the Arts through Arts Tasmania, City of Hobart and RANT arts via the Regional Arts Fund. And if you'd like to hear more, listen to Nunami speaking to Joel Rheinberger on ABC Hobart: ABC Hobartab.co/3m3EgCq

15.01.2022 He's young, he's an achiever.... and we're excited to have nominated him for this award. Jordy Gregg, one of the participants in the Tasmania Performs Mentoring Program, is a finalist in the Tasmanian Young Achiever Awards for 2020. Feel free to hit the link below every day (yes, you can vote more than once!) to vote for Jordy in the People's Choice Award and to show your support for an arts worker. https://awardsaustralia.app.do/tasyaa20 Voting closes at midnight on Su...n 27 Sept 2020. Tasmania Performs Mentoring Program is supported by Elise Archer MP, Minister for the Arts, through Arts Tasmania. Tasmania Performs is part of Performing Lines.

15.01.2022 Chookas to Kartanya Maynard in the Bleeding Tree opening tonight! As a participant in the Tasmania Performs Indigenous Mentoring Program, Kartanya has had the opportunity to work with and learn from mentors...... 'You can walk tall and look forward. And once you know your worth you can operate that way'. Can't wait to see Kartanya on the Theatre Royal (Hobart) stage!... The Tasmania Performs Mentoring Program is supported by Elise Archer MP, Minister for the Arts, through Arts Tasmania. Tasmania Performs is part of Performing Lines. .

14.01.2022 Burning Desire Festival (starting on 19 Nov) satisfy your desire to see live performance ! Coming soon, a fabulous program of theatre, music, dance, poetry and storytelling in multiple venues across Hobart. Full program details here: https://bit.ly/3kdi6M1 As part of this festival, four artists who have worked with Tasmania Performs are performing in Burning Words.... Burning Words takes you to another, more measured time. A time when extraordinary artists crafted their thoughts into words that still illuminate and warm us. Burning Words brings together four of Hobart’s best-known performers to read some of their favorite poems. Guy Hooper, Robert Jarman, Jane Longhurst and Benjamin Winspear will introduce and present classic and well-loved works from great poets. Book your tickets here:https://bit.ly/2JU4dWI Huge thanks to Judy Tierney for her vision and energy in creating the Burning Desire Festival.

14.01.2022 WINNER WINNER! Congratulations to Jordy! Jordy Gregg, one of the participants in the Tasmania Performs Mentoring Program, has WON the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Achievement Award (sponsored by Dental South in the Tasmanian Young Achiever Awards for 2020. Jordy is a passionate teacher, actor, writer and film maker, with some fantastic new work coming soon. (We knew it was a good idea to nominate you, Jordy!)

12.01.2022 Meet Denni Proctor, another brilliant participant in the Tasmania Performs Mentoring Program. Denni is a palawa woman and an experienced singer song writer, actor and emerging theatre designer and puppet maker. Denni's currently undertaking one-on-one workshop sessions with leading Australian puppetry designer Bryony Anderson working on designs for the production ‘Hide the Dog’. ... You’ll be hearing a lot more about Denni and this groundbreaking show soon! This Tasmania Performs Mentoring Project is supported by Elise Archer MP, Minister for the Arts, through Arts Tasmania, Brony Anderson and Terrapin Puppet Theatre. Tasmania Performs is part of Performing Lines.

12.01.2022 'The Show Must Go On' - Wellness Roadshow Tasmania Wide Angle Tasmania Inc. is hosting a free opportunity for the Tasmanian arts sector to connect and discuss working collectively to support mental health and wellbeing. On Mon 7 Sept, there will be a free screening of the documentary 'The Show Must Go On', followed by a special online panel discussion for Tasmania as part of a national Wellness Roadshow. On the panel will be Sue Maslin (producer), Ben Steel (writer/director...), Abi Binning (Wide Angle Tasmania) and Lucinda Sharp (Forty South Publishing). For more info on the free screening: https://bit.ly/31KOpMn For more info on the free online panel event and to register: https://bit.ly/3gPUxaq

12.01.2022 LAST DAYS for Tasmanian Artists and Performers to enter Round 4 ArtPrize offered through UndergroundArtbar. Closes midnight Fri 11 Sept. Theme: Origin Win: Five $200 prizes... More info here: https://www.undergroundartbar.com.au/artprize

11.01.2022 Congratulations to Luana on receiving this prestigious and fabulous award. We're looking forward to welcoming Luana to the Tasmania Performs Artist Residency at Tarraleah Estate - Cottages, Accommodation & Events, in October along with other palawa artists Nathan Maynard and Nunami Sculthorpe-Green.

11.01.2022 Here are three exciting opportunities related to the NIDA - National Institute of Dramatic Art NIDA MFA in Cultural Leadership: the new position of First Nations Lecturer, an EOI process for Consultant Lecturers, and the opening of applications for the 2021 Cultural Leadership student cohort. First Nations Lecturer: - closing date 18 September 2020 EOI for Consultant Lecturer/s: - closing date 18 September 2020... Applications for the 2021 NIDA MFA (Cultural Leadership) course are now open: closing date 30 September 2020 MORE INFO : https://www.nida.edu.au/about-nida/careers

10.01.2022 #WeMakeEventsAus YES WE DO.....showing support for tech teams all over Australia who make things happen. The Playhouse Theatre ... Theatre Royal (Hobart) See more

10.01.2022 Not long now till our 2020 Artist Residency at Tarraleah. Can't wait to explore performance project ideas with Invisible Practice and others. The Tasmania Performs Artist Residency is supported by Elise Archer MP, Minister for the Arts, through Arts Tasmania and Tarraleah Estate - Cottages, Accommodation & Events. Tasmania Performs is part of Performing Lines

07.01.2022 Spread the word.the City of Hobart's grants program is now open and offers over $1 million annually to community and cultural groups. Support is available for activities taking place in the Hobart municipality which demonstrate a creative, community and/or environmental benefit. There’s a variety of grants in different shapes and sizes including Creative Hobart Small (up to $5000) and Creative Hobart Medium) $5000 to $15 000). Get writing, applications close at 5pm on 5 Oct.

07.01.2022 Are you an artist or producer working in experimental practice? Here's a chance to take part in an online event helping you to connect with arts sector colleagues. Get in now: expressions of interest close this THURS 24 SEPT. More info below.

07.01.2022 And here we are in rehearsal this week for the Tasmania Performs production, Hide The Dog, co-written by Nathan Maynard (palawa) and Jamie McCaskill (Mori). Co-writer Jamie joined in via zoom complete with his bucket of popcorn! @TasmaniaPerforms... @performinglines @whoneedsbuddy #tasmaniaperforms #tasmaniantheatre #tasmanianactors See more

06.01.2022 Check out the Nov edition of The Hobart Magazine! It includes a great story on this fantastic project by Nunami Sculthorpe-Green. To read the full story, make sure you grab a copy of the magazine from cafes around Hobart. ... This Tasmania Performs project is supported by Elise Archer MP, Minister for the Arts, through Arts Tasmania, the City of Hobart and RANT arts via the Regional Arts Fund. Tasmania Performs is part of Performing Lines.

05.01.2022 Tasmania Performs was thrilled to present Mature Artists Dance Experience in HandMADE & MADE To Last in Nov last year, and this is another show that will highlight the talents of this extraordinary group of artists. With limited numbers able to attend each performance you WILL need to book early. Get in now!

04.01.2022 Great story in today’s Mercury about Hide The Dog and Ten Days on the Island. Love the reference by Nathan Maynard to the bromance!

04.01.2022 Thanks you TasPerforms for the mental health workshop, I’m self caring on kunanyi.

03.01.2022 The Australia Council for the Arts is considering the current situation for the arts and has two big questions that you can help with: What do we want the arts and cultural industries to look like in 2030? How do we get there? More info is available at https://bit.ly/35uPgTP, where you can read the discussion paper, find out more and take part in an online ‘town hall discussion’ on 30 September or 2 October.... Don't miss this chance to take part in a national conversation about a shared future for the arts in Australia that we can create.

03.01.2022 Looking after our mental health and the mental health of those we work with is so very important, especially at the moment. Thanks to support from the Minister for the Arts, Elise Archer MP through Arts Tasmania, Tasmania Performs has presented two workshops this week (Hobart and Launceston) for members of the performing arts sector. Clare Pearson (pictured here) from OzHelp Tasmania (a program of Lifeline Tasmania) provided extremely valuable training and information on issues related to mental health and/or mental illness. Thanks to Theatre North for venue support in Launceston. Let's look after ourselves and each other.

03.01.2022 Survey EXTENDED to 30 Aug. Your chance to contribute to a greater understanding of the impact of Covid on our sector. Thanks to Arts Tasmania and University of Tasmania for this opportunity.

02.01.2022 One of our key roles is to identify and develop relationships with performing artists at critical points in their careers. We're very excited to be currently working with several emerging indigenous artists and, with assistance from Elise Archer MP Minister for the Arts through Arts Tasmania, setting them up with exceptional mentoring opportunities. One of these artists is Jamie Graham: a trawlwoolway pakana, an environmental activist, a Marine and Antarctic Science student a...nd an educator. Jamie has travelled down many paths, but all have a singular theme, which is his responsibility to country. Jamie is aiming to use western and southern science, activism and art, tied together with ancestral understanding, to produce work that will challenge and change, grow and heal. He is currently working with his mentor, Peter Oldham, a highly experienced film maker and videographer who has an extensive background in working in the performing arts. Together they are exploring new skills that will contribute to the development of Jamie's work in the future.

02.01.2022 Very happy to share this info: ArtPrize is open to all Tasmanian artists and art-forms; painters, sculptors, actors, improvisors, installation artists, soundscape, musicians, projection and lighting artists, puppeteers, film, site-specific artists, comedians, dancers, poets, singers, circus artists and multi-disciplinary artists. $1,000 first prize and $200 people's choice award. Entries close Fri 4 Dec

01.01.2022 We are so excited that rehearsals are starting this week in Hobart for Hide The Dog, co-written by Nathan Maynard (palawa) and Jamie McCaskill (Mori). Three of our performers recently arrived in Hobart, Melodie Reynolds-Diarra from WA (who has just found out she won’t need to quarantine on return to WA!), Zac Martin from Auckland (while his luggage took a detour to Nowra, NSW) and Reuben Butler from Wellington, NZ. We are so fortunate that the timing of borders opening to N...ew Zealand has allowed these talented Mori artists to travel and make this cross-cultural work possible. lutruwita’s incredible arts community leader Sinsa Jo Mansell invited these new arrivals to spend time on country at piyura kitna/Risdon Cove, to hear the stories about this Island’s past and also the incredible strength and survival of the palawa people and their connection to culture. The chance to breathe and connect with country and community was greatly appreciated. As a non-First Nation Company, given the trust to produce First Nation work, Tasmania Performs is always learning. People like Sinsa, who share their knowledge and continually re-tell stories of deep grief with such generosity, astound us with their strength and resilience. This Tasmania Performs Production is supported by Elise Archer MP, Minister for the Arts, through Arts Tasmania, and by the Australian Government’s Major Festivals Initiative, managed by the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body, in association with the Confederation of Australian International Arts Festivals Inc.

01.01.2022 On 30 Sept please show your support for the wonderful tech teams who make events, shows, exhibitions and lots more happen. Without them there would be literally 'nothing to see, nothing to hear'.