Opening Thurs 21 Nov, 6pm
Exhibition runs Fri 22 Nov – Sat 14 Dec
Open Tuesday – Friday 10am – 5pm, Saturday 11am – 3pm

HOBIENNALE is a free festival of art, music, performance and public programs presented in and around Hobart by a collective of independent artist-led organisations and cooperatives from around Australia and New Zealand. In 2019, the festival brings together 21 artist-led organisations and cooperatives, showcasing the work of around 100 artists and musicians in 21 exhibitions across 15 venues.

Moonah Arts Centre is hosting two major HOBIENNALE projects for 2019.

Boomalli Aboriginal Artist Co-operative presents

BOOMALLI NOW

Maddison Gibbs | Hayley Pigram | Jai Walker | Jasmine Coe | Rubyrose Bancroft

Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Co-operative was established in 1987 by ten Aboriginal Artists. These Artists were striving for recognition within mainstream art society and their diversity was unparalleled. They challenged preconceptions around urban- based Aboriginal Artists and created a unique space for themselves within the art world. Boomalli is a word from three different NSW language groups – Gamileroi, Bundjalung and Wiradjuri. It means to make a mark; to strike. BOOMALLI NOW presents the next generation of Boomalli artists who, over thirty years later, continue to make a mark on the art world, to challenge stereotypes and express the diversity of Aboriginal cultural life.

Firstdraft presents

SISTER ++++++ FAMILIAL FORMATIONS

Marian Abboud

Marian Abboud’s Sister ++++++ Familial Formations is a group video performance. A sister in a female-dominant family, Abboud draws on personal narratives, collective memory, textured identity, stylised ritual, gendered performativity and emotional symbolism. Her work brings together personal and cultural mythologies to create a collective action through ritual, memory and magic. Sister ++++++ Familial Formations will create new narratives of familial and cultural folklore to hold the space between us. The performance transcends place, generation, language and identity.

Thursday 21 November, 6pm, free

Opening Thurs 21 Nov, 6pm
Exhibition runs Fri 22 Nov – Sat 14 Dec
Open Tuesday – Friday 10am – 5pm, Saturday 11am – 3pm

HOBIENNALE is a free festival of art, music, performance and public programs presented in and around Hobart by a collective of independent artist-led organisations and cooperatives from around Australia and New Zealand. In 2019, the festival brings together 21 artist-led organisations and cooperatives, showcasing the work of around 100 artists and musicians in 21 exhibitions across 15 venues.

Moonah Arts Centre is hosting two major HOBIENNALE projects for 2019.

Boomalli Aboriginal Artist Co-operative presents

BOOMALLI NOW

Maddison Gibbs | Hayley Pigram | Jai Walker | Jasmine Coe | Rubyrose Bancroft

Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Co-operative was established in 1987 by ten Aboriginal Artists. These Artists were striving for recognition within mainstream art society and their diversity was unparalleled. They challenged preconceptions around urban- based Aboriginal Artists and created a unique space for themselves within the art world. Boomalli is a word from three different NSW language groups – Gamileroi, Bundjalung and Wiradjuri. It means to make a mark; to strike. BOOMALLI NOW presents the next generation of Boomalli artists who, over thirty years later, continue to make a mark on the art world, to challenge stereotypes and express the diversity of Aboriginal cultural life.

Firstdraft presents

SISTER ++++++ FAMILIAL FORMATIONS

Marian Abboud

Marian Abboud’s Sister ++++++ Familial Formations is a group video performance. A sister in a female-dominant family, Abboud draws on personal narratives, collective memory, textured identity, stylised ritual, gendered performativity and emotional symbolism. Her work brings together personal and cultural mythologies to create a collective action through ritual, memory and magic. Sister ++++++ Familial Formations will create new narratives of familial and cultural folklore to hold the space between us. The performance transcends place, generation, language and identity.

Thursday 21 November, 6pm, free

Opening Thurs 21 Nov, 6pm
Exhibition runs Fri 22 Nov – Sat 14 Dec
Open Tuesday – Friday 10am – 5pm, Saturday 11am – 3pm

HOBIENNALE is a free festival of art, music, performance and public programs presented in and around Hobart by a collective of independent artist-led organisations and cooperatives from around Australia and New Zealand. In 2019, the festival brings together 21 artist-led organisations and cooperatives, showcasing the work of around 100 artists and musicians in 21 exhibitions across 15 venues.

Moonah Arts Centre is hosting two major HOBIENNALE projects for 2019.

Boomalli Aboriginal Artist Co-operative presents

BOOMALLI NOW

Maddison Gibbs | Hayley Pigram | Jai Walker | Jasmine Coe | Rubyrose Bancroft

Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Co-operative was established in 1987 by ten Aboriginal Artists. These Artists were striving for recognition within mainstream art society and their diversity was unparalleled. They challenged preconceptions around urban- based Aboriginal Artists and created a unique space for themselves within the art world. Boomalli is a word from three different NSW language groups – Gamileroi, Bundjalung and Wiradjuri. It means to make a mark; to strike. BOOMALLI NOW presents the next generation of Boomalli artists who, over thirty years later, continue to make a mark on the art world, to challenge stereotypes and express the diversity of Aboriginal cultural life.

Firstdraft presents

SISTER ++++++ FAMILIAL FORMATIONS

Marian Abboud

Marian Abboud’s Sister ++++++ Familial Formations is a group video performance. A sister in a female-dominant family, Abboud draws on personal narratives, collective memory, textured identity, stylised ritual, gendered performativity and emotional symbolism. Her work brings together personal and cultural mythologies to create a collective action through ritual, memory and magic. Sister ++++++ Familial Formations will create new narratives of familial and cultural folklore to hold the space between us. The performance transcends place, generation, language and identity.

Thursday 21 November, 6pm, free

Launching Thurs 21 Nov, 6pm
Project runs Fri 22 Nov – Sat 14 Dec
Open Thursday & Friday 10am – 5pm, Saturday 11am – 3pm

Moonah Community Radio is a temporary community radio station at Moonah Arts Centre, produced by radio queens Sisters Akousmatica.

The four-week radio transmission will broadcast new radio art commissions, live and pre-recorded community content and selections from an international open call.

Transmitting from their custom broadcast ute, Moonah Community Radio will be a hub of activity on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays.

Tune in on 97.1FM or stream online at www.mixlr.com/sistersakousmatica.

Image: Sisters Akousmatica

Thurs 12 Dec, 7pm / Fri 13 Dec, 7pm / Sat 14 Dec, 2:30pm, $25 – $35

Mature Artists Dance Experience (MADE) is based in Hobart, and is one of Australia’s leading companies in the field of dance for older artists. In December MADE will be performing an exciting new double bill at the Moonah Arts Centre. MADE regularly collaborates with nationally and internationally acclaimed choreographers and designers. This new, vibrant double bill is no exception.

One half of the bill is MADE TO LAST, created by one of the UK’s most iconic artists, ‘the grand dame of anarchic dance’, Liz Aggiss. Choreographer, film maker and larger-than-life performer, Liz Aggiss is the winner of multiple awards internationally, and celebrated by several European Universities with Honorary Doctorates. She is a fiery mature artist whose work over five decades has challenged conventional ideas of female sexuality and beauty. Liz has created a work that is particularly timely in light of the globally ageing population.

The other work, HandMADE is a new work by Tasmanian dance maker Emma Porteus. Emma’s work has reached far beyond Tasmania, embracing the globe from South Africa to Finland. In this new work Emma draws that global perspective in tight, with a work that focuses on the way we experience the world through the bodies we inhabit.

The development of this performance has been supported through a partnership with Moonah Arts Centre.

Book tickets online>>

Photo by Sandi Sissel

Launching Thurs 21 Nov, 6pm
Project runs Fri 22 Nov – Sat 14 Dec
Open Thursday & Friday 10am – 5pm, Saturday 11am – 3pm

Moonah Community Radio is a temporary community radio station at Moonah Arts Centre, produced by radio queens Sisters Akousmatica.

The four-week radio transmission will broadcast new radio art commissions, live and pre-recorded community content and selections from an international open call.

Transmitting from their custom broadcast ute, Moonah Community Radio will be a hub of activity on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays.

Tune in on 97.1FM or stream online at www.mixlr.com/sistersakousmatica.

Image: Sisters Akousmatica

Opening Thurs 21 Nov, 6pm
Exhibition runs Fri 22 Nov – Sat 14 Dec
Open Tuesday – Friday 10am – 5pm, Saturday 11am – 3pm

HOBIENNALE is a free festival of art, music, performance and public programs presented in and around Hobart by a collective of independent artist-led organisations and cooperatives from around Australia and New Zealand. In 2019, the festival brings together 21 artist-led organisations and cooperatives, showcasing the work of around 100 artists and musicians in 21 exhibitions across 15 venues.

Moonah Arts Centre is hosting two major HOBIENNALE projects for 2019.

Boomalli Aboriginal Artist Co-operative presents

BOOMALLI NOW

Maddison Gibbs | Hayley Pigram | Jai Walker | Jasmine Coe | Rubyrose Bancroft

Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Co-operative was established in 1987 by ten Aboriginal Artists. These Artists were striving for recognition within mainstream art society and their diversity was unparalleled. They challenged preconceptions around urban- based Aboriginal Artists and created a unique space for themselves within the art world. Boomalli is a word from three different NSW language groups – Gamileroi, Bundjalung and Wiradjuri. It means to make a mark; to strike. BOOMALLI NOW presents the next generation of Boomalli artists who, over thirty years later, continue to make a mark on the art world, to challenge stereotypes and express the diversity of Aboriginal cultural life.

Firstdraft presents

SISTER ++++++ FAMILIAL FORMATIONS

Marian Abboud

Marian Abboud’s Sister ++++++ Familial Formations is a group video performance. A sister in a female-dominant family, Abboud draws on personal narratives, collective memory, textured identity, stylised ritual, gendered performativity and emotional symbolism. Her work brings together personal and cultural mythologies to create a collective action through ritual, memory and magic. Sister ++++++ Familial Formations will create new narratives of familial and cultural folklore to hold the space between us. The performance transcends place, generation, language and identity.

Thursday 21 November, 6pm, free

Opening Thurs 21 Nov, 6pm
Exhibition runs Fri 22 Nov – Sat 14 Dec
Open Tuesday – Friday 10am – 5pm, Saturday 11am – 3pm

HOBIENNALE is a free festival of art, music, performance and public programs presented in and around Hobart by a collective of independent artist-led organisations and cooperatives from around Australia and New Zealand. In 2019, the festival brings together 21 artist-led organisations and cooperatives, showcasing the work of around 100 artists and musicians in 21 exhibitions across 15 venues.

Moonah Arts Centre is hosting two major HOBIENNALE projects for 2019.

Boomalli Aboriginal Artist Co-operative presents

BOOMALLI NOW

Maddison Gibbs | Hayley Pigram | Jai Walker | Jasmine Coe | Rubyrose Bancroft

Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Co-operative was established in 1987 by ten Aboriginal Artists. These Artists were striving for recognition within mainstream art society and their diversity was unparalleled. They challenged preconceptions around urban- based Aboriginal Artists and created a unique space for themselves within the art world. Boomalli is a word from three different NSW language groups – Gamileroi, Bundjalung and Wiradjuri. It means to make a mark; to strike. BOOMALLI NOW presents the next generation of Boomalli artists who, over thirty years later, continue to make a mark on the art world, to challenge stereotypes and express the diversity of Aboriginal cultural life.

Firstdraft presents

SISTER ++++++ FAMILIAL FORMATIONS

Marian Abboud

Marian Abboud’s Sister ++++++ Familial Formations is a group video performance. A sister in a female-dominant family, Abboud draws on personal narratives, collective memory, textured identity, stylised ritual, gendered performativity and emotional symbolism. Her work brings together personal and cultural mythologies to create a collective action through ritual, memory and magic. Sister ++++++ Familial Formations will create new narratives of familial and cultural folklore to hold the space between us. The performance transcends place, generation, language and identity.

Thursday 21 November, 6pm, free

Launching Thurs 21 Nov, 6pm
Project runs Fri 22 Nov – Sat 14 Dec
Open Thursday & Friday 10am – 5pm, Saturday 11am – 3pm

Moonah Community Radio is a temporary community radio station at Moonah Arts Centre, produced by radio queens Sisters Akousmatica.

The four-week radio transmission will broadcast new radio art commissions, live and pre-recorded community content and selections from an international open call.

Transmitting from their custom broadcast ute, Moonah Community Radio will be a hub of activity on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays.

Tune in on 97.1FM or stream online at www.mixlr.com/sistersakousmatica.

Image: Sisters Akousmatica