Event Program
Car Park – Youth ARC Dark Carpark
New, site-specific contemporary work made by young Tasmanian artists with the support of arts industry mentors and the City of Hobart Youth ARC team. This space will transform with projection, digital works, sound works, installation and performance, as each artist explores documents, photographs and items from the State Library and Archives of Tasmania collections. See Tasmania’s history through fresh eyes and explore our identity and past as you never have before.
Artists
Youth ARC curatorial coordinators
Youth ARC mentors
Ground Floor – Allport Library and Museum of Fine Arts
Immerse yourself in sounds created by musician and sound artist, Aqrn.
Walls, ceilings, floors and stairwells will become a mesmerising digital canvas. Obscure and fantastical films sourced from the collections by skilled archivists will be on show.
In the Allport Library and Museum of Fine Arts visit the Fancy Dress: from tutus to cosplay exhibition where award-winning cosplayers will model their costumes.
The Tasmanian Time Travellers
The Tasmanian Time Travellers will be performing a tableau vivant for Stories After Dark. A tableau vivant is French for ‘living image’ and is a scene containing one or more models. They are stationary and silent, usually in costume, carefully posed, with props and/or scenery and were a form of popular entertainment in the 19th century.
Cosplayers
Award winning cosplayers and Japanese lolita fashion artists Emerald, Amy, Jayne and Ness will be appearing during the evening. They will wander the corridors and interact with visitors in the Allport Library and Museum of Fine Arts.
Level 1 – Hobart Library – Let me Tell you a Story
Let me tell you a story.
Since the beginning of time in every culture our ability to tell a story is what makes us human.
Join a storyteller at one of four campfires to hear a story through poetry, letters, puppetry, readings or the spoken word.
A new story will commence at each campfire every 30 minutes.
Campfire #1 will have an Auslan interpreter.
Program:
Downloadable PDFs: Program by campfire (PDF 2 MB) and Let Me Tell You A Story (PDF 128 KB) program
‘Hand Written Memoirs’ – Emesha Rudolf
Stand-up comedian and local theatre performer Emesha Rudolf will tell stories from her life so far.
From travel anecdotes about Barcelona to her introspective week on the River Kwai to nerding-out in New Zealand at the ‘Return of the King’ premiere. This performer will weave in tales about growing up with a Hungarian father and Tasmanian mother (who is battling Parkinson’s Disease) with all the earnest vulnerability of a middle-aged human who is still just a big kid.
5:00 pm at campfire 1 – with Auslan interpreter
6:00 pm at campfire 2
7:00 pm at campfire 3
8:00 pm at campfire 4
9:00 pm at campfire 1
Le Petit Prince – Edith Perrenot and Julia Drouhin
(French)
Two French ladies share stories of the Little Prince with an aviator, a Rose, a fox and a streetlights operator.
5:00 pm at campfire 2
6:00 pm at campfire 3
7:00 pm at campfire 4
8:00 pm at campfire 1 – with Auslan interpreter
9:00 pm at campfire 2
The Journey Home – Young Dawkins and double bass player Tim Hodgkinson
In the rich tradition of beat poetry and spontaneous jazz, spoken word artist Young Dawkins and Double-bass virtuoso Tim Hodgkinson – aka Dr Mooq – weave music, prose and poetry into a journey of aural cartography spanning decades, continents and friends both found and lost along the way.
5:00 pm at campfire 3
6:00 pm at campfire 4
7:00 pm at campfire 1 – with Auslan interpreter
8:00 pm at campfire 3
9:00 pm at campfire 4
Chances Are – Robert Jarman
Invertigo. (Remember them? No, thought not.) Anyway, they had a hit song in 2000: “Chances are what you feel is like everyone else.” A story of chance happenings, chance greetings, chance partings, chance meetings, chance discoveries and chance loss. Collisions of fate and freedom. Improbable coincidence and impossible serendipity. Chance is a terrible and a wonderful thing.
5:00 pm at campfire 4
6:00 pm at campfire 1 – with Auslan interpreter
7:00 pm at campfire 2
8:00 pm at campfire 2
9:00 pm at campfire 3
Robbie Arnott’s Limberlost – Jane Longhurst
A superb homage to quiet Tasmanian rural life. They have never met which in Hobart, is only a matter of time.
5:30 pm at campfire 1 – with Auslan interpreter
6:30 pm at campfire 2
7:30 pm at campfire 3
8:30 pm at campfire 4
9:30 pm at campfire 1 – with Auslan interpreter
Stories from the Dark Woods – Tamas Oszvald
Various folktales from the dark side of European folklore traditions.
5:30 pm at campfire 2
6:30 pm at campfire 3
7:30 pm at campfire 4
8:30 pm at campfire 1 – with Auslan interpreter
9:30 pm at campfire 2
Love Letters（收信快乐) – Hanwen (Michael) Zhang and Xinyuan (Amy) Wang. Directed by Fengyi (Fini) Liu
(Chinese and English)
Based on Chengju Shan’s Love Letters, director Fini Liu has adapted Love Letters into a bilingual (Mandarin /English) and multicultural play. The story is comprised of letters exchanged over a lifetime between two people, who grew up together, went their separate ways, but continued to share confidences. Love Letters combines the storytelling and theatre performance of two actors and is an excerpt of the upcoming play Hobart, I love you.
5:30 pm at campfire 3
6:30 pm at campfire 4
7:30 pm at campfire 1 – with Auslan interpreter
8:30 pm at campfire 3
9:30 pm at campfire 4
Earth Tales – Moran Wiesel
Come journey with fiery dragons and ancient mountains, and together we might discover the whispering wisdoms of earth.
This story offers compassion and hope in a moment of earth-urgency, inviting you into a place of magic, stillness, and profound connection – perhaps even into places where trees dance and story-stones sing.
5:30 pm at campfire 4
6:30 pm at campfire 1 – with Auslan interpreter
7:30 pm at campfire 2
8:30 pm at campfire 2
9:30 pm at campfire 3
Level 2 – State Library and Archives of Tasmania – Reading Room
Beats and Bands from the Archives
Your hazy memories of Hobart’s 70s and 80s music scene will come into focus as you step into the State Library and Archives of Tasmania Reading Room. You could be forgiven for thinking you are at Round Midnight, The Doghouse or the Bav Tav! Get footloose on the dance floor and revel in the best of rock and folk music, posters, fashion, sounds and stories from Tasmania’s retro past.
Duck Trousers, Straw Bonnets, and Bluey
The history of Tasmanian textiles and clothing is filled with colourful and unique garments, characters, and stories. Explore the stories and cracking yarns in Duck Trousers, Straw Bonnets, and Bluey: Stories of fabrics and clothing in Tasmania from the Tasmanian Archives.
Looking South with the National Archives of Australia
Engage with National Archives of Australia, learn about the collection and view archival footage from Antarctic expeditions during the 1960s and 70s.