Stories After Dark

Aqrn

Aqrn is the solo project of ambient composer Daniel Platts who lives and creates in Nipaluna/Hobart. Aqrn uses a combination of cassette tape loops, analog synths, and electronic instrumentation to perform longform immersive ambient textures and soundscapes. Each performance is a meditation on time, memory and place. These performances are improvised and are a reaction and reflection of the time and place in which they are delivered.

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Amy King

Amy is a musician and sound technician. Classically trained, she mixes futuristic game soundtracks with traditional harps and lutes. She wears lolita fashion ever since she went on exchange to Nagoya and discovered an underworld of frills and indi J rock.

Emerald L King

Emerald is Lecturer in Humanities at the University of Tasmania who researches Japanese literature and popular culture. She has been a cosplayer since 2007 and has won awards, helped to organise events, judged and MC’ed.

Ness Ollington

Ness is the designer of Purple Goldfish Design. A whimsical brand that blends cuteness with geek chic, mental health, and Japanese inspired street fashion.

Jayne Scott

For Jayne, every day is All Hallows Eve. Jayne mixes spooky elements in her everyday corporate life. She is interested in Japanese alternative fashion including street style kimono and gothic fashion.

The Tasmanian Time Travellers

The Tasmanian Time Travellers are a group who enjoy historic costume and associated events. Events include promenades in the Tasmanian natural environment, Devonshire teas at historic tea shops, picnics, festivals and sewing bees.

Young Dawkins

Young Dawkins is an internationally published poet, former Scottish National Slam Poetry Champion and two-time winner of the Huon Valley Mid-Winter Festival Storytelling Cup. His debut poetry collection, The Lilac Thief, was published in 2009 and his second collection Slow Walk Home was published in 2021.

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Julia Drouhin

Julia Drouhin (she/her, VK7HAG) amplifies invisible sound streams to reveal society’s friction through radioscape, installation and collaborative performance. You can find her jumping with broken plates on a mini trampoline or licking rocks at the beach. Julia completed her PhD in Paris, France where she explored the art of walking and broadcast impact in public space. Since moving to Lutruwita/Tasmania, she works with youth in local communities and artists with disabilities.

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Tim Hodgkinson

For over three decades, Dr Mooq has tickled the strings of many a bass instrument.  He delivers medicine with deep, melodic & slinky bass lines vibrating the listener in jazz trios & big bands. Dr Mooq toured through Europe, the US and Australia early in his career.

Dr Mooq moved to Tasmania to take up winemaking. Serendipity has brought him into the orbit of Young Dawkins and now, the music plays on with double bass and beat poetry.

Robert Jarman

Robert is an award-winning Australian theatre artist based in Nipaluna/Hobart. He is a director, actor and writer and was Artistic Director of Blue Cow Theatre for nine years.

He has directed and performed in various Tasmanian companies and productions such as Ten Days on the Island, Zootango, Theatre Royal, Terrapin, Tasmania Performs, Salamanca Theatre Co., Is Theatre, Tasmanian Theatre Co., Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, IHOS Music Theatre & Opera, Conservatorium of Music, TasDance, Two Turns Dance, Dark Mofo and Festival of Voices.

Beyond Tasmania Robert’s work includes OzOpera, Music Theatre Sydney, Australian Institute of Music, One Extra Dance Co., Melbourne Comedy Festival, JUTE, The Marais Project, La Boite.

In 2011 Robert was awarded the Australian Centenary of Federation Medal and in 2022 he received the Tasmanian Theatre Council’s Lifetime Achievement Award.

Fengyi (Fini) Liu

Fini Liu (Artistic Director, Do Theatre) studied a Master of Arts and Cultural Management at University of Melbourne. He further explored contemporary theatre as an exchange student at Columbia University in the United States of America.

In 2020, Fini continued his studies in theatre and performing arts at the University of Tasmania. During this time Fini performed in several critically acclaimed community productions. As a theatre practitioner, he has directed and performed in 21 Australian productions.

Jane Longhurst

Jane Longhurst is an award-winning actor, broadcaster, voice artist and presenter of events big and small. Throughout her career she has worked across Australian theatre, television and radio. Her television credits include Rosehaven, Death or Liberty, Blue Heelers, GP, Janus, The Flying Doctors, Neighbours and A Country Practice. Jane has worked with Blue Cow Theatre, Tasmanian Theatre Company and Terrapin Puppet Theatre across various productions in Hobart.

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Tamas Oszvald

Tamas is a traditional Hungarian storyteller. His tellings are intergenerational events. His Roaming Trees Storytelling platform has captured audiences on the stages of Europe and Australasia, re-telling folk tales, myths and legends. Tamas tells stories to nurture his audience as a community, in a way that has the power to make a long-term imprint. Tamas’ end goal is not to just tell a great story, but to learn with his listeners about what it means to be human.

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Edith Perrenot

Edith Perrenot is a visual and performing artist based in Nipaluna/Hobart. Her practice is interdisciplinary and creates interactive environments, which navigate through different depths of human experiences. Her work layers absurdism, positioning the poetics of hope, humour, resilience and joy. For more than 10 years, Edith has been an artist, performer, maker, designer and producer in the Tasmanian cultural industry.

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Emesha Rudolf

Emesha has been performing in stand-up comedy, theatre and a smattering of TV for many years. A nerdy 40 year old woman, she has only recently begun to feel secure in this human meat sack.
In 2018 she produced and starred in her first solo stand up show Agency- which explored her upbringing with a Hungarian father and Tasmanian mother and her efforts to find her own personal agency.
She followed it up in 2021 with the show Little Martyr – exploring the themes of being a woman approaching the ‘invisibility’ of middle age, the legacy of family shame and the martyrdom of mothers.
At the start of this year she appeared as Puck in A Midsummer Night’s Dream in the Botanical Gardens (John X Presents).
Basically she is Puck- a solo forest spirit trying to survive in the human world.

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Xinyuan (Amy) Wang

Amy Wang is a dedicated tourism and natural resources management professional. Currently, she works as an Associate Lecturer at the School of Geography, Planning, and Spatial Sciences at UTAS. Amy is a passionate singer and drummer and danced in the University Dance Crew. Amy is experienced in stage performance, public speaking and storytelling. Love Letters is her debut acting performance.

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Moran Wiesel

Moran Wiesel is spoken word poet, storyteller, ecotherapist, and musician. Winner of the 2022 Huon Valley Mid-Winter Fest Storyteller’s Cup and Australian Poetry Slam Tasmanian Finalist 2021 & 2022, Moran performs in forests, caves, community events, and the Tasmanian Storytelling Festival. Their words are inspired by our intimate connection with the world’s soul and the spectacular vibrancy of this island, Lutruwita/Tasmania. While waiting for stories to emerge, Moran can be found dancing with trees.

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Hanwen (Michael) Zhang

Michael is a creative and cooperative actor who studied a Theatrical Performance bachelor. As a lead actor, he has been involved in every performance and production since the Do Theatre was founded. Michael’s rich experience of cooperation inspires him to explore more possibilities in the dramatic arts.

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Youth ARC Mentors / Curators

Chloe Baigent
Tang (Wenhao Deng)
Yumemi Hiraki
Jacob Leary
Jon Smeathers
Sara Wright

Solomon Doyle

Solomon was born and raised in Hawaii, with very little artistic interest. It was only moving to Tasmania, when he began exploring his curiosity of art.
Solomon began experimenting with different mediums and styles, it is still a process which dictates his work. Much of his work aims to capture the interplay between landscapes and people who reside within.

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Solomon’s work is in response to: Map – Hobart 93 – Plan of Hobart and Surrounds

Sam Hausmann

Sam Hausmann is a Melbourne-based producer and composer. Sam’s work is created in Ableton Live with a focus on sound design, programming and synthesis to create engaging music and sonic textures.

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Sam’s work is in response to: Plan-Parsonage

Stephanie Moutray-Read

Steph is a contemporary dancer from Naarm/Melbourne who currently dances in the DRILL senior company. They were involved in DRILL’s performance, Dissolving Labels and created a piece for Stories After Dark in 2022.
Steph has worked with other contemporary companies such as Yellow Wheel in Melbourne, as well as collaborated with Tasdance, Chunky Move and Yellow Wheel on a piece called Simulcast.

Stephanie’s work is in response to: Tasman Island Lightstation Log Book – 18 August 1922 to 21 September 1923

National Archives (NAA) record URL [Series number P779 LOG BOOK 11]

Jess Murray

Jess Murray is a Tasmanian filmmaker and illustrator with a focus on heartfelt comedies and oddball characters. After graduating from the Australian Film, Television and Radio School in 2020, Jess co-founded the Tasmanian production company, Turbo Chook (@turbochooktv). Projects include music videos, sketch comedy and narrative web series. With a focus on the absurd and surreal, Turbo Chook’s projects span across a range of mediums; from 2D animation to live-action puppets and drag queens.

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Jess’ work is in response to: Photograph – Thomas Jennings- 31 stone 4 and a quarter pound

Oliver Quinn

Oliver Quinn is an audio-visual artist from Nipaluna/Hobart, whose practice involves 3D animation and sound design. He is often inspired by unexpected collisions between organic life forms and industrial worlds. His recent work includes surreal music videos and audio-visual projections, screened at community events like Light Up The Lane.
The Last Great Whale, a piece inspired by local whaling histories, was featured in last year’s Stories After Dark. In 2022, Oliver won the Underground Art Prize for his animation, Connection.

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Oliver’s work is in response to: Photograph – Aurora leaving Hobart for the Antarctic in 1913

Woolf Wakelam

Woolf is a 12-year old multi-disciplinary artist exploring dance, music, drawing and animation as creative outlets. Naturally expressive and talented, Woolf has made an extraordinary footprint in the local arts scene. He performs with Great Southern Dance and in events such as Stories After Dark, Light up the Lane and Dark Mofo. Woolf recently mastered his debut album, Childhood.

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