Mona Foma

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Our Arts Editor Hannah Story spent the weekend at Mona Foma in Tasmania, where she found herself challenged by what music and art can be – and by how she responded to it.

Your guide to mona-ing and foma-ing in Launceston this month.

Tasmania's annual summer celebration of contemporary art and performance, Mona Foma, is marking its tenth year with a change of scenery. The festival's curator, Brian Ritchie, tells Maxim Boon why this new beginning has given him a case of deja vu.

Next year's dates announced!

"The festival's original 10-year plan - to change the culture in Hobart - has come to fruition ahead of schedule."

The seventh MONA FOMA hits Hobart mid-January