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Is a government rescue of festivals the answer to reviving the music industry?
"Maybe the end started at Covid. Maybe it’s because the last festival was a poorly attended artistic triumph. But those aren’t the reasons I killed it."
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.
A new three year deal.
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."
MOFO really is Tasmania's weird answer to SXSW, huh?
The seventh MONA FOMA hits Hobart mid-January