Disney Channel’s smash hit movie musical comes to life at the Peacock Theatre this October featuring Musical Theatre Crew‘s energetic and talented Intermediate Crew.
Disney’s High School Musical is a fun musical comedy for the whole family, with upbeat songs, high energy dancing and beloved characters.
The Jocks, Brainiacs, Thespians and Skater Dudes are back at school after winter break at East High. Basketball team captain and resident jock, Troy, discovers that the academic Gabriella, who he befriended singing karaoke on a ski holiday, has just moved to East High. While Troy has his basketball commitment and Gabriella has her maths competition, they decide to audition for the high school musical, led by Ms. Darbus. But many students resent the threat posed to the “status quo”, especially siblings Sharpay and Ryan who want to rule the school show. High school becomes a challenge of juggling studies, sport, drama club, peer pressures, family expectations, friendships and even first love.
Season : Friday 18 – Saturday 26 October 2024
Performances : Friday 18 October 2024, 7:30pm – 8:40pm Saturday 19 October 2024, 3:00pm – 4:10pm – MATINEE Saturday 19 October 2024, 7:30pm – 8:40pm Sunday 20 October 2024, 3:00pm – 4:10pm – MATINEE Friday 25 October 2024, 3:00pm – 4:10pm – MATINEE Friday 25 October 2024, 7:30pm – 8:40pm Saturday 26 October 2024, 3:00pm – 4:10pm – MATINEE Saturday 26 October 2024, 7:30pm – 8:40pm
Tickets : Adults $36.00 Concession (Children / Students / Pensions & Seniors) $29.00 Family (Good for 4) $118.00
Tickets / Doors open 60 minutes prior to Performance Duration : 70 minutes
NOTE: This show has double and triple casts. Check ticket details to confirm the casts who are performing.
Peta Cross. Killiecrankie Bay (detail) (2023). Oil on board. 30cm x 20cm
Opening Event : Wednesday 27 November 2024, 5:00pm – 7:00pm
Exhibition Dates : Tuesday 26 November – Monday 16 December 2024 Tuesday – Sunday 10:00am – 5:00pm Mondays CLOSED
Land Bridge by Peta Cross consists of multiple small en plein air oil paintings on wood. Painted quickly with minimal reworking they are largely sea scapes. The paintings are part of a sequence completed over several years mapping the coasts of Northern Tasmania (where the artist was born) and Southern Victoria (where the artist lives).
The exhibition Land Bridge is an enquiry into The Bassian Plain or isthmus that is now submerged between Southern Victoria, (Cape Otway to Wilsons Promontory) and Northern Tasmania (Mussleroe Bay to Cape Grim). The exhibition also includes, oil sketches from Flinders Island.
The Bassian Plain or isthmus served as a land bridge for thousands of years until the last ice age, 12,000 years ago. Many species of plants, birds, marsupials, insects and of course Palawa moved freely through the extraordinary biosphere it can only have been. The Palawa oral history of this event is notably one of the oldest if not the oldest narratives in history. Recorded in the 1830’s the narrative describes the positioning of the star Canopus near the South Pole.
Researchers were able to measure the sea floor of the Bass Straight and the ability to cover the isthmus on foot. They calculated the positioning of the star by descriptions of the Palawa and discovered that both conditions occurred at least 12,000 years ago.
The “ghost land plain” reveals itself through the many tiny islands of the Bass Straight. So many histories are now secrets of the deep and as geological time reveals, our histories may be submerged in years to come or another land bridge form.
” I have been fascinated by this sense of the land yearning for itself for so many years. I have spent most of my life living on both sides of the straight. Born and raised on the North West coast now living in Narrm ,Melbourne.
As a painter I am interested in sketches or unfinished works as much as finished works. This exhibition is an effort to draw or simply “map”, light, air, sea, coast, it is more of a work in progress, the mapping is not complete and the idea around the landbridge may be developed into a larger scale exhibition in the future.” – Peta Cross
Peta Cross. Killiecrankie Mountain (2023). Oil on board. 15cm x 13cm
Paths to Abstraction Group Painting taught by Jake Walker
Nolan School of Art | Adults
Opening event: 15 November | 6pm Daily Opening Times : Monday 4 November – Sunday 1 December 2024
On the shoulders of giants, the adult students of Nolan School of Art are inspired by art movements and art practice from the past.
On the 25th year of Nolan School of Art, we celebrate the many students who have past through our doors with an exhibition form the classes of Phoebe Webb, Jake Walker, Josh Lamb, and Caroline McGregor. You will see contemporary gestural abstraction, sensual life drawing, funky still life, and various spirited daubings.
Our after school classes show their responses to the art of the past in an exhibition that includes painting, drawing, ceramics, sculpture, puppetry, and animation.
In this exhibition you will see modern Gods, contemporary mask making, a spirited puppet theatre, and contemporary cave painting.
Opening Event : Friday 11 October 2024, 6:00pm – 7:30pm
Artist Talk : Sunday 13 October 2024 @ 2pm
To light up or illuminate; well-lit
This dictionary definition is a repeating theme behind this collection of latest works. The title of “Luminous State” is a duality and can refer to both a literal geographical location, such as in this case, the state of Tasmania, and a condition of the mind.
“Over the years I’ve researched and examined many of Tasmania’s remote and rugged landscapes. This group of works which has formed the “Luminous State” exhibition, is a collaboration of these sojourns and a memory filled revisiting of this visual and emotive discovery.
Despite the variety in locations represented, the one repeating factor in this exhibition is the quality and transient nature of Tasmania’s light and my ability in harnessing this light quality in paint. Tasmania’s light is recognised across the nation as having a clarity and warmth that bathes it subjects. Particularly at certain times of the year as the sun tracks a low trajectory across the sky.
The illumination of this direct light through clear alpine air or filtered light through a heavy atmosphere, provides an unending and ambient form of communication to the viewer. Recording these moments literally in the field by means of plein air studies, sketches and photographs has provided me with the means back in the studio of giving to the viewer of my work the same emotive response I experienced when on location.
If the viewer can feel the bite of a southerly breeze or the desperate warmth of alpine sun late in the day emanating from these paintings, then my work has found its purpose.” – Clifford How
Film Screening : Tuesday 8 October 2024, 7:00pm – 9:00pm (includes interval) Doors @ 6:30pm | Screening from 7:00pm
Mountainfilm on Tourbrings you a selection of the best short films from the renowned Mountainfilm festival in Telluride, Colorado. Join us on this expedition, where the magic of film, art, and ideas will transport you to a world pulsing with adventure and the potential to create a better world.
Mountainfilm on Tour presented by Osprey is coming to Australia starting 8th October 2024. Join us for an evening of inspiring and captivating films handpicked from the Mountainfilm festival in Telluride, Colorado.
Founded in 1979, Mountainfilm is one of America’s longest-running film festivals. The annual festival is held every Memorial Day weekend in Telluride, CO. Mountainfilm is a dynamic nonprofit organization and festival that celebrates stories of indomitable spirit and aims to inspire audiences through film, art and ideas.
Mountainfilm on Tour will feature a collection of culturally rich, adventure-packed and engaging documentary short films that align with Mountainfilm’s mission to use the power of film, art and ideas to inspire audiences to create a better world. A Mountainfilm presenter will guide the audience through the program providing insight on the films, filmmakers and subjects.
TICKETS : Adult $32.79 (incl BF) Concession $26.60 (incl BF) Family & Group Ticket Options
Henrietta Manning. The Larder, Home Grown Series. Acrylic on masonite. 84.5 x 50cm. Photographer Simon Olding
Exhibition Dates : Tuesday 29 October – Monday 2 December 2024 **Installation viewable 24/7
In contrast to a fast world demanding instant gratification, the Series Home Grown by Henrietta Manning celebrates the joy of planting, harvesting and eating the produce of your own hands. Paintings inspired by the artist’s garden. Slow down and immerse yourself in the soil and the changing seasons, it’s good for the soul.
For the series Home Grown the artist is sharing her connection and pleasure derived from the just over one-acre block of land surrounding her home in Tasmania’s Huon Valley. Originally sparsely planted, and still a work in progress, it has been a steep learning curve, landscaping, and developing two working vegetable bunkers. Produce taken into the house, whether edible or as floral decoration, has been painted from life as intimate works combined with the trappings of home life or with glimpses through windows to the garden outside.
A garden is an extension of you and your home. It matters not whether it is in a single pot or on acreage, growing and nurturing life expands your world. Whatever your taste and passion leads you to grow, trees, shrubs, flowers, succulents, vegetables, fruit, nuts or herbs, you see life in the round. You become more aware of the small things, of life around you; butterfly’s moths, bees, the caterpillars, slugs, snails and worms, skinks and snakes. You reconnect with the seasons and changing weather. The struggle for life becomes more apparent as you nurture and then defend from predators.
Sometimes it can even be hard to pick or prune, to end the life of those you have tended for so long, at others it is a race to harvest at the perfect time before plants bolt or birds and possums get there first. The taste is sweeter and the satisfaction greater at every meal.
Not for you the anonymous supermarket flowers, fruit and vegetables but those carefully chosen by you from seed or seedling, nurtured into life, protected from predators and blight and harvested straight into your kitchen or carefully arranged in a vase. You know where they came from and how they were grown. You can choose varieties not mass produced and can grow free from chemicals. You can make a difference by keeping heritage varieties alive.
In a world of increasing financial, climate and food insecurity there is also a sense of safety and self-reliance looking at your own produce growing or stored in larder and freezer.
What better way to start your day than to let the chickens out, collect eggs and watch for every bud and burst of new life?
Henrietta Manning. Tomatoes, Home Grown Series. Acrylic on masonite. 25.5 x 30cm. Photographer Simon Olding
Henrietta Manning. Eggs on the Mantel. Home Grown Series. acrylic on masonite 25.5 x 30cm. Photographer Simon Olding
Studio Waterloo
Special Event at Studio Waterloo Monday 25 November – Sunday 1 December 2024 : Open daily 11:00am – 4:00pm 57 Glocks Road, Waterloo, Tasmania 7109
In conjunction with the last week of the Lightbox installation the extended series Home Grown will be exhibited in the Artist’s Huon Valley studio, open to the public for one week only. An opportunity not only to view more of the current series but also to meet the artist and explore her working studio and art practice inside the heritage Apple Packing Shed that is her studio. Bring a picnic and enjoy stunning views extending down the Huon River to Sleeping Beauty and Kunanyi/Mount Wellington.
Henrietta Manning is a Contemporary Realist exhibiting since 1984 and currently living in Tasmania. A versatile artist, painting predominately from life, plein air and in the studio, series are developed for exhibition. Drawn to historic sites a recurring theme is the passage of time and how we live with and build upon the past. A recipient of an Australia Council Visual Arts/Craft Board ‘New Work Established Grant’ and finalist in Australian art awards such as The Wynne, Glover, Portia Geach, Waverly, Alice, Fishers Ghost, Eutick, Waterhouse and The Summer Exhibition in England.
Hobart’s favourite dance party returns… it’s time to get Footloose AGAIN! 👟🎉Come and shake your groove thing with Hugo Bladel for a special 2 hour DJ Set, jam-packed with Disco Classics 🕺🏻
We will be spinning artists such as : Chic Sister Sledge ABBA Diana Ross Earth, Wind and Fire Bee Gees Kool & the Gang KC &. The Sunshine Band Patrice Rushen Madonna Pointer Sisters Hall & Oates
Located in the Founders Room on a Friday Night – starting right after Rektango! 🎶
Music kicks off at 8:00pm with support from local legend JUNIPER 🎧
Greg Wood’s paintings offer moments of reprieve and contemplation. At once both closely observed and deeply imagined, they depict landscapes not quite locatable. Records of light, colour, and atmosphere, his paintings are the stuff of memory itself. –Amelia Wallin
Greg Wood is a painter of the earthy and ethereal. During the last 25 years his practice has involved the observation of landscape and the natural world. He paints places traversed through sensory impression For Wood the essence of place is more important than specifics of location. He creates art that alludes to the mysterious impressions left by landscape, the emotional afterimages that endure. His delicate, layered canvases invite us to enter a felt sense of place, imbued with memory and emotion. Wood describes his work as a ‘slow release’ –the nuance of his paintings gradually revealing themselves to the viewer. A formative influence is Melbourne tonalist, Clarice Beckett, who has informed his use of thin, gestural layers of muted colours, flattened forms, merging tones and diffuse light.
Wood’s paintings are psychologically and visually alluring. The more we look, the more we are invited to come into communion with the subtle aspects how place shapes us, how we dwell in landscapes both literal and interior.
