Event Type: Events

Event :
Friday 23 May 2025 (straight after Rektango)
Doors Open @ 7:20pm 
Music from 7:30pm – 10:30pm

Tickets : $10
Tickets available at the Door (cash or EFT)

*This is an 18+ Event*

Always danceable, always fun. Always dark eighties.
The Cure, Simple Minds, Stranglers, Devo, B52s – that sort of thing.

Help us get ready for the winter with special guests Foucault a’ GoGo.

Carefully timed straight after Rektango but before Dark Mofo!
Good practice?

Performances :
Saturday 12 July 2025
Matinee @ 2:00pm
Evening @ 7:30pm

Doors Open 30 minutes prior to performance

Duration : 75 minutes | NO Interval

Tickets* :
Adult $36
Concession $28

This production is suitable for all ages.

*Tickets can be purchased online up until performance time.

The celebratory and joyous story of the first women’s cricket match in Australia .

“If they’re playing cricket, who is making the sandwiches?”

In Bendigo in 1874 two women’s teams play cricket for the very first time in Australia! Money is raised for charity, the women are praised for their sporting endeavours and then – all hell breaks loose – as the press decide (surprise, surprise) that women should stay home, know their place and sit down.

Written by Christine Davey and presented by award-winning regional theatre company – Skin of our Teeth Productions – this joyous, musical, and uplifting story explores this event and what it means for all of us. These glorious women have been lost to history, and it’s time to bring them back to centre stage where they rightfully belong.

Join us for a tale of extraordinary women doing extraordinary things and the very ordinary men who tried to stop them.

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Skin of our Teeth Productions is a regional, female and disability-led theatre company celebrating diversity.

WORKSHOP :
Saturday 24 May 2025, 10:00am – 1:00pm
Doors Open 20 minutes prior

Duration : 3 x Hours

Cost : $50 (+BF)

Whether your improv journey has recently begun, or you are a seasoned improviser, this workshop will power up your impro to the next level.

What do the words dynamite and dynamics have in common? The root DYNA – which means power.

Often, when people refer to POWER IMPRO they mean fast, hard, loud, and unrelentingly funny. This is definitely a powerful way to play…sometimes. But sometimes the most powerful way to play is slow, soft, silent, or poignant. Master improvisers know how to play a full range of energies and when to apply them to their characters, scenes, and the stories they tell.

In this workshop, you will learn how to build and harness your own impro superpowers to play within a dynamic range – physically, verbally, and emotionally. Whether your improv journey has recently begun, or you are a seasoned improviser, this workshop will power up your impro to the next level.

Performance :
Saturday 24 May 2025
Doors Open 7:00pm | Performance from 7:30pm – 9:00pm (includes Interval)

Tickets :
Full Price $30 (+BF)
Concession $25 (+BF)

Ruby Rocket is an intoxicating, intoxicated private eye who always gets her man…

Except, of course, when she doesn’t. In this hilarious improvised show, Stacey Hallal plays Ruby, weaving vivid noir storytelling, physical comedy, Jon Timm’s innovative multimedia imagery. Featuring a guest cast of Hobart’s top improvisers. Not to be missed!

Stacey Hallal and Jon Timm have toured Ruby Rocket across North America and Europe to packed houses and amazed audiences.

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“Hallal’s strong improv skills and comedic timing take audiences on a ride where there’s no guessing what’s in store.” -­ Vue Weekly

“Hallal is a stage dynamo. Fast and fearless.” -­ Winnipeg Free Press

“She’s a genuine talent.” -­The Oregonian

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PROTEA Impro’s 2025 season is supported by Salamanca Arts Centre

Performance :
Saturday 10 May 2025
Doors Open 7:00pm | Performance from 7:30pm – 9:00pm (includes Interval)

Tickets :
Full Price $30 (+BF)
Concession $25 (+BF)

The new works of Shakespeare, unscripted!

What if the Bard had written one more play—tonight, right before your eyes? Under the masterful direction of Dr. David Charles, Improvised Shakespeare weaves an entirely new tale in the style of the greatest playwright of all time—completely improvised and utterly unpredictable. Expect grand soliloquies, star-crossed lovers, mischievous fools, and tragic downfalls, all crafted on the spot with wit, wordplay, and wild imagination.

Prepare for an evening of iambic pentameter, period-accurate absurdity, and Elizabethan drama like you’ve never seen before—because no one has!

PROTEA Impro’s 2025 season is supported by Salamanca Arts Centre

WORKSHOP :
Tuesday 13 May 2025, 6:00pm – 9:00pm
Doors Open 15 minutes prior

Duration : 3 x Hours

Cost : $50 (+BF)

Learn how to make up a musical with international guest Dr David Charles.

Are you intrigued by musical improv and want to build confidence, sharpen your skills, and get some experience in a playful and inviting environment? This three-hour workshop explores techniques to help you bravely start your improvised songs as a confident and well-executed song launch often makes all the difference between sinking and soaring in the moments that follow. No prior improv singing experience needed, but a willingness to sing publicly will help!

Train with Dr David Charles. He is a master of improvised musical theatre. A graduate of Players Workshop of Second City. David is the creator of improvised musicals like FourPlay: The Improvised Musical and Your Opera in a Trunk. He is also the author of Improv Dictionary (Routledge, 2024) and a sought-after instructor known for making musical improv fun, accessible, and electrifying. Join his workshop and unlock your ability to create songs, scenes, and entire musicals—on the spot!

Tues 24 June, 2025
7pm – 9pm (Doors open at 6.30pm)
Live @ The Founders Room
Salamanca Arts Centre
65b Woobys Lane, or for lift access enter through The Courtyard

$39 +bf General Admission
$35 Concession

Welcome to the first of our Classical Salamanca 2025 series, live in the Long Gallery.
Salamanca Arts Centre presents ‘Two Octets’
The String Octet in C major, Op. 7 by George Enescu (1881-1955) and 
the Octet in E-Flat Major, Op. 20 for Strings by Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847).

Tuesday 24th June 2025
Doors & bar open at 6:30pm
Music commences at 7pm 

The Long Gallery
Level One, Salamanca Arts Centre
[ Enter via the main doors at 77 Salamanca Place, or take the Lift via the Courtyard ]

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In this concert of two of the most-loved string octets, Chamber music leader, Peter Tanfield, will direct an ensemble of some of the best and most highly-regarded musicians in Tasmania, including:
(Violins) Peter Tanfield, Phoebe Masel, Natalya Bing and Joshua Farner;
(Violas) Douglas Coghill and Damien Holloway,
(Celli) William Hewer and Kate Calwell.

You can read more about Enescu’s Octet here.

You can read more about Mendelssohn’s Octet here.

Tickets are only $39+BF, or $35+BF for concession card holders, and with a further discount offered to SAC Associate members.

Peter Tanfield was born in England in 1961 and started the violin aged four. He studied in Germany, Israel, Switzerland and Holland where his teachers were Igor Ozim, Felix Andrievski, Alberto Lysy, Herman Krebbers and Yehudi Menuhin.
He was a prize-winner at The Carl Flesch International Competition, International Mozart Competition, International Bach Competition amongst others.   As soloist and chamber musician he has played throughout Europe, China, Japan, India, Canada, the Middle East, Africa, USA, and USSR. He has recorded numerous solo and chamber works for television and radio as well as CD. He has played for Chairman Deng in China and the Sultan of Oman.

As soloist Peter has appeared with many major orchestras; the Philharmonia, City of London Sinfonia, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, West German Radio Orchestra, Radio Symphony Orchestra of the RAI in Rome, Scottish Chamber Orchestra.
As concertmaster, he has had extensive experience working with BBC Philharmonic, RSO RAI Roma, West German Radio Orchestra, London Sinfonietta, Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Some of the artists and composers he has worked and performed with: Astor Piazzolla, Charlie Watts, Pinchas Zukerman, Yehudi Menuhin, Charles Wuorinen, Arvo Paert, Graeme Koehne, Gary Carr, Itzhak Perlman.
Some of the conductors he has worked with are Carlo Maria Giulini, Claudio Abbado, Charles Dutoit, Louis Fremaux, Richard Hickox, Heinz Wallberg, Jun-Ichi Hirokami, John Adams, Oliver Knussen, Paavo Jaervi, Martin Brabbins, Gary Bertini, Georg Solti, Pierre Boulez, Simon Rattle.

Peter has been active as a teacher in Britain, Spain, Germany, Switzerland and Australia organizing, coordinating and delivering courses and chamber music programmes for festivals and youth organizations.
From 2002 to 2008 he was lecturer in violin and ensemble at the Tasmanian Conservatorium of Music, University of Tasmania. He was also Artistic Director of the Tasmanian Senior Youth Orchestra and the Derwent Symphony Orchestra, and has been Artistic Advisor to the Hobart Chamber Orchestra. Peter came to Australia in 1998 to lead the Australian String Quartet.  Until he left in November 2001 he dedicated himself to the quartet’s development and teaching at the university of Adelaide, expanding the ensemble’s national profile, making two films for the ABC and becoming the Artistic Director of the Adelaide Chamber Orchestra.

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Please note that the Courtyard Lift IS OPERATING!

Doors & Bar open at 6:30pm
Music begins at 7pm

The Long Gallery
Level One, Salamanca Arts Centre

77 Salamanca Place 
Hobart.
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This concert at Salamanca Arts Centre is supported by Arts Tasmania’s 2025 Arts Projects Fund.
Salamanca Arts Centre is grateful for this support via Arts Tasmania and the Minister for the Arts.

Panel Discussion :
Saturday 17 May 2025
Doors Open 6:30pm | Event from 7:00pm – 9:00pm

Duration : 120 minutes. Includes Interval

TICKETS : 
General Admission $25
Concession $20
SAC Associate Members $18

Your ticket includes a complimentary drink on arrival – come early, settle in, and prepare for a night of raw truths and expert insight, where you’ll hear from the real voices behind the headlines.

This event is brought to you by the DENIED project alongside the exhibition DENIED : Portraits of Wrongful Conviction.

Exclusive one-night-only event, top minds in law, forensics & art unpack wrongful convictions. Seats are limited – booking essential.

True Crime, False Narratives is a one-night-only live event pulling back the curtain on Australia’s criminal justice system. On Saturday 17 May 2025 at 7:00pm in The Founders Room, join leading experts in law, forensic science, and art as they unpack some of our nation’s most unsettling cases.

Can you imagine losing years of your life for a crime you didn’t commit – trapped in a system that refuses to admit its mistakes? Wrongful convictions have profound, enduring consequences: they erase identities, distort time, and inflict a deep psychological toll, all while the true perpetrators walk free. In a system that determines justice, the stakes couldn’t be higher.

Hear from :
Stuart Tipple – Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton’s defence lawyer (event moderator)
Dr Byron Collins – Australia’s first independent forensic pathologist
Dr Robyn Blewer – Director of Griffith University’s Innocence Project
Dr Robert Moles – Legal scholar specialising in wrongful conviction
Associate Professor Bibi Sangha – Legal scholar specialising in wrongful conviction
Sky Parra – Visual artist & researcher (event host)

Tipple, Collins, and Blewer bring invaluable insights from their decades of work uncovering wrongful convictions and fighting for justice, while Moles and Sanga expose the systemic failures that allow these injustices to happen. How do wrongful convictions occur? Who is responsible for setting them right? If these appeals succeeded, how many more innocent people remain behind bars?

From flawed evidence to investigative bias, this panel will reveal the shortcomings of our criminal justice system – and what must be done to fix them.

Parra, will introduce you to the faces of wrongful conviction through her portrait project DENIED. Travelling across Australia to meet and paint those wrongfully convicted of serious crimes, her collaborative practice acknowledges individual stories, confronting injustice in a way that cannot be ignored.

Performance :
Saturday 11 October 2025
Doors Open 6:00pm | Performance from 7:00pm – 10:00pm

Duration : 90 Minutes (includes interval)

Tickets :
$49 (+BF)
Tickets may be available on the door if not sold out

This is more than a tribute – it’s a heartfelt love letter to Streisand’s iconic career.

Experience the magic of Barbra Streisand’s legendary career with Rachael Grace, as she brings to life the timeless hits that have defined generations.

This stunning production, featuring musical direction by Green Room Award-winning John Thorn, takes audiences on a musical journey through Streisand’s iconic songs – from emotional ballads to disco classics. Rachael’s powerful voice, unique interpretation and world class band make this show more than just a tribute – it’s a heartfelt love letter to one of the greatest voices in music history.

Hailed ‘as divine as Streisand herself’ by Glam Adelaide, this unforgettable performance blends musical genres with an exceptional ensemble to create a truly spellbinding experience.

Presented by Footloose Dance Party

Friday 16 May 2025
Doors @ 7:30pm | Music from 7:30pm – 11:00pm

SET TIMES:
Juniper 7:30 – 9:00pm
Hugo Bladel 9:00pm – 11:00pm

Tickets :
Final Release $19.80 (+BF)
Tickets may be available on the door if not sold out

The SAC Bar will be operating throughout the event, providing both alcoholic and non-alcoholic refreshments

Hobart’s favourite dance party returns for 2025… it’s time to get Footloose! 👟🎉
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
Beegees
Kool & the Gang
KC &. The Sunshine Band
Patrice Rushen
Madonna
Pointer sisters
Whitney Houston

Located in the Founders Room on a Friday Night – starting right after Rektango! 🎶

Dress up in your favourite Disco threads 👚👗 there will be a prize for best dressed 🏆

See you on the Dance-floor!  💃🏼