Overjoyed for the upcoming serenades into Spring:
October 11th: Simple Cider – National Live Music Awards
October 13th: Fern Tree Tavern
October 19th-21st: The Unconformity Queenstown
October 29th: Brewlab Cafe
The Unconformity
The Tasmanian West Coast community inhabits a big, contradictory landscape. Imposing mountain ranges are plumbed for riches; biblical rains feed hydro-electric generators that power Tasmania. Mines abut world heritage areas; in Queenstown, kids chase footballs down our dead, sulphur-stained river. Grass football fields? We do gravel. Boom and bust, acceptance and rejection, risk and conservatism, hope and despair lie in the bones of our landscape and our history.
The Unconformity has emerged from this uncompromising environment as a cultural organisation that is fundamentally of its place.
Our unique proposition is to be a cultural conduit into western Tasmania—a place hard to get to and harder to engage—by mining a new cultural commodity with the spirit of independence, boldness, risk and adventure that is melded to our region’s DNA.
The Unconformity acknowledges the palawa Aboriginal people as the original and traditional custodians of lutruwita / Tasmania. They are committed to working respectfully to honour their ongoing cultural and spiritual connections to this land.
Earthshine and Museum of the Moon
Museum of the Moon is a touring artwork by UK artist Luke Jerram.
Measuring seven metres in diameter, the moon features 120dpi detailed NASA imagery of the lunar surface. At an approximate scale of 1:500,000, each centimetre of the internally lit spherical sculpture represents 5km of the moon’s surface*.
Over its lifetime, the Museum of the Moon will be presented in a number of different ways both indoors and outdoors, so altering the experience and interpretation of the artwork. As it travels from place to place, it gathers new musical compositions and an ongoing collection of personal responses, stories and mythologies, as well as highlighting the latest moon science.
The installation is a fusion of lunar imagery, moonlight and surround sound composition created by BAFTA and Ivor Novello award winning composer Dan Jones. Each venue also programmes their own series lunar inspired events beneath the moon.