The Tasmanian arts festival gets much of its funding from a single person in professional gambler and MONA owner David Walsh. A freewheeling program results.
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There’s not that many arts festivals where the mainstream likes of Paul Kelly and Queens Of The Stone Age share a bill with queer retellings of Filipino folktales, or French-Korean children playing Latin-American music.
But then Mona Foma, which runs until early March in Hobart and Launceston, exists essentially on the public-spirited whim of one man.
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