Dark Mofo 2019: Heart of the festival is red-dy to beat
UPDATED: Dark Mofo creative director Leigh Carmichael says the team behind the festival is “incredibly honoured” to have picked up a prestigious award. SEE TODAY’S HIGHLIGHTS
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UPDATED: Dark Mofo has been awarded Best Special event at the Helpmann Awards 2019.
The award recognises outstanding live performance productions or presentations that a unique or exceptional character.
“Established in 2013, Dark Mofo has quickly developed iconic status and is a popular and challenging multi-arts festival like no other in Australia,” the Helpmann Awards dedication said.
The awards celebrate Australia’s live performance industry, recognising achievement and excellence in the country’s live performance industry.
Dark Mofo creative director Leigh Carmichael thanked the awards and its supporters for “this heartening acknowledgment while we’re diving headlong into the depths of Dark Mofo this month.”
“We are incredibly honoured to be recognised as the nation’s Best Special Event in the Helpmann Awards 2019,” Mr Carmichael said.
“We endeavour to present a complex and unpredictable festival, and each year Dark Mofo demands a lot of hard work, dedication, and stamina from our team.”
EARLIER: The city’s nights have been dressed in red for a week already, but only now is it time for the full fun of Dark Mofo to fill the streets with feast, fiesta and fire.
The heart of the festival, the Dark Mofo and City of Hobart Winter Feast, is setting up its banquet in time for Friday’s supper at Princes Wharf 1, which will run through the weekend from 4pm and from next Wednesday until June 23. Tickets are $20 but free after 8pm and on the final night.
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Enveloping the outskirts of Hobart from the Regatta Grounds to Queen’s Domain and the Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens will from tomorrow be a path that explores a series of artworks by various artists.
Dark Path is a 4km art-walk that begins from the Regatta Grounds and carries on across the Bridge of Remembrance.
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The final stage at the Royal Botanical Gardens will host food vans, pop-up cafes and bars as well as light shows and laser/mist light works by artist Tony Oursler.
Also opening from Friday is Night Mass on the corner of Liverpool St and Murray St, and the Ogoh-ogoh purging ritual in The Goods Shed at Macquarie Point.
Carriage Drive, Lower Domain Rd (between Tasman Highway and the Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens) and Upper Domain Rd (between Lower Domain Rd and the Domain Crossroads Oval) will be closed from Friday until Sunday and from Wednesday until June 23 between 4-11pm to make way for Dark Path. Evans St and Hunter St will be closed from Friday until Sunday and from next Wednesday until June 23 from 4pm until about midnight.
And as the masses fill the streets for the party of Night Mass, Watchorn St between Liverpool and Bathurst streets will be closed from 5pm on Friday until 6am on Sunday, and the same the following week.
Tourists to visit by the boatload
TWO thousand visitors will arrive on the shores of Dark Mofo next week on board the Pacific Explorer, a cruise specifically designed for mainlanders to visit the festival.
Injecting $750,000 into Tasmania’s economy, the P&O Cruise is set to become an annual treat for interstate tourists to visit the city and experience its biggest winter festival.
The first cruise of its kind was in 2017, although it was not on offer last year.
Passengers, who have paid from $599, will receive a priority pass to the Winter Feast as well as a Mona ticket and return ferry ticket to the museum.
The passengers will be stepping on and off the ship via MAC4 and there will be a sheltered entrance to and from Macquarie Point.
The cruise includes two days and two nights in Hobart, and will be arriving next Thursday.
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