Save your dosh for drinks with these freebie Dark Mofo events

WHILE many of the big ticket items are sold out, there’s still plenty of cool stuff to partake in at Dark Mofo – and some of it’s free. Here’s our guide to the top 10 FREE events at this year’s midwinter festival.

WHILE many of the big ticket items are sold out, there’s still plenty of cool stuff to partake in at Dark Mofo – and some of it’s free. Here’s our guide to the top 10 FREE events at this year’s midwinter festival.

DARK MOFO PROGRAM: WHAT’S ON WHEN

A ROUND-UP OF DARK PARK at Macquarie Point

1. This is Ground Zero of Dark Mofo. Expect a sensory overload of sacrificial burnings, winter fires, laser sculptures and a puppet show with a twist.

Come here for:

*Terrapin Puppet Theatre’s production of The Spider and the Fly. Showing on 15–17 and 21–23 at 5–10pm.

*Musical Universalis, a series of illuminated orbs channeling the patterns of faraway celestial bodies in our solar system. 15–17 and 21–24 at 5–10pm.

*Ogah-Ogah: The Purging. Make your offering here. 15–17 and 21–23 at 5-10pm. See below for the Burning.

*Leviathan. A walk-through geometrical sculpture with lasers and light. 15–17 and 21–24 at 5–10pm.

The Burning Ogah-Ogah at Dark Park. Picture: SAM ROSEWARNE

WHAT YOU’LL FIND IN THE CITY

2. Winter Feast. Arguably the culinary highlight of the year for Hobart. Princes Wharf 1, 15–17 and 21–24 (free after 8pm nightly, and all night on June 24).

Dark Park at Macquarie Point in Hobart has been the hub of Dark Mofo, directed by Leigh Carmichael, for the past two years. Picture: MONA

3. Mike Parr: Underneath the Bitumen the Artist. A man, a box and a busy road. Macquarie St, 14-17.

4. A Journey to Freedom. A comment on detention centres and prisons by a bevy of European and Australian contemporary artists. Top pick: The VR experience. TMAG, 8–17 and 19–24. Other free exhibitions include The Pink Palace (old Goodyear warehouse on Bathurst St), Dark (Other) Times (Plimsoll Gallery), Keith Deverell and Fiona Hamilton’s Island Shrine (Maritime Museum of Tasmania) and Troy Emery’s Wildlife (Rosny Barn)

Artist Rachel Labastie (France), Dr Mary Knights, co-curator and senior curator of Art at TMAG, Barbara Polla, guest curator, and Sam Wallman (Australia) at the opening of A Journey to Freedom. Picture: RICHARD JUPE

5. Lou Reed: Drones. Lou Reed loves unite as the legendary musician’s work is given the Mofo spin. Domain House, 8–10 at 2–8pm and 13-24, time varies from 2–8pm and 2–10pm. Check online for details.

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6. Terror Nullius by Soda_Jerk. A film that rips apart and reassembles Australian cinema and national mythologies into something new. Cinema One, Murray St, Hobart. 16–24. Screenings at 1pm, 2.30pm, 4pm and 5pm.

7. Invisible House. A multimedia installation with photographers, artists, painters and the like. Salamanca Arts Centre. 14-25 (mostly free).

Brendan Walls, curator of Dark Mofo project Invisible House Picture: LUKE BOWDEN

8. Ogah-Ogah the Burning Parade. Say no more. Hobart waterfront, leaves from Parliament Lawns at Sunday, June 24 at 5pm.

9. Panopticon II. Make of it what you will. UTAS School of Creative Arts, Hunter St. 15–17 and 21–24. 5-10pm.

STUFF A LITTLE FURTHER OUT, venture out for these delights

10. Nude Solstice Swim. A midwinter, pre-dawn swim. Not for the faint-hearted. Long Beach, Sandy Bay, Friday, June 22. 7.42am.