Decade of Dark Mofo stories, galleries and videos from 2013 to 2023

After the shocking announcement that Dark Mofo will not be returning in 2024, we’ve taken a walk down memory lane of festivals in years gone by – from Winter Feasts to the burning of ogoh-ogoh. Which festivals have you attended? SEE THE PICS AND VIDS.

Katie Hall

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September 22, 2023 - 4:04PM

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After the shocking announcement that Dark Mofo will not be returning in 2024 – we’ve taken a walk down memory lane of festivals in years gone by – from Winter Feasts to the burning of ogoh-ogoh.

Dark Mofo 2023

50+ photos: Dark Mofo’s Winter Feast sizzles

Dark Mofo 2023. Winter Feast. Nick Hayward and Genevieve Roles. Picture: Caroline Tan

MEGA GALLERY: 100 best readers pics from Dark Mofo

All the Dark Mofo action submitted by our readers in 2023. Picture: Facebook

2023 ogoh-ogoh burning

18/06/2023: At Dark Mofo festival in Hobart, Tasmania: a duck-billed platypus ogoh-ogoh - a totem-like sculpture derived from a Balinese Hindu purification ritual - is paraded through the streets before it met its fiery end at Dark Park. Picture: Jesse Hunniford / Darklab

Dark Mofo 2022

Bumper Dark Mofo gallery: Faces at the Feast

Angus Kretchmer, Jack Gembitsky, Felix Marsh-Wakefield and Caroline Ashley. Winter Feast 2022. Picture: Linda Higginson

Superb owl: Dark Mofo 2022 reaches fiery climax with ‘The Burning’ of Ogoh-Ogoh

The Burning of the ogoh-ogoh in 2022, Olivia the Masked Owl. Picture: Linda Higginson

Dark Mofo 2021

Bumper photo gallery: Dark Mofo 2021

Dark Mofo 2021. Pope Alice - Close Encounters. Dark Mofo 2021. Picture: Dark Mofo/Remi Chauvin

WATCH: The Burning of the Ogoh-Ogoh, 2021

Dark Mofo 2019

Dark Mofo 2019 Winter Feast

Winter Feast. Dark Mofo 2019. Picture: SUPPLIED

Dark Mofo 2019: Social pictures

Dark Mofo 2019. Felicity Williams and Chanel Parratt of Hobart. Opening night of Winter Feast at PW1. Picture: NIKKI DAVIS-JONES

Dark Mofo 2019 Ogoh-Ogoh Parade and Burning gallery

Thousands watching at the ogoh-ogoh burning at Macquarie Point. Picture: LUKE BOWDEN

WATCH: ogoh-ogoh burning ceremony to end Dark Mofo 2019

The Burning Ogoh-Ogoh, Dark Mofo 2019.

Dark Mofo 2018

Dark Mofo Winter Feast gallery

Aaron Jones of Launceston and Lizzie Malcomson of Hobart at the Dark Mofo Winter Feast, Sunday night. Picture: MATHEW FARRELL

Dark Mofo ogoh-ogoh burning finale

The Tasmanian cave spider shaped Ogoh-Ogoh is paraded through Morrison Street Picture: LUKE BOWDEN

WATCH: 2018 ogoh-ogoh burning

Dark Mofo 2017

Photos: Dark Mofo paints the town red for 2017

TMAG bathed in red to celebrate Dark Mofo Picture: LUKE BOWDEN

WATCH: Buried Country, Dark Mofo

Dark Mofo, The Burning ogoh-ogoh at Dark Park. Picture: SAM ROSEWARNE.

Dark Mofo 2016

Gallery: Dark Mofo 2016

DARK MOFO Winter Feast picture from left of Nik Wilmont with friend Linda Horn both of Melbourne

Dark Mofo festival’s fiery, frenzied finale

Dark Mofo: I Ketut Rina lights the Ogoh-Ogoh at Dark Park's "The Burning" Picture: LUKE BOWDEN

Dark Mofo 2015

Painting the town red in 2015 for Dark Mofo

(under bridge): @tomsandy92

Winter Feast Gallery2015

Dark Mofo Winter Feast Friday. Eva Quinn-Walters, Gussie Vinall-Richardson, Zev Tropp and Jess Bicknell, all of Melbourne, inside the Princes Wharf shed.