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Arts
Our selected listing of major events has something for
everyone, whatever time of year you plan to visit. Check
out our events calendar for the comprehensive listing
of our statewide events. http://events.dtpha.tas.gov.au/Events/Controller/index.asp
In
summer, spend an afternoon with Shakespeare in Hobart’s
Botanical Gardens, or take in a symphony under the stars
in Launceston’s Royal Park or Hobart’s Tolosa Park.
Skirt
around nimble jugglers working Launceston’s Festivale;
hear the harps, banjos and tribal drums of Salamanca’s
buskers; take your seat at the Theatre Royal, Australia’s
oldest working theatre; or catch a performance by one
of the world’s finest small symphony orchestras, in
the TSO’s Federation Concert Hall.
Click
here at http://www.livetasmania.com/index.php
for information about a range of Tasmania’s fine performing
arts companies and details of forthcoming performances.
Galleries
& Museums
You
can sense it in the 10,000 year old stone carvings at
Tiagarra, Devonport; view it on the outdoor walls of
Sheffield’s murals; touch it in a Huon Valley wood turner’s
studio; hear it in Australia’s largest collection of
steam-driven relics at Pearn’s Steam World, Westbury
and experience every aspect of our culture and heritage
in the fine exhibitions at Launceston’s Queen Victoria
Museum - http://www.qvmag.tas.gov.au/
and Art Gallery or the Tasmanian Museum - http://www.tmag.tas.gov.au/
and Art Gallery in Hobart.
Admission
to most public galleries and museums is free. Local
operators can advise on entry conditions and displays
of special interest. Visit http://www.discovertasmania.com/home/index.cfm?SiteID=481&subsiteid=654
and discover some of Tasmania’s contemporary artists,
sculptors, painters and ceramacists.
Sport
Cricket
- Tasmania's state cricket team, the Tasmanian Tigers,
is one of our sporting icons and a source of pride for
all Tasmanians. Bellerive Oval, on the eastern shores
of the Derwent River overlooking Hobart's CBD, is the
Tasmanian Tigers home ground. Boasting magnificent corporate,
member and public viewing areas and state-of-the-art
media facilities the oval underwent extensive re-development
in 2002. The ground has capacity for 16,200 fans and
is regularly used for international test and one-day
games during the summer season.
Australian
Rules Football - Each year, the magnificent Aurora
Stadium at Launceston's York Park is the venue for a
number of big, regular-season AFL games featuring Hawthorn.
Yachting
- Rolex Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race - The Rolex
Sydney Hobart is a 628nm yacht race which begins in
Sydney Harbour and finishes in Hobart. Each December
on Boxing Day you can see the world's greatest yachts
charging through Sydney Heads as they take part in the
Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race. Days later, in Hobart,
the excitement builds as news of who will be the first
boat to arrive comes through to Constitution Dock in
Hobart.
Acknowledgements:
The Tasmanian Tourism Commission releases materials
solely for the purpose of positive promotion of Tasmania
as a tourism and travel destination. We are greatful
to the Tasmanian Tourism Commission to be able to offer
you this information in assistance to your planning
of your next Tasmania holidaying vacation.
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