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Welcome back the reigning champions for their first home match since lifting the WBBL|11 trophy!
Hobart Hurricanes vs Melbourne Renegades
4th November
Ninja Stadium, 7:10pm
Be part of the celebration as the defending champions take to the field for the first time at home this season. With plenty of excitement, anticipation, and a new title defence underway, this is a match you won't want to miss.
Under lights in a prime-time fixture, expect big hits, world-class cricket, and some of the best players in the game showcasing their talent.
Gather your family and friends, fill the stands, and make some noise as we welcome the Hurricanes home for the opening home match of the WBBL|12 season.
Get on Board. Tickets only $15, and kids go free!
Eats, drinks, design, music! Tasmania is renowned for its quality produce, and that's what you'll find at this market; a diverse range of food and locally crafted small batch drinks alongside a myriad of design stalls.
Add in live music from local talent and the scene is set for a wonderful Friday night! Engage with passionate stallholders, who'll share their story with you. The market is dog and family-friendly.
The market operates on selected Fridays between October and March.
Please refer to the website for the full market schedule.
Christine (Kit) Hiller's practice is grounded in a deep connection to place, shaped by her life in Northwest Lutruwita/Tasmania and inspired by its landscapes, nature and communities, as well as experiences gathered through travels abroad.
Born in Nipaluna/Hobart in 1948 and trained at the Tasmanian School of Art, in Coming Home Hiller returns to the city where her artistic journey began. The exhibition brings together works from across Hiller's career, including her renowned depictions of Tasmania's flora and fauna, landscapes and a profound ongoing series of self-portraits – a motif she has consistently returned to over a period of 50 years.
Over a prolific career spanning four decades and over 100 public exhibitions, Hiller has worked across a diverse range of media, including watercolours and oils, printmaking, and dioramas. Her portraits have been shown in the Archibald Prize exhibition on five occasions, and she has won the Portia Geach Memorial Award for Women Portrait Painters three times. Hiller's work is represented in major public and private collections throughout Australia. She is represented by Handmark Gallery, Hobart, and Australian Galleries, Melbourne and Sydney.
Van Diemen Pet Expo is Tasmania's dedicated pet and community market, bringing together pet lovers, local businesses, independent makers, food vendors and animal welfare organisations in a welcoming outdoor setting at Long Beach Reserve, Sandy Bay.
The event celebrates Tasmania's vibrant pet community and local small businesses, offering visitors the chance to discover unique pet products, meet passionate local makers, explore pet services and enjoy great food in a relaxed, dog-friendly environment.
More than a market, Van Diemen Pet Expo creates opportunities for pet owners to connect, discover useful resources and engage with organisations working to improve animal welfare. Each market features a changing mix of stallholders and seasonal themes, creating a fresh experience for returning visitors.
Proudly focused on local enterprise and community connection, Van Diemen Pet Expo is where Tasmania's pet community comes together to shop local, meet like-minded people and celebrate the special place pets hold in everyday life.
31st Richard Jones Memorial Lecture
What helps places flourish in a changing climate?
As the climate changes, cities and communities are grappling with interconnected social, environmental and economic challenges. Local knowledge and collective action have an important role to play, but how do we organise at the scale needed to create lasting change?
Join Kaj Lofgren, CEO of Regen Melbourne, for the 31st Richard Jones Memorial Lecture, to consider how people and organisations can work together to raise their ambition for the places they call home. Drawing on his work across Greater Melbourne, Kaj will explore how shared ambitions can bring communities, researchers, businesses and government together, and how local efforts can connect to create change at a wider scale.
Explore the relationship between place, leadership and transformation, and discover what becomes possible when communities help plant the seeds of change.
This year's Sir James Plimsoll Lecture will be presented by Julie-Ann Guivarra, Australia's first Indigenous woman to serve as an ambassador and now Chief Executive Officer of the National Indigenous Australians Agency. Drawing on her extensive diplomatic and leadership experience, Julie-Ann will reflect on Australia's changing place in the world and the importance of trust, cultural understanding and diverse perspectives in strengthening our international relationships.
The Sir James Plimsoll Lecture is a prestigious annual event jointly presented by the University of Tasmania, the Australian Institute of International Affairs, and the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Named in honour of Sir James Plimsoll, a distinguished diplomat in Australia's history, the lecture series was established in 2005 to feature influential figures in the field of international relations, both from Australia and beyond.
In Lutruwita/Tasmania's South-West, the landscape can change in minutes. Mountain ranges disappear into cloud, tannin-stained creeks surge, and familiar contours shift as fronts roll in from the Southern Ocean.
It is within these constantly changing conditions that Clifford How developed the work for his upcoming exhibition, 'Southwest Solitude'. From Port Davey to Bathurst Harbour, this new body of work draws us into one of the most remote places in the world — a place few of us will ever experience for ourselves.
Clifford How has practised as an artist for over eighteen years, exhibiting extensively across Tasmania and in Sydney. He is the recipient of the Hornsby Art Prize (2018), Wrest Point Art Award (2017) and TASART Award (2016), and has been a finalist in The King's School Art Prize (2024), Calleen Art Prize (2017), Glover Art Prize (2017, 2016) and Paddington Art Prize (2016).
In 2018, How's practice was featured in Amber Creswell Bell's A Painted Landscape: Across Australia from Bush to Coast, alongside other notable Australian landscape painters.
Come join them on the second Friday of each month for an evening to unwind after the long weeks with an Apothecary G&T, a glass of Single Malt Whisky, great company with live music by local musician Fred Pribac and food van.
Family friendly, and you are welcome to bring a picnic to enjoy.
Get on board, together.
One of the favourite fixtures on the WBBL calendar is back, with the Hurricanes' annual Pride Round set to light up Ninja Stadium on a perfect Saturday afternoon as they take on the Brisbane Heat.
As the only Pride Round in the competition, this is a special opportunity to celebrate inclusivity, support the LGBTQIA+ community, and stand alongside players as the Hurricanes proudly put Pride front and centre.
Dress in your favourite rainbow colours, bring a picnic blanket, and settle in for a fantastic family day at the cricket. Enjoy world-class entertainment, big moments, and some of the best players in the world as they take the field in a fixture that celebrates diversity, belonging, and community.
Whether you're a lifelong Hurricanes fan or attending your first match, Pride Round is all about coming together and showing that everyone has a place in our game.
Tickets only $15, and kids go free!
Join in at Ninja Stadium as the Hurricanes take on the Sydney Thunder in our final home match of the regular season.
With tickets just $15, there's no better time to gather your friends and family, settle in on the hill, and get behind the Hurricanes.
Bring a picnic blanket, soak up the sunshine, and enjoy all the excitement of world-class T20 cricket, featuring some of the best players in the game.
Grab your tickets, fill the hill, and help us make Ninja Stadium a sea of purple for this huge Saturday afternoon clash.
Tickets only $15, and kids go free!
Block out your diary because Moo Brew is back on the Mona lawns for an afternoon of revelry—with Melbourne rockers favourites Dallas Crane headlining.
Known for their raucous, guitar-driven live shows, the band are joined on the bill by Glass Media, Rā Bellatrix and Pisco Sour.
Back where they first started brewing over 20 years ago, they'll be serving up Moo Brew's core beers, some experimental brews, plus the return of Single Hop in its iconic 440ml can and the much-loved hefeweizen.
There'll also be flame-cooked food from Heavy Metal Kitchen, and a stout and oyster bar.
Entry is free. So bring your mates, your picnic rug and your appetite for a day of live music, cold beer, good food and great company.
Part exhibition, part design pop-up, LOCALE features the work of some of Tasmanian best designers and makers working across jewellery, ceramics, glass, textiles, furniture and printmaking to produce a diverse range of sculptural and functional objects for the home and to wear.
Exhibitors will be asked to consider how a particular space, place, or landscape serves as the direction and motivation for their practice.
The work on show will consist of both one-off and production pieces and will include jewellery, ceramics, textiles, glass, printmaking, furniture and timber objects, and will include a series of maker demonstrations and artist talks.
There is a collective approach to sustainable practices and the retention of traditional manufacturing in the production of works that are both skilful and innovative.
Meet the artists and learn more about the work on display each day.
