Story Dome

Workshops: Spinnarium & Storytelling for children

Roaming Trees are Linda and Tamas. Their roots are in Europe, Hungary but eight years ago they roamed to Tasmania, and they are still roaming…Classical storytelling is an intimate situation for every kid. Children gather and sit in a semicircle then the sound of the flute creates that mental space where the “sleeping” folktales come to life and float into our minds and heart. Tamas uses stories from his own Hungarian tradition, but also from other cultures from all over the world in the most respectful and sensitive way.

Young Dawkins is an internationally published poet, former Scottish National Slam Poetry Champion and two-time winner of the Huon Valley Mid-Winter Festival Storytelling Cup. His debut poetry collection, The Lilac Thief, was published in 2009 and his second collection Slow Walk Home was published in 2021.

My name is Dallas Brett Burgess. I’m a spoken word poet and lyricist within many forms of music. I’m very passionate in what I do and I do it to the best of my ability. I’m a palawa boy and I am on my journey through my lineage and history.

Martin Penicka and William Newbery are members of the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra string section, playing cello and viola respectively. Dinah Woods is the Cor Anglais player of the TSO and Jules Evans is a regular guest french horn player with the orchestra. The invitation to participate in Nayri Niara is an exciting opportunity for these musicians to explore music making and meet fellow artists outside of the concert hall as well as offering a little music from their own practices. These musicians’ participation in Nayri Niara is supported by the TSO.

Feature Film : Wash My Soul in the River’s Flow is a cinematic reinvention of a legendary concert that premiered in 2004.

Kura Tungar-Songs from the River was a collaboration between two of Australia’s greatest artists—singer-songwriters Archie Roach and Ruby Hunter. Using footage combining conversations, rehearsals, and the opening night, with breathtaking images of Hunter’s Ngarrindjeri country in South Australia, the film is a portrait of artists at the peak of their powers and a profoundly moving story of loss, love and what it means to truly come ‘home’.

Youtube - Wash My Soul in River's Flow

Documentary : Looky Looky Here Comes Cooky is a one-hour documentary for NITV from Tamarind Tree Pictures and Roar Film that presents a First Nations' challenge to the Cook legend. Working with an outstanding group of Indigenous songwriters and performers, Looky Looky Here Comes Cooky creates a new songline for the 21st century that talks of spirituality, connection to country, resistance and survival.

Presenter, co-writer and slam poet Steven Oliver takes the audience on an incredible and scenic journey across Australia from the cliffs of Kurnell to the Torres Strait

Workshop: Heart of the Feminine with storytelling

Freya is a love alchemist, medicine woman and dream weaver who brings practices together that guide us back to love and truth. She supports people in deep healing and transformation using movement, meditation, breathwork, reiki and storytelling.

Workshop: Silver Words Poetry

Silver Words is a monthly spoken word open-mic event, where the stage is given to perform anything that you can speak, rap, yell, whisper or declaim, as long as it’s spoken. Pradyumna Kiran, poet, host and regular Silver Words contributor, will be joining the Story Dome team to bring us a Silverwords open mic, on Country. Providing an inclusive, supportive and safe space for attendees to share their own poetry and spoken word.

Helene Thomas, of the Wayfinder Mobile Storytelling studio, is a Tasmanian born, Hobart based award-winning creative audio producer. With a vision to create a more inclusive, kind and compassionate world through courageous and intimate audio storytelling, Helene collects and produces powerful and emotive stories. Join us in the Story Dome where beanbags and headsets await, and where the invitation is to relax into this auditory art-form.