🔥Hobart Hoedown, Hadley's Art Prize Winner

Events For The Weekend

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David Rowe
August 29, 2025

Good Morning Hobart,

The forecast is looking cold and wet for the weekend.

In today’s newsletter:

  • Hobart Hoedown

  • Property Of The Week

  • Tasmania An Under-Rated Surf Destination?

  • Hadley’s Art Prize Winner Announced

  • Statewide School Breakfast Program

  • Events For The Weekend

Hobart Hoedown This Weekend

When: Saturday 30 August & Sunday 31 August 2025
Where: Hobart City Hall – 57–63 Macquarie Street, Hobart

Dust off your boots and join the fun at the Hobart Hoedown – a two-day festival of line dancing, live country music, and community spirit!

🎶 Special Guests

  • Laura Rittenhouse (Boots and All Line Dancing) leading workshops and dancing

  • Max Jackson, Golden Guitar–winning country star, live in concert

🐾 Dance for a Cause
$15 from every Saturday and two-day ticket goes to Dogs’ Homes of Tasmania & Bonorong Wildlife Sanctuary, with options for extra donations.

📅 Program Highlights

  • Saturday 30 Aug: 2:00pm line dance workshop, evening session with live band Country Licks (7:00–10:15pm).

  • Sunday 31 Aug: 2:00pm workshop, followed by live music and dancing, featuring Max Jackson.

🎟️ Tickets $15 per day – selling fast, no door sales.

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Property Of The Week

50 Flinders Esplanade, Taroona, a rare architectural masterpiece by Brian Wyatt, this waterfront home is a striking statement in contemporary design.

Featuring soaring concrete walls, vast glass panels, and breathtaking 180-degree River Derwent views, it blends artistry with executive living.

Highlights include an award-winning entertainer’s kitchen, dramatic gallery and dining wing, multiple terraces, and a sunlit mezzanine suite.

Just 100 metres from pristine beaches, this aspirational residence offers timeless luxury, comfort, and connection to Taroona’s natural beauty.

Tasmania An Under-Rated Surf Destination?

Tasmania is fast earning a reputation as Australia’s premier surfing destination, with ideal swells, offshore winds, short travel distances between breaks, and surprisingly mild water temperatures.

Bureau of Meteorology meteorologist Luke Johnston says world-class spots like Shipstern Bluff, Marrawah, and King Island attract elite surfers, while beaches such as Clifton and Scamander cater to all levels.

Seasonal offshore winds, diverse swell sources, and water temperatures averaging 16–20°C combine to make Tasmania a year-round surfing haven.

Hadley’s Art Prize Winner Announced

New South Wales artist Sophie Cape has won the 2025 Hadley’s Art Prize and its $100,000 award for Thunder shifts the shivering sands, a flood-inspired work created with soil, rust and debris from Southern NSW.

Judges praised the piece as a powerful, site-responsive portrayal of environmental upheaval. Cape, a former athlete turned artist, was a first-time finalist.

Honourable Mentions went to Tasmanian artists Sara Maher, Valerie Sparks and Philip Wolfhagen, with Denise Lamby winning the $10,000 Residency Prize.

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Statewide School Breakfast Program

Tasmanian students will soon benefit from a $6.5 million universal School Breakfast Program, ensuring no child starts the day hungry.

Partnering with Variety Tasmania, the initiative will roll out to all government schools over the next three years, reaching around 50,000 students.

Education Minister Jo Palmer said good nutrition boosts learning, while Variety CEO Mohammad Aldergham noted hungry students can lose up to two hours of learning each morning.

Phase one begins in early 2026.

Events For The Weekend

Friday 29th

Location: 158 Murray Street, Hobart
Description: You’ll get to explore their full range of whiskies, gins & liqueurs — a perfect chance to sip, discover, and maybe even find a new favourite to take home.

🎇 Risdon Vale Fair | 4:30PM

Location: Risdon Vale Sports Grounds
Description: Get ready for an evening of community connection! Our annual community fair is happening Friday 29th August 2025. A night full of entertainment, food trucks, stalls, rides and much more. Bring your family & friends along for a good time!!

Saturday 30th

🧑‍🎨 Artist Talks - Hadleys Art Prize | 10:30AM

Location: 34 Murray St, Hobart
Description: Hear some of this year’s Hadley's Art Prize finalists talk about their artwork in the galleries.

👩 Women’s Circle Hobart | 10:30AM

Location: 13b Goulburn St, Hobart
Description: Each circle will include time to explore a relevant theme, share from the heart, and drop into your body with guided embodiment or meditation practices. New to women’s circles? You are so welcome - come exactly as you are!

💃 Bandaluzia Flamenco | 5:00PM & 8:00PM

Location: Theatre Royal Hobart
Description: A performance replete with a unique range of creative influences, from the great canon of the flamenco tradition to inspiration from Debussy, Miles Davis, Radiohead and Contemporary dance. Bandaluzia subtly intertwines this inspiration into the flamenco language and story.

🤣 Kings Of Comedy - Hobart | 7:00PM (Very Limited Tickets)

Location: 20 New Town Road, Newtown
Description: Join a solid night of live entertainment with one of Australia’s best underground comedy clubs. Showcasing some of Australia’s best new talent, supported by celebrity headline acts.

Sunday 31st

Location: State Cinema Cafe 
Description: Join us for our discussion of Jeff VanderMeer's "Annihilation", our pick for the sci-fi horror sub-genre! Inclusive for All: Whether you’re new to reading horror or a seasoned reader, everyone is welcome.

🎷 Hot August Jazz | 12:00PM

Location: Elizabeth St, North Hobart
Description: Twelve hours of jazz in eleven venues in North Hobart featuring Tasmanian talent... and it's FREE. Walk from venue to venue and enjoy jazz genres from traditional and mainstream through to funk and modern. With 12 venues there is something for every lover of jazz to enjoy.

Location: 131 Collins Street, Hobart
Description: Incandescence is a 12-years-in-the-making poetry collection about people and all their wonderful, messy, painful and joyous complexities. The poems illuminate parenting, relationships, poverty, illness and ways we cope, like yoga, writing, nature connection.

Location: 101 Harrington Street, Hobart
Description: Hank and Slim hear half remembered hillbilly hits echoing through the ghost towns of rural Tasmania. Dad and uncles worked too hard, drank too much, shot rabbits and drove trucks. The bar room jukebox and Holden cassette tapes played hymns of heartbreak and loss beneath the rainy mountains.

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