Now in its third year, Story Festival is back and now spans nine days!
Clarence City Council’s Story Festival is council’s annual week-long celebration of community, diversity, and sharing and is held in Autumn on Hobart’s sunny Eastern Shore.
We have listened carefully to feedback from participants and facilitators alike and come up with a new schedule that allows more people than ever access to these fantastic sessions. This year; make gnocchi with an Italian master matriarch; learn to make a traditional Filipino Drum called the Gandang, participate in an Eritrean Coffee Ceremony, or learn how to make delicious Syrian Baklava!
Our hope for the festival is that people share insights and conversations – opening a window into someone’s world, their art, their cuisine, their cultural practice. We want people to have an opportunity to learn something new and unusual about another culture and have fun doing it.
The 2024 Story Festival runs from 18 – 26 May and is jam packed with workshops, performances, and countless opportunities to share in meaningful cultural experiences.
That’s two weekends, with workshops during the daytimes, and during the week, workshops will be held in the evening.
The Story Festival Market Day is back at Rosny Farm with lots of free musical performances, food, dance – and even drop-in workshop “Bush Bling” by Takira Simon-Brown!
The Story Festival is fully funded by Clarence City Council.
Click on the links below to see more details about each workshop!
Saturday 18 May
10am Weaving Stories
11am How to Make Arepa (Savoury Colombian Pancake)
1.30pm Khanom Chan (Thai Layered Sweets)
3pm Ukrainian Floral Watercolour: Connect with Nature
4.30pm Iraqi Cuisine: Green Rice, Jajeek and Kofta
6pm Recycled Kimono Accessories
Sunday 19 May
10am Samkychivka (Ukrainian Folk Art)
10.30am Fatayeh (Palestinian Savoury Pastry)
1pm Sculpting Stories: Responding to Place through Clay
3pm Injera (Ethiopian Flat Bread)
3.30pm Japanese Calligraphy
Monday evening – May 20
5.30pm Traditional Chinese Dumplings
6.00pm Siapo (Samoan Barkcloth Painting)
Wednesday evening May 22
6.30pm Classic Italian Gnocchi (Potato-based pasta dumpling)
Thursday evening May 23
6pm Iraqi Cuisine: Green Rice, Jajeek and Kofta
6.30pm Recycled Kimono Accessories
Friday May 24
Story Through Song – a Cultural Cabaret at Rosny Barn
Saturday May 25
10am Yoga for Dance
10.30am Nerikiri (Japanese Confectionery)
12.30pm Bolani (Afghani Savoury Pastry)
12.30pm The Gandang (Traditional Filipino Drum) Making Workshop
4.30pm Syrian Baklava (Sweet Pastry)
5.30pm Creative Watercolour
Sunday May 26
Market Day! 10am to 4pm at Rosny farm Arts Centre – with sensory hour from 10-11. More details in the link.
