Story Festival 2024

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.

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

6pm          Arabic Calligraphy

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

3pm          Eritrean Coffee Ceremony

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.

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