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 music, food, song  – and even a few workshops specifically for young people.

The Story Festival is fully funded by Clarence City Council.