PAST EVENTS
Story Picnic
Tasmania Reads Week
23 March 2025
A story picnic during Tasmania Reads week. Dressed as their favourite book characters, little adventurers enjoyed a picnic filled with magic, laughter, bubbles, and stories where author Lucy Christopher shared her latest picture book. Fullers Bookshop donated a gift voucher prize for the best dressed – which went to someone dressed as Paddington Bear, complete with marmalade sandwich under hat!
photos: Jessica King
Writing the Wild with Lucy Christopher
23 March 2025
Award-winning author Lucy Christopher led a creative writing workshop focusing on the ways in which writing the wild and using setting can be important and inspiring for fiction. In a fun and interactive session of writing exercises and exploration, Lucy guided participants through the methods she uses to research and develop her novels. Through walking, writing and exploring the natural places around Art Farm, Lucy urged participants to find their own wild places and use them as starting points for fiction.
photos: Jessica King
Emma Pinsent Open Studio
14 December 2024
Over three weeks, our artist-in-residence Emma Pinsent selected three different sites within the wet sclerophyll forest on the Art Farm Birchs Bay property to learn about and respond to four different eucalyptus trees. This open studio invited people to come and meet Emma to learn more about her practice and see what worked on at the Art Farm.
photos: Amy Brown
A Published Event Open Studio
21 November 2024
A Published Event celebrated their time at Art Farm Birchs Bay by sharing past work on display alongside their most recent projects. During the residency, they used the pepper berries and leaves from our farm, shared their blankets, and engaged in a range of conversations.
Supported by Arts Tasmania
Photos: Cassie Sullivan
Bonfire Night with Ben Salter
August 20th 2022
We joined one of Australia’s most prolific and highly regarded performers for a night of eclectic, esoteric melodies. Salter’s original compositions draw on elements of indie rock, folk, jazz, electronica, country and beyond. His previous collaborators include Marlon Williams, Vika & Linda Bull, Gareth Liddiard (The Drones/TFS), Emily Wurramara, Mike Watt (The Minutemen, Porno For Pyros, The Stooges), Bernard Fanning (Powderfinger) and more.
Art Farm Birchs Bay enjoyed a warm night of exquisite song at our one-of-a-kind venue.
Soda Lite Album Launch for 'Aqua Solar Cura' on Not Not Fun Records.
February 13th 2022
Featuring Moran Weisel (harp) and Silverwood flute trio.
Food by Jamie Yates
Documentation by Joseph Shrimpton at Flare Productions.
Supported by Regional Arts Network Tasmania
lutruwita in deep time: a journey through art, science, and song
August 21st 2021
National Science Week
Combining science with story-telling, music and the visual arts to journey through lutruwita’s geological history. Dr Penelope Jones (palaeo-ecologist) narrated this journey through our geological and ecological history, accompanied by evocative and interwoven music from Emily Sheppard, Yyan Ng and Georgia Shine. Along the way, Dr Amy Jackett, artist and curator, created original art inspired by the story. Watch full video here.