Hobart

Hobart Arts

Hobart’s creative life stretches from Salamanca Place studios and performance venues to community halls, rehearsal rooms, ceramics workshops and purpose-built arts centres across the city and eastern shore. You can sing in a four-part choir, explore life drawing, join an adult dance class, make work in clay, develop a performance idea or see visual theatre take shape.

There are also welcoming ways to support local practice: attend contemporary-art talks, hear a professional orchestra, join a community choir, take part in a workshop or connect with organisations that mentor artists and writers. The following selection brings together creative places, practitioners, companies and groups across greater Hobart.

🎶 Music & Singing

Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra

Tasmania’s professional orchestra presents concert series in Hobart and pairs performance with education and engagement. Its schools program includes concerts, classroom workshops, open rehearsals, teacher professional learning and curriculum resources. Musicians can also look to its training and mentoring opportunities, making the organisation relevant to both audiences and developing performers.

Hobart service area.

Tasmanian Song Company

This Hobart-based community choir sings four-part harmony and welcomes new singers. Rehearsals take place at Lenah Valley Community Hall, offering a regular setting for people who enjoy learning and performing ensemble music with others.

Lenah Valley.

Hobart Orpheus Choir

The community SATB choir works across sacred and classical repertoire, opera, operetta, jazz, traditional songs and contemporary music. New members and guest singers of any age are welcome, so the choir can suit people keen to contribute voices to a broad concert repertoire.

Salvation Army Citadel, 180 Elizabeth Street, Hobart TAS.

Choir of High Hopes Hobart

This community choir is for people experiencing disadvantage in its many forms. Guests and new members are welcome at Tuesday-afternoon rehearsals, where singing becomes a shared creative activity shaped around participation and connection.

Scot’s Memorial Church Hall, 29 Bathurst Street, Hobart TAS.

🩰 Dance

Hobart Dance Academy

Classes and performance groups cover classical ballet, jazz, tap, lyrical, hip-hop, acrobatics, singing and drama. Junior, intermediate and senior options are available for students aged five and over, while studio hire supports other creative work. It is a substantial dance-and-performance setting in North Hobart rather than a single-style studio.

3 Federal Street, North Hobart TAS 7000. ☎ 0418 343 776.

Mature Artists Dance Experience

Mature Artists Dance Experience offers open classes for adults aged 18 and over across greater Hobart. The timetable includes introductory dance, classical barre, contemporary dance and movement sessions, with some intermediate classes able to accommodate beginners where stated.

Greater Hobart.

Sherry Lendrum’s Dance Studio

Ballroom teaching covers modern, Latin and New Vogue styles for all age groups. The studio offers individual and group lessons, beginner classes and practice dances, creating room to learn partnered movement at different levels and to keep developing between lessons.

23 Lambert Avenue, Sandy Bay, Hobart TAS. ☎ 0427 606 856 or 6225 5095.

🎭 Theatre & Performance

Hobart Repertory Theatre Society and The Playhouse Theatre

This community theatre society presents dramas, comedies, mysteries, family productions, musicals, a one-act-play festival and a children’s pantomime. It also owns and hires the Playhouse Theatre for professional and community productions, bringing performance-making and venue use together.

Hobart. ☎ Box office and appointments: 03 6234 1536.

Big Monkey

Big Monkey creates professional theatre for family audiences, including original productions and adaptations. Its stated work also includes sensory-friendly performances, stage-management training and support for emerging artists, linking audience experience with practical theatre development.

Hobart.

Parker Productions

This Hobart community theatre company produces musical theatre and live performance, including interactive cabaret. It also offers production and management services for co-productions and creative projects, making its role broader than presenting its own shows.

Hobart.

Terrapin Puppet Theatre

Based at Salamanca Place, Terrapin works in puppetry and visual theatre. Its practice gives audiences a distinct form of performance built through objects, movement and theatrical storytelling, while its Hobart office handles general enquiries.

77 Salamanca Place, Hobart TAS 7004. ☎ +61 3 6223 6834.

Theatre Royal

Theatre Royal’s RAWspace is a development program for independent Tasmanian artists making live performance or performance installation. Projects may be intended for a venue, a site-based outcome or a digital result, giving artists room to develop work beyond a conventional stage.

Hobart.

🎨 Visual Arts, Studios & Galleries

Salamanca Arts Centre

Salamanca Arts Centre brings artist studios, galleries, performance venues, arts organisations and public spaces together at Salamanca Place. Its venues support visual art, live music and theatre activity, so visitors can encounter both making and presentation within one arts precinct.

Salamanca Place, Hobart.

Contemporary Art Tasmania

This public contemporary-art organisation presents exhibitions alongside artist and curator talks, workshops, screenings, forums, a podcast and writing program. It also runs curatorial and artist-development mentorships and studio residencies for artists based in Lutruwita/Tasmania.

North Hobart.

Archaica Schola

Archaica Schola offers adult classes in painting, watercolour, ceramics, drawing, portraiture and life drawing, plus small-group classes for young people aged 9–15. Short workshops and private paint-and-sip sessions for groups of eight or more add flexible ways to work with materials and images.

2/121 Macquarie Street, Hobart TAS. ☎ 0435 455 664.

🧵 Craft & Making

MUDDLE Ceramics Workshop

At Mornington, MUDDLE offers adult and children’s classes, short and special workshops, private workshops, residencies and studio-space hire. It is run by Small Fires Studio. Current adult club classes may have limited places or a waiting-list condition, so prospective participants should check the available arrangement before planning regular sessions.

Unit 2/110 Mornington Road, Mornington TAS 7018.

Tasmanian Ceramics Association

This Tasmania-wide association connects ceramic artists and potters and runs hands-on workshops, studio visits and gallery visits. Workshop access is for members, making membership the relevant condition for people wanting to take part in those activities.

Tasmania-wide, with activities in Hobart.

🏛️ Creative Spaces & Community Connections

Youth Arts & Recreation Centre

The City of Hobart’s creative space is for people aged 12–25, with art, music and dance workshops, performance and showcase opportunities, an art gallery, art room, dance area and recording studio. The centre also accepts venue-hire enquiries, giving young creatives a place to develop and share work.

1 Market Place, Hobart TAS 7000. ☎ Youth ARC contact and venue enquiries: 0438 079 588.

KickstART Arts

KickstART Arts runs programs on site and in the community, hosts creative groups, offers workshops, and provides venue and studio hire. Its community garden sits alongside this arts activity, while the organisation’s broader role connects creative practice with cultural development and participation.

Building 1831 South, 12 St John’s Avenue, St John’s Park, New Town TAS 7008. ☎ Venue and studio hire: 0448 012 211.

Moonah Arts Centre

Moonah Arts Centre combines a performance studio for concerts, theatre, film screenings, presentations and rehearsals with a makers workshop for visual-art, craft and practical creative activities. Venue bookings and technical enquiries are available for groups developing or presenting work.

23–27 Albert Road, Moonah TAS. ☎ Front desk and venue hire: (03) 6216 6316. Venue and production manager: (03) 6216 6397.

Rosny Farm

Rosny Farm is a City of Clarence working arts precinct with exhibition spaces, a performance venue and year-round hands-on workshops for children, adults and creatively curious people. Artists, makers and performers can also propose workshops to lead, connecting local skills with public participation.

Rosny Farm Arts Centre & Rosny Barn, Rosny Hill Road, Rosny Park TAS. ☎ Bookings and program enquiries: 03 6217 9607.

Second Echo Ensemble

This inclusive arts organisation brings together music, video art and physical theatre through Soundtrack, Animation, Dance and Ensemble Labs. Its work crosses disciplines rather than staying within one performance form, offering a distinctive setting for collaborative creative practice.

228 Liverpool Street, Nipaluna/Hobart, Lutruwita/Tasmania 7000. ☎ (03) 6108 1384.

✍️ Writing & Arts Support

TasWriters

TasWriters supports Tasmanian writers through workshops and courses across genres, writer networks, mentoring and manuscript assessment for members. It also presents the biennial Hobart Writers Festival. Office visits require arranging a suitable time by email, while membership-based support gives writers several ways to connect.

Hobart.

Arts Tasmania

Arts Tasmania is the Tasmanian Government arts agency within Creative Tasmania. Its Hobart office provides information about grants, public-art programs and the COLLECT art purchase scheme. Appointments can be booked online, and the two contact lines distinguish general grants and public-arts enquiries from COLLECT enquiries.

4 Salamanca Place, Hobart TAS 7000. ☎ General enquiries and grants/public arts programs: 03 6165 6666. COLLECT art purchase scheme: 03 6165 5343.

ArtsNational Hobart

This volunteer-run not-for-profit arts organisation presents an annual program of illustrated lectures covering fine, decorative, contemporary and creative arts. Membership includes special arts-related visits, while its Young Arts program supports local music, dance and visual-arts projects.

Hobart.

Across Hobart and its surrounding suburbs, creative participation can mean joining a choir, learning a dance style, working with clay, developing theatre, sharing a studio or attending a talk about contemporary practice. The range also includes practical spaces for rehearsals, recordings, workshops, exhibitions and performance-making.

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