The Taste Festival: Hobart’s Waterfront Celebration
The Taste Festival is an annual community festival celebrating the highest quality Tasmanian food, beverages and local produce, supported by an exceptional multi-arts, culture, community and sports program. For seven days and nights the Taste Festival fills the picturesque historic Hobart waterfront with a profusion of aroma, spectacle and sound.
At the helm since the 2007 / 2008 Festival, Ros rebranded and repositioned Tasmania’s largest Summer Festival and launched the Taste Festival. It is now a celebration of contemporary Tasmania through epicurean delights, and local, national and international artists and performers who provide new sensations of culinary and visual pleasure.
She commissioned and delivered fresh initiatives, projects and performances within a new event site and focus. To complement the popular ‘International Buskers Pitch’, the festival featured ‘Contained Taste’, which housed an onsite cinema, projections, installations and lounge area. She commissioned design students from the University of Tasmania’s School of Art to produce a public art project and design the inaugural Festival Club ‘after taste’.
Two site-specific performance pieces were devised. In the first, two young artists from Tennant Creek in the Northern Territory, Terrance ‘Tez’ Broadbent and Anthony ‘Tones’ Broadbent presented a 24-hour a day, live-in theatrical experience. The Festival’s resident ‘Toilet Performers’ created the best Festival toilet experience ever, complete with an array of flowers, hand towels and perfumes.
28 December 2009 – 3 January 2010
28 December 2008 – 4 January 2009