AGAINST a backdrop of a billion stars and the extraordinary face of Tasmania’s Mount Roland, the inaugural Firelight Festival will portray the history of Australia’s island state like never before.
State-of-the-art laser and light technology accompanied by a dramatic, original music score will take audiences back to the dawn of time and the birth of the planet, through the arrival of animal life, the story of Tasmania’s Indigenous people, white settlement, the years since, and also give a glimpse into the future.
For 30 minutes the performance will be projected onto the four-kilometre natural rock screen that is the face of Mount Roland – from three car parks about two kilometres away.
The idea for the $200,000 world’s biggest drive-in event came from Kentish Arts Festival president Des Brown, who set up crowd funding and received major financial support from the Finance Brokers of Tasmania, which has naming rights, and a $40,000 grant from the state government.
Des hopes the festival is only the start of a major new cultural event that will eventually encompass the whole of the state and run for a month.
- Firelight Festival, May 4-6 from 7.30pm (all cars need to be in place by 7.15pm).
Tickets $45 per car – (03) 6491-1179, www.firelightmountroland.com.au/tickets
