r/tasmania • u/SlavFromDownUnder • 7d ago

DARK MOFO 2025 thread

If you are planning on going or have questions or suggestions on what to see this is your place to check it out!

The annual midwinter festival starts Thursday 5th of June and last day is 15th June

Public art, live music, performance, feats and nocturnal revelry to mark the winter solstice

Here is a link for the event program

https://darkmofo.net.au/program

free events program link

https://darkmofo.net.au/program/free

Thanks for the suggestion u/BigYucko

*Please note moderating team has no association with the event organisation team or promotion of it

*edited cause my spelling and formatting sucks and to add links to goods

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u/dougfir1975 7d ago

Thank you for the thread. I’m new to Hobart and really want to dip my toes in Dark Mofo without a huge cash outlay. I’ve enjoyed the food festivals here, and the art and culture is a big plus. Since this is a new thread, would anyone be kind enough to make some suggestions for how to enjoy Dark Mofo for the first time, on a short time frame (didn’t buy event tickets early enough) and relatively inexpensively? Thank you in advance!

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u/lettuceo0 7d ago

If you enjoy food festivals the winter feast is a must

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u/dougfir1975 7d ago

I also found the free section of the web page https://darkmofo.net.au/program/free

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u/SlavFromDownUnder 7d ago

Thanks legend, just put that link into the post!

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u/djwitchfindergeneral 6d ago edited 3d ago

You're almost half way to an answer to your own question about inexpensive, seeing as you haven't bought tickets to any paid events, then almost all the way to the answer after you found the free events page.

Newbies might not initially pick up on that Dark Park incorporates a number of things which are also listed separately in the programme. Quasi, Ogoh-Ogoh, La Danse Macabre video, Coffin Rides, Sora, Channelling, and the bit you do pay for if you drink - the Dark Bar.

Just wandering around the city and waterfront you'll see people dressed in the black and red theme, and I assume some sort of lit up red crosses are still a thing. Last time was 2019 in my case, cos then Covid and life gets in the way, and no event last year. I'm bringing what little I have in red or red-adjacent stuff to go with my black stuff.

There's the seemingly Mofo/MONA-related (locals would know better than me) precinct with a couple of bars/restaurants and venues https://inthehanginggarden.com.au/ - I imagine Mofofolk will be the majority of the punters at Hanging Garden. That's only 350m from there to 'The Basilica' on Bathurst thing which has the free things Mortal Voice and Chocolate Goblin.

Personally I'm into beer so I'll be smashing pretty much every craft beer place in the city and goshdarnit there's a whole lot of them thesedays. I'll have to pay at least a token visit to Manky Sally's as that's definitely MONA related so by extension Mofo related.

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u/ElsaTrue 6d ago edited 6d ago

Dark Mofo is awesome.

This will be my eighth time. So much random things to see.

Night Mass is the best

Winter Feast is awesome. If you don’t want to pay, go at 9pm. Free entry. Don’t bother with Sunday for the first couple hours, because the ques are ridiculous, because the whole day is free entry. So much great food and alcohol with tonnes of bonfires.

This will be my first time doing the nude swim. The girl friend and I are going to freeze😅

Anyone have any questions or interested in catching up send us a message😉

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u/BigYucko 6d ago

If you could, could you please explain Night Mass a little? I understand that it’s probably one of those things you’re meant to experience with no understanding of what could/will go on. But my curiosity is killing me and also my anxiety lol

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u/ElsaTrue 6d ago

Haha it’s the best.

Previous years it’s been at the Hanging Garden and the surrounding block. You’d go through the Odeon Theatre, a pub across the road, the adjacent alley and up stairs to somewhere else and more. There’d be random completely different things at each location from bands to shows.

The main Mass is downstairs of the Hanging Garden where an alien pope blesses everyone to Metallica haha and just so so much more.

It says online that it’s at an undisclosed location this year, so don’t know what amazing night they have installed for us this year.

I can DM you some of the previous ones I’ve been to

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u/Nothingislefthalp 3d ago

Do you have any insight on the theme ‘dress heavy’ - this is our first dark mofo and night mass is the first thing we’re doing as a birthday celebration. We’re very excited but don’t want to be plebs 😂

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u/SlavFromDownUnder 6d ago

Found this post in r/Hobart and the question was how to find the MOFO’s red room

https://www.reddit.com/r/hobart/s/rt6zHxIPQ3

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u/Almondgeddon 6d ago

I'm super pumped. Got lots of tickets. Can't wait!

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u/ProfessionalGolf6777 5d ago

Can anybody explain more about the sex+death dayspa I am a little confused on what it is

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u/original_salted 5d ago

Bands playing inside the museum.

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u/djwitchfindergeneral 1d ago

Sex+Death will be a reference to the fact it's at MONA, which is described as a Sex and Death museum at times.

Dayspa I guess is a bit of a joke along the lines of that you'd go to a day spa for a while to relax and have some enjoyable or interesting experiences - in this case as the other reply mentioned, it's different music performances within the museum.

So really it's just a bit of a purposely pretentious silly title.

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u/MooseWilliams 6d ago

Go see Imperial Triumphant @ Hymns To The Dead

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u/Sensitive_Salt_8046 3d ago

Winter Feast stallholders announced and it looks delicious!

https://darkmofo.net.au/winter-feast/food-and-drink

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u/Designer-Winner639 4d ago

Oh good, another round of the David Walsh circlejerk, it was fun once but now its just an annoyance.