Join us on August 3rd at Moonah Arts Centre for Downshift Festival, a music and ideas event seeking to empower resilient community engagement with the climate crisis.

Downshift Festival will see musicians, academics, artists, scientists, activists and cultural practitioners come together to both discuss and embody the challenges of a warming planet.

The festival’s music will take a unique form, featuring local artists performing as their ancestors did - without electricity and in intimacy with the community, like a tiny desk concert in a blackout.

By suspending the use of digital and electronic instruments in these performances, we are inviting artists to explore the process of adaptation, and not shy away from communicating complexity in a simplified form.

Save the date and stay tuned for line up and panel announcements!

This event is taking place on the stolen land of the Muwinina people - who did not survive the genocidal invasion of their homelands. We pay our respects to past elders and the warriors that fought for their country. We acknowledge the Palawa people as the present day custodians of Muwinina country and Nipaluna, the land also known as Hobart, and their staunch resistance and activism for over 220+ years. Sovereignty was never ceded. Always was, always will be Aboriginal land.

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