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The Hobart Summer Festival (HSF) has been Tasmania's premier summer event, offering many diverse activities and events based in and around the historic Sullivans Cove.
The Taste of Tasmania (The Taste), established in 1988, has been a major event within the HSF program and has comprised a week of activities showcasing some of Tasmania's best food, finest wine and beverages.
The 2008/2009 Festival promises to bring many new concepts and ideas. The Hobart Summer Festival will be merged with The Taste to become the Taste - Hobart's Waterfront Festival.
This year brings an exciting new addition to The Festival, 'The Taste Festival Club'. It is proposed that the Club (formally the Festival Café) will host nightly ticketed events throughout the Festival; these may include, however not limited to; a Jazz night, a Slow Food night, or an Italian 'Sagre' night, a Latin Night or a Morrocan tagine feast. Tickets may vary from a small entrance fee for the entertainment to an all inclusive catered cost, depending on the night.
As well as a bar and coffee and dessert stall, the Club will have its own fully functional kitchen, which will cater for the Club each night; with a menu closely aligned with the theme or type of event. For three or four nights the Club will also have extended opening hours operating as a late night ticketed venue after the Shed is closed.
During the day it will continue to be open free to the general public and will double as the venue for the food and beverage theatre presentations.
Located within the Festival Club's fully functional display kitchen the food and beverage theatre will be programmed daily with a variety of activities and displays; ranging from stallholder demonstrations and tastings, interactive cooking displays for children, emerging chef demonstrations, an apprentice showdown and high profile 'celebrity chef' appearances.
With huge projector screens within the Shed also displaying the presentations, the Theatre provides considerable promotional opportunities for stalls, produce and provenance awareness and products, and provides an opportunity for a fun and interactive education program.
A stallholder information workshop was held on Thursday 12 June 2008. You can download slides from the workshop (Powerpoint 1.3 MiB) and the draft site plan (PDF 161 KiB) for the new Festival. Please contact us with any questions.
For further information on the Taste Festival please email info@tastefestival.com.au or phone (03) 6238 2100.
To become involved fill in an expression of interest online.