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The unconformity
The Unconformity (formerly the Queenstown Heritage and Arts Festival), is an arts festival held in Queenstown, Tasmania in Australia.
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Held on the West Coast the festival is a biennial event. Elements of the festival captures a change in the fate of Western Tasmania communities, where the mining ventures and other industries are reduced and population declines, but where the heritage and legacy of the communities support.
2012 event
The 2012 event included events and exhibitions which commemorated the centenary of the 1912 North Mount Lyell Disaster, with enactments that echoed the events of 1912.
The West Coast Wilderness Railway was involved in the 2012 celebrations, with a re-enacment of taking victims to the Queenstown cemetery.
Tasmanian artists have utilised old buildings and space in Queenstown for working with their artworks.
The Friday forum at the Queenstown RSL 'North Lyell Mine Disaster Forum' included Geoffrey Blainey. The wide range of sponsors for the festival include local businesses such as the historic Empire Hotel.
2014 event
The event was held again in 2014
2016 event
The festival has changed its name to the The Unconformity and will be held in October 2016 on the 14th and 16th
The festival was able to start in good weather on the 14th of October with a substantial crowd at the opening events
The Grand Finale of the festival is a football match on the Queenstown Oval