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Hobart’s Dark Mofo festival on hold for 2024, citing rising costs

Janine Israel

Dark Mofo, the midwinter festival held in Hobart celebrating “ancient and contemporary mythologies, darkness and light, birth and death”, will be put on ice for 2024 as organisers pause “for a period of renewal”.

Organisers said the 10-year-old event, which was created by David Walsh’s Museum of Old and New Art (Mona), wants to “reshape a more sustainable model for a full return in 2025”.

A statement on…