Launceston

Launceston Arts

Launceston’s creative life reaches from movement studios and rehearsal rooms to working art spaces, community theatre, recording projects and hands-on making. You can learn a new dance, join a musical, develop a play, paint with others, explore photography outdoors or work with glass near Poatina. Established organisations sit alongside artist-led projects, teaching studios and community groups, giving audiences, makers and newcomers different ways to take part in northern Tasmania’s arts.

Here are selected local and nearby contacts for creating, performing, learning, commissioning and supporting creative work. Check each organisation’s current program before attending, particularly where classes, workshops or access arrangements apply.

🩰 Dance

Tasdance

Launceston-based Tasdance creates contemporary, movement-led work for regional and urban settings. Alongside its performance practice, the organisation’s Launceston program includes dance classes and artist-development activity, making space for both participation and professional creative development.

197 Wellington Street, Launceston, TAS 7250
☎ 03 6331 6644 — Dance classes

Melissa Wimmer's School of Theatrical Dance

At Youngtown, Melissa Wimmer teaches children’s tap, jazz, song and dance, ballet, hip-hop and movement to music. Adult classes include tap, jazz, modern jive and hip-hop for dancers aged 16 to 80+, with classes also offered for people with balance disorders and people living with disabilities.

11 Talune Street, Youngtown, TAS 7249
☎ 0407 803 276 — General enquiries

SwingMania

SwingMania teaches Lindy Hop, Charleston and related social dances in Launceston. Its all-levels class welcomes people with or without previous experience or a dance partner, followed by social dancing where learners can put the steps into practice.

St Ailbes Hall, 46 Margaret Street, Launceston, TAS 7250

The Dance Collective Tasmania

This South Launceston studio offers preschool dance classes and has a stated focus on performance. A trial-class booking pathway is available for families wanting to explore the studio’s teaching before committing to ongoing participation.

290 Wellington Street, South Launceston, TAS

🎶 Music & Singing

Stenton Music

Stenton Music provides individual tuition in piano, organ, violin and music theory, from beginner through to advanced levels. Its teachers also direct the St Cecilia Junior String Orchestra and City of Launceston Handbell Choir, connecting one-to-one learning with ensemble music-making.

Launceston
☎ 03 6334 4874 — General enquiries

University of Tasmania Conservatorium of Music

Based at Inveresk in Launceston, the Conservatorium covers classical performance, composition, jazz and popular music, music technology, songwriting, film scoring and music for media. Its musical activity includes ensembles, recording and collaborative performance, bringing study into contact with a broad range of creative practice.

Inveresk, Launceston
☎ +61 3 6226 6200 — University contact

Disclosed Recordings

Disclosed Recordings supports local music-making with rehearsal space, recording, mixing, mastering, and audio and video production. The studio also films and records local live-performance series. Its published information notes that it is not currently producing music for vocalists.

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🎭 Theatre & Performance

Forest Music & Performance

This Launceston community arts organisation creates original Tasmanian theatre and music projects centred on storytelling, performance and local voices. Its work brings community connection and locally shaped creative material together across theatrical and musical forms.

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Mudlark Theatre

Mudlark is an artist-led theatre company making new Tasmanian work. Its ongoing activity includes mainstage and emerging-artist premieres, creative-development periods for new work, a Writer’s Room program and the One Day theatre-making project.

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Launceston Players

Launceston Players presents musicals, dramas and comedies as a community theatre company. Membership supports participation in productions, while the society’s costumes, sets and props are also made available to the community for productions.

Launceston
☎ 0419 371 143 — General enquiries

Launceston Musical Society

Launceston Musical Society is a community musical-theatre organisation whose work developed from light opera and now includes full-scale musicals. Performances take place at the Princess Theatre and Earl Arts Centre, linking local participation with established Launceston stages.

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Theatre North

Theatre North presents performing arts and operates the Princess Theatre and Earl Arts Centre. Its program spans theatre, dance, music, circus, screen presentations and locally made work, giving audiences several ways to encounter live and presented arts in Launceston.

Cnr Tamar and Cimitiere Streets, Launceston, TAS
☎ 03 6331 0052 — Box Office

🎨 Visual Artists, Studios & Making

Launceston Art Society

Launceston Art Society brings together northern Tasmanian artists from beginners to professionals. Its program includes workshops, exhibitions, taster days, open-studio activity and arts education, offering members and visitors ways to look closely, practise skills and share visual work.

Launceston RSL, 313 Wellington Street, Launceston, TAS 7250

Launceston Art Centre

Alongside its art-materials business, Launceston Art Centre runs workshops in painting, sketching, drawing, watercolour and colour theory. Sessions cater for beginners and more experienced makers, with practical instruction connected to the materials artists use.

61 Invermay Road, Invermay, TAS 7248
☎ 03 6334 7775 — General enquiries

Paint The Town Red

Based in Missiondale, Paint The Town Red offers adult and children’s art classes, wheel pottery, printmaking, clay handbuilding, workshops and paint-and-sip sessions. Its published program also includes creative activities for community organisations and young people.

Missiondale
☎ 0405 722 544 — General enquiries

Frida's Sip n' Paint Launceston

Frida’s studio runs guided painting sessions for adults, children, families and private groups. Sessions are generally for people aged 16 and over unless otherwise stated, so the Launceston program can suit a planned creative outing as well as a shared family activity.

72–82 St John Street, Launceston, TAS
☎ 0411 491 855 — Launceston studio enquiries

Manuela Pilz Art

Manuela Pilz is a visual artist and drawing teacher offering in-person Drawing Academy classes for young artists in Launceston. Her tuition ranges from beginner to advanced levels, alongside online adult drawing classes for learners working from elsewhere.

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Mae Finlayson

Mae Finlayson works with soft sculpture, embroidery, fabric prints and collage. Her practice includes gallery and outdoor-festival work as well as collaborative community projects shaped by audience participation, connecting tactile materials with shared creative activity.

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Poatina Arts

About 45 minutes from Launceston, Poatina Arts includes a publicly accessible hot-glass studio and working studios. The Poatina Glass Studio offers beginner workshops, group lessons and advanced tutorials in glass blowing for people wanting to work directly with heat, form and molten glass.

Poatina

📷 Photography, Recording & Creative Spaces

Spruka Photography

Gerard Anderson leads small-group photography walks through Launceston streets, wetlands, parks and Cataract Gorge, as well as outdoor portrait sessions. Camera training and one-to-one mentoring are available, with iPhone, DSLR and mirrorless photographers welcome.

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Assembly 197

Assembly 197 is a Wellington Street live arts centre hosting adult classes, workshops and gatherings. Activities are led by Launceston-based and visiting practitioners, with the studio providing room for people to gather, make and share work.

197 Wellington Street, Launceston, TAS

🤝 Arts Organisations & Community Connections

ArtsNational Launceston

ArtsNational Launceston presents illustrated talks by national and international speakers at the University of Tasmania’s Inveresk campus. Its Young Arts Program sponsors group projects that help people under 22 experience local arts activities; ArtsNational does not run those activities itself.

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Whether you are looking for a rehearsal, a class, a community production, a drawing table, a camera walk or a way to encounter new work, Launceston’s creative network offers plenty of different starting points. The mix also leaves room for collaboration: performers can meet makers, writers can meet companies, and audiences can support work made close to home.

Are you a local artist, maker, teacher, company, group or arts-support business? You are warmly invited to add or update your listing so readers can discover more of Launceston’s creative work.

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