For lovers of music and art Mona Foma was the summer festival at the top of the agenda. Based across Hobart and Launceston, each January, installations, artworks and concerts would pop up around the city in different forms. Run by Tasmania’s Museum of Old and New Art (MONA), this was the sunnier counterpart to the institution’s winter festival, Dark Mofo – which is on hiatus for 2024, but is set to return in 2025.  

Sadly though, MONA is drawing the curtain on the summer festival – for good. In a blog post published to the art gallery’s website, owner and founder of MONA, David Walsh, stated that some of the reasons for canning it are low attendance and the high cost of running the festival. 

This news comes in the wake of the announcement that Splendour in the Grass, Groovin the Moo and Hawke’s Bay Arts Festival have all been cancelled for 2024. 

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