Pinnacle Funding Partners

NRM South is a Pinnacle Sponsor of the 2008 Mountain Festival and Presenting Partner of the Climate Change Program.

Working together with local businesses, community groups and tens of thousands of Tasmanians, NRM South helps to protect, preserve and sustainably manage Southern Tasmania's natural resources, including our drinking water and waterways, our lands - both productive and native landscapes, our rich and diverse native flora and fauna, our marine and coast environments and everything that collectively makes up our unique Tasmanian landscape.

Our projects and activities are many and varied, ranging from assisting land owners in land management practises including drought planning, weed eradication and bush regeneration, assessing the state of our environment and implementing threatened species recovery plans and other actions to help us adapt to the impacts of climate change.

By supporting the Mountain Festival NRM South is proud to support the local community in celebrating our Mountain and its natural values, as well as increasing understanding and protection of our natural resources for the sustainable use and enjoyment of all.

Hobart, The way life should be.

Hobart, the nation's second oldest city, has a quality of life the envy of other states. Hobart's lifestyle provides all the cultural and physical advantages of a capital city whilst retaining a relaxed, quality lifestyle.

The Hobart City Council proudly promotes Hobart as "The way life should be", indicating that living in Hobart is as good as it gets.

Festivals Australia is an Australian Government program which funds Australian regional and community festivals to assist them to present quality cultural projects. Funding is available to add a new or special sort of cultural activity.

Festivals Australia is assisting the 2008 Mountain Festival via its funding programme.

The Australia Council for the Arts is the Australian Government's arts funding and advisory body. It enriches the lives of Australians and their communities by supporting the creation and enjoyment of the arts.

The Australia Council cultivates the nation's creativity by investing in artists and arts organisations working in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander arts, community partnerships, dance, literature, music, theatre, visual arts and multi-artform practices.

The Mountain Festival is supported by the Australia Council for the Arts.

Arts Tasmania is part of the Department of Tourism, Arts and the Environment and has supported the Mountain Festival Sculpture Trail through its grants program since 2004.

Arts Tasmania and its business unit arts@work work with the Tasmanian Arts Advisory Board to form the Government's arts and cultural agency. It works to deliver the primary Tasmania Together Goal 6 for Tasmania to have a dynamic, creative and internationally recognised arts community and culture.

The Chair of the Tasmanian Arts Advisory Board, Saul Eslake, continues to promote the integral role that creativity plays in contributing to the social, cultural and economic development of Tasmania - and that the diverse skills, abilities and knowledge of our arts practitioners and creative thinkers will ultimately shape our future.

The Tasmanian Community Fund make grants to community organisations that make a difference by enhancing well-being and improving social, environmental and economic outcomes for the Tasmanian Community.

The 2008 Mountain Festival is indeed a worthy recipient of a Tasmanian Community Fund grant.

TasPorts' role is to commercially provide and manage the state's port and associated infrastructure for the purpose of facilitating trade for Tasmania.

Tasports is committed to supporting events in the communities in which it operates, through the provision of sponsorship and in-kind support.

Pinnacle Media Partners

Southern Cross are proud to be sponsoring the 2008 Mountain Festival.

Fearless Media was established in the early 1990s and has offices in Sydney, Melbourne and Hobart.

Fearless Media specialises in training, website design and development, consulting in information management, print production, publishing, multimedia production and open source technologies.

Fearless are leaders in creative media design, development and training. We have been proudly supporting the Mountain Festival since 2004 and we're already thinking about the next one!

936 ABC Hobart is proud to be supporting the Mountain Festival again. This year we are creating a special podtour of the Sculpture Trail which be available for download at abc.net.au/hobart.

Tune in for interviews and opportunities to attend and review some of the great events at this years festival.

Plateau Funding Partners

As rains sweep across Tasmania from the west or south, it falls on the mountain which forms a natural, high barrier. Water cascades down a number of rivers and creeks and is collected by Hobart Water at several off-take points. Here, nature and gravity helps supply around 20 per cent of Hobart's drinking water.

Hobart Water looks beyond water collection on the mountain as work is done with numerous partners and community groups; sponsorship of numerous events which celebrate the mountain.

Hobart Water and the Mountain Festival are natural partners.

The Wellington Park Management Trust is the managing authority for Wellington Park, and is a founding partner of the Mountain Festival.

The Trust's vision for Wellington Park is for it to be a special place enjoyed by all for its prominent landscape, natural and cultural diversity, and community value. The management of the Park is predicated on the belief that the Park is more than a biophysical reserve, and more than the historical parts that make it up.

Wellington Park is, in fact, part of the community's "extended sense of self," and is inextricably linked into the psyche and perhaps the being of the community of southern Tasmanians who live in its shadow. These factors indicate the high value placed by the community on the Park and the role it has in defining a "sense of place" for residents of Hobart and southern Tasmania.

The Trust supports the Mountain Festival's exploration of "place," and the links between art, science and the broader community.

Screen Tasmania, an agency of the Tasmanian Government, seeks to advance Tasmania as a competitive, creative, and culturally distinctive centre for screen production.

The agency develops, encourages, nurtures and invests in screen projects and people and works to promote Tasmania as an attractive production destination nationally and internationally.

Screen Tasmania is proud to be associated with innovative, cultural events such as the Mountain Film Festival that add so much to the unique lifestyle we enjoy here in Tasmania.

Wide Angle Tasmania's aim is to create a vibrant and growing screen culture by nurturing emerging Tasmanian talent.

Places inspire, and film-makers reflect that inspiration. Wide Angle helps to foster these talents and the Mountain Festival brings all this to you to feast on. Bon appetit.

Sustainable Living Tasmania is a community resource and education centre working to provide a direct, local, realistic and accessible contribution to the protection and restoration of the natural environment, and the development of homes and cities for a sustainable future.

We at Sustainable Living Tasmania delight in this celebration of the Wellington Range that defines the natural, social and creative environment of southern Tasmania.

Mountainfilm in Telluride, now 29 years old, was founded by a handful of dirtbag climbers with a desire to capture their passion on film and share it with the community.

Mountainfilm sees mountains as a metaphor for us, representations of wild places and the power of geography to shape our world views. Mountainfilm is a celebration of landscapes, cultures and the honed mastery of adrenaline.

Mountainfilm is far more than a film festival. It highlights the power of film and the arts to change the world and we are absolutely stoked to have the beautiful folks at Mountainfilm on board for the 2008 Mountain Film Festival.

UTAS is Australia's fourth oldest university and it enjoys an enviable reputation for teaching and research which is recognised locally, nationally and internationally. UTAS' commitment to scholarship is international in scope but continues to reflect the distinctiveness of Tasmania and serve the needs of its community.

UTAS, in partnership with the Australian and the Tasmanian Governments, is leading the response to the devastating Tasmanian devil facial tumour disease through the Save the Tasmanian Devil Program and Save the Tasmanian Devil Appeal.

Foothills Partners

Clarence City Council owns The Barn at the Rosny Farm which has been made available for performance rehearsals and workshop activities. This is in keeping with strategies in Council's Cultural Arts Plan to develop the Centre for arts related activities, to support and develop partnerships with key events and Festivals such as the Mountain Festival, and to work with local communities to develop a variety of arts and cultural activities throughout the city.

Council organises and conducts a range of arts based workshop activities for members of the Clarence Community for both children and adults and this year offered puppet making and performance skills workshops for children as part of its school holiday arts activities - the puppets will be used in the Moving Mountains performance project.

Monotone are state of the art printers that employ a combination of timeless craftsmanship and cutting edge methods. From books to brochures, cards to catalogues, Monotone have brought you the posters and programmes that will steer you around the 2008 Mountain Festival.

Monotone have been printing in Hobart for 95 years, so while we are not quite as old as the mountain, we have worked happily in its shadow for many decades. Which is why Monotone supports the Mountain Festival. It is a great, positive event that is good for Hobart... and that is the kind of work we like.

When the boats come in we are there to meet them, ensuring that Flathead Cafe holds its reputation for absolute freshness and ingenuity in cuisine. Flathead Cafe is thrilled to help the mountain meet the sea by supporting the 2008 Mountain Festival.

The SHPA Inc. has been representing the community of South Hobart since 1922. Its aims include the enhancement and promotion of the cultural heritage of Tasmania with special attention to South Hobart. As a result, the Association is delighted to be sponsoring such an inspiring community event as the Mountain Festival.

Featured Event

Film Festival Screening

The Mountain Film Festival is an international film festival held in Hobart, Tasmania as part of the Mountain Festival celebrating the culture and communities associated with mountains.

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Friday 4th Jul 08