Pacific voyaging is being celebrated at the Australian Wooden Boat festival this year, and some traditional experts hope it ...

The SMAC board voted on Jan. 28 to award $102,285 in grant funds to 13 organizations and $936 to one individual artist. Local grant recipients were: The Minnesota Pottery Festival of Hutchinson, ...

The 15th Australian Wooden Boat Festival has launched its program of events along Hobart’s waterfront this long weekend. Premier and Minister for Tourism, Jeremy Rockliff, said the Australian Wooden ...

One of the world’s largest celebrations of traditional maritime culture will drop anchor in Hobart from Friday, with the ...

For millions of Hindu pilgrims at India's millennia-old vast Kumbh Mela festival, the culmination of their journey is ritual ...

A historic 20-metre wooden pilot cutter has sunk in the D’Entrecasteaux Channel off Middleton after taking on water. The 1958 ...

Four restored Tasmanian-designed yachts have been re-launched today ahead of the Australian Wooden Boat Festival. The Derwent Class yachts, made from Tasmanian timber, date back as early as the 1920s.

There are not many boats that can sail competitively in the Sydney-Hobart one month, and then show up at the Australian ...

They had been placed in the water by the hundreds of dragon boat paddlers, all cancer survivors, gathered together at the ...

Writer Levison Wood with a festival attendee at Kumbh Mela Credit: Levison Wood And while it would be easy to dismiss the gathering as chaotic or overwhelming, there’s something profoundly ...

Editor's note: Spring Festival marks the beginning of a new year in China and is the most important traditional festival for Chinese people. The festival, along with a full range of practices and ...