Koonya Hall

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Venue Koonya Hall
Address 564 Nubeena Rd
Koonya TAS 7187
Australia
Website https://festivalofsmallhalls.com/koonya-2025/
Notes Koonya Hall stands on the traditional lands of the Pydairrerme People. The Koonya Hall was built in the late nineteenth century to be a focus for community activities, and it still functions as that. The frame and the exterior cladding are locally-milled timber, but the liner-boards are imported Baltic pine and they don’t reach the ceiling – they only come half way up the walls. The story is that the Baltic Pine liner boards were sitting at the Koonya wharf when someone decided that they would suit their house very nicely – the hall, 130 years later, is still not fully lined. But somebody’s house is. Local halls have memories. They have great memories of celebrations and times of festivity, Christmas parties, dances and nights when young people would walk up to ten miles to attend a dance at the Koonya Hall on a Saturday night. We still have dances, weddings and all sorts of celebrations in this hall, and they are notable for their cross-generational appeal. You will find anyone from 8 years old to 80 dancing, with toddlers running around their feet, and babies snoozing up the back.
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Latitude | Longitude -43.059619 | 147.812187
Events

Blue Cow Theatre Inc

Performing Lines Ltd

Tasmania Performs

Matthew Fargher - Composer

Bryony Geeves - Assistant Designer

Melissa King - Co-Director

Andrew MacDonald - Lighting Designer

Peter Matheson - Dramaturg/e

Greg Methe - Props Buyer/Designer/Maker

Jeff Michel - Actor, Playwright

Frank Newman - Director

Venue Identifier 30226
Dataset AusStage