What's On in Launceston

Approximate Running Times: Doors - 6.30 pm Start - 7.00 pm Finish - 9.45 pm After run of sold out shows in 2023, The Jane Barnes Band is finally returning for an encore run across five states in 2026. The Jane Barnes Band got its start as a family project when lockdown began in 2020 and the Barnes family wanted to reach out to people who were struggling with isolation and let them know they were not alone. Rather than do the songs Jimmy wrote or sang every night, they concentrated on doing songs they felt might touch people in a different way. The ensemble grew and grew as time went on and some nights there would be special guest musicians and family members involved. Before they knew it, The Jane Barnes Band had taken flight. Special guests on all shows will be Jimmy Barnes and Mahalia Barnes.

Approximate Running Times: Doors - 7.00pm Start - 7.30pm Finish - 10.00pm The legendary band Dragon, purveyors of Antipodean anthems and Australian Rock since 1973, have played 893 shows and delivered over 12,800 songs since their reformation in 2006. Formed in Auckland before relocating to Sydney, Dragon rose to fame with anthems like April Sun in Cuba, Are You Old Enough?, and Rain, cementing themselves as one of Australasia's most enduring and influential rock acts. With a career marked by triumph, tragedy, reinvention, and resilience, the band has moved from their progressive rock roots to mainstream success, earning induction into both the ARIA Hall of Fame (2008) and the New Zealand Music Hall of Fame (2011). Dragon continue to captivate audiences with their legendary catalogue, new material, and unrelenting live energy, proving that more than five decades on, their fire still burns as brightly as ever.

Join us in the Launceston Planetarium for the next screening of Dark, a fulldome movie that explores dark matter. Presented by Dr Alan Duffy, the movie journeys through visualisations of dark matter evolution calculated upon some of the world’s fastest supercomputers. Each Planetarium show is followed by a live tour of the current night sky. This show is suitable for young children.

Blast off on an amazing ride with Tycho the dog and his young friends. Learn about night and day, space travel, phases of the Moon, and features of the lunar surface. Take a close-up look at the Sun, see Tycho play in zero gravity, witness Earth from space, and watch meteors shoot across the night sky.

Join us at the Launceston Planetarium for our next screening of Birth of Planet Earth. The show examines how Earth became a living planet and what its history tells us about our chances of finding other worlds that are truly Earth-like. Each Planetarium show is followed by a live tour of the current night sky.

Join us in the Launceston Planetarium for our next screening of Capturing the Cosmos. Narrated by Academy Award winning actor Geoffrey Rush, you can discover the new astronomy being carried out under the breathtaking skies of the Australian outback. What new things shall we learn about the Cosmos?