Junction Arts Festival

Junction Arts Festival is an annual participatory arts festival that fills up Launceston’s CBD and warms up the cool Tasmanian winter with playful, interactive and ambitious contemporary art and performance.

Held in August over five days and nights, the festival features over 50 free unique audience experiences and events including live performance, theatre, visual and media art, literature, music and dance from leading local, national and international artists. It offers an immersive winter escape that welcomes all ages to be involved.

Junction Arts Festival provides a rare opportunity to explore the city of Launceston in new ways, to experience art in bars, cafes, parks, rooftops, on city buses, sidewalks and on heritage buildings’ facades. It entices audience members to become active participants and collaborators in contemporary art and brings the city to life, making it the perfect excuse to take a short escape to Australia’s island state.

Junction Arts Festival also plays host to The Junc Room, a pop-up live music venue in a Big Top circus tent. For the duration of the festival, this new Launceston hot spot takes over the city’s Civic Square with a fully licensed bar and catered café, open until late and featuring a huge line-up of Australia’s hottest live musical acts. The Junc Room is a space suitable for the whole family.

Celebrating its third year on the Tasmanian events calendar, the 2012 program explores a wide range of interactive encounters and themes from sports mascots to cityscapes, secret agents to interpretive dance and playgrounds to guerrilla gardening and is set to be the most exciting festival yet.

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IMAGE - Clair Korobacz, from Melbourne-based independent performance company One Step At A Time Like This, preparing for Junction Arts Festival 2012.