Junction 2013: Arts Festival

‘Junction Arts Festival’ (Junction), Tasmania’s young and emerging international participatory arts festival will be back for only its third incarnation this spring. Flourishing with Tasmania’s burgeoning arts scene, the Festival’s focus on contemporary participatory art involving active participation and collaboration from audiences make the Festival a unique standout in the scene.

‘Junction’ is a five-day, multi-arts international festival taking place in Launceston, Tasmania. Focusing on work that places the audience at the centre of the experience, through interactive performances and public-space installations, ‘Junction’ enlivens both the cultural and physical landscape of Launceston.

Waking up Launceston and Tasmania from its winter hibernation, the Festival features a carefully curated selection of playful, interactive and ambitious contemporary art, music and performance from renowned artists from the UK and Canada as well as some of the most interesting and respected artists from across Australia and Tasmania.
Over five days and nights from Wednesday 4 September through Sunday 8 September 2013 Launceston will come alive with live performance, theatre, visual and media arts, literature, music and dance. This year’s program explores a wide range of interactive encounters and themes from sports to sound scapes, waterways to Westerns, cityscapes and circus to daredevils, interpretive dance and Australian nostalgia.

The Festival provides a rare opportunity to explore and experience Launceston in new and often unusual and surprising ways and encourages visitors to take a refreshing look at the city. During the Festival audiences can experience art in bars, cafes, parks, on rooftops and city buses, in car parks, on sidewalks, and on heritage building facades. Junction Arts Festival aims to reframe how artists and audiences define and use public space and how audience members experience and participate in contemporary art.

Junction Arts Festival
4 to 8 September, 2013
Tasmania