Junction Arts Festival unveils 2014 program

Live art, live music, cross-generational collaborations and memorials to dead pets; Junction is not your usual arts festival.
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Mudlarks One Day Twice, Junction Arts festival 2013. Image: courtesy Chris Crerar

From a bicycle-powered karaoke machine and an interactive model railway to a performative walk in memory of deceased and departed canine companions, Launceston’s Junction Arts Festival has an obvious and engaging focus on live arts experiences.

‘There are obviously a number of organisations in Australia that present and develop live arts practice, but there’s definitely space in that field to support the development of it, and most certainly here in Tasmania,’ said Natalie De Vito, Junction Arts Festival’s Executive Director and Artistic Director, discussing the festival’s live arts focus.

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Richard Watts is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM, and serves as the Chair of La Mama Theatre's volunteer Committee of Management. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, and was awarded the status of Melbourne Fringe Living Legend in 2017. In 2020 he was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize. Most recently, Richard was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Green Room Awards Association in June 2021. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts