10 years of bringing art into everyday lives

The Junction Arts Festival team reflect on the festival’s past, present and future at Artlands 2021.

1 Sep 2021 17:44

Richard Watts

Performing Arts

A crowded Prince’s Square at Junction 2018. Photo credit: Jacob Collings.

The wheel has turned full circle for Junction Arts Festival, originally presented as a one-off event as part of the 2010 Regional Arts Australia (RAA) conference in Launceston.

This week Junction presents its 10^th festival (last year’s celebrations were delayed because of COVID) with the return of RAA’s conference, now known as Artlands, to Launceston.

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Richard Watts OAM is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, a Melbourne Fringe Festival Living Legend, and was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize in 2020. In 2021 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Green Room Awards Association. Most recently, Richard received a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in June 2024. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts