Junction Arts Festivals exciting installation program includes work by painters, musicians, textiles-artists and weavers.
Wild Willow Café
Basket Makers of Tasmania (TAS)
Back by popular demand, the Wild Willow Café is a fully functioning café made entirely of furniture created from Wild Willow Tree branches, and produced through a series of workshops across Tasmania as part of the Festival.
A relaxing environment to eat and meet, the Wild Willow Café is open to the public, Festival artists and participants. Enjoy coffee or lunch made fresh by local restaurant Fresh on Charles, listen to some up and coming singer-songwriters, and hang out at the festival hub. The Junc Room bands and musicians have been known to rock up and rock out unplugged.
(Image courtesy Basket Makers of Tasmania)
Dates/Times
Wed 24 Aug, 5pm-11pm
Thu 25 & Fri 26 Aug, 12pm-11pm
Sat 27 Aug, 10am-11pm
Sun 28 Aug, 11am-7pm
Performances
Sat 27 Aug, 11am
Ella Rose (Turners Beach, TAS)
This 14-year-old singer-songwriter has already hit the Tassie circuit. Hang out and catch her performing a mix of original material and cover songs in a variety of styles including pop, folk, country and blues and jazz.
Duration: 60 min
Sun 28 Aug, 11am
Mick Joseph’s Guitar Table
Mick Joseph makes lovely tables that have guitars built into them. He'll play them in the Cafe. Mick reckons he might let you play one too. Nice.
Duration: 60 min
Workshops
Sat 30 Jul-Sun 31 Jul
10am-4pm - Ulverstone Community Shed
Thu 4 Aug - Fri 5 Aug
10am-4pm - Ulverstone Community Shed
Sat 6 Aug - Sun 7 Aug
10am-4pm - Sharman's Vineyard, Relbia
Sat 13 Aug - Sun 14 Aug
10am-4pm - Ulverstone Community Shed
Sat 13 Aug - Sun 14 Aug
10am - 4pm - Bellerive Community Arts Centre
Sat 20 Aug - Sun 21 Aug
10am-4pm - School of Furniture + Design, UTAS, Launceston TO BE CONFIRMED
For a list of materials required by workshop participants, please click here
To book your place or find out more information about the Wild Willow workshops, please contact wildwillowcafe@gmail.com
Please download an information sheet here
Venue Civic Square, 20 St John St 1
Tickets FREE
Supported by 
The White Box Experiment
Manic Productions (Launceston, TAS)
The White Box Experiment is an invention of the Junction Arts Festival and Manic Productions. It invites local Launceston artists and painters, Vika Emma Fifita, Josh Foley, Peter McGeachy and Peter Sly, along with Castlemaine artist Helen Kelly to create an experimental laboratory and relaxed environment that both mimics and plays with traditional notions of the artist’s studio. Visit the artists often over the course of the Festival to watch their paintings, drawings, collage and a live soundscape evolve from their empty white box.
Join us on Sunday for the Opening Party/Finissage.
(Image by Joe Picket)
Dates/Times Wed 24 Aug, 5pm–11pm, Thu 25 & Fri 26 Aug, 12pm–11pm, Sat 28 Aug, 11am–11pm, Sun 28 Aug, 11am–6:10pm
Opening Party/Finissage, Sun 28 Aug, 6pm-6:10pm
Venue Civic Square, 20 St John St 1
Tickets Free
Supported by Regional Arts Fund
Inflatable Whale
Mark Cuthbertson (Inverleigh, VIC)
The waters off the coast of Portland in Western Victoria have become the winter nursery for hundreds of blue whales, the largest living creature ever to inhabit the planet. Inflatable artist Mark Cuthbertson worked with members of the Portland community to create this full sized inflatable whale: a 27-metre behemoth. Visit with friends and family and appreciate the stunning size of these magnificent creatures. The Junction Arts Festival presents the Inflatable Whale in several locations around the CBD over the course of the Festival.
(Image courtesy the artist)
Dates/Times Wed 24 Aug-Sun 28 Aug, 10am-4pm
Venues Wed 24 Aug, Prince’s Square, Cnr Charles & Elizabeth Sts 16
Thu 25 Aug, The Cataract Gorge, 69 Basin Rd 19
Fri 26 Aug, City Park, 69 Tamar St 7
Sat 27 & Sun 28 Aug, Civic Square, 20 St John St 1
Additional Info The Inflatable Whale is appearing at a few venues before the Festival begins! Check out advance showings:
Scotch Oakburn College, Wed 17 Aug, 9am-3pm, school event (for students only)
George Town, Cnr Esplanade and Macquarie St, George Town, Sat 20 Aug, 10am-3:00pm
AMC UTAS, Swanson Building, Maritime Way, AMC Campus Newnham, Sun 21 Aug, 10am-3:00pm
Tickets FREE
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