JAF 2011 is excited to present a program of interactive performances and installations. Get involved by playing table tennis or weaving some willow. Work with artists to write letters and postcards, or join the hunt in Seek: Launceston.
Search Party vs. Launceston
Search Party (Bristol, UK)
Search Party is throwing down the gauntlet. They challenge you, the people of Launceston, to a marathon game of Table Tennis.
The people of Launceston are invited to compete against Search Party; to represent Launceston and join the team, and support each other through thick and thin. Crowds are invited to become fans, sing, chant, wear your hearts on your sleeves, and take your tops off and swing them round your heads. Search Party want a good clean fight, no biting, no diving, no tackling from behind – and the umpire’s decision is final.
Search Party have already beaten Bristol, Leeds, Kuopio,Barking & Dagenham and Lincoln, drawn against Plymouth and lost to Battersea, Camberwell, Derby and Newcastle. Will Launceston win or lose? It’s in your hands.
Search Party vs. borrows the notion of team from sport to examine connections between the personal and the geographic, exploring ideas of community, place and belonging, and is part of their ongoing research into sport and performance. (Co-Artistic Directors: Pete Phillips and Jodie Hawkes)
This is Search Party’s first presentation in Australia. Following their artist residency, they will return to Launceston to present at the 2012 Festival.
Follow Search Party on Twitter: search_party, or go to www.searchpartyperformance.org.uk
(Image by Rachel Lync)
Dates/Times Thu 25–Sat 27 Aug, 10am–4pm
Venue Brisbane St Mall, 139 Brisbane St 15
Tickets Free
Supported by The Golden Paddle
Seek: Launceston
Manic Productions (Launceston, TAS)
Are you game?
Part scavenger hunt, part public performance, and part spectacle, this interactive journey will engage, challenge and inspire participants as they explore and experience Launceston’s CBD like never before. Teams of five participants will compete to finish a series of challenging tasks, playful performances, and opportunities to show off while entertaining the public and passers-by along the way. Grab your friends and family and seek and discover Launceston.
Join the Seek Participants at the Awards Ceremony to celebrate and cheer the Seek Champions!
(Image by Kate Kirby)
Dates/Times Performance: Sat 27 Aug
Sign in, 10am-11am
Seek, 11am–3pm
Awards Ceremony, 3:30pm-5pm
Meet at The Junc Room, Civic Square 2
Additional info
How to Register?
Register as part of a team of 4-5 people. Or register as an individual and we will assign you into a team.
Register before Thursday 25 August to receive your info pack.
Register at the Junction Arts Festival Info Tent which is open in Civic Square (Cameron St, Launceston) from Mon 15 August 11am - 5pm Daily.
You can also grab tickets online via this website: http://www.visitlauncestontamar.com.au/
Places are limited and late registrations on the day may not be available.
Tickets $5 Registration Fee. Register as a solo participant, or part of a team of five to join the fun
Awards Ceremony FREE
Supported by
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 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
Wish We Were Here
Dan Koop, c/o DJK International (Melbourne, VIC)
At the turn of the twentieth century millions of postcards were sent worldwide as a quick way to say, “thinking of you, wish you were here.” Now, we send millions more SMSs and emails every day, yet still feel distant from those nearby.
During the Junction Arts Festival Dan from DJK International will hand-deliver your Wish We Were Here postcard messages to anyone in Launceston. Visit the booth, collect a postcard, and discuss your special delivery requirements to (re)connect with someone.
Follow your message at twitter.com/djk_intl; contribute to the delivery process by sending tweets using the #wishwewerehere tag, or go to www.djk-international.com for a full roundup of deliveries.
(Image remixed under Creative Commons license from a photo by arthur_chapman on flickr)
Dates/Times
Wed 24-Thu 25 Aug & Sat 27 Aug, 6pm-9pm, Civic Square
Fri 26 Aug, 6pm-9am, The Royal Oak
Sun 28 Aug, 2pm-5pm, Civic Square
Venue Civic Square, 20 St John St 1
The Royal Oak, 14 Brisbane St 8
Tickets Free
Supported by
Letter Writing Service
Tasmanian Writers' Centre (TAS)
Need a well crafted love letter? Have something you want to say to your nearest and dearest? A team of leading novelists, poets, and journalists from across Tasmania, set up in cafés with typewriters, stationary, and a variety of pens and quills are ready to help audience members compose letters and notes and write on your behalf. They’re ready and waiting.
Dates/Times
Wed 24 Aug–Sat 27 Aug, 10am–2pm
Sun 28 Aug, 10am-2pm, This Café only
Venues
This Café, 91 George St 13
PX Tapas, 41 George St 11
Nanna’s Coffee + Vintage, 7 Coulter Court 14
Tickets Free
Supported by
PX Tapas and This Café.
ABC Open Storytelling Tent
ABC Open, Northern Tasmania
What’s Your Story?
Got something to say about who you are and where you live? These two interactive projects from ABC Open will get you on your way. ABC Open is an exciting new way for people in regional Australia to connect and share their stories. Drop by the ABC Open tent, get involved and see some of the amazing contributions that have been made.
PhotoBooth
Create your own online photo message at the ABC Open PhotoBooth.
My Favourite Space
What’s your favourite space in Launceston? Join us for a free three-hour workshop and learn how to make time-lapse video about your favourite space. Bring along a digital SLR camera, a video camera, or a smart phone, and have a favourite space in the CBD in mind.
ABC Open Air Cinema
An Open Air Cinema screening a selection of videos made by local contributors to ABC Open’s video projects; Tassie Two Step, Blue Reels and One on One: Change.
Dates/Times Open from 12noon daily
Thu 25, Fri 26 & Sun 28 Aug, 12pm-2pm, Sat 27 Aug, 2pm-4pm, PhotoBooth
Thu 25 & Fri 26 Aug, 3pm-6pm, Sat 27 Aug, 11am-2pm, My Favourite Space
Thu 25, Fri 26 & Sat 27 Aug, 6pm, ABC Open Air Cinema
Venue Civic Square, 20 St John St 1
Additional info: My Favourite Space Workshop spaces are limited. Register in advance with ABC Open Producer Bronwyn Purvis at or 03 6430 1251 or abcopen.northwest.tas@abc.net.au or visit abc.net.au/open
Tickets FREE
CO-PRESENTED by ABC Open
So You Think You Can Interpretive Dance
Junction Arts Festival (Launceston, TAS)
Sure to be a huge hit, this is the dance competition for anyone who has ever found themselves boogying at a party and thought “I should be on stage!” See competitors busting their interpretive dance moves to a crowd sourced selection of great overblown tracks. Expect poorly executed pirouettes by grown men in unitards, sobbing 30 somethings with big hair, and the youth of today at their most earnest and sweet. This is an open event for all ages. Come on Grandma!
(Image of Zeke Guest by John Dennis and Joy Lai)
Dates/times Thursday 25 August, 6pm-7:30pm
Venue Fresh On Charles, 178 Charles Street 17
Additional Information Limited spots, registration required. If you think you have what it takes, turn up 60 minutes before show time to register, includes a preparatory briefing!
Tickets FREE
Co-presented by Stompin
Supported by 
Community Jams
Junction Arts Festival (Launceston, TAS)
The Junction Arts Festival launches its first series of Community Jams, designed for strangers to meet and play music together. Community Jams invites local musicians to rock up with their favourite carry-on instrument and jam with leaders of the local music scene and special guests from The Junc Room’s music program, including Heel Toe Express.
Two afternoons of wondrous music at the Northern Club. Great fun for those who come to listen, but the most fun for those who come to play. Just turn up.
Dates/Times Fri 26 Aug, 3pm-4:30pm, Sat 27 Aug, 4pm-5:30pm
Venue The Northern Club, 61 Cameron St 9
Additional Info BYO Instrument!
Tickets Free
Supported by The Northern Club
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