Performance Bus
Junction Arts Festival (Launceston, TAS)
The Junction Arts Festival takes over the Tiger Bus with live opera, intriguing music ensembles and a brass band! Musicians and singers will entertain Launcestonians as they make their way to work or on their daily errands. Pop on and off the bus to enjoy the music, or just listen on the side of the street as the bus travels by. Why drive, when you can take the hottest music venue in town?
Catch the Tiger Bus at Inveresk or around the Launceston CBD.
(Image by Natalie De Vito)
Dates/Times Wed 24 Aug–Fri 26 Aug, 8:15am, 12pm, 4:15pm
Venue Tiger Bus, 32 St John St & 2 Invermay Rd, main stops, and others around the CBD 5
Tickets Free
Co-presented by Launceston City Council’s Tiger Bus
Supported by Tiger Bus, LCC
Barry Morgan’s World of Organs
Barry Morgan (Adelaide, SA)
Fresh from adoring Melbourne Comedy Festival and Adelaide Fringe audiences, the fast-becoming-a-celebrity organ salesman Barry Morgan is packing up his Toyota Crown and heading to Launceston. Barry is the owner and proprietor of the now world famous ‘World of Organs Super Store’ in the beautiful Sunnyside Mall in Adelaide. When he’s not busy giving the public the best organ deals in town, you can catch him performing live; sharing the joy of the organ. Barry Morgan will delight and entertain with the Golden Syrup sounds of his 1981 Hammond Aurora Classic. Sit back, relax and be swept away by the mesmerising power of Barry’s Zither Arpeggiator, his Fascinating Fingers and his celebrated One Finger Method.
(Image courtesy the artist)
Dates/Times Fri 26 Aug, 6pm-7pm
Sat 27 Aug, 2pm-3pm & 6pm-7pm
Venue Town Hall Reception Room, 18 St John St 3
Tickets $18
Supported by
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Elbow Room (Melbourne, VIC)
“I just want a good story. Is that too much to ask?”
In this hugely entertaining and award winning production Elbow Room challenge themselves and their audiences to imagine just what a night out at the theatre can be. Drawing on their extensive stage and screen credits the performers play with the imagined expectations of the audience – as well as their own – in the course of this strikingly original and brilliant work. Winner Adelaide Fringe Touring Award for Best Performance, Melbourne Fringe Festival 2008. (Performers: Emily Tomlins and Angus Grant; Director: Marcel Dorney)
“If it returns, beg, steal or borrow a ticket!” The Age
(Image courtesy Elbow Room)
Dates/Times Thu 25 Aug–Sat 27 Aug, 7:30pm-8:30pm
Venue Launceston Town Hall Reception Room, 18 St John St 3
Tickets $18
Co-presented by Carriage Works
Supported by
Error_in_Time()
Nancy Mauro-Flude (Hobart, TAS)
PERFORMANCE CANCELLED DUE TO ILLNESS. PLEASE CONTACT JUNCTION OFFICE FOR QUESTIONS AND REFUNDS ON PURCHASED TICKETS 6331 1309
Error_in_Time(), is a new performance by Hobart-based electronic artist Nancy Mauro-Flude. Our computers know us more intimately than lovers—but this is a lopsided relationship. Behind their user-friendly facades, what do we know of the operating systems that drive our daily fix? What happens inside “geek space”? Nancy Mauro-Flude gives compelling insight into geek space from the perspective of a female media hacker. Error_in_Time() uses sound, literature, performance and live code manipulations to explore the intimate workings of computer/human interfaces, surveillance and social media. (Performer: Nancy Mauro-Flude; Technical producer: Nick Smithies; Lighting design: Jason James)
(Image courtesy the artist)
Dates/Times Fri 26 Aug & Sat 27 Aug, 9pm-9:45pm
Venue Launceston Town Hall Reception Room, 18 St John St 3
Tickets $18
Supported by
How High The Sky – An Open Creative Development Workshop Process
Polyglot Theatre (Melbourne, VIC)
An immersive theatrical experience for babies under 12 months and their carers, that takes baby and adult into a sense-surround experience of lightness and dream-like images.
Can adults perceive the world as babies do? How often do we get the opportunity to really value or even be influenced by a baby’s unadulterated wonder? In an environment that continually shifts and transforms, altering atmosphere and intention, the work explores the role of a baby as a unique element in theatrical space, inviting adult reflection of a baby’s unique view of the world.
This work forms part of a suite of interactive pieces that Polyglot has pioneered over the last five years. Most recently they have been seen at The Kennedy Centre in Washington, Southbank Centre in London and the Sydney Opera House.
(Co-Directors: Sue Giles & Jessica Wilson, Sound Designer: David Franzke, Designer: Anna Tregloan, Performers: Penny Baron & Nick Barlow, Production Manager: Emily O’Brien)
(Image courtesy Polyglot Theatre)
Dates/Times Sat 27 Aug, 10:30am-11:30am & 2:30pm-3:30pm, Sun 28 Aug, 10:30am-11:30am & 12:30pm-1:30pm
Venue Launceston College Drama Room, 107-119 Paterson St (10)
Additional info For babies 12 months and under and their carers; friends and families welcome.
Tickets FREE
Supported by
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 courtesy 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
The Lazlo Steigenberger Projects
Lazlo Steigenberger (Hobart, TAS)
The Lazlo Projects are a near blinding study of ‘the people’ on earth. Lazlo Steigenberger takes the Launceston genome to the next stage of ‘being human’ in an historic experimental study. He pushes Launceston out in front of the moving truck that is humanity, and picks up the pieces with the tongs of tomorrow. When space won’t come to Mohammed, Lazlo borrows money from the Germans and takes the entire island speeding into the nothingness and has promised the world a dynamic Launceston sample … so shoes are compulsory.
Join the infamous Lazlo Steigenberger as he commentates Sunrise and Sunset, an experience in time and space that you’ll never forget.
Dates/Times
Sat 27 Aug, 6:43am, Sunrise
Sun 28 Aug, 5:43pm, Sunset
Venue
Sunrise, A Secret Location
Sunset, Civic Square (1)
Tickets FREE
For a scientific approach to the earth and our place on it, or soon to be off it, attend Lazlo Steigenberger’s world-renowned Planetarium Lectures of Insight at the most spectacular place in the world: the Planetarium. Experience the universe like you’ve never before.
Dates/Times Thu 25 Aug-Sat 27 Aug, 12pm-12:30pm & 1pm-1:30pm, Planetarium Lectures
Venue Planetarium Lectures, Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery Planetarium, 2 Invermay Rd 6
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
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