Streets Alive
Streets Alive (Launceston, TAS)
Follow the Streets Alive Arts Trail: From Junky to Funky as it transforms unexpected spaces across Launceston’s CBD with installations created out of recycled and upcycled materials.
Re-Made: Art Fashion for the 21st Century is a playful fashion show of eccentric garments made from recycled materials, created by a group of national and international designers, currently based in Launceston. More Tip Shop than Op Shop. (Curated by Ralf Haertel)
(Image by JG Styles)
Dates/Times Wed 24 Aug-Sun 28 Aug, 10am-4pm, Art Trail, Sun 28 Aug, 12pm-1pm, Art FashionVenue Launceston CBD, Arts Trail The Junc Room, Civic Square, 20 St John St, Art Fashion 1
Tickets Free
Additional Info For more information contact Kim Schneiders on 0437 003 200 or kim@streetsalive.com.au
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 courtesy Joe Pickett)
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 
Crocheted Chocolate
Margaret Barlow with local artists (TAS)
An open, participatory project, Crocheted Chocolate invites a team of Tasmanians from across the state to knit and crochet hundreds of tiny chocolates, biscuits, truffles and other such delectable items. Installed in shop-front windows in the CBD, the tasty treats displayed for all to see and feast, with afterhours viewing through the shop-front windows. Learn how to crochet your favourite treat and be a part of the installation.
(Image courtesy Kate Kirby)
Dates/Times Wed 24 Aug-Fri 26 Aug, 8am-4pm, Nanna’s and Townsend’s
Sat 27 Aug, 8am-2pm, Nanna’s
Venues
Nanna’s Coffee + Vintage, 7 Coulter Court 14
Townsend’s Bakery, 55 George St 12
Additional info For inspiration, download your crocheted chocolate pattern here! For even more foodie-craft inspiration, go here! Check us out on the frankie blog!
Tickets Free
Supported by
and Townsend's Bakery
Talking Skirt (Prototype)
Sonja Hindrum (Launceston, TAS)
Talking Skirt (Prototype) explores how we communicate through textiles and what we wear. Made of 32 one-metre-long pin-tucks, 77 metres of conductive thread, 16 metres of stainless steel and new and recycled technology, Hindrum has created a wearable skirt that is activated by touch. Still in its prototype infancy stage, test it out by turning the ‘page’ to hear an author read their poem. The prototype was developed in collaboration with Queechy High School during an artist residency in early 2011. (Poets: Mark Tredinnick, Deirdre Kessler, Ray Liversidge; Electronics: Paul Alting van Geusau)
Dates/Times Wed 24 Aug & Thu 25 Aug, 9:30am–6:00pm
Fri 26 Aug, 9:30–7:00pm
Sat 27 Aug, 9:30am–2pm
Venue Learning and Information Network Centre (LINC) Launceston, 32 St John Street (4)
Tickets Free
Co-presented by LINC, Launceston
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