Haircuts by Children
Test your courage and faith in the future by surrendering your sense of control, preconceptions and scalp to the aesthetic choices of an ten-year-old. Students from Mowbray Heights Primary School, trained by professional stylists, invite you to book a FREE haircut at our salon or come and observe the blur of razors, hair colour, scissors and glitter.
Venue: Studio Hair and Beauty, 185 Charles St
Dates/times: Thursday 26 August - Saturday 28 August from 10am-2pm
Free event. To book a haircut contact 03 6323 3251 or email us
Presented By Mammalian Diving Reflex
Couch
Comfortable? Couch surfer, couch potato or lounge lizard? We've opened up our lounge rooms and put our couches on the streets in various locations within the city centre, inviting you to take a seat and look at your world. Where is home? Where do you belong?
Venue: Streets of Launceston
Dates/ times: Wednesday 25 August - Sunday 29 August, open all hours
Free Event
Concept by Barking Owl Theatre, installation by Unqualified
Letter Writing Service
Need a well crafted love letter? Or maybe you just need to end an affair with a terse verse? Get a team of Tasmanian poets, novelists and journalists to write on your behalf. They are waiting in local cafés to compose your letters either with the modest pen and paper, the good old fashioned manual typewriter or maybe even a feather quill, ink and sealing wax!
Venues: Mode Cafe, Shop 1 Centreway Arcade, 82 Brisbane St; Rossilli Cafe, 41 George St; This Cafe, 91 George St *; Edge Cafe, 148a Brisbane St
Dates/times: Thursday 26 August - Saturday 28 August, 11am-4pm * Also open Sunday 29 August, 11am-4pm
Free Event
Presented By Tasmanian Writers Centre
The Outhouse
Long Drop. Dunny. Biffy. Thunder box. All uniquely Australian terms for the place where some of our best thinking is done- the outhouse. A participatory research tool and interactive installation, The Outhouse turns the old style photo booth on its head by replacing it with custom built digital media technology.
Venue: Civic Square, Cameron St
Dates/times: Thursday 26 August - Saturday 28 August, 4pm-8pm, Sunday 29 August, 12.30pm-6pm
Additional information: Maximum 2 participants at any one time
Free Event
Presented by TRAX
Van Go!
Norm and Elsie Miller have brought their unique collection of art and artefacts from Gorae West, Victoria to the Junction. On offer are short guided tours of The Miller Collection to one or two people at a time. Expect informed artistic commentary and cultural insights (especially from Norm) and possibly a cuppa. If you're lucky, Elsie will show you her macramé; just don't ask to see the collection Norm keeps under his bed.
Venue: Civic Square, Paterson St
Dates/times: Thursday 26 August - Saturday 28 August, 3pm-9pm, Sunday 29 August, 12pm-3pm
Additional information: Ten minute guided tours, Maximum two people per tour. Includes narrow doorway with steps in a tight space
Free Event
Presented by Phil Cousins and Heather Richardson.
Supported by Europcar.
Make Space
Discover the satisfaction of tearing it up and pasting it down, collecting your thoughts, marking the page, and printing a zine (small handmade magazine).The photocopier is humming, the kettle is on, all are welcome.
Venue: Holy Trinity Parish Hall
Dates/ times: Thursday 26 August - Saturday 28 August, 9am-9pm and Sunday 29 August, 9am-2pm
Free event
Presented by Tasmanian Writers centre and Sarah Howell projects
Museum of Mirth
Be a part of an exhibition of laughs, levity, chuckles, chortles, snorts, snickers, giggles and guffaws. Walk in, get provoked into hilarity and your performance could be included in a multi-vocal installation of mirth on the final day of Junction 2010.
Venue: Civic Square, Cameron St
Dates/times: Recording sessions:Friday 27 August - Saturday 28 August, 3pm-9pm. Final installation Sunday August 29, 12.30pm-5pm
Free Event
Presented By Convenor Frivola Glee (aka Jen Brown) with assistants
meenah mienne
An open, welcoming and comfy hub for the public to share a cuppa with elders, mentors and young people from the meenah mienne program.
Venue: Meenah Mienne, 11 Tamar Street
Dates/ times: Wednesday 25 August- Saturday 28 August, 11am- 6 pm
Free event
Presented by Meenah Mienne
Critical Mass
Want to comment on a performance or curious to know what the experts have to say? Why not stop by and read reviews or partake in conversations about the festival with a team of dedicated Tasmanian writers. Visit www.junction2010.blogspot.com.
Venue: Holy Trinity Parish Hall, 34 Cameron St
Dates/times: Thursday 26 August - Saturday 28 August, 9am-9pm and Sunday 29 August, 9am-2pm
Free Event
Presented by WriteResponse.
Supported by Telstra.
Wiltja Wiltja
Wiltja (shelter) is an installation from Warburton, a remote indigenous community that sits between the Gibson and Victoria deserts in WA. Members of the community will be present at the Wiltja in the CBD to address issues about life and culture in the Warburton.
Venue: Civic Square, Cameron Street
Dates/ times: Wednesday 25 August- Sunday 29 August, 3pm-6pm
Free event
Presented by Wilurarra Creative Centre
U-Taste Workshops
Participate in a selection of one-day creative arts workshops designed by the University of Tasmania's School of Visual and Performing Arts from their Bachelor of Contemporary Arts and the Tasmanian Creative Arts Summer School program. Workshops include Studio Glass, Australia Art and Design, Body Ardornment, Drawing in the Landscape and Aboriginal Tasmania: Exploring Placescapes and Cultural Expression.
Venue: The Academy of the Arts, Inveresk Cultural Precinct
Dates/times: Wednesday 25 August, 9am-5pm
Additional information: Participants must be 16 years and over, workshops have maximum and minimum class sizes to run.
Tickets: Adult $75 includes all materials. For booking information click here
