Junction Arts: Children playing life-sized snakes and ladders

Junction Arts Festival turns Civic Square into a Junc Yard of activity this weekend 13 – 14 September, 2014

LAUNCESTON, FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE— Junction Arts Festival turns Launceston’s Civic Square into a Junc Yard of family friendly entertainment this weekend 13 – 14 September, 2014.

Media are invited to capture 60 local primary school students playing with life-sized board games, including Snakes and Ladders and Twister at 12:45pm today Friday 12 September, 2014 at Civic Square, 53-59 St John St.

Designed by Junction Arts Festival’s coporate partner Think Big, these are super-sized board games where people are the pieces. Children can wriggle as man-sized snakes in Snakes and Ladders or twist on an impossibly large-scale Twister board.

The Junc Yard at Civic Square is Junction Arts Festival’s dedicated family zone and officially kicks on this weekend from Saturday 11 – Sunday 14 September, 2014. Free and ticketed events run all day, including DJ Grinning Cat spinning toe-tapping child-friendly tunes from 12pm – 3pm daily, striking graffiti art created by Launceston street artist Ben Miller in collaboration with students from Queechy High School and Scotch Oakburn College, and the Children’s Book Exchange.

Performance highlights Multi-lingual Rock & Rhyme in which nursery rhymes will be retold in the wonderfully diverse languages of Launceston’s vibrant migrant communities, a five metre model train and township I Think I Can.

Cabaret artist Anthony Crowley will also present a series of family-friendly cabaret and musical works, including One Tacky Tree, in which he will perform alongside his daughter Ella, My Other Life as a Fish, which has been co-created by grade 3/4 from Lilydale Primary School, and Ordinary Moments of Extraordinary Bliss, in which local families will collaborate with Crowley to create a performance that will be performed on Sunday at 3pm.

Junction Arts Festival returns to energise Launceston, Tasmania from Wednesday 10 – Sunday 14 September, 2014 with five days of unexpected art adventures weaving through the city. From a lightning-fast birthday party, to bands playing in suburban backyards and bicycle-powered karaoke machines, Junction Arts Festival offers intimate one-on-one encounters, high energy spectacles and an all manner of things in-between.

For more information and tickets visit junctionartsfestival.com.au or call 03 6331 1309.

Timothy Jones Publicist