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Event date - Friday 27 October 2023 to Sunday 05 November 2023.
During the months of October and November each year Grafton undergoes a metamorphic transformation, as the countless avenues of Jacaranda trees turn from green to purple.
The Jacaranda Festival celebrates this natural wonder by combining the history and pageantry of yesteryear with a new, modern and inclusive vision, ensuring the festival’s future for years to come.
Whether you’re seeking a little piece of yesteryear, where locals still line the main street of Grafton to watch (with a purple icecream in hand) the annual float parade, or you love the flamboyance and pageantry of drag queen bingo – the Jacaranda Festival has something for everyone.
This year the Jacarandas will be Illuminated, as the sun goes down, the beautiful Jacarandas of See Park light up.
Walk through the park and be mesmerised as you see the trees in a new light.
One of the most popular days during the festival is Jacaranda Thursday when the town is given license to ‘let its hair down’. Main streets close, local businesses dress up and people meander throughout the CBD soaking up the atmosphere.
The final weekend marks the day of the Float Parade with more than 100 floats down Grafton’s Prince Street.
When the weather turns cold, the city warms up.
If you’re looking to get out for an evening, then Fire & Fog is the event for you.
Fire pits, live music, and some of the best food and drink that Launceston has to offer will come together for one night only on the 5th of August in Civic Square.
There will also be circus workshops for the kids, so bring the whole family along for this twilight celebration of all the best parts of winter.
More details, including a list of bands and food vans, will be available on the events website.
Junction is an annual Festival of extraordinary arts experiences in unusual spaces throughout Launceston, held in the first week of September.
In 2021 Junction celebrated its 10th anniversary festival, with a history of developing, commissioning and presenting participatory and community-engaged contemporary artwork.
Junction was first presented as a one-off event annexed to the 2010 Regional Arts Australia Conference. Junction filled a creative niche locally and prompted stakeholders, Events Tasmania and City of Launceston to support the creation of the annual festival, to the delight of Northern artists and audiences.
Junction acknowledges and respects the palawa people as the traditional and ongoing owners and custodians of lutruwita. We pay our respects to elders past, present and future, and acknowledge that sovereignty has never been ceded.
Event Date
14 September - 18 September 2022.
