News & Updates

Each year, hundreds of dedicated volunteers help to make the festival run smoothly. This year will be no exception, and we hope that you will be one of the the enthusiastic members of this year's street team. We need helpers with set-up, the opening night reception, gallery shows and much more. We are also looking for a green team to help reduce the festival's ecological footprint. Please click over to our volunteers page for more information and the times of our two orientation sessions. We look forward to having you on the team!

Starting this week you can find the Junction Arts Festival in local print media. Our ads will be in Thursday's NOW magazine in Toronto, as well as in Hamilton's VIEW, Kitchener-Waterloo's ECHO and the Niagra region's PULSE. The buzz is out and these publications and others are already starting to talk about September's festival. To archive what people are saying, we've created a press page on the site. We've also posted our press releases here and will continue to add clippings and links as we find them. You can also find our web ads at 99.9 Mix FM's site, with more radio coverage to follow. Look or listen for the Junction Arts Festival wherever you go!

Piece by piece the details of this year's festival programming is being added to the web site. This is a labourious process, so please be patient while we work to upload the info on your favourite artists and performers. In the meantime, please follow the links below to sections that are mostly complete. This should keep you busy enough to give us that little extra bit of time to finish the rest!

• Live Stages
• Juried Art Exhibition
• Installation Art
• Street Performances
• Poetry Peep Show

The next time you're out walking along Dundas St W, take a look up one of the poles you normally see the wonderful Junction banners on for a nice surprise. If you are kissed in the face by our bold and beautiful image, then you've been kissed by the Junction Arts Festival! Our posters should be printed and up around the community by early next week.

We are pleased to announce the addition of a blog to the 2008 website. This will allow us to keep you up-to-date with the changes and additions to the site, festival announcements, highlights of particular artists or performers and any other manner of information that we in the festival office feel the need to share.

The blog is hosted by Blogger.com, available in full at junctionartsfest.blogspot.com and fed through to here with Simple Pie. You can subscribe to the atom feed for this blog here. For the time being we will be limiting the visible content to the three most recent posts. To start it off we have transferred the press release from last month that had previously appeared on this page, but should be posting much more in the days and weeks to come!