One of the founders of Junction Arts Festival has set her sights on evolving Tasmania’s multi-art festival.
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Launceston-based leadership and organisational development expert Angela Driver is the new director of biennial festival Ten Days on the Island.
Ms Driver was excited to have a role in the future of the festival as it developed its new festival model.
“Ten Days on the Island is entering an exciting time in its evolution,” Ms Driver said.
“While the festival has always brought local, national and international arts experiences to all regions of the state, its commitment to being a regionally based festival offers inspiring opportunities in the North West and North of the state, which will deliver artistic, economic and social benefits for communities and industries locally and statewide.”
Establishing Junction Arts Festival was one of her career highlights after she competed a Churchill Fellowship researching performance events for social change in 2007.
Ms Driver recently undertook the Harvard Kennedy’s School’s Art and Practice of Adaptive Leadership.
Chairman Saul Eslake welcomed Ms Driver’s appointment as board director. “In addition to her perspective as a Launceston resident, Angela’s background in the arts, events and leadership development will be a valuable addition to the direction that Ten Days on the Island is taking to increase investment in and support for new works by Tasmanian artists and arts companies and enhance our leadership in regional Tasmania,” said Mr Eslake.
She was awarded the 2011 Northern Young Professional of the Year through the Launceston Chamber of Commerce Business Excellence Awards.
The festival was last held in March 2017.