The Junction Arts Festival will be back to entertain in September, but one of the projects will be more serious as it tackles a key issue facing the planet.
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The festival is looking for young Tasmanian singers, songwriters and musicians who want to have their say on the climate crisis.
There will be several ways that participants can share their voice through the festival including a choir, which will perform protest songs and original composition, and workshops designed to help create songs that speak to their thoughts.
Junction's creative director Greg Clarke said the project was inspired by the youth climate strikes in 2019.
"We were so inspired by seeing so many young people turn out in Hobart and Launceston, who were standing up and saying enough is enough and having their voices heard," he said.
"This has inspired us to facilitate the creation of Songs For Our Planet, a concert at the Princess Theatre that will bring together young Tasmanian singers, songwriters and musicians to have their say on the climate emergency."
Mr Clarke said art was a wonderful platform to get a message across on.
"Hopefully the concert is just an amazing concert of people coming together and a really exciting line-up," he said.
For the creative director, the 2021 festival will be bittersweet as he moves on after five years with Junction.
"For me, it's especially very special," he said.
Junction will also run a series of free workshops - from July 12 until 15 - to help participants create songs about what is most important to them in the lead up to the concert.
Participants will have the chance to record or perform their creations at the festival concert in September.
Facilitating the workshops will be professional writers and musicians Tash Parker, Teri Young, Asher Warren and Tessa Lee.
Parker, a Launceston-based songwriter and visual artist, said she had not previously been involved with Junction, but was excited to be a part of the 2021 festival.
"I think it's really important, especially for young people, to have an opportunity [like the workshops] to learn how to express their emotions and own stories," she said.
"It will be interesting to see how these songs develop over the course of the week."
Parker said her advice to attendees would be to not have any expectations of what the outcome of the song would be, but to enjoy the process.
The workshops are open to anyone aged 14-25, and can be applied at Junction's website through the Songs For Our Planet section of the program - as can the choir.