Rose first came to national attention with the Triple Award wining band Goanna. For over 30 years, on thousands of stages she has become known as a divine singer-songwriter and keyboard player. She delivers each rich note with a life times stage craft. Special Guest; Zac Barter on Bass.
Harpist, Christine Middleton, will play her own composition "She Moved Through The Air" accompanied by a series of moving images. Gentle ethereal vibrational air sounds move through the strings of the stationary harp, pre recorded at dawn on a deserted beach on the Bellarine Peninsula. A powerful relaxation sound journey...
Sarah Carroll, singer, guitarist and Ukulele Queen Of The Bellarine and her son George Wilson (TINY GIANTS, The Left Wing) will perform Airs, a heartfelt celebration of breath in song at Waterfront Kitchen. Harmony that's only possible between family.
Get ready to be mesmerised - because projection art is back at Geelong After Dark this year! Matt Bonner is the leading artist and he'll be showcasing his work on City Hall in Gheringhap St.
City Hall will be transformed into an organic living musical instrument (in an opening piece called "Breathe") and will be then transformed into a dream like surreal landscape with a haunting soundscape (in a piece called "Float") at the closing of Geelong After Dark.
For over 25 years, a locked wooden dresser sat in the family garage of broadcaster, Joel Carnegie - a once prized possession of his grandfather, Col Brain. Col was one of Geelong's most well-regarded musicians of his time - playing in and leading dance, swing, brass and jazz bands. But Col's dresser hadn’t been opened since he died. So what was inside?
Told through the eyes of his grandson, in a collaboration with the Geelong West Brass Band: herein lies the discovery of a time capsule of Australian musical life, in a quest to uncover what Col wanted us to know about his life, by the things he left behind...
This radio cabaret project will be recorded for broadcast on ABC Radio National.
3 performances: 6:30pm, 7:30pm and 9pm (show running time approx 28 minutes).
Image: Sarah Walker
After a sellout season in Geelong, 2015, HOMAGE TO THE MASTERPIECE celebrates two great artists Johannes Vermeer and Frieda Kahlo. Merging theatre, movement and narrative this intimate production allows an artistic immersion into the inspiration and private moments of the artists’ lives: Frida Kahlo and Johannes Vermeer.
Performance Times: 6.30pm & 7.45pm
Back to Back Theatre’s THE DEMOCRATIC SET is a residency model for creating short films and performances, to explore the belief that all people are, in principle, equal and should enjoy social, political and economic rights and opportunities. THE DEMOCRATIC SET uses a custom-made film set, a neutral room with two opposing doors.
The exterior steps leading to the Geelong Gallery from Johnstone Park will be transformed into a gorgeous rainbow of colour. Visit us to capture your brightest selfie and hashtag #loveisintheair #geelongafterdark to show your support for Geelong's LGBTIQ community.
'Jump Light' is an interactive piece by Ainslie Macaulay. All visitors of Geelong After Dark are warmly invited to engage with the 9 metre long illuminated skipping rope- an old day game in a more contemporary light.
Photographer: Jason Edwards
The information membrane will offer an new information gathering experience to ensure you don't miss a thing... Supported by Geelong Connected Communities look out for them in each Zone.
The most revealing moment you will have this After Dark, Presented by The Grand Caravan, Blood.Sex.Tears. is an interactive, immersive sound installation in two parts. It is both conversational and confessional.
Have you 30 seconds to talk about blood? A story containing sex? A knowing of tears? Receive instructions, then privately record your voice.
Brand Me Baby explores the commodification of digital intimacy and how this is redefining intimacy’s value via performative interventions. The duo roam around dressed in skin-toned body suits, enticing viewers to ‘brand’ their bodies with badges of pixelated logos.
Come on – Brand Me Baby!
KUBU Studio presents a pop up hypnotic video installation created by local artist Courtney Ward, aka Wallflower. The piece explores the entrancing ability of the element Air and how it connects all living things. Wallflower will also be live painting in response to the video on the evening. -- ‘Dame Nature’s breath mirrors the ebb and flow, the high and low, the rise and fall of every chest.’
The magic of a windchime made of upcycled materials, household items, jewellery, tin cans, bottles, cutlery, garden tools, pots and pans will transform Little Malop Street central.
This piece will create the musical sounds of an active, busy and bustling community.
Telematic Café opens up for the night providing sites to experience and produce new worlds. Test media and medium at venue 1 – explore stereoscopic (3D) film and collaboration on radio waves. Immerse in new realities at venue 2 – constructed artificial environments and space for communication with an artificially intelligent human. Various artists include: Japanese artist GOSHIMA Kazuhiro with his beautiful 3D film 'Shadowland'.
The human body is a wonderful musical instrument. The women of vocal group VIVA, along with special guests from 'Acabellas Fellas' will welcome Geelong After Dark go-ers into the GPAC foyer with their gorgeous harmonic voices, their surprising entrances and their entrancing colour and flair. Don't miss the chance to see VIVA and all their surprises.
An inter-dimensional sculptural rift consisting predominately of air radiates energy as though it were alive. It's kinetic skeleton frames space with light, shadow and colour, questioning our interpretations of reality with a sense of wonder.
Allow yourself to be submerged into a sea of luminous bubbles. A multi sensory experience exploring the fusion between air and water. Jasmine is an emerging artist who’s practice is focused on creating immersive experiences within the public sphere.
CHYA Laneway Jam promises to be a jam-packed night. Complete with a festival-vibe down a cosy laneway setting, audiences can expect live music and mural painting, hot donuts and coffee and can enjoy a contemporary art exhibition in the gallery space. Relax on the astro turf, grab a picnic rug or throw and settle in for a very chilled night of jamming.
Come and spin some tunes under the instruction of a top professional DJ in Little Malop St or just listen to others as you enjoy all the happenings in Little Malop St. Thanks to Real Music and City of Greater Geelong youth action teams, BYAC (Bellarine) and Fluke (Central Geelong) and Switch Youth Magazine.
The Carousel is proud to be a part of Geelong After Dark. Open from 6pm – 8.30pm on this special evening, come and experience a twilight Carousel ride! The Carousel will also light up in yellow to raise awareness for Road Trauma Support Services and support ‘Shine A Light’ on Road Safety.
Carousel Ride Prices: Children: $4.20 Concession: $4.20 Adult: $4.70.
This multi-media installation explores the idea of lifelessness; as both a state of mind and a way of escape. Sheer and penetrable walls confine the ‘self’ and act as a fragile barrier from the ‘other’. The light bulges at the seams of the cage-like structure, alluding to the domination of the internal self over the body.
Join in the fun and childlike play of drawing, painting and labelling in participatory performance artwork, Professional/Amateur. Complete with gentle clown-like humour, explore the funny side of the ever expanding context of art and theatre.
Geelong Gallery presents a series of inspiring activities and installations responding to the theme of air. Contemporary artist Chris Langton’s works will be displayed alongside groovy-beats by DJ Merv and air-focused activities for the kids. Geelong Gallery extends an after-hours exclusive invitation to view Land of the Golden Fleece — Arthur Streeton in the Western District at a special Geelong After Dark rate*.
A ghostly installation of rare and endangered Australian plants by Karen Richards. An installation of light reflective embroidery panels showcase endangered plants from around Victoria - with the light reflective thread only seen when hit by direct light...
Fantastical things happen at the National Wool Museum when the sun goes down and the lights dim. Classic silent films and prowls by amber light with Gertie the Dinosaur, The Ghost of Slumber Mountain and creatures of the dead zoo lurking nearby.
“Air” is an experimental installation by Melbourne artist Eben Greaves. It consists of large floating spheres, which navigate around the space with the aid of the audience. This represents the movement of air particles around our own bodies as we move.
Michael Morgan "Symbiotic Illusions" - surreal and beautiful worlds constructed within a group of fish tanks (some water-filled) that will feature different elements, lights, air bubbles, ice sculpture, and dry ice vapour.
Also including Deakin MotionLab artists' virtual reality interactive- movement mapping work (this is for participants aged 15+).
Mask Decorating workshop from 6pm-8pm on the Children’s and Youth floor (1st floor).
Harness the power of air and experience the talents of internationally celebrated operatic soprano Wendy Grose at Geelong After Dark 2016, in an inspiring pop up performance.
