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.

9pm. The Listening:

Experience a ritual, then enter a soundscape where three simple words interconnect and collide.

A musical act combining the uplifting sounds of the Tides of Welcome Community Choir and their collage of personalities and voices, with the raw energy that comes from layered rhythms as performed by The David Robertson Drummers using the Djembe (African hand drum)… a remarkable synergy that captivates audiences with each performance.

Ukuleles are the electric guitar of this generation! Join the ukulele crazed musos from ‘Ukes D’Jour’ and channel YOUR inner Uke player! Join the Band! Sing, Shake or Strum and let’s make ‘MUSUKE IN THE AIR!’ Geelong’s Biggest Street band hits the streets once more!

Western Edge Youth Arts presents Of Longing and Belonging, two new performances on May 12th and 13th at Courthouse Youth Arts, Geelong. Both performances weave between sharp, surprising comedy and physical theatre, exploring ideas about local and global identity from the unique perspective of Geelong’s youth.

Aïr-thereal is a unique acoustic infusion drifting on airwaves and weaving this world to another. Resonating with Middle Eastern, Asian and Celtic influences and set amongst a luminous installation, the artists, Lisa Singline, Sandy Dickinson and Stephen Oakes, play an instrumental accompaniment including Handpan drum, harmonium, guitar, vocals and percussion.

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... 

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.

7pm The Voicing:

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!

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'.

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.

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.

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...

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+).