Time Signature, A work by 3D Animator Olaf Meyer and composer Derek Shiel is a series of playful approaches to the sound and light duality.
Electric Light Orchestra are a rock band Formed in 1970. Their music is characterised by a fusion of Pop, Classical and Futuristic soundscapes, great tracks include:Don’t Bring Me Down-Turn To Stone-Mr Blue Sky and Xanadu - Come learn 1970 dance moves The Hustle, The Bus Stop The Bump and The funky chicken and on the hour we perform a MASS ELO DANCE PARTY
Watch the wonder spread when award-winning sisters and opera sensations Kirilie and Ruth Blythman come together, with the talented projection artist Michael Carmody, to create a truly immersive and evocative performance. Using the expressive music of Ricky Ian Gordon as a canvas, Silver Rain explores themes of nature, community, creativity and time, found in the words of famous American poets including Langston Hughes, Dorothy Parker and Emily Dickinson.
Also at 6:10pm.
The souls of past lovers will be lighting up Geelong for one last waltz of passion. Award winning pianist and composer performs a live improvised based programmatic composition for classical piano and shadows.
Electric Light Orchestra are a rock band Formed in 1970. Their music is characterised by a fusion of Pop, Classical and Futuristic soundscapes, great tracks include:Don’t Bring Me Down-Turn To Stone-Mr Blue Sky and Xanadu - Come learn 1970 dance moves The Hustle, The Bus Stop The Bump and The funky chicken and on the hour we perform a MASS ELO DANCE PARTY.
Big Word of Mouth is storytelling at its best, with no notes, no props and nothing to hide behind. But someone is not telling the truth and it’s up to the audience to find out which Big Mouth has their ‘pants on fire’. A heartwarming and fun story slam.
At Geelong After Dark see the combined talents of Boomulele, Dunolly Street Band+ Mel-Tones (including Kurnai/Gunai elders) and The Zamonistas bring their colour, sound and joy to the streets of Geelong. If you like what you see and hear please join us for a Fiesta in the West Park, Geelong West tomorrow Sat May 6 at 11am for a free community parade and fiesta!
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.
Presents: The Secret City
This promenade street performance shines a light into the hidden world of culturally diverse Geelong. Take a fun journey along dark alleyways into the lives of young people of colour in Geelong who are grappling with who they are, who they want to be and what it really means to assimilate.
Photographer: Nicola Dracoulis
SURFCOAST OLD TIME STREET ORCHESTRA (SCOTSO), THE FOOTSCRAY ACOUSTIC MUSIC ENSEMBLE (FAME) AND THE PRAHRAN ACCORDIAN BAND
Proudly part of the Community Music Victoria Street Sounds Project
At Geelong After Dark enjoy the charm and community spirit of the SurfCoast Old Time Street Orchestra, the Footscray Acoustic Music Assembly and the Prahran Accordian Band. If you like what you see and hear please join us for a Fiesta in the West Park, Geelong West tomorrow Sat May 6 at 11am for a free community parade and fiesta!
Electric Light Orchestra are a rock band Formed in 1970. Their music is characterised by a fusion of Pop, Classical and Futuristic soundscapes, great tracks include:Don’t Bring Me Down-Turn To Stone-Mr Blue Sky and Xanadu - Come learn 1970 dance moves The Hustle, The Bus Stop The Bump and The funky chicken and on the hour we perform a MASS ELO DANCE PARTY
Follow Havana Palava on an adventure through the streets at Geelong After Dark and be introduced to some more of the fabulous street bands of Victoria. If you like what you see and hear please join us for a Fiesta in the West Park, Geelong West tomorrow Sat May 6 at 11am for a free community parade and fiesta!
An experimentation with how to make an urban space become interactive through touch, Matt Bonner's projection encourages audience participation through interaction between the environment, the people and the technology.
The projection on City Hall will become a composition of sound and light which will be triggered by the human touch to create a live experience.
City Hall becomes Activ8ed.
Write Acts presents original and classical readings by a panel of readers; spoken word including poetry, beat poetry, prose and performance writing inspired by the event theme The Sound of Light.
A 30min show repeated each hour.
Spoken word artist Nicole McKenzie explores the sound of light through performance poetry. Is grief blaring ambulance lights or a barely there dull blue globe? Is love fairy lights jumping or the only street light in a deserted town?
Nicole uses light as a tool, a metaphor, an explanation.
Venture into the Carousel at night to discover it in a new light.
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.
Riffs and rhythm. Squeaks, shouts and smiles. Tunes blast out. The band moves as one (almost!) as they lead the parade. Or play on the street corner. Or as they rehearse together on a rainy Tuesday night in their local community hall. You know the feeling. Playing in a band, singing and making music with others is something special. Hearing the rhythm drift down the street always increases your heartbeat. And playing at a street band festival is simply thrilling!
Harpist Christine Middleton plays her own composition on a beautiful glowing gothic harp. Be prepared to travel on a meditative journey through sound and light.
Electric Light Orchestra are a rock band Formed in 1970. Their music is characterised by a fusion of Pop, Classical and Futuristic soundscapes, great tracks include: Don’t Bring Me Down-Turn To Stone-Mr Blue Sky and Xanadu - Come learn 1970 dance moves The Hustle, The Bus Stop The Bump and The funky chicken and on the hour we perform a MASS ELO DANCE PARTY.
Watch the wonder spread when award-winning sisters and opera sensations Kirilie and Ruth Blythman come together, with the talented projection artist Michael Carmody, to create a truly immersive and evocative performance. Using the expressive music of Ricky Ian Gordon as a canvas, Silver Rain explores themes of nature, community, creativity and time, found in the words of famous American poets including Langston Hughes, Dorothy Parker and Emily Dickinson.
Also at 8:40pm.
The Butterfly Effect - stories can change the world. Open your hearts. Expand our minds. Tell us your remarkable stories. Join us at Geelong After Dark for these five-minute storytelling adventures – about you, told by you, imagined by you. Presented by Skin of Our Teeth Productions and 94.7 The Pulse FM.
An interactive artwork that can be seen from great distances and interacted with intimately.
Artist Joel Zika invites participants to explore fantastic mural projections using digital controllers. Façade uses new techniques to create a projected animation that is revealed as participants wave digital flashlights towards this public canvas.
Connecting Song is an initiative to support unsigned acts by teaming them with mentors to write a song inspired by a place on the 80km Mountain to Mouth arts walk. Their songs have been recorded and the video clips created which will debut at Geelong After Dark. The mentors are Geelong’s best in the business: Adalita (of Magic Dirt fame), hip hop artist Trem One and highly respected musician Tim Neal.
*Adult Content: Entry 18 years+
‘Seed’ - A light installation sculpture produced by Artist/NSC teacher Suyin Honeywell with NSC students and Somebody’s Daughter Theatre.
Follow the beautiful soundscape of clap sticks and piano into Johnston Park and walk around our glowing ‘Seeds’. This installation hold the sounds, dreams, words and memories of our young people. Join us and put your words in one of the pods and place a tea light candle around your chosen sculpture and make a wish.
An inter-dimensional sculptural rift consisting predominantly of air radiates energy as though it were alive. Its kinetic skeleton frames space with light, shadow and colour, questioning our interpretations of reality with a sense of wonder.
"Looking into Wonderland” by Jacinta Leitch, explores the relationship that is conjured from the story telling of parents to their children, a walk amongst an imaginary world seeking adventure much like “Alice”. A cluster of 22 giant illuminated mushrooms float up from the ground accompanied by a soundtrack of a magical night forest, awakening the sense of discovery apparent whilst walking within my instillation. (No flashing or flickering lights will be used, making my site a safe zone for those who suffer from epilepsy or seizures).
From a considered, synaesthetic audio-visual lock, to an infectious dance of audio and colour, libr_array is an energetic celebration of the sound of light. This project extends from an initial series of experiments (((20hz))) undertook for the City of Melbourne. These trials explored the idea of a music for the deaf – and the musical voice composers would bring to a work using hue and intensity, instead of frequency and volume.
Mobile Projector Bike – site responsive live light painting with musical accompaniment... and you can join in! Come and paint the walls of your city! Look out and listen out for the sight and sounds of Projector Bike in and around zones 1 & 2!
Merinda Kelly, in collaboration with Soraya Mobayad, Yasmin Mobayad, and a range of local artists and lowercase poetry will present an exciting, interactive laneway installation which responds imaginatively to the City and its current state of de-industrialisation. Experience for yourself the colourful and illuminating voices of workers and poets. Delight in an abundance of material objects once desired and loved. Join us to explore and re-imagine your urban future in real time.
PARTICIPATE: Bring along a small, non-breakable manufactured object that you no longer want, need or love to add to our totems to material culture. By placing your object inside the totem, you may be absolved of your material guilt!
