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.

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.

Join the Urban Upcycle team at Market Square to make your very own tea light lantern using recycled materials, to light up your path at Geelong After Dark.

What really is happening in Geelong’s rich soils? As the sun goes down, and we rest our feet… up pops giant treasures of precious mushrooms, golden colourful toadstools with sounds that merge gracefully creating a night of beauty.

10min shows with 45min intervals

This interactive performance demonstrates the concept of light as elements of clothing, movement and sound. Rather than the artist requiring the spotlight, this art performance piece explores the artist’s use of light to entertain and excite an audience.

An installation by artists Sean Loughrey and Anne Scott Wilson, aimed to entice the senses in a theatrically staged, thunderous light show. The project features performances by the Geelong Harmony Choir “singing the storm”. The ames Street Bakery becomes a stage for a multi-media artwork and live performance in an event for all.

2 x 15min acts at 7.30pm and 8.30pm

Join us at the craft stations on Level One of the Geelong Library and Heritage Centre to create your own glow-in-the-dark spin drum as part of the sound and light experience at this year’s Geelong After Dark.

With the help of The New Joneses and their Tiny Home pop-up, The Future of Housing event will challenge the way we build our homes and suburbs and help us envision what Geelong’s homes will be like in 30 years. We will look at global trends in housing; technology; and energy saving, and explore what these mean for homes of the future.

An interactive installation that creates mesmerising waves of light across the night sky.

As all things are made of waves and particles, this work explores the nature of reality and the part wavelengths play in its formation.

Come and encounter a rhythmic force of energy, light and sound, that will activate your senses in a playful experience for all ages.

Steve Thew is a singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist from Geelong in Victoria Australia. With his versatile vocal range and masterful skill on the acoustic guitar, banjo, harmonica and piano. Steve is a true blue Aussie entertainer, capable of capturing the hearts and minds of his audience in a way that only a truly humble and seasoned performer can.

An interactive media artwork, The Storytelling Machine instantly transforms the public's drawings into animated characters that roam the artwork's worlds. Ultimately The Storytelling Machine presents a collective story. Come along and be involved in Australia’s first exhibition of this creative technology experience. The Storytelling Machine was co-produced under sponsorship from the Asia Culture Centre and the ACI (South Korea). The development of The Storytelling Machine was supported by the City of Melbourne; the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria; the Copyright Agency Cultural Fund; the City of Port Phillip through the Cultural Development Fund and the Exertion Games Lab.