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!

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.

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.

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.