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.
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.
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.
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.
‘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.
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!
Tape art is an artwork created with adhesive tape such as duct tape or packing tape. It developed from urban art in the 1960s, as an alternative to the widely spread use of spray cans in the urban art scene. For Geelong After Dark, young people working with the Youth Development Unit at The City of Greater Geelong and Blender Studios will use ‘reflective tape’ to complete a surprise mural in Police Lane (side of GPAC) come and watch the mural progress and guess what it might be.
Viewers will be met by books illuminated and arranged to form pathways on the sidewalk. Positioned among the books will be desks where people can participate by writing their vision of the future. The foyer of city hall will be transformed into a blackened space where a projected river of words gleaned from Geelong constituents will use text to illuminate the void and create an enchanting riverscape of possibility.
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.
The dead are among us. Join Back to Back Theatre in an immersive installation of psychic forces and materialisation.
The movement of sound.
The sound of movement.
The movement of light.
The light of movement and sound.
Live sound-scape construction, contemporary dance and light manipulation meet in Andy and Luigi’s multifaceted work, which seeks to bring to light the flux between the contemporary and the everyday, whilst exploring the interconnectivity of sound and movement.
Light Conversations (Gallery Ground Level)
Is an experimental and immersive installation that focuses on incidental interactions between the audience and the light and soundscapes that unfold. Light conversation draws on the very notion of “The Sound of Light” in that it removes the significance of the spoken word all together, replacing it instead with a perception of mood and sensation.
A Collaboration between Courthouse Youth Arts and Somebody’s Daughter (Theatre Level 1)
From the steps of CHYA you will be spirited into the theatre, to a time before colonization, before bricks and the ‘law’ - before the Before. Join us as we march the streets leading to Courthouse Youth Arts. Blend your voice with those voices that echo from the streets of old.
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.
Did you know GPAC also has an incredible art display? Come and view the current sculpture on show Eagle Eye, a collaboration by Cinnamon and Rowan Stephens, created from steel and found objects.
Year 12 VCAL from Saint Ignatius College will be displaying an edgy and emotive exhibition showcasing stories and photographs of those who are from our local community. This exhibition will touch on Homelessness, LGBTQ+ and Racism. Our hope is to raise awareness to the community and to inform others to create a deeper understanding of these complex issues.
Come find the City of Greater Geelong’s youth groups BYAC and Switch Magazine to get your face stencilled in glowing colours, free and fast.
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.
The Peace Memorial in Johnstone Park lists the names of thousands of locals who served in military conflicts over the years. But what are the stories of the actual people whose names are listed on these honour boards? This soundscape and the accompanying projection brings to life some of the soldiers and nurses who served in World War 1. It tells parts of their stories and honours their contribution.
Pop into Geelong Gallery after hours and experience the Gallery as it comes to life. Explore Luminous relic a major new collaborative painting and moving image work by artists Mandy Martin and Alexander Boynes, together with a score by Tristen Parr and performance by Laura Boynes. Fun family activities include a pop-up cinema provided by Projector Bike, Arts Adventure, art-making activities, live music and a pop-up bar and café.
It is not enough for a CircArts performance to entertain an audience, a Circarts performance must change an audience. A CircArtists performance is designed to engage an audience at a mindful level prompting curiosity, emotion and disbelief. CircArts has an underlying performance philosophy enhancing mindfulness through movement. This mindfulness not only ensures performer safety and skill consideration during all acts it also facilitates in-the-moment expression by performers further engaging an audience.
We limit ourselves by believing that we can only experience the world with five senses... Eugénie English presents her first work of 2017 ‘Misguided Senses,’ through contrasting combinations of location, sound and movement she delivers an exciting film exploring a new perception of environment and contemporary dance.
On the hour from 6pm.
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.
Discover Geelong After Dark through The Amazing Arts Adventure. Children will love this fun and interactive journey of discovery through central Geelong. Complete all tasks and go into the draw for some amazing prizes!
