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White Night Melbourne and White Night Ballarat are the cities as you know them, but reimagined and transformed under the ephemeral cloak of night. From sunset to sunrise local, national and international artists, musicians and performers will weave a spell over the cities in a celebration of culture and creativity. The event transforms the impossible into the possible through installation, lighting, exhibitions, street performances, film, music, dance and interactive events.
‘White Night Melbourne’ returns for its fifth year from 7pm Saturday 18 February to 7am Sunday 19 February. From sunset to sunrise national and international artists, musicians and performers will weave a spell over the city in a celebration of culture and creativity. Under the ephemeral cloak of darkness the event magically transforms the City through installations, lighting, exhibitions, street performances, film, music, dance and interactive events.
Highlights include an awe-inspiring 5.5 metre puppet by A Blanck Canvas in the Alexandra Gardens, as well as Axiom by Melbourne-based artist Kit Webster. Axiom is a large scale structural installation, sculpted from a matrix of more than 700,000 LEDs, that explores the elements of light, sound, space and time. St Paul’s Cathedral will host a powerful collection of 24 portraits celebrating Indigenous faces of Ballarat with Black Face (Real Face), while a large illuminated white rabbits will take over with Intrude and if you look up you may catch a glimpse of The Medusa, a majestic jellyfish floating high above the park. Across the road at The National Gallery of Victoria a special projection installation will take you on a journey through the walls of the gallery with Viktor&Rolf – Inside Out.
‘White Night Ballarat’ will take over the streets and laneways of the city from 7pm Saturday 4 March to 7am Sunday 5 March. From sunset to sunrise, local and national artists, musicians and performers will take over Sturt and Lydiard streets and their adjoining laneways and buildings, making the city their canvas and their theatre. The event will inform, engage, excite and entertain through installation, lighting, exhibitions, street performances, film, music, dance and interactive events.
Highlights include Love This Way, a visual art installation by Melbourne-based artist Carla O’Brien that piques your curiosity and beckons you to explore. The Electric Canvas presents an architectural projection across several prominent buildings along Lydiard Street, encompassing three distinct themes relating to mid-1800s nightlife in Ballarat. Wadawurrung Walking with Waa invites you to take a walk through time from the Aboriginal Creation Story to the present day. Aunty Marlene and her daughter Deanne Gilson will project their paintings onto the walls of Ballarat, presenting their stories including an Aboriginal perspective of the goldmining era.
More Than 1 Nation is a unique collaboration that sees the stunning patterns and colours of the Pitcha Makin Fellas’ paintings, cut outs and stamps transposed by The Electric Canvas onto the former Bank of NSW building in Ballarat. Crate Expectations is a playful robotic sculpture made from vintage packing crates, moving furniture and disembodied limbs, performing a choreography of warped sound and sequenced lighting to draw audiences from the dark night into its warm, dreamlike glow.
For 12 brief hours in Melbourne and Ballarat, “we are such stuff as dreams are made on” – William Shakespeare.
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