White Night Melbourne 2016
- Written by Victorian Government
White Night: Illuminations. Credit: Craig Silitoe
Music, food, film, art, and light will combine to create a genuine urban adventure right in the heart of the city, when White Night Melbourne returns for its fourth year. Australia’s only all night celebration of culture and creativity will open up the city with local, national and international artists and works from 7pm to 7am on Saturday 20th February 2016.
The 2016 program will present major Australian and international artists with performance, illuminations, art installations and music in and on some of Melbourne’s most iconic spaces including the Royal Exhibition Building, Federation Square, Melbourne Town Hall, Melbourne City Baths, Arts Centre, State Library, National Gallery, Melbourne Museum and ACMI.
Must-see performances, installations and projections include:
Circus Circus Presented by VicHealth at the Melbourne Museum Plaza, celebrating Victoria’s long history of circus with international and local artists performing for 12 exhilarating hours with gravity defying acrobatics, heart-stopping aerials and breathtaking feats of physicality, strength and daring.
Award-winning young Indigenous artist Josh Muir will present Still Here, an illuminating artwork telling a story of Aboriginal people in Victoria on the expansive façade of the National Gallery of Victoria.
Acclaimed Melbourne artist Lisa Roet will bring her own vision of monkey magic with Golden Monkey to Melbourne Town Hall.
In a White Night Melbourne special collaboration, the Royal Exhibition Building will once again be transformed by Portuguese lighting and projection artists OCUBO, this time in partnership with the Ballarat and District Aboriginal Co-operative Pitcha Makin Fellaz reinterpreting traditional storytelling in an exciting contemporary project.
Melburnians will be invited to unlock Arts Centre Melbourne secrets and mysteries with two interactive installations that put the audience in control. Cmd Ctrl, Decipher will for one night only, from the forecourt podium, let audiences take command of this iconic landmark and create a 162 metre light show of their own.
Down below at the Melbourne City Baths, White Night favourite, Craig Walsh will empty the pool of bathers and transform it into an aquatic breeding ground with Incubator.
From the Boogie Woogie and the Boogaloo to Bollywood or Ballroom, Breakdancing or Burlesque, the White Night dance marathon will be back. Trip The Light Fantastic for 12 hours of choreographed chaos in the massive open air dance floor of Birrarung Marr.
Federation Square will come under the spotlight within Wonderland as internationally acclaimed Indigenous artist Reko Rennie transforms Melbourne’s favourite meeting place into an electric canvas of light and sound with Federation2.
Grooves on Bourke Street for the cool cats and hip dudes and Live on Lonsdale will go live and loud with musos spanning pop to rock and everything in between for the night long.
In 2016 the precincts will include The Big Top at the Carlton Gardens, Royal Exhibition Buildings and Melbourne Museum. Northern Lights from Lonsdale Street north to RMIT, State Library of Victoria and the Melbourne City Baths. Monkey Business will incorporate the CBD, Flinders Lane and Bourke Street Mall, Wonderland will again be located at Flinders Street, Federation Square and Birrarung Marr and Southern Lights will include the NGV, Arts precinct, Alexandra and Queen Victoria Gardens.
The full program will be available in late January and public transport will run all night with timetables also available in late January.
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Media enquiries: Kerry O’Brien at Kerry O’Brien Publicity, kerry@kob.com.au, +61 418 256 503
