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Tree of Codes - BALLET
Jan 2018, Sydney Festival

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Wayne McGregor, Olafur Eliasson and Jamie xx collaborate on a dazzling contemporary ballet

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Immersive , walk through labyrinth at Fed Square

ARBORIA
Inspired by the shapes and form of the forest, you will wander through its luminous tree-like structures, see the patterns of leaves and branches above and hear and hear a soundscape, which originated in the Ecuadorian Cloud Forest.

Each dome bears its own stylised leaf motif rendered in graphic simplicity, yet its centre dome is an interpretation of the tall Gothic windows and arching columns of Chapter House at York Minister, UK.

ARBORIA is created by Alan Parkinson of internationally acclaimed Architects of Air (UK) and is one of a series of Luminaria, which are inflatable structures designed to generate a sense of wonder and enchantment.

Touring Australia in association with Insite Arts, ARBORIA will exhibit in Melbourne only at Federation Square.

https://concreteplayground.com/melbourne/arts-entertainment/federation-square-getting-inflatable-walk-labyrinth-summer/

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Interactive Alice in Wonderland exhibition coming to Melbourne
ACMI - April 5 - Oct 7 2018

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When Lewis Carroll first sent Alice down the rabbit hole back in 1865, he couldn't have guessed just where she'd end up. While the English mathematician-turned-writer obviously knew she'd be wandering around Wonderland, that was just the beginning of her white rabbit-chasing journey. Countless film, TV, comic book, game, stage, music, music videos and ballet adaptations have taken the famous character far and wide - and, come 2018, she'll be stopping by Melbourne.

From April 5 to October 7, the Australian Centre for the Moving Image will pay tribute to all things Alice in Wonderland, the centre's major exhibition for the year as part of the Victorian Government's Melbourne Winter Masterpieces series. A world-premiere event crafted and curated by ACMI, the entirely original showcase will take fans through the screen history of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There - aka the two Carroll-penned books that introduced not only the titular heroine, but the Mad Hatter, the Cheshire Cat, the hookah-smoking Caterpillar, and food and drink with "eat me" and "drink me" labels.

Proving a date you won't want to be late for, fans can follow Alice on her voyage through more than 40 cinema and 30 television versions, as well as through popular culture in general. Spanning her first big screen appearance in 1903 to 2016's Alice Through the Looking Glass, the exhibition will step through her different guises, and the technologies that have brought her story to life, all in an interactive, experiential way. That includes animation, puppetry, live-action cinema, video games, CGI, 3D and more, as well as playful environments, digital activities and behind-the-scenes glimpses.

"With Wonderland, ACMI has created an interactive exhibition where audiences will explore the magic of film craft and its integral role embedding this much loved story in our imaginations for generations," explains ACMI CEO and director Katrina Sedgwick.

Given ACMI's two on-site cinemas, it's safe to assume that an enchanting lineup of Alice in Wonderland films will also feature.
Wonderland will run 5 April to 7 October 2018 at Melbourne's Australian Centre for the Moving image. For more information, or to buy tickets from November 30, visit acmi.net.au/wonderland.
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A World-First Interactive Alice in Wonderland Exhibition Is Coming to Australia

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Tianjin Binhai Library by MVRDV

MVRDV just completed the Tianjin Binhai Public Library, a spectacular cultural center that's unlike any library we've ever seen. Created in collaboration with local architects TUPDI, the 33,800-square-meter library features floor-to-ceiling bookcases that cascade in curves around a luminous spherical auditorium. The undulating bookshelves and layered ceiling gives the cavernous library a distinctive sci-fi feel accentuated by the giant illusion of an eye visible from the outside.

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China's new futuristic library is unlike any we've seen before

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MVRDV just completed the Tianjin Binhai Public Library, a spectacular cultural center that's unlike any library we've ever seen. Created in collaboration with local architects TUPDI, the 33,800-square-meter library features floor-to-ceiling bookcases that cascade in curves around a luminous spherical auditorium.

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London's Best Immersive Art Exhibitions:
Ryoji Ikeda, ‘Test Pattern No12’ at 180 The Strand, free.

Olafur Eliasson, ‘Room for One Colour’ at the National Gallery, £14-£16.

Haroon Mirza, ‘Chamber for Endogenous DMT (Collapsing the Wave Function)’ at the Zabludowicz Collection, free.

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As you walk into the exhibition at 180 The Strand, you soon realise why you've been instructed to remove your shoes. Part of a wider series of similarly immersive works, Ryoji Ikeda's 'Test Pattern No12' encourages visitors to walk over a vast, white canvas while beams of light are projected in binary patterns from above. Accompanied by an intense electronic soundtrack, soothing visual patterns shift into irregular flashes, transforming the dark room into a surreal and disorientating space. I found the experience totally engrossing and, by the looks of all the smiles around the room, so did everyone else. Go early to avoid the queues!

Olafur Eliasson, 'Room for One Colour' at the National Gallery, £14-£16.

As the final work in the National Gallery's recently opened 'Monochrome: Painting in Black and White' exhibition, Olafur Eliasson's 1997 installation explores the show's theme in an entirely sensory manner. Using a specific type of lightbulb that obliterates the colour spectrum, 'Room for One Colour' gives visitors the remarkable experience of seeing only in shades of one colour. As you first enter the room, your brain begins to furiously compute the vivid yellow light, but before long, your entire vision appears in monochrome. Light and shadow become more pronounced and, just like everyone else in the room with you, you start to freak out at the bizarre and fascinating sensation.

Haroon Mirza, 'Chamber for Endogenous DMT (Collapsing the Wave Function)' at the Zabludowicz Collection, free.

While all the other installations here explore the idea of sensory overload, a new work in Haroon Mirza's current exhibition takes an entirely different approach. Individual visitors are invited to sit or lie down in a small, heavily soundproofed room (or 'anechoic chamber') shutting out all light and noise to create a state of sensory deprivation. Experiences within the chamber can vary massively for participants, with some describing hallucinations and others simply enjoying the peace and quiet. For me, five minutes felt like 30 seconds: the complete darkness was weirdly calming and never before have I heard the blood rushing through my ears.
By Aggie Torrance @agathatorrance Find more art to see by clicking here.

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As you walk into the exhibition at 180 The Strand, you soon realise why you've been instructed to remove your shoes. Part of a wider series of similarly immersive works, Ryoji Ikeda's 'Test Pattern No12' encourages visitors to walk over a vast, white canvas while beams of light are projected in binary patterns from above.

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Corporate World/Wank - immersive pop-up sensory wine tasting

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After taking over an abandoned hotel in Sydney last year with overgrown flora, creeping vines and moss-covered furnishings, Stoneleigh moves to Melbourne this year, opening the doors of its new project, The Stoneleigh Project. The project invites the public to explore the winemaking and wild fermentation processes and to taste the New Zealand winery's range of Wild Valley wines. Through a series of meticulously designed rooms and installations channelling nature's elements, you'll be met with an immersive walkthrough of New Zealand's Marlborough region where Stoneleigh is produced. You'll also find numerous wine tasting stations, which have been paired with unique, interactive experiences inside each room - feel a river rush by as you enter, interact with bubbles that turn to smoke when touched. All five senses have been considered as the installation introduces visitors to Stoneleigh's world of wild fermentation through natural sites taken from Marlborough, textures from the Stoneleigh riverbeds, sounds of the river lapping at the shore, wafts of Wild Valley sauvignon blanc and, of course, flavours of the winemaker's signature wild fermented wines.

Take a look inside.

THE RIVERBED WALKWAY

Putting you in the heart of a flowing river, the riverbed walkway symbolises the birthplace of Stoneleigh's vineyards, north of the Marlborough region. Today, the vineyards are paved with ancient river stones from the Wairau - New Zealand's longest river. The river snakes through the fertile plains of the region, making it an important, life-giving force at the vineyards. The stones capture the warmth of the sunlight during the day and remain warm during the cold Malborough nights, heating the vines and allowing the grapes to continue ripening.

LIGHTSCAPE OF ENERGY

As you make your way to the next room, you'll be greeted by a sunny lightscape, drawing on the fuel and energy the sun brings to the Marlborough region and the important role it plays in warming the river stones. You're encouraged to experiment and play with the various mirrors on the floor and walls to make the light bend and refract around the room. You're also prompted to step onto the plinths washed with light. Here you can photograph your own view of the lightscape as the raised sections produce unusual lighting and shadow effects.

A LOOK INSIDE PINOT NOIR

Acclaimed Berlin artist Susi Sie is the brains behind this particular installation. Creating a fascinating visual piece for the installation, Sie zooms in on Stoneleigh's Wild Valley Pinot Noir and brings to life the textures and complexity that wild fermentation produces. The fermentation process is enlarged under a microscope and displayed as a hypnotic visualisation.

THE WILD FERMENTATION ROOM

Playfully calling upon the natural wild yeast in Stoneleigh's fermentation process, this room is filled with bubbles - which you're encouraged to pop. When touched, the misty bubbles burst into a cloud, showing just how spontaneous the winemaking process was before modern intervention. The lighting changes colour and the speed and volume of the bubbles will increase or decrease depending on the number of people interacting with the display. A single wall plaque credits the main artist of the room: Nature.

THE SECRET DINING ROOM

An intriguing part of the installation is the secret dining room hidden behind a one-way mirror, allowing you to see into the space, but not out. Created for special events, the dining room will be transformed into a meeting point of the four elements as we host two exclusive dinners on October 26. Our 'Four Elements' wine tasting and dinner invites 12 of our readers (and their plus ones) to drink and dine with us in an exclusive experience featuring a menu specially curated by head chef Tim Newitt of Collingwood's Project Forty Nine. To snag your seat, enter our competition here.

THE WINE BAR

Finally, at the culmination of the exhibition, there's a rustic, leafy wine bar: a cellar door experience in which you can sit back with a glass of Wild Valley wild fermented wine and a charcuterie platter. If you're strapped for time, you can purchase a bottle of Stoneleigh to take home and enjoy.
Find The Stoneleigh Project at 524 Flinders Street, Melbourne from October 13 until November 5; 4pm - 10pm Monday to Friday and 12pm - 10pm Saturday and Sunday. Images: Chris Middleton.
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A Look Inside A Huge, CBD Pop-Up Installation Exploring Art and Wine

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in partnership with After taking over an abandoned hotel in Sydney last year with overgrown flora, creeping vines and moss-covered furnishings, Stoneleigh moves to Melbourne this year, opening the doors of its new project, The Stoneleigh Project. The project invites the public to explore the winemaking and wild fermentation processes and to taste the New Zealand winery's range of Wild Valley wines.

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Somerset House - Perfume

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Live stream Website
https://livestream.com/accounts/25396887/events/7534573

Daily Podcasts
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/somerset-house/id1254173457?mt=2

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Talks/workshops

Online videos - meet the makers

Blog
https://www.somersethouse.org.uk/blog

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Multi-sensory exhibition featuring ten extraordinary perfumes and their pioneering creators, who have radically changed our perceptions of fragrance over the last 20 years. Discover a vibrant new perfume scene, the contemporary cult perfumes shaking up scent culture and the unseen works of art worn on our skin.

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FESTIVAL OF THE ECSTATIC

Supersense is a contemporary performing arts festival exploring planes of ecstatic experience.

Created and presented by Arts Centre Melbourne in association with peripatetic curator and performer Sophia Brous, Supersense presents a 3-day durational 'festival-as-theatre' where an immersive labyrinth of Arts Centre Melbourne's underground walkways, venues and performance spaces is transformed, creating an experience of wonder, excitement, curiosity and entranced surrender.

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Supersense is devoted to exploring the many planes of perspectives of ecstatic experience. How do we achieve and seek out ecstatic states of being in a diverse and contemporary society? The ways we seek out transcendence speak to a collective instinct for precious encounters that take us into a place of revelation and transcendence – towards the ecstatic. The means through which we do this – through punk, devotional music, free improvisation, dance, movement and extremity – are what Supersense is all about, seeking out experiences of ecstatic wonder.

Supersense is a space for these contexts to be explored and above all enjoyed, perhaps giving rise to new planes of the ecstatic.

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A 3-day contemporary performance festival exploring planes of ecstatic experience.

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Supersense is a contemporary performing arts festival exploring planes of ecstatic experience. Created and presented by Arts Centre Melbourne in association with peripatetic curator and performer Sophia Brous, Supersense presents a 3-day durational 'festival-as-theatre'.

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Hack The Senses
Hack the Senses explores state-of-the-art thinking about perception and sensory science. Our enthusiastic team brings together a multidisciplinary group of thinkers, makers, artists, researchers and science engagement professionals. We design immersive, multi-sensory experiences to deepen appreciation of the richness of perception and to probe its boundaries - and go beyond them.

DR. WELLENTINE'S EMPORIUM OF SENSORY CURIOSITIES
(blind date on valentines day?)

MULTI-SENSORY X-MAS BAZAAR
Multi-sensory games and explorations in the heart of Budapest

http://www.hackthesenses.com/index.html

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London's Discovery Centre, list of kids projects

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Discover Children’s Story Centre and charity is the UK’s first hands-on creative literature space
for children aged 0-11 years and their families dedicated to generating a love of language,
literature and stories. Based in Stratford, east London young Story Builders enter a labyrinth
of environments designed to stimulate curiosity and imagination.

Our Purpose
To provide excellent creative, play and learning experiences for all children to support and
develop their imagination, creativity and curiosity.

Mission
The mission of Discover is to extend the benefits of the arts to all children and their
communities. We work to fulfil our mission by providing authentic hands-on creative
experiences for children with authors, illustrators, artists and our Story Builders both in
our interactive story centre and in the community. We are committed to celebrating the
artist in every child and promoting access to the arts for all children regardless of ability or
socioeconomic status because we believe the arts are critical to child and youth development
and to strong and vibrant communities.

Our Distinctive Offer
We have expertise in producing high quality interactive shows and experiences for children
aged 0-8, in parks, schools and venues.
Over the past thirteen years we have honed our experience in producing events for family
audiences working with partners such as Live Nation, BBC, Newham Council, Tower Hamlets
Council, BBC MediaCity, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, The Orbit and the V&A. As well as
producing in-house block busting exhibitions, festivals curated by Anthony Brown and Michael
Rosen and events every day in our venue which include storytelling and arts and crafts.
All our events are delivered by our energetic Story Builders, who are specifically trained to
work with families. The following events have been developed in conjunction with a director and a designer

1) Glitterbugs

2) The Cat in the Hat

3) The Librarian

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Neighbourhood Challenge, New York

The Neighborhood Challenge competition pairs nonprofit community organizations and tech companies to create and implement tools that address specific commercial district issues.

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The NYC Department of Small Business Services, along with partners New York City Economic Development Corporation and New York City Business Assistance Corporation, are proud to offer the Neighborhood Challenge Innovation Grant competition.

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In Paris. Taking viewers back to the surrounds but in the past.
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Pipilotti Rist
https://www.mfah.org/exhibitions/pipilotti-rist-pixel-forest-and-worry-will-vanish/

And her exhibition at Museum of Contemporary Art - Sydney (2017/18)
https://www.mca.com.au/pipilotti-rist/

https://concreteplayground.com/sydney/gallery/look-inside-mcas-hypnotic-new-pipilotti-rist-exhibition/
Over the past 30 years, Pipilotti Rist (b.1962) has achieved international acclaim as one of the pioneers of experimental video art and multimedia installations. Incorporating video and sculpture, her dazzling environments plunge viewers into colourful kaleidoscopic projections which explore the relationship between nature, the body and technology.

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Pipilotti Rist: Pixel Forest and Worry Will Vanish

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Pink Floyd at V&A
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Artwork where artist bashes someone up. Participants watch on VR
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Lightning in a Bottle Festival

MOVA Gallery is pleased to return to Lightning in a Bottle in collaboration with 360Dome.Pro to bring you an all new Immersive Art Experience. Featuring the latest in Full Dome 360 Digital Projection Technology, this year’s installation will include even larger projection systems with seamless 4k resolution and both interior and exterior projection mapping. - See more at: http://lightninginabottle.org/experiences/immersive-environments/#sthash.f9H3WqHG.dpuf

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At Lightning in a Bottle, you have a unique opportunity to stumble upon many experiences outside of the musical stages that are full of lively, participatory fun and shenanigans. The interactive areas at LIB truly allow you to lose yourself in an entire universe of play. From fully immersive environments to roving interactive stations and pop-up art car environments, be sure to take some time to stop by and drop into an entirely different world that will make your LIB experience unforgettable and uniquely yours. A few of the immersive areas you can look forward to this year are the Lightning Inn, the Giggle Juice Cafe at the Lost Hotel, The Tea Temple and returning for their 8th year, and (of course) The Grand Artique.

The Grand Artique
Photo by Watchara
The Grand Artique returns to Lightning in a Bottle for the 7th year in a row! Bringing back to life their town of Frontierville, a fully immersive Trading Post/General Store, hotel, gypsy encampment and a heavy hitting music line up that will have you ripping up the dance floor deep into the night. The Grand Artique is one interactive area and stage of LIB you don't want to miss out on! Don't forget to dig through your treasures and bring something to trade! See you at The Grand Artique!

Amori's Casino & Burlesque
Photo by Watchara
Drop into Amori's Casino & Burlesque, and immerse yourself in a sensual feast of love. Wander in and experience an eyegasm of live burlesque and cabaret, gaming, wandering characters, live bands, fire shows, DJs and shenanigans. Open every night for your late night cravings. Come join in the festivities with three-time Mayor of LIB and reigning Mayor of Love, Paul E. Amori!

Lightning Inn by The Imagine Nation

Photo by Watchara
Check into this boutique hotel experience comprised of a labyrinth of rooms full of interactivities and play. The Lightning Inn is a beloved improv theater offering rooms filled with delight and play. The experience features playful employees to guide you on your journey as you seek and find clues to the mystery inside.

Sitcommune by The Fungineers
Photo Courtesy of the Fungineers
The Fungineers have created a poppin' paradise to play with you in! It's a psychedelic hip-hop puppet show for adults in a cozy magic zoney zone. Featuring special sensations and fresh feelings, like interactive improv, short films, commercials, popcorn, snug sax, lessons n lots o' loungin'!

The Gong Sanctuary
Photo by Daniel Zetterstrom
Lay down & relax to receive the sound vibrations of singing bowls, gongs and chimes as they guide us into a deep meditation. The healing vibrations pass through our bodies, opening blockages and allowing our minds to quiet. A wide range of ancient world traditions from Confucianism to the Pythagoreans' claimed that sound could not only "tune the soul" but affect our cosmological & social worlds as well. The physiological impact of sound on the body, emotions & cognition is apparent. Through the vibrations of these instruments, we experience an inner calm and deep relaxation that enables us to journey within and center.
Learn more about why you should experience the Sound Healing at LIB here!
Giggle Juice Cafe at the Lost Hotel

A nomadic guest experience offering a full-service restaurant, juice bar, and an interactive journey like no other. The Giggle Juice Café The Rancho is the gateway to this experience. The Rancho offers the opportunity to explore culinary landscapes that rejuvenate your spirit with a full menu that includes: juices, smoothies, salads, and their signature dish sexy eggs.

To make a reservation for their unique fine dining experience click here. Inquire about booking a cube at LIB at frontdesk@thelosthotel.com.

The Tea Temple by Om Shan Tea
Photo by Jasmine Ibarra
Back again for their 8th LIB, Nestled in the heart of The Compass area, The Tea Temple returns to bring warm cups, open hearts and the conversation dreams are made of. Get ready for aromatic blends that are both rejuvenating and calming, for a taste of something truly special where a casual passerby can become a dear friend.

Highlove Vitality Elixer Lounge

Tempt your taste buds with exotic elixirs at the Highlove Vitality Elixir Lounge, day and night. Delicious hot and cold beverages are accompanied by bursts of dazzling entertainment on our glittering stage. Enjoy the impressive lounge experience, as an immersive theatrical escapade unfolds around you. Twisting comedy and burlesque with cirque and music, education and entertainment.

Black Rock Observatory
Photo Courtesy of Black Rock Observatory
Showing the universe as art is an admission that the truth is sufficiently beautiful and that it deserves our attention. Black Rock Observatory strives to show participants the incredibly glorious vista of the planets through a telescope. There's a beautiful moment when the participant's worldview expands to include the planets they learned about in school. They're not just fairy tales or abstract concepts anymore. It's real. Sometimes this can be terrifying. It's always awesome. Lines often form. There's also a calming sense of scale that comes along with observing the sky, making the observer feel small, even humble.

MOVA Gallery
Photo by Gilles Kali
MOVA Gallery is pleased to return to Lightning in a Bottle in collaboration with 360Dome.Pro to bring you an all new Immersive Art Experience. Featuring the latest in Full Dome 360 Digital Projection Technology, this year's installation will include even larger projection systems with seamless 4k resolution and both interior and exterior projection mapping.

The Jive Joint

The Jive Joint is a destination, discovery, and journey all wrapped up into one. This interactive art installation features a colorful, New Orleans style house. Groove out to the jazzy, funky, soulful tunes produced by Super Tall Paul's legendary on the spot musical looping. Comedic and bizarre Jive Joint characters provide genius improvisational entertainment creating hilarious memories to last a lifetime. Magic, unicycle, juggling, nose whistle, silly contests, freestyle rapping, finding love, special guests, and even you may be a featured moment on the Jive Joint stage.

Natures NEST
Photo by Daniel Zetterstrom
For anyone adventurous enough to hike up to the Meditation Lookout, a riddle of a sculpture known as the New Earth Star Temple (NEST) can be found blending organic materials and human ideas in a seamless interweaving of spirits and ideas. This space is designed as a sanctuary for peace, mindfulness, contemplation, healing, and grounding amidst the wild excitement of the festival. Some who go there find rest, others find a scenic view of the landscape and a few even find new friendships that form around shared wonder.

Lightning in a Paintcan

Join us in welcoming Lightning in a Paintcan for its 11th year at Lightning in a Bottle 2017! After envisioning and refining the festival live painting concept over the last 10 years, this year we're innovating, pushing the live painting experience to be more visible and accessible for festival goers.

Get ready to buy choice art while you meet and observe the most talented live painters in the festival scene! We are again, hand selecting an intimate group of Artists who will create smaller more affordable works throughout the festival! Watch as your favorite artists transform wooden panels into incredible paintings over the course of the event! We will also feature 8 large scale mural works in designated areas. These will be for sale, but also made affordable and accessible online after the festival with the creation of signed print editions.

The White Library - A New Area Debut

Announcing an interactive living art installation designed by Jade Mangiafico and his team of Arterians! Imagine a world where every surface is a canvas for your imagination and your dreams to find a home. A home where the walls are filled with the thoughts and ideas of great thinkers, poets and lovers. Allow yourself to see further into an environment that started as a single thought and over the span of a few days has blossomed into the colorful concepts of thousands. If your mind can allow it you will find a piece of yourself in... The White Library

2nd LIB Invitational Soap Box Derby
Photo by Daniel Zetterstrom
LIB's invitational soap box derby returns for its second year! Last year's inaugural derby saw more than 20 teams race to the finish line in some really wild wheels including a banana-shaped soap box and a wheel barrel tub equipped with a rubber ducky and all. Come see what kooky ideas are built this year! Registration is not open to the public, but come on down and take part in the spectacle!

When: 2-5 p.m. Saturday (car line up and parade 1:30pm)
Where: On a steep hill in between the Woogie and Compass peninsulas, smack dab in the middle of the festival.

Do-Over! Beauty Salon & Barber Shop
Photo by Daniel Zetterstrom
Need a new look?? Search no further than the Do-Over! Beauty Salon & Barber Shop. But be warned, the wheel of misfortune will dictate your future. 😉 Be charmed by our stylists, LA Sirenes, who will be offering mini-makeovers, haircuts and style tips. Fou Fou Ha! brings the laughter, games and some surprises you are not to forget!

When: 2-5 p.m. Saturday (car line up and parade 1:30pm)
Where: On a steep hill in between the Woogie and Compass peninsulas, smack dab in the middle of the festival.

Mega Skee Ball w/ New Belgium Brewing Company
Photo by JORG Photo
Calling all skee ball masters! You may have been the champ at your local arcade or county fair, but will your skills hold up on a 70-foot lane? We've got the beloved Bijoulette clown troupe on the lanes cheering for you, while our friends at New Belgium Brewing Co set up delicious tastings. Come test your skills and challenge your friends to declare the real master.

1-7p.m. Friday-Sunday When:
Where: On the boat ramp in between the Thunder and Lightning stages
Photo by Daniel Zetterstrom
Late Night Speed Dating

The world is your oyster and at LIB we want you to meet your lobster. 🙂 You'll never know who you will connect with at our Late Night Speed Dating nights. But you only have a few minutes with each person, so make sure you ask the right questions. Find a friend for the weekend or the love of your life.

When: Midnight-3 a.m. Thursday-Sunday
Where: In the Learning Kitchen
Photo by Guru
LIB MustDash 5K Run

This year at San Antonio Lake you better bring your racin' shoes along with your mustache game! We invite you to register and take part in the inaugural LIB MustDash 5K Run! This is no ordinary race! Runners will be lining up at the starting mark dressed in their wildest costumes and twirling their fierce mustache-o's. Don't forget to tell your squad on the sidelines to support and dress the part! To enter the 5k Run, register here.
Photo by Juliana Bernstein // Get Tiny
After Dark Karaoke

Talent is not only found on our big stages, but right there inside of YOU! Come show us your singing chops at our After Dark Karaoke in the ditch! Practice those high notes and get stretched for those dance moves, at Karaoke with KJ Paul everybody is a star.

When: 9:30 p.m. - sunrise Thursday-Sunday
Where: In the ditch underneath the LIBridge
Photo by Jacob Avanzato
LIB Fire Flow Zone hosted by Fire Groove Gear

Just because the sun will go down for the night, doesn't mean that we can't have some fire in the sky. For the second year in a row, Fire Groove Gear will be hosting a safe and interactive space for LIB's many fire performers. After an opening performance, the circle will open up to the public and give the community a chance to show us their talents and participate in the fire jam.

When: Thursday-Sunday 10 p.m. - 4 a.m. + 10 p.m. opening performances
Saturday - Love in the Fire Collective
Sunday - West Coast Eclectic Arts
Where: At the Fire Circle adjacent to the Pagoda
Featured Image by JORG Photo
Come see more of the wonders that await you at LIB!

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Interactive Environments + Experiences - Lightning in a Bottle

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Museum activities for kids

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National Maritime Museum, Second floor, Ship Simulator

The ship's interactive bridge simulator brings to life the excitement, difficulties, hazards and skills of handling ships at sea. Join the crew and experience the sights and sounds of the vessel in operation, from the bark of the captain's commands to the vibration of the ship's engine.

You could find yourself at the helm of a fishing boat navigating buoys in New York Harbour, following a helicopter rescue mission to a sinking vessel, navigating a frigate into position off Sydney shores or steering a P&O ferry into port in Dover.

The simulator is based on the software used to train captains of P&O and the coxswains of the Royal National Lifeboat Institute. Through five interactive screens, visitors use real navigational equipment, electronic charts and radars to make their way through scenarios that are graded to suit the expertise of the users. Points are scored based on your performance.

The Ship Simulator gallery is open to families every weekend, on Tuesdays and during school holidays.

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National Maritime Museum, Second floor, Ship Simulator The ship's interactive bridge simulator brings to life the excitement, difficulties, hazards and skills of handling ships at sea. Join the crew and experience the sights and sounds of the vessel in operation, from the bark of the captain's commands to the vibration of the ship's engine.

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Ragnar Kjartansson (exhibition The Barbican 2016)

Exhibition info:
Bringing together live performance, music, film, painting, sculpture and drawing, this long overdue solo exhibition is the first in the UK to survey the work of the internationally acclaimed Icelandic artist, Ragnar Kjartansson.

Born into a family of acting professionals and having grown up backstage at the Reykjavik City Theatre, Kjartansson’s work combines his experience of stage traditions with experiments in repetition and endurance. Clichés and motifs of Western culture, romantic melancholy and even his own conception, provide the personal and often playful subject matter of the artist’s emotionally charged work. Having successfully represented Iceland at the 2009 Venice Biennale and participated in 2013 with standout works, Kjartansson is now at the cutting edge of contemporary performance art. The exhibition centres around the immersive and moving multi-channel video installation The Visitors (2012) and Take Me Here by the Dishwasher: Memorial for a Marriage (2011) a live performance full of romance and humour featuring ten troubadours singing for up to eight hours a day, every day for the duration.

Ragnar Kjartansson will present these spell-binding and multi-sensory experiences amongst a wide-ranging survey, perfectly-timed to shine a spotlight on one of the contemporary art world’s most exciting and evolving artists.

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Most impressive piece was The Visitors
Audio and visual artwork, playful use of video, hypnotising, immersive recreation of performance

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Ragnar Kjartansson - The Visitors - John Curtin Gallery 2015

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Bjork Digital (London 2016)
VR exhibition

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Björk constantly and consistently challenges the status quo, pushing the boundaries of what is possible in music, art and technology. The exhibition at Somerset House invites visitors to engage with her work through the latest in virtual reality (VR) technology.

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Discover Centre (London). Childrens Story ~Centre

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Let your imagination run wild at the UK's first Story Centre Your Day Pass to Discover includes entry to our fantastic Story World and Story Garden. On top of your Day Pass you can book entry into our storytelling sessions and interactive family exhibition. Visit our Events

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New Radicals
Awards for change-makers making society better

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Meet the 50 radical-thinking individuals and organisations changing Britain for the better.

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Summer in the City - YouTube event

Summer in the City is an event for the YouTube community that is held in London each year. The event is for everyone with an interest in online video, whether they be creators, viewers, or industry professionals looking to gain more of an insight into the YouTube community.

Since its inception in 2009, Summer in the City has allowed attendees to network with one another and create valuable links, whilst also having the chance to learn and be entertained with our Talks, Panels and live performances. These activities, combined with our meet and greets, also allow our special guests to engage with viewers and personally thank them for all of their support over the years.

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Tom Burns, David Bullas and Summer in the City are proud to announce that the 10th of August 2018 will mark the inaugural International ...

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Working on my novel

Collection of tweets that include the words 'working on my novel'.
Made into a book

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Working On My Novel is about the act of creation and the gap between the different ways we express ourselves today. Exploring the extremes of making art, from satisfaction and even euphoria to those days or nights when nothing will come, it's the story of what it means to be a creative person, and why we keep on trying.

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A Hollow Body
A Hollow Body  is a cinematic experience, a soundtrack for the city. An interactive mobile app with specially composed music score and narration guides you and a companion on a journey through the City of London. Commissioned by the Museum of London as part of their Sherlock Holmes exhibition programme, this is not a typical history walk or tourist guide. Imagine walking through a film where you are the main characters; the streets and narrow alleys of London acting as your cinematic backdrop.

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a hollow body | a cinematic experience through the city of london

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A Hollow Body is a cinematic experience, a soundtrack for the city. An interactive mobile app with specially composed music score and narration guides you and a companion on a journey through the City of London. Commissioned by the Museum of London as part of their Sherlock Holmes exhibition programme, this is not a typical history walk or tourist guide.

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Grammations

Challenge: Can stories and animations make learning grammar more interesting and accessible?

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Can stories and animations make learning grammar more interesting and accessible?

That's the question we gave one of our out-of-school groups a few months ago, and they answered with their collection of playful 'Grammarmations' videos.

Since January, our young storytellers, supported by a team of enthusiastic volunteer mentors, have been experimenting with animation, creating 3D and 2D stop-motion videos about everything from a musical octopus to interplanetary travel.

The groups then spent a lively few weeks revising their knowledge of punctuation, sentence construction and word classes, before each group of children chose an area of grammar to focus on, devising a story to illuminate it, conjuring up stories to help younger children understand key ideas.

Characters and storyboards at the ready, a team of professional animators then turned these ideas into lively animations, voiced by the children and premiered at the St John the Baptist Primary School.

One young viewer, Seth, aged 7, said that he'd recommend the animations " to lots of different people because they're really exciting and they've got lots of emotional bits in them. ".

Sarah Lowden, Assistant Head at St John the Baptist Primary School, had lots of ideas for using the animations in the classroom: "What an amazing effort from the SJB MOS club - we're so proud and impressed by their ideas and more importantly, the messages their videos give."

So, if you're confused about commas or anxious about adjectives, find out more from the Rhinocedactyl, Mr Fuller and other characters created by our imaginative young writers.

We'll be posting a new video online each day this week: children, parents and teachers, click here to see them!

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Grammarmations are Go! - Ministry of Stories

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That's the question we gave one of our out-of-school groups a few months ago, and they answered with their collection of playful 'Grammarmations' videos. Since January, our young storytellers, supported by a team of enthusiastic volunteer mentors, have been experimenting with animation, creating 3D and 2D stop-motion videos about everything from a musical octopus to interplanetary travel.

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Herstory

zines / education / feminist

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Alice Wroe can remember exactly where she was the moment she realised history had been duping her. She was studying and listening to an episode of Woman's Hour about an exhibition at the Women's Library.

"The presenter was talking through all of these different events and women from history, and over the top was the song from Mary Poppins that goes,'Our daughters, daughters will adore us and they'll sing in grateful chorus well done sister suffragette'. It may be partly due to my childhood nostalgia for that film, but I was totally overwhelmed and realized I never felt or said 'well done' to the suffragettes or any of the women that had come before me, but rather saw myself in some kind of vacuum just arriving at the life I was living."

Feeling left out and let down by an education system that had airbrushed out the stories of incredible women, Alice started doing her own research and was instantly inspired. "Women started cropping up in so many areas of my life, these incredible people that made me feel bigger, fuller, taller take up more space in the world. I then started to feel angry, and let down by my education system that it had taken me this long to feel this sense of belonging and empowerment."

Alice took all that energy and frustration and created Herstory, a participatory art project that uses feminist art - vibrant punk-infused collage and zines - to engage people with women's history. The project started in schools with workshops inspired by The Dinner Party, a feminist art piece by Judy Chicago that commemorates 30 woman from the past. With Alice as their lead, the students sit around bright tables and adopt the persona of a historical woman, proudly recounting their journey - as an activist, or aviator, or pioneering poet - in the first-person for their peers.

"History has generally been passed down from one white, straight, wealthy man to another and then once written down becomes fact, and sneaks into our classrooms," says Alice, who remembers one group in particular who clambered at these untold tales. "I had no one who wanted to be Emmeline Pankhurst, I had no Rosa Parks, not one Rosalind Franklin. I had three Claudia Jones, four Sylvia Riveras and three Nettie Honeyballs! They were hungry for new names, a new history, they didn't want the same women who get ceremoniously wheeled out. They pushed me to be braver with my choices."

But it's not just kids that want history redressed. Alice now runs Herstory workshops for adults, including events at the Tate and the Southbank Centre, and is working to spread the message through talks. She's also contributed to issue one of Orlando, a new magazine inspired by identity politics and alternative culture, which launches at the Book Club, Shoreditch on 19 April, 2016.
Why are women's stories so under-represented - and is the problem confined to just our schools?
School is important because it's the place where lots of us are built, where we gather ourselves and a sense of who we are in relation to the rest of the world. The underrepresentation of women is not an issue confined to schools, but rather the lack of women in the curriculum is a symptom and also a cause of living within a patriarchal society. I think schools are in a unique position, where they can be a significant part of a solution. If at a young age, the world is presented to students as a place for everyone, a place that was created and sustained by people of all genders, if all students could see themselves in who they're taught, to my mind they will leave school and build a world that reflects this experience.
What's at stake when women's stories are overlooked or even erased from history? What impact does it have on kids, society etc?
Being inspired is important, that feeling of being so full of someone they float you upwards and move you forwards. But women's history can offer us more than that, we need it to puncture patriarchy, to bring us to our senses, shake us when we dismiss oppression as natural. We need women like Lily Parr to be talked about at football matches. Emmy Noether to stand and hold the hand of those on exam boards when they say there are no female mathematicians to put in the syllabus. Women like Frederique Petrides to cheer and whoop as students demands more women musicians in the curriculum. We need a whole host of women like Olive Morris, Marsha P Johnson and Sophia Duleep Singh to stand together and barricade Nicky Morgan's office door and say, 'Really?!'
Who are some of the inspirational women you've learnt about in your adult life?
There is so much at stake by overlooking the stories of women who've come before us, and so much to gain through centering them. It is through role models that our daughters will grow and through looking to the past that we will know their futures are possible.
Do you see this as a feminist history - or is that a narrow representation of what you're trying to do?
I like to think of the women I've learnt about meeting each other. I like to imagine what Evelyn Dunbar would make of the Jo Spence, both committed to making women's work visible. I like to think of Ruth Ellis having the Ladies of Llagollen at one of her and Babe's parties, or what Ada Lovelace and Margaret Hamilton would talk about over coffee. All of these women are inspirational, and complex and human- more human when you think of them in relation to each other.
Why are zines and collage art a powerful medium for this message?
What I am doing is feminist, proudly so. I think to add a preface to anything implies it is niche, deviates from the norm or appeals to only a small group of people. But for me feminism must be inclusive, it is BIG, it connects people and opens things up. Herstory cannot be anything but a feminist history and must be for everyone. To engage with women's history is a feminist act, to give voice to those voices who have been systematically silenced is political and is necessary. However, what I am doing is not a history of feminism, it is not a who's who's of Women's Lib but rather intends to open up space.

One of my students said when making zines in a Herstory session she felt she was 'doing' feminism rather than 'talking' about it. I feel the same. Women have been 'doing' feminism in this way for a long time. Victorian women had little access to public life, but scrap books enabled them to comment on it. cut it up and reshape within the confines of the domestic. Feminist zines shared across countries, little pockets of resistance permeating through culture, rupturing the mainstream, connecting bedrooms around the world, building feminist communities. In Hannah Hoch's photo montages it is the women who move, swoop, fly across the page, in her collages they are the agents of activity.
Do you think it's a good time to be a woman with a story to tell?
For me, collage is a feminist strategy, in a world where the way women's bodies are represented is so uniform, the confines of what is beautiful and acceptable is so narrow, to liberate the form and burst the body apart is a radical feminist act. The collages I make are part of a strong feminist tradition, but are meant to be a new way of remembering and relating to women from the past, an approach that centers their lives and experience rather than their bodies.
Orlando launches at The Book Club, Shoreditch, on 19 April, 2016. Tickets are available here. Follow Herstory on Twitter for forthcoming events, and check out their website here. Enjoyed this article? Like Huck on Facebook or follow us on Twitter.
I am delighted to find that there is a hunger for new stories, for an alternative cannon, for different points of departure and fundamentally for a more just way of living. Women's history is a good place to start. It is an exciting time to be a feminist, because we are everywhere. We are in work, in schools, in libraries, we are suddenly in films, in books, on stages, we are talking across countries, selling out tours, filling protests. We are supporting and celebrating each other, joining up, standing up. It is an excellent time to have a story to tell because people are really listening.

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Utopia 2016

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Lonely Planet Kids

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Inspire children to be curious and discover more about the world with our fun, colourful and quirky activities for families, teachers and bookshops.

Activities

Activity Sheets, Teachers Resource Pack

The Big Earth Book (UK)

This pack will get you thinking like a real-life scientist at home and comes with a​​​​​​ lesson plan to support KS2 teachers with non-fiction writing: exploration and discovery.

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Inspire children to be curious and discover more about the world with our fun, colourful and quirky activities for families, teachers and bookshops. Activity Sheets, Teachers Resource Pack This pack will get you thinking like a real-life scientist at home and comes with a​​​​​​ lesson plan to support KS2 teachers with non-fiction writing: exploration and discovery.

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Monster Supplies & Ministry of Stories

The 'Monster Supplies' shop funds the creative writing and mentoring program, Ministry of Stories

'Champion the writer in every child'

Shop has very creative products to buy.

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Purveyor of quality goods for monsters of every kind, established 1818.

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An ideas board. Digital or not. Any ideas welcome.

- for your ideas
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- examples of events for teens
- examples of digital products
- writing and publishing programs you're inspired by
And anything else that lights an idea in your mind!

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Now is the Time: Gaming a Better Tomorrow

Now is the Time is a two day participatory workshop led by Dash n Dem and Camila Gonzalez for 16-21 year olds, particularly those interested in politics, performance and technology.

“Take a speculative leap in time from the recent Brexit victory that has shaken, deeply divided and forever changed the future of the UK.  The year is now 2020 and the newly elected Conservative-UKIP coalition government has just announced ‘The Independence Day Reforms’ that include the total marketisation of higher education. A growing UK student movement has launched a new wave of mobilisation to fight and reclaim their future… which role are you going to play?”

The workshop will bring the tactical creativity of international social movements to Somerset House, hailing the rise of a new young people’s political language.  The event in part will be inspired by 2011-13 Chilean Student Movement that combined urgent political speech and entertainment in their fight for the right to free education.

Unfolding both in physical and digital space you will explore what it means to be a political actor in the twenty-first century, where the interaction between cyberspace and traditional public spaces produces new strategies and mechanisms for social change.

This is a two-day experience: Day one will take you through a series of playful exercises that introduce the culture of the game and underscore its themes and structure. Helping you develop your character, skills and relationships with the others playing. On day two you will fully immerse in the game, acting as your activist alter ego.

Suitable for 16-21 year olds only.