Autumn Alive Closing Night Party
Event description
We're going out with a bang for Autumn Alive with our Laman Closing Party on Sat 21 May!
Moved indoors to accommodate for wet weather, Autumn Alive has the pleasure of closing out with the wonderful Newcastle-based rapper MEER, live DJ's and an interactive live art experience with Newcastle Art Gallery in collaboration with emerging artist Holly Macdonald and local transdisciplinary studio Art Thinking Australia. There will be a bar, and food available, with a free drink on arrival with your ticket!
MEER
Newcastle-based MEER is a Muslim Palestinian/Iraqi rapper originally from Auckland, NZ. Her raw, unapologetic and originality in music is breaking boundaries in the rap scene. MEER has a boundary shattering raw approach to hip hop, showering listeners buckets of attitude over thumping bass driven instrumentals. Previously gracing the stages of festivals such as Auckland City Limits, Splore and Laneway.
Interactive live art experience
Newcastle Art Gallery will be hosting an interactive live art experience in collaboration with emerging artist Holly Macdonald and local transdisciplinary studio Art Thinking Australia Inspired by 19th century Photogenic Drawings, Shadowgram brings this unique image making process to the digital age. Audiences will generate their own shadowgram portraits and display them on a large-scale work of art created by local artist Holly Macdonald.
Produced and presented by City of Newcastle and Newcastle Art Gallery in partnership with Art Thinking Australia.
Shadowgram Original Idea and Concept: Roland Haring, Matthew Gardiner, Christopher Lindinger, Hideki Ogawa / Ars Electronica Futurelab
Shadowgram Original Research and Development Team: Roland Haring, Hideaki Ogawa, Christopher Lindinger, Emiko Ogawa, Matthew Gardiner, David Stolarsky, Martina Mara / Ars Electronica Futurelab
Shadowgram Australia Producer: Kristefan Minski, Art Thinking PTY LTD.
Shadowgram Australia Unit Fabrication and Design: DavisThomas
The Autumn Alive Closing Party is a part of City of Newcastle's Autumn Alive program: a month-long celebration bringing the CBD alive. We've put together an exciting program of events in collaboration with Newcastle Museum, Civic Theatre, Newcastle Library and Newcastle Art Gallery while also highlighting our diverse and unique local businesses. Autumn Alive will be the only excuse you need to fall back in love with our city.
