EVERYTHING that is weird, wonderful and eccentric about the Australian bush will feature at Ballarat's White Night on March 17.
Innovative and original works like the Ghosts of Eureka street art, Dreamscape, Techtonic Grounds, the Magic Lantern Tree, Blink and Post-Colonial Women in the Landscape will illuminate Ballarat's historic gold-rush buildings, showcasing the central Victorian city as never before.
Skyline drone imaging will be used to create Ballarat from Above, while the Town Hall and Craigs Hotel projections will create masterful displays of colour as White Night takes over the streets, public spaces, landmark buildings and cultural institutions from 7pm-2am.
White Night artistic director David Atkins said the aim was to challenge perceptions and conventions. "It should captivate and motivate, incite and inspire. It should be uplifting and exhausting and it should shock the senses and lift the spirit."
Last year's inaugural White Night Ballarat saw crowds of 40,000 filling the streets and adjoining laneways of Sturt and Lydiard.
Staging White Night in Ballarat, less than two hours by car or train from Melbourne, gives people the opportunity to enjoy the spectacle away from the Melbourne White Night crowds, which number in the hundreds of thousands.
