SHINE 2010
SHINE 2010
Sunderland will be seen in a new light as part of the dazzling SHINE 2010: Urban Garden festival. This exciting free family festival (January 22-31) will transform venues and spaces across Sunderland, including a fun and interactive floor projection by KMA in Sunniside Gardens. There will be dramatic projections of giant plants and insects onto buildings along Borough Road, Fawcett Street and Athenaeum Street. The interior of Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens will be transformed into a magical light show that will be sure to excite all ages. So be sure to come along and have some fun!
For further information please visit www.sunderlandevents.co.uk
For free tickets to events please visit:
Sunderland Tourist Information Centre, 50 Fawcett Street, SR1 1RF
Tel: 0191 553 2000
Sunderland Tourist Information Centre, 50 Fawcett Street, SR1 1RF
Tel: 0191 553 2000
Please note that entrance to the light and sound installation at the Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens as part of SHINE is only accessible on the evenings of Monday 25, Wednesday 27 and Sat 30 January however all these dates are now fully booked.
Audiences still have the opportunity to view all the other outdoor work (without booking) until 31 January - (EXCEPT 'The HIVE' in Sunniside Gardens, which won't be accessible on Thursday 28 January).
Guiseppe Davies' exhibition in the Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art can be seen during normal opening hours and special late opening on Saturday 30 January until 7.30pm.
All details of the programme including dates and times of individual exhibitions can be found on the website www.sunderlandevents.com where an exhibition leaflet and map can be downloaded. Leaflets can also be picked up at the participating venues, Sunderland libraries and the Tourist information centre.
SHINE 2010 events at Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens
Winter Gardens by Night
Hi-Lights
Location: Interior of Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens
You are invited to enter the Garden and walk into a fantasy forest with growing trees, magical lights and unusual sounds. The experience last for approximately 15 minutes and you will be dazzled and amazed as you see the garden in a new and exciting way.
Location: Interior of Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens
You are invited to enter the Garden and walk into a fantasy forest with growing trees, magical lights and unusual sounds. The experience last for approximately 15 minutes and you will be dazzled and amazed as you see the garden in a new and exciting way.
This is your chance to experience the world from a different perspective. Once the sun has gone down, it's time for a different light to take over. Colour, spirals around the roof of the dome, hundreds of LEDs hanging from the structure of the roof, like the stars, glistening in the evening sky. The structure of the glass dome, itself illuminated from the exterior, like the evening sky, is visible from miles around, acting as a beacon drawing people to the light.
Wallflowers
Andrew Richardson
Location: Projection on Facade of Museum & Winter Gardens,Borough Road
Inspired by the elegant patterns, botanical forms and structure of William Morris wallpaper designs, the Wallflowers project seeks to create ambient digital decoration which introduces the elegance and beauty of arts and crafts design into digital programming-based work. The shapes and forms are programmed to take on the behavioral qualities of the botanical forms they represent, moving and swaying in response to the movement of the viewer. The final piece of work will transform the outside of the Winter Gardens building with moving decorative patterns which resonate with the architecture of the exterior and echo the botanical collection within.
Location: Projection on Facade of Museum & Winter Gardens,Borough Road
Inspired by the elegant patterns, botanical forms and structure of William Morris wallpaper designs, the Wallflowers project seeks to create ambient digital decoration which introduces the elegance and beauty of arts and crafts design into digital programming-based work. The shapes and forms are programmed to take on the behavioral qualities of the botanical forms they represent, moving and swaying in response to the movement of the viewer. The final piece of work will transform the outside of the Winter Gardens building with moving decorative patterns which resonate with the architecture of the exterior and echo the botanical collection within.
Pillars of Light
Suzi Brown, Urban Bird
Location:Entrance Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens
For Suzie, illustration bears the fruit of her imagination. Suzie has a political conscience and a love for the environment and outdoors. Light and colour and how public and visual environments can be enhanced to make life more pleasurable and interesting motivate Suzie. Pillars of light are designed to make you feel happy, to enjoy the shapes and the colours and to want to follow a path that the pillars lead you to.
Location:Entrance Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens
For Suzie, illustration bears the fruit of her imagination. Suzie has a political conscience and a love for the environment and outdoors. Light and colour and how public and visual environments can be enhanced to make life more pleasurable and interesting motivate Suzie. Pillars of light are designed to make you feel happy, to enjoy the shapes and the colours and to want to follow a path that the pillars lead you to.