'Vivid Festival' Sydney

Curator Brian Eno has overseen a walk of lights and the illumination of the iconic Sydney Opera House! The Festival runs until June 14th and now the rain has gone away the 'House' looks brilliant.
The lights include white and pink cubes outside Customs House, various effects on the Museum of Contemporary Art wall, a coloured space and the blue light rings around some trees which are powered by exercise bikes and passers-by!

Check it out here.

Check out the 'Lighting the Sails' webcam of the Opera House here.

I'm hoping to see the 77 million images free display in the Studio tomorrow at lunchtime!!

These things don't always cause me to think 'church property' but on this ocassion my thoughts are how it wouldn't be hard to make some of our least accessible buildings quite noticeable by asking how we might curate spaces in a way that makes them welcoming, creative and engaging?

From the simplicity of Trinity Wall Sts 'Neighbours' life sized photo display to projecting images on a prominent wall... what if for every Lent, Advent, Pentecost etc you simply lit the building with colour, images, looped audio... opened a hall with refreshments, a labyrinth, some contemplative stations and ways people could express questions, feelings, intercessions... throw in some fairwear topical t-shirts and fair trade products stall, Uniting World project audio-visuals and suddenly your a community space adding value to your local area with no agenda other than just that...

My folks congregation serves food each week to about 80 people in their 'Munch' program... they also have a small nativity scene with handouts and family decorated Christmas Trees in their inner city church. I have suggested a looped dramatic reading of the Chritmas narrative and maybe a 'stories' video with some of the 'Munch' regulars sharing their story and their Christmas reflections on video... I guess I'll have to go and video it to make it happen!!