Flinders Ranges Bush Festival

The Australian Government is proud to be associated with Flinders Ranges Bush Festival. This project was made possible by Festivals Australia, an Australian Government program which supports cultural activity at regional and community festivals. Through this program, festivals across Australia are able to present quality cultural events, providing greater access for more Australians to a wider range of cultural activity.

Our heritage buildings will never look the same as
Quorn Lights Up!

Quorn based multimedia artist Cindi Drennan (fresh from the Sydney Festival) collaborates with local artists and children to create a light and sound installation that will turn Quorn's public spaces into a night-time spectacle. This light show will occur for three hours on three nights of the festival.

The projectors will be located in temporary structures and wheeled into place at the start of each night's session. The artwork of the projection is created by three local artists. All artists participate in workshops to create illustrations to project onto the buildings. Additional workshops will be held with Quorn children to add other local elements such as sound, ideas and paintings.

Quorn Lights Up! - Schedule of events 2009

23 April 6:15 pm Lights Up at the Courthouse/Archive
                                  Building.
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24 April 6:15 pm Lights Up at the Town Hall front and
                                 Courthouse/Archive Building.

25 April 6:16 pm Lights Up at the Town Hall - Front and side

          7 - 7:30 pm   Special feature light show presentation onto
                                 Town Hall side.

26 April 6:10 pm Lights Up at the Town Hall front..

Some of the themes and influences of the projection content include: old photographs held in the collection of the Quorn Historical Society; local plants and wildlife; recipes incorporating bush tucker and regional produce collected for a new Country Arts project, "Community Flavours" which will be launched during the festival; and the best of "life in Quorn" as seen through the eyes of the residents.

These themes will light up the buildings, to add a celebratory and cultural contribution to the streetscape after dark, as people go to dinner, attend film screenings or pub entertainment.