DATES_
(lost toy story)_
Date 22nd August 2008 - 24th August 2008
Tags event, Australia, Hurstville, interactive, festival
Imagine...
“It’s Thursday night in Hurstville and crowds are coming home from work or racing to late nite shopping at Westfields. Scattered down the footpath are giant nightlights – fluorescent super sized caterpillars, glowing ‘big dolls’ with gleaming blonde hair, a massive magic fish grinning in neon pink and royal blue. Young performers emerge from the street – breaking from the crowd and staring into the air – spinning off – forming a mob that chants for victory, weeps for the loss, grins and plays with toys once lost and forgotten. Other young people film the chaos on their phones, beaming it live to the Shopfront.org.au website and Youtube. Others stop shoppers at random, asking for stories about lost toys, taking polaroids, writing the memory down on the back, recording short snatches of the interview for a touring exhibition in regional centres and further a field in national festivals and events. On the street, people old and young are connected by stories of how easy it is to lose the things most precious to us.”
WHAT: (lost toy story) is a free multi-media interactive arts festival on the streets of Hurstville in late August 2008. Part installation, part sculpture, part art exhibition and part public celebration, (lost toy story) explores the real stories of lost toys, lost hopes, lost friends and lost fears across generations and cultures in the very public forum of the Hurstville CBD.
(lost
toy story) is an unique and timely event in the heart of Hurstville
CBD, it follows hot on the success of last year's massive and award
winning: A City of Shadows and Ice in Kogarah Town Square. Over a
thousand people attended this event in the two days it was performed
and its anticipated even more will attend (lost toy story) over the
three day span.
| 6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. | Friday, August 22, 2008 |
| 6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. | Saturday, August 23, 2008 |
| 6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. | Sunday, August 24, 2008 |
WHERE: (lost toy story) will take place on the streets of Hurstville.
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