Magical sights and sounds at Japanese Gardens

The gardens will come alive in a mini–VIVID Festival type experience at the Origami Garden Art.

Naughty Noodle Creative Director Glitta Supernova said the night would fold art with sound, layering live music with mesmerising light and visual projection.

There will be DJs, food curators and performance art from dusk and into the night across multiple outdoor spaces.

Headliners Global DJ duo Stereogamous have performed at Glastonbury and Burning Man and collaborated as producers with artists such as George Michael, Kylie, Grace Jones, LCD Sound System and Electric Fields.

They will bring the dance party vibes in between the live music and performance sets and will play alongside projection artist David Hoare and visual artist Thomas Pullar. These artists will bring the trees alive with 3D visual displays.

Live music acts will be local band the Strange Paradise Quartet, Sydney-based electronic musician Dyan Tai and soulful crooner Imbi. Performance artists Canoe and Glitta Supernova will wrap the audience in worlds of story, absurdity and costuming as they explore memory, place and belonging.

The Honest Cook will offer traditional Sichuan dumplings and bao buns handmade on the night using only Australian prawns, beef, pork, chicken and lamb and there will be a pop-up bar and nibbles.

Dress in your best garden party gear and bring your own festival seating and picnic rugs.

The outdoor event will move inside to Gosford Regional

Gallery should it rain. The event will be held between 5pm and 11.30pm on Saturday, April 15.

Bookings are available online only at naughtynoodle.com.au/ whats-on.

Source: Media release, Mar 27 Naughty

Feast of chamber music in newly renovated Robert Knox Hall

Two of Australia’s leading chamber musicians, cellist Georg Pedersen and concert pianist Phillip Shovk, will return to Central Coast Conservatorium of Music in Gosford on April 2 for a special Charmian & Friends concert to mark the reopening of the renovated Robert Knox Hall.

he fundraising event is the brainchild of Central Coast Conservatorium of Music patron, acclaimed Australian violinist Charmian Gadd, and will be the first concert held in the new-look auditorium which has undergone a makeover as part of the Conservatorium’s recent upgrades.

The two will perform Beethoven’s Cello Sonata no. 2 in G Minor, Chopin’s Cello Sonata in G Major and Brahms Cello Sonata no. 2 in F Major.

Gadd said she was looking forward to making the Charmian and Friends concert series, previously held at Greenway Chapel in Green Point, a regular fixture in the newly-renovated hall.

“We are grateful for the good years of music making that enriched our years at Greenway, but as the Chapel is now no longer available for our weekend offerings, let’s start a new chapter in Robert Knox Hall,” she said.

“The Con is looking quite different – welcoming and warm in its retained stone and basic structure.

“Audience members would do well to leave a little extra time to arrive and have a look around.

“Robert Knox was quite a complex and interesting figure, designing golf courses, playing and making violins.

“He was teaching in Gosford and looking for somewhere to start a music school when the old courthouse fell vacant.

“According to his own tale he more or less simply occupied the building and persuaded the powers-that-used-to-be in those days to turn it into a Conservatorium.

“It has gone from that point to where it is today with the help of a lot of great people to whom we owe such a lot.”

Light refreshments will be served in the interval in the historic courtyard at the Con –a former police station and courthouse.

Money from ticket sales will go towards the Conservatorium’s successful scholarship program.

The event will also see the launch of the Con’s Take a Seat campaign, giving supporters the opportunity to own a piece of Central Coast history by “buying” one of the new fixed seats in the refurbished Robert Knox Hall.

Donors will have a special and limited opportunity to have their name on a plaque on one of the new 72 permanent seats.

Phillip Shovk and Georg Pedersen in concert will be held at 2.30pm on Sunday, April 2.

Tickets are available at www. trybooking.com/CGSBN.

Source: Media release, Mar 27 Central Coast Conservatorium