Luminous Botanicus

Sydney Region
Red Centre
Garden
Northern
Eucalypt
Lawn
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Eucalypt
Lawn
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Rock
Garden
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Enlighten 2016
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Banks Building
Education Centre
Rainforest Gully
Crosbie
Morrison
Building
Cafe
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Luminous Botanicus II
‘Night Moods’
A moving experience of illumination,
music and visual presentations
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Visitor
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Program and Guide
Luminous
Botanicus II
Program
All evenings
Location
8.00 – 9.00pm
Drink or ice cream on arrival
Concourse
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8.30 – 10.30pm
Cocktails and Jaffles (cost applies) –
54 Benjamin
Eucalypt Lounge
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8.30 – 10.30pm
Sculptured wood exhibition
by artist Dirk Lejeune
Eucalypt Lounge
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8.30 – 10.30pm
Meet Your Neighbours – Outdoor
photographic exhibition by David Wong
Rock Garden
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Fri 4 March
Location
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8.00 – 9.00pm
Groove Warehouse – Drums
Rainforest Gully
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8.10 – 9.10pm
Leonard Weiss – Harpist
Water Garden
4
8.30 – 9.50pm
Bronwyn Kirkpatrick – Shakuhachi player
Water Garden
4
8.10 – 9.10pm
Marionette puppetry
Asteracae Garden
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8.30 – 9.30pm
Meet the Artist: Dirk Lejeune
Eucalypt Lounge
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8.30 – 10.30pm
No Hausfrau – Band
Eucalypt Lounge
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9.10 – 9.30pm
Elizabeth Ellis – Storyteller
Red Centre Garden
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Sat 5 March
Location
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8.00 – 9.00pm
Groove Warehouse – Drums
Rainforest Gully
2
8.10 – 9.10pm
Leonard Weiss – Harpist
Water Garden
4
8.30 – 9.50pm
Bronwyn Kirkpatrick – Shakuhachi player
Water Garden
4
8.10 – 9.10pm
PuppetOOdle Shadow Puppetry workshop
Rock Garden
5
8.30 – 9.30pm
Meet the Artist: Dirk Lejeune
Eucalypt Lounge
8
8.30 – 10.30pm
No Hausfrau – Band
Eucalypt Lounge
8
9.10 – 9.30pm
Elizabeth Ellis – Storyteller
Red Centre Garden
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Fri 11 March
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Location
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8.00 – 9.00pm
Groove Warehouse – Drums
Rainforest Gully
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8.10 – 9.10pm
Leonard Weiss – Harpist
Water Garden
4
8.30 – 9.50pm
Fiona Dawes – Shakuhachi player
Water Garden
4
8.10 – 9.10pm
Marionette puppetry
Asteraceae Garden
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8.30 – 9.30pm
Meet the Artist: David Wong
Eucalypt Lounge
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8.30 – 10.30pm
Veronica’s Boyfriend – Band
Eucalypt Lounge
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9.10 – 9.30pm
Elizabeth Ellis – Storyteller
Red Centre Garden
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Food and Refreshments for Purchase
on the Eucalypt Lounge
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Linger and enjoy the ambience of the night with a cocktail and late-night Jaffle
bar. Presented by hole in the wall bar 54 Benjamin. For more information visit
www.54benjamin.com.au
Red Centre Garden
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Long before the word astronomy was used, Aboriginal Australians were gazing into the
night sky – documenting events and weaving them into their Dreamtime stories.
Within these stories their Ancestor Spirits created the world, and when completed, they
changed into land forms such as trees, stars, rocks, water and plants.
Travel through the dry dessert and experience the dreaminess of the night. Storyteller
Elizabeth ‘Lizzie’ Ellis will tell bedtime stories which link culture and the Gardens.
Australian percussionists and director of the Groove Warehouse, Gary France has
prepared a special soundscape installation in the Red Centre Garden. Gary’s work, The
Red Earth, will support your journey of exploration.
Thank you to all who have supported Luminous Botanicus II
• To all our performers and artists
• 54 Benjamin, Floresco Cafe in the Gardens and Friends of the Gardens for
food and refreshment services
• Eclipse Lighting for installation of lighting displays
• Doma Hotels for accommodation support
• Australian National Botanic Gardens staff and volunteers
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Botanicus II
Program
Eucalypt Lounge
Sat 12 March
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8.00 – 9.00pm
Groove Warehouse – Drums
Rainforest Gully
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Relax, socialise and unwind in the Eucalypt Lounge. Live music by talented bands No
Hausfrau, Veronica’s Boyfriend and 5th Avenue.
8.10 – 9.10pm
Leonard Weiss – Harpist
Water Garden
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8.30 – 9.50pm
Fiona Dawes – Shakuhachi player
Water Garden
4
8.10 – 9.10pm
Able Australia Lantern making workshop
Rock Garden
5
8.30 – 9.30pm
Meet the Artist: David Wong
Eucalypt Lounge
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8.30 – 10.30pm
5th Avenue – Band
Eucalypt Lounge
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9.10 – 9.30pm
Elizabeth Ellis – Storyteller
Red Centre Garden
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Performers
No Hausfrau – Performing Friday 4 and Saturday 5 March
No Hausfrau explores ‘suburban folk rock’, injected into every-day storytelling.
Fronted by Alice Cottee, this heartstring filled folk-league just wants to hold you.
No Hausfrau combines emotive ambition with the mundane, in a theatric vehicle of
genre-crossing melody. Website: www.nohausfrau.com.au
Veronica’s Boyfriend – Performing Friday 11 March
Veronica’s Boyfriend blurs the line between blues and jazz, with originals and
especially chosen covers done the VB way – laidback New Orleans style blues
and their own alternative groove. The band members are Shaun Andrews
(vocals/guitar), Sarah Bloustein violin, Jeff Prime (harmonica/guitar), and Sandra
Chambers (percussion). Featured will be guest musician Michael Walsh on Sax.
5th Avenue – Performing Saturday 12 March
5th Avenue is a handful of young and versatile musicians, brought together
through a passion of music and similar strange quirks of humour. The jazzy group
has played at different events and venues around Canberra for the past few years.
The band is fronted by Canberra vocalist, Catherine Proctor, with Jamal Salem on
drums, Alex Unikowski on keys, and are joined in this concert by Brendan KellerTuberg on bass.
Art on the Eucalypt Lawn
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Explore sculptures on the lawn and meet Belgian born woodworker/artist Dirk Lejeune.
Dirks works (dirkswirks) are a fascinating exploration of shape, and a play on repetition
using multiple segments of natural materials, particularly wood in a multitude of forms.
All sculptures are for sale. Enquire with the artist on Friday 4 and Saturday 5 March.
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Rainforest Gully
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As you enter the ‘jungle’, feel the rainforest’s beating heart pulsing in the darkness.
The drumming is an awakening of nature as well as the human spirit. With heightened
senses, rejuvenate and refresh in the cooling mist as you explore the beauty of the
rainforest. Let light and sound take you on a journey and carry you along the forest floor.
Rainforest drumming is an ancient form of communicating amidst the lush, thick
vegetation.
Performers
Groove Warehouse – Drums performing all nights of Luminous Botanicus II
Canberra’s own Groove Warehouse presents Sounds Awakening: An exploration
of our creational beginning.
Conifer Section
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Experience the wonder of Australia’s distinctive and unique flora at night. These ancient
gymnosperms evolved long ago when all the land on Earth was part of one large mass,
or ‘super continent’. Explore these distinctive species as you move through the darkness.
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Botanicus II
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Water Garden
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As your mood shifts, reflect in this tranquil setting, listen to the unique sounds of wind
and strings combined with nature as the music floats over the water.
Performers
Leonard Weiss – Harpist performing all nights of Luminous Botanicus II
Leonard is an award–winning composer, conductor and performer. An ACT Finalist
for 2016 Young Australian of the Year, Leonard is the Musical Director/Conductor of
the Canberra Youth Orchestra, the National Capital Orchestra, the Canberra Qwire
and the ANU Choral Society, amongst other ensembles. Leonard has conducted
and performed solo concerts in the USA and throughout Europe, including recent
carillon performances along the East Coast of the USA and solo performances as
part of the 2015 Canberra International Music Festival.
Bronwyn Kirkpatrick
Shakuhachi player performing Friday 4 and Saturday 5 March
Bronwyn is a shihan (master) of the shakuhachi who studied with shakuhachi
grand–master Dr Riley Lee in Sydney for seven years. Bronwyn has played with
the Bell Shakespeare Theatre Company and has performed at numerous festivals
nationally and internationally, including the World Shakuhachi Festival, the OzAsia
Festival, Sydney Sacred Music Festival and the Four Winds Festival.
Website: www.bronwynkirkpatrick.com
Fiona Dawes
Shakuhachi player performing Friday 11 and Saturday 12 March
Fiona discovered Shakuhachi as an adult learner of music in 2002. Fiona studied
the classical repertoire with Dr Riley Lee for ten years and is currently a student of
Bronwyn Kirkpatrick.
Rock Garden
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Meet Your Neighbours™ is a worldwide photographic initiative dedicated to
reconnecting people with the wildlife on their own doorsteps and enriching their lives in
the process. These creatures and plants are vital to people: they represent the first, and
for some, the only contact with wild nature we have. Yet too often they are overlooked or
undervalued. Website: www.meetyourneighbours.net
Artist – David Wong
David is a Meet Your Neighbours photographer based in Canberra. Artworks and prints
are for sale. Enquire with the artist on Friday 11 and Saturday 12 March. For more, visit
www.davidwong.photoshelter.com
Asteraceae Garden – Dancing Light and Shadows
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Swaying daisies rest their heads at night but the colour and diversity of the dancing
lights symbolically emphasises the energy of the day.
Friday 4 and 11 March – Watch out for a curious character that might glow and dance
right by you! Marianne Mettes, from PuppetOOdle has custom-made a unique roving
black-light marionette puppet for the Gardens.
Saturday 5 March – Learn how to cast shadows, manipulate light and create magic
through the oldest form of puppetry using natural objects from the Gardens.
Website: www.puppetoodle.com
Sunday 12 March – Purchase materials and make your own beautiful lantern to carry
through the Gardens. Instruction provided by the team from Able Australia.
Website: www.ableaustralia.org.au
Native Bee Hotel
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See how solitary native bees check into the Native Bee Hotel. These tiny creatures lay
their eggs in hollows and cracks. The Native Bee Hotel is a joint project between the
Gardens and Bush Blitz – Australia’s largest nature discovery project.
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