Background
Scienceworks regularly produces events for 18+ audiences. These events involve opening Scienceworks’ exhibitions after hours, and often include expert talks, Planetarium and Lightning Room shows, live music, bars, and dining. These events offer opportunities for adults to visit Scienceworks after hours in a child-free environment to share a drink with friends, and explore big ideas in science and technology.
Party Beyond at Scienceworks
This April Scienceworks will host Party Beyond, an after-hours party that blends music and science into a completely unique experience. This will be the second edition of Party Beyond, following a sold-out event in June 2018 which featured musicians, DJs, late night drinks and eats. For this event, Scienceworks is taking a different approach to the programming and asking local DJs and musicians to respond to the different exhibition spaces with a themed music concept to be performed in the space of their choosing.
Where/when
Scienceworks, 2 Booker St, Spotswood
Saturday 27 April, 2019
Doors open 6.30pm. Event ends 10.30pm
We want you!
Are you a musician or DJ with an interest in science or performing in unique venues? We want to hear from you! We are inviting expressions of interest (EOI) to perform 1-2 sets in a specific exhibition, with the set crafted to respond to the exhibition’s content. We’re particularly interested in hearing from artists based in the West.
Due to the massive tech requirements for this event, we’ll mainly be considering DJs and acts with minimal equipment and set up. If you’re a band with heaps of members and gear, we probably won’t be able to accommodate you, but feel free to submit an EOI so we can consider you for future events.
We are seeking EOIs for six spaces in Scienceworks (although we may not have performances in all six spaces on the night). Details of the spaces are below.
Completed EOIs are due by 9am on Tuesday 12 March.
Exhibition Gallery Spaces
Admission Foyer
This is where guests will enter the event and purchase tickets or have their ticket checked.
Museum of the Moon
Museum of the Moon is an astounding seven metre diameter spherical sculpture featuring large scale NASA imagery of the lunar surface.
Think Ahead
Think Ahead imagines how advances in science will change the way we live. Different sections explore the future of cities, space, medicine, food, and the human body.
Ground Up
Ok, yes, this IS a space built for 0-5 year olds, BUT Ground Up was one of the most popular galleries at our previous 18+ event! This STEM-based, imaginative exhibition is full of colour and play. There’s heaps of exhibits for building things, a giant car wash, wind tubes, a whole wall of light-up switches, and heaps more.
Sportsworks
Get your body moving in Sportsworks. You can race against Cathy Freeman, try out for soccer goalkeeper, and zoom down the slopes in our snowboarding simulator.
Beyond Perception
Reflecting the latest and greatest stories from science and technology, Beyond Perception immerses you in large-scale experiences that reveal the invisible fields and forces that surround us, such as gravitational waves, invisible light, sound and aerodynamics, and demonstrates current research which is continuing to uncover amazing hidden worlds around us.
Note that we are not seeking EOIs for the Planetarium for this event, but may do so for future events.
Tech details
We will provide a tech team to set up a performance space for you including PA system and lighting. Artists to supply and meet the cost of their own backline.
What you’ll get
A very unique opportunity to perform in an unusual venue
$500 (ex GST) performance fee
10 comp tickets for the evening
Four comp tickets to use as promotional give-aways through your networks
What we require from you
One or two sets in your gallery of choice (set times TBC). Sets must be inspired by the exhibits/content in the gallery you have chosen.
Marketing assets (images, bio, etc)
Co-promotion of the event
Any backline you require
Information we’ll ask for in the EOI
Your name and contact details
Performance name (if different to the above)
Press pack if you have one
Link to website/socials
Performance proposal
Which exhibition you want to perform in. If there’s more than one, please submit an EOI for each gallery.
Details of how you will respond to the content of the exhibition
Brief tech requirements (if you are selected, we’ll get more details from you)
What to do now
You’re keen? Great!
You’ll need to come and check out your chosen exhibition gallery at Scienceworks to enable you to put together your performance proposal. Scienceworks is open 10am – 4:30pm every day, and we can arrange for you to enter free of charge in order to view the space. To organise this, please contact Kate Barnard via swprograms@museum.vic.gov.au.
Once you’ve got your plan together, complete this online form.
We’ll have a look at submissions and choose the acts that we think will work best in our space and for our audiences. We will only choose one act per exhibition, and may decide not to have acts in some exhibitions.
Deadline
Completed EOIs are due by 9am on Tuesday 12 March.
Need more information?
Contact Kate Barnard, Scienceworks Programs Manager at swprograms@museum.vic.gov.au (if you’d prefer to chat over the phone, just shoot Kate an email with your phone number).
