Stay tuned for more event times/dates/venues as they land.
10am - 1pm
BOP SHOP
We're warming up for NOise VACANCY with some fun at the SPCA Op Shop on Gladstone Road.
The Shit Beats vinyl crew will be spinning the 'animal' themed tunes so you can bop while you shop for our $20 outfit challenge. Find yourself a complete outfit off the SPCA racks for $20 or less, pose for a photo in your 'new to you' fit, and be in to win the Challenge Trophy and an SPCA Op Shop gift voucher.
Excellent tunes, ethical fashion fun, and good times for all - hooray!
11am - 1pm
Cactus Garden, Gisborne Botanical Gardens.
Cactivate
Artist in Residence - Kelly Spencer
All Day
11am - 4pm
NOise Vacancy HQ Interactive Art Projects
Drop in to 67 Gladstone Road and join in some of our interactive art projects: Try your hand at Black Out Poetry, add to a collective vision of our City in the Future City Collage or paint a watercolour to add to our living room wall. If you're lucky you might catch sight of the Tube Blob!
12pm - 1pm
Kyoji's Kaiju, NOise VACANCY HQ
Kiyoji Kaiju Creations - Monster Sightings in Gizzy! Choose your favourite Gizzy scene and give Kiyoji one element you'd like your kaiju (monster) to have..spikes? two heads? creepy claws?
Wait and see what crazy kaiju (monster) you have helped create to wreak havoc in Gizzy, and take it home as a memento.
1pm - 4pm
NOise Vacancy HQ Workshop
Personal Billboard Project: Bring an idea and a blank T and lets transform that empty shirt into something great. We'll provide the art materials and the know how to help you print your wearable billboard.
At 67 Gladstone Road
3:30pm - 4pm
NOise Vacancy HQ Performance
Human operated Dance Bots! You get to program the Dance Bots' dance.
Outside 67 Gladstone Road
3:30pm - 4pm
Sparkle Theatre - Kirst Cards
Practical Advice for Life in the 21st Century: Life is confusing and a lot of us are stuffing it up. Drop by for some practical life advice, as selected by you, to help you do better in the 21st century.
*Please note that if you choose a card that has no relevance to your life whatsoever, Kirst accepts no responsibilty because "its's obs not my fault ".
4pm - 4.30pm
Sparkle Theatre - Crap Tats
If you want beautiful tattoo this isn't the time or place. If you want Crap Tatt, you won't be disappointed. A pop up felt pen tattoo experience for the brave. Sparkle Theatre can be found in a defunct phonebox on the Neptunes Pizza section of Gladstone Road.
11am - 1pm
Cactus Garden, Gisborne Botanical Gardens.
Cactivate
Artist in Residence - Kelly Spencer
All Day
11am - 9pm
NOise Vacancy HQ Interactive Art Projects
Drop in to 67 Gladstone Road and join in some of our interactive art projects: Try your hand at Black Out Poetry, add to a collective vision of our City in the Future City Collage or paint a watercolour to add to our living room wall. If you're lucky you might catch sight of the Tube Blob!
11am - 2pm
NOise Vacancy HQ Workshop
Personal Billboard Project: Bring an idea and a blank T and lets transform that empty shirt into something great. We'll provide the art materials and the know how to help you print your wearable billboard.
At 67 Gladstone Road
12pm - 12:30pm
Sparkle Theatre - The Daisy Chain Exchange
Kia ora, you have reached a small moment of unproductivity. Please hold while we connect you with inner childlike wonder. Estimated wait time: one daisy chain.
12 :30pm - 1pm
Sparkle Theatre - Tiramisu Happy Hour
Tiramisu surprise!
3pm - 4pm
Sparkle Theatre - Proficient Polaroids
Instadoodled Polaroids: Hand-drawn by a 10 year old! Have a seat, strike some poses and get four wacky portraits.
4pm- 4:30pm
Sparkle Theatre - Kirst Cards
Practical Advice for Life in the 21st Century: Life is confusing and a lot of us are stuffing it up. Drop by for some practical life advice, as selected by you, to help you do better in the 21st century.
*Please note that if you choose a card that has no relevance to your life whatsoever, Kirst accepts no responsibilty because "its's obs not my fault ".
4:30pm - 5:30pm
Cactus Garden, Gisborne Botanical Gardens.
Cactivate with Junkman's Choir: Artist in Residence Kelly Spencer is joined by The Junkman's Choir who will be playing an intimate concert for the diverse residents of the Cactus House. You are invited to bear witness to this special event.
6:30pm - 7:15pm
MAINSIES & The Main Stage - Gladstone - Peel St Traffic Lights.
The main drag will come alive with tunes and cars and pimped out rides as we bring some cruising to the CBD.
Check out the live entertainment at the lights, which for one night only, is transformed into The Main Stage! Be amazed as performers cram all manner of amazing feats into 30 seconds and 25 metres worth of asphalt.
For those participating in Mainsies, we’re throwing in a Cruising Trophy for the best vehicular vibe. So park up in the Neptunes block by 7.15 when we'll present the Trophy and enjoy a de-brief.
7:30pm - 8pm
NOise Vacancy HQ Performance
Human operated Dance Bots! You get to program how the Dance Bots move.
Outside 67 Gladstone Road
8pm - 9:30pm
NOise Vacancy HQ Sound Art Exhibition
Unheard Corridors - Immersive Listening Sessions: we invite you to experience the unexpected and experimental.
Our HQ will become a space dedicated to sound: a comfortable welcoming place to slow down and listen deeply.
At 67 Gladstone Road
10am - 1pm
Cactus Garden, Gisborne Botanical Gardens.
Cactivate
Artist in Residence - Kelly Spencer
All Day
11am - 9pm
NOise Vacancy HQ Interactive Art Project
Drop in to NOise Vacancy HQ at 67 Gladstone Road and try out some Black Out Poetry or add to the Future City Collage. Maybe the Tube Blob will come out for you??
2pm - 5pm
NOise Vacancy HQ Workshop
Personal Billboard Project: Bring an idea and a blank T and lets transform that empty shirt into something great. We'll provide the art materials and the know how to help you print your wearable billboard.
At 67 Gladstone Road
11am - 1pm
NOise Vacancy HQ Workshop
Sock Monsters: How many old socks do you have in your house? Every laundry has them: the stripey, the spotty, the ones whose better halves have vanished without a trace, but you can't bring yourself to throw them away. It's time to give them a sceond life. Join us with your favourite old socks for a couple of hours of cutting, stuffing and stitching, where old socks become one-of-a-kind creatures with plenty of personality. No sewing experience needed, just curiosity and a willingness to make something a little bit weird. All materails are provided, but if you have a favourite button, some wool or a few googly eyes, bring them along!
At 67 Gladstone Road
11:30am
NOise Vacancy HQ Performance
Human operated Dance Bots! You get to program how the Dance Bots move.
Outside 67 Gladstone Road
12pm - 1pm
Sparkle Theatre - Midday Matinee
Junkman's Jukebox, Out of the Box & Dylan Haley: A matinee performance like no other. An engaging trifecta of acts all squeezed in to one magical hour - and a phonebox!
2pm - 3pm
NOise VACANCY HQ - 5 Minute Portraits
Speedy portraits. Small in time, but big in character.
At 67 Gladstone Road
3pm - 3:30pm
Sparkle Theatre - Kirst Cards
Practical Advice for Life in the 21st Century: Life is confusing and a lot of us are stuffing it up. Drop by for some practical life advice, as selected by you, to help you do better in the 21st century.
*Please note that if you choose a card that has no relevance to your life whatsoever, Kirst accepts no responsibilty because "its's obs not my fault ".
3:30pm - 4:00pm
Sparkle Theatre - Crap Tats
If you want beautiful tattoo this isn't the time or place. If you want Crap Tatt, you won't be disappointed. A pop up felt pen tattoo experience for the brave. Sparkle Theatre can be found in a defunct phonebox on the Neptunes Pizza section of Gladstone Road.
5:15pm -5:30pm
NOise VACANCY HQ - Dynablob
Dynabee makes the music - the Tube Blob makes the moves. Watch, listen, join if you dare..
At 67 Gladstone Road
5:30pm - 7:00pm
NOise Vacancy HQ Sound Art Exhibition
Unheard Corridors - Immersive Listening Sessions: we invite you to experience the unexpected and experimental.
Our HQ will become a space dedicated to sound: a comfortable welcoming place to slow down and listen deeply.
At 67 Gladstone Road
8:30pm - 9:30pm
NOise Vacancy HQ Closing Party
BYOB (Bring Your Own Beamer) is our closing event for this year's NOise Vacancy. This worldwide phenomenon is a creative jam with projections and lights.
Find yourself a projector, an OHP, a torch or something to beam your ideas into space or just come along and enjoy the spontaneous patchwork of VJs, projection artists, and experimental creatives.
BYOB Saturday 3rd October from 8.30pm.
At 67 Gladstone Road