Halo, we’re lighting up
THE first details around a secretive light and sound show designed to illuminate Castle Hill have been revealed.
The immersive project, titled “Halo”, has been heralded as the focal point of the inaugural North Australia Festival of Arts.
Sydney-based AGB Events, tasked with producing the show, has revealed the first details of the show.
Director Anthony Bastic said Halo had been in the works for about eight months and its inspiration was the iconic Castle Hill Saint.
“I was looking at the hill through my binoculars and thought, what’s that little stick figure,” he said. “The Castle Hill is like the halo that hovers above the city of Townsville so that was my thinking of how to develop a light festival around that notion, that metaphor.
“So I thought we could use the natural beauty of Castle Hill to great effect, by reimagining it effects.”
One of the features of the installation will be a “chandelier” installed in Queens Gardens.
“You will be able to stand in a certain position and taking a selfie, you will have a halo chandelier above yourself,” Mr Bastic said.
AGB Events was also involved in “Parrtjima”, a light festival in Alice Springs that included projecting indigenous stories on to 2km of the Macthrough COOLER nights will return to the region this weekend, with some light rain and morning fog also on the way.
The fog hit yesterday morning, with flights in and out of Townsville delayed as the city woke to a blanket of thick fog.
Temperatures are expected to dip as low as 8C tomorrow in parts of the Herbert and Lower Burdekin district, with daytime temperatures lighting Donnell Ranges, an ancient landscape understood to be at least 300 million years old.
Mr Bastic said a soundtrack that can be heard within the park has been created specifically for Halo. The soundtrack draws from the 1960s “experimental” era of music, considering the Castle Hill Saint was inspired by British spy thriller series The Saint, created by Leslie Charteris, which starred Roger Moore.
Mayor Jenny Hill said Halo would be a “perfect family night out”. She reminded residents that Queens Gardens would be closed from July 10 to allow for the set-up of the light installation and other NAFA shows.
The council received $1.96 million from the Federal Government’s Building Better Regions Fund to deliver a series of projects to “activate” Castle Hill, of which Halo is one. Halo will run for five minutes every half-hour from 6pm-10pm. It begins on July 19 and ends on August 4. warming to the low to mid
Meteorology says.
Today looks to be the best day for heading out in the boat this weekend, with a chance of morning fog warming to a sunny day with only light winds.
Morning fog will hang around near the coast tomorrow with winds south to southeasterly 15 to 20km/h and easing into the evening as the temperature cools. 20s, the Bureau of
So far this year, the coldest morning at Townsville Airport was on June 23 when the mercury dipped to just 8C.
The coldest July day on city records was July 6, 1984 when Townsville residents woke to a frosty 3.5C.
Townsville has seen just 5.8mm of rain in the first 11 days of July, just over a third of the long-term average for the month.