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SYMPHONY IN THE QUARRY Bombo Headland Quarry, Kiama

Orchestra performs within a working quarry while stonemasons create sculptures responding to the music. The audience moves through different acoustic zones as the composition progresses, witnessing raw stone transform into art as notes reverberate against quarry walls. Hexagonal basalt columns become natural amphitheatres where geological time meets contemporary sound, creating acoustic revelations impossible in traditional concert halls. This dramatic landscape where ocean meets stone provides both historical resonance and acoustic uniqueness for the collision of orchestral music and stone sculpting.

FLOATING GALLERY Lake Tuross, Tuross Heads

An art exhibition displayed on boats that drift and collide on a lake, requiring visitors to negotiate their viewing path via small rowboats or walking around the edge. Water currents and wind create an ever-evolving exhibition where artworks meet in unexpected combinations. Each visit becomes unique as the gallery transforms with natural forces, making curation a collaboration between human intention and environmental serendipity. This coastal saltwater lake provides an intimate yet expansive setting where art vessels drift and converge with coastal winds and gentle currents.

KITCHEN CROSSED WIRES De Salis Winery, Orange

Chefs cook with ingredients selected by the audience, while spoken word poets create real-time narratives about the emerging dishes. The poets’ words influence chefs’ techniques, creating a feedback loop where language and food continuously respond to each other. Metaphors change knife cuts, rhythm alters cooking time, and imagery inspires plating in this collision of culinary craft and linguistic artistry. This boutique winery where wine-making tradition meets contemporary performance.

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DAWN CHORUS MARKETS Mudgee Fine Foods Markets, Mudgee

A farmers market begins in pre-dawn darkness where stallholder setup blends with strategically positioned vocal ensemble performing traditional dawn chorus repertoire. As first light breaks, both market activity and vocal performance grow in parallel but independent rhythms. Commerce and art share space while operating according to their own intrinsic patterns, creating immersive environment where food culture and musical tradition naturally converge through thoughtful curation. Set in the food and wine bowl of NSW, this central western location with established agricultural heritage provides perfect confluence of commerce and creativity.

VINEYARD HARMONICS Audrey Wilkinson Vineyard, Hunter Valley

Multiple musicians positioned throughout a vineyard create different sound experiences that converge at central listening points. The music subtly reflects characteristics of each grape variety, with string quartets among chardonnay shifting to brass among shiraz. This creates a sensory map of the vineyard’s terroir where soil composition becomes song, and grape varietals translate into musical voices that speak the landscape’s character. One of Australia’s oldest wine regions provides historical depth and necessary variation in terrain, with elevated position offering valley views where sound journeys converge.

FIRELIGHT FORUMS Bundanon Trust, Shoalhaven River

Discussions between opposing experts around multiple campfires, with audiences free to move between conversations as they evolve. Topics range from food sustainability to artistic purpose, with flames rising and falling in response to debate intensity. No fixed seating or predetermined paths allow ideas to spark and settle naturally while participants navigate between intellectual territories guided by curiosity and the primal draw of fire. Arthur Boyd’s gifted property with its cultural significance and untamed river landscape creates perfect setting for conversations flowing between intellectual rigour and natural wisdom.

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FOREST FEAST INTERRUPTIONS Kangaroo Valley Bush Retreat, Kangaroo Valley

A progressive dinner through forest paths with contemporary dancers appearing at unexpected moments between courses. Each dancer creates movement alluding to the experience awaiting at the next course, translating upcoming flavours into physical poetry. Dining becomes pilgrimage through landscape and art where anticipation builds through choreographed transitions, making the journey between courses as meaningful as the destination plates themselves. This secluded retreat nestled in rainforest gullies provides intimate settings with established walking trails through temperate rainforest.

CANVAS CONVERGENCE Ngununggula, Bowral

A rotational exhibition where one room at a time is exposed to gallery visitors, who lap around the exhibition with each circuit revealing new additions. Participants contribute to an evolving artwork during each rotation, which becomes the final revealed masterpiece later auctioned for charity. The audience creates the art that becomes the auction that becomes the community contribution, making viewers both observers and creators of the experience. This innovative regional gallery with contemporary architecture provides perfect crossroads setting for transformative exhibition experiences.

PITCH PERFECT COLLISION Manuka Oval, Canberra

An unprecedented merger of elite sports and fine arts where a cricket match unfolds on carefully curated field with symphony orchestra positioned around the boundary. The orchestra responds to game rhythm while batsmen and bowlers incorporate choreographed movements influencing the musical composition. Spectators move between traditional viewing areas and acoustic sweet spots, experiencing athletic precision and musical expression as unified performance art. This heritage-listed cricket ground with art deco pavilion creates perfect setting for collision of sport and orchestral performance.

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BARREL ROOM BALLET Cupitt’s Estate, Ulladulla

In the atmospheric barrel room of a winery, a classical ballerina performs atop and between wine barrels as setting sun streams through cellar windows. Guests wander through the space discovering intimate vignettes of dance while sommeliers emerge from shadows offering tastings that complement the dancer’s movements. The performance progresses from classical precision to fluid contemporary movement as vintages evolve from crisp whites to complex reds. This coastal winery with stone barrel room and views across rolling vineyards to ocean creates dramatic setting for dance among barrels.

NARRATIVE HIKES Blue Mountains National Park, Blue Mountains

Guided walks where poets and storytellers appear at seemingly random points along trails, building collective tales shaped by landscape and participants. Each storyteller picks up narrative threads left by previous speakers and hikers themselves, weaving individual contributions into shared tapestry. The mountain provides the stage while walkers provide the story, creating literature that exists only in the moment of its telling. Dramatic landscapes, lookouts, and established walking tracks provide natural stages where landscape itself becomes part of the tale.

ILLUMINATED PATHWAYS Paperbark Camp, Jervis Bay

Night journey where light installations respond to collective movement of wanderers through regional landscapes. As participants traverse the environment, their paths illuminate, creating an evolving map of human curiosity visible from surrounding hillsides. Individual exploration becomes collective artwork where personal discovery contributes to larger artistic statement, making solitary wandering into community creation through shared illumination. This eco-retreat set among coastal paperbark trees creates naturally enclosed canvas for light installations with white trunks providing reflective surfaces.

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SENSORY ALCHEMY LABRATORY La Botanique, Botany

A deconstructed restaurant where sommeliers, botanical perfumers, foraging chefs, and native plant experts create collaborative tasting experiences. Diners move through stations where native botanicals are experienced first as scent compositions, then as flavour elements, then as complete dishes. The journey blurs boundaries between perfumery and cuisine, culminating with guests creating their own botanical essence to take home as sensory memory of their taste and smell exploration. This unique venue specialising in botanical experiences provides horticultural expertise and specially designed spaces for multi-sensory exploration.

WILD VOICE Wellington Caves, Wellington, Central West

Vocal performances in caves and natural amphitheatres where singers respond to environmental acoustics, their voices becoming instruments played by geological architecture. Diners sit at tables where they must forage meals from elaborate food-styled tablescapes that visually echo surrounding landscape formations. The experience creates harmony between sound, setting, and sustenance while limestone chambers amplify both vocal expression and shared silence. These caves near Wellington offer extraordinary acoustics and accessible chambers perfect for vocal performances that interact with natural resonances.

SONLINE STARWALK Mungo National Park, Far Western NSW

An immersive nocturnal journey where indigenous astronomers and storytellers guide small groups through untamed landscape, revealing night sky as living map of cultural knowledge spanning millennia. Participants traverse paths where earth and sky boundaries dissolve while indigenous artists create ephemeral installations responding to stellar alignments. The experience culminates in natural amphitheatre where rarely-shared songs connect specific stars to country beneath, demonstrating how indigenous knowledge systems map spiritual connections between earth and sky. This ancient landscape with cultural significance, dark sky status, and 40,000+ years of indigenous heritage creates perfect culmination where earth and sky meet.