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WED 1—SUN 19 JUNE

ENTRY FROM 5PM
TUE, WED, THU AND SUN, LAST ENTRY 9PM
FRI—SAT, LAST ENTRY 10PM
CLOSED MONDAYS

SIDNEY MYER MUSIC BOWL

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$12—22
 * Entry times every 30 minutes
 * Children under 18 must be accompanied by an adult
 * Ice-skating and dining in The Lighthouse must be booked separately
 * New sessions 14—19 June now on sale

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LATEST UPDATE
JUST ANNOUNCED: The Wilds season extended to 19 June. More tickets also
available for ice skating and The Lighthouse restaurant.
Let your imagination flourish under the cover of dark. Light, music, food, ice
and art is blooming in our fertile night garden.

The Wilds is our moonlit forest of stimulation—a fluoro fantasy of art, sound,
taste and ice. At a transformed Sidney Myer Music Bowl, you’ll encounter
voluminous inflatable sculptures, towering projections and mind-expanding
soundscapes in previously inaccessible areas of the iconic venue.

Sprawling structures and eccentric performances blur the lines between the
earthly and otherworldly. Beloved Melbourne restaurants serve cult snacks from
pop-up kitchens; grab a small plate or glass of Blackhearts & Sparrows-selected
wine in the cosy but elevated Up High Bar then step out onto the deck to take in
the full view of the Bowl; or go all-in with a multi-course feast in the glowing
glasshouse bistro, The Lighthouse.

Finally, ascend the Bowl’s stage to zip around an ice-skating rink, while our
choir belts out reconstructed ‘80s and ‘90s hits over the ice. The Wilds is our
trippy trip for young saplings, curious shrooms and old growth trees alike.


ART


FOOD


PERFORMANCE


MUSIC

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ART

Enveloping your senses at The Wilds is a new world on the boundaries of art and
science—an evolving ecosystem of sculpture, soundscapes and digital
movement-responsive art. Plants, humans, architecture and technology take on
otherworldly forms in a multicellular meadow.

Exploring the dimension between nature and technology, the New York City-based
Australian artists and creative technologists Tin & Ed have nurtured a glowing
biosphere driven by their deep curiosity for the natural world. Playful,
technicolour bursts of newly imagined life forms inhabit a new world built from
inflatable 3D sculptures and gaming technology.

Meanwhile, mythic architectural organisms will populate The Wilds care of the
Filipino contemporary fine artist Leeroy New. Using the recycled bamboo bones of
The Wilds 2021, New has constructed sprawling structures across the verdant
amphitheatre. It’s a tangled, abundant landscape blurring the lines between the
organic and constructed.


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FOOD

Life needs sustenance, a little fertiliser to keep cells multiplying and limbs
limber. The Wilds has the nutrients you need to keep your beans sprouting—cult
snacks, charcoal spits, plant-based morsels and layer upon layer of good times
pasta.

Melbourne’s rock and roll vege boss, Shannon Martinez, brings her celebrated,
plant-based, Fitzroy diner Smith & Daughters to the Bowl. Find new twists on
Smith & Daughters’ greatest hits and beloved B-Sides—faux-meat and three veg
this is not.

Barrelling in from Thornbury is 1800 Lasagne's Joey Kellock—the big-hearted host
with the most, responsible for the best slab of lasagne in town. The
jazz-obsessed Kellock will bring his irrepressible party spirit, rich ragu and
migliori melanzane.

Rolling down the grass from their glowing bistro at The Lighthouse, are
acclaimed chefs David Moyle (The Saturday Paper Food Editor; formerly Franklin,
Longsong), Jo Barrett and Matt Stone (futurefoodsystem, formerly Oakridge
Wines).

Take it easy on the Up High Bar's heated deck with bespoke food and small plates
by The Ligthouse chefs. It's the number one spot to take in a view of The Wilds
from on high.

Then there’s the elemental forces of fire and ice. Smoke and spice waft from Hoy
Pinoy’s charcoal-fired skewers—Filipino barbeque handed down through
generations, to Culinary Curator and Chef power couple Regina and James Meehan,
.

Also keeping the fires roaring is Melbourne’s reigning masters of Argentinian
barbeque, The San Telmo Group. Their team have exceptional cuts of meat and
in-season vegetables flying off their woodfired grill.

And to cool you down when things heat up, Piccolina Gelateria’s scoop saviour
Sandra Foti has three dessert collaborations with Smith & Daughters, 1800
Lasagne and The Lighthouse.


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PERFORMANCE

Life is anything but static. Chaos reigns in The Wilds’ performance petri dish.

Observe performance group Discordia busy themselves throughout The Wilds'
terrain. Gleaning, preening and convening amongst makeshift habitats, these
meandering mascots will keep things weird, as they artfully engage in acts of
mindful mindlessness.

Beached on the shores of our primordial swamp are Melbourne’s least professional
water ballerinas, The Clams. Lured from the shallows of suburban pools, they’ve
emerged from their shells as The Siphonophores—a deeper, darker and drier
evolutionary state. A shapeshifting bioluminescent collective drifting through
the Bowl.


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MUSIC

DECON MASS is a cleansing sonic shower, preparing you for entry to The Wilds.
Sound artists Mark Mitchell and Pascal Babare utilise multiple speaker arrays
and physics-based algorithms over four sites of condensed natural energy. The
pair deploy synthesised and processed sounds to create an atmosphere that's both
organic and otherworldly. Nature concentrated and digitally digested into waves
and surges of cascading sound, all radiating from a grand old tree.

Soundtracking your snacking is a crew of 1800 Lasagne DJs, coming in hot from
the Thornbury pasta palace. Music is an essential element of 1800 Lasagne, an
extra layer on top of the bechamel. Every weekend, the city's best DJs decamp
from nightclubs to spin vinyl from behind the bar. They'll bring their extensive
record colleections and even bigger vibes to The Wilds each night. Jazz licks,
wordlwide funk obscurities and house music party starters are on the menu. (Read
the full line-up in the sidebar at the top of the page.)

Rising above it all like bats in flight is the screeching RISING Night
Chorus—our nocturnal choir, belting out reconstructed ‘80s and ‘90s hits over
the ice of Rinky Dink. Big voices and even bigger hearts, rising into the night
when the moment takes them.

Glass Paintings is a piece custom made for The Wilds, to play at Rinky Dink.
Composed as a quadraphonic sound environment by Nick Huggins and Ben Talbot
Dunn, Glass Paintings conjures a delicate sonic environment. Synthesizers
vocalise like insects, an ancient piano dissolves like light on the water, and
post-industrial fragments scatter. Naturally occurring rhythms form and release
as resonating glass hums.


ADD-ONS FOR THE WILDS

Rinky Dink


The Lighthouse
David Moyle with Jo Barrett and Matt Stone



SESSION DETAILS

WED 1—SUN 19 JUNE

ENTRY FROM 5PM
TUE, WED, THU AND SUN, LAST ENTRY 9PM
FRI—SAT, LAST ENTRY 10PM
CLOSED MONDAYS

SIDNEY MYER MUSIC BOWL
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$12—22
 * Duration | Please allow 1.5 hours for exploration. You're welcome to wander
   the site from your ticketed entry time until close
 * Night Chorus | Times:
   Wed, Thu and Sun: 5.40PM, 6.40PM, 8.10PM and 9.10PM
   Fri and Sat: 5.40PM, 6.40PM, 8.10PM, 9.10PM and 10.10PM
 * Note | The Wilds is a licensed venue. Visitors under the age of 18 must be
   accompanied by an adult. Babies under 2 years of age do not require a ticket
 * Note | Rinky Dink and The Lighthouse are ticketed events. Limited capacity
   and subject to availability
 * Tickets also on sale via Arts Centre Melbourne.


ACCESSIBILITY SERVICES

Session times offering the following services:

 * Auslan | Fri 3 June, 5—10PM and Sat 11 June, 5—10PM
   * An Auslan translators will be on site to offer support
 * Assisted Access | Tue-Thu, Sun 5 & Sun 19 June 5pm – 10pm, Fri, Sat & Sun 12
   June 5pm – 11pm
   * RISING is operating a buggy service for those who may require access
     assistance. The buggy will be available to assist with movement to and
     around site from the four 4-hour accessible carparks on Linlithgow Ave near
     the King George Monument. If you'd like to enquire about booking the buggy
     service for members of your party to access the exhibition, please contact
     the customer service team on (03) 9662 4242 or ticketing@rising.melbourne.
     Please note that the buggy is limited and must be booked to ensure
     availability.
 * Assistive Listening
   * The Night Chorus choir performances will be equipped with an assistive
     listening system. Patrons can tune their own hearing aid device to the
     system to hear amplified sound. Assistive listening devices with headphones
     will also be available upon request from the FOH staff.


CREDITS

IMAGES:

WINTER GARDEN BY TIN & ED, 2020. BROOKFIELD PLACE, NEW YORK CITY. PHOTO:
COURTESY OF THE ARTISTS

MONSTER BY TIN & ED, 2020. RISING 2022. PHOTO: COURTESY OF THE ARTISTS

THE WILDS. RISING 2021. PHOTOS: EUGENE HYLAND

SPACE—PSYCHOPOMP’S REEF BY LEEROY NEW, 2011. PHOTO: COURTESY OF THE ARTIST

THE SIPHONOPHORES. PHOTO: BRI HAMMOND

DISCORDIA. PHOTO: COURTESY OF THE ARTIST

VIDEO: ANTUONG NGUYEN (SILKY JAZZ)

MARK MITCHELL. PHOTO: COURTESY OF THE ARTIST

PASCAL BABARE. PHOTO: COURTESY OF THE ARTIST


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