Sorrento will be alive with three days of festivities encompassing vision, sound and movement from Friday 14th to Sunday 16th October.
On Friday, the launch of The Before We Were project marks a new direction for arts in the southern region of the Mornington Peninsula. Commissioned by the Sorrento Portsea Chamber of Commerce, promerginglivesarts are launching what has been designed as a three year community arts project as part of the Mornington Peninsula Shires Arts Alive Festival 2011.
Before We Were is a community arts project that draws on the themes of place. How we engage with places and the memories places hold. It aims to engage the local community in a journey of story- telling about their lives and their history in the seaside town of Sorrento.
At sunset on Friday October 14, a new experience will take place for the township of Sorrento; the transformation of a local icon, The Continental Hotel. It will be bathed in an abstracted projection of multiple imagery by renowned projection artist, Nik Azidis (Projectionteknik). Nik will project images and forms onto the facade of the Continental Hotel.
Melbourne bands Charles Jenkins & the Zhivagos and Go Go Sapien will perform their latest works on the ArtsAlive 2011 sound stage in Ocean Beach Rd.
Community stories will be recorded by community artists roving through the crowd via photography and the written word. In the forthcoming year these images and words will form part of the 2012 festival.
In combination with the Before We Were project, the Sorrento Live the Life Fiesta will take place over the weekend, with guided historical walking tours at 11am and 2pm each day, ghost tours at 8.30pm, gallery exhibitions, a classic car display on Sunday from 11am plus live local music along Ocean Beach Rd all weekend.
For the first time, Sorrento is hosting the start of the International Cycling Race the Jayco Herald Sun Tour on Saturday starting from 9.30am. Ocean Beach Rd will be abuzz with activity as the street is lined with spectators watching the cyclists leave for the final stage of the race. Cyclists begin their journey down Ocean Beach Rd to the foreshore at 9.30am with the Charity Ride, the Pro Women's Tour leaves at 10.30am and the Pro Men's Tour at 1.30pm.
Enjoy music and entertainment between races, a coffee or something to eat at one of the 15 local eateries or just take in the over 60 retail stores in Sorrento's main shopping precinct between races.
Follow the before we were project on facebook.com.beforewewereproject
