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Auckland, February 22, 2018
Aucklands heart will beat with creativity next month as Pops surprise performances and playful interactive installations return to our city squares and spaces.
Now in its fifth year, the Pop series of pop-up multi-sensory experiences are designed to encourage play and creativity in our public spaces and this year will include the all new Pop Big Bang sound and light-emitting drumming experience.
New to the Pop series this year is Pop Big Bang, created by Alt Group.
Interactive experience
A field of 25 touch-activated drums will fill Aotea Square with rhythm and light.
This innovative interactive experience is activated through drumming; the harder you tap the brighter it glows.
Dont miss this special opportunity to drum together with friends or strangers to create a unique light show to your very own beat; bring your band or form a brand-new crew for some impromptu beat-making in the city.
Favourite Pop Projects
Some of our favourite Pop projects will return this year; get to Freyberg or Aotea Square during your lunch break to play multi-sensory Pop Ping Pong against your workmates or take the whnau to Pop Marbles and build a giant marble run to create your own soundscape. Look out for an unexpected Pop Poi performance and then have a go learning to swing it yourself.
Dont miss Pop Drop in the Festival Playground at Silo Park this year, a brand-new precinct for music, art, food and family fun during Auckland Arts Festival. Keep an eye out for the giant water-filled blob you can play with, step on, roll on or prod. Connect with others through creativity and be prepared to share some fun-filled, water-wobbling action.
Extended creativity
Waitemata Local Board Chair Pippa Coom is delighted to see creativity extend out of galleries and theatres and into our public spaces;
Pop is great way to bring fun and play to our everyday spaces and connect Aucklanders with their city and each other through creativity. If you come across a Pop project, get involved and have fun with it in your own way, she said.
Eight Pop projects will spring up across Central Auckland locations between March 1 and March 25, 2018, thanks to Auckland Council and the Waitemata Local Board.
From West to South
Later in the month, three projects will take the fun of Pop to Mangere and Otahuhu from March 26 to April 7, 2018 with support from the Mangere- Otahuhu Local Board.
This year the award-winning series features for the first time in the Auckland Arts Festival; Auckland Council is a core funder of Auckland Arts Festival 2018 and delivers and supports a number of events in the Festival Programme.
For Pop projects locations and dates, follow @popakl on Instagram and Facebook to find out where Pop will be popping up next.
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