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An hour-by-hour guide to White Night Melbourne
Make your way from north to south of the city on a dusk-til-dawn 12-stop White Night adventure
By Annabel Ross
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7PM
Bendy types from Circus Oz, the Women's Circus and the National Institute of Circus Arts (NICA) will be performing acrobatic feats at the Melbourne Museum Plaza all night long, but dusk is best for catching the action.
http://whitenightmelbourne.com.au/event/circus-circus/
8PM
It's the Melbourne City Baths as you've never seen them before, with Craig Walsh's 3D animations and projections turning the pool into a technicolour petri dish
9PM
Portuguese projection professionals OCUBO have teamed up with Ballarat "deadly mob" the Pitcha Makin Fellaz to spray the facade of the Royal Exhibition Building with video-mapped Indigenous art.
http://whitenightmelbourne.com.au/event/pitcha-makin-fellaz/
10PM
Sydney hip-hop poet Sampa the Great is a highlight of the excellent Live on Lonsdale music program, running all night long on Lonsdale Street. She's on from 10.30pm to 11.10pm.
http://whitenightmelbourne.com.au/event/sampa-the-great/
11PM
Soak up some Aussie culture at the State Library with the Rennie Ellis photography exhibition, capturing the local social scene from the 1970s to the 1990s.
http://whitenightmelbourne.com.au/event/decade-and-decadent/
12AM
Exactly what Golden Monkey entails is shrouded in mystery, but in the hands of Melbourne artist and simian sympathist Lisa Roet it's bound to be special. Melbourne Town Hall.
http://whitenightmelbourne.com.au/event/golden-monkey/
1AM
The aptly titled Wonderland precinct will play host to artist Reko Rennie's Federation², a statement on Indigenous culture and identity, projected onto the fetching geometrics of Federation Square.
http://whitenightmelbourne.com.au/event/federation-squared/
2AM
White Night's all-night dance floor has moved to Birrarung Marr, where you can boogie to sexy salsa, Afro-beats and island rhythms.
http://whitenightmelbourne.com.au/event/trip-the-light-fantastic/
3AM
You've earned a rest – head to ACMI for your fix of cat videos on the big screen, or check out the satirical race relations mockumentary Babakiueria.
http://whitenightmelbourne.com.au/event/walker-art-centre-cat-video-festival-internet-cats/
http://whitenightmelbourne.com.au/event/babakiueria/
4AM
Young Indigenous artist Josh Muir lights up the facade of the NGV with Still Here, depicting the journey of Aboriginal people in Victoria pre and post white settlement.
http://whitenightmelbourne.com.au/event/still-here/
5AM
Explore a self-made mystical underworld with Black Mirror, a projection artwork that responds to movement in Queen Victoria Gardens.
http://whitenightmelbourne.com.au/event/black-mirror/
6AM
French artist Tae Gon Kim has fashioned three gowns out of illuminated optical fibre in The Dresses, a set of ethereal apparitions in Queen Victoria Gardens.
7AM
Bring your skateboard and get involved in a skateboarding/percussion theatre show, or just sit back and enjoy the spectacle at the Riverslide Skate Park.
http://whitenightmelbourne.com.au/event/skate-white-night-all-night/