Illuminating story to move audiences

Albany Town Hall will light up with a series of moving projections for the Anzac Day weekend this year.

Illuminart was behind the popular Projections and Storytelling project at the Albany Anzac centenary commemoration event late last year.

This year, Illuminart has developed a story titled The Departure, which is voiced by local talent and is an extension of the stories told in October and November last year.

Artistic director Cindi Drennan said it was satisfying to have the opportunity to work on the story to clarify why the Anzac story was so significant.

It is based on actual diaries of three soldiers on the first convoys to Gallipoli, interlaced with Dianne Wolfer's Lighthouse Girl, voiced by Simon Woodward, Jon Doust, Tarquin and Saskia Smart and Benn Gray.

"When we started working with the local artists last year, we could really tell the story was much bigger than the story we were telling for the commemoration last year," Drennan said.

"Last year, it was all about telling the story about the centenary of the convoy leaving … but it was really clear the story was so much bigger than just that." Drennan said Albany Town Hall was the perfect canvas for the story.

"The Albany Town Hall stood out as being the very best building in town," she said.

"That's partly because it's a significant architectural landmark and it's also as old as the stories we are telling.

"I consider it to be one of the very best spaces for architectural storytelling that we've worked with."

In addition to The Departure, moving vignettes from last year's commemorations will be played, as well as The Treasures of War and The Noongars Anzac Legacy.

The projections will run from sunset on April 24-26.