SPARK
Join us beneath a vast night sky for SPARK, a cinematic celebration of Lightning Ridge. SPARK is about what makes Lightning Ridge so special – why people come for a few days then stay a lifetime.
Audiences love SPARK’s celebration of the natural, cultural and technological heritage of Lightning Ridge’s opal fields, their opal and people. Look out: people have decided to move to Lightning Ridge after seeing SPARK! Sit back under the stars, forget the world for a while and be back in town in time for dinner.
Created by renowned cinematographer, director and editor Martin Fox, sound artist Vic McEwan, local artists and dozens of residents, SPARK stars the people, land, opal and life on Yuwaalaraay country at Lightning Ridge.
The 2025 SPARK season will commence on Thursday 17 April 2025 and run until the September/October school holidays. SPARK screens on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday nights at 6.30pm (please arrive by 6.15pm).
Wear warm clothes and to be really comfy, free to bring a blanket, snacks and drinks!
Buy your tickets here (below), or HERE, or in person at the Australian Opal Centre or Lightning Ridge Visitor Information Centre. Tickets may be available at the door, but pre-purchasing is preferable.
For bus, school or other group bookings, please contact us.
Group bookings and parties welcome – please call 02 6829 1667.
You’re also welcome to have a look in the Shed, where you can buy a T-shirt or souvenir, contemplate a century old opal cutting machine and enjoy ‘Brilliant Ideas’, an exhibition about the inventive opal miners and engineers who developed opal mining machinery for Lightning Ridge.
DIRECTIONS AND PARKING
1. From Morilla St Lightning Ridge, turn south onto the 3 Mile Road.
2. Follow the Yellow Dar Door tour for 4.1km until you see a large cream-coloured colorbond shed. Look for the brown SHED signs on the way.
3. You’re there!
4. Please follow parking instructions on site.
WEATHER
If it rains, SPARK will screen indoors at the same venue. Audience numbers are limited for indoor screenings.
DOG POLICY
You may bring your dog/s to SPARK as long as they are left in your car.
Previously, dogs were permitted to sit with their owners. However, due to incidents between dogs of audience members (normally well-behaved dogs), and between audience members’ dogs and local dogs, we can no longer permit dogs in the audience area.
Thank you for your understanding.
SPARK is a creative initiative of the Australian Opal Centre, produced with funding support from Arts NSW and the wonderful sponsors below – as well as dozens of local artists and community members.
