The Calling – Sydney Festival

Overview

Billed as an “inter-faith minibus tour (with a sonic and visual dreamscape)”, The Calling will take you on a tour of religious architecture and sacred music in Western Sydney. Created for the Sydney Festival by the always cool Information and Cultural Exchange (ICE), The Calling is a different and experimental way to visit new places and cultures — via the aural journey in your ears and the real interactions waiting at each stop.

You'll have to be an early riser, however. Beginning at the crack of dawn with the Adhan (the Islamic call to prayer), you will explore selected mosques, temples and churches throughout Auburn, Granville and Parramatta. Also thrown into the mix is a delish traditional Lebanese breakfast.

"This is not an anthropological or theatrical spectacle," says ICE executive director and project curator John Kirkman. "Rather, it is a discreet opportunity to move between and within the built and aural realities and ritual of worship and community faith."