Downtown Santa Ana is known in Orange County as the heart of the arts district.  Home to such places as Grand Central, The Yost Theater and the Artist Village, you never run out of things to do.  But this holiday season downtown Santa Ana is going to be a little different.  Two art center graduates, Adam Voorhees and Shin Fujita have come together to develop special animation components for Project: Holiday Projection. Using the Spurgeon Building in downtown Santa Ana as a facade, high powered projectors will be spilling a spectacle of light and shadow to create animated illusions of 3D design. It’s a trend that has been sweeping Europe and is now making its very first appearance in Orange County.

The process of the projection project combines some creative 3D mapping software that will trace the downtown Spurgeon building allowing the projectors to use it as a canvas to display some visually stimulated holiday animation.  And if that was not enough, it’s all set to an immerse soundtrack created by the co-owner of Santa Ana’s Crosby Restaurant. Chris Alfaro created the music to sync perfectly with the visual performance that will transport you into a glee of holiday ecstasy.

Project: Holiday Projections is a perfect mash-up of visual stimulation and auditory overload in a location that is perfectly well suited.  It’s needed to be seen to be believed and you only have a couple of weeks to do it.  Take your whole family and invite all your friends to visually feast on a really awesome collaboration of designers and artists that will tickle your senses.  It’s way better than that lump of coal that’s going to be getting in your stocking this year.  Go check it out!

PROJECT: Holiday Projection
The Spurgeon Building
206 W. 4th Street (between Main and Broadway)
Santa Ana, CA 92701
www.downtownoclife.com

Project Projection performances continue Thursday – Saturday evenings from 7-9pm through December 27th

NOTE: In the event of rain, the performance will be canceled