Our 2012 schools program offers creative arts workshops and performances for children in prep to grade 6.
Teacher information session
Workshops currently available:
Cardboard Play Spaces exhibition
Transforming Passages
Cardboard Play Spaces exhibition
Created by first year students from the department of Architecture at Monash University, this exhibition celebrates the third year of a partnership between ArtPlay and Monash University.
Bring your class along to ArtPlay to explore the seven spaces created by the talented architecture students from Monash University. The children are invited to explore the spaces by looking, touching, listening and being in the structures. There will be an activity sheet available and the children can even vote for which space they like best!
There are seven spaces in the exhibition; three spaces designed for making and doing activities in, two ‘kids only’ spaces and two spaces for viewing the mini versions of the structures (as well as some children’s artwork).
The architecture students are given a brief to create spaces with children and families as their audience. They are required to use a limited amount of cardboard and fixings in order to achieve a maximum footprint of three metres by three metres. The structures created are extremely imaginative and beautiful architectural designs.
Book into a one-hour timeslot for a self-guided tour of the exhibition.
At the end of the exhibition, all the Cardboard Play Spaces will be looking for a new home. Why not take one back to your school?
Grade: prep to grade 6
Capacity: one class per time slot – maximum 30 children per class
Cost: Free
Dates: 23, 30 and 31 May.
Times: 10am, 11am, 12pm and 1pm
Cost: Free
Bookings essential: Book online
For more information please call (03) 9664 7900 (Wednesday to Sunday; 10am to 4pm only) or email ArtPlay.
Transforming Passages
Travelling to ArtPlay from Singapore, Transforming Passages is presented by Playeum, The Play Museum.
Playeum is a 'museum without walls' which aims to provide multi-disciplinary cultural experiences for children. The Playeum philosophy is to inspire children through a self-directed exploration of creative experiences. In an environment that is safe and free of adult judgement, children are empowered to express and indulge their imagination.
Transforming Passages is a maze-like interactive installation made up of panels featuring both traditional and contemporary Asian fabrics. In this workshop, children will explore Asian fabric design and fabric as functional art.
What students will actually be doing on the day
- Facilitators Catherine and Jennifer will introduce children to Asian fabric through design. Different patterns will be explored, highlighting changes over the ages.
- The children will be led through the installation and they will be encouraged to move fabric panels to create their own hiding spaces and passages.
- As they explore, children are also invited to create their own fabric designs on pieces of fabric. The children can draw inspiration for their designs by placing their own fabric pieces against the installation’s panels and moving them around (through a magnetic system).
- The group will then be brought back together to explore wearable and functional fabric art. The children will learn how fabrics are used in Asia: from turbans and sarongs to saris and furoshiki. This will be a hands-on experience where children can choose one type of functional art and have a go at creating them!
Transforming Passages was first developed for The Play Dome festival at the National Museum of Singapore 2011.
Facilitators: Catherine Tan and Jennifer Loh from Playeum (Singapore)
Grade: prep to 3
Cost: $60
Dates: 2 May and 3 May
Times: 10am to 11.30am, or 12pm to 1.30pm
Bookings essential: Book online
For more information please call (03) 9664 7900 (Wednesday to Sunday; 10am to 4pm only) or email ArtPlay.