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Thursday, 10 December 2009
Bring it on - 2010
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Monday, 30 November 2009
Local Colour - The Newtown colouring-in book

Sunday, 8 November 2009
Sydney Festival 2010

Monday, 26 October 2009
Wizard of Oz - STC - Review
Season:
Tuesday 27 October 10.30am
Wednesday 28 October 10.30am
Thursday 29 October 10.30am
Friday 30 October 7pm
Saturday 31 October 1pm & 5pm
Sunday 1 November 1pm
Adults: $35Child: $30*Concession: $30*Under 30: $30* Family $110 (for 2 Adults, 2 Children OR 1 Adult, 3 Children) * Additional Child (to Family ticket): $20
Bookings
Thursday, 8 October 2009
Lah-Lah's Big Live Band - Review

Friday, 25 September 2009
Sydney Children's Festival

There are oodles of fantastic workshops, performances and activities to get involved in throughout the festival. See the amazing Circa perform 46 Acts in 45 Minutes, warm up your vocal chords in free morning singing workshops, or kick start your acrobatic career in a week of workshops with Legs On The Wall!
Visit www.sydneychildrensfestival.com to find out more.
Thursday, 17 September 2009
Lah-Lah - proms for little people
Click here to book or for more information.
Dancing double basses and singing saxophones. Lah-Lah is a brand new performance where instruments come to life in the world of a little girl who can’t sit still! A musical spell will be cast over children aged 2-6 by some of Sydney’s most vibrant and entertaining musicians.
Something very magical happens to little Lah-Lah one night when reading her book - all the characters in her story come to life as instruments! Meeting her friends is lots of fun and Lah-Lah learns all about their funny sounds while she sings and dances.
This show is in a special intimate Proms format, children and adults up close and personal with the 5 piece band. Strictly limited seating available. Book early, tickets selling fast.
Meet Lah-Lah, Mr saxophone, Squeezy Sneezy accordion, Lola the Double bass and Tom Tom Drums and the friendly fairy.There is a chance to interact with Characters after each performance
ALL PATRONS 12 MONTHS AND UNDER ARE FREE. 12 MONTHS AND OVER MUST PURCHASE A TICKET
From Wednesday 7th October through to Sunday 11thTuesday 13th through to Sunday 18th but no show on the Friday 16th
Performance times 10 and 11.30.
Tuesday, 1 September 2009
PONYO

Both Ponyo and Sosuke are fascinated by each other and promise to stay firm friends until Ponyo's father - once human, now a sorcerer who lives deep under the sea - forces her to return with him to the ocean depths.
Thursday, 20 August 2009
Under Me Skin | Ivanhoe NSW

Friday, 31 July 2009
Ready to get Sketchen?

Friday, 17 July 2009
What would kids do if they could do anything?
Erth are busily designing this crazy, silly play space, and are seeking some input from kids .
This coming Tuesday 21st July at 6.30 pm, come down to CarriageWorks with your child, aged 6 – 12years, and take part in a 1hr workshop where Erth’s Artistic Director, Scott, will be asking "What would kids do if they could do
Anything?".
Yummy pizza and drinks with be provided. Email scott@erth.com.au by Tuesday to participate.
There's room enough for 10 kids plus their parents to participate and you must register with Scott to attend.
Monday, 13 July 2009
Melbourne International Film Festival

I felt the SFF this year had a disappointing range of family /childrens films within the program so it is refreshing to see a festival that encourages mature cinema for older children.
Cheeky Girls - Germany
Based on a bestselling German book series, this raucous rock ‘n’ roll adventure is about friends, crushes and surviving high school.
A touching true story about the bonds between a brother and sister, set amid the picturesque beauty of a remote Turkish village.
A young boy learns self-reliance in this extraordinary story filmed in a unique location – at sea, amid the platform-fishermen of Indonesia.
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July 24th until August 9th 2009
Full the full Next Gen program
Saturday, 11 July 2009
Kids Adventure Passport | NSW

The Premier’s Adventure Challenge and Kids’ Adventure Passport are initiatives of the NSW Government.
The aim is to encourage primary aged children (Kindergarten to year 6), and their families, to visit the State’s participating museums and galleries.
Exposure to art, big ideas and high-level creativity helps developing minds reach their full potential.
The Passport makes discovering the State’s museums and galleries more fun for children and their families by providing a series of goals and suggested activities for them to complete at each venue. And it just may spur on the next wave of artists, inventors, historians or designers to give it a try too.
Participating Institutions include, The Art Gallery Of NSW, MOS, MCA, Elizabeth Farm
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Monday, 6 July 2009
THE ODDITOREUM

The Odditoreum is a very unique display featuring a selection of weird and wonderful curiosities from deep within the vaults of the Museum’s collection.
The objects have been carefully selected by the Museum for their own peculiarity, creating a display of oddities not normally seen. These objects have in turn been transformed by children’s author and illustrator Shaun Tan, who has created intriguing stories for each object blurring fact and fantasy.
Wednesday, 1 July 2009
Sunday Arts feature Monkey Baa | July 5th
Featured on this weeks Sunday Arts- How Monkey Baa Theatre For Young People have adapted Sonya Hartnett's novel Thursday's Child for a young audience.
Sunday Arts:
Friday, 26 June 2009
The Fox and the Child Giveway

Sunday, 21 June 2009
Orisinal - Online Games

Justine Clarke - Sing
A great family show, very relaxed, community feel. Good songs, sing along lyrics and lots of opportunities for audience participation.
Perfect for under 6 age group.
Unfortunately there were only 2 shows in Sydney. Justine is quite pregnant and is doing a small tour.
Worth catching if she comes near you.
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Thursday, 11 June 2009
Australian premiere | Coraline | SFF


Monday, 8 June 2009
Sunshine Barry and the Disco Worms
I took the family (4yo, 6yo and 40+) to see Sunshine Barry and the Disco Worms at the Sydney Film Festival today. Of the four children's films this is the one that seemed most suitable for the 4yo despite the program suggesting it was for 6 and over. The audience was large and there were a lot of under sixes there, so other families seemed to have the same idea. I think, however, the program was right. While the 4yo sat through it and even enjoyed it at times the content wasn't suitable for his age group and was a little old for my 6yo too.
The sound was way too loud in the cinema. I also found the depiction of the mother a little offensive (all the female characters were a bit lacking really particularly at the start), the father, and homosexuals don't come off much better. The overall story didn't hold a message I am particularly interested in discussing with my children. On the upside the music was fun and my 6yo was dancing in his seat by the end.
Sunshine Barry and the Disco Worms screens again on Saturday 13th June at 2.45pm, Greater Union George Street.