Odosketch seeks to recreate the decidedly non-digital experience of working with a sketchbook. Its papery textures, variety of brushes and intentional imperfections make you forget you're working on a screen.
Friday, 31 July 2009
Ready to get Sketchen?
Friday, 17 July 2009
What would kids do if they could do anything?
Erth, the creators of the famous dinosaur Petting Zoo, are looking for kids to be part of the creation of the Amazing Room – a new component of the upcoming Sydney Children’s Festival.
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.
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
Now a MIFF institution, the Next Gen program within the Melbourne International Film Festival provides stimulating films for younger generations of cinema viewers.
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.
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.
The festival presents an extensive range of international films for older children they may not ever get the chance to see.
Highlights include:
Cheeky Girls - Germany
Based on a bestselling German book series, this raucous rock ‘n’ roll adventure is about friends, crushes and surviving high school.
Cheeky Girls - Germany
Based on a bestselling German book series, this raucous rock ‘n’ roll adventure is about friends, crushes and surviving high school.
Mommo - Turkey
A touching true story about the bonds between a brother and sister, set amid the picturesque beauty of a remote Turkish village.
A touching true story about the bonds between a brother and sister, set amid the picturesque beauty of a remote Turkish village.
Jermal - Indonesia
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
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
Something odd is stirring in the basement of the Powerhouse Museum....
a giant liquorice allsorts shoe, a griffin sculpture, horses teeth.
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.
Holiday program from the 11th July includes
Beasties Robotic Petting Zoo
Ages 4 - 12
Media Mash up
Ages 12 - 16
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The Odditoreum
27 June - 13 September
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.
Thursday’s Child is Tin, born on a Thursday and, like the old nursery rhyme ‘has far to go.’ A strange and lonely child who digs, his wanderings take him underneath the earth into the subterranean tunnels that he’s pre-destined to roam. Told by Tin's sister, Harper Flute, it is a story of a family’s struggle on their desolate farm during the great depression.
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