Friday Finds

image credit: Raquel Caballero

+ My youngest son adores animals and did a vet workshop with these guys a few years ago. New programme out for 2017 AND they are also offering two scholarships.
+ My daughter would love these graphic tights. Too many choose from!
+ Our friend Lilly Blue from BIG Kids magazine will lead participants through theatre games, collaborative invention and art making in response to SCAF's immersive installation, After Voices. 
+ My daughter is my new photographer for my project Hello Bookshop (That's her pictured). It was very exciting to work with her.  We will give you a heads up when our first conversation is up.
+ If you are in Penrith this is your last chance this weekend to catch The Adventures of Alvin Sputnik: Deep Sea Explorer. We loved  it in 2011 at the Sydney Festival.
+ We will be in Melbourne this weekend and will be popping along to Circus Oz's open house in Collingwood.

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+ Pop up ice skating in the city and Bondi may have ended but you can skate seven day a week at The Ice Zoo
+ Melbourne Writers' Festival children and teen program looks wonderful. Love the podcasting workshop
+ Your teen may be find their voice at the Australian Poetry Slam
+ We love this Tokyo time-lapse / Tokyo is an amazing city to visit with your kids
+ Tracks - A pop up program of events for young writers
+ My teen is at Splendour in the Grass this weekend - but they also cater for the little ones.

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image: Abbey Vella

+ Forget the Archibald's! Meet the Young Archie's
+ One of my teens will be at Genext this Sunday - maybe she will share her images
+ Evening sorted = Back to the Future at Golden Age Cinema
+ For your photographer in the family
+ Palace movie club - discounted movies

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+ Best Sunday evening in Sydney for over 12's (and it's free too)
+  Got space lovers at home? The Final Frontier in Melbourne might be right up their alley
+ HIPPO! HIPPO!
+ It's an old one but we still love it
+ Kidlolly - Where have you gone?
+ Travelling with kids with Zig Zag - Would be great to see a Sydney version
+ Catch Mustang in the cinemas with your teens
+ On our list for August

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image: Nick Miller

+ A new music and arts festival - The Lost Lands - shared experiences for families of creatives, music-lovers and the adventurous. When: October 28-31 2016, Where: Werribee Mansion (Melbourne)

+ hotDocs - Most documentaries are classified for under 18's 

+ Unicorn Youth - weekly radio show dedicated to giving young LGBTQIA+ people a voice

+ Why poetry is great for young children - Lilly Blue on Kinderling radio

+ If you have a shutterbug aged under 11 - get them snapping for this

+ JAM Online courses for kids

+ Studio Ghibli week at Golden Age Cinema in Surry Hills

+ How to talk about teenage mental health 

+ Aphex Twins first video in 17 years directed by a 12 year old YouTuber

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image from The Cinema Travellers

Finding Dory at IMAX 3D - SUNDAY FUNDAY

This weekend - MCA Zine fair

Cinema Travellers at Sydney Film Festival

We are headed to Melbourne for a few days in July --- just found a 24 hour ramen restaurant in my research. Ramen for breakfast please!

We will also be in Brisbane for the Cindy Sherman exhibition... but we will be missing out on the Teen Exclusive Backstage pass on the 24th June (for 13 - 18 year olds)

Centre of Photography School Holiday photography courses

White Rabbit Gallery is on my list - the teahouse has my daughters name written all over it

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Excursions were never this cool when I went to school.

Get your kids to experience a film that isn't screened in a multiplex.

The Listies hit the Sydney Theatre Company with Hamlet: Prince of Skidmark. On a budget? Try your chances on Tuesday with Suncorp Twenties.

My daughter would love this Beatles inspired birthday party theme. (Chances of me putting this much effort into it is zero!)

Welcome to the future, Virtual Reality is here. Explore with your family at Bjork at Carriageworks,  Down the Rabbit Hole at SFF,  and with David Attenborough at the Australian Museum.

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I found some time last night to put together a small selection of our Friday Finds.......

Here is my official list of Friday Finds for Friday 4 July 2014:

• Expose your kids to cinema.... Last month I re-watched DO THE RIGHT THING with my eldest son (now 16) and as it celebrates it's 25th anniversary - the messages are still very clear.  It was wonderful to share this film with him for the first time. Search out films in your local dvd store that show them the world but are also age appropriate. 
• Let your kids have their own space in your garden - let them dig it up and go crazy. If you don't have space for a garden - get a herb box
• Lastly - have fun over the school holidays and enjoy your time together.

x

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It's been a while since we posted our Friday Finds - so we have added a few extra:

• Sydney Film Festival - How to Train Your Dragon 2 - Cate Blanchett will also be at the screening to present the film.  Also don't go past catching My Neighbour Totoro on the big screen. We have listed all the films that are classified for under 18's to attend.
• BIG kids magazine are launching their latest issue at the MCA Zine fair this Sunday (25 May) - they are also running the Mother Artist Network forum.  We love the Zine fair - lots of inspiration for your kids to make their own zine.
• Michelle Schoeps will be hosting intimate cooking classes in her home. If follow Michelle's website - you would know that she makes the most beautiful and delicious organic meals for her kids. She is also interested in running a class for teens.
• The Way Out Festival for Children hits the Casula Powerhouse again -  this exciting event for families includes film, workshops and performances - all events are free but bookings are essential
• Arts classes for kids at Culture at Work in Pyrmont.  Their program generates curiosity, investigation, experimentation and ideas. They also run school holiday workshops.
• If you have children that love making their own movies -  they may be interested in AFTRS Trop Jr filmmaking week.
• Vivid lights up Sydney again - jump on public transport and make an evening out of it.
• Catch Captain Underpants this weekend at The Sydney Writers' Festival 
• The Violent Outbursts that Drew Me to You written by one of our favourite playwrights  - Finnegan Kruckenmeyer will be performed at Griffin Theatre this June/July - for teens.
• And one for  teens who love books - Penguin Teen Australia are touring PTA Live. Bookings are essential
• My kids are reading Cherub by Robert Muchamore (10), Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green (12) and Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris (15 - almost 16)
• And it is ok if you want to do absolutely nothing this weekend - let your kids get bored! 

• This year we turned SEVEN! - take a look at our very first posts!  

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Visiting from Tokyo to play dress up - Photograph copyright Louise Hawson

Some fun finds this week -  Enjoy!

• New Conversations with Dumbo Feather for teens
• Explore Tokyo with Shoot Tokyo and Hello Sandwich
• or travel around the world at the Museum of Sydney with photographer Louise Hawson
• or discover some amazing places over at The Cool Hunter
• The GOMA in Queensland have the best online games for kids
• Super cool design workshops at Sydney Design 
• Inspire your kids with Amag - The architecture magazine for children 
• My children are reading Mary Shelly - Frankenstein (15),  R.J. Palacio - Wonder (11) and Emma Cameron - View from the 32nd Floor (9)

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image via Underbelly Arts - Tableau Vivant

School holidays are over - but there is still fun to be had if you look a little closer:

• Underbelly Arts Festival have a great kids/teen program(kids under 12 are free) - jump on a ferry and head over to Cockatoo Island on the 4th August.
• Pop up book workshop with Tony Flowers at Sherman Gallery on 3rd August
• Kiddley is back!
• We have been playing with Poster Candy and Origrami to showcase our family images
• Beautiful bag for kids that love to draw - anywhere - anytime 
• Youth courses at Metro screen in filmmaking and video game design
• We have rediscovered Scratch - my youngest son loves it. 
• For teens - Tavi at the Opera House 
• My kids are reading: JD Salinger - Catcher in the Rye (15), R.J. Palacio - Wonder (11) and Emma Cameron - View from the 32nd Floor (9)

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• Way Out Festival for children hits the Casula Powerhouse in July. Look out for  the giant Termite city made out of milk crates.
• Olafur Eliasson is back at The Sherman Gallery for lego mad kids
• Our holiday movie is going to be Satellite Boy
• Talking about movies - did you know that Palace Cinemas has a youth movie club - Scope - membership includes 1 free ticket on joining, $10 tickets and a free choc top on your birthday
• What my kids are reading at the moment - Once upon a slime, Chew on this - everything you don't want to know about fast food and My sister Jodie

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image via http://www.ryojiikeda.com

• This installation looks unreal!!!!!!! Japanese audio-visual artist Ryoji Ikeda  at Carriageworks from the 7 June until 1 July.  Very excited about this one.
• Under 13, got big ideas - this your chance to take over Time Out Sydney and become Australia's youngest editor. 
• Love the $20 tickets at  Sydney Theatre Company - Suncorp Twenties. Family/youth performances coming up - Storm Boy, Romeo and Juliet and Laser Beak Man.
• Instagram fun.
• My Story - My Content - film competition open to students - "Why do I love movies" 

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Posting our Friday Finds an evening earlier  to share some exciting events happening over the school holidays and beyond.

• 13 rooms - Kaldor Public Art Projects - Fantastic kids workshops over the school holidays all inspired by 13 rooms (curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Klaus Biesenbach).  Animation, sculpture and movement.
• The MCA have some fun drop in Contemporary Kids workshops - Cardboard City   and  Junior Art School. They also encourage families to come along to their annual Zine fair on the 26th May
• If you didn't catch Olafur Eliasson last time - make sure you don't miss him this time at the Sherman Gallery.  Especially if you have kids that love lego!
• This school holidays you can't go past seeing The List Operators 6D within the Kids at the House program.

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image via Sydney Theatre Company

It's been a while but Friday Finds are back! Film Festivals, Zines, some blocks and a pelican.

• The French Film Festival has some great kids flicks screening and thankfully most of the films outside the family strand are classified so if you have teens there is a wide selection
• Young at Heart  Film Festival has some great classics - my son loved American Graffiti so this is his chance to catch it on the big screen. Get the kids to take their grandparents to the cinema.
• MCA Zine Fair is back in March - great for kids of all ages - get them to make their own when you get home 
• Love these building blocks from Japan Found vis Kidlolly 
• and for later in August - Sydney Theatre Company with Barking Gecko Theatre will be presenting a production of Storm Boy - Ages 6+

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image sourced from http://www.thecoolhunter.com.au

Finally after being away for a month we are back in the swing of things. Jet lag has passed and we are getting out and about enjoying what Sydney has on offer in Summertime and discovering some fun Friday Finds.

• Blaxland Riverside Park - Cool Hunter: Absolutely  loving the images from The Cool Hunter of this fantastic playground in Homebush. The designers worked with the earth rather than against it to produce an amazing space for kids to go wild.
• Moss Terrariums: This is a project that has been on our list of things to try for a while. Create your own little worlds and add plastic figures to the mix.
• If the weather turns this Summer and you are stuck inside get inspired by the beautiful work using cardboard boxes by artist Annalise Reese. 
• Michelle Schoeps Organic: Beautiful blog that features Michelle's family recipes using amazing produce. 
• If your kids are allowed to stay up late then let them take in a Drive in Cinema experience. The classic  Stand by Me will be screened on the 1st December.
• The  Mother Artist Network Festival is on now on over at BIG magazine...BIG are also after contributions for their next publication with the theme "Into the Dark."

Enjoy your weekend!
Leigh

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School Holidays have kicked in:

• Discover the Lego Colosseum at the Nicholson Museum
• Kids and Family have not been forgotten at the Sydney Biennale...programs include: Baby Biennale | "Schools Out" Holiday program | Family Sundays
• Explore Japanese Cinema at Japanese Cinema Week - Free films!
• Wonderful documentary follows 11 year olds from  around the world I am Eleven Q&A
• Have you  checked out BIG kids magazine yet?  
• Make your own Lego maze
• Drive out to Gymea to visit the Hazelhurst gallery for LOOK! The art of Australian picture books.  Free family day Sunday 1 July

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This week our Friday Finds consists of fun filmmaking resources for kids. 

• Little Big Shots - We love a film festival that just caters to kids.  LBS's packages short films to suit all age groups.  Great way to get kids to explore bite sized cinema.   
• Screen it  - Registrations are now open for film and video game makers at the Australian centre of moving image. When you register kids will have access to online resources and production tools to assist with their creation.
• Movie maker - The ultimate guide to making films
• Metro Screen Youth Program - Great courses and support for up and coming young film makers
• Trop jnr - Junior version of trop fest - entries for 2013 opening soon
• Keep your eye for clay animation workshops over the school holidays at the Australian National Maritime Museum.  My kids went along last holidays and loved it. Next week we are invited to a special screening evening of all the animations made. They will be writing about it here next week.
• Hey Kino - Sydney - When are you going run a Kino Kids?

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• Kidlolly - lots of kids stuff curated from the web (found via Lotta Magazine)
• OK..I have been  late to explore this but the Google Art Project is pretty amazing
• We discovered 52 Suburbs when Louise Hawson first started her project...if you are yet to...Enjoy!
• My daughter is loving Polyvore at the moment where she can create her own magazine page layouts. 
• Messroom at MCA Australia - Sunday Art sessions for teenagers

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Image: Lotta magazine

• Documentary I am Eleven screening 25th March focuses on fifteen 11 year old children from around the world
• Ad free magazine  Lotta Magazine  for kids aged 5 - 10 years. We love their Place in a Case pictured above. 
• Also check out their blog!
• Stop-animation and claymation fun at the Maritime Museum 
• Jitter - Illuminations  - Special screenings of Australian animation featuring Shaun Tan and Adam Elliot
• Japanese Cinema Week -  Free screenings from 16 - 20th April - including Studio Ghibli's Porrco Rosso
• Fun ideas over at Classic-Play