Experimenta Playground

VIC (Australia) 15 Nov–27 Jan Western Australia Museum - Perth

Step into Experimenta Playground, an interactive digital media playground that invites you to touch, watch, listen to and experience the unique and inventive artworks of 30 Australian and international artists.

Playfulness and imagination will bring this exhibition to life as you interact with multi-media installations, interactive artworks and short films… [more]

FEAST Exhibition

Western Australia 16–23 Nov Western Australia Museum - Perth

Ever wanted to play with your food? The talented young people of regional WA did just that with ‘FEAST‘- AWESOME’s Creative Challenge food art project that visited 10 regional and remote communities and one metropolitan community in 2008. We facilitated workshops where talented young artists created wondrous works of art out of food including jelly… [more]

Sand Art Park

Belgium 16–23 Nov Perth Cultural Centre Amphitheatre

Acclaimed Belgian sand artist Hanneke Supply will work with a team of artists to create a large-scale sculptural sand art park in the Perth Cultural Centre. Hanneke’s work explores the space and place and how young people interact with this space. Hanneke invites both the bright young things and the general public to view, participate and ponder the space that is the Perth Cultural Centre… [more]

Romeo & Juliet

New York, USA 17–23 Nov The Blue Room

If you’ve never seen Classical theatre performed by tiny plastic ninja figurines from vending machines don’t miss Tiny Ninja Theatre presents Romeo and Juliet.

This extraordinary performance tells the tale of Shakespeare’s star-crossed lovers, hosting an all-plastic cast including aliens, robots, Mr [more]

Fly

Netherlands 17–23 Nov Forrest Place

The Fly is a 9-minute film and theatre experience in which self-taught artist Vincent der Rooij manipulates everyday objects and ideas to create a short film in front of the audience.

Der Rooij uses ordinary, day-to-day objects as his actors by changing their functions and meanings to construct metaphoric characters and situations out of them. His… [more]

The Big Game

VIC (Australia) 17–23 Nov Forrest Place

Step onto the tiles of The BIG Game and participate as a live board-game piece. Roll the giant dice and make your way through a huge, interactive terrain of rewards and hazards in your quest to finish the game.

The BIG Game is a public artwork for young people and families exploring board game elements of competition and chance. Created with and… [more]

The Scavenger's Castle

WA (Australia) 17–23 Nov Forrest Place

One of Western Australia’s favorite artists Bennett Miller has a new friend on hand for The Scavengers Castle. Marvel at the splendor of a ramshackle castle surrounded by a moat and staffed by a mysterious sausage dog with a hatred for waste! Created entirely from found and reused products, the castle will be brought to life to house the little master… [more]

Film & Animation Screenings

VIC (Australia), WA (Australia) & Netherlands respectively 17–23 Nov State Library of Western Australia

Work and Play

Dave Jones (Victoria) & the Joondalup Community.

In 2008 renowned Australian animation artist Dave Jones spoke to the seniors of Joondalup and documented their stories of how they used to ‘play’ as children. These stories were then told to the young people of Hillarys Pre-Primary School who illustrated the stories they heard… [more]

Underground

Queensland (Australia) 19–22 Nov PICA

Underground is an astonishing dance theatre performance by Dance North, set in a subway during peak hour. For bustling commuters, the underground is an ominous space of fluid transition between dull reality and a fantastical dream world [more]

Fazzoletto

Belgium 17–23 Nov Forrest Place

Roll up! Roll up! To the Fazzoletto circus tent which, after shrinking in the wash, now stands at a miniature 3 by 4 metres [more]