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Do you have a community event, a birthday party, English class studying a play, a drama class preparing to do a play or a caravan park full of kids in need of entertainment? Do you want a child-friendly activity at a community market or professional development for your team? We can help. Below are a list of activities and workshops that we can offer. The fees for these workshops enable us to offer more free activities for vulnerable children and families, so THANK YOU for looking at this page.
kids parties
craft and dress up party
Let us host! You rock up at the Institute Hall with kids, food and pressies and we’ll provide activities and space!
Choose from two of the following activities:
· Create monsters with air-dry clay
· Painting
· Theatre games
Then raid the costume room and perform a costume parade
2 hours on Saturdays
For up to 7 kids, ages 5 – 12
Additional kids are $5 each. Payable on the day
the gamers party
Let us host! You rock up at the Institute Hall with kids, food and pressies and we’ll provide activities and space!
Choose from two of the following activities:
· Tabletop Games
· Big screen computer games
· Virtual Reality
Saturdays for up to 7 kids, ages 7 – 17 (10 – 17 for VR)
Additional kids are $5 each, payable on the day
COMMUNITY EVENTS
Silent disco
We rock up with up to 100 Silent Disco headsets and get the party started. A Silent Disco is a dance party where only the participants can hear the songs. Oh and it is mobile! This means we can activate your space, walking guests through your school, caravan park, town or market. We offer either Disco Classics (all ages) or Disney Dance Party (kids).
Ages: All Ages
One 45-minute dance party $250
Four 20-minute dance parties $400
Plus headset hire, dependent on how many are required: $10 for a set of 10.
messy sensory play
We rock up with drop sheets and tubs of STUFF to play in. STUFF can include slime, rainbow noodles, rice, sand, gelibaff and toys to play with in these textures. We’ll bring the fidget toys and squishy things and go to town with things to touch, hear, smell and squash. Sensory play has many proven benefits for children including developing both gross and fine motor skills, communication and cognitive skills and helping calm anxious or frustrated children. (link: The 5 Key Benefits Of Sensory Play | Creative Play (creativeplayuk.com))
Ages: 1-10
Groups size: up to 12 children with carers or teacher/supervisors
Two facilitators
1 hour session (plus set up and pack down): $200
2 x 45 minute sessions: $300
high school classes
Fleur will come to your school to teach a lesson. Did you know that Fleur is an award-winning educator? That’s right. When she was a lecturer at Monash University, lecturing in theatre and performance, she was awarded the Art’s Faculty’s top teaching award and was short-listed for the university-wide Above and Beyond award for her work during lockdown. So she knows a thing or two about teaching and a thing or 20 about teaching theatre and music theatre.
productions 101
Are your students doing a musical or performance this year? Fleur will come and do an introduction to what it means to create a show together. Topics covered in this class include:
- Who does what in a production team?
- Rehearsals vs developments
- Rehearsal room etiquette
- Communication with directors and note taking
- Safety and care
- The timeline of a production
- What to expect from production week
This class is very interactive and involves a lot of group discussion and has a ‘no stupid’ questions rule. And teachers, it comes with the 22-page mini book that Fleur wrote for students covering this subject matter.
A double lesson.
$170
approaching text
This workshop takes your class through a variety of textural analysis technique for actors. This is a fun, on-your-feet approach to understanding play scripts. The workshops can use a text your class is already working on or a text supplied by Fleur. Techniques used will include:
- Paraphrasing
- Moving with punctuation
- Vocal Viewpoints
- Power and proximity
- Small Planet
There will be a discussion about the fact that not all techniques will suit every person and a quest to find techniques that work for different types of learners. This class can also be adapted to English classes who are reading a play. It will be very helpful for English students to understand scripts as living texts, written to be acted.
A double lesson.
$170
physical theatre
This is exactly what it sounds like: we are up and moving, making theatre. We explore different methods of improvisation and how to layer text over physical movement. Techniques used include:
- Viewpoints
- Contact Improv
- Finger following
- Cane duets
A double lesson. PE uniforms are recommended.
$170
primary school classes or clubs
take it apart club
Mel can you write a bit about this? I want to offer it as a fortnightly lunchtime club for a term for small groups of kids. 5 sessions over the course of a term.
professional development and classes for adults
We love sharing our skills with our community. We are passionate about supporting teachers and educators but also have a special passion for working with adults with disabilities, experiencing long-term unemployment. Half of our staff came to the team via the disability employment route so we Get It. We offer professional development for teachers but also for those who experience social anxiety or isolation. Below are a few workshops we can run but feel free to look through our 2023 program as many of our classes and events for children can be translated into creative opportunities for adults to connect, relax and learn.
theatre games and play for primary or secondary school teachers
Add some of our favourite games to your collection and feel confident using theatre tools throughout your curriculum. Learn the benefits of embracing theatre and play in other subjects and some simple structures for how to put together a performance.
1.5 hrs
$250 for a group
anxiety toolkit
This is a workshop Fleur has taught for university students but have found it translates beautifully to adults returning to the workforce. This workshop is playful, interactive and culminates in having participants record messages to their future-selves, walking themselves through what to do next when they feel overwhelmed.
2 hours
$250 for a group
grant writing - online class
Can we chat to Alysha about this being an offering that she runs?
