Workshops designed for parents and children together.
And finally, after many workshops, collaborations, and much making the day of the Cairns Children’s Festival came around.
Over 2000 people came through the labrynth, many added their own names, drawings and artwork. Children played in the boxes, speeding through the many twists and turns.
Rocket-A-Maze at the Tanks by Ruby Bou
For the 2015 CAIRNS CHILDREN’S FESTIVAL Tank 4 will become a recycling solar system where visitors travel through a cardboard maze of space, planets and rockets to a reimagined alien world.
The maze will be a sustainable dream, constructed from donated, found and repurposed materials – a cacophony of interspatial ideas facilitated by artist-in-residence Ruby Boussard.
Workshops to help build the giant rocket and maze are being run in March and over the school holidays. Participants will be instrumental in the final outcome at CAIRNS CHILDREN’S FESTIVAL 2015 – Sunday 10th May.
Pump House, on the Collins Avenue promenade
Tanks Arts Centre, Cairns
Queensland Australia
Week 2 – Tues, Wed, Thurs 14, 15, 16 April (10am – 2pm)
$40 per child per day (all ages, sign-in).
Adult participants welcome: $20 per child, adult free.
Sat 25 April & Sat 2 May (10am to 12noon)
Tues 28 April & Tues 5 May (10am to 12noon)
Thurs 30 April, & Thurs 7 May (10am to 12noon)
$20 per child per session (all ages, sign-in).
Adult participants welcome: $10 per child, adult free.
2 hours; up to 60 children; 2 classes with teacher and adult supervision; ages 6-12.
$150 per group
– old desk top printers (bubble jet or laser), telephones, keyboards, cables
– half empty tins of paint
For the 2015 CAIRNS CHILDREN’S FESTIVAL Tank 4 will become a recycling solar system where visitors travel through a cardboard maze of space, planets and rockets to a reimagined alien world.
The maze will be a sustainable dream, constructed from donated, found and repurposed materials – a cacophony of interspatial ideas facilitated by artist-in-residence Ruby Boussard.
Workshops to help build the giant rocket and maze are being run in March and over the school holidays. Participants will be instrumental in the final outcome at CAIRNS CHILDREN’S FESTIVAL 2015 – Sunday 10th May.
The location of all workshops is the Pump House on the Tanks Esplanade.
o Tuesdays 17, 24, 31 March
o Thursdays 12, 19, 26 March
o Saturday 14, 21, 28 March
§Evening workshops: Session one: 3.30 to 4.30pm and Session two: 4.45 to 6pm
§Morning workshops: Session one: 9.30 to 10.30pm and Session two: 10.45 to 12noon
o Child participants: $40 for 3 weeks
o Adult participants: $30 for 3 weeks
– Very limited places.
– Important child attend all 3 sessions so we can complete a fine sculpture.
– Younger children are encouraged to attend Session one. Session two will be more focused on older children.
o Tues, Wed, Thurs 7,8,9 April 10am to 2pm
o Tues, Wed, Thurs 14, 15, 16 April 10am to 2pm
o $120 per child (all ages)
o Adult participants welcome.
– Please book in advance.
– Bring lunch
Install of participant-made-modules into Tank 4 and putting up cardboard walls.
o Tuesday 28 April, 5 May
o Thursday 30 April, 7 May
o Saturday 5 April, 2 May
§Evening workshops: Session one: 3.30 to 4.30pm and Session two: 4.45 to 6pm
§Morning workshops: Session one: 9.30 to 10.30pm and Session two: 10.45 to 12noon
o Child participants: $30 for 2 weeks
o Adult participants: $20 for 2 weeks
o More places available, family groups encouraged.
– Call out for Donations of Materials: old printers (bubble jet or laser), telephones, keyboards, cables
– All bookings contact ruby@ruby-ruth.com.au, 0437 677 424
Location: next to Muddy’s.
10am-4pm: the Creation Space has free art and craft activities. Try your hand at wire sculpture, printmaking, recycled art and paper craft.
For the first Cairns Children’s at the Tanks children from Edge Hill State School were invited to make life sized silhouettes of themselves to populate a cardboard maze world. The child was the creative director and the adult was the technical coordinator, who does the cutting and enabling the imagination. The child then decorated the cardboard silhouette with old clothing and oil pastels. The negative cardboard offcuts were used to create a growing multidimensional Waste Not World in the Tinker Tank.
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About 20,000 people hit Grafton and Shields Sts to watch the parade and take part in the traditional Chinese celebrations, including the awakening of the dragon ceremony used to ring in the new year.
Text and some photos from Cairns Post.
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It was a beautiful day under the trees sitting in the Cairns Cultural Precinct.
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The very first try-on with real actors of costumes. The video star range were clearly a sucess, but my ideas about breast-plates less so. The actors noticed the branding on the plastic, which I had not been looking at. I had only been thinking about the colours red, white and blue.
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We celebrated the year of the snake on Grafton Street. I had been collecting the hose pipes from the bins out the back of Good Guys for months. It was a hot day, people sheltering in the shade, making things. The tables were full! We listened to the singing on the stage and waited until the fire works went off in time to the singing.
