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Rocket-A-Maze Workshops

TINKERING TANK @ CAIRNS CHILDREN’S FESTIVAL 2015
WORKSHOPS: 7 APRIL – 7 MAY

CAIRNS CHILDREN’S FESTIVAL 2015: Sunday 10th MAY

MAZE VISITS: 11 – 29 MAY

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.

WORKSHOP VENUE:

Pump House,  on the Collins Avenue promenade
Tanks Arts Centre, Cairns
Queensland Australia

SCHOOL HOLIDAY PROGRAM

DATE:

Week 2 – Tues, Wed, Thurs 14, 15, 16 April  (10am – 2pm)

COST:

$40 per child per day (all ages, sign-in).
Adult participants welcome: $20 per child, adult free.

EXTRA : BUILD THE ROCKET-A-MAZE OPPORTUNITIES

DATES:

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)

COST:

$20 per child per session (all ages, sign-in).
Adult participants welcome: $10 per child, adult free.

SCHOOL TOURS AND WORKSHOPS:

DATES: 11 – 29 MAY

2 hours; up to 60 children; 2 classes with teacher and adult supervision; ages 6-12.

COST:

$150 per group

CALL OUT FOR DONATIONS:

– old desk top printers (bubble jet or laser), telephones, keyboards, cables
– half empty tins of paint

Christmas 2011 on the Esplanade

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This was a fabulous week of morning spent on the Esplanade in front of Muddy’s Café. The Esplanade is a perfect in the mornings, with the sun heating up, and a slight breeze. Setting up on a picnic table was fun and all the cracks were filled with glitter over the course of the 10 sessions.

Milk bottles are my new favourite medium… they are so perfect to cut! Kids can push a pair of scissors trough them without hurting themselves. They have a fine white colour that is a white opaque colour. It is easy to bend them into a variety of three dimensional shapes. Oil pastels are perfect for drawing onto milk bottle plastic. All the colours go on strong and clear.

I had help from Mary, the amazing volunteer. She delights in engaging people in conversations and loves to hear about where they come from.

Noisemakers for Cairns Festival Parade 2011

Festival Parade 2011 Noise Makers!!!

Let’s make some NOISE!

Free workshop, for kids and parents.

Dates: 6&7 August 2011 Saturday and Sunday 2 – 6pm (the 2 weekends before Festival)

Workshop Location: Marquee at the front of Muddy’s Café.

Workshop participants made percussion guitars from ukule boxes and rubber bands.

Pop-up Puppets

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sun-1Made from up-holsterers scraps and card, pop-up puppets can appear anywhere. They are cheeky, and each character has their own persomality. Mr Sun is the most fun, he likes to play with the turtle.

Puppets are fun devices to get children talking. The puppets tell stories about what happened to them last week, who is in their family and what they like to do.

Pop-up Puppet Workshops 11 June and 14 May 2011

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Pop-up Puppets is an open kid’s workshop on puppet construction and manipulation, using recycled materials finishing with a puppet show and filming. (low tech filming style – suitable for uTube).

Explore three dimensional sculptural techniques

Animate the inanimate

Create a Pop-up Puppet show for UTube

The children will give their puppet an identity while they create it. We will make up and present puppet stories using real-life stories.

Using traditional stories and adding an Australian twist. Cardboard roll lizard, dancing sugar cane, Dugong, cassowary, snakes, spiders, bats.

We will be focussing on tropical Australian animals and local myths.

We will be working with recycled objects – packaging.

The children will are guided in basic sculpture techniques – imaginative use of available materials, strong construction and working in 3 dimensions.