Category Archives: Workshops for all ages

Workshops designed for parents and children together.

Rocket-A-Maze at the Tanks Art Centre Photos by Colyn Huber

Cairns Childrens Festival 2015 LogoAnd 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

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

Artist in Residence – Cairns Children’s Festival 2015

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.

 

March workshops:

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.

 

School holiday workshops

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

 

Building the Labyrinth

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

Cairns Children’s Festival – Waste Not World

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.

Chinese New Year – Horse

20,000 pack Grafton Street in Cairns CBD to welcome Chinese New Year of the Horse in 2014

RECORD crowd numbers crammed into Cairns CBD to welcome in the Chinese New Year of the Horse on Saturday.

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.

The first costume try on at the Tanks

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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.

Chinese New Year 2013 Snake

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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.