School holiday activities
Crafty school holiday fun for every age.
Join us for craft, comic making and author storytime this summer school holidays. Find out more and book below.
Craft
Explore the theme of community through collaborative art activities. Decorate puzzle pieces, make paper chains, write appreciation cards and help build a community with Lego Duplo.
- When: 5 January – 25 January
- Time: 10am – 4pm
- Where: Learning space. Please enter through the main doors and staff will direct you.
- Age: all ages
- Cost: free
- Drop in, no booking required
Author storytime
Come along and listen as author Rhian Williams reads her books, Emergency! Emergency! Vehicles to the Rescue and One Little Dung Beetle.
- When: 20 January
- Time: 10am – 11am
- Where: Learning space. Please enter through the main doors and staff will direct you.
- Age: 4 – 10
- Cost: $10, accompanying adult is free
- Note: bookings essential
Non-fiction comic-making workshop – sensory supportive
Join cartoonist, journalist and editor, Eleri Harris, for a sensory-supportive half-day workshop creating non-fiction comics. This workshop provides a supportive environment for young people to express themselves, and suits individuals who identify as neurodivergent including, but not limited to, those who experience autism, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder or Tourette syndrome, as well as other sensory sensitivities.
- When: 22 January
- Time: 10am – 2pm (with a 30-minute break)
- Where: Senate Committee Room. Please enter through the main doors and staff will direct you.
- Age: 12 – 16
- Cost: $55, accompanying adult is free
- Note: ticket price includes a copy of Eleri's book, Making Nonfiction Comics: A Guide for Graphic Narrative. All materials provided. Bookings essential.
Plan your visit
The Senate Committee Room and Learning space are both wheelchair accessible.
Seating is available in the Senate Committee Room and Learning space.
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