The Government of South Australia is proud to support DreamBIG. Since 1974, this marvellous festival has enabled children to be introduced to creative experiences that have set them up for life. A lifetime of wonder and awe, of new ideas, deep and rewarding discoveries.
I encourage all teachers to engage with the rich opportunities provided through DreamBIG’s focus on Our World. And this year, the festival is more accessible than ever!
I congratulate the team at DreamBIG and the Department for Education, for presenting a terrific program that is sure to inspire students to think deeply and rejoice in Our World.
Douglas Gautier AM CEO & Artistic Director Adelaide Festival Centre Manager, Arts Projects including DreamBIG Festival, Department for Education
We welcome teachers and students to Our World, a place of celebration, joy and, wonder.
In 2023, Adelaide Festival Centre on the banks of the Karrawirri Pari/River Torrens is having a very special birthday. We are turning 50!
To celebrate this milestone birthday, DreamBIG invites students from across the state to imagine what the world will be like on their own 50th birthday. What will a future birthday cake look like? If you can dream it, you can draw it! This will be a very special exhibition and all schools are invited to submit artwork.
Susannah Sweeney Co-Creative Producer Georgi Paech Co-Creative Producer
The focus of DreamBIG 2023 is ‘Our World’ – and what a crazy time to be exploring our world! Young people are more aware than ever of the complexities and challenges faced by the planet. It’s part of an artist’s job to help audiences navigate and understand our world. Author Sarah Ban Breathnach says, ‘The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do.’ We know that young people are capable of these two things. We hope that participating in DreamBIG will encourage young people to become creative, compassionate, and thoughtful citizens by inspiring them to look at and learn from the world around them – from the prehistoric to the future, from Afghanistan to Ireland, from the natural world to the imagined.
Let DreamBIG take your students on a journey of discovery through the Arts.
Download the 2023 DreamBIG Teaching and Learning Resource (T&LR) and Companion to access 10 Arts learning sequences, written to version 9 of the Australian Curriculum, with information and materials to support Arts teaching and learning.
The option to livestream and access recordings of the opening event, the professional learning panel and the teachers’ briefing makes DreamBIG more accessible than ever.
To win $500, send an email detailing the arts learning that has occurred using the DreamBIG resources (entry details in the T&LR). Have a great festival, and always remember to DreamBIG!
Welcome
Contents 4 General Information 4 Venues and Travel 5 Teachers’ Info 7 Opening Event: Our World 7 National Simultaneous Storytime 8 On My 50th Birthday 9 Kids’ Own Library 11 WRITE NOW Festival 12 Fluffy 13 Possum Magic 14 Removed 15 Erth’s Prehistoric World 16 Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge 17 Arco 18 We Come from Far, Far Away 19 Claire Della and the Moon 20 Sea of Light 21 PLANETOIDS 22 Education Is A Dream 23 Guthrak 24 Perspective 25 Found Objects 26 Utterly Grimm! 26 I AM 27 Guru Dudu’s Mysteries of Nature Silent Disco Walking Tour 45 Wallabeats 46 Co-Investigators of Our World 46 47 POSTER COMPETITION Take a look at the Teaching & Learning Resource for curriculum links. 47 Our Corka Bubs 48 Exposed 48 Sam Songailo Mural Workshop 49 Forever & Ever 49 Neon Dreams 50 Nunga Screen 50 Sun Runners 51 centrED 52 Professional Learning Panel: Creative Minds, Creative Worlds 54 Booking Info 56 Student Advisory Committee Adelaide Festival Centre is located on the traditional lands of the Kaurna people. We pay respect to ancestors and elders past, present and emerging as the traditional custodians of the Adelaide Plains. We honour their cultural and spiritual relationship with their country and we do so in the spirit of reconciliation.
General Info
How to use this guide
This program lists all of the school performances, workshops, activities, exhibitions and events that make up DreamBIG 2023. These include paid and free activities, those held at Adelaide Festival Centre and those at other venues, including in-school programs.
A calendar of events is listed in the centre of this program. Suggested itineraries will help you map out your festival experience.
Important booking information can be found on page 52, including how to submit a booking online. Please read this information before you submit your booking form.
Access services
It is important to us that all children at DreamBIG feel comfortable and welcomed. There is something for everyone at DreamBIG!
See our full access guide here:
Accommodation for regional schools
Are you a regional school keen to attend the festival? If you are looking for overnight accommodation, Zoos SA are offering a very special overnight experience at the Adelaide Zoo to schools attending a DreamBIG event. See page 42 for more details.
For a list of other accommodation options, head to the DreamBIG website.
Travel
For information about free travel on Adelaide Metro, school bus parking and travel subsidies see:
Filming, photography, and use of student’s work
A small number of DreamBIG events require participating classes to submit consent forms to DreamBIG. This includes the Opening Event: Our World and any event where students submit their own work to be displayed at the festival. Teachers registering for relevant events will be sent instructions about gathering and submitting consent forms.
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COVID Policy
We are putting in place measures to keep students, artists and staff safe in line with SA Health guidelines. See our website for the most up to date information before your visit.
Every effort has been made to ensure that all information within this program is correct at publication printing in August 2022.
Refer to schools.dreambigfestival.com.au for the most up to date information.
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Teachers’ Info
DreamBIG Program Teachers Briefing
There are over 50 events in the DreamBIG Children's Festival School Program. Which event is right for your class?
Join the DreamBIG team as we share our thoughts and excitement for the 2023 program. In this information session, the DreamBIG team will run through the program, including in-school and regional projects. You will be able to ask questions about the program, and how to connect DreamBIG in your classroom via the Teaching & Learning Resource.
The session will be joined by Kids’ Own Publishing for a tutorial on the KidsPublish app, and how it can be used by your students to create brilliant books for our Kids’ Own Library.
Professional learning certificate provided to all in attendance.
Register via QR code by 24 October
Regional and metro professional learning workshops
To compliment DreamBIG’s in-school projects and the Department for Education’s DreamBIG Teaching & Learning Resource, a range of Arts specific professional learning workshops will be offered regionally during term 1, 2023 including Port Lincoln, Port Pirie, Mt Gambier, Riverland, and in Adelaide during the April school holidays.
The workshops are:
• Suitable for arts specialist and non-specialist teachers; primary, special needs, and secondary
• Practical in nature
• Aligned with the Australian Curriculum: The Arts
• Complimentary to, but not reliant on participation in the festival
• Designed for arts learning at school
Full program details will be released early term 1 via the Arts Ambassadors network, and the Department for Education and DreamBIG websites.
Attendees will be issued with a professional learning certificate. See the Department for Education’s free DreamBIG Teaching & Learning Resource via the QR code below.
Professional Learning Panel
See information regarding Professional Learning Panel: Creative Minds, Creative Worlds on page 50
Arts Ambassadors eNews
Are you passionate about the Arts, and DreamBIG? The Arts Ambassadors eNews is a free, opt-in email subscription for preschool, primary and secondary educators. It promotes Arts specific professional learning and opportunities for teachers, schools and students. Arts Ambassadors assist in promoting DreamBIG to their network. To join, email education.dreambig@sa.gov.au providing your name, school and contact details.
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Opening Event: Our World
In Person
You are invited to DreamBIG’s opening spectacular!
Celebrate our world by raising your voice as part of The Mighty Choir of Small Voices, as students sing My Island Home. In a DreamBIG first, the choir will be led in a mass dance event by the youth dance ensemble Dusty Feet Mob. In-school singing and dance workshops will be conducted with participating classes in term 1. Students will also get to see high-energy performances from some exciting DreamBIG artists.
National Simultaneous Storytime 2023
Be part of #1millionkids reading along to this year’s National Simultaneous Storytime. In 2023 the book being read across the nation will be The Speedy Sloth by Rebecca Young.
IN–SCHOOL REGIONAL
Not able to join us in person?
For the first time, DreamBIG will be livestreaming the event right into your classroom! Your class can join in on all the fun, sing and dance along to The Mighty Choir of Small Voices, and have a special VIP experience as the livestream Master of Ceremonies gives your students special access to the event! Theatre 9.30am 12pm a
DreamBIG is grateful to the Public Schools Music Festival for their continued support of The Mighty Choir of Small Voices
It is finally time for the event of the year, Spike couldn’t believe it—THE GREAT RACE was here! The other sloths said it couldn’t be done, but Spike didn’t care, she was ready to run! This story celebrates all winners, especially those who don’t come first.
Information on registering, in-class resources, and fun ideas to support hosting an event in your school:
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Years: R–6 Ages: 5–12 Special Event Years: R+ Ages: 5+ Special Event
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On My 50th Birthday
IN–SCHOOL REGIONAL
Adelaide Festival Centre, the home of DreamBIG Children’s Festival, is turning 50! To celebrate, DreamBIG invites students to imagine what the world will be like on their own 50th birthday. Create an artwork showing your vision of the future and send it to us to be included in a special exhibition and animation at Adelaide Festival Centre. Artist in Residence program
Local artists Mali Isobel and Lucy Timbrell will be working with four lucky classes in term 1 to create artworks in-school to be displayed in the exhibition. Students will also be interviewed about their thoughts on the future, with their voices incorporated into the animation’s soundscape. Artists in residence program available for Department for Education IoED Cat 1–4. Find out more
Exhibition – The Galleries, Festival Theatre Foyer 12–26 May, 10am–3pm
Animation – Children’s Artspace 17 May–14 July, 10am–3pm
Adelaide Festival Centre’s CentrED schools program & DreamBIG Children’s Festival
Curated by Mali Isobel & Lucy Timbrell, animation by Chris Edser & Lisa Vertudaches
Image: Pexels Samaraagenstvo
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Years: R+ Ages: 5+ Workshop schools.dreambigfestival.com.au 9 For all budding young authors! Let your students’ creativity run wild while writing and illustrating their very own eight-page book on the theme of ‘Our World’. Using the KidsPublish app, students can express their imagination and build confidence in storytelling, literacy, and a lifelong love of reading – in a way they can share with their peers. The app will send DreamBIG a copy of the book to display in our Library,and you can print a copy for your classroom too. DreamBIG is also arranging for a book swap between schools! Register Here Kids’ Own Library Kids’ Own Publishing Visit the Library: Space Theatre Foyer 17–26 May, 10am–3pm FREE IN–SCHOOL REGIONAL Image: Pexels Alex Green Please note the app is only available for iPads See a demonstration of how to make a book at the Teachers Briefing (see pg 5)
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WRITE NOW Festival
WRITE NOW Festival is a new, one-day event for aspiring writers in secondary school, giving young people the chance to discover the different pathways for a working writer. After a keynote speech by Holden Sheppard (Invisible Boys), participants will enjoy a day of masterclasses and workshops with inspiring authors and writers tailored to their interests.
Workshops include:
• Visual Storytelling with the Australian Children’s Television Foundation
• Bringing Stories to Life with Alice Boyle (author, Dancing Barefoot)
• What’s the Story with Vanessa Len (author, Only a Monster)
• Writing Truth with Farrin Foster (founding editor, CityMag)
• Fine Lines: Experimental Memoir Writing with Lur Alghurabi (multi-award-winning non-fiction writer)
Find the full program on our website. We recommend registering a limited number of students with an interest in writing, rather than an entire class.
Support for regional and Department for Education IoED Cat 1–4 schools available –email dreambig@adelaidefestivalcentre.com.au for more information.
Space Theatre 15 May, 9.30am–4pm Schools $10, Equity $5
IN–SCHOOL REGIONAL
WRITE NOW Aspiring Writers Competition
Supported by Wakefield Press
DreamBIG invites secondary school students to submit their own short story, personal essay, screenplay, or poetry to the WRITE NOW Aspiring Writers Competition.
Winners and finalists from each category will be invited to attend the WRITE NOW Festival on 15 May 2023 at Adelaide Festival Centre, with the winning entries announced and read by a performer on the day.
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Fluffy
Years: Pre K–7 Ages: 4–12 Interactive Installation schools.dreambigfestival.com.au Torrens Parade Ground Drill Hall 17–19, 23–26 May, 10am & 12.15pm 75mins FREE – Bookings Required Fluffy’s interactive wonderland of 200kg of swirling, fluttering recycled paper is part narrative, part make-your-own adventure. Transform your paper waste into art as you explore your imagination, art creation and physical performance in a confettifilled landscape. Experience Fluffy’s joyful, playful and beautiful mess where the physical laws of this universe don’t exist.
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Monkey Baa Theatre Company
Possum Magic
Based on the Book by Mem Fox and Julie Vivas
This beloved Australian story has enchanted children for forty years. Now the paper and ink is being brought to life on stage! Using a magical mix of live action, stage magic, puppetry and projected animation, Monkey Baa’s awarding-winning creative team have translated the whimsical world of Mem Fox and Julie Vivas into an enchanting live experience.
Dunstan Playhouse 23–26 May, 10.30am &1pm 55mins Schools $16, Equity $10
Years: Pre K–3 Ages: 3–8 Performance SA Premiere schools.dreambigfestival.com.au
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Years: 6+ Ages: 11+ Performance Australian Premiere schools.dreambigfestival.com.au Space Theatre 24–26 May, 10.15am & 12.45pm 50mins Schools $16, Equity $10 The Australian premiere of an awardwinning, critically acclaimed story of a young man’s experiences within the state care system. Funny, moving and thought provoking, Removed is an amalgam of many young people’s real and important stories. Removed Prime Cut Productions – Northern Ireland by Fionnuala Kennedy 14
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The Australian Chamber Orchestra presents
Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge
This delightful production weaves together captivating storytelling with mesmerising music in an immersive and intimate performance, adapted and directed by Sandra Eldridge. With an original score by award-winning composer Paul Stanhope performed by a string quartet from the Australian Chamber Orchestra, Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge is the perfect introduction to live classical music, guaranteed to enchant audiences both young and old.
Space Theatre 17–19 May, 10.45am & 12.15pm
30min (+Q&A)
Schools $16, Equity $10
Based on the book by Mem Fox and Julie Vivas Daniel
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Years: 2–7 Ages: 7–12 Performance SA Premiere Drama Centre Rehearsal Room, Adelaide Festival Centre 17–19 May, 10.15am & 1.15pm (No 10.15am show on 17 May) 30mins (+Q&A) Schools $16, Equity $10 schools.dreambigfestival.com.au 17 ARCO WA Youth Theatre Company Adam Kelly is, in his own words, an Autistic Gentleman. Finbar is a fish. ARCO is Adam’s supercharged show about living with autism, or, in Finbar the fish’s case, living in water. Let Adam and Finbar dance, draw, fly, and joke their way into your heart. Image: James Campbell
We Come from Far, Far Away
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Years: 5+ Ages: 10+ Performance Australian Premiere Season Drama Centre Rehearsal Room, Adelaide Festival Centre 23–26 May, 10am & 12.30pm 70min (+15 minute post show discussion) Schools $16, Equity $10 Follow the story of two boys from Aleppo who travel to Norway. This is a road trip type of story - but it’s complicated. It’s about things and people and places but also about survival, fear, friendship, and separation. This work was developed with Hvalstad Transittmottak, an Asylum Centre providing a first reception point for refugees aged 13–18 who arrive in Norway alone. We Come from Far Far Away uses live music, storytelling, clowning and shadow puppetry to engage, entertain and say something big.
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Tomas Lauvland Pettersen
Claire Della and the Moon
by Ellen Graham and Jamie Hornsby
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Madness of Two Join Claire and space dog Laika in the perfect show for these trying times. Using puppetry, music and poetic storytelling, AWGIE Award winning Claire Della and the Moon offers young audiences a metaphoric vocabulary to positively manage their own mental health.
Jamie Hornsby
Sea of Light
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Years: Pre K–5 Ages: 3–10 Interactive Installation schools.dreambigfestival.com.au 20 Bring imagination to life as children paint their way across this high-seas wonderland with a magical UV torch. See their art light up with every brushstroke, while ships leave a glowing trail across the sea. Patch Theatre combines UV light, props and gentle soundscapes in this fully immersive installation that abounds in wonder.
Theatre Banquet Room, Adelaide Festival Centre 17–19 & 23–26 May, 10am, 10.45am, 11.30am, 12.15pm, 1pm, & 1.45pm 25mins FREE – Bookings Required
Matt Bryne
PLANETOIDS
An interactive installation that explores our relationship to the planet, the cosmos and each other. As the guardians of planetoids, the audience builds worlds suspended in space, with all-natural crafting supplies and endless expanding imagination. It’s hands-on, creative, mind-bending fun that unearths our united sense of stewardship
Artspace Plaza, Festival Plaza 17–19 & 23–26 May, 10am, 11am, 12pm & 1pm 30mins – Bookings Required
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Education Is A Dream ( )
Former Afghan refugee and photographer Muzafar Ali will take your class on an engaging journey, sharing the education experience of refugees and the people of Afghanistan. Through videos, photos, and a live Q&A with the Cisarua Refugee Learning Centre in Indonesia, Muzafar will help students learn more about a basic right we take for granted – education.
Muzafar Ali and Light Sound Art Film
Years: 4+ Ages: 9+ Interactive Presentation Quartet Bar, Festival Theatre Foyer 17–19 May, 11am & 1pm 45mins FREE – Bookings Required schools.dreambigfestival.com.au 22
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Years: 7+ Ages: 12+ Interactive Performance World Premiere schools.dreambigfestival.com.au 23 Inspired by Dungeons & Dragons, Guthrak invites you to gather around the table for an interactive theatre experience like no other. Join Guthrak’s adventure, as you interact with and influence her story unfolding on the table in front of you. GUTHRAK Under the Microscope John Bishop Room, Festival Theatre Foyer 23–26 May, 10.15am & 12.45pm 60mins Schools $16, Equity $10 SEE TEACHING & LEARNING RESOURCE DANCE & CHANCE
Years: 2–7 Ages: 7–12 Performance/Workshop Roving Performances 17–19 May 9.30am–12pm Image: Stu Nankivell
Five exceptional dance and physical theatre artists use everyday objects in this epic outdoor dance theatre hoverboards breakdancing, tutting, features a duet between a parkour performer and a remote-control car, with a an ordinary basketball becomes the centre of a thrilling adventure. McGlynn
Years: All Ages: All Ages Performance schools.dreambigfestival.com.au
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Years: 1–7 Ages: 6–12 Performance Years: 3+ Ages: 8+ Promenade Performance schools.dreambigfestival.com.au 26 Goodwood Theatre and Studios 24–26 May, 11am 60mins Schools $16, Equity $10 Adelaide City Library 19, 24 & 26 May, 1pm Schools $16, Equity $10 Utterly Grimm! is a dazzling retelling of Brother’s Grimm fairy tales that drags the wellknown stories into the 21st Century, via the brilliant cast from Free Agents Youth Theatre. Utterly Grimm! radically blends together fairytales, setting the characters loose on one night of high-octane action. Ruby Award-winning theatre company AJZ Productions presents theatre experience that explores the ultimate question ‘What is my one true purpose?’ Using multimedia installations, musical composition and spoken word, explores the idea that not having a set path helps us remain open to new experiences. Utterly Grimm! I AM Free Agents Youth Theatre AJZ Productions Image: Nathan Little Supported by the Commissioner for Children & Young People Image: Ian Routledge
Guru Dudu’s Mysteries of Nature Silent Disco Walking Tour
Years: 2+ Ages: 7+ Interactive Performance World Premiere Festival Plaza (meeting point) 17–19 May, 10.30am & 1pm 45mins FREE – Bookings Required DreamBIG favourite Guru Dudu is back to lead you on a very different type of silent disco walking tour. You are invited to pop on some headphones and come on an immersive dance-walking journey to explore the local ecology around the Adelaide Festival Centre and the Torrens River/Karrawirra Parri, and to play with the various patterns of nature. How is it to dance like an animal? To be still like a tree? To experience the four seasons? This tour will be part-dancing, part-learning, part-reflecting, and part-laughing!
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Years: All Ages: All Workshop/Installation Festival Plaza 17–19, 23–26 May, 10.30am & 12.15pm 75mins FREE – Bookings Required Let your imagination run wild. Join SA’s own nature play company Climbing Tree in the Massive Maker Space. Get creative with its huge pile of junk loose parts, Massive Maker Space is a small world of possibilities where you can create something never seen before. Massive Maker Space Climbing Tree 32 Image: Kelly Carpenter
On Site Workshop School years R–2 The Star Kitchen and Bar 18–19 May, 10.30am, 11.45am & 1pm 45mins FREE – Bookings Required Virtual Workshop School years R–6 In School –2 Sessions of 45mins each 1 & 29 March, 45mins FREE – Bookings Required Join the Australian Children’s Television Foundation either in person or online to explore screen stories. In-person workshops during the festival will focus on storyboarding and narrative structure. Virtual Workshops taking place in the classroom will support the creation of students’ own artwork, with a selection of artworks to be exhibited on the Adelaide Festival Centre’s media screens. Our World on Screen Australian Children’s Television Foundation IN–SCHOOL REGIONAL schools.dreambigfestival.com.au 33 Image: Australian Children’s Television Foundation
Wild –Six Dog Night
Artistically Directed by Jacob Boehme (Kaurna/Narungga)
Years: 1–5 Ages: 6–11 Installation/Workshop schools.dreambigfestival.com.au 34 Vitalstatistix, Port Adelaide 8–12 May, 10am, 11am, 12pm & 1.15pm 40mins FREE – Bookings Required An immersive and interactive workshop, led by senior Kaurna Elders, focusing on the importance of one of Australia’s most misunderstood but significant cultural symbols – the dingo. Listen to the Elders share stories of the dingo and learn about the Kaurna night sky, where the Milky Way is known as Wodliparri, the celestial river.
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Insite Arts in partnership with Country Arts SA & Vitalstatistix
Here and There
ActNow
Years: 2+ Ages: 7+ Interactive Performance World Premiere schools.dreambigfestival.com.au 35 The Lab, Light Square 17–19 May, 1pm 60mins Schools $16, Equity $10 From critically acclaimed South Australian theatre company ActNow, Here and There transports audiences into the lives of artists from across the world, into their homes and places of belonging. Featuring six artists, from four countries, the performance uses live stream technology to bridge the gap between the places we call home.
Theatre Image: Sam Wannan
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Years: 5–12 Ages: 10–17 Workshop Years: 5–10 Ages: 10–15 Online Workshop schools.dreambigfestival.com.au Parliament House 19, 22 & 26 May, 10am & 1pm 120mins FREE – Bookings Required In–School – Terms 1 & 2 60–90mins FREE – Register Here Learn to use your voice in our democracy Turn class passion into real action, with a practical application of civics and citizenship content, by joining the education team at Parliament House. Students aged 10–17 can choose to workshop an issue the class is passionate about, or stage a role-play debate in Parliament, on an issue that the class chooses. Bring democracy into your classroom with Parliament House’s online workshops. Choose between the Passage of a Bill program for students to debate an issue of their choice and follow it through the process of becoming a law, or the Representation program for students to discover how they and their community are represented in our political system – or choose both! Change Your World Changemakers Parliament of South Australia Parliament of South Australia 37 IN–SCHOOL REGIONAL Image: Capture the Present
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Adelaide Zooschools.dreambigfestival.com.au 38 Take a walk on the wild side and immerse yourself in animal habitats. Students will trek through Adelaide Zoo and work together to create their own world, full of mythical creatures, Australian animals and amazing stories. Safari attire encouraged! Join qualified early years educators and discover more about Adelaide Zoo’s amazing animals, during play-based, creative learning sessions, which includes a short tour. ZooVenture A to Zoo Adelaide Zoo 17–19 & 24–26 May 12.15 & 1.30pm 60mins FREE – Bookings Required Adelaide Zoo 17–19 & 24–26 May 10am, 11am, 12pm 45mins $5 per student ZooSnooze Overnight Camp Are you a regional school looking to bring your students to DreamBIG for an overnight stay? For a limited number of classes, Zoos SA are providing a wild overnight stay at Adelaide Zoo. Available each weeknight during DreamBIG for a maximum of 40 students per school. Register now by contacting dreambig@adelaidefestivalcentre.com.au Ages 5+ DreamBIG Festival special offer $50 per student (usually $75) (Includes: dinner, supper, breakfast, sleeping mats, night walk, morning walk and access to Nature’s Playground) Adult ratio: one adult for every five students at $15 each. Additional adults $100 each. REGIONAL
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Threshold ancient, billionTime Botanic make sense of place the world the wondrous
The Flying Canoe
Featuring recordings from members of the Kiribati diaspora living and working in Victoria, The Flying Canoe is an interactive audio experience that will see children transported to the islands and immersed in Pacific culture. Featuring an oceanic soundscape that includes traditional Kiribati songs, The Flying Canoe is a magical world of myths and legends.
FREE – Register Here
Years: R+ Ages: 5+ Digital Audio Experience
IN–SCHOOL REGIONAL Image: Lakshal Perera and Lucy Harris Years: 3–7 Ages: 8–12 Workshop schools.dreambigfestival.com.au 39 Enrich your relationship with the
extraordinary natural world in this immersive walk through Earth’s 4.5
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Time Urban Mind Studio & Earth Time World Adelaide Botanic Gardens 23–26 May, 10am, 11am & 12pm 30mins FREE – Bookings Required
Benjamin Paul & Children’s Artspace
The Future of Toys
The Future of Toys invites children to reflect on their lives, their city and their futures, and question consumer choices associated with toys, plastic, and play. Discover new ways to recycle and repurpose as you delight in the artworks children have created from pre-loved toys, using emerging sustainable technologies.
Children’s Artspace, Adelaide Festival Centre
17–27 May, 10am–3pm
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Artist in Residence Workshop
DreamBIG are looking for two classes to participate in workshops during term 1. Facilitated by industrial designer and artist Benjamin Paul, students will be invited to pull apart pre-loved toys and re-purpose the raw materials to create original designs that offer philosophies on a new way of life. Available to Department for Education IoED Cat 1–4 schools.
Register Here
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Station Foyer, Dunstan Playhouse into the imagination of South Australian puppet maker and character artist Elias Ppiros with this charming and whimsical interactive exhibition. Characters brings you a world of colour and joy in a field trip of fun all ages, embracing playfulness an appreciation for the quirkier things in life.
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The Galleries, Festival Theatre Foyer 12–26 May, 10am–3pm FREE A delightful and engaging showcase celebrating the diverse worlds stitched together by the Pom Pom Community. With creative works by children, 12 years and younger, this contemporary exhibition features printmaking, ceramics, drawing, painting, collage, assemblage and digital animation, and explores the unique experiences that make up our society. Patchworked Carclew Years: All Ages: All Exhibition schools.dreambigfestival.com.au 42
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courtesy Taryn Hays South Australian Museum and Relics Exhibitions Pty Ltd. South Australian Museum 4 March – 23 July, 10am–5pm (check the South Australian Musuem website for opening hours on public holidays) Bookings and information: the environment has forced humans to abandon to survive and thrive. Each miniature society has adapted, proving beauty can be found anywhere. touring exhibition by artists/creators Alex Towler LEGO® Relics: A New World Rises
Australian Dance Theatre
Years: 2–7 Ages: 7–13 Workshop schools.dreambigfestival.com.au 44 Quartet Bar, Festival Theatre Foyer 24–26 May, 11.30am & 1pm 45mins FREE – Bookings Required Join the exceptional artists of Australian Dance Theatre for a fun and stimulating movement workshop that honours and explores our landscape through connection to place and community. Engage in creative movement tasks responding to land, story, and shared histories in a fun and open environment. Erupt
Years: 2+ Ages: 7+ Workshop schools.dreambigfestival.com.au Artspace Plaza, Festival Plaza 17–19 May, 10am, 10.30am, 11am, 12.30pm, 1pm & 1.30pm 20mins FREE – Bookings Required Unleash your inner musician with local percussionists the Wallabeats. Try your hand at their enormous homemade instruments, learn a funky tune, and tap your feet to their groovy beat. Wallabeats The Wallabeats: Hills Thongaphone Ensemble 45 SEE TEACHING & LEARNING RESOURCE SOUNDS OF SUSTAINABILITY
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Co-Investigators of Our World The Nest
Australian Science and Math School students return to the DreamBIG 2023 program in a collaboration with teaching artist, Eliza Lovell. Co-Investigators of Our World is a new collection of learning experiences to spark students’ curiosity and interest. So, book a visit to your school, grab your lab coats, and discover the endless possibilities of our world!
24–26 May 60mins
FREE – Bookings Required
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The Nest is an accessible and collaborative art making experience in music and visual arts led by local artist Thea Martin. Using the story of The Nest by Finegan Kruckemeyer to create their own unique ‘nests’, students will collaboratively explore what creativity looks, sounds and feels like for them, allowing them to take ownership of their creative voices.
Priority booking will be given to schools with a specialist disability unit, followed by Department for Education IoED Cat 1–4 schools.
In-School 15–19, 22–26 May 4hrs
Register Here
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IN–SCHOOL REGIONAL Our Corka Bubs Insite Arts By Gina Rings (Kukatha/Mirning) In-School – Term 2 60mins Register Here Our Corka Bubs offers captivating storytelling through movement and music, inspired by Ngarrindjeri culture and language. Guided by three dancers and storyteller Owen Love and entwined with language and stories of Ngarrindjeri land and water along the River Murray, this is a transformative experience for little ones, carers, and the whole family to enjoy. Our Corka Bubs will be touring regional South Australia in term 2, 2023. If you are interested in hosting the show at your childcare centre or ELC, register via the QR code. schools.dreambigfestival.com.au 47 Years: Pre K Ages: 0–3 Performance Image: Chris Herzfeld Years: 7–12 Ages: 12–17 Workshop In–School – Term 1 FREE – Register Here Express your distinct musical voices while helping compose brand new works for the much-loved Adelaide Symphony Orchestra in its Silos & Symphonies creative project. Regional secondary schools can apply to have composers work with students to create an original piece, which the ASO will then perform and record.
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Sam Songailo Mural Workshop
Adelaide mural artist Sam Songailo is known for geometric patterns that often fill entire spaces. In these creative workshops, school students will work with the artist to craft a visual arts response to his mural on display at South Australia’s leading independent contemporary visual arts organisation.
Years: 6+ Ages: 11+ Performance
Helpmann-nominated disability dance company, Restless Dance Theatre brings a performance about vulnerability, uncertainty and risk, where breath is a metaphor for feeling threatened or safe, agitated or calm. Exposed looks Exposed Country Arts SA presents Restless Dance Theatre’s schools.dreambigfestival.com.au 48 REGIONAL Years: 5–7 Ages: 10–12 Workshop
ACE Gallery 18 & 25 May, 11am 60mins FREE – Bookings Required
Forever & Ever
Set to a sonically stimulating score by The Presets’ Julian Hamilton choreographed by acclaimed Antony Hamilton, Forever Ever a killer mix of dance, techno, fashion and vivid lighting to hypnotic effect, exploring ideas of order, chaos, popular culture and human behaviour.
Neon Dreams
Don your crazy party outfit for a journey through the Northern Sound System’s themed production spaces as you learn about songwriting and technology.
Create sound waves in the Synth Space, record your voice in the Studio and drop beats in the Neon Dreams!
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Northern Sound System, Elizabeth
Sydney Dance Company in Association with Adelaide Festival Centre
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Nunga Screen
Nunga Screen shares and celebrates First Nations’ culture, stories and language through film. Stories of healing, belonging, community and connection to land. The program, consists of various short films across multiple genres but most importantly from emerging or early career First Nations filmmakers, can be varied to suit any audience.
For tickets and further information visit countryarts.org.au
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Years: 2–7 Ages: 7–12 Film
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Adelaide Festival Centre’s centrED Schools Program offers year-round opportunities for South Australia’s students and teachers to engage with quality arts learning experiences. Subscribe to the centrED eNews to be first to access the 2023 programming when it launches in January. Subscribe Here
Songlines
centrED will again collaborate with First Nations songwriters to deliver the Songlines project in term 1 2023. Students will learn about ‘songlines’; a way of creating, sharing, and maintaining knowledge through song and use these songlines to explore ways to support Reconciliation and understanding of First Nations’ cultures and perspectives. At the end of the day the students will have written their own school Reconciliation song. Registrations open in January.
OUR STORIES On Country
OUR STORIES is an opportunity for students to connect with First Nations Elders and storytellers to hear cultural stories and respond to them through art. In 2023, centrED will be taking OUR STORIES to Ngarrindjeri Country. More information available in January.
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IN–SCHOOL REGIONAL
Professional Learning Panel: Creative Minds, Creative Worlds
Young people engaging, experiencing, and creating in our world
We invite teachers to a unique discussion between artists who engage with young people in their work. Panellists will outline ways that they engage young people in their creative processes, with practical examples that can be taken out of the rehearsal room and into the classroom. This event will include the opportunity for Q&A, and drinks and nibbles post-event.
Panellists include:
• Emma Jordan, Artistic Director of Prime Cut Productions (Ireland)
• Curly Fernandez, Performance Artist & Co-Director of ArtBomb (NSW)
• Yasmin Gureeboo, Artistic Director of ActNow (SA)
We invite you to join us in person, but will also be live-streaming the event for those who are unable to travel to Adelaide Festival Centre.
Regional sites are encouraged to allocate this event as a staff meeting or professional learning event. A certificate of professional learning will be provided to educators who attend either in person on online.
Register by Tuesday 23 May 2023
Adelaide Festival Centre 25 May, 4.30pm–6pm
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Booking Info
Please read this page before making a booking. It is best to book early as many shows and workshops have a limited capacity and may book out.
• The majority of paid performances are priced the same for schools across the festival (Schools - $16 per student and Equity - $10 per student), with the exception of the Opening Event: Our World and Write Now Festival.
• Many shows and workshops have a limited capacity and may book out quickly. For this reason, please list three performance choices/dates/times and three corresponding workshop times if you wish to book a full day of activities. If your first choices are fully booked, every effort will be made to book your second or third choice.
• Please note that priority for free workshops is given to schools also booking for a paid performance.
• We understand that schools booking early may need to estimate student numbers. Please ensure you advise us of exact numbers by the start of the 2023 school year so we can make unused tickets available to other schools.
• Relics: A New World Rises will need to be booked directly with the South Australian Museum – see page 43 for booking link.
• In-School and virtual events can be registered for below.
How to Book
1) Fill in the online booking form, which can be found at schools.dreambigfestival.com.au/schoolbookings as either an online form or a downloadable pdf.
2) Submit the booking form – either automatically if using the online form, or email a completed pdf copy to dreambig@adelaidefestivalcentre.com.au
3) Ticketek will send you a temporary tax invoice, which will confirm your booking and indicate which of your preferences have been booked. This must be forwarded to your school’s finance officer for payment
For any questions regarding your booking, please contact our Schools and Festivals Ticketing Coordinator on dreambig.ticketing@adelaidefestivalcentre.com.au
No refunds can be provided on paid bookings. A $10.25 transaction fee is payable for each school booking (through Ticketek), inclusive of all paid performance/workshop requests, submitted concurrently.
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DreamBIG Children's Festival Team
Programming
Co-Creative Producer Susannah Sweeney
Co-Creative Producer Georgi Paech Festival Coordinator Maddy Warren Festival Coordinator Azusa Kyushiki
Special Events Producer (Opening Event & Big Family Weekend) Kellie Nicol centrED Education Officer Renee Gibson
First Nations Assistant Producer Celia Coulthard Senior Exhibitions Curator Charissa Davies Curator, Children’s Artspace Alice Dilger
Production Production Coordinator Jane Baird Head of Sound Jane Rossetto Head of Lighting & Staging Nathan Luscombe Festival Designer Ali Jones
Marketing & Customer Experience
Marketing Executive Monika Stevens Marketing Executive Danielle Sherman Marketing Coordinator Seren Bell Graphic Designer Joshua Osis Content Coordinator Simon Rogers
Publicity Coordinator Stephanie Rossetto Insights & Data Specialist Heather Haslam
Digital Content Officer Dace Howard Digital Content Officer Simeon Nikolaidis Patron Services Executive Kate Hagan Schools & Festivals Ticketing Coordinator Heather McGinn
Senior Event Sales Executive Hannnah Knott Corporate Partnership Coordinator Grace Monaghan
Adelaide Festival Centre Management
CEO & Artistic Director Douglas Gautier AM Chief Operating & Financial Officer Carlo D’Ortenzio Director of Marketing & Customer Experience Kristen Eckhardt Director of Production & Technical Moira Hay Head of Public Affairs Christie Anthoney
Head of Public Purpose Programming Susannah Sweeney Head of Cabaret, Commercial & Venue Sales Alex Sinclair Manager, Ticketing Natalie Adam Manager, Publicity & Content Creation Francesca Belperio Manager, WHS & Risk Bernadette Brennan Manager, ICT David Cations Manager, Facilities Services Mark Cullen Manager, Corporate Partnerships Janine Eckert Manager, Human Resources Claire George Manager, Digital & Social Julia George Manager, Customer Experience Heather Poole Manager, Finance Abhishek Shaw Manager, Philanthropy Abbie Taylor Manager, Commercial Partnerships, Hospitality & Events Teresa Whitehorn
Adelaide Festival Centre Trustees
The Hon Hieu Van Le AC (Chair) Jacqui McGill AO (Deputy Chair) Mitchell Butel
Bruce Carter Julia Knight
The Right Hon Sandy Verschoor Steven Woolhouse Maggie Zhou
Adelaide Festival Centre Foundation Board Miranda Starke (Chair) Cain Cooke Georgina Duckworth Sheryn Foord
Rupert Hallam
Kathryn House AM Penny Johnson Marlon Motlop
Jasmin Shahin Legh Davis (Patron) Joan Hardy OAM (Patron)
Department for Education – DreamBIG Teaching & Learning Resource and Companion
Resource manager/developer: Cherie Broad, Manager Arts Projects (including DreamBIG Children’s Festival)
Resource developer: Helen Champion
Special Thanks to
• Primary Schools Music Festival for their ongoing support and assistance in the Opening Event’s The Mighty Choir of Small Voices
• The Writers and Contributors of the DreamBIG Teaching & Learning Resource
• Kerin Rowlands and the students from UniSA’s Production, Presentation and Audience in Arts Education course for their on the ground support throughout the festival
• Department for Education, Curriculum Programs Directorate, Outreach Education program and associated cultural organisations for their support and participation in DreamBIG
We would to thank the wider Adelaide Festival Centre and Department for Education teams, our wonderful DreamBIG volunteers, and venue staff working on shows at venues across Adelaide and the state.
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Student Advisory Committee
DreamBIG would like to thank our inaugural Student Advisory Committee –Room 4, Burton Primary School: Awalith, Reghan, Stefania, Zach, Omega, Zoe, Charlee, Dakota, Jumaina, Trinity, Mia, Sarah-Rose, Jenniita, Taleah, Isaac, Tyer, Callum, Chloe, Khual Khual, Charlotte, Deagan, Leabraksa, Ruby, Minalin, Ebony, Jaxx, and Lachlan.
Special thanks to Bernadette Haggerty and Kelly Blandford. DreamBIG are searching for our next Student Advisory Committee!
We are looking for a class that will be in year 3 or 4 in 2023 for us to consult about the 2025 Festival. The successful class will be consulted two to three times in 2023
and/or 2024, and given a VIP experience at the 2025 Festival. Transport costs and tickets to the Festival will be covered by DreamBIG.
To register your interest, please email dreambig@adelaidefestivalcentre.com.au This offer is available to Department for Education IoED Cat 1–4 schools.
DreamBIG Children's Festival is produced and presented by
Program Partner
Proudly Supported by Festival Partner
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Adelaide Festival Centre is located on the banks of the Karrawirraparri on Kaurna Yarta. Australia's first capital city arts centre was established in 1973 and is a leading Asia Pacific cultural centre today. The splendid riverbank venue with its three theatres, galleries and function spaces, complements the magnificent Her Majesty's Theatre, located on Grote Street. As well as presenting theatre, dance, music and exhibitions, Adelaide Festival Centre creates diverse festivals to inspire, challenge, educate, and entertain.
