Powerkids Little Artists At Play
Early Years Arts & Creative Play Installations
Location: Brisbane Powerhouse
Company: Imaginary Theatre/ Brisbane Powerhouse
Role: Artist in Residence
Weekly play-based arts adventures for children aged 0-5, their parents and carers.
Little Artists at Play was a creative play workshop series for children aged 0-5 years and their parents and carers. Children and their adults participated in multi-art experiences led by a artist in residents. Each week the host-artist collaborated with the group on unique and engaging activities. From theatre and visual art to dance, music and digital media, there was something to inspire everyone.
The following two installations were part of this program
UPCYCLE
created and facilitated by Verena Curr
Sept - Dec 2019
Reclaimed and reinvented objects take on a fun new meaning with this activation for Powerkids: Little Artists at Play. Pass through a bottle garden maze and tip toe over a raindrop pathway into a wave of bubbles. Jump, pop and dance together before settling down in a cosy igloo to watch, relax and play. UPCYCLE provides visitors with opportunities to meet, make, move, listen, and explore together. With a focus on environmental sustainability, UPCYCLE was created using consciously sources materials...giving them a second playful life.
STORYSCAPES
created and facilitated by Verena Curr
Jan - March 2016
A sensory storytelling adventure, rich with sounds, actions, visual and tactile experiences. Made up of spaces created to facilitate simple, playful and sensory engagement designed to encourage adults and children to interact alongside each other as they create their own stories and meaning through playful adventures. An interactive installation inspired by light, colour, shapes and sounds of nature with regular improvised story sessions which gave children and their grown ups opportunities to perform, imagine and create as they are guided through physical, visual and verbal storyscapes with artist Verena.