Cost: $190 for 2 full days ... Time: 9.30am - 4.30pm ... Phone: 9518 8458 ... Suits 5-12 year olds

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Tues 6 & Wed 7 April
Thurs 8 & Fri 9 April

Imagine you're part of a travelling circus – pitching the big top in a new town every few days. A life of sawdust and tinsel, hotdogs and candyfloss, thrills, danger and excitement.

With the smell of the greasepaint and the roar of the crowd, imaging who you might be: the flying trapeze artist, the breathtaking tightrope walker, amazing acrobats, snake charmer, jugglers, strong woman, ring-master, lion tamer or the crazy clowns. Roll up, roll up – come and create an entertaining, colourful, rowdy and fun world of The Circus in Drama, Art & Music.

Mon 12 & Tues 13 July
Wed 14 & Thur 15 July

We can play with scale, space and perspective as tinyness depends on where you are looking from - from the moon, earth is a tiny beautiful blue ball in a black space. We will explore everything that is tiny - from cute, innocent bugs and beetles to the dangerous, villainous ants and mozzies.

In drama, art & music create stories of Tinyness – winning over giants and monsters like the storybook heroes Tom Thumb, Thumbelina, Jack & The Beanstalk, or travelling in tiny worlds such as Gulliver's Travels in Lilliput or Alice In Wonderland.

A visit to the Tinytoreum – created by the museum & Michael Leunig – will be the springboard for this workshop.

Tues 5 & Wed 6 October
Thurs 7 & Frid 8 October

Celebrate all things green in drama, art & music...nature, growth, calmness and security - as well as the ecological movement. Think martians, dragons and Jolly Green Giants as well as the superstitions surrounding the colour green:

• misfortune on boats
• bad luck in the theatre

Green is between blue & yellow in the colour spectrum.
Book now for two full wildly imaginative days of fun at The Powerhouse Museum.

2010 Creative Holiday Workshops Brochure (pdf)

Mon 20 & Tues 21 December

As the world commemorated the 40th anniversary of putting man on the moon, Buzz Aldrin, pilot of the Apollo 11 mission said “I believe we deserve more than footprints on the moon. It is time to put man on Mars.” Such an event is 20 years away. But we can imagine and explore amazing stories in drama, art & music.

Take your imagination way out beyond The Earth into our solar system and out into the rest of our galaxy and explore the Martian Mystique.

It's the summer holidays 2010/2011. What about a holiday on Mars? Would it really be one? Look into the distant future and imagine Martian cities, lifestyle and climate conditions.

2010 Creative Holiday Workshops Brochure (pdf)