The Box Show - CANCELLED
PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS PERFORMANCE AND WORKSHOP ARE CANCELLED.
This is due to day of mourning for Queen Elizabeth.
Get ready for the most sustainable fun you’ve ever had. In the hands of Junkyard Beats, ordinary household items are transformed into extraordinary musical instruments and unwanted junk comes alive in exciting and surprising ways!
The Box Show excites the imagination of children and adults alike. We follow four characters during their daily activities in a world made of cardboard boxes and junk. The contents of an abandoned kitchen and wheelie bins become the greatest drum set in the world; plastic bags are an amazing musical instrument and the human body becomes a unique sound machine.
Tag along for a day in the life of a bunch of musical misfits as they reinvigorate the junk that the world has forgotten. Learn about sustainability with this high energy, imaginative music-in-education performance combining drumming, dance, theatre and comedy. With a language of gibberish and rhythm, this show is accessible to any age and nationality.
Envirobeats FREE Workshop - CANCELLED due to day of mourning for Queen Elizabeth
Join Junkyard Beats, creators of The Box Show, for a playful and interactive musical workshop! Using ordinary household items and recycled materials that have been transformed into musical instruments. The kids will explore sustainability while having a whole lot of noisy fun.
Wednesday 21 September at 1pm
Ages: 5 - 12
This is a free workshop but places are limited so book early to avoid disappointment!
Created by: Oded Prior
Written By: Oded Prior & Nigel Turner-Carroll
Directed By: Nigel Turner-Carroll
PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS PERFORMANCE AND WORKSHOP ARE CANCELLED.
This is due to day of mourning for Queen Elizabeth.
Duration: 60 minutes, no interval.
Ages: 5+
Envirobeats Workshop: by Junkyard Beats
Wednesday 21 September, 1pm
Ages: 5 - 12
This is a free workshop but places are limited so book early to avoid disappointment!
Theatre for Young People, Music/Percussion, Sustainability, Comedy.
Gippsland Performing Arts Centre has a flexible COVID refund policy.
Pevan & Sarah in Concert
This live edutainment extravaganza is jam packed with all your favourite Pevan & Sarah bangers.
Pevan & Sarah are bringing the joy of their Cub Club music to theatres around the country.
Together, the big friendly tiger and his pocket rocket bestie will rock the house with a performance that’s equal parts musical, educational, hilarious and downright FUN! After two years of being beamed into classrooms and homes for remote learning, Pevan & Sarah are bringing the joy of their Cub Club music to theatres around the country.
Students will sing, learn and laugh their way through a fifty-minute adventure with the dynamic duo as they role play a “typical” day in the classroom. This interactive performance will weave its way through many points of the literacy and numeracy curriculum as well as highlighting key early years experiences such as teamwork, social skills and building resilience.
Prepare your little ones for an excursion like no other and one they’ll never forget. So don your tiger ears, brush up on your favourite lyrics and get ready to rock because Pevan & Sarah can’t wait to see you all!
Duration: 50 minutes, no interval
COVID Refund Policy: Ticketholders can seek a refund up to 5 days prior to any performance date they are unable to attend due to COVID isolation.
Presented by Cub Club
Doggie Dance Games
Pounce and play with face painting, bubbles, and disco fun!
Thursday 30 June | Outdoors | 10am, 11am, 1pm + 2pm
Come along and join the hullabaloo as young folk of all ages are invited to have their face painted as cute canine for their very own doggie dance games led by children’s entertainment duo Busy Movers. Free and perfect for playful pups whose parents may like to relax with a coffee these school holidays.
Lost Dogs' Disco
Pup Paint and Clay
Hey kids, get your art on!
Wednesday 29 June | Outdoors | 11AM - 2PM
Local artist Steph Shields leads young folk through a Lost Dogs’ Disco inspired sensory play station, doggo drawing, decorating of pre-fired ceramic objects. The session will encourage young ones to build their very own collaborative installation using found and natural objects. These activities are free and perfect for creative busy little humans of all ages who love to explore and make things.
Lost Dogs' Disco
Puppies Plein Air
Get creative and make art outside with the Lost Disco Dogs.
Wednesday 29 June | Outdoors | 11AM - 2PM
Discover the joy of plein air painting as you immerse yourself in dogs large and small, inflatable, and real. Local artist PollyannaR leads a vibrant watercolour class-on-the-grass with all materials provided and no experience necessary.
Recommended for ages 10+.
Lost Dogs' Disco
Lost Dogs' Disco
If you feel like a lost dog, come to our disco... This winter we're transforming GPAC with larger-than-life furry friends. It's time for puppers to party!
Friday 24 June - Sunday 3 July | Various times | Outdoors
Sometimes in the dead of night, when houses rattle and hum with the snoring dark and a dog is no longer a puppy but not quite a dog, they will hear the call of ancestors and embark upon a secret journey to the Lost Dogs’ Disco – a place of learning, revelry, insight and discovery where dogs are gifted their deep human insight – the gentleness that understands and heals all human hearts.
It’s the place where they learn to love doggedly, dance biggedly and be free to their hearts’ content. The only time that dogs go back to the Lost Dogs’ Disco is when they lose their way: when shut out of warm houses, when the snacks forever run dry, when their owners suddenly disappear. It’s then that they return to the Lost Dogs’ Disco.
Here, their understanding for all lost souls deepens in their little doggy hearts and they know that everyone feels lost at times. When you are a lost dog, our dogs say come to the disco where dance, togetherness and being true, get you through. If you feel like a lost dog, just go disco!
Alongside our furry friends, don't miss our late night sessions including live music, bar and DJs, PLUS special activities for kids and families across the ten days. Check out more below.
FULL LOST DOGS' DISCO PROGRAM
Friday 24 June Lost Dogs Disco Opening Night
Saturday 25 June Boogie Nights: Emma Volard, Darcy Fox + Meredith Louise
Sunday 26 June Kids Disco Parties
Wednesday 29 June Puppies Plein Air + Pup Paint and Clay
Thursday 30 June Doggie Dance Games
Friday 1 July Doggo Disco with DJ Nige
Saturday 2 July Boogie Nights: Sing Session with Melbourne Indie Voices + Elly Poletti
Sunday 3 July Discoyoga
LOST DOGS’ DISCO – ABOUT THE INSTALLATION
The Lost Dogs’ Disco is a temporary sculpture that celebrates the place of dogs in our lives. Visitors journey through an immersive installation of 16 dogs, some up to 5.5m tall: all in various states of repose – curled-up, standing, even touching noses.
There are four distinct characters, inspired by three dog breeds: Poodles, Bull Terriers and Dachshunds.
As visitors’ journey through the happy pack, the dogs’ coats light up and they greet passers-by with happy grunts to celebrate each new person’s arrival; for the Lost Dogs’ Disco is a hallowed place for dogs and every newcomer to the disco is greeted as a fellow disco dog.
The installation features a custom sound design of electronic music that captures the beauty, fun and pathos of a dog’s life including a chorus of barks, growls, howls and all kinds of doggie hullabaloo.
ABOUT ENESS
ENESS is a multi-award-winning art and technology studio, led by Artist and Founder Nimrod Weis. The studio has designed ground-breaking experiences for cultural institutions across the world for the last 20 years.
ENESS creates interactive artworks that forge greater community connection in the public realm through joy and happiness. In this way, the studio collective consider themselves to be Happiness Architects. At the heart of all ENESS work is joyful, cross-generational connection. ENESS strives to change public space by introducing unexpected and surprising work that forges deeper moments between friends, family and community; even enabling strangers to meet and find common ground.
Founded in 1997, ENESS is a multidisciplinary team of creatives including artists, musicians, software engineers, industrial designers and a writer. ENESS pioneered the art of 3D projection mapping and interactive real-time motion tracking, breaking new ground and creating firsts that have since become accepted design solutions. The studio has been commissioned to produce and install artworks worldwide for signature commercial buildings; urban and cultural precincts; festivals, galleries and museums of modern art.
Eness.com
@studioeness
LOST DOGS' DISCO INSTALLATION OPERATING HOURS
Friday 24 June OPENING NIGHT 7pm - 10.30pm
Saturday 25 June 10am - 10.30pm
Sunday 26 June 10am - 9pm
Monday 27 June 10am - 9pm
Tuesday 28 June 10am - 9pm
Wednesday 29 June 10am - 9pm
Thursday 30 June 10am - 9pm
Friday 1 July 10am - 10.30pm
Saturday 2 July 10am - 10.30pm
Sunday 3 July 10am - 9pm
By ENESS
I See You Like This: Digital Exhibition
A digital exhibition by Latrobe City's kids
Friday 13 - Sunday 29 May | 7PM | GPAC Theatre
With our ever-growing appetite to document our lives through selfies, children are often the reluctant subjects of their parent’s cameras. Jessica Wilson’s, I See You Like This turns the camera around, allowing children to decorate their parent’s and see them as subjects through the lens of their own imagination.
I See You Like This was created by Jessica Wilson with Matilda Woodroofe
Photography by Darryl Whitaker
Don't miss our Exhibition Celebration!
FRIDAY 13 MAY
10:30AM
GPAC Outdoors
FREE
Swan Lake
In partnership with the Victorian State Ballet we are bringing the world’s most famous traditional classical ballet to GPAC this year!
Sunday 6 November | 2.30PM | GPAC Theatre
Featuring internationally recognised artists in leading roles in a rich display of outstanding skill and superb artistry. Experience the sheer delight of superb classical ballet skill and choreography which treats audiences to the perfect ballet feast.
An inspiring, entertaining and memorable experience for the whole family! The Victorian State Ballet's Swan Lake features a cast of leading classical ballet artists. VSB’s version of Swan Lake is visually breathtaking with the stunning seas of swans, mesmerising musical score that we all know and love, plus more.
A profound experience that is exhilarating, impacting andvisually inspiring. Don’t miss the traditional solos and pas de deuxs from the stunning and exquisite Odette and Prince Siegfried in a very moving and ultimate final scene. This is classical ballet at its finest.
Supported by
Genesis Motors Australia
Energetiks
Bloch
Duration: 135 minutes, including 20 minute interval.
COVID Refund Policy: This show has a strict COVID refund policy.
Tour Credits: Primary Sponsors
Genesis Motors Australia
Energetiks
Bloch
Presented by the Victorian State Ballet
On The Road With MSO
Join us for a musical adventure as we Meet the Orchestra and learn more about the sounds, stories and instruments of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.
Tuesday 10 May | 11AM | GPAC Theatre on stage
The MSO has something for every member of the family – with concerts designed for the littlest of audience members as well as their accompanying adults. Go on the road with the MSO as we take a musical trip through some of the best classical music ever written. This is the kids’ chance to get rowdy, get on board, and get up close to the music of a world-class orchestra.
Together the musicians of the MSO will perform music to dance to (Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker Ballet), music that makes us want to sing (Bizet’s Carmen) and music from beloved stories (Prokofiev’s Romeo & Juliet). Conductor Nicholas Bochner will be there to introduce audiences to each of the instruments and musicians, and to explain what makes this music so special.
Conductor/Presenter Nicholas Bochner with musicians of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra’s 2022 regional touring activities are supported by Creative Victoria, the Freemasons Foundation Victoria, the Robert Salzer Foundation, the John T Reid Charitable Trusts and the Sir Andrew & Lady Fairley Foundation.
Suitable for 0-5 years of age and their grown ups.
30-40 minutes duration.
This is a relaxed, interactive performance on the stage of the GPAC Theatre. Loose seating, bean bags and cushions, plus pram parking in the foyer will be available.
Presented in partnership with Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
The Alphabet of Awesome Science
A scientific race through the alphabet - where awesome words inspire awesome science!
Friday 27 May | 10AM + 1PM | GPAC Theatre
Join professors Lexi Con and Noel Edge (the Word Nerd and the Science Freak) for a thrilling voyage through the alphabet – where great big chewy sesquipedalian words inspire mind-blowing scientific surprises.
Professor Lexi Con has curated a curious collection of her favourite words (one for every letter of the alphabet) with each word providing Professor Noel Edge with an inspirational jumping off point for 26 quirky scientific demonstrations – that squish and squirt, float and fly, erupt and explode.
Together, this dad-joke quipping, prank-pulling pair of polished professors strut their stuff in a performance that’s equal parts explosive, messy, spectacular, hilarious, fascinating and gross.
And if things weren’t exciting enough, every show is completely different, with audiences determining the order in which the letters are revealed and explored.
Plus, did we mention, this is a race? The plucky pair of professors have just 52 minutes to complete their alphabetical, scientifical countdown. That’s just 2 minutes per experiment! Will they make it in time...?
Brace yourself for an immersive hour of carefully crafted alphabetical, scientifical (award-winning!) chaos!
For school group bookings email arts@latrobe.vic.gov.au
Gippsland Performing Arts Centre has a flexible COVID refund policy.