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Mini Makers – Term One

Let’s get together around art and storytelling!

Art for our Mini Makers is all about discovery and fun … unleash your child’s creativity through wonderful books, art and craft activities and messy play. Best of all, you don’t need to clean up afterwards!

Term 1 – Alternating days fortnightly on Tuesdays (mornings) and Thursdays (afternoons) from 18 February – 27 March

Tuesdays: 10am to 11am

Thursdays: 2pm to 3pm

$5 per child (0-2yr free)

(Materials included)

Drama Up!

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Embark on drama workshops for young people aged 9 – 12 exploring acting techniques, dramatic play, scene-work, teamwork and building empathy. Workshops support the physical & emotional wellbeing of participants with an emphasis on improving self-confidence and positive mindsets. Drama Up! amplifies the benefits of drama and combines it with elements of movement through accessible stretches, relaxation techniques to improve focus and team activities to encourage social and communication skills.

SPARK Workshop – Physical Theatre/ Storytelling

Award-winning company Asking for Trouble has been creating collaboratively in schools and communities since 2008. Creating Collaboratively – Physical Storytelling is an ideal addition to any school curriculum, designed to inspire both students and teachers through a dynamic and creative approach.

With curiosity and confidence, artists Christy and Luke will guide students and teachers to explore their favourite collection of processes to devise their own original work. Asking for Trouble focus on finding ways to incorporate games and play into live theatre, making it accessible and FUN.

Students will move their bodies, laugh, connect with each other, and try new things.

In the Introduction to Physical Theatre workshops, students are introduced to new ideas, skills, concepts and perspectives as they are led through a series of fun physical activities. Christy and Luke will encourage students to take creative risks and push their boundaries, and then engage them in reflective exercises to help them learn from their experiences. This workshop can be tailored to explore a particular idea or theme as a way to develop original youth led material for an upcoming school performance.

This program is perfect for schools looking to enrich their curriculum with creative, collaborative, and physically engaging activities that not only enhance artistic skills but also promote personal growth, wellbeing and confidence.

Get Ready for ASKING FOR TROUBLE PERFORMANCE in Term 4 October 29 2025.

Images- courtesy of Asking For Trouble, Christy Flaws & Luke O’Connor.

SPARK : Public Project local school – Augmented Reality

Follow the journey of one local school as they embark on a 4 week project involving the love of books, reading and the joy of discovering your local library.

Students work with Pink Lake Creative multimedia artist Desiree Cross to design images reflecting personal responses to their literary loves. The magic of Augmented Reality will bring these images to breathtaking life and become a permanent digital installation at the Horsham Town Library.

Stay tuned for the public opening of this collaborative artwork !

SPARK arts program is a Department of Education funded initiative and proudly partnered with Horsham Regional Art Gallery-Public Programs, Horsham Town Hall and Horsham Rural City Council.

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The Stars of Countdown Live in Concert Tour – 2025

Stars of Countdown Live in Concert

Brian Mannix – Uncanny Xmen

Scott Carne – Kids In The Kitchen

Ally Fowler – Chantoozies

Wilbur Wilde – Hey Hey It’s Saturday/ Ol 55 /Jo Jo Zep

& the Stars of Countdown Orchestra

Get ready, get set Australia for Stars of Countdown Live in Concert. Be transported back to the heady days of Countdown, Australia’s favourite TV music show, in a two-set stage extravaganza!

For an incredible 13 years, Countdown showcased the finest from the music world both locally and internationally, into the show every Sunday night at 6pm.

Stars of Countdown Live in Concert are back again to bring you jam-packed performances from the iconic countdown stars.

There’ll be interviews and stories, tributes to Ian ‘Molly” Meldrum not to mention unpredictable shenanigans – it’s the Countdown we all know and love!!!

Stars of Countdown Live in Concert will perform their own top 10 hits with the incredible Stars of Countdown Orchestra and will also perform other epic tunes from whole Countdown era.

For a nostalgic night of entertainment, fun and the awesome songs of your youth, Stars of Countdown Live in Concert will have you reminiscing back to those Sunday nights in front of the TV!

Featuring Countdown Hits

50 Years – Wanna Be Up – Change In Mood – On The Prowl – Living In The 70’s – Everybody Wants To Work – Donʼt You Want Me Baby – I Hear Motion – Hit And Run – Barbados – Current Stand – Wanna Be Up – Witch Queen – April Sun – Love Is In The Air – Ego Is Not A Dirty Word – Fernando and many more

 

More info at www.starsofcountdown.com.au

This is not an ABC production

EXHIBITION OPENING: Simon Fisher: From red earth and big sky

Horsham Regional Art Gallery would like to invite you to the opening of Simon Fisher: From red earth to big sky on Friday 14th February at 5:30pm.

This is the first major solo exhibition Minyip artist Simon Fisher to be held in a public gallery and is the chronicling of one man’s prolific creativity, spanning the world across diverse landscapes, life experiences, travels and influences.

Profoundly fascinating and a lifetime in the making, Simon Fisher: From red earth and big sky is the artist’s life and artistic journey, inextricably enmeshed. Fisher’s practice blurs the lines between fine art, artistic exploration and a bowerbird-like drive to collect and archive.

Food and drink will be served at this event.

Opened by Lauren van Katwyk, Horsham Regional Art Gallery Curator.

Date: Friday 14th February

Time: 5:30pm – 7:00pm

 

Image: Simon FISHER The golden birds 2018 mixed media on canvas, 100 x 134cm Courtesy the artist.

Patricia Choueiri: looking back

A Horsham Regional Art Gallery Community Gallery exhibition

 

Looking back is a retrospective exhibition of oil and acrylic paintings by Beulah-based artist Patricia Choueiri. Inspired by a broad range of European artists including Ruebens, Caravaggio and Kandinsky, Patricia has explored a range of subjects in her paintings including mourning, the vivacity of life, and our unique Australian experience.

Patricia’s approach is to commence painting and allow the subject matter to reveal itself in the composition. ‘Mainly, I just let the mind go free. After finishing a work, faces and other discernible objects will often come to the fore’. Patricia explains.

With experience throughout her career teaching various modes of painting, Patricia is an advocate for the practice of letting go of control and letting the thoughts and feelings emerge on the canvas. ‘It clears out the brain, and the process is very enjoyable’. She explains.

This exhibition is an opportunity for the artist and the community to look back on older works as Patricia explores a new type of practice, working in oils and bringing in more geometric elements, on a smaller scale and on paper.

Horsham Regional Art Gallery’s Community Gallery was established in 2016 and aims to support emerging artists in the Wimmera.

 

Image: Patricia Choueiri  Our Land of Oz  (detail) 2002  oil on canvas  courtesy the artist.

Spellbound: A Night of Magic and Grand Illusion

Get ready for a spectacular night of Magic and Grand Illusion with one of Australia’s leading illusionists, Anthony Street.

The star and producer of the stage phenomenon Celtic Illusion will be touring his Grand Illusion show in 2024.

Witness levitations, impossible vanishes, mentalism and a death-defying escape as Anthony pushes the boundaries of reality and distorts your senses. With his unique and edgy style performing one of the oldest of art forms, Anthony will enthrall and astonish you, and keep you on the edge of your seat.

Will you dare to believe your eyes?

The 60 Four: Hits of the ‘60s and ‘70s

Hailed as “Australia’s leading tribute act,” The 60 Four are set to deliver an unforgettable experience, recreating the biggest hits of the ’60s and ’70s in a spectacular, Vegas-style production.

Backed by a spectacular live band, The 60 Four deliver a powerful performance of evocative and exhilarating nostalgia, with captivating ballads and up-tempo, twisting hits.

Tributing The Beatles, The Beach Boys, Frankie Valli, The Bee Gees, Johnny O’Keefe, Elvis Presley, Stevie Wonder, Tom Jones and more, it’s 2 hours of non-stop hits.

They’re taking Australia by storm. Find out what the hype is about.

“on the brink of belonging to the world.” Stage Whispers

“vividly versatile and masses of foot-stomping fun.” ~ The Barefoot Review

“a night of unbridled joy” ~ Fringe World FringeFeed

 

★★★★★ Stage Whispers,

★★★★★ Glam Adelaide,

★★★★★Weekend Notes,

★★★★★The Barefoot Review

★★★★★Arts Review

★★★★★Theatre Travels

 

The Horsham Town Hall and Horsham Regional Art Gallery acknowledge the traditional lands of the Wotjobaluk, Jaadwa, Jadawadjali, Wergaia and Jupagulk people. We pay respect to their Elders, past, present and emerging.