Stage Design School Holiday Workshop

Walter Stringer, Backstage, Her Majesty’s Theatre Melbourne, New York City Ballet Australian tour, 1958, nla.gov.au/nla.obj-146918344.

This school holidays, head to the National Library of Australia for a stage design workshop!

Performing Arts is all about creativity and imagination – and is more than just the play, script or music being performed. Set design and costume design play a major role in every performance.

Open to young people between 8 and 15 years old, this workshop will provide participants with inspiration from the Library’s performing arts collections, and the materials, to design and draw their own costumes for a play or performance, and create the stage set design using common craft materials.

Participants can draw from a selection of scenes from plays provided, or they can use their own imagination and “stage” a play of their own creation. All designs and materials used at the workshop can be taken home at the end of the workshop.

Participants will also get a short tour of the Library’s On Stage: Spotlight on Our Performing Arts exhibition as part of the program.

The details

What: Stage design school holiday workshop
When: Wednesday 20 April, two sessions – 10 am to 12 pm or 2 pm to 4 pm
Where: National Library of Australia
Cost: $20.00 – bookings essential at: session one – 10 am, session two – 2 pm.

Can’t make the 10am-12pm workshop? Details for a later session of the same workshop, taking place from 2pm-4pm on the same day (Wednesday 20 April), are also available online.