Workshops for children, young people and families
TERM 4 2022
Creative workshops for children and families continue at The Leo Kelly Blacktown Arts Centre in Term 4.
Get ready for Family Day! Children, parents, carers and friends are invited to drop-in to The Leo Kelly Blacktown Arts Centre to join in one or all of our free activities. Play with clay, create a unique collage, make a wacky rock monster and get creative with chalk drawing. Pay a visit to our current exhibition, Dedicated to the Dedicated: Whitlam, the Arts and Democracy, and pick up a special activity book for kids. Presented with artists Skye Andrew, Mary Nguyen and Sima Alikhani.
We are also offering a special one-off kids workshop to create an artwork to enter into the Young Artist Prize. Join art teacher Elaine Butler to make a painting, drawing or collage of a body of water near where you live in response to the theme, Caring for Waterways.
Please note, our Term 4 program will be slightly shorter than usual.
The Leo Kelly Blacktown Arts Centre will be closed for the year from Tuesday 6 December.
Family Day
Kids and families, get ready for Family Day!
Children, parents, carers and friends are invited to drop-in to The Leo Kelly Blacktown Arts Centre to join in one or all of our free activities.
Play with clay, create a unique collage, make a wacky rock monster and get creative with chalk drawing. Pay a visit to our current exhibition, Dedicated to the Dedicated: Whitlam, the Arts and Democracy, and pick up a special activity book for kids.
Family Day is all about trying new things, getting messy and having fun as a family.
All ages welcome. No experience required.
Presented with artists Skye Andrew, Mary Nguyen and Sima Alikhani.
10.30 am to 1.30 pm
Saturday 12 November 2022
The Leo Kelly Blacktown Arts Centre
Suitable for all ages – children and families
Suitable for all skill levels
Children 9 years and under must be accompanied by a parent or carer who must remain on-site.
Materials supplied
Free, drop-in
Registrations encouraged
Caring for Waterways – Make an artwork for the Young Artist Prize
Calling all budding young artists!
Do you want to enter the Young Artist Prize but don’t know where to start? Or just want some extra guidance and inspiration?
Join us for this one-off visual arts workshop with art teacher Elaine Butler to make a unique artwork to enter into the Young Artist Prize.
Respond to the theme Caring for Waterways to make a painting, drawing or collage of a body of water near where you live.
Find out more about the Young Artist Prize here.
10.30 am to 12.30 pm
Saturday 26 November 2022
The Leo Kelly Blacktown Arts Centre
Suitable for ages 5 to 12 years
Suitable for all skill levels
Children 9 years and under must be accompanied by a parent or carer who must remain on-site
Materials supplied
$15 + booking fee
Bookings essential
Sima Alikhani is a trained contemporary visual artist living in western Sydney. Art is Sima’s passion and she uses her artmaking as creative therapy to help students to express emotions and reduce stress.
Sima is interested in inspiring audiences and participants to look carefully at the world around them, and to discover beauty in unusual places. Sima has valuable experience teaching art and working with local artists in the Blacktown area and has been involved in many collaborative projects involving children and families.
Skye Andrew completed a Diploma of Fine Art at the National Art School, majoring in photography and painting, and has exhibited in solo and group shows throughout Australia. She has a passion for the outdoors and loves creating art experiments alongside her primary school aged son.
Mary Nguyen is a local visual artist who works across a wide variety of media and styles. Mary exhibits regularly and is often the recipient of awards and residencies.
Mary attended the University of Fine Arts in Hanoi, Vietnam, and then completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts from UNSW in Sydney, which led to working with communities as an artist and teacher, and most recently workshop facilitator for Blacktown Arts. Mary’s work traverses drawing, painting, installation and sculpture and is a synthesis of culture and experiences of Australia and Vietnam.
Elaine Butler is an Irish/Australian visual artist and mobile arts educator located in both the Blacktown/Hills Area of Western Sydney and in Wallerawang, Regional NSW. With 28 years’ experience in creative education, she offers a variety of art educational programs, classes, art kits and incursions designed to be unique, therapeutic, and inspirational learning experiences for everyone young or old. She is also a Mural Artist, qualified in Art Therapy, and a children’s book author & illustrator.
Please note:
- All materials are provided except for art smocks and aprons, so please consider bringing your own or wearing clothes that can get dirty if you’re a messy art maker!
- No food or drink is currently available for purchase at The Leo Kelly Blacktown Arts Centre. Feel free to bring your coffee or a snack while you are visiting The Leo Kelly Blacktown Arts Centre.
- Our nearest café is the Young Lions coffee cart, located 200m directly across the road from the Arts Centre on Flushcombe Rd with opening hours 7.15 am – 4.00 pm, Monday – Friday.
- For groups or school bookings of five or more people, please contact Beth Sorensen, Marketing and Public Programs Officer at beth.sorensen@blacktown.nsw.gov.au
- Click here to plan your visit to The Leo Kelly Blacktown Arts Centre