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Education Program 2020 Image: Playlist, PYT Fairfield Photographer: Alex Wisser 1
Welcome Index
Emergent 2019: The Gruffalo’s
Bunjil Place is the first facility of its
kind, bringing together creativity, arts, 3. Bunjil Place & City of Casey Youth
Services presents Emergent 2019:
VCE Graduate Child
entertainment and community in a way
that is unparalleled in Australia. As the VCE Graduate Showcase Showcase CDP
Tall Stories’ production
City of Casey’s treasured entertainment The Gruffalo’s Child
precinct, we bring together an Exhibition
CDP Kids and Tall Stories
unprecedented mix of facilities including
an outdoor community plaza, theatre,
multipurpose studio, function centre, 4. Playlist
library and gallery all in one place. PYT | Fairfield
We’re excited to be bringing you our first The 91-Storey Treehouse
ever Education brochure, showcasing our CDP Kids
selected program for 2020. You can also
visit our website to explore and keep up 5. Whoosh!
to date with the wide range of Performing Performing Lines WA and
and Visual Arts programs we have Sensorium Theatre
on offer.
SLAP, BANG, KISS
We are dedicated to being a creative Melbourne Theatre Company
space for the community, especially
This is a curated exhibition showcasing Based on the award winning picture book
students and teachers, creating
opportunities to connect, explore and 6. Edward the Emu high-quality art, design, photography and by Julia Donaldson & Axel Scheffler
Monkey Baa Theatre film by City of Casey students undertaking
foster lifelong learning through tailored If you loved The Gruffalo, don’t miss the
VCE Units in VCE Units 3 & 4 Art, Studio
tours, workshops, shows and exhibitions. Water Water Everywhere sequel, which returns following previous
Art, Media, Visual Communication
Musica Viva sellout Australian tours – now in a new
and Design, and Product Design and
We proudly acknowledge the traditional West End production! Join The Gruffalo’s
Technology in 2019.
Child on her adventurous mission in this
owners, Casey’s Aboriginal communities 7. Encounter the Orchestra
Saturday February 29 – Sunday March 15 magical musical adaptation of the much-
and their rich culture and pay respect to Melbourne Chamber Orchestra
their Elders past, present and emerging. Location: Studio loved picture book.
We acknowledge Aboriginal people as Magic Beach Time: 10.00 am – 5.00 pm (closed Mondays)
Friday March 20
Australia’s first people and the traditional CDP Kids Cost: FREE
Location: Theatre
owners and custodians of the land on Age: All welcome, excursion opportunity
Time: 10.30 am
for Secondary
which we work and live. 8. Extra Curriculum Activities Cost: $16
Presenting Partner Age: Kindergarten & Lower Primary
Excursion and Incursion
Duration: 55 mins, no interval
Primary & Secondary
Education materials available
Youth Arts Collective
9. Bunjil Place Gallery
10. Getting Here
Accessibility
How to Book Tickets to an Event
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Information is correct at the time of printing. 3
Playlist The 91-Storey Whoosh! SLAP, BANG, KISS
PYT | Fairfield
Treehouse Performing Lines WA
and Sensorium Theatre
Melbourne Theatre Company
CDP
Playlist is Beyoncé meets the women’s Andy and Terry’s Treehouse has reached Hop on board our spaceship and get ready Can young people really change the
marches meets Australian Idol. It’s an amazing 91-Stories! It’s now more for blast off! Whoosh! is an immersive world? Multi-award-winning playwright
full of suburban dreams and pop star fantastically dangerous than ever, with a and multi-sensory performance that puts and MTC Writer in Residence
fantasies. Five incredible young women deserted desert island, a whirlpool, and a children at the centre of the action. Kids Dan Giovannoni knows they can. In SLAP.
talk about their favourite female pop giant spider. board a stunning custom-built spaceship to BANG. KISS. he tracks three young people
stars and how these narratives inspire co-pilot an interstellar adventure. whose stories kick-start a series of events
But Andy, Terry and Jill have no idea they’re
and shape their personal worlds in this none of them could have anticipated,
about to face their biggest challenge yet! Mr Created by pioneering theatre makers
genre-defying dance theatre work. The transforming them into global symbols of
Big Nose has sent his grandchildren to the Sensorium Theatre, this highly-tailored
extraordinary cast represent a unique revolution. But when their stories go viral
Treehouse, and they don’t want to just sit production is suitable for children with a
and powerful cross section of emerging and the whole world is watching, what will
quietly. Can Andy, Terry and Jill master this broad range of access needs aged 5years+,
artists in contemporary Australia, featuring they do next?
extreme babysitting challenge? What does including those with multiple and complex
Ebube Uba, a Nigerian-Australian actor
mysterious fortune teller Madam Know-It- needs and those on the autism spectrum. Tuesday May 26
and dancer; Neda Taha, a Tongan-Iraqi-
All really want? And will the Big Red Button Time: 10.30 am
Australian hip hop dancer; May Tran a Wednesday May 13 – Friday May 15
really destroy the world? Wednesday May 27
Vietnamese-Australian slam poet; comedic Location: Studio
Time: 12.30 pm & 7.30 pm
actor Tasha O’Brien; and Croatian- Just beware of the Fortune Teller… Time: 10.00 am and 12.30 pm
Location: Studio
Australian pop star Mara Knezevic. Cost: $10 ticket, FREE to schools with
Thursday May 7 Cost: $20 (1x teacher free per 10 students)
ICSEA value under 1000
Friday April 24 & Monday April 27 Location: Theatre Ticket subsidy available for schools with
Age: Special Development Schools
Location: Theatre Time: 12.30 pm ICSEA value under 1000
Duration: 60 minutes
Time: 11.00 am Cost: $16 Age: Secondary 15+
Sessions are limited to 14 children
Cost: $18 Age: Primary Duration: 90 minutes
Contact our Box Office 9709 9700 or
Age: Secondary Duration: 60 minutes, no interval Post Show Q&A
email bunjilplace@casey.vic.gov.au
Duration: 70 minutes, no interval Education materials available Education materials available
Post Show Workshop: 12.40 pm
Education materials available
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Water Water Edward the Emu Encounter Magic Beach
Everywhere Monkey Baa Theatre Company the Orchestra CDP
Musica Viva Melbourne Chamber Orchestra
Water Water Everywhere is based on The award-winning Monkey Baa team Encounter the Orchestra is a narrated Every year, an everyday family go on a
music by the Grammy Award winning brings to the stage a new imagining of MCO performance for upper primary beach holiday. This isn’t just any beach -
composer Tan Dun which beautifully the classic Australian books by Sheena [Years 3-6] students. Students attend it’s Magic Beach, where everything you
evokes memories of his childhood in the Knowles and Rod Clement. Edward and as a school excursion. Music education can imagine becomes real. But this year
waterlogged rice fields of China. Bringing Edwina both wonder if there is more to life specialist Nicholas Bochner leads these is different. As the eldest child begins
this world to life is Thea Rossen, who than being an emu, but after adventures performances for Melbourne Chamber to grow up, does she have to leave the
plays vibraphone and an array of other beyond the enclosure they discover that Orchestra. magic behind?
percussion instruments in water, including being themselves is enough!
Tuesday September 8 Alison Lester AM’s classic book comes to
gongs, bells, wooden bowls and tin cans.
Thursday August 13 Location: Studio life on stage in a wonderful world of text,
She leads an ensemble comprised of Luke
Location: Theatre Time: 10.00 am & 12.30 pm song, light, shadow and movement for
Carbon on clarinet and Leigh Harrold on
Time: 10.30 am Cost: Free to School with ICSEA value children aged 3-8 and their teachers.
keyboard. With a focus on sustainability,
Cost: $16 under 1000
students get to create their own music Thursday September 24
Age: Kindergarten & Lower Primary Age: Primary
out of water, and come to appreciate the Location: Theatre
Duration: 50 minutes, no interval Duration: 45 minutes, no interval
impact water has on our lives. Time: 10.30 am
Education materials available Education materials available
Cost: $16
Thursday May 28
Age: Kindergarten & Primary
Location: Studio
Duration: 55 minutes, no interval
Time: 10.00 am & 12.00 pm
Education materials available
Cost: $9.50
Ticket subsidy available for schools with
ICSEA value under 1000
Age: Primary
Duration: 50 minutes, no interval
Post Show Q&A
Education materials available
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Excursion Youth Arts
Want to fire up your students about
the Arts?
Collective
How about an interactive tour of Bunjil
Place thrown in with a sprinkle of fun,
creative workshops designed to inspire.
Students will experience a personalised
tour, exploring our impressive building
including the gallery, theatre and library.
They will be given the opportunity to
engage with our incredibly talented team
to discuss and learn about the Arts.
Date, time and duration by negotiation
Location: Bunjil Place
Age: Primary and Secondary
Bunjil Place
Cost: Free
Auslan tours available upon request
Contact us for more
Arts Agitators is Bunjil Place’s youth arts
Gallery
Phone: 9709 9700
Email: bunjileducation@casey.vic.gov.au collective, an ongoing, co-designed youth
empowerment program, designed to
make Bunjil Place a truly welcoming and
inclusive environment for young people.
Each fortnightly meeting is focused on
Incursion supporting the members to develop,
Spoken Word Poetry can come to your
plan and deliver events. The program Bunjil Place Gallery presents an exhibition program
school and run a creative workshop for
is also designed to support the career
development of emerging artists, with
showcasing nationally and internationally significant
people to connect, have fun, learn and
grow. The activities focus on community
opportunities to learn from experts in artists throughout the year.
their fields, see visiting art events, take
engagement, mental wellness, creative
expression and safe spaces.
part in workshops, and present/perform Guided and self-guided tours are available for each
their art. The direction and outcomes of
Date, cost and length all by negotiation this program is controlled by the group
exhibition. These tours offer the opportunity to gain
Age: Primary and Secondary (7 years+) itself, and we welcome all young Casey deeper insight into exhibition themes and ideas.
artists to join.
Contact us for more
Phone: 9709 9700
Particular exhibitions also have education resources
Email: bunjileducation@casey.vic.gov.au
Date: February – December
Location: Bunjil Place Library Meeting
available to assist with teaching in the classroom and
Rooms visits to our Gallery.
Time: Fortnightly meetings, + other
ad-hoc events For the full exhibition program and available
Cost: FREE
Age: Senior Secondary & Tertiary
resources, please visit our website.
Duration: 2 hour meetings, + other bunjilplace.com.au/exhibitions
ad-hoc activities
Image: installation view: Continental Shift: Contemporary Art and South Asia, Bunjil
Place Gallery, 2019, featuring Kate Beynon, Trans-mythic Warrior Women series 2012,
image © the artist. Photography: Kristian Pirotta
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Getting Here Accessibility
Bunjil Place is an inclusive venue providing
a range of accessible services including:
• Lift access • Accessible parking spaces
and drop off points
• Wheelchair and easy access seating
options in the Theatre and Studio • A dedicated Viewing Room in the
Theatre
• Hearing Loop in the Theatre
• Assistance animals welcome
• Companion Card acknowledgement
• Access Keys for Bunjil Place, Gallery,
• Accessible toilets with fully
Plaza, Studio, Theatre and Library
accessible adult change room
complete with hoist
Did you know we program accessible performances and have access keys available?
Keep an eye out for the following symbols on our website, e-newsletter,
Facebook and Instagram posts.
Live Theatre Open Captioning. Suitable Auslan Interpreted Performance. Suitable
for patrons who are deaf/hard of hearing. for patrons who are deaf/hard of hearing.
Whether you’re driving, riding or catching public transport, Audio Described Performance. Relaxed Performance. Suitable for patrons
Suitable for patrons with low vision. with autism spectrum conditions, sensory,
you can find us by following these tips: communication or learning disabilities.
Catch the Pakenham Line to Narre Warren station and we’re just 1.3 km For further information about our accessibilities services visit
towards Westfield Fountain Gate Shopping Centre. bunjilplace.com.au/accessibility
Catch local bus routes 695, 697, 828, 834, 835, 838, 841, 842, 894 and HOW TO BOOK TICKETS TO AN EVENT
895 to Westfield Fountain Gate Shopping Centre depot and we’re
Website: bunjilplace.com.au Please note: Service fees may apply to tickets
just 600 metres away
Phone: 9709 9700 sent via email ($1.95) and mail ($4.00).
Email: bunjilplace@casey.vic.gov.au
Children 2 years and under do not require
Melway: Map 110 Ref D4. Or visit the Box Office a ticket if seated on the lap of their carer.
Monday – Saturday 9.00 am – 5.00 pm
Drive on the Monash, Princes Highway or South Gippsland Freeway and you’ll If you’d like to know more or need
2 Patrick Northeast Drive, Narre Warren.
be at our doorstep in no time. You can enter Patrick Northeast Drive via Magid assistance with your booking, please
Drive or Overland Drive. Parking is free and includes accessible options. Applicable concessions may vary for each call us at 9709 9700 or email us at
event, please check at the time of booking. bunjilplace@casey.vic.gov.au
We’re here to help.
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Consider Bunjil Place
for your next event
• Staff Conference • Student Retreat
• Offsite Leadership Meetings • Valedictory Dinner
• Graduation • Awards Ceremony • Debutante Ball
• School Production • Concert • Film
Theatre Function Centre Studio
• 800-seat • Partition room • Black Box
• Full fly tower • Portable stage • 200 retractable seat
• Orchestra pit • Dance floor • Ticketing
• Data projector • 4 projectors and screens
• Large stage • Lectern, microphone;
• Backstage space lapel and roving handhelds
• Ticketing
+ Meetings rooms
Phone: 9709 9700
Email: bunjilplacevenues@casey.vic.gov.au
Website: bunjilplace.com.au
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