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Story Time is a new children’s TV show centred on library Story
Time sessions. The show is called Story Time and will feature a different
Storyteller each week. All guests on the show are regular library
performers and the show is hosted by a seven foot bear called Tall Ted.
This show has been made with the help of RMITV, the Dandenong Library, Casey Safety Village, the CFA and Myuna
Farm. It will air on Wednesdays at 9:30am starting December the 8th on Channel 31.
Producer, Bret Dalgleish says, “We have developed the show with the hope that it will increase story time patronage
for libraries throughout Australia. Each show will also feature a 15 second advertisement spruiking the local library
story time experience”.
Every episode features a craft activity that can be downloaded from the show’s web site
www.tallted.com .
Expression of Interest – PuppetLab at ArtPlay
ArtPlay is Australia’s only creative arts centre for children and families.
We provide high quality arts experiences through workshops and
performances in all art forms.
ArtPlay believes something special happens between artists and
children. In June 2011 ArtPlay will be presenting a week of puppetry
workshops and performances: PuppetLab.
We are looking for:
! a performance suitable for our gallery space (see tech specs)
! workshops in a variety forms of puppetry for children aged 3 to 5yrs, 5 to 8 yrs
and 8 to 12yrs and families.
Dates:
Confirmed: Tuesday 12 to Sunday 17 July
Tentative: Saturday 9 and Sunday 10 July
PuppetLab has been part of the ArtPlay program in 2007, 2008 & 2009 and has involved
over 40 artists including Ken Evans, Rebecca Russell, Men of Steel, Lynne Kent, Liz
Talbot, Justine Warner, Tim Denton, Annie Forbes, Vanessa Ellis and heaps more!
If you have an idea for a workshop, or a performance ready to perform then please send
us an email outlining:
! Contact details & Bio
! A short description of your workshop/performance
! Age suitability
! Cost of 3 workshops*/cost of 4 days of performance
! Capacity of workshop/performance
This should be between ! to 1 page of detail.
* please note our stand fee for 3 x 2hr workshops with one artist over different days would
be approx $650. This varies from artist to artist depending on difficulty in prep time, if the
workshops occur on the same day, artist experience and length of workshop. If your EOI
is successful, we will negotiate fees further.
Please send your EOI to Alex Desebrock by Wednesday 12 th January on
alex.desebrock@melbourne.vic.gov.au
If you have any questions you can contact her on (03) 9664 7904. Please note ArtPlay
will be closed from the 22 nd December to the 4 th January.