For the first time since 2018, Noosa Regional Gallery’s immersive children’s art festival, Imaginate has returned to Noosa Regional Gallery these school holidays to inspire and excite young audiences through creative play and artistic discovery.
And when it opened on Saturday, children and their parents were keen to explore the festival’s various creative and interactive work spaces.
Playing the drums using tennis balls pushed through pipes, shooting arrows at cymbals, weaving wool on a giant installation and an array of artistic workshops were just some of the activities keeping kids enthralled.
Imaginate 2022 has this year been produced by ethical art makers, The Slow Art Collective, and focused on creative practices and ethics relating to environmental sustainability, material ethics, DIY culture and collaboration.
Workshops from interstate artists and Gubbi Gubbi Dance Troupe and Tribal Link will feature at the festival.
“In promoting sustainability and recycling in their making, [Slow Art Collective] are the perfect producers of this years’ Festival as they understand the importance of our region’s official UNESCO biosphere reserve status,” gallery director Michael Brennan said.
“We are delighted with the concepts of recycling, environmental sustainability and ethical art practice that our young visitors will absorb during their art making experience during the Festival.”
The Festival will run during normal gallery hours until 10 July.
For more information visit noosaregionalgallery.com.au/exhibition/imaginate-2022/ or pick up a program from the gallery.
