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🦖 Teachers — explore puppetry and STEAM learning

Join artists from Erth’s Dinosaurs for a hands on professional learning workshop exploring puppetry, playmaking, and puppet design and construction.

Discover practical creative techniques and classroom ready ideas that connect storytelling, performance and STEAM learning.

✨ Supporting imaginative and engaging classroom practice.

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🦖 Teachers — bring creativity and STEM learning together

Join the creative team behind Erth’s Dinosaurs for a hands on workshop where students explore puppet making, movement and storytelling using recycled and everyday materials.

Students will investigate how puppets work, experiment with dynamic movement and collaborate to bring their own dinosaur inspired creations to life.

✨ An engaging blend of creativity, design and imagination.

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🦖 Teachers — bring science to life

Step into Erth’s Dinosaurs, where students encounter lifelike prehistoric creatures in an interactive performance grounded in real palaeontology.

With up close moments, humour and hands on learning, this engaging experience sparks curiosity as students explore creatures from the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods. Puppeteers bring life sized dinosaurs to life with astonishing realism.

✨ A memorable excursion for curious young minds.

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✏️ Teachers — inspire storytelling through illustration

Join award winning Wuthathi and Muralag artist and children’s book author Paul Seden for OUR YOUNG WORDS, an engaging illustration workshop for students.

In this hands on session, students will experiment with different artistic techniques, develop characters and visual narratives, and gain insight into the creative process of a published author and illustrator, creating their own artwork to take back to the classroom.

✨ Build creativity, confidence and student voice through storytelling.

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🎨 Teachers — expressions of interest closing 5pm Friday 15 May 2026

Give your students the opportunity to share their stories and creativity through OUR YOUNG MOB, a powerful exhibition celebrating First Nations young artists.

Open to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students across South Australia, this program invites students to submit artworks for inclusion in a major public exhibition at Adelaide Festival Centre.

✨ Celebrate culture, creativity and student voice.

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🎭 Teachers — step behind the scenes of theatre-making!

Join us for Drama Teaching Behind the Scenes, a Drama South Australia led Professional Development in collaboration with State Theatre Company South Australia and Adelaide Festival Centre.
Take part in hands-on workshops with industry artists:

🎬Directing for Teachers with Shannon Rush
🏟️Stage Management with Isabella Strada
⛰️Set and Prop Design & Making with Bianka Kennedy

Explore directing, design and performance processes you can apply in the classroom. Gain practical strategies, unpack real rehearsal room techniques, and connect with fellow drama educators.

✨ Build skills, share ideas and bring fresh creative approaches back to your students.

🎟️ https://www.adelaidefestivalcentre.com.au/whats-on/drama-teaching-behind-the-scenes

🎭 Teachers, ready to get your students moving? 🕺🏾

Give your class the chance to work with The Australian Ballet Education and Outreach Team in an inclusive, free, hands-on dance workshop designed to engage every student.

Bring your upper primary homegroup or senior school dancers. These sessions are built for dancers and non-dancers alike, building confidence, creativity, teamwork and performance skills along the way.

Accessible. Inspiring. Unforgettable.💃

Spots are limited, so gather your students and join us at Adelaide Festival Centre. ✨

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🎶 Secondary teachers, this one’s for you.

Ready to refresh your choreography toolkit? Join The Australian Ballet for a free professional learning session designed with secondary dance educators in mind. 💃

Explore practical, structured tasks and techniques you can take straight back to the classroom, supporting students to develop their choreographic voice and performance confidence.

While the focus is secondary, all teachers are warmly welcome. Strategies can be adapted across year levels and learning areas.

The session includes both movement and discussion, and you are encouraged to participate in a way that feels comfortable for you. No dance experience required.

Come ready to move, connect and gather fresh ideas. ✨🕺🏾

🎷 Teachers — bring your students to live jazz at its best!

Fresh from a national tour and launching their new album, The Exhibits return home for an exclusive schools’ matinee packed with bold, contemporary sound.

Led by ARIA Award winners James Muller and Lyndon Gray, alongside Tom Noonan and Tim Firth, this dynamic quartet delivers thrilling solos, rich harmonies and infectious rhythms designed to spark curiosity about jazz today.

This exclusive performance for schools will be followed by a Q&A with leading Australian musicians who are also lecturers from the Elder Conservatorium.

✨ An inspiring live music experience for aspiring musicians and music lovers.

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Congratulations to Class of Cabaret alumni, Abigail Sharp and Scarlett Anthony who will be taking to the Her Majesty's Theatre stage this July in Heathers the Musical!