By The Dreaming Project and Little Projector Company

Visual Arts | Understanding different cultures | Music 

An immersive workshop and performance experience, The Dreaming Project explores contemporary and traditional First Nations cultural and creative practices. Led by First Nations artists, students rotate through creative activity stations such as projection art, soundscapes and music, dance, and circus. The students’ creations will be presented as part of a short performance at the end of the school day, using simple mobile projection and audio tools. 

The Dreaming Project creates immersive work through blending dynamic styles and forms to showcase the vast diversity of Australia’s peoples and places. Workshops are tailored to respond to individual school communities, locations, areas of curriculum focus, and the curatorial or thematic framework of presenting partners such as art festivals.  

The program is unique as students can see their work presented in public space through mobile projection tools such as Projector Bike and Back Story. This can be a profound experience for young people as they can see how the public responds to their work and participate in the feedback loop of creating meaning in the public realm. The program allows students to learn the process of bringing story to life with the use of different art forms plus giving them valuable hands-on experience and future interest for further pursuit of arts practices. 

First Nations Cultural Practice

A First Nations artist (lead artist Dylan Singh) will be present to conduct proper protocols around cultural elements and to teach either a dance, circus, or storytelling. All cultural elements will be guided by Dylan, with a connection to the local community, local cultural protocols, and pre-arranged contact with relevant First Nations organisations.  

Dylan will provide a First Nations story as source material to participating schools at least two weeks before the workshop. Students can then create work during their art classes that responds directly to the source material provided. These can be analogue or digital illustrations, which can be animated during the workshop. 

The Dreaming Project celebrates the past, the present, and the future. The team are flexible and can tailor workshops to suit school timetables providing enough time for workshop activities, preparing media content and performance is allocated. 

Please note: Councils, Venues and Community Presenters are welcome to book through the Creative Learning Program. Community Presenter fee $1,900.00 + GST. Contact the team at [email protected] to express your interest. 

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