Art Explorers

Join us for Art Explorers – HOTA Gallery tours for little people with big imaginations. These playful sessions invite children and their parents/carers to connect with art through movement and storytelling, encouraging curiosity, creativity and fun! Please register one ticket per child, ticket includes parent/carer. If you have booked a ticket and are no longer able to make it, kindly reach out to the Box Office team to ensure another Explorer may take your place. This program is recommended for children aged 2-5. Children must be accompanied by an adult carer and cannot be left unsupervised at any time. Julie Ritchey is a theatre-maker and playworker who specializes in participatory, multi-sensory theatre for young people and families. Her work includes Forts: Build Your Own Adventure (TYA/USA Innovation Award), Gather (Canadian Playwright's Guild Finalist for Best TYA Play), The Van Gogh Cafe (Filament Theatre), Keepsakes (Sydney Opera House), Seen and Heard (ArtPlay Melbourne, with Jodie Rottle), Ellis and the Night Orchestra (Touring Queensland throughout 2026/27), and many more. Julie is internationally recognized as a pioneer in anti-adultist theatre making that values young people as creators, collaborators and experts, not merely as consumers. She has delivered workshops and keynotes on her process at conferences and universities across the US and Australia.

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