Castlemaine Library Storytime presenter David will visit for a special Storytime session featuring books, songs and rhymes with an arty twist. 

DEEP HEART is a collaboration in poetry and song exploring love in all its strange enduring forms. Poet Ross Donlon joins with Rebecca Morton and Ken White to trace the fault lines between tenderness and truth, drawing from a lifetime of writing about connection, loss and renewal. This performance feels like being invitined into a living anthology - each piece revealing the quiet pulse of affection the outlasts the moment. Donlon's words are earth y and spare: Morton's vocals lend warmth and emotional texture: and White's accompanyment anchor's the work in intimacy. Presented in the atmospheric Castlemanie Art Museum, DEEP Heart is neither concert nor reading- it's a gathering. Listeners are invited to lean in, reflectand feel their own stories mirrored back.

Surprise Chef Collage Party

This party takes cut and paste to the next level! A salad of sensory play, piecing together movement, colour and texture to make a delicious collage. Using multimedia to blend a playful approach to making, this will be an ecstatic melange of creative collaboration for kids and their carers.

All materials provided including pre-cut images to play with.

For ages 3-8 years.

Artist Bio:

Randi Wagner works in collage as a way of life, forever piecing together practices and possibilities. She is a community engagement practitioner, photographer, collage maker, community cook, trauma-informed yoga practitioner and an ideas person who weaves it together in surprising ways. Calling Castlemaine home, she is originally from Saskatchewan, Canada. She has spent time in time in Myanmar and Uzbekistan working alongside master craftspeople on community-based tourism projects. These days you will find her at the markets selling bone broth, rallying for freedom, or working on community projects around town and beyond.

How can we connect with art through movement and forming shapes with our bodies? Join Heidi on a playful adventure through the gallery.

Playful Forms is an interactive dance workshop for 3-5 year olds and their parent/carers. A fun opportunity to bond with your child through art and dance!

Each ticket is for 1 child and 1 adult to participate together. This workshop is designed for carer-child interaction. Carers are responsible for their child throughout the workshop.

Artist Bio:
Heidi Barrett is a choreographer, creative movement teacher and visual artist living on Djaara country. She is cofounder of No Lights No Lycra, a global dance organisation promoting physical and mental wellbeing, and community engagement. Her latest dance project is Dusko Disco which facilitates inclusive dance workshops for all ages and abilities.

Join exhibiting artists Alvin Darcy and Brodies Ellis for a panel discussion with local elder Uncle Rick and Maxine Briggs to talk about the exhibition Where Stone meets Sky.

The installation Where Stone Meets Sky concept was developed by two local Castlemaine artists, Alvin Darcy (Yorta Yorta and Taungurung, Ngarigo and Walbunja) and Brodie Ellis working in parallel. This project involved creating two independent installations to be exhibited in dialogue while researching the Leanganook/Mt Alexander mountain site on Djaara Country in Central Victoria. The parallel practice approach acknowledges the urgency of environmental concerns and the need to work together toward ecosystem care and interspecies adaptation. This exhibition positions itself at the intersection of decolonial practice, environmental advocacy, and contemporary art, working toward more sustainable and equitable approaches to artistic engagement with Country.