PLAY DATES | Winter School Holidays 2026

11.30am-12.30pm Sunday 5 July 2026 | FREE, bookings required

Explore the native plants that produce these seed pods and learn about their significance before creating your own necklace by threading pre-drilled seed pods onto string. Take home a unique piece inspired by nature.

Suitable for children 4 yrs and up.

1.30-2.30pm Sunday 5 July 2026 | FREE, bookings required

Discover the story of the quandong as Koorlangkas take part in a hands-on activity, creating unique keychains with colourful stone chip beads.

Suitable for children 7 yrs and up.

11am-12pm Monday 6 July & Friday 10 July 2026 | FREE, bookings required

In this special workshop, participants will have the opportunity to learn directly from Tyrown, gaining insight into his creative practice, artistic influences, and storytelling approach. Through guided drawing activities, participants will create artwork alongside Tyrown while exploring the themes, techniques, and cultural perspectives that inform his work.

Suitable for children 5 yrs and up.

1-2pm Monday 6 July 2026 | FREE

PLAY DATES welcomes First Nations artists and performers to AGWA for NAIDOC Week celebrations. AGWA presents traditional dance and didgeridoo performances and interactive workshops in collaboration with Aboriginal Productions and Promotions.

Suitable for all ages.

10-11am Monday 6 & 13, Wednesday 8 & 15, Friday 10 & 17 July 2026 | FREE, bookings required

Cranky Pants is a high-energy workshop for families set inside a colourful pop‑art world where you take centre stage! Participants explore disobedient feelings and rebellious design through costume, humour and playful experimentation. Using bold materials and unexpected combinations, you will collaborate on expressive looks that reject perfection and celebrate individuality. We will play with character, emotion and performance, discovering new ways to expand a sense of self on the catwalk.

Suitable for families with children 5 yrs and up.

10-11am, Monday 6 & 13 July 2026 | FREE, bookings required

Dancing the Gallery is a joyful movement workshop where families come together to dance, connect and explore. Inside a space that celebrates unique thinking and awakens the senses, dancer Estelle Brown will guide families through imaginative movement games and creative dance making in response to the gallery. No need for any prior dance experience!

Suitable for families with children 5 yrs and up.

10-11am Thursday 9 & 16 July 2026 | FREE, bookings required

Cardboard Couture is a wearable sculpture making workshop for families where visitors transform everyday materials into over-the-top accessories. Participants will imagine cardboard, string, tin, foil and other curious textures into opulent jewels, sophisticated handbags and extravagant hats. We will play with scale, value and function, exploring what it means to adorn our bodies in the most fabulous and unexpected ways. Push the boundaries of creativity, challenge what fashion can be, and redefine style!

Suitable for families with children 5 yrs and up.

2-3pm Friday 10 & 17 July 2026 | FREE, bookings required

Drawing Together is a playful slow drawing workshop for families exploring expressive mark making, limited palette, and collaboration.  Through thoughtful observation, response techniques and drawing games families will contribute to a collective artwork and explore individual experiments with pencil grip, tone, shading, line, scale and colour.

Suitable for families with children 5 yrs and up.

2-3pm Thursday 16 July 2026 | FREE, bookings required

Express your unique self by creating a large gestural portrait with artist Amy Marshall. Taking inspiration from Amy’s portraiture and select pieces from this year’s The West Australian Pulse exhibition, you will explore how mark making, tone and colour can be used to express mood and emotion. You will use the doodle grid scaling technique along with your findings to create your own ‘grand gesture’ portrait to take home.

Suitable for children aged 8-12 years.

10am-5pm daily | FREE

Cranky Pants is a collaboration with UK artist Bruce Asbestos placing identity, emotion and playful self expression at the centre of the gallery experience.

Curated by Lilly Blue, and set within a vivid pop art world of larger than life characters, the interactive exhibition invites visitors to explore a broad spectrum of disobedient feelings and rebellious design. As a rejection of perfection and prettiness the exhibition encourages participants to expand their emotional range and sense of self through experiments on the catwalk. Through humour, costume design and character-driven creativity, Cranky Pants creates a welcoming space for audiences of all ages to explore both the serious and the silly sides of themselves.

Suitable for all ages.

3pm-4pm daily | FREE

Quiet Hour is for slow play and soft listening, offering a quiet space for whispering together and enjoying a lower sensory environment. Notice colours, textures, sounds and sensations. Listen to your heartbeat. Feel your breath rising and falling. Rest.

Suitable for all ages.

11am Monday 6 & 13, Wednesday 8 & 15, Thursday 9 & 16 and Friday 10 & 17 July 2026 | FREE

Our Family Tours are led by our friendly Gallery Guides and invite children and their families to explore amazing artworks, share ideas, and spark creativity together. You’ll dive into stories behind the art, learn about how different materials are used, and enjoy lively conversations shaped by your own thoughts and imagination.

Perfect for children aged 5–12 and their grown-ups.