Threshold @ Kyneton Primary School

This week some of the students were lucky enough to create simple shadow puppets with Visual Artist, Youbi Lee. As well as playing with positive and negative space, they explored perspective and created simple scenes between their characters.

The students also worked with local writer Marita Davies to reframe local landmarks into fantastical worlds.

Keep your eyes out for suspicious activity at the Mysterious Town Hall, only the brave would visit the Ghostly Park and the Haunted Basketball court on a full moon, and steer well clear of the Stench of the Swimming pool.

Be warned.

With these creative kids, stories are lurking everywhere!

July 1

Shadow Puppets with Youbi Lee & Mapping with Marita

Experience Threshold’s audio work for families for free these holidays!

We couldn’t think of a better way to introduce ourselves than through our work.

KPS families are welcome to register for our audio-theatre experience for FREE these holidays. Just jump on the link below - and take your family for a trip to Kiribati on ‘The Flying Canoe’ by Marita Davies.

We invite KPS families to experience The Flying Canoe for free!

The Flying Canoe is an interactive audio experience that will transport audiences to the islands of Kiribati, and immerse them in Pacific culture.

Featuring an oceanic soundscape that includes traditional Kiribati songs, 'The Flying Canoe' drops audiences into a world of myths, legends and embodied adventure!

Created with KPS artist (and parent!) Marita Davies, it’s the perfect activity to do together this Winter!

ACCESS A COMPLIMENTARY LINK TO ‘THE FLYING CANOE’

More about Threshold at KPS

In terms 2 and 3 this year local theatre makers will be visiting KPS to explore life cycles, change and transformation.

We will play and create stories together with students in the older year levels. We will draw from the ideas of the community as we work with Miss Polly and other teachers to build the school production for term 3.

On Tuesday, 1 April we came in to spend a bit of time with all the students in Grades 3, 4, 5 and 6.
We were eager to meet all of the excellent students we will work with this year.

We asked them questions like:

What does change feel like?

What does life cycle mean to you?

These questions led to all kinds of thoughts including how potatoes change into potato chips, and trees change into tables!

At the end of the day, each student was sent home with a chatterbox template with questions they can ask their loved ones (pets included). You might have spotted one of these in your house already! We hope that it prompts some playful and profound conversations in your home. Students in younger years might like to try this too- it can be downloaded below.

DOWNLOAD THE CHANGE CHATTERBOX!

We can’t wait to see you all next term!

Who are the Creative Team visiting KPS?

Marita Davies

Marita is a proud Kiribati & Australian woman, a Marakei and Tabiteuea North descendant, who is passionate about supporting the stories and cultural knowledge of Pasifika.
Through creative essays, blog posts and articles Marita has explored themes of Kiribati culture, gender equality, racism, education and climate change.
Marita has written a children's book for children called 'Teaote and the Wall' and her audio theatre adventure for families 'The Flying Canoe' is produced by Threshold and launched as a digital and theatrical production at DreamBIG Festival Adelaide in May 2023.
Zoë Barry

Zoë is an award winning cellist, composer, theatre maker and educator. Her practice is devised and collaborative, drawing on composition, sound design, writing, performing and directing. Her work explores liminal spaces, the politics of slowness, repetition, noticing, the void, disturbance and amplifying quiet voices.
Zoë is the recipient of the 2021 Telstra ARIA Music Teacher Of The Year Award for her work with Harmony in Strings at Sacred Heart Primary.
Sylvie Meltzer

Sylvie Meltzer (she/her) is a workshop and teaching artist dedicated to storytelling. She has spent the past twenty years working with children and adults of all ages to create performances, exhibitions and workshops that foster relevant and meaningful conversations to be taken out into everyday life.
Her experience has led her from the spectacle of thousands of students dancing to the intimate spaces of group devised performances in homes, halls, sheds, tents and under the stars.
Sarah Lockwood

Sarah is a theatre maker, performer, producer and civil celebrant interested in ritual and performance. Previously Sarah was the Creative Producer of Drop Bear Theatre, creating immersive theatre work for families. Their performance installation ‘Rain: for babies and their carers’ was created at Artplay, and has toured for the last 6 years including to Hong Kong International Arts Carnival and Lincoln Center NYC.
Youbi Lee

Youbi is a visual artist who works in many different forms, printmaking, installation, video, puppetry, performance, and community engagement. She learnt these skills at Chugye University of Arts, Korea, from which she graduated as the dux of the university.
Since moving to Victoria, she has been initiating and facilitating collaborative arts projects with many different communities.
Working as a multimedia artist and project coordinator, Youbi continues to refine an arts practice that engages and draws commonality between people and places.