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Upcoming shows, performances and activities

14 - 19 Mar 2024 Kids & Families

Obang

Ages up to 16 months | A multicultural theatre show for babies! Obang is a performative installation space designed for babies and their caregivers. 

12 - 14 Apr 2024 Kids & Families

I Wish...

Ages 4 + | I Wish... is an acrobatic adventure exploring all the things we could be. Through physical theatre, stunning visuals, and a healthy dose of humour, explore our differences to reveal the magic of individuality.

Two men holding guitars and a woman with them.
18 - 19 Apr 2024 Workshops

The Magic Garden

Ages 4+ | Join Ru Barb, Aspara Gus and Sir Paul McCarrotney for a berry wonderful music-making songwriting workshop.

20 - 24 Apr 2024 Kids & Families

Polar Bear & Penguin

Ages 5+ | This charming play for young audiences follows the tale of an unlikely encounter between a Polar Bear and a Penguin. This is the story of polar opposite characters meeting for the first time, getting to know one another and learning how to survive in a world that is melting beneath their feet...paws...flippers. 

Animated alien in green with space objects around him.
22 - 23 Apr 2024 Workshops

Alien Invasion

Ages 6+ | The Sydney Opera House has been visited by aliens! Join us on this interactive theatre play experience to find the left-behind alien.

24 Apr 2024 Workshops

Shadow Puppets

Ages 12 - 16 | Learn how to draw and design your very own characters and backdrops! Using different paper cutting methods, cast your drawings into animated shadows using various light sources and surfaces.

12 May 2024 Kids & Families

Opera Rose Bouquet

Take a bow with your hand made mini opera rose bouquet! 

21 Apr 2024 Kids & Families

Bare your Bones

In this bonifying workshop create your own fluoro, wearable and moveable skeleton!

Five dancers wear pink and stand in a diagonal line caught in movement.
17 - 18 May 2024 Kids & Families

Game Theory

Ages 8+ | Arriving directly from Switzerland is Game Theory – a fast-paced, funny and playful dance celebration of play, sport, big emotions, and the highs and lows of playing games! This season of performances and workshops will have you looking at dance from a whole new perspective.

Toddlers along with their parents watch a women play a violin.
26 Apr - 17 May 2024 Kids & Families

Kids Music Café

Ages 0 - 2 | Our introduction to live music - perfect for your toddler and you!

5 - 21 Jul 2024 Kids & Families

James and the Giant Peach

Ages 6+ | Climb aboard the world’s juiciest fruit as Roald Dahl’s James & The Giant Peach rolls off the page and onto the stage in Shake & Stir’s most delicious adventure yet. 

16 - 19 Jul 2024 Kids & Families

A Forest in the City

Ages 4+ | This interactive performance uses full scale colourful projections, digital technology and dance, and comes direct to Sydney Opera House from Italy.

25 - 27 Jul 2024 Kids & Families

The River That Ran Uphill

Ages 8+ | In 2015, Cyclone Pam ravaged the South Pacific. Edgell Junior, a Ni-Vanuatu man from Pentecost Island experienced and survived Cyclone Pam and its aftermath. Based on his lived experience, this moving production emphasises the importance of community cooperation and resilience.

A women dances surrounded by falling paper. She is holding a book and her hair is in braids.
9 - 10 Aug 2024 Kids & Families

Little Murmur

Ages 7+ Little Murmur is a new international dance theatre performance featuring groundbreaking projections, an extraordinary soundscape and a blizzard of paper and confetti. Dance and humour combine to explores living with dyslexia and the warped and exaggerated realities of being in a world you struggle to process.

27 Sep - 6 Oct 2024 Kids & Families

Edward the Emu

Ages 3+ | Edward is bored with his lot. Being the only emu at the zoo has him feeling glum and thinking perhaps the grass is greener on the other side of the fence. Is life more fun for the seals or the lions or the snakes? Join Edward on his grand adventure of self-discovery as he explores the world outside of his enclosure and makes a very special friend along the way, Edwina the Emu.  

28 Sep - 5 Oct 2024 Kids & Families

Big Sky

Ages 4+ | Big Sky unfolds over a single night, from sunset to dawn and follows 12 unforgettable characters as they look forward to their futures, show off, get spooked, prank each other and get up to mischief. Featuring the phenomenal circus skills of the world-renowned Flying Fruit Fly Circus in a show performed by kids, for kids.

9 - 10 Oct 2024 Kids & Families

Waru

Ages 3+ | In Bangarra’s first dedicated work for children, join our heroine Migi as she undertakes a journey of discovery and survival. 

A young white woman with dark brown hair stands in front of a fabric background, where projections of clouds are being cast. An audience of meditation children and adults lie on pillows in front of her.
9 - 10 Nov 2024 Kids & Families

What the Ocean Said

Ages 4+ | Part guided meditation, part magical story, What The Ocean Said is a sensory world of vivid storytelling, dreamy electronic music, animation, and wonder.

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Listen Kids & Families

Arty Farty

Our podcast series Arty Farty – A Podcast for Kids has been created especially for Kid Creatives. We’re excited to share special moments, insights, tips, tricks and more from kids themselves, and creative types who appear here at the House.

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Read Kids & Families

School holidays survival guide

Our guide to surviving the school holidays with your sanity, and your kids' imagination, intact. 

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Stream Kids & Families

The Takeover

What happens when you suspend the school timetable for 3 weeks and give students full creative control? Follow the journey of teachers and students of Liverpool Boys High School in Western Sydney, as the traditional school structure is turned on its head and creativity takes the reins.

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