Kids Workshop: Resonant Stick-ology listening to Country

For ages: 8 - 17

Join us for a hands-on, outdoor-inspired workshop where kids explore sound, storytelling and connection to Country. Using tin cans, long and short sticks, string and simple tools, participants will create their own journey recording instrument — an object that helps us tune in, pay attention and listen deeply.

Guided by exhibiting artist Dominic White & First Nations–informed thinking, the workshop blends cultural awareness, art examination, and playful experimentation. Kids will learn traditional skills including string-making, tying and knotting techniques, plus safe use of hammers and drills. Through walking, talking, making and intentional listening, they’ll experience how materials can hold memory, meaning and connection.

Each participant will take home their handmade instrument to continue using across the summer holidays, along with new creative skills they can apply to future projects.

A fun, thoughtful and active session — perfect for young makers, explorers and sound-seekers. All materials included. Spaces limited bookings required.

Children 12 or under must be accompanied by an adult/co-creator.

Dominic White is a Palawa, Trawoolway man and a descendant of the Tyereelore through his birth mother’s family. Adopted as a child, he has been engaged in an ongoing process of reclaiming his heritage and reconnecting with Tebrakunna Country.

A multidisciplinary artist, White explores themes of connection, observation, responsibility and obligation across a range of media. His practice critically examines cultural, historical and contemporary colonial interactions with First Nations people.

He is currently a PhD candidate at the RMIT School of Art, with research focused on Indigenous Ways of Knowing and Being, Yarning methodologies, decolonisation frameworks, praxis and socially engaged art practice.

Trained as a printmaker, White’s work spans contemporary printmaking, sculpture, photography, performative actions and contemporary jewellery and design, often informed by the material and cultural context of each project.

Based on Bunurong/Boonwurrung Country on the Mornington Peninsula, he is a father of two and teaches art alongside his artistic practice.

Image: Dominic White, Echidna Learning, Woodcut print on paper (detail)