Hindmarsh Shire Libraries Hosts NGV KIDS ON TOUR PROGRAM 2025

Published on 19 December 2024

Get ready for an artistic adventure these summer school holidays! National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) Kids on Tour is back this January with free school holiday art activities for kids at Hindmarsh Shire Library branches. These include making a playful cat and dog ear headband, illustrating a Kusama-inspired pumpkin, and creating fashion designs for paper dolls.

The 2025 NGV Kids on Tour marks the largest ever program to date with more than 150 venues participating across metropolitan and outer metropolitan Melbourne and regional Victoria, including galleries, libraries, hospitals, migrant resource centres, community hubs and more.

Coinciding with the NGV’s summer exhibitions Yayoi Kusama and Cats & Dogs, NGV Kids on Tour celebrates the work of local and international artists and designers, as they draw inspiration from the colour and vibrancy of nature and the world around them.

NGV Kids on Tour also invites teenagers to learn about the creative practices of emerging artists and build skills for their own art portfolios through an activity developed with Gamilaroi Yinarr weaver and textile artist Sophie Honess.

NGV Kids on Tour 2025 program at all four library branches includes:

Drop in Sessions

Between 06 January and 24 January 2025, we invite you to attend your local library branch during their normal opening hours to create:

• Furry Friend Headband – In celebration of the Cats & Dogs exhibition, children can design a Furry Friend Headband, a set of cat or dog ears inspired by their own beloved pets or furry animals in their lives that they can take home and wear.
• Lots of Dots with Yayoi Kusama – Enjoy the work of iconic Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama in the Lots of dots with Yayoi Kusama activity and children’s book. Pumpkins have appeared in Kusama’s artworks since they were a young age growing up on a seed and plant farm, and this drawing activity invites children to add their favourite colours and designs to dots on a pumpkin and write a short poem about the humble fruit.
• Bogong Moths with Deanne Gilson – Learn about bogong moths in the drawing activity developed by Dr Deanne Gilson, a proud Wadawurrung woman living on her ancestral Country of Ballarat. In the activity Bogong Moths with Dr Deanne Gilson, kids will discover fascinating facts about the special Australian insect including how it avoids predators and its important place in our ecosystem.

Facilitated Sessions

• Fashion, Culture & Creativity with Collective Closets – Melbourne-based fashion designers and sisters Fatuma and Laurinda Ndenzako, from slow fashion label Collective Closets, celebrate the beauty and history of the African continent through their designs. The designers have developed the Fashion, Culture & Creativity with Collective Closets activity where kids and families will create paper dolls and design their own vibrant clothing for the dolls to wear.

  Sessions will be held at:

  • Nhill Library: 13 January 2025 at 10:00am
  • Dimboola Library and Customer Service Centre: 14 January 2025 at 10:00am
  • Jeparit Library and Customer Service Centre: 15 January 2025 at 9:00am
  • Rainbow Library and Customer Service Centre: 15 January 2025 at 1:00pm
• NGV Teens: Make a Pompom with Sophie Hones s– Designed especially for teens, the Make a Pompom with Sophie Honess activity invites participants to create a bush flower-inspired pompom using yarn, embroidery thread and colourful felts to use as accessories on bags or key chains.
  
  Sessions will be held at:

• Nhill Library: 20 January 2025 at 10:00am
• Dimboola Library and Customer Service Centre: 21 January 2025 at 10:00am
• Jeparit Library and Customer Service Centre: 22 January 2025 at 9:00am
• Rainbow Library and Customer Service Centre: 22 January 2025 at 1:00pm

Monica Revell
Chief Executive Officer