Companies touring Book Week shows are announcing their 2024 choices. Exciting!
20 May 2024
Most recently, Meerkat Productions have announced their choice for Younger Readers Chapter Book - Being Jimmy Baxter by Fiona Lloyd. It's available live in Qld, NSW, ACT, Vic, SA and Tas in Term 3. There's also an online version.
And for younger students, their picture book adapatation is Timeless by Kelly Canby also available live and online.
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Latest Shows Added
19 May 2024
Image: #National Science Week in Schools Live & Online,PerformEducation, incursion (Nat)
Yet to book for the rest of the year? Not sure what to book? Simply Search our extensive offer of events for schools nationwide. Search by postcode, year level or curriculum area - or all three!
(Note our online options have a title that begins with an hashtag #).
- #National Science Week in Schools Live & Online,PerformEducation, incursion (Nat)
- Make Fitness Fun, incursion, FunFit (WA, SA, VIC, NSW, ACT, QLD)
- Coming Alongside the Birrarung and Indigenous Knowledges, Baby Love Music Fun, incursion (VIC)
- World Problems, Melbourne Theatre Company, Ulumbarra Theatre Bendigo (VIC)
- Musicians' Playlist of Orchestral Favourites, Sydney Symphony Orchestra (NSW)
- Book Week 2024 - That Bird Has Arms - live and online, Books To Life, incursion (National)
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Australian History comes alive with the Story of the Royal Flying Doctor Service
18 May 2024
"A really entertaining presentation. Kids loved it and also learnt a heap.”
APPIN PARK P.S
One of our favourite interactive role playing historically accurate shows! Hats Productions Story of the Royal Flying Doctor Service turns historical figures into real people wrestling with the huge difficulties of distance and commmunication in outback Australia. Inspiring and involving. Adapted to students Years 3-9. Victoria only. Limited dates in Term 2 - grab one.
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World Telecommunication and Information Society Day, today.
17 May 2024
This day celebrates digital innovation for sustainable development.
Shows For Schools was developed in 2010 for this very reason. We were tired of the waste and expense of mail marketing as well as wanting to give broader access to events both for the benefit of students and artists.
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Latest Presenter Profile
16 May 2024
Image above: Troppo Troupe's new show - Viva Commedia, incursion, (VIC ACT NSW)
The wonderful Troppo Troupe have become our latest featured Presenter. They've also added a new show to their impressive repertoire - adapted to students from Kinder to Year 12! Check out what they offer here.
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Have you booked a Book Week incursion yet?
14 May 2024
Better hurry! We have great Book Week shows available in every state - have a look here.
Missed out? in Victoria? Go tangent - The Mad Hatter Magic Show (image above)
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Happy Mother's Day!
12 May 2024
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LOTE teachers - want students to enjoy a performance in another language?
9 May 2024
We have shows in Italian and French languages and lots of shows reflecting other cultures, but Carrousel Theatre incursions win the award for offering the most languages. You can see their 4 shows - Aladdin & the Magic Lamp, Cinderella, Puss in Boots and Jungle Book - in French, Italian, Spanish, Mandarin Chinese & Indonesian via the medium of puppetry! Vic based, but touring in Sydney now and Perth in June.
Image: Carrousel Theatre's Aladdin & the Magic Lamp
To find the best event for your students, simply use our search option on the home page.
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9 May 2024
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Victoria Opera's Parrwang Lifts the Sky - starts tomorrow!
9 May 2024
Starting tomorrow, for both Primary and Secondary students, VO's fully staged children's opera - Parrwang Lifts The Sky (image above). Written by Yorta Yorta composer and opera singer Deborah Cheetham Fraillon, AO, it tells an indigenous story about the first dawn. Metro schools can watch it live, while Regional schools can watch it online. There are also 4 free online workshops for attendees. Note - Parrwang is free for Government Secondary students!
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MAY DAY!
1 May 2024
As we all grapple with the cost of living, it's good to remember that salary earners have the conditions they have due to the efforts of the labour movement. Today acknowledges the struggles and gains made by workers and the labour movement over the past centuries.
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Start of Term 2 for NSW, ACT, SA and Tas today.
29 April 2024
Joining the other states and territory, so all Australian schools now in Term 2
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