Activities: Frame PlayLaila Campbell and Blake Thomas

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Image shows two children kneeling on the ground drawing on a large piece of paper using coloured chalk with an iPad placed beside them on the left. The children are leaning over the page as they are drawing. One child has a red and black hat, blue short sleeve t-shirt and patterned shorts. The other child is wearing a white t-shirt and has long dark straight hair tied up in a ponytail with a purple, blue and pink patterned scrunchie.
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  • DATES

    • SAT 28 September, 12:00 – 14:00 AEST

  • Duration

    Engage with these activities for as little or as long as you like over 2 hours between 12:00pm - 2:00pm (AEST)

  • LOCATION

    • Campbelltown Arts Centre (C-A-C), 1 Art Gallery Rd, Campbelltown, NSW, Australia

  • Booking Information

    These free activities are drop in style and do not require bookings or registrations.

  • Experience Notes

    Activities suitable for families and children 6+.

    • Wheelchair Accessible
    • Quiet Space Available
    • Assistance Animal
A young boy and girl are pictured drawing images within the three comic strip boxes on A4 worksheets entitled 'Frame play'. The children are looking down at their drawings, both sitting side-by-side at a white table, scattered with other completed worksheets. Blurred in the background is the Campbelltown Arts Centre's 'Artist Exchange' shop with black cabinets and filled with colourful wares.
A young boy is draws a simple happy face atop a cloud within a comic stip style box on a white A4 paper entitled 'Frame play'. The photo is taken from behind the child, whose face is blurred on the left hand side of the image, and his right hand, which is drawing with a wooden graphite pencil, is central in view.
Two A4 white paper worksheets sit atop a wooden bench. Both in landsape orientation and entitled 'Frame play', the worksheets include step-by-step instructons and three boxes for comic book style drawings. Within the three boxes of the first worksheet are images drawn with a black pen which feature a character who uses a basket to help hold all it's
A young girl is pictured from behind as she holds an iPad in front of Serwah Attafuah's OFFLINE artwork. The iPad screen pictures an AR snail which appears to be traveling on the floor near Attafuah's artwork.
A young girl is pictured from the side as she holds and iPad in front of a table with a a basket of pens and an A4 worksheet picturing a colourful hand-drawn snail. The iPad screen pictures an AR experience of five of the same hand-drawn snails moving around the screen in 3D, in different angles and orientations.
Scattered on a wooden bench are four overlapping portrait oriented A4 white worksheets. Each worksheet includes the title 'Frame play' with step-by-step instructions for the activity, and each includes a large black-outlined box which fills the page. Each A4 sheet features a unique hand-drawn image within the box. The sheet on the top left pictures a happy skull with three yellow teeth, the central top sheet pictures a black pen drawing of smart phone screen, the top right sheet pictures a bunch of red cherries with green stems and the bottom sheet features a simple drawing of a Samsung phone.

Calling young creatives to join Campbelltown Arts Centre (C-A-C) Educators for a drop-in style creative experience at C-A-C on Saturday 28 September.

These hand-drawn simple animation activities are designed in response to the works commissioned by C-A-C as part of BLEED 2024, OFFLINE AND LOADING by Serwah Attafuah, and A Vanishing Point by Akil Ahamat and Kalanjay Dhir.

Acknowledgement of Country
Arts House, Campbelltown Arts Centre and Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the lands we live and work on, the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung, Dharawal, and Whadjuk Noongar peoples. We extend our respects to their Elders past and present. We extend this acknowledgment to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander audiences and communities, and First Nations peoples globally.