ANCIENT FUTURE PLAYSHOP EXPERIENCE (2.5hrs -12yrs+) @ Design your own Universe presented by UnitePlayPerform supported by Melbourne Design Week / Art at the Bank

ANCIENT FUTURE PLAYSHOP EXPERIENCE Move, voice, co-create and contribute to making live soundscapes, play in hyper real masks through a workshop and use a four-metre circular archetypal playmat inUnitePlayPerform’s psychedelic ceremony. Join award winning contemporary Artist ØFFËRÎNGŠ for a guided, interactive experience inviting you to learn modern play based techniques and choose masks to embody archetypes.  Expect movement, voice, percussion, and beat making.  Guests are invited to find their ancestral story with the masks. This workshop aims to support community connection, expression, sharing, listening and contribution.
Explore the large scale universe of UPP inside the old Union bank.  Ancient Future Playshop is guided by ØFFËRINGŠ the Artist and Founder behind UnitePlayPerform. 

ANCIENT FUTURE experience is part of “Design your own Universe” programme presented by UnitePlayPerform supported by Melbourne Design Week and Cecile Place “Art in the Bank” residency.

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Explore UnitePlayPerform who are pioneering radical new pathways at the intersection of art, health, science and wellbeing. 

Experiment, play and expand within the Old Union Bank bursting with large scale soft sculpture object art, wearable soft sculptures installations, live soundscapes, 3D animation, sensory sound tools and interactive tactile and tangible materials ready for you to choose, build and embody!

UnitePlayPerform is activating a deliciously ambitious programme full of participatory experiences that inspire play, co-creation, inclusivity, connection, community and radical self expression. The programme is a full throttle fantasy including intimate Playshop sessions, performance lead experimental works and interactive durational experiences that invite you, the participant to engage and develop UPP’s Playkit collections and design your own universe. 

Join award winning Artist, Founder, Educator and Disruptor ØFFËRÏNGŠ (Melissa Gilbert) for a journey through the incredible venue at the old Union Bank for a truly unique experience as she facilitates a journey into her socially engaging art.

UnitePlayPerform is launching their first furniture series ‘Sentients’ at Melbourne Design Fair, selected by the NGV curators for the ‘Discovery’ section of the fair. UPP follows their furniture showcase by opening up a week long programme to celebrate the design of our human experience supported by Melbourne Design Week and Cecile Place Precinct ‘Art at the Bank’ artistic residency.

UnitePlayPerform has exhibited new works works and programmes featured at Museum of Brisbane, Pitch music and arts festival, Melbourne Design Fair and many more !