Creating Colossal Creatures | Portal

Name: Creating Colossal Creatures | Portal
Start: 2026-09-27T10:00:00+0930
End: 2026-09-27T14:00:00+0930
Location: Bonney Theatre

Sat, 26 Sep, 10am - 2pm ACST

Bonney Theatre

Barmera SA, Australia

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Saturday, September 26 and Sunday, September 27 | 10am - 2pm (drop in and out as you like!) | Bonney Theatre

Facilitator: Bianka Kennedy

Puppet skeletons built by Sam Wannan

Two giant puppet characters are coming to life this Portal, and we need a whole community to build them! Through this drop-in style workshop, you might trace a pattern, texture scaly skin, cut and colour a stencil, work on a mechanism, or get stuck into the details. Working from character sketches, an internal frame, and material samples, we'll build these puppets together, piece by piece, across two days.

🌀 Tracing patterns, texturing surfaces, and building skins for large-scale puppet forms

🌀 Working with stencils, mechanisms, colour and finishing details

🌀 Building two community puppets, together, from frame to finished character

All materials will be provided.

Everyone is welcome and no experience is required. Anyone under the age of 14 must be attended by a parent or guardian.

Please note that this event will be photographed for the purpose of documentation and may be used for marketing purposes. If you do not wish to be photographed, notify a Portal team member!

This project has been supported by Country Arts SA and the Regional Arts Fund, which supports the arts in regional and remote Australia.

Tickets for good, not greed Humanitix dedicates 100% of profits from booking fees to charity

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We are a creative gathering place and ideas hub. We organise events, gatherings, meetings, workshops, mentoring, projects and everything in between.

We are in the business of bringing local creative ideas to life.

Our vision is that when people think of regional South Australia, they think quirky and inspiring creative experiences in the same way that when people think of Melbourne, they think of fancy coffee.

Our mission is to nurture a creative and connected generation of doers in and from regional South Australia.

We organise projects, events, gatherings, meetings, workshops, mentoring and everything in between to achieve this mission. We present quirky, unique and memorable experiences created and curated by regional artists and thinkers: audio walking tours, immersive theatre, collaborative writing projects, visual arts exhibitions, video game jams, intimate concerts and creative based workshop tasters.

We are inspired by DIY culture, contemporary & experimental art, entrepreneurial thinking, community service and a ferocious pursuit of “how could this be better?”