Picture this, HOTA: coffee in hand, supporting local vendors, and loading up on your market essentials! — fresh finds, local flavours, and that unbeatable coastal vibe. Whether you’re there for the farm-fresh goods, artisan treasures, live tunes or a laid-back stroll with coffee in hand, HOTA Markets is now bigger, fresher and bursting with local […]
Hop, skip and jump into a collage of wonder in our new Children’s Gallery exhibition Minna Gilligan: True Colours. As a collector and curator of images, artist Minna Gilligan crafts colourful worlds that evoke joy-filled nostalgia. True Colours draws on memories of childhood and a retro aesthetic to create a playground of colour and imagination. […]
ArtLab workshops respond to HOTA Gallery exhibitions, providing kids with the opportunity to explore ideas, materials and techniques and create unique artworks of their own. Let’s celebrate the opening of Minna Gilligan: True Colours with a decorative decoupage workshop. Minna Gilligan is known for her colourful collages of favourite things: cakes, butterflies, flowers and games. […]
You’re invited into a world of imagination where things are wonderfully strange and delightfully unexpected. Dive into a vibrant program of performances, free daily activities, immersive installations, and hands-on workshops at HOTA these school holidays. With something new to discover every day, one visit is never enough… well, not for a true adventurer! This is your chance to imagine, explore, and […]
Queen Bee and Worker Bee must work together to rebuild their hive after it’s destroyed by a bushfire, but things never quite go to plan… This enchanting production combines circus, theatre, dance, live music, and acrobatics to bring the story vividly to life. Celebrating collaboration, resilience, and care for the environment, it inspires empathy, creativity, […]
In the hands of Junkyard Beats, ordinary household items are transformed into extraordinary musical instruments, and unwanted junk comes alive in exciting and surprising ways. The Box Show excites the imagination of children and adults alike. We follow four characters during their daily activities in a world made of cardboard boxes and junk. The contents […]
Little ArtLab provides hands-on creative fun for kids aged 3-5 years to enjoy with their parents and carers. Little ones can experiment, play and create with art-based activities inspired by HOTA Gallery's current exhibitions. In this Little ArtLab you will create brightly coloured, geometric art objects inspired by Petalia Humphreys’ three-dimensional, abstract paintings in UNLEASHED+. […]
An interactive, light-filled storytelling adventure. An interactive, light-filled storytelling adventure. This engaging interactive experience blends the magic of light and the simplicity of storytelling. Using UV light watch the custom-built tent be transformed into a magical performance space where stories and imagined worlds come alive as glowing drawings appear on the walls and floor. Following […]
Enjoy a morning packed with free fun for the whole family at HOTA these school holidays! Watch over 200 bubbles a minute float through the air with The Bubble Canteen, jump into their Hip Hop Jam, learn to paddle board, and discover the rich Indigenous history of Evandale Park. Try your hand at Taiko drumming, […]
THE FUNNIEST WHODUNIT HEARD, SEEN AND SMELLED! Slip on a pair of Silent Disco headphones and step inside the investigation, hearing every creak, squeak and suspicious splat in rich 3D audio. With live foley, original music and two performers playing a whole cast of quirky suspects, this fast-paced show delivers big laughs and clever surprises […]
Join HOTA during the Kids Take Over festival this school holidays for free, all-ages drop-in art making. From paper dolls to pinwheels, each day will have a new, retro activity to explore connected to the Children’s Gallery exhibition Minna Gilligan: True Colours. All ages welcomed. FIND OUT MORE
Grab your gumboots! We're going on a joyride. Join dirtgirl, scrapboy and Costa the Garden Gnome for a rollicking adventure through the Naturehood - a world where compost is cool, bees are celebrated like rock stars, curiosity is a superpower and every Naturehood is full of curiosity. Filled with music, laughter, audience-powered fun and glorious […]
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