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Celebrating Western Australian picture books and 40 fabulous years of Fremantle Press.

1st October - 31st December 2016

Free exhibition and workshops for school students. Featuring original artworks, draft sketches and storyboards.

A Sausage Went for a Walk One Day will be launched as part of the 2016 Awesome International Arts Festival for Bright Young Things.

People who read picture books see the final product. This exhibit reveals the hundreds of sketches, storyboards, text revisions, style and colour experiments that go into creating a single picture book.

Presented by Fremantle Press, 2016 Awesome Festival and the State Library of Western Australia.

4:30pm Thursday 20th October 2016

The Education Team at the State Library of Western Australia will be hosting a free professional learning workshop  from 4:30pm to 6:30pm on Thursday, 20th October to launch the exhibition, A Sausage Went for a Walk One Day, and the supporting student workshops.  Bookings are essential via Eventbrite.

Hi I'm Kate Akerman, one of the Education Officers at the State Library of Western Australia. As a kid I travelled a lot and attended 5 different primary schools. My family settled in Perth to complete my secondary schooling. I remain eclectic in my interests and have had many careers, including biochemistry and making documentaries with the BBC.  I like to compare teaching with documentary production; communicating complex ideas, provoking discussion, while trying to be entertaining. I have enjoyed working with the Western Australian Museum and now working with fantastic teams and the collections at the State Library, where no two days are ever the same!

 

Some things change and some stay the same.  The State Library has been collecting photographs for over 100 years and continues to do so. The workshop Then and now uses photos to inspire student discussion about the past and the present. Students create a timeline using photographs of Perth and make a vintage-style postcard to take home. The State Library pictorial collection is available online and is a great source for teachers and students exploring Western Australian stories.

For further information about this workshop, and to book, please complete a booking request form, phone (08) 9427 3202 or email your request to ed@slwa.wa.gov.au

Take your kids on a tour of the 1900s.

The Historical Panoramas Project is a collaboration between the State Library of Western Australia and the Curtin University HIVE. The virtual tour explores historic settings in Perth and Fremantle and enables students to compare them with modern day counterparts. Take a journey through space and time.

 

Art Gallery of Western Australia

Make a day of your student excursion to the State Library and include a visit to the Art Gallery of Western Australia. The exhibition Unknown Land showcases art works revealing the perspectives of early European colonists in Western Australia.

The State Library workshop Digging Up The Past  is a good complement with the exhibition. Both fit seamlessly with the Year 4 and 5 History Curriculum and contain numerous examples of historical sources.

State Library workshops and exhibitions: Free of charge

Art Gallery Unknown Land: Ticketed (Students under 17: $5. Teacher/adult tickets: $12)

Find out more at the Free Teacher Preview at the Art Gallery of WA on Thursday, 22 September 2016.

 

As exam dates approach are your students looking for somewhere quiet, convenient and packed full of past papers and study guides?  Visit the WACE Study Space on the 1st floor of the State Library where resources and group study areas are available for senior school students to use.