Welcome to the SS Titanic Poseidon, where the crew will do their best to make sure you have a relaxing and enjoyable holiday ... But they make no guarantees! 

Saturday 26 November | 7.30pm | Little Theatre

An eclectic group of passengers board the cruise ship the SS Titanic Poseidon, which is touted to be the fastest and most unsinkable ship ever! 

Little do the crew or passengers know what is in store for them! 

A crazy comedy adventure sending up cruise ship movies and TV, with the Youth Workshop’s own unique twists! 

A family friendly fun piece of theatre by Gippsland’s talented young people! 

St Vincent de Paul School Morwell proudly presents their 2022 concert Let’s get movin’. Join us for a night of dancing, acting music and plenty of laughs.

Thursday 15 September | 7PM | GPAC Theatre 

Let’s get movin’ is a performance created by the St Vincent de Paul School Community.

This performance is a combination of live acting, class performances dances and pre-recorded video.

The students have been working hard on their class performances throughout the year and are excited to present their creativity to the school community and general public. St Vincent de Paul School looks forward to presenting this performance to the audiences of the new Gippsland Performing Arts Centre in Traralgon.

A performance dedicated to orchestral and choral works.

Friday 14 October | 7.00PM | The Little Theatre

This is an opportunity for all Junior and Secondary Academy musicians from St Paul’s Anglican Grammar School’s Traralgon and Warragul campuses to perform together in a large ensembles format, drawing and expanding on the ensemble skills they have developed in Semester 1. 

Open to selected students, the Academy of Music offers a dedicated focus for the development of students’ chamber, orchestral and musical skills. With specialist orchestral instrumentalists and vocal tutors, an opportunity for solo and chamber performances will be available both internally and externally at a range of venues.

Incorporating live concert exposure and collaboration with professional performers, the Academy of Music is sure to inspire students and take their learning and musical skills to another level.

PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS PERFORMANCE AND WORKSHOP ARE CANCELLED. 

This is due to day of mourning for Queen Elizabeth.

Get ready for the most sustainable fun you’ve ever had. 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 of an abandoned kitchen and wheelie bins become the greatest drum set in the world; plastic bags are an amazing musical instrument and the human body becomes a unique sound machine.

Tag along for a day in the life of a bunch of musical misfits as they reinvigorate the junk that the world has forgotten. Learn about sustainability with this high energy, imaginative music-in-education performance combining drumming, dance, theatre and comedy. With a language of gibberish and rhythm, this show is accessible to any age and nationality.

Envirobeats FREE Workshop - CANCELLED due to day of mourning for Queen Elizabeth

Join Junkyard Beats, creators of The Box Show, for a playful and interactive musical workshop! Using ordinary household items and recycled materials that have been transformed into musical instruments. The kids will explore sustainability while having a whole lot of noisy fun.

Wednesday 21 September at 1pm

Ages: 5 - 12

This is a free workshop but places are limited so book early to avoid disappointment!

Book here

Created by: Oded Prior

Written By: Oded Prior & Nigel Turner-Carroll

Directed By: Nigel Turner-Carroll

This live edutainment extravaganza is jam packed with all your favourite Pevan & Sarah bangers.

Pevan & Sarah are bringing the joy of their Cub Club music to theatres around the country.

Together, the big friendly tiger and his pocket rocket bestie will rock the house with a performance that’s equal parts musical, educational, hilarious and downright FUN! After two years of being beamed into classrooms and homes for remote learning, Pevan & Sarah are bringing the joy of their Cub Club music to theatres around the country.

Students will sing, learn and laugh their way through a fifty-minute adventure with the dynamic duo as they role play a “typical” day in the classroom. This interactive performance will weave its way through many points of the literacy and numeracy curriculum as well as highlighting key early years experiences such as teamwork, social skills and building resilience.

Prepare your little ones for an excursion like no other and one they’ll never forget. So don your tiger ears, brush up on your favourite lyrics and get ready to rock because Pevan & Sarah can’t wait to see you all!

Pounce and play with face painting, bubbles, and disco fun!

Thursday 30 June | Outdoors | 10am, 11am, 1pm + 2pm 

 

Come along and join the hullabaloo as young folk of all ages are invited to have their face painted as cute canine for their very own doggie dance games led by children’s entertainment duo Busy Movers. Free and perfect for playful pups whose parents may like to relax with a coffee these school holidays. 

Hey kids, get your art on! 

Wednesday 29 June | Outdoors | 11AM - 2PM 

 

Local artist Steph Shields leads young folk through a Lost Dogs’ Disco inspired sensory play station, doggo drawing, decorating of pre-fired ceramic objects. The session will encourage young ones to build their very own collaborative installation using found and natural objects. These activities are free and perfect for creative busy little humans of all ages who love to explore and make things.

Get creative and make art outside with the Lost Disco Dogs.

Wednesday 29 June | Outdoors | 11AM - 2PM 

 

Discover the joy of plein air painting as you immerse yourself in dogs large and small, inflatable, and real. Local artist PollyannaR leads a vibrant watercolour class-on-the-grass with all materials provided and no experience necessary.

If you feel like a lost dog, come to our disco... This winter we're transforming GPAC with larger-than-life furry friends. It's time for puppers to party!

Friday 24 June - Sunday 3 July | Various times | Outdoors

Sometimes in the dead of night, when houses rattle and hum with the snoring dark and a dog is no longer a puppy but not quite a dog, they will hear the call of ancestors and embark upon a secret journey to the Lost Dogs’ Disco – a place of learning, revelry, insight and discovery where dogs are gifted their deep human insight – the gentleness that understands and heals all human hearts.

It’s the place where they learn to love doggedly, dance biggedly and be free to their hearts’ content. The only time that dogs go back to the Lost Dogs’ Disco is when they lose their way: when shut out of warm houses, when the snacks forever run dry, when their owners suddenly disappear. It’s then that they return to the Lost Dogs’ Disco.

Here, their understanding for all lost souls deepens in their little doggy hearts and they know that everyone feels lost at times. When you are a lost dog, our dogs say come to the disco where dance, togetherness and being true, get you through. If you feel like a lost dog, just go disco!

Alongside our furry friends, don't miss our late night sessions including live music, bar and DJs, PLUS special activities for kids and families across the ten days. Check out more below.



FULL LOST DOGS' DISCO PROGRAM

Friday 24 June Lost Dogs Disco Opening Night

Saturday 25 June Boogie Nights: Emma Volard, Darcy Fox + Meredith Louise

Sunday 26 June Kids Disco Parties

Wednesday 29 June Puppies Plein Air + Pup Paint and Clay

Thursday 30 June Doggie Dance Games

Friday 1 July Doggo Disco with DJ Nige

Saturday 2 July Boogie Nights: Sing Session with Melbourne Indie Voices + Elly Poletti

Sunday 3 July Discoyoga

LOST DOGS’ DISCO – ABOUT THE INSTALLATION

The Lost Dogs’ Disco is a temporary sculpture that celebrates the place of dogs in our lives. Visitors journey through an immersive installation of 16 dogs, some up to 5.5m tall: all in various states of repose – curled-up, standing, even touching noses. 

There are four distinct characters, inspired by three dog breeds: Poodles, Bull Terriers and Dachshunds. 

As visitors’ journey through the happy pack, the dogs’ coats light up and they greet passers-by with happy grunts to celebrate each new person’s arrival; for the Lost Dogs’ Disco is a hallowed place for dogs and every newcomer to the disco is greeted as a fellow disco dog.

The installation features a custom sound design of electronic music that captures the beauty, fun and pathos of a dog’s life including a chorus of barks, growls, howls and all kinds of doggie hullabaloo. 

ABOUT ENESS

ENESS is a multi-award-winning art and technology studio, led by Artist and Founder Nimrod Weis. The studio has designed ground-breaking experiences for cultural institutions across the world for the last 20 years. 

ENESS creates interactive artworks that forge greater community connection in the public realm through joy and happiness. In this way, the studio collective consider themselves to be Happiness Architects. At the heart of all ENESS work is joyful, cross-generational connection. ENESS strives to change public space by introducing unexpected and surprising work that forges deeper moments between friends, family and community; even enabling strangers to meet and find common ground.

Founded in 1997, ENESS is a multidisciplinary team of creatives including artists, musicians, software engineers, industrial designers and a writer. ENESS pioneered the art of 3D projection mapping and interactive real-time motion tracking, breaking new ground and creating firsts that have since become accepted design solutions. The studio has been commissioned to produce and install artworks worldwide for signature commercial buildings; urban and cultural precincts; festivals, galleries and museums of modern art.

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A digital exhibition by Latrobe City's kids

Friday 13 - Sunday 29 May | 7PM | GPAC Theatre

With our ever-growing appetite to document our lives through selfies, children are often the reluctant subjects of their parent’s cameras. Jessica Wilson’s, I See You Like This turns the camera around, allowing children to decorate their parent’s and see them as subjects through the lens of their own imagination. 

 

I See You Like This was created by Jessica Wilson with Matilda Woodroofe 

Photography by Darryl Whitaker 

Don't miss our Exhibition Celebration!

FRIDAY 13 MAY 

10:30AM 

GPAC Outdoors 

FREE