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What the Ocean Said James Brown, Alice Osborne and collaborators

11 - 12 October 2025

In the Centre for Creativity

Kids & Families

Ages 4+ | Join creativity and wellness for young children, with our specially commissioned storytelling and meditation experience with digital projections. This is a sensory world of vivid storytelling, dreamy electronic music, animation and the wonder of our Sydney Harbour.

Photo credit: Annabel Osborne

Creativity is contagious. Pass it on.

Albert Einstein

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A sensory world of projections and vivid storytelling

What The Ocean Said is a relaxing storytelling experience for children and their grownups. 

You are invited to relax in a sea of pillows amidst a magical space of calm. Follow the journey of a humpback whale diving deep into the water, and expanding into the reaches of the ocean itself. With mindfulness techniques wrapped up in a story time adventure, we’ll introduce younger children to meditation, and offer bigger kids a whole new perspective.

What the Ocean Said is a Sydney Opera House New Work Now commission, enabled by Jane & Russell Kift and by the Turnbull Foundation.

Presented by Sydney Opera House

 

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