How To Grow Your Garden Creative Development showing by Force Majeure
13 & 15 February 2025
In the Centre for Creativity
Workshops
Ages 4 -10 | How To Grow Your Garden is an immersive story built by the performers AND the participants, exploring what it means to nurture who we are and the people we care about through the seasons of life.
| Date | Time |
|---|---|
Thursday 13 February 2025 Pre-school aged children and their carers | 10:00am 12:00pm |
Saturday 15 February 2025 Children aged 4-10 and their carers | 10:30am 12.30pm |
| Ticket | Price |
|---|---|
| Standard* | Free |
*A maximum of four (4) tickets per person are available. Adults must book a ticket for themselves as well as their 1 - 2 child/ren attending. Tickets registered in excess of the ticket limit may be cancelled without notice.
Prices correct at the time of publication and subject to change without notice. Exact prices will be displayed with seat selection.
The only authorised ticket agency for this event is Sydney Opera House. For more information about Authorised Agencies, see the frequently asked questions below.
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9am, Wednesday 23 October 2024
Wheelchair accessible
Social Story
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For any special access requirements phone the Contact Centre on +61 2 9250 7777 or email bookings@sydneyoperahouse.com
Inspired by Old People’s Homes for 4 Year Olds (ABC), this participatory experience is ideally designed for a grandparent and their grandchild to create a special bond for the pair.
Run time
This event approximately runs for 50 minutes inclusive of a short Q+A following the performance
Event duration is a guide only and may be subject to change.
Age
Thursday 13 February 2025 - pre-school aged children and their carers
Saturday 15 February 2025 - children aged 4-10 and their carers
Children must be accompanied at all times.
The Opera House is committed to the safety and wellbeing of children that visit or engage with us. Read our Child Safety Policy.
What to bring on the day
As the How to Grow your Garden experience is participatory, we advise you wear comfortable shoes and clothing to move in.
Yaron Lifschitz, Artistic Director of CircaForce Majeure is ...a great example of the hotbed of innovation, creativity and aspiration within the Australian arts sector.
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A generational adventure inspiring deeper connections
How To Grow Your Garden is an immersive story built by the performers AND the audience, exploring what it means to nurture who we are and the people we care about through the seasons of life. Led by Force Majeure performers, children aged 4-10 and their nanna, yeye, aka, or pop will move through landscapes of stories, adventuring together in the live creation of the narrative, unleashing the inner performer in both the children and the children-at-heart.
How To Grow Your Garden is a fantastical Hero’s Journey for young ones to step into, drawing upon the wisdom of their elder friends to reveal the magic we can learn from each other, and inspiring deeper connections between generations. Due for presentation in 2025, we invite you to join us for a special behind-the-scenes sneak peek and creative development workshop of this brand-new family show by Force Majeure. Please note these showings will be filmed for archival purposes.
Presented by Sydney Opera House
Creative Development? What to expect…
Devised theatre is a method of creating a performance that works completely collaboratively with all artists in a rehearsal room. People attending this event will be involved in a rare experience seeing an excerpt of a devised work while the artists are mid-process of creation.
Meet the artists
Director
Danielle Micich
Associate Director, Devisor and Performer
Elle Evangelista
Devisor and Performer
Mym Kwa
About Force Majeure
Force Majeure is a national devising company that makes visceral interdisciplinary movement-based performance.
We collaborate with Australia’s most compelling multidisciplinary artists to devise original theatrical experiences that synthesise movement, spoken word, and a range of creative forms. This hybrid storytelling is our way of exploring provocative and urgent contemporary issues with a complexity and nuance that is not possible through words or movement alone.
Force Majeure’s vision is to continue to be Australia’s preeminent multidisciplinary movement-based theatre company, known as a crucible for diverse voices that produces unforgettable performances.
Plan your visit
Venue information
Our foyers will be open 90 minutes pre-show for Concert Hall and Joan Sutherland Theatre performances, and two hours pre-show for Western Foyer venue performances. Refreshments will be available for purchase from our theatre bars.
All Sydney Opera House foyers are pram accessible, with lifts to the main and western foyers. The public lift to all foyers is accessible from the corridor near the escalators on the Lower Concourse and also in the Western Foyer via the corridor on the Ground Level (at the top of the escalators). Pram parking will be available outside the theatres in the Western Foyer.
Getting here
The Sydney Opera House Car Park, operated by Wilson Parking, is open and available to use. Wilson Parking offer discounted parking if you book ahead. Please see the Wilson Parking website for details.
Please check the Transport NSW website for the latest advice and information on travel. You can catch public transport (bus, train, ferry) to Circular Quay and enjoy a six minute walk to the Opera House.
Frequently asked questions
Ticket purchases and collection at our Box Office is discouraged and eTicket or postal delivery methods should be used, wherever possible. However, if you are collecting your tickets from the Box Office, we recommend doing this at least 60 minutes before the event starts. If you have already received your tickets, the venue doors will be open 45 minutes pre-show for Joan Sutherland Theatre performances, and 30 minutes pre-show for Western Foyer venue performances. Please take your seats as soon as you arrive.
If you are late, we will seat you as soon as we can and, where possible, in your allocated seat. However, to reduce movement in the venue as well as minimise disruption to the performance and other patrons, ticketholders may be seated in an allocated latecomer’s seat. Please be aware that some events have lock-out periods. In these cases, latecomers will be admitted at a suitable break in the performance. On occasions, this may not be until the interval, or at all where there is no interval.
Details of our right to refuse admission can be found in our General Terms and Conditions for Tickets and Events.
In accordance with our venue security procedures, Opera House security will be scanning and checking bags under the Monumental Stairs, prior to entering the building. Bags will be scanned by an x-ray machine, and staff will wear appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) when handling your belongings, such as gloves. Cloaking facilities will be open 60 minutes pre-show for Concert Hall and Joan Sutherland Theatre performances, and 60 minutes pre-show for Western Foyer venue performances. However it is strongly encouraged that you travel lightly to minimise contact and queuing. Any bags larger than an A4 piece of paper will need to be checked into the Cloak Room.
Children aged 15 years and under must be accompanied at all times. Babies aged 0-2 years old at the time of a performance may be seated on an adult’s lap. Children 2 years and older will need to hold a standard ticket.
The authorised agency for this event is the Sydney Opera House.
Only tickets purchased by authorised agencies should be considered reliable. If you purchase tickets from a non-authorised agency such as Ticketmaster Resale, Viagogo, Ticketbis, eBay, Gumtree, Tickets Australia or any other unauthorised seller, you risk that these tickets are fake, void or have previously been cancelled. RESALE RESTRICTION APPLIES. For more details, please refer to our General Terms and Conditions for Tickets and Attendance at Events.
Please contact Box Office on 9250 7777 as soon as possible to advise if you can no longer attend.
Foyers will be open 90 minutes pre-show for Concert Hall and Joan Sutherland Theatre performances, and two hours pre-show for Western Foyer venue performances. Refreshments will be available for purchase from our theatre bars.
The venue doors will be open 45 minutes pre-show for Concert Hall and Joan Sutherland Theatre performances, and 30 minutes pre-show for Western Foyer venue performances.
Please bring a credit or debit card for any on site purchases to enable contactless payment. You’re welcome to bring your own water bottle but no other food and drinks are permitted inside our venues. Opera Bar, Opera Kitchen and Portside are also available for you to enjoy.
All Sydney Opera House foyers are pram accessible, with lifts to the main and Western Foyers. The public lift to the foyers is accessible from the corridor near the escalators on the Lower Concourse and also in the Western Foyer via the corridor on the Ground Level (at the top of the escalators). Pram parking will be available outside the theatres.
The Opera House is committed to the safety and wellbeing of children that visit or engage with us. Read our Child Safety Policy.
The Opera House has also developed a Child-friendly Code of Conduct to engage with our youngest visitors.
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