We acknowledge and respect the Traditional Owners of lands across Australia, their Elders, Ancestors, cultures and heritage, and recognise the continuing sovereignties of all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Nations.

We respectfully acknowledge the Wurundjeri People of the Kulin Nation, who are the Traditional Owners of the land on which the ACTF is based and pay our respect to their Elders past and present.

We are honoured to have the opportunity to learn from the oldest cultural storytellers in the world and seek to support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander practitioners to share their rich culture and perspectives with children in Australia and around the world via stories on screen.

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Join us at the 2023 DreamBIG Children’s Festival

Join the ACTF either in-person (at the Adelaide Festival Centre) or online to learn about representations of our world on screen. In-person workshops during the DreamBIG festival in May 2023 will focus on storyboarding and narrative structure. Virtual workshops taking place in the classroom during March 2023 will support the creation of students’ own artwork, with a selection of works to be exhibited on the Adelaide Festival Centre’s media screens.

Further details are provided below. Registrations can be made through the DreamBIG Children’s Festival website.

Our World on Screen – Virtual workshop series

Year levels: R-6

Dates: 1 March, 29 March

Duration: 2 x 45 minutes

Why and how do we share screen stories about our world? What story would you like to share – and how will you tell it?

Over two virtual workshops, the ACTF Learning team will guide students in exploring and responding to screen stories, then support the creation and presentation of students’ own artwork about our world. Teachers will receive additional resources to scaffold students’ artmaking in the classroom between workshops. Students will present their artworks to peers in the second workshop, and a selection of produced artworks will be also exhibited on the Adelaide Festival Centre media screens.

Our World on Screen – In-person workshops

Year levels: R-2

Dates: 18 May, 19 May

Duration: 45 minutes

What is a storyboard? Why are they important? How can we use them in our own storytelling?

Drawing on a range of Australian children’s television programs, students will explore why and how we share stories about our world. The ACTF Learning team will introduce storyboards as a helpful planning tool for the stories we see on screen, including students’ own artworks. Students will discuss narrative structure, then create and sequence a series of images to plan to their own artwork. Teachers will receive additional resources to scaffold students’ artmaking when they return to the classroom.