Participants will wander through the Forage garden on a little sensory tour, smelling and feeling different herbs and learning about their culinary and remedial uses. After that the kids will create their own herbal alchemy or garden potion and write a recipe to take home including a herbal or flower bouquet that can be dried or used in the kitchen. Facilitated by Silke Apel who has a passion for everything gardening, and loves to assist people in growing their own food and applying permaculture principles to everyday life. Silke will also share knowledge about the importance of having bees and other beneficial Insects in your garden and the different housing needs those animals have.

All materials are provided. Participants should wear clothes suitable for crafting, and must wear closed in shoes. Recommended to send them with a labelled water bottle.

SAFETY: Please be aware this workshop will involve the children collecting items from the Forage vegetable patch and Cannery gardens-please provide information if your child has any allergies to bees, insects, pollens etc. You will be asked this in the booking process.

Age: 6+ years

$20 Cannery Member
$35 Non Member

Membership to the Cannery for children/youth is $30 for 12 months from the date you sign them up. Sign up here

Participants will create a Bee House using all natural materials they gather around the Cannery Arts Centre Forage Garden to “furnish” their Bee Hotel. The main frame will be provided and participants have the option of decorating it with paint. Facilitated by Silke Apel who has a passion for everything gardening, and loves to assist people in growing their own food and applying permaculture principles to everyday life. Silke will also share knowledge about the importance of having bees and other beneficial Insects in your garden and the different housing needs those animals have.

All other materials are provided. Participants should wear clothes suitable for crafting, and must wear closed in shoes. Recommended to send them with a labelled water bottle.

SAFETY: Please be aware this workshop will involve the children collecting items from the Forage vegetable patch and Cannery gardens-please provide information if your child has any allergies to bees, insects, pollens etc. You will be asked this in the booking process.

Age: 8+ years

$20 Cannery Member
$35 Non Member

Membership to the Cannery for children/youth is $30 for 12 months from the date you sign them up. Sign up here

Bookings went so crazy for the morning session we have opened up another workshop!

What happens in July, other than Kickarts at the Cannery? The whale migration across the South Coast! Learn about what type of whales, their behaviour and why they migrate. Inspired by this information, students will create a watercolour masterpiece of these glorious species with Katie White, botanist and scientist, turned artist and educator. Katie gets great excitement and joy out of the many wonders of the natural world, and is passionate about sharing and connecting.

All other materials are provided. Participants should wear clothes suitable for crafting, and must wear closed in shoes. Recommended to send them with a labelled water bottle.

Age: 6+ years

$20 Cannery Member
$35 Non Member

Membership to the Cannery for children/youth is $30 for 12 months from the date you sign them up. Sign up here

What happens in July, other than Kickarts at the Cannery? The whale migration across the South Coast! Learn about what type of whales, their behaviour and why they migrate. Inspired by this information, students will create a watercolour masterpiece of these glorious species with Katie White, botanist and scientist, turned artist and educator. Katie gets great excitement and joy out of the many wonders of the natural world, and is passionate about sharing and connecting.

All other materials are provided. Participants should wear clothes suitable for crafting, and must wear closed in shoes. Recommended to send them with a labelled water bottle.

Age: 6+ years

$20 Cannery Member
$35 Non Member

Membership to the Cannery for children/youth is $30 for 12 months from the date you sign them up. Sign up here

Create Felt Native Animals and learn language with artist in residence Yabini Kickett, an artist with ties to Ballardong, Nyaki-Nyaki, Wadjuk people of the Bibulmun Nation. Choose from an assortment of coloured felt and yarn, children use blunt wool needles and glue, and filling their bodies to make three dimensional native animals.

Parents/guardians are invited to stay to assist their child but can leave their child. All KickArts tutors have Working With Children Checks and tutors work with small groups of children.

All other materials are provided. Participants should wear clothes suitable for crafting, and must wear closed in shoes. Recommended to send them with a labelled water bottle.

Age: 9+ years

$20 Cannery Member
$35 Non Member

Membership to the Cannery for children/youth is $30 for 12 months from the date you sign them up. Sign up here

Come along and learn about recycling and repurpose an unloved chair to make it uniquely yours. The Shire of Esperance's Waste Education Officer Debra Sanger will take you on a tour of the Wylie Bay Recycling Facility, showing you what happens to your recyclables. On return to the Cannery you will have lunch, play some waste games, then our crafty tutor Mary Darling will assist you in bedazzling a chair.

BYO lunch and water bottle. You can bring your own chair or we will have ones for you to choose from. All other materials are provided. Participants should wear clothes suitable for crafting, and must wear closed in shoes.

Age: 8+ years

$20 Cannery Member
$35 Non Member

Membership to the Cannery for children/youth is $30 for 12 months from the date you sign them up. Sign up here

Turn waste into art! Working with Jimena, Enviro-Experiences Project Officer from Southcoast NRM, a marine biologist born in Mexico, the children will walk to the beach opposite the Cannery Arts Centre and collect washed-up plastics. They will then use this plastic and clay to create creatures called Alebrijes, Mexican folk art sculptures of fantastical creatures. Jimena has a background in science and marine conservation. She is passionate about spreading her love for the oceans and promoting ways to protect them, and creating opportunities to engage people with the environment. All materials are provided. If participants want to make them brightly coloured like they are in Mexico, they must paint them at home.

Participants should wear clothes suitable for beach collecting and clay work, and we suggest providing them with a labelled water bottle.

Please note: 5+ years

FREE to attend. Registration essential.

If you are not a Cannery Member, please do so here.

How do new technologies emerge? Whose values and choices shape the technologies we use? What technologies would you like to use in the future? Join our Artist in Residence-futurist Ana Tiquia in a workshop to explore the values and cultures behind our everyday technologies, explore your preferred futures and make your own new, speculative tech to bring these futures to life.

In this workshop you will explore: different ideas about technology, tools and frameworks used by professional futurists to consider the future, and prototyping techniques to create speculative tech. All workshop participants will have the opportunity to prototype a speculative technology from a diverse array in the media of their choice – from text to audio, sculpture, collage, code, photography or video, illustration. No specialist technical knowledge or proficiency is required for this workshop. Just bring your imagination and curiosity about the possibilities of technology!

10am-4pm with an hour break for lunch - BYO Lunch

Adults and Teenagers 16+yrs

FREE TO ATTEND - REGISTRATIONS ESSENTIAL

The Esperance community are invited to join Nyungar elder Annie Dabb from Dabungool Cultural Experiences for a coastal walk to learn about her cultural connection with the ocean and land.

Location TBA-Wylie Bay or Castletown Beach.

This is free to attend but registration is required for communication purposes.

This event is part of the Living Reef Festival made possible with support from the State Government and Lottery West.