The Rhythm of Saturn
19 Dec 2012
Just in time for the holiday season, our Intergalactic travellers at the Monday after school workshops have put together a Travel Guide to Saturn. Click for a sneak peek at Saturn’s...
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Just in time for the holiday season, our Intergalactic travellers at the Monday after school workshops have put together a Travel Guide to Saturn. Click for a sneak peek at Saturn’s...
Read More11 Dec 2012
To celebrate Earthling Increased Purchasing Period, we’re holding an exhibition at the Martian Embassy. We’ve commissioned some of our favourite illustrators and designers, including James Gulliver Hancock, Andrea Smith, Eirian Chapman, Daniel Dittmar and Kitiya Palaskas, to design...
Read More29 Nov 2012
A group of Sunday morning work-shoppers looked at the fable of the Hare and the Tortoise then wrote their own stories of good guys and bad guys, of characters with...
Read More28 Nov 2012
The Minister for the Arts, Simon Crean, and the Minister for Sport, Kate Lundy, joined the real showdown in Canberra today: the much-anticipated netball match between politicians and staffers, and...
Read More27 Nov 2012
Approach writing like you’re making a collage. Write ideas or words down on small pieces of paper or post-it notes. Try dropping them to see how they land or put...
Read More23 Nov 2012
We are very proud that our Martian Embassy won a Sydney Design Award this week, in the category of interior design – public or institutional. Huge congratulations to our fantastic...
Read More20 Nov 2012
Sunday Poetry Writing Workshop with Libby Hathorn Rythmn and rhyme, repetition, alliteration. These are the poet’s tools and last Sunday writer and Ambassador for reading Libby Hathorn put us to...
Read More20 Nov 2012
On Sundays, kids 7-18 are writing their own fairy tales against a ticking clock. Find out what happens to a modern Cinderella, her Prince, and other characters you thought you knew. ...
Read More15 Nov 2012
We’re extremely excited to announce a fundraising concert, an evening of music and words held to raise money and awareness for the Sydney Story Factory. Beck Hansen’s Song Reader Presented by...
Read More15 Nov 2012
We say a big Martian thanks to Rotary Club of Sydney Cove for the generous donation of 5 refurbished laptops, complete with software, all delivered to our door. The computers...
Read More15 Nov 2012
MARGARET MCGREGOR: We could not have compiled the figures for our first term of operations, and first school holiday period without the help of the unflappable Margaret McGregor. Margaret bravely...
Read More15 Nov 2012
Last Tuesday night the Sydney Story Factory was honoured to host the launch of our vice-president, Robyn Ewing’s, latest book, Creative Arts in the Lives of Young Children. Robyn edited...
Read More14 Nov 2012
We are thrilled to report that the figures for our first term of operations, and first school holiday period, look very healthy indeed. Over term 3 and the October school...
Read More07 Nov 2012
Craftketeer Kitiya Palaskas came in to help us find out which secret spirit animal lives inside us, then write a fable about our new friend, and make a mask of...
Read More30 Oct 2012
Mission By Fred Bekker Today He went into the hut, searching, when suddenly the light coming from the doorway was blocked, and he slowly turned around to hear chief Oofaoompa...
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