ARTventurers: Where art meets adventure
The ARTventurers Program invites primary school-aged children throughout Indigo Shire on creative adventures that expand experiences, explore new ideas, and support burgeoning young minds. Through professional performances and interactive workshops held in local schools and community halls, we're opening doors to artistic worlds that spark curiosity, build confidence, and inspire creative thinking.
Program Overview
ARTventurers connects young people across the shire with professional artists who bring excitement, wonder, and hands-on creative exploration. Every performance is an adventure into imagination - whether it's physical theatre that defies gravity, puppetry that brings stories to life, or science comedy that makes learning hilarious. By activating our community halls as cultural spaces, we're creating vibrant hubs where young minds can venture into new forms of expression, discover hidden talents, and see possibilities they never knew existed. This is arts access reimagined: bringing professional creative experiences directly to children, ensuring every young person - regardless of where they live - can embark on their own artistic adventure.
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Program Benefits
- Students develop creative thinking, problem-solving, and collaboration skills
- Workshops provide hands-on opportunities to explore new forms of expression
- Performances introduce young people to diverse artistic styles and mediums
- Teachers gain new tools and approaches for creative education
- Community halls are activated as vibrant cultural spaces
Program aims
- Provide regional and remote students with equal access to quality creative activities
- Enhance student health, wellbeing, and resilience through artistic engagement
- Transform community halls into dynamic spaces for cultural activities
- Support Indigo Shire's vision of becoming a cultural hub for Victoria
- Foster creativity, collaboration, and confidence in young people
ARTventurers is presented by Indigo Shire Council as part of the Creative Indigo Strategy, ensuring our community's young people have access to enriching creative experiences that foster imagination, build confidence, and develop lifelong appreciation for the arts.
ARTventurers is funded by the Small Regional Presenters program, an initiative of the Victorian Government delivered through Regional Arts Victoria.
The Indigo Shire ART program
Inspiring young people to explore creative & cultural activities in North East Victoria.
The 2026 ART program is an collaborative project between the Creative Communities and Youth teams at Indigo Shire Council. It is designed to connect young people with creative and cultural activities across North East Victoria by increasing accessibility and providing new opportunities. It aims to inspire young people to explore new opportunities, enhance connections, wellbeing and resilience and foster creativity and confidence.
There are currently three components to the ART Program
- ARTventurers for those aged 5-12 and Primary School groups: workshops and performances in schools and community halls
- ARTtours for those ages 12-25: Group trips to explore creativity, culture and connect with others
- ARTpass for those aged 16-25: Free tickets to creative and cultural events across North-East Victoria