There’s always something bubbling away at Curious Legends! From new performances to workshops or other creative projects, take a peek below to see what we’re up to – we keep this page regularly updated with the latest happenings.
November 29: Rising Tide Flotilla, Horseshoe Beach + Camp Shortland, Muloobinba/Newcastle
Our team returns to this year’s Rising Tide event with Bernie, our 9 metre long inflatable humpback whale! Come down for beach festivities, harbour flotillas and an incredible line up of acts at the site of Australia’s biggest contribution to the climate crisis. Participate in this wonderful community event filled with art, music, workshops and peaceful activism. Interested in volunteering? Join our team of puppeteers on our largest inflatable whale puppet! Click here to fill out our volunteer application
November 30: Festival of Balmain, Darling Street, Balmain
Come down to this street festival and see our aerial puppets from 1 – 3 PM!
December 7: Script Writing Workshop with Katrina Miller-Little: Details and tickets here!
December 14: An Introduction to Backpack Puppets: Details and booking link TBC November
December 31: New Years Eve Celebration, Muswellbrook
We’ll be roving with a mix of our puppets at Council’s NYE celebration at the Showgrounds!
Past Gigs in 2025:
May 10-11, 2025: DreamBIG Children’s Festival – Adelaide, SA
Curious Creatures – Free mask-making workshops as part of DreamBIG Children’s Festival
May 15-18, 2025: Red Earth Arts Festival – Karratha, WA
Workshops running over multiple days, culminating in our performance of Fever Dream on the last night of Red Earth Arts Festival in the beautiful Pilbara
June 18, 2025: SALON, Seymour Centre, Sydney
Pitching our work at SALON, Arts on Tour’s key annual industry event that builds relationships between NSW and ACT artists, producers and presenters, creating opportunities for touring and partnerships.
July 5, 2025: Bonfire Night at Sandstone Point Hotel, Sandstone Point QLD
We joined the blazing lineup of entertainment at Sandstone Point Hotel’s legendary Bonfire Night – roving with Gimbay and Pelican!
July 8, 2025: Family Fun Night at Barkuma Neighbourhood Centre, Binarri Jinama-Gu, Sawyers Gully
Celebrating NAIDOC Week with a performance of our cheeky Bush Clowns
July 12, 2025: Family Fun Night at Winter Festival, Port Stephens
We returned to Port Stephens Winter Festival Family Fun Night with a whole bunch of our illuminated puppets – River Spirit had a boogie and our ibis chicks were a crowd favourite!
August 11-15: Australian Performing Arts Exchange (APAX) and Darwin Festival, Darwin, NT
We headed to the NT and presented our work at the Australian Performing Arts Exchange (APAX) Market and brought our ibis chick Sid to Darwin Festival
August 16: WinterHeat Festival, Newcastle
This was a HOT one! We launched our new show SPARK at WinterHeat – where we rant spark lantern making workshops and the kids helped us wake up our brand new Fire Spirit for a fiery dance!
September 12-14: REAL Festival, Penrith
We were roving at Penrith’s Flagship Event – Real Festival – with our aerial puppets and bush clowns!
September 27: Dragon Dreaming Festival, Wee Jasper
What a joy to be back at Dragon Dreaming – Nova turned up the heat on Saturday night!
October 4: Light Up, Gosford
Fire Spirit and a crew of our animal puppets went to Light Up, an event with an amazing Line Up honouring Audrey Griffin and advocating for a safer future.
October 4-5: OId Bar Beach Festival, Old Bar Beach
We had a “whale of a time” at Old Bar Beach Festival!
October 10: “Spark” Lantern making workshops for Maitland Riverlights
October 11: Maitland Riverlights, The Levee, Maitland
Fire Spirit & River Spirit lead the community parade at Maitland Riverlights and then went to dance in front of the River Stage
October 11: Arts Alive, Wollondilly
We brought a fun mix of puppets down to Arts Alive and transformed the streets of Picton
October 18: Shadow Puppetry Workshop, Curious Legends Studio
Professional development opportunity from 3-6 PM Casting Shadows – a Shadow Puppetry workshop feat. Conor Fox
October 18: Culture Vibes, Kensington
FireSpirit and a menagerie of our illuminated animals were roving at Kensington Oval
October 19: Concourse Artisan Market, The Concourse Chatswood
We lit up the Concourse Artistan Markets – Sid and Nellie, our cheeky ibis chicks spread laughter and curiosity, and we ran Butterfly Making workshops, then fluttered into a fun, interactive performance for all ages.
October 25th + 26th: Costume Making Workshops, Wallsend
AMS Art Studio: Skeleton-shirt / Bleach Dye T-shirt Workshop and Costume / Accessory Making at Wallsend Library
October 31: Wallsend Frights – A Hallow Evening, Wallsend Park
Our signature community event with plenty of spooky surprises, fun activities and performances!
October 31: Halloween at the Old Cheese Factory, Casey (VIC)
Yes, we’ll also brought some spooky fun to Victoria – a cheeky ibis chick and some fun shadow puppetry!
November 1: Whale Song at Sunset, Songs & Stories at Headland Park – Festival of Mosman
Our whales migrated to beautiful Mosman!
November 9: Creating Magical Characters – Mask Workshop ft. Ross Brown
Local legend Ross Brown, a.k.a The Maskman – a Newcastle based maker of theatre, masks and puppets held this fantastic workshop
November 15: Murrook Cultural Festival, Worimi Sand Dunes, Williamtown
What a special event in the sand dunes celebrating the 40th anniversary of Worimi Aboriginal Land Council – we brought Bernie, our giant whale and roved with multiple puppets.
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Header Image: Gideon Payten-Griffiths at Luminous Creatures, 2020
Photo by Soltookthis
Eagle puppet designed and made by Conor Fox