Schools Specialist Workshops

Excite your students with story writing! Meet a Western Australian author, learn about storytelling and text structure, and get started on creating your own imaginative storybook or graphic novel. This workshop can be tailored to suit the literacy level of participating children and connects students with world-class Western Australian authors.

How do you take your art into the third dimension? This workshop connects students with a professional sculpture artist and gives them hands-on experience in developing artistic processes and techniques used in the built form. It can be tailored to suit the resourcing at your school, including clay and non-clay forms of sculpture. Sculpture can be linked across the curriculum to explore mathematics, shape, and concepts of geometry.

Best suited for K-4, Barking Gecko’s Creative Play workshop will send children’s imagination into overdrive. A Barking Gecko Teaching Artist will work through a range of activities to help curious and fascinating young minds explore and discover their creativity as well as helping express their emotions.

Experiment with rhythm, percussion, looping and performance. This workshop connects students with a professional musician who will encourage musical experimentation and improvisation.

This workshop can be tailored to the resourcing available at your school, such as incorporating a class set of instruments, making instruments from scratch, exploring songwriting and more.

Circus skills are an amazing way to connect your students to their bodies, develop deep focus, and build unique physical skills. Circus disciplines can be used to extend drama and dance with unique forms of visual storytelling and connect students with aspects of social and emotional wellbeing and regulation.

This workshop will teach students a variety of skills, such as juggling, tumbling, object manipulation, and group work, and it can be tailored to suit your students’ abilities and interests.

This workshop connects visual art-making with sustainability and learning about the natural environment and can be tailored to suit the context of your school environment or surroundings.

Work with a professional visual artist and select from creating artwork from recycled materials or native flora. This workshop has the option of connecting visual art techniques and making, with science and biology concepts and learning.

Improvisation is a crucial skill in acting and offers many other educational benefits. Not only is improvising a lot of fun, it also assists teaching verbal and non-verbal communication, active listening, collaboration and being open to others ideas. In this workshop we will play fast-paced improvisation games and, depending on the experience of the group, go into greater detail about being open and expressing ideas through improvisation.

Suitable for all ages, Barking Gecko’s Introduction to Drama workshop will spark student’s curiosity with a taste of our very best drama games, introduction to improvisation or characterisation.

Explore colour, shapes, dying techniques, and fibre. Textile arts can connect the visual arts curriculum with areas of math and science using fractions, measurement, and chemical reactions.

Select from screen printing, tie dye, or felting for your students to get hands-on experience with making unique textile creations.

Are your students sometimes so focused on the text they forget that their movement and non-verbal communication is just as important in their performance? Movement is such a crucial element in performance and can often be overlooked when we are caught up in the text. This workshop is designed to increase students' awareness of their bodies on stage with a focus on physical presence, gesture, mime and characterising movement. Curated by Barking Gecko’s top Teaching Artists, this workshop will balance out your students focus increasing their awareness of their body in a performance.

This workshop can greatly benefit upper high school drama students as they begin to enter into the world of some of the most prolific theatre practitioners we have come to know. We will explore the stylistic choices, techniques and approaches of the likes of Bertolt Brecht, Konstantin Stanislavski and Laban.

Supporting secondary drama students, particularly those studying ATAR Drama, this new workshop is designed to assist students to explore, develop and deliver Monologues.

This workshop will assist your students across both Set and Selected Monologues through script analysis, character development, blocking and performance, transforming their ideas into intriguing and structurally clear work. 

Whether your students have selected their work, or are looking for inspiration we can tailor the workshop specifically for you.